On Tuesday, February 5th - A group of graphic and visual arts students from Ulster County Boces visited campus to tour the Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery currently showing "Design Dialogues", an exhibition focusing on leading designers in the fields of print, furniture, architecture, industrial, museum and exhibition design. These students also had the opportunity to learn about our Advertising Design and Graphic Technology and Fine Arts Programs from Sean Nixon, Assitant Professor and Iain Machell, Professor and Department Chair of Art, Fine Arts and Visual Arts, Music, and Theater. 
Iain Machell Addresses the Group
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YOU'RE INVITED
Panel Discussion on Contemporary Design
Tuesday, February 12
Leading designers in the fields of print, furniture, architecture, industrial, museum and exhibition design will present a panel discussion about the process of design and its influence in our everyday lives on Tuesday, February 12 (snow date February 13), in the Vanderlyn Hall Student Lounge on SUNY Ulster’s Stone Ridge campus. The panel discussion begins at 7:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Participants will include Woody Pirtle (print), Serena Furman of Christopher Chadbourne & Associates (museum exhibit design), Granger and Robert Moorhead (furniture, exhibition design and architecture), Fred Spector (industrial and home furnishings) and Michael McDonough (green building architecture and industrial design).
The panel discussion will be held in conjunction with the "Design Dialogues" exhibition, which opened on February 2 and will be on display through February 29 at the Muroff Kotler Gallery in Vanderlyn Hall. Sean Nixon, assistant professor of graphic design, curator of the exhibition and panel discussion moderator, has said that both events will serve as "an eye opener with regard to how ubiquitous design is—at once practical and yet a mysterious contributor to one’s consciousness. Anyone who is interested in studying or practicing design but isn’t sure of which area to pursue should consider these events as an opportunity to find out."
The gallery is open 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m., Monday through Friday but will be closed February 18. For information on the panel discussion and exhibit, phone (845) 687-5113.
