Nazareth College Art Department hosting two gallery receptions Friday, September 18

ROCHESTER, NY (09/06/2015)(readMedia)-- The annual Nazareth College Art Department Faculty Show will be on view in the Arts Center Gallery through September 26, 2015, with an Artist Reception Friday, September 18, from 5–7 p.m. Visitors will enjoy a variety of styles and media-including ceramics, illustrations, jewelry, metalwork, prints, paintings, photography, sculpture, and more-by the department's faculty of talented working artists. The Faculty Show is an annual event that helps support the Arts Center Gallery's educational mission. Gallery hours: Sunday and Tuesday-Thursday, noon-5 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, noon-8 p.m. For additional information, visit naz.edu/art/arts-center-gallery or call the automated information line: 585-389-5073.

There's No Place Like Home will feature a large-scale installation, and "Home is the Skin that I Wake Up In," a series of photos by artist Kitty Hubbard, in Nazareth College's Colacino Gallery September 18-October 24, 2015, with an Artist Reception Friday, September 18, from 5–7 p.m. Hubbard is an intermedia artist and associate professor of art at the College at Brockport. She studied photography with Merry Moor Winnett at Guilford College in North Carolina and completed her M.F.A. at Visual Studies Workshop. During her time in Rochester, Hubbard's work has incorporated digital image making on traditional and non-traditional surfaces, small and large scale as well as sculptural and installation projects. Gallery hours are: Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5 p.m. For additional information, visit naz.edu/art/colacino-art-gallery or call the automated information line: 585-389-5073.

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The Nazareth College Art Department offers undergraduate programs in studio art, art education, visual communication design, and art history; and graduate programs in art education and art therapy, all taught by a faculty made up of highly talented practicing artists. The department also runs the popular Saturday Art School and Summer Art for Teens community enrichment programs, and is proud to house two gallery spaces curated by department faculty.

Nazareth College's academic strengths cross an unusually broad spectrum of 60 majors, including education, health and human services, management, the fine arts, music, theater, math and science, foreign languages, and the liberal arts. The coeducational, religiously independent, classic campus in a charming suburb of Rochester, N.Y. challenges and supports 2,000 undergrads and 800 graduate students. Nazareth is recognized nationally for its Fulbright global student scholars and commitment to civic engagement. Rigorous programs, an uncommon core, experiential learning, career skills, and a global focus prepare graduates for not just one job, but for their life's work. For more information, visit naz.edu.