Jan Kather

Where others see empty, abandoned buildings in Elmira, New York, Sam Shaw '22 sees potential. His optimism for the city led him to put together a photo book called 'Good Bones.' Shaw, a psychology major, began taking photos of local, abandoned buildi...

A lightbulb went off for Jan Kather, media artist, when she saw a full-page skincare ad that celebrated strong women who surmounted adversity. What if she used a similar prompt with her Electronic Art Studio course students in their culminating project...

Two Elmira College students, Marc Artuz '24 and Kenta Okumura '21, will be featured in The Fusion Arts Collective, which will premier during an opening reception from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Friday, November 19 in the Community Arts Gallery at Community...

Tomorrow is Constitution Day, which marks the date the Founding Fathers signed the U.S. Consitution in 1878. To honor the momentous document, a new exhibition opens today in the Gannett-Tripp Library lobby with depictions of some of the Amendments to t...

Elmira College media artist Jan Kather was asked to judge an online photo competition sponsored by the State of the Art Gallery Ithaca. The ten winning entries, along with Kather's explanations for why she chose the images, are available to view on the...

This is the fifth of seven First-Year Friday articles that will run every Friday through the end of June. From sculpture to painting and modern installations, artists ask us to consider contemporary issues. But what role can art play in generating sol...

Nicole McKibbin '20 had taken classes at Elmira College over the years while living in Elmira, but a move to California put a stop to her studies. Until last December when McKibbin reached out to former instructor and EC media artist, Jan Kather, and ...

Recently a group of Elmira College students enrolled in the "Contemporary Latina Literature" course created an exhibit titled, "Latina Authors Project." The project was led by EC Media Artist, Jan Kather, and Associate Professor of Spanish & Hispanic S...

This week marks National Library Week, and more importantly, today is National Library Workers Day. While most libraries, including the Gannett-Tripp Library, are currently closed to patrons due to coronavirus restrictions, we want to take a moment to ...

Submissions are now being accepted for the Annual Arts Alive Juried Student Art Exhibition, which will be on display March 1-31 in the Gannett-Tripp Library. Each year, students are encouraged to submit their best works of art and an artist proposal...

As a part of the annual Art Faculty Exhibit, the participating faculty will host a gallery talk, exploring how art world figures have informed their creations. Participating faculty include Assistant Professor of Art Chris Longwell, Media Artist Jan Ka...

Elmira College Media Arts Professor Jan Kather has been named a finalist for the 2019 Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Video Contest. In her video, "Mark Twain's Jar: Who Wrote Shakespeare?," Kather plays off Twain's Is Shakespeare Dead? in which, Twain h...

Elmira College Professor in Fine Arts, Aaron Kather, and EC Media Artist, Jan Kather, recently completed a project for the Adopt a Traffic Signal Box program managed by the City of Elmira's Public Art Commission. Last spring, Kather and Kather submi...

Submissions are now being accepted for the Annual Arts Alive Juried Student Art Exhibition, which will be on display March 1-31 in the Gannett-Tripp Library. Each year, students are encouraged to submit their best works of art and an artist proposal...

The annual art faculty exhibit opens in the George Waters Gallery on Thursday, November 8 with an artist reception from 5:00-7:00 p.m. The gallery will be filled with new works by faculty members, Chris Longwell, Jan Kather, Derek Chalfant and Aaron Ka...