You Can’t Erase An Idea – An Interview with Edward Stapel

Edward Stapel’s exhibition “You Can’t Erase an Idea” is displayed at The Gallery at Wadleigh Library on the Chester College of New England campus. The exhibition will run from February 1 – March 8, 2012, with a reception on Wednesday, February 15 from 5 – 8 pm. Meg Cameron: When did you first come upon [...]

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Subterfuge, Snapshots & You Can’t Erase an Idea

The following are previews of the current shows in the Gallery at Wadleigh Library. They will be showing through March 8th, 2012, with a reception on February 15, at 5:00 P.M.    Kimberly Kersey Asbury: Subterfuge (Mock Battle #2)  Ms. Asbury’s show includes a series of photos of plastic army men and the molds they [...]

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Photographer John Willis To Visit Chester College

Photographer John Willis will visit Chester College of New England on Tuesday, November 8, as part of the fall’s Visiting Artist Symposium. He will lecture in the Wadleigh Library classroom at 2:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. Willis graduated with an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in [...]

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Artist Anna Hepler Visits Chester College Today

Artist Anna Hepler will visit Chester College of New England today  as part of the fall’s Visiting Artist Symposium. An alumnae of UW-Madison and Oberlin College, Hepler’s work consists of sculpture, installation, prints, and drawings. For the past few years she has been observing the transitions of two dimensional and three dimensional states, by making [...]

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Brad Holland to Visit Chester College Oct. 18

“It’s best to get this out of the way first. In the future, Modern Art won’t mean what it does now. It will mean “the kind of art they did in the twentieth century”. Like saying “Baroque” or “Romanesque,” to call something “Modern” will be a way of dating it.” –  Brad Holland On Tuesday, [...]

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Chester College Faculty Members Exhibit Collaborative Works

From now until to November 18 The Gallery at Chester College of New England will host Luke Buffenmyer and Megan McNaught’s exhibition Agglomeration. Both artists are members of the Chester College faculty. “Agglomeration” by definition is the process of collecting disparate elements into a mass or a heap or cluster. Many students and visitors to [...]

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Inter-disciplinary artist C. Ryder Cooley to Visit Chester College Tuesday

C. Ryder Cooley will visit Chester College of New England October 4 as part of the Visiting Artist Symposium. She will give a lecture in the Wadleigh Lecture Hall at 2:30 p.m. An inter-disciplinary artist, musician and performer, Ryder Cooley creates performances and installation spaces by weaving chimeric images and found props. Her work has [...]

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Chester College Gallery Features Exhibits by Denise Jansson & Alexandra Broches

An opening reception will be held today at 5 p.m. in the Gallery at Wadleigh Library for exhibits by Denise Jansson and Alexandra Broches. Jansson’s exhibit, titled Releasing…Embracing, is playing with space on a canvas. “I desire the viewer to experience my work; not think but feel, floating between the worlds of known and unknown,” [...]

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“Ask Andy” – Interviews with Andy Levesque: Pol Turgeon

Hello everyone and welcome to another installment of “Ask Andy.”  Due to unforeseen circumstances, this part hasn’t been updated in a couple of weeks.  Well I’m here to remedy that.  This week I interviewed Pol Turgeon, an illustrator from Montreal.  His work is known primarily in Canada and America, but some has reached out into [...]

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Chester College Welcomes Pol Turgeon

Canadian-born illustrator Pol Turgeon will visit Chester College of New England tomorrow, Tuesday, November 9, for a free 2:30 p.m. lecture in Wadleigh Lecture Hall. Turgeon’s multi-medium illustrations have appeared in highly renowned magazines and museums as well as websites, calenders, album covers and advertisements all over the world. He currently teaches illustration and life [...]

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