2024 Student Show

Celebrating our 30th Anniversary

The year 2024 marks the 30th Anniversary of the SUNY Westchester Peekskill Center for the Digital Arts, and the Center for the Digital Arts Gallery is pleased to present a Student Showcase in celebration of this momentous occasion. Artists and designers have been coming to the center for 30 years to train in our industry grade post-production facility and develop their skills in the latest technologies. The center continues to support aspiring artists and students of all kinds in the purposeful use of arts technology.

During the Thursday, February 22, 2024 reception, student artists will receive juried awards. Awards will be given in four categories: 3D, Illustration and 2D Animation, Digital Photography, and Fine Arts. This year’s jurors include faculty members: Joseph Thomas, 3D; Emmanuel Jaquez Reyes; Illustration and 2D Animation; Gerry Katzban, Digital Photography; and Laurel Shute, Fine Arts. There will also be four levels of awards given: First, second, third, and honorable mention.

For more information about the exhibit or if you have any questions, please email peekskill@sunywcc.edu or call 914-606-7300.

GALLERY HOURS Monday – Thursday, 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. Friday & Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Faculty & Staff Exhibition

September 11 – November 27, 2023

Reception Thursday, September 21, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Professor Deborah Krikun, Digital Art

The SUNY Westchester Peekskill Center for the Digital Arts Gallery is presenting work of the center’s very own faculty and staff. The Faculty & Staff Exhibition is a group show dedicated to the work and efforts of the people who make the arts at the Center for the Digital Arts possible. The gallery will showcase the faculty who teach the courses in the Art & Design A.A.S., ITECH A.A.S., non-credit workforce development certificates, and the Youth Arts Technology program. 

All of the Center for the Digital Arts staff are practicing artists who train heavily in arts technology, and several also teach at the center. The exhibition is a great reflection of the talent behind the curriculum and educational experience at the center as it turns 30 years old.

GALLERY HOURS

Monday – Thursday, 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Friday & Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

OFF THE BEATEN TRACK

Presented by the Peekskill Arts Alliance

Serene Path by Joann Zwolski, Acrylic on paper, mounted on wood

Works in all media by PAA members
with studios outside the Peekskill
downtown arts district, or those
who can’t have studios open during
Open Studios weekend.

The Center for the Digital Arts
Gallery is pleased to host the
exhibition, “Off the Beaten Track.”
This group show will exhibit exciting
works in all media by professional
artists with studios located outside
the Peekskill downtown artists district,
or those who can’t have studios open
during Open Studios weekend.

Exhibition Dates
June 2 – June 28, 2023
Reception
Thursday, June 8, 6:00 – 8:00 pm

This show will run in conjunction with the 24th Annual Peekskill Open Studios Event,

Saturday and Sunday, June 3 and 4, 2023, from 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm

ARC OF THE MORAL AND VIRAL UNIVERSE NOTEBOOKS

Carla Rae Johnson

February 1 – April 26, 2023

Reception, Thursday, February 16

6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. — Theodore Parker, 1853

Deeply concerned about the trajectory of justice in our country in 2018, I found Theodore Parker’s words recurring in my mind. Does it indeed bend towards justice?

I put out a call for participants in a notebook project to address the “Arc of the Moral Universe.” That yielded more than 60 volumes filled with drawings, sketches, writing, lyrics, photos, montages, cut-outs, fold-outs, and abstractions documenting one year in each of their lives. 

In 2020, I confronted the reality of a world-wide viral pandemic and the “Arc of the Viral Universe” was begun. I invited participants from the first notebook project, plus 100 creative individuals from all walks of life. This resulted in over 30 bound volumes documenting daily lives, unease about the future, concerns for the planet, outrage at the effects of systemic racism, apprehensions about threats to democracy, and glimmerings of hope in the midst of the most challenging of times. They confirm my belief that “Creative people are among the ones to register these events and respond in hopeful, compassionate, and positive ways.” carlaraejohnson.org

PHOTO OF CARLA RAE JOHNSON BY HOWARD GOODMAN

CENTER FOR THE DIGITAL ARTS GALLERY HOURS

Monday – Thursday, 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.