Munson Artist-in-Residence Quincey Spagnoletti opens exhibition March 13
Utica, N.Y. — Photographer Quincey Spagnoletti, Munson’s 2025–26 Artist-in-Residence, will celebrate the opening of her exhibition, “Home Studio,” from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday, March 13, at the Pratt Munson Gallery in the Munson Museum of Art. This event is free and open to the public, and “Home Studio” will be on view through April 3.
Drawing from memory and conversations with maternal figures, Spagnoletti revisits the spaces and objects that shaped her — the gestures, rituals, and unspoken rules passed down through generations. Through staged imagery and sculptural arrangements, she reclaims these symbols of upbringing and control, transforming them into sites of questioning and self-definition. The camera becomes both mirror and mediator — a tool for tenderness, confrontation, and release. In this work, the personal becomes collective: a meditation on unlearning, on reclaiming the body and voice from the weight of expectation, and on reimagining what it means to inherit womanhood on one’s own terms.
“My current studio practice is a back-and-forth between pathos and this notion of control – a constant search for who I am as a woman and how I want to present myself to society,” says Spagnoletti. “In this way, I hope to leave an inquiry of the matriarchal and the matrilineal for the generations to come.”
As part of her residency, Spagnoletti is teaching the mini-course “Intro to Digital Photography” for Munson community artists in which she teaches basic photography principles, how to take dynamic imagery through effects and constructed backgrounds, and how to process photos with Adobe products and Camera RAW. A second session of her course for artists ages 18 and up begins March 12. To register, visit munson.art/community-arts.
“Our Artist-in-Residence program brings fresh perspectives to campus and plays an important role in the creative life of Pratt Munson,” said Suzanne Snyder, dean of Pratt Munson College of Art and Design. “Quincey’s work is thoughtful and compelling, and we’re excited to share it with our students and the broader community.”
Funding for Munson’s 2025-2026 residency is provided by Robert and Tatyana Knight, and by Rona Lucas in memory of Roslyn and Irving Levine.
For more information about Spagnoletti’s exhibition, visit munson.art/home-studio. To learn more about her work, visit quinceyspagnoletti.com.
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