Visual Arts Department

March 31 - May 9, 2025

Crowell and West Galleries
Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts
Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm

This year’s Visual Arts Steinmetz Exhibit includes 260 artworks by over 80 students from the 2024-2025 academic year. The exhibit showcases work selected by Visual Arts faculty and includes pieces by students from a range of academic disciplines. It is the department's largest, most diverse Steinmetz Student Art Exhibition to-date. This year's exhibition includes poetry, portraits, bookmaking and fiber art. This is a dynamic exhibition of thoughtfully rendered works across all mediums.

Take a virtual tour of the exhibit.

In the News

Join the Visual Arts Department Thurs. May 1st from 5-7pm for our annual open studios night! Open to the whole campus! Now's your chance to experience our facilities and materials, ask questions of professors and students, hang with friends, and just have fun in the Visual Arts building.

Three floors of art, music, fun and community!

Visual Arts photography students along with Frank Rapant and Rachel Stern have artwork in an exhibition at Baxter Street Camera Club of New York on view in Manhattan. You can learn about the exhibition on the Visual Arts photography Instagram.

Participating students include:

• Zach Anisman
• Sam Brosnan
• Aspen Moris
• Andrea Mullen
• Bryan Nunez
• Isabel Pacchiana
• Iris Phenix
• Frank Rapant
• Spencer Shaffer
• Rachel Stern
• Vu Chi Tam
• Jack Vagzanelis
• Lily Von Barren
• Ece Yenigun
• Rowan Zeigler

PHOTOS: Exploring spaces and new perspectives in Jackson’s Garden

Students in AVA 310 - Experimental Drawing are using non-traditional materials and conceptual challenges to spark play in their drawing practices and expand their notion of art making

The Union College Visual Arts Department was recently featured in a WAMC story. Listen here.

The Department of Visual Arts is committed to the centrality of art in the liberal arts at Union College. We do so from a position unique among other departments on campus. Already by nature interdisciplinary, the department has in recent years increasingly become a dynamic intersection of scholarly undertakings and teaching initiatives across the campus. Our vision is to strengthen the multiple connections between ourselves and other academic departments and to reach beyond the campus to develop relationships with other arts institutions. Our vision is to continue to bridge the past, present, and future for our students through painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, digital art, and art history. Our vision, in short, is to enrich the Union College community through art.

Take a virtual tour of the Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts.

Union graduates, like the ones featured below, are thriving in the art world. Learn more about art at Union, and read additional alumni stories, in the Spring 2023 magazine.

Professor Conley's Post Digital Printmaking class printed their oversized woodcuts with a steamroller!