Spring Events 2023

 

All of the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery's events are free and open to the public. For questions, please email ZuccaireGallery@stonybrook.edu or call 631-632-7240. 

Evening and Weekend Hours 

 

The Zuccaire Gallery is open evenings and weekends of Staller Center Performances.

• Friday, 1/27, 7:00pm-8:00pm
• Saturday, 1/28,  7:00pm-8:00pm        
• Saturday, 2/4, 6:00pm-8:00pm         Lil Buck & Gallery BHM Reception                  
• Tuesday, 2/7, 4:00pm-8:00pm          Alumni Panel in Union Ballroom                  
• Saturday,  2/11, 7:00pm-8:00pm  
• Monday, 2/13,  6:00pm-7:00pm                        
• Saturday, 2/18, 7:00pm-8:00pm  
• Thursday, 2/23, 6:00pm-8:00pm       Wakanda Forever - Free screening for SBU Students at the Staller Center for the Arts
• Saturday, 2/25, 7:00pm-8:00pm
• Saturday, 3/18, 12:00pm-4:00pm     Saturday afternoon open hours
• Saturday, 3/18, 7:00pm-8:00pm        Storm Large at Staller Center
• Saturday, 3/25, 12:00pm-4:00pm      Saturday afternoon open hours
• Saturday, 3/25, 7:00pm-8:00pm        Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra at Staller Center
• Wednesday, 3/29,  6:00pm-7:00pm      Starry Nights at Staller Center
• Thursday, 3/30, 7:00pm-8:00pm       Mike E. Winfield at Staller Center
• Friday 3/31, 7:00pm-8:00pm             42nd Street (HD screening) at Staller Center
• Friday 4/21, 7:00pm-8:00pm             Mike Birbiglia at Staller Center
• Saturday, 4/22, 10am-2pm                    Admitted Students Day open hours
• Saturday, 4/22,   7:00pm-8:00pm        Sheléa at Staller Center
• Wednesday, 4/26, 1:00pm-3:00pm      Art Crawl, begins at Wang Center at 1pm, followed by Zuccaire Gallery
• Saturday, 4/29, 7:00pm-8:00pm          Stony Brook Opera at Staller Center                          
• Sunday, 4/30   2:00pm-3:00pm          Stony Brook Opera at Staller Center                           
• Saturday, 5/6, 12:00-4:00pm
• Sunday, 5/7 12:00-4:00 and 6:00pm-7:00pm              Dance Theater of Harlem at Staller
• Saturday, 5/13, 12:00-4:00pm

 

PAST EVENTS

Art in Focus Lecture: Dr. Courtney J. Martin on 5+1, Alloway, Bowling and the Anglo-American Exchange

Art in Focus Lecture: Dr. Courtney J. Martin on 5+1, Alloway, Bowling and the Anglo-American Exchange
Wednesday, January 25, 2023, 1:00pm to 1:50pm EST, on zoom

In conjunction with the Zuccaire Gallery’s current exhibition Revisiting 5+1, Dr. Courtney J. Martin will present a short talk on January 25th at 1:00pm on Zoom. Dr. Martin, the Paul Mellon director of the Yale Center for British Art and Stony Brook University alumna, will discuss the 1969 Stony Brook exhibition 5+1 and the role of the late art critic and Stony Brook professor of art history Lawrence Alloway and artist Frank Bowling.

This Art in Focus program is sponsored by the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center and presented in collaboration with Stony Brook University Libraries and the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery at Staller Center and made possible by support from the John H. Marburger III Fund of Stony Brook University.

About the Speaker:

Courtney J. Martin is the Paul Mellon director of the Yale Center for British Art. Previously, she was the deputy director and chief curator at the Dia Art Foundation, taught at Brown University and the University of California, Berkeley and worked at the Ford Foundation. In 2012, Martin curated Drop, Roll, Slide, Drip . . . Frank Bowling’s Poured Paintings 1973–1978 at Tate Britain. At Dia she curated an exhibition of the painter Robert Ryman and oversaw exhibitions of works by Dan Flavin, Sam Gilliam, Blinky Palermo, Dorothea Rockburne, Keith Sonnier, and Andy Warhol. She co-edited Lawrence Alloway: Critic and Curator (Getty Publications, 2015, winner of the 2016 Historians of British Art Book Award) and edited Four Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art (Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2016). In 2015, she received an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.  She received her Master of Arts in Art History and Criticism from Stony Brook University and a doctorate from Yale University. She sits on the boards of the Chinati Foundation, the Center for Curatorial Leadership, Hauser & Wirth Institute and the Henry Moore Foundation. 

 

Black HistoryMonth Reception & Performance Lil Buck, Memphis Jookin

Black HistoryMonth Reception & Performance Lil Buck, Memphis Jookin

Saturday February 4, 2023
Reception at the Zuccaire Gallery, 7:00-8:00pm

Reception Before the Performance: join the Staller Center and Zuccaire Gallery for a reception celebrating Black History Month, organized in conjunction with the gallery's current exhibition, Revisiting 5+1, Black Artists & Abstraction at Stony Brook in the '60s and '70s. Hosted in front of the Zuccaire Gallery, 7-8pm. The reception will include hors d'oeuvres crafted by Executive Chef Jim Kellenberger and Chef Linden Adams; Jerk Shrimp Paella, North African Chicken Harissa Stew, and Ethiopian Spiced Cabbage, Carrot, and Potato. 

