 Pablo Delano, Charles A. Dana Professor of Fine Arts has two upcoming solo exhibitions. “MY PARADISE IS HELL” at the EMBAJADA Gallery San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 11, 2025 –January 17, 2026 and “CUESTIONES CARIBEÑAS / CARIBBEAN MATTERS:assemblage and sculpture” at the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison August 11 – December 14, 2025. |
 Rhys Hall, Visiting Lecturer in Sociology presented a component of his Dissertation that brings him back to the Association for Humanist Sociology that was key to the early development of his academic career. Rhys also had the opportunity to present early in September at the BIPOC Game Studies Conference at the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, NY, back in September. He looks to have the rest of his Dissertation to present next year. |
 Lynn Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts will have a solo exhibition of sculptural videos and  digitalprints, “Lynn Sullivan: Daughter of the Sentence,” from October 14 to December 1, 2025 at New Media Artspace at Baruch College, New York City. |
 Christopher Swist, Lecturer in Music and Director of Recording Arts had his Prelude for Marimba performed at several festivals including most recently the 2025 Taipei  Asia Pacific Band Association Competition. The New Britain Symphony Orchestra presents an afternoon of the original compositions of Christopher Swist, principal percussionist. The program features varied acoustic and electronic works for vibraphone, violin, and interactive synthesis and sound design. Christopher’s compositional output spans 30 years and is published and performed by professionals and students worldwide. He has released 2 CD’s: Whitewater of 2001 and Duality of 2013, with his 3rd CD, Equal Simplicity, currently in production. Marcia Lehninger, NBSO violinist, will join Swist on the multimedia duo “Sundown Through a Glass Door” which features 5 egg tempera paintings by Larry Swist. Marcia will also perform Duality, a work for violin and electronics, which is a Brazilian inspired composition written for her. Rounding out the program will be a vibraphone fantasy on themes from Swist’s latest work, Double Concerto for Marimba and Vibraphone, as well as a nature-based piece titled Equal Simplicity. |
Inspired by the writings of Thoreau,  Jenny Wu, Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts had “How To Take Something That’s Ephemeral And Make It Endure” accepted for inclusion in the Northwest Arts Center’s INT’L All Media 2025 exhibition; and had “Who Can Cheat Destiny” selected for group exhibition “Unboxed: Rethinking the Grid” at the Brick City Gallery, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO; “Serious Emails Must Be Sent From The Computer, Not The Phone” selected for the 2025 National Juried Painting Exhibition at The University of Southern Mississippi; “Is Maybe A Polite No?” was accepted at the WHIM exhibitionat Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio and at the Rockport Art Association & Museum National Juried Show. She had two pieces “Inexorably Eating Bamboo While You Blankly Stare” and “Do I Need Blood Pressure Medicine Before Entering This Museum” selected for 40 under 40 at the The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences. “The Cat Sits In The Back Back, Watching Ice Chunks Fall Off The Window” was selected for the Providence Art Club’s National Open Juried Exhibition. “We Are Now Closer To 2050 Than 1990” was on view at the Residence of the United States Ambassador to Peru. “2009 Seems Like It Was Only Five Years Ago” was accepted into the upcoming 2025 National Prize Show, presented at the Kathryn Schultz Gallery. |
Jenny Wu, Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts will have a solo exhibition “But, rational” at Ball and Socket in Cheshire,CT. The exhibition will run from May 15 to June 21, 2026, with an opening reception on Friday May 15, 4-7 pm. This exhibition is curated by Lisa Lynch, Widener Gallery Director & Organizing Curator.
“But, rational” presents a series of sculptural paintings that playfully challenge the boundaries between painting and sculpture, order and chaos, intention and accident. Through a labor-intensive process of layering, cutting, and reassembling latex paint, the works transform a familiar material—liquid paint—into tactile, dimensional objects that record time, labor, and chance. |
 Christopher Houlihan, John Rose College Organist-and-Directorship Distinguished Chair of Chapel Music and Artist-in-Residence, performed in an invited solo recital, Aspen Music Festival, Colo., in July 2024; as orchestral soloist (Barber, Toccata Festiva) with the Holland Symphony Orchestra (Johannes Müller Stosch, music director and conductor) at Hope College, Mich. in September 2024; and as orchestral soloist (Hanson, Organ Concerto and Guilmant, Symphony No. 1) with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (Carolyn Kuan, Music Director and Conductor) at Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford at Trinity College in September 2024. |
 Professor of Fine Arts Robert Kirschbaum’s print folio/artist’s book “The 42-Letter Name” was acquired by The Thomas J. Watson Library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as part of its artists’ books collection. |
Jenny Wu, Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, exhibited work in the solo exhibition “What If” at  Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, LA. The exhibition continues through February 18. At right: I Would Like to Use the Photo of Jenny Wu’s Cat for My Headshot Please, 2024, latex paint and resin on wood panel (photo courtesy of the artist). Professor Wu’s work It Turns Out That 16oz Of Coffee At 5:11 P.M. Is Too Much Coffee was awarded first prize for 35 Under 35, an exhibition juried by Ruba Katrib and was on view in July and August 2024 at The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences in Loveladies, New Jersey. The 2024 work is latex paint and resin on wood panel. |
