Category: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

NEW PALTZ – The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz will present a public reception for two new exhibitions titled “The Illustrious Mr. X: Museum Collection as Character Study” and “Thoughts of Home: Photographs from the Center for Photography at Woodstock Permanent…

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, the State University of New York at New Paltz and the Village and Town of New Paltz will participate in a collaborative art exhibition, titled “Carrying,” a project with the goal of shedding light on college campus gun violence from August 18 through Nov. 14. The…

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, the lead member of the Hudson Valley Visual Arts Consortium, has been awarded a $150,000 collaborative Museums for America federal grant to develop an easy-to-search, Web-accessible database that will feature images and information for more than 13,000 objects from the collections of The Dorsky…

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz has received a gift of two paintings by 19th Century Hudson River School painter Jervis McEntee from Helen McEntee, who married Col. Girard Lindsley McEntee, the nephew of Jervis McEntee. Mrs. McEntee, who lives in Highland…

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz will host a panel discussion and evening of film screenings with pioneering painter, filmmaker, writer and performance/installation artist Carolee Schneemann beginning at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 10, at the Rosendale Theatre. Schneemann’s exhibition,…

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 Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz will hold the opening reception for its winter/spring 2010 exhibition from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 5, in The Dorsky Museum. The headlining exhibit, Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises, is the sixth…

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…

In honor of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage of discovery on the river that now bears his name, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art is proud to announce the publication of Panorama of the Hudson River. The book, distributed by SUNY Press, offers a twenty-first-century updating of G. Willard…