NEW PALTZ — Margaret H. Johnson, an associate professor of art education at SUNY New Paltz, has co-authored a new book, The Colors of Learning: Integrating the Visual Arts into the Early Childhood Curriculum (Teachers College Press), heralded as an important contribution to current thinking about child development. Based…
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Art History Professor’s New Book Highlights Old Kingston
NEW PALTZ — William B. Rhoads, a professor of art history at the State University of New York at New Paltz, presents a wealth of historic photography and architectural information about New York’s first capital city in Kingston, New York: The Architectural Guide, recently published by Black Dome Press….
Read moreDuets for Piano and Violin Introduce SUNY Concert Season
NEW PALTZ — The first of four concerts given this season at SUNY New Paltz by members of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic focuses on music by French composers performed by violinist Emily Faxon and pianist Ruthanne Schempf. Their poetic but adventuresome repertoire will be offered on Tuesday, February 4, 2003,…
Read moreIbsen’s Classic “A Doll House” Performed at SUNY
NEW PALTZ — Perhaps no other work of modern drama has so clearly crystallized the struggle between duty to family and duty to self as “A Doll House” by Henrik Ibsen. The Department of Theatre Arts at SUNY New Paltz is presenting this groundbreaking classic between Feb. 27 and March…
Read moreMaximum Insecurity: Dorsky Museum Shows Wry Twist on Landscapes
NEW PALTZ — The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz presents an exhibition of paintings by Sandow Birk, a California artist who combines classical technique with frank, sometimes brutal imagery. “Incarcerated,” his show of landscapes surrounding maximum security prisons, will run from January 29 through March 15,…
Read moreKareyan Explores Politics Through Performance: Armenian Artist in Residence at SUNY
NEW PALTZ — David Kareyan, a performance, video and installation artist from Armenia who is in residence at SUNY New Paltz, will discuss his work on Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 7:30 p.m. in the Lecture Center, Room 100. Kareyan’s talk is part of the Student Art Alliance lecture series….
Read moreMarches, Dances and Memorials: Musicians Present Tribute to Columbine
NEW PALTZ — The Symphonic Band, with fifty student and alumni musicians plus several performers from Kingston and Wallkill High Schools, performs five works including an elegy composed in memory of the Columbine High School shootings – in SUNY New Paltz’s Julien J. Studley Theatre on Tuesday, November 19, at…
Read moreComputer Artist Explores Social Queries
NEW PALTZ — Colette Gaiter, an artist who uses pixilated text, image and sound to raise social questions, will give a lecture on Wednesday, November 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 100 of the SUNY New Paltz Lecture Center. Social history is provides much of Gaiter’s computer-art inspiration. In…
Read morePrize Winning Play Navigates Difficult Terrain
NEW PALTZ — “How I Learned to Drive,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning play that explores child sexual abuse as a means to understanding the nature of transgression and forgiveness, will be performed at SUNY New Paltz’s Parker Theatre on two weekends, November 14-17 and November 21-24, 2002. This challenging work has…
Read moreCave Dogs presents “Ferrous City”
NEW PALTZ — Cave Dogs, an ensemble that mixes storytelling with shadows, improvisation and sound, will transform McKenna Theatre at SUNY New Paltz into the backdrop for a summertime road trip on Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. In “Ferrous City,” audiences will experience the kaleidoscopic tour…
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