The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz has been awarded a $20,000 grant from the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation in support of a large-scale exhibition of Tibetan contemporary art.
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (Dorsky Museum) announces the purchase of the following artworks from its Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012 exhibition for its permanent collection.
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art announces special public programs that will take place in conjunction with its current exhibitions: Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012, Russel Wright: The Nature of Design and Shinohara Pops! The Avant-Garde Road, Tokyo/New York.
Read MoreAcclaimed author Ha Jin will be plenary speaker NEW PALTZ – The State University of New York at New Paltz will host the annual meeting of the New York Conference of Asian Studies on Sept. 28 and 29. This multi-disciplinary conference will include more than 50 panels focusing on Asian culture, politics,…
Read MoreOn Saturday, September 8th, from 5-7 pm, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art will host a public reception for two new exhibitions: Shinohara Pops! The Avant-Garde Road, Tokyo/New York, curated by Hiroko Ikegami and Reiko Tomii, and Russel Wright: The Nature of Design curated by Donald Albrecht and Dianne Pierce. Both exhibitions are on display from August 29-December 16, 2012.
Read MoreNEW PALTZ -The State University of New York at New Paltz Art department in conjunction with the curatorial programs of the Dorsky Gallery present Displaced Objectives/Convoluted Conjecture. The opening reception will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 5 and will remain on view through Aug. 26 at the…
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art announces a series of programs that have been organized in conjunction with the exhibition Dear Mother Nature, Hudson Valley Artists 2012, currently on display in the Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery and North Gallery through November 4.
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art will hold an opening reception for a new exhibition, Dear Mother Nature, Hudson Valley Artists 2012, on Saturday, June 23, from 5-7 p.m. The exhibition, curated by Linda Weintraub, will be on display in the Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery and North Gallery through November 4.
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz (The Dorsky) and the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild present a panel discussion entitled “Representation and Its Discontents,” on Saturday, June 16 at 5:30 p.m. The event will take place at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild’s Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, located at 34 Tinker Street, in Woodstock, N.Y.
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz presents its fourth annual Fine Wine + Fine Art benefit auction on Tuesday, June 5, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Twenty Four Fifth ballroom at 24 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
Read MoreNEW PALTZ – The State University of New York at New Paltz Department of Music presents Songs for New Journeys on April 3 at 6:00 p.m. in the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art located on the college campus. The concert features songs for the theatre, composed by Stephen Kitsakos, arranged for…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ – New Paltz alumnus Sergey Jivetin ’01 has been named a winner of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation’s 17th Biennial Competition. Thirty award winners were selected from more than 130 nominations in the fields of painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video, and craft media, gathered by a nationwide nominating committee….
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz will present a series of events and exhibitions in March 2012.
Read MoreOn Friday, February 10, from 5 to 7 pm, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art will hold an opening reception for two new exhibitions: The Leonardo Series: Drawings by Anthony Panzera Based on the Work of Leonardo da Vinci and Eugene Ludins: An American Fantasist.
Read MoreOn Friday, February 10, from 5 to 7 pm, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art will hold an opening reception for two new exhibitions: The Leonardo Series: Drawings by Anthony Panzera Based on the Work of Leonardo da Vinci and Eugene Ludins: An American Fantasist.
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art invites artists to submit proposals for its annual exhibition of work by artists from the mid Hudson Valley. This year’s exhibition titled ”Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012" will be organized by guest curator Linda Weintraub.
Read Morehe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art announces the first in a series of limited edition artist portfolios to benefit the museum.
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (Dorsky Museum) announces the purchase one piece of artwork from its current Hudson Valley Artists exhibition for its permanent collection.
Read MoreNovember events at the Dorsky: The opening reception of "Reading Objects 2011," Nov. 11, is part of an ongoing, interdisciplinary series featuring works from the permanent collection of The Dorsky Museum. The works on display are accompanied by texts or other responses prepared by New Paltz faculty, staff and (new this year) students. And a symposium organized in connection with The Dorsky Museum’s current exhibition "Linking Collections, Building Connections: Works from the Hudson Valley Visual Art Collections Consortium," takes place on Saturday, Nov. 12 at the New Paltz campus.
