Davis Gallery

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Welcome back to campus and what an exciting few weeks it has been! Two weeks ago, we witnessed the historic announcement of the first woman President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and this week brings the announcement of Dorothy Wickenden ’76 as the 2019 Commencement speaker. It is shaping up to be an exciting spring semester!

On that front, we have an incredible team working to bring you the most up-to-date news and investigations relating to campus – and we have some very exciting things in the works. We also have our podcast, The Seneca Scene, that is bringing listeners weekly interviews every Wednesday with people on campus. To continue to get your Herald fix, subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.

We have been working very hard this past year to engage students in campus issues and create less apathy around campus. The student body has endless potential to create change at HWS. We see this take root in proposals like Nuzhat Wahid’s walkway or in the opportunity to run for Student Trustee – two subjects covered in this issue. These are avenues for students to ensure that their voice is heard.

As we near March, I want to also note another anniversary that is coming up: March 1 is the 140th anniversary of the Herald which has been continuously published at Hobart and William Smith Colleges ever since. Although writers and editors have changed over the years, as have the topics covered, one thing has not: The Herald is written for, and aims to benefit, the students but –in doing so – asks for their cooperation in return; it asks that they do not demonstrate apathy but instead take direct action and create change.

A newspaper is made to inform, and through informing it hopes to educate its public such that they can act in any which way they deem necessary. The news is here to ensure we know things; it hopes, but does not require, that we act on that knowledge.

For the past semester, I have written in these letters that HWS is in a state of transition, that things are in flux, and that this the time to institute change. The Colleges are at a crossroads and it is the people currently at the institution who will help chart the path forward.

I believe strongly in the importance of knowledge and action. And I do not believe it is possible, in the current climate we live in today, to have one without the other. To know is to act; to act is to change.

I was talking to a professor after class recently and he mentioned that most of the laws and rights we take for granted today came from a group of people banding together and fighting for what they believed in. That could be with social movements such as Civil Rights activism or the revolution that began this country in 1765. Everything that we take granted came from a group taking action.

It is time to pay that forward.

It is the final semester of my senior year here at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and I have been re-reading old editions of the Herald trying to figure out what we can do next to help the students and improve our community. But what I have also realized is that it is not just up to me; it is up to all of you. As one person, the Editor of this HWS mainstay that is nearing its 140th-anniversary, I can only do so much: I work to bring you the news. It means nothing with apathy; it means everything with action.

This is the time to figure out what you want to do with your time at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. This is the time to think ahead.

The great work has begun, my friends, and it is time to let your voices – the voices of the students, faculty, and staff; the voices of Hobart and William Smith Colleges – to be heard.

I look forward to hearing them.

Sincerely, Alex Kerai Editor-in-Chief of the Herald

Davis Gallery: Art & Labor Collection

By Grace Ruble ’21 News Editor On Feb. 1, the Davis Gallery celebrated the opening of its new Art and Labor Collection. The exhibit features works from HWS’s own collection. Art and Labor is Visual Arts Curator Anna Wagner’s first collections curation project at the Colleges and features works by artists such as Kara Walker, Käthe Kollwitz, Arthur Dove, Frank Romero and Stacey Robinson, as well as several unnamed artists. HWS students Shannon Smith ’20, Rachel Geiogamah ’19, Ethan Leon ’19, Sarah MacKechnie ’19, and Dylan Bennett ’19 wrote the wall labels for the collection along with Wagner. The unifying theme of labor allows works in the collection to span a wide range of mediums, from photos and paintings that depict labor in progress to sculptures and ceramics that show the end results of labor. According to Wagner, the collection highlights many forms of labor that have often gone undiscussed, including “motherhood, farming, industry, locomotion, union organization and slavery,” as well as pieces that exhibit evidence of “madness” and “materiality.” Some pieces, which demonstrate the gallery’s mission to portray labor that is often ignored, include Frank Romero’s Arrest of the Paleteros, which depicts a conflict between Chicano laborers and police, and Alison Starr’s depiction of emotional labor in her painting Inheritance, which is supplemented by an interactive sculpture made by HWS students outside the gallery. The collection also recognizes that galleries themselves are products of people and their labor and aims to ask how the Davis Gallery can be “a space for engagement, and a space that realizes and demonstrates different forms of labor.” Interested readers can view the Art and Labor collection at the Davis Gallery until March 1, when it will leave to make way for the opening of the Advocacy, Activism & Alliances in American Architecture Since 1968 exhibit on March 8.