Blake at Union

1980: With Corroding Fires: William Blake as Poet, Printmaker and Painter

This symposium and exhibition was sponsored jointly by Skidmore College and Union College. It brought speakers on Blake from research institutions across the east coast and included a workshop on Blake’s printing methods by Joseph Viscomi. A description of the program can be accessed below. An exhibition featuring original engravings by Blake, contemporary works, and Trianon Press facsimiles was held in conjunction with the two-day symposium and traveled from one institution to the other over a period of several months. The Friends of the Union College Library published a full catalog of the exhibition by Union College Professor of English James McCord.

2001: Michael Phillips: The Creation of William Blake’s Songs

This lecture by Blake scholar and printmaker Michael Phillips was co-sponsored by the departments of English and Visual Arts. It was held in conjunction with the student-curated exhibit “William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience,” which explored various facsimiles of that work. A catalog of the student exhibit, to which Phillips contributed material, is available below.

2018: Blake@Union Prize

To mark the launch of the Blake@Union project, students in all disciplines at Union College are invited to submit a response in any medium to the works of Blake. The competition is intended to celebrate student creativity and provides an opportunity for new student work to be featured on the Blake@Union website and in a concurrent onsite exhibit in the College library. Prizes will be awarded in each of two categories (arts/media and text). Student works of any length or format are welcome; the only requirement is that they interpret, respond to, or are otherwise inspired by something by or about Blake. See the full announcement below.