Student Showcases April 14 - June 1

Our Design Selves: A 48 Hour Self Portrait Study of Who We Are and What Inspires Us

Exhibit on view April 14 - April 18, 2025.

About the show

COM 320 Information Design students were given 48 hours to create a self portrait montage that explored their identity as a designer. Students were asked what words or statements identify their design values or beliefs and if there was a designer or design movement that influences their work. They were instructed to use both primary/original materials and secondary/found materials to assemble a square composition that revealed the inspiration behind their "design self". These resulting twenty vignettes will be exhibited from April 14 to April 18, 2025 at SUNY Poly's Gannett Gallery.

This is sample of one of the student works featured in this exhibition. It is half self-portrait and half collage.

Hack A Social Problem: Creative Proposals for Change

Exhibit on view April 21 - April 25, 2025

Reception: Wednesday April 23, 12:00-2:00pm

About the show

Members of the IDS 220 Creativity and Culture class present ideas to expand the accessibility of learning, communications, and artistic tools and technologies, based on the semester's research, discussions, and workshopping. Some of our ideas are pretotypes (early stage iterations) and others are meant to be prototypes (more solidified ideas). For all, we welcome your engagement, interaction, and critique. Our goal is to contribute to the continuing development of aesthetic concepts, communications, devices, services, and experiences that are more accessible — and at their best more enjoyable — for more people to engage with than before.

A Deaf Black man wearing glasses looks neutrally at the camera while holding a hand lettered sign declaring 'NOTHING about us without US.' This image and alt-text description came from the Disabled and Here project. URL: https://affecttheverb.com/gallery/disabledandhere/nothingaboutwithout/

Fluidity in motion : A visual journey through dynamic flows

Exhibit on view April 28 - May 2, 2025

Reception: Tuesday April 29, 12:00-1:30pm

About the show

Fluid dynamics is an incredibly complex and fascinating area of study, but you can often learn something about a fluid by watching it. This exhibit will revolve around student submissions when asked to capture everyday fluid mechanics around them. Students from ME 320 (Fluid Mechanics), junior-level engineering class were challenged to take pictures or videos of fluids around them while finding a way to demonstrate established flow phenomena. This exhibit is aimed at a gentle introduction to fluid dynamics via art and observation. We hope this makes you take time to notice all the flow visualization around you every day!

Image of a ferrofluid, suspended in fluid within an enclosed clear sphere, being drawn upward toward a magnet that is out of view.

Collective Identities

Exhibit on view May 5 - June 1, 2025

Reception: Thursday May 8, 4pm-6pm

About the show

Collective Identities is the outcome of a semester of studio practice by ART 120 students.

Image of a ferrofluid, suspended in fluid within an enclosed clear sphere, being drawn upward toward a magnet that is out of view.