Contemporary Ideas Calendar + Special Events | March 28 - May 20th

March 28th | Suzanne Stokes Lecture and student progress evaluations

++++ Wednesday, March 30th | Place Exhibition Opening Reception
5-6:30pm Dutchess Community College

++++ Friday, April 1st | Marc and Livia Straus Professional Practice Workshop, 6pm Cokendall Auditorium

++++ Friday, April 1st | Open Studios | 7:30pm

++++ Saturday, April 2nd | Open House | 12:45-2pm

April 4th | Barb Smith Lecture | Utopia Imagery | pg. 22-37
Pseudomodernism and Notes on Metamodernism,

++++ Friday, April 8, 5-7 pm | Dorsky Opening Reception for The Upstate New York Olympics: Tim Davis and Thick and Thin: Ken Landauer and Julianne Swartz

++++ Saturday, April 9th, 4-7pm, Genetics of Seeds, Rebecca featured in show, Unframed Artist Gallery

April 11th | Steven Bradford Lecture | Utopian Avant-gardes | pg. 38 -111
Interventionist Reading by Nato Thompson

++++Thursday, April 14th | Interventionist Symposium, 7pm Lecture Center 104

April 18th | No class- Passover

April 25th | Therapeutic Utopias | pg. 112-177

++++Friday, April 29, 5-7 pm | Opening reception for BFA/MFA Thesis Exhibition I | Liz, Eric, Shotaro

++++Saturday, April 30th | The 29th SUNY New Paltz Women’s Studies Conference- Green Feminisms: Women, Sustainability & Environmental Justice, Lecture Center

++++Sunday, May 1, 2-3 pm: Curator's gallery talk on Thick and Thin: Ken Landauer and Julianne Swartz

May 2nd | Critical Utopias | pg. 178-227

++++Friday, May 6, 5-7 pm: Opening receptions for BFA/MFA Thesis Exhibitions II-VI | Ben
++++Saturday, May 7th, 6ish, MAyhem, The Shirt Factory, curated by Kevin Dejewski

May 9th | last day of class | In class Utopia show submission review
Utopia Artist statements | 1 page maximum | .doc format
One image of work and one detail (5” x 7” @ 300dpi jpeg)
Artist Bio | 250 word maximum | .doc format
Everything submitted on labeled CD

++++Friday, May 13, 5-7 pm: Opening receptions for BFA/MFA Thesis Exhibitions II-VI | Jaeman

May 16th | Final 12:30-2:30 | Reading TBA

++++Friday, May 20, 7:30-9:30 pm: Opening receptions for BFA/MFA Thesis Exhibitions II-VI | Rebecca