Category: School of Fine & Performing Arts

The Art Education program at the State University of New York at New Paltz will explore the collaborations between school districts and community arts organizations at a national conference, titled “Youth and Community Development: How the Arts Serve Economically Impoverished Communities,” June 11-13, on the New Paltz campus. Throughout the weekend, leading…

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz will hold an opening reception for “Andy Warhol: Private and Public in 151 Photographs” at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 9, in the Sara Bedrick Gallery of The Dorsky Museum. The exhibition runs…

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art will begin the first in a series of three Creative Conversations with museum innovator David A. Ross, who will be discussing “The Miscreants of Taliwood” with the film’s director and award-winning Australian painter George Gittoes at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 23, in the Nadia…

The abundance of talented candidates for a Master of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts degree are obvious in two moving exhibitions coming up at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. These special exhibitions offer a look at the challenging and diverse thesis projects created by degree candidates from the…

Jamie Bennett, professor of Art in the Metal Program at the State University of New York at New Paltz, has been named to The American Craft Council’s 2009 College of Fellows and will be honored at a luncheon during American Craft Council’s leadership conference “Creating a New Craft Culture”…

The Department of Theatre Arts at the State University of New York at New Paltz kicks off its Mainstage 2009-2010 Season with the world premiere of Red Masquerade, by playwright Jack Wade. The Obie-award winning “Transport Group Theatre” and “The Clockwork Theatre Company” both held professional readings of the play in…

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz has received nearly $14,500 in funding to support its “Art and the River” project, the museum’s contribution to the Hudson River Quadricentennial events taking place throughout the state this year. Between June and December…

The State University of New York Press is pleased to announce a major publishing partnership with the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (SDMA) located at the State University of New York at New Paltz. SUNY Press will now be distributing in print and digital editions the titles published by SDMA. These…

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz will hold the opening reception for the much-anticipated exhibition “The Hudson River to Niagara Falls, 19th-Century American Landscape Paintings from the New-York Historical Society” from 5 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 11, in The…

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz will open the annual Hudson Valley Artists exhibition, titled “Hudson Valley Artists 2009: Ecotones and Transition Zones” at 5 p.m. in the Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery and North Gallery on June 13. The…