Around the SUNY Oswego campus

Oswego's 33rd annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration keynote speaker Angela Davis, center, signs copies of her book for senior Ziya Myers, who introduced Davis to the audience during the Feb. 9 event in Waterman Theater, and Marquél Jeffries, assistant coordinator for the college’s' Institute for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Transformative Practice.

Acclaimed educator, author and activist Angela Davis provided the keynote for SUNY Oswego’s 33rd annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. The event held Feb. 9 in Waterman Theater also featured student performances and readings. Through her activism and scholarship over many decades, Davis has been deeply involved in movements for social justice around the world. Her work as an educator at the university level and in the larger public sphere has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial and gender justice.

Senior Kamal Morales leads the SUNY Oswego Gospel Choir during the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration in singing a "Freedom Medley." The program segment also featured solos from Michael Jean and Taylor Larsen. Morales later performed the Black National Anthem “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”

Student Association President Takayla Beckon gives welcome remarks to the Waterman Theater audience for the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration.

Providing the "call to action" during the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration is Kendra Cadogan (left) – interim Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer and interim director of the Institute for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Transformative Practice – and Mary Toale, SUNY Oswego Officer in Charge.

The Oswego Ski and Snowboard Club hosted another successful Rail Jam Feb. 18 in the academic quad near Lanigan Hall. Skiers and boarders of all skill levels were invited to participate and show off some tricks for some fun winter recreation. Club vice president Quinn Ames is pictured skiing along a rail.

Patrick Higgins, left, a senior graphic design major, with friends William Rogers, a senior graphic design major; and Brittney Fahnestock, a freshman adolescence education and mathematics major, look at Higgins' photography artwork on display during a reception Feb. 11 for the 59th Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition in Tyler Art Gallery. Both Higgins' and Rogers' photographs won Student Art Exhibition Committee purchase awards.

Natalie Archibee, pictured at right with SUNY Oswego Officer in Charge Mary Toale, won a President's Purchase Award at this year's Juried Student Art Exhibition for her drawing “The Looking Glass.”

Madison Rosier, pictured at right with SUNY Oswego Officer in Charge Mary Toale, won a President's Purchase Award at this year's Juried Student Art Exhibition for her poem titled “Poetry Lives Where Love Should Have Been But Wasn't.”

“Architectural Study Of Scales,” an art piece created by Ellen Weber (not pictured), won a President's Purchase Award at this year's Juried Student Art Exhibition.

Shannon Reals, right, looks on with her parents at her oil painting titled “Graveyard of Giants” included in the 59th Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition.

Sally and John Stroka, both alumni from the class of 1966, dropped off a large collection of items for the Winter Warm Up event that SHOP (Students Helping Oz Peers) hosted in 133 Marano Campus Center Feb. 15 through 17. At left accepting the donations is Helena Buttons, SHOP coordinator, and Jake Czaplicki, an intern with the Dean of Students Office.

This semester's Student Involvement Fair held Feb. 2 in Swetman Gym showcased some of the hundreds of student clubs and organizations open to all students. Pictured are Student Association Programming Board (SAPB) members checking out the Chinese calligraphy created by Phoebe Kan (seated left) from NY Party Works. Using paper fans to air dry the freshly inked calligraphy are, standing from left: Aiden Burns, Isabelle Sherman and Yadi Aranda Burgos.

The Study Abroad Fair, hosted Feb. 9 by the Office of International Education and Programs, gave students the opportunity to learn more about international study opportunities all across SUNY and chat with program coordinators, study abroad mentors and alumni. Djeneba Kante (standing at left), a sophomore global and international studies major, talks with Oswego's Education Abroad representatives, at table from left: Allison McGinley, education abroad secretary; Lyn Blanchfield, history department faculty member and scholarship adviser; and Destiny Crossway, student worker.

The Blackfriars student production “A Play Where Nothing Happens,” directed by senior Kayla Elfers, depicts a slice of life of a recent high school graduate's thoughts and her best friend eager to experience adventure before leaving home for college but still tethered to home. The show premieres in Tyler Hall’s lab theatre (Room 46) at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24, with additional 7:30 p.m. curtains on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 25 and 26, as well as 2 p.m. weekend matinees on Feb. 26 and 27. Tickets are available from tickets.oswego.edu, and are free for SUNY Oswego students; $10 for faculty, staff and the general public. Shown in a rehearsal image are, top from left, Natalie Griffin and Anastasia West, and, bottom from left, Claire Bosley and Kieran McCormack.