Events Search and Views Navigation
Day Navigation
Wagner College Choir Home Concert
On Sunday, March 24 at 4 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 309 St. Paul’s Avenue, Stapleton, Staten Island, please join in welcoming home the Wagner College Choir from its tour of Austria and Germany. They would especially love to see all of you Staten Islanders in attendance to mark what will have been an extraordinary chapter in the choir's history.
Wagner Gallery reception for ‘Profusion’
Please join Staten Island sculptor Janice Patrignani for a reception marking her current solo exhibition, “Profusion,” on Sunday, March 24 from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Wagner Gallery, off the Union Atrium. “Profusion” is on display through March 30.
Included in the exhibition:
- “Infinity,” a large, flowing installation of texture and shadow constructed from World War II parcel post parachutes, and
- “Transcendence,” a multi-media commentary on implements of subservient drudgery that simultaneously celebrates the creative handwork of women across the generations. (A detail from "Transcendence" illustrates this post.)
Patrignani, a graduate of the University of Cincinnati's School of Design, Architecture and Art, received her K-12 New York State Teaching Certification from the Bank Street College of Education/Parsons School of Design. She teaches ceramic and mixed media art classes for Wagner College External Programs and orchestrates art residencies in New York City Public schools. The gallery at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater estate, in Pennsylvania, recently exhibited her work. In 2012, her sculpture was accepted for the Best of America Sculpture book series.
Patrignani is teaching two courses for Wagner College External Programs this semester:
For more about Janice Patrignani, read the portrait written by Virginia Sherry for the Staten Island Advance, or visit the artist's website.
The Wagner College Gallery is located in the Union building on the campus of Wagner College, 631 Howard Ave., in the Grymes Hill neighborhood of Staten Island. CLICK HERE for a campus map. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with extended hours on Thursday until 7 p.m. The gallery is closed on Sunday and Monday, except for specially scheduled events. For more information, call the Wagner College Art Department at 718-390-3192, or email gallery director Bill Murphy at bmurphy@wagner.edu.
Free reading of alum’s work-in-progress
Please join us on Sunday, March 24 at 7 p.m. for a free free reading and complimentary wine and fine fare reception at TACT Studio NYC, 900 Broadway in Manhattan for “1. White Wins?!” by Wagner alum Richard H. McMahon, produced and directed by Wagner alum Paige Strothmann, and featuring current Wagner students Phil Della Noce and Kelly Hubbell and Wagner alum Matt Sydney. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Seating is first-come, first-served for walk-ins, but seats can be reserved by email.
About the play: Giselle Davis, an African-American woman, becomes World Chess Champion just as Cormorant Technologies Corporation — a tech company headed by her college rapist, Rodney “Hotrod” Hampton — unveils a super computer system which proves that, by moving first, White should always win. The play examines the actions and moral dilemmas of six students and their philosophy professor while at college and at Cormorant, 25 years later. Exploring corporate technology and responsibility, religion, race relations and more, the play questions the causal relationships of events and outcomes through the duality of determinism and free will, as deconstructed by classical physics vs. quantum mechanics.