Performance:  Charles “Lil Buck” Riley is a movement artist who is known for being an ambassador for Memphis Jookin, a freestyle-based dance involving intricate footwork. Raised in Memphis, Buck was introduced to the urban street dance style around age 14. After moving up in the Jookin ranks, he studied ballet for two years. With those combined skills, he quickly made a niche for himself by adding his own style and imagination to create signature moves, which include gliding across space as if gravity didn’t exist. In 2011, Buck performed with Yo-Yo Ma to Ma’s rendition of Saint-Saëns’ The Swan.

Performance begins at 8pm. Limited free tickets for SBU Students.  Click here to claim yours. 

About the Chef: 

Chef Linden Adams works at Stony Brook Hospital with Executive Chef Jim Kellenberger. He prepares a variety of international cuisines served daily at the Marketplace Cafe. Chef Adams is from Guyana and he was inspired to start cooking at a young age. His mom worked all day to provide for his family and he helped support her by cooking so she could come home to a hot home-cooked meal every day.

Guyanese cuisine blends influences to create great food through Indigenous ingredients, Asian and Indian spices, African cooking styles and South American Caribbean trading.

 Chef Adams immigrated to the United States where he has raised his family. He credits his daughter for his focus on professional cooking. He started his career as a porter at the hospital and then advanced his skills to set an example for his daughter after she asked him to come to her school for career day. Patients, guests and the campus community enjoy his passion, culinary skills and historical knowledge every day as cooks cultural cuisines for all to enjoy.

Alumni Panel of the ‘60s & ‘70s: Black student history, student activism, and the formation of the
Black Studies Program (now Africana Studies) at Stony Brook University

Alumni Panel of the ‘60s & ‘70s: Black student history, student activism, and the formation  of the Black Studies Program (now Africana Studies) at Stony Brook University
Tuesday, February 7
5:30pm-6:30pm
 

Recording

Location: Stony Brook University, Student Union, Ballroom

Zuccaire Gallery open hours: 12-8pm, 1st Fl Staller Center
Guided tour of Revisiting 5+1 at 4:30pm

Refreshments served in the Union Ballroom beginning at 5pm

Panelists:

Deborah Britton-Riley
Stony Brook University class of 1973-1981; Co-founder, Black Womyn's Association at Stony Brook University; Director, Liberty Partnerships Program, Stony Brook University, 1992-2010; Coordinator, New Student and Transition Programs, Stony Brook University, 2022- present 

Mitchel Cohen
Stony Brook University class of 1965-1974; Cofounder of the Red Balloon Collective; Radical troublemaker and organizer, poet, and author of several books, the latest being The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides (SkyHorse: new edition 2022); Banned from Stony Brook campus 3 times.

Dr. Linda Humes
Africana Studies Major; Stony Brook University class of 1974-1977; Vice President of Black Student Union at Stony Brook University; Co-Founder of  the first Black Theater Club 1974-1976; Department Student speaker graduation 5/1977

Dr. Les Owens
Professor, Africana Studies Department, 1978 - 2015, Stony Brook University

Dwight Wesley Loines , J.D.
Stony Brook University class of1969-1973; Minister of Information for Black Students United in its first years as an organization; AIM counselor; student representative in the development of the Black Studies curriculum; 1991- 2001 President of the National Organization of Legal Services Workers

Moderators: 
Dr. Abena Ampofoa Asare is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History at Stony Brook University. Her research and writing span questions of human rights, citizenship and transformative justice in Africa and the African diaspora.  Her work can be found in The Radical Teacher, The International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other places. In 2018- 2019, she was Scholar-in-Residence at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Her book Truth Without Reconciliation: A Human Rights History of Ghana was chosen as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2018 by the American Library Association. Her upcoming book, When Will the Joy Come?: Black Women in the Ivory Tower (University of Massachusetts Press, 2023) is currently available for pre-order. 

Julio Taku is a senior majoring in Mass Communications with a minor in Africana Studies. He writes for campus publications, The Stony Brook Press & Black World. 

Audrey Fernandez is a senior majoring in Biology with a minor in Africana Studies and a lead writer for Black World.

The Zuccaire Gallery is proud to present an Alumni Panel featuring Stony Brook University alumni from the ‘60s and ‘70s. Join us Tuesday, February 7 as we explore the legacy of Black student history, student activism, and the formation of the Black Studies Program (now Africana Studies) at Stony Brook University.This program is organized in collaboration with the Department of Africana Studies, the Black History Month Planning Committee, and the Alumni Association.

Presented in connection with the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery exhibition Revisiting 5+1 which showcases the story of 5+1, a historical exhibition of Black artists working in abstraction that took place at Stony Brook University in 1969 during the first semester of courses in the Black Studies Program.  Revisiting 5+1 is on view through March 31 at the Zuccaire Gallery, first floor of the Staller Center for the Arts. Free admission.

The Zuccaire Gallery will be open before and after the panel, 12:00pm-8:00pm. A guided tour of Revisiting 5+1 will be offered at 4:30pm focusing on the history of 5+1 and student activism on Stony Brook’s campus in the late 1960s. Refreshments will be offered in the Union Ballroom beginning at 5:00pm.

Sponsored by Stony Brook University Alumni Association and Department of Africana Studies. This program was funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.