Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and the Skowhegan Alumni Alliance are excited to announce CONFERENCE CALL: a series of five 2-person exhibitions featuring the work of Skowhegan alumni that will run from May through November 2022.

Established in 1946, Skowhegan is an intensive summer residency program for artists which takes place annually in Madison, Maine. The exhibition series will take place at Skowhegan's New York office in Chelsea and aims to place work by artists from different Skowhegan cohorts in conversation with each other, and with the labor of operating a residency.

The exhibitions will feature the works of Skowhegan alumni: Pío Galbis (A '82, '21) and Buster Graybill (A '07); Gwendolyn Kerber (A '79) and Rocío Olivares (A '18); Baxter Koziol (A '17) and Molly Springfield (A '06); Pallavi Singh (A '15) and Jing (Ellen) Xu (A '16); Hetty Baiz (A '69) and Jordan Seaberry (A '15).

Each pairing is curated by one or two members of the Alumni Alliance: Jesus Benavente (A '12), Annette Cyr (A '76, '21) and Rebecca Shippee (A '18), Michael Scoggins (A '03), Danny Greenberg (A '18) and Eleanor Kipping (A '18), and Paige Laino (Alumni & Archives Coordinator). The Skowhegan Alumni Alliance is a group of alumni who generate off-campus programming for the international alumni community.

View below for additional information about each exhibition.