Nicole Hixon, a second-year student in Stony Brook’s Master of Fine Arts program, turns useless, recycled trash into meaningful sculpture, installation and public art. Hixon, a native New Yorker, first started her higher education at Nassau Community College and continued her studies at California State, San Francisco. She moved back to Long Island and came to Stony Brook for graduate school.
At this year’s Redefinition event, which occurred on Nov. 6 in Langmuir College, students “redefined” hurtful words that they identified by popping balloons full of paint on canvas.
Through various captivating stories and traditional Native American performances, it became a night of learning and spreading culture at the Tabler Blackbox on Oct. 25 at the “Native Voices” event hosted by the sisters of the multicultural sorority ΕΣΦ.
Paintings, sculptures, installation art and videos, all by Stony Brook alumni, can be found on display from Sept. 4-Oct. 4 in the SAC Art Gallery's Alumni Exhibition, curated by Chris Vivas, ceramics artist and SBU alumni class of 2003.
