Faculty News: PROF. YAEL EREL AND STUDENTS AT TROY GLOW FESTIVAL Assistant Professor Yael Erel and students from her “Projecting Light” seminar are participating in the Troy Glow Festival. Troy Glow is a temporary public art light festival held in the historic downtown Troy from 12/04/22 until 01/09/23. Troy Glow features a series of site-specific outdoor installations of light-based art by regional artists. Partner organizations will be participating through a total of 14 sites in a walkable route. Prof. Yael Erel in partnership with Avner Ben Natan are presenting an analog light animation in the back façade of Troy Savings Bank Music Hall (viewable from Franklin Alley and State Street). They are as well festival companion collective exhibition at Troy’s Arts Center for the Capital Region (265 River Street) In the Arts Center’s foyer, SoA students are presenting three installations: “Reflective Silhouettes”by Christiana Bevilacqua, Joseph Pelton, Rebecca Victori and Christopher Yip; “Disc-o-light” by Darnell Clement, Daniel Cureno and Morgan Palacios; and “Stratified Tree” by Oliver Ma, Qingyang Xu and Yishu Yu. The festival opens with the traditional Victorian Stroll event on December 4th — lights will be on 4:30-10pm. A first-look reception will take place on Saturday 12/3 from 6-8pm – An opening reception at the Arts Center of the Capital Region that will include It will include guided tours of the festival. To learn more about TroyGlow and signup for updates go to: https://www.artscenteronline.org/publicart/troyglow/