Help us re-envision the Dorsky Museum’s permanent collection

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz is embarking on an exciting reinstallation and re-envisioning of its permanent collection galleries, and we are inviting all Museum stakeholders – visitors, students, faculty, staff, alumni – to share their ideas and participate in this process.

Guest curator Katie Hood Morgan and Dorsky Manager of Education Zach Bowman have created a virtual questionnaire so you can share your thoughts around your experience of The Dorsky and what shape this display could take.

This feedback will have a direct impact on the themes and ideas addressed in the exhibition as well as artwork selections. We hope to reach as broad a cross-section of our museum community as possible!

Please use this link to respond to our questionnaire before Dec.5.

A new permanent collection display planned to open at The Dorsky in fall 2023 will be the culmination of a year of community outreach and discussion.

In addition to the questionnaire, we are holding a series of meetings with students, staff, faculty and visitors to inform the themes and content of the final display.

This initiative will triple the amount of gallery space devoted to displaying the permanent collection, making the most of the incredible artwork we steward and incentivizing growth of the collection for the future. The planned expansion of the permanent collection galleries emerges in alignment with larger Museum goals, including:

Display a greater number of The Dorsky Museum artworks on an ongoing basis

Extend the relevance of curricula, teaching resources and programs

Increase visitor impact and community-building

We are excited to embark on this process and hope you will join us in reimagining all the ways our permanent collection can reflect, serve and support the campus and broader Hudson Valley arts community.

Sincerely,

Anna Conlan
Neil C. Trager Director, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art