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Creating Movement and Flow - A Conversation of Form and Utility Dowd Gallery, Upcoming Exhibitions

Creating Movement and Flow - A Conversation of Form and Utility
Fall Exhibition featuring Errol Willett and Edward Feldman

Dowd Gallery opens fall semester 2025 with artists and educators Errol Willett and Edward Feldman. While engage in prolific studio practices, each has been building a tantalizing collection of artwork from peers, colleagues, and professionals in the field of ceramics. This exhibit demonstrates pieces that fracture the philosophical borders between form, function, utility, and the aesthetic virtue of sculpture. Parallel to the personal works of the artists, hand-selected pieces from both Willett and Feldman exemplify the boundary of artwork and functionality. These selections represent over 30 different artists living and working in contemporary ceramics and express the vast diversity of surface and form for the cup. Some selections of the artists also exist beyond the scope of function and represent the fundamental sculptural object, allowing viewers to examine the conceptual lines between form and function.


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About the Dowd Gallery

Founded in 1967, the Dowd Gallery presents up to seven exhibitions each year featuring work primarily by nationally and internationally acclaimed contemporary artists and maintains a permanent collection of over 900 objects dating from the 13th through the 21st centuries.  The gallery’s mission is to enrich and intellectually broaden viewers’ notions about the nature of art and to display, interpret, collect and preserve art for the benefit of the SUNY Cortland community and the New York State region.  

Each spring semester, the juried Student Select exhibition provides students with the opportunity to showcase their work in a gallery setting.  It also allows the public a glimpse of the visual art being created on campus. The Faculty Biennial occurs every two years and highlights recent work by members of the Art and Art History Department.  This special show makes it feasible for students to view finished projects by their mentors and gives the campus community and region the chance to contemplate art in the department's wide range of media.

Educational programs, such as artist’s talks, lectures, performances, and workshops, accompany all exhibitions in order to deepen intellectual engagement with the artwork on view and foster an appreciation for art and its cultural importance in general.  All exhibitions and programs are free and open to the public.

Possibilities for student involvement in the gallery include employment through the Federal Work-Study Program, internships, volunteering, submitting work for Student Select, and joining the student-run Art Exhibition Association.

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