Marion Art Gallery to offer extended hours, tours of the current exhibition, on Homecoming weekend
Zanele Muholi, “Lerato Dumse, Syracuse, New York,” 2015, archival inkjet print, 14 x 9.625 inches; from the collection of Light Work, Syracuse.
The Cathy and Jesse Marion Art Gallery in Rockefeller Arts Center will be open on Homecoming weekend with extended hours of 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Oct. 20 and 21, and noon to 4 p.m. on Oct. 22.
The gallery is currently hosting “Not Gay,” an exhibition that charts the energy and vitality of trans identifications across a range of art works stretching from the immediate post-World War II period to the present day.
On Saturday, Oct. 21, at 2 and 4 p.m., exhibition coordinator Hyla Stellhorn will lead tours, which are free and open to the public. The Marion Art Gallery is located on the main level of Rockefeller Arts Center on the Fredonia campus.
The exhibition includes 61 black and white and color photographs, two films, and two videos by 20 emerging to preeminent artists: Laura Aguilar, Kenneth Anger (1927-2023), Amos Badertscher (1936-2023), Sophie Barbasch, Samatha Box, Maxine Brackbill, Shia Conlon, David De Lira, Jess T. Dugan, John Edmonds, Devin Fenimore, Clifford Prince King, Emily Lucid, Zanele Muholi, Rory Mulligan, B. Proud, June T. Sanders, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Del LaGrace Volcano, and Ajamu X. Works date from 1949 to 2023.
“Not Gay” is supported by the Fredonia College Foundation’s Carnahan Jackson Fund for the Humanities and the Cathy and Jesse Marion Endowment Fund, as well as the Friends of Rockefeller Arts Center.