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (The Dorsky) celebrates its founding with a 10th Anniversary Party on Saturday, Oct. 15. The Dorsky first opened to the public in April 2001 and was officially dedicated on Oct. 20, 2001.
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art announces “Music at The Dorsky,” a three-event series of music concerts to be presented in the museum’s Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery in October 2011.
Read MoreThis exhibition presents fresh perspectives on a century of artistic activity in the Mid-Hudson Valley. It brings to light more than 150 artworks and the connections that link them together. The exhibition gathers together paintings, sculptures, furnishings, prints, drawings, photographs and conceptual works from the permanent collections of the partner organizations that comprise the Hudson Valley Visual Art Collections Consortium (HVVACC).
Read MoreHudson Valley Artists 2011: Exercises in Unnecessary Beauty features works by 24 artists who live and work in the mid-Hudson Valley who dare to address that most elusive of qualities—beauty. The exhibition includes work that employs beautiful images and craftsmanship as well as work that questions the idea and/or ideal of beauty.
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at The State University of New York at New Paltz presents its third annual Fine Wine + Fine Art benefit auction on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Twenty Four Fifth Ballroom in Manhattan.
Read MoreThe State University of New York at New Paltz is pleased to announce an exhibition of satirical prints by artist Hank Virgona, on view from April 29 to June 5, 2011 in the Seminar Room of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art.
Read MoreThe State University of New York at New Paltz is pleased to announce two upcoming special events presented by the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. These exhibitions are among a series of Tenth Anniversary Year exhibitions that commemorate The Dorsky’s focus on the art and artists of the Hudson…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ – Noah P. Dorsky, chair of the SUNY New Paltz Foundation, the philanthropic arm of SUNY New Paltz, and son of Samuel Dorsky, the namesake of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art on the New Paltz campus, will be the May 2011 Commencement Speaker. “We thought it was quite fitting…
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (The Dorsky) is pleased to present a program of vocal works that includes The White Rooster, a dramatic cantata for women’s voices, percussion and six Tibetan singing bowls performed by the vocal ensemble Tapestry, on Thursday, April 14 at 6 pm. A…
Read MoreOn Friday, April 8, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art will hold an opening reception for two new exhibitions: The Upstate New York Olympics: Tim Davis and Thick and Thin: Ken Landauer and Julianne Swartz, from 5 to 7 pm. The museum’s curator, Brian Wallace, organized both exhibitions…
Read MoreSpeaker is Chair of New Paltz Foundation; his family is namesake of Dorsky Museum NEW PALTZ- Noah P. Dorsky, chair of the SUNY New Paltz Foundation, the philanthropic arm of SUNY New Paltz, and son of Samuel Dorsky, the namesake of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art on the New Paltz campus, will…
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art invites artists to submit proposals for its annual exhibition of work by artists from the mid Hudson Valley. This year’s exhibition—Hudson Valley Artists 2011: Exercises in Unnecessary Beauty—will be selected and organized by Dorsky Museum curator Brian Wallace. Artists are invited to…
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (The Dorsky) opens an exhibition of work by artist Marco Maggi on Friday, Feb. 11 with a curator’s gallery talk from 4 – 5 p.m. and a preview reception on from 5 – 7 p.m. The exhibition From Huguenot to Microwave: New and Recent Works by Marco Maggi…
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (The Dorsky) celebrates its tenth anniversary year in 2011. Formerly known as the College Art Gallery, The Dorsky first opened to the public in April 2001 and was officially dedicated on Oct. 20, 2001. The museum will celebrate this important birthday with a series of tenth anniversary exhibitions…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ – The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz (Dorsky Museum), the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, and the Women’s Studio Workshop—members of a newly-formed