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“One Amazing Ball of Learning” —-Faith Rush, University of Akron, class of 2022

June 9, 2022 By Maggie M. Williams 4 Comments

5 graduating students wearing mortarboards decorated with famous works of art

In April, just about a year after the art history “program” (i.e. major) at William Paterson University was terminated, I attended the fabulous SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium to support our final graduate with a BA, who was also one of my advisees. This year, I noticed that the papers were particularly sophisticated […]

#WeAreWorkers: Why Faculty Should Support the GWC-UAW Local 2110 Strike

March 27, 2021 By Maggie M. Williams 1 Comment

The much-discussed national crisis in American higher education hit me particularly hard this year. At William Paterson University, where I have taught for 13 years and am now a tenured Full Professor, I am in danger of being laid off, along with dozens of colleagues. My local union has managed to negotiate the number of […]

Burn Something

November 12, 2020 By The Material Collective Leave a Comment

Emerging curator Gabby Coll urges us to take a chance as she reflects on her work on the exhibit Burn Something.

Growing Up in the Shadow of the Mountain

August 10, 2020 By Rachel Dressler 1 Comment

Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial features three 76 ft tall equestrian figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson carved into the northern slope of a 1600-plus high hunk of quartz monzonite dome monadnock. I grew up in its shadow.

HIStory not MYstory

May 19, 2020 By The Material Collective Leave a Comment

For this post, the Material Collective welcomes Zaina Siraj, a senior at SUNY-Albany majoring in Human Biology and minoring in Public Health and History. Zaina is applying to medical school with the hopes of becoming a physician, and is an active digital artist. You can follow her on Instagram @zainaartistry. As a student of science, […]

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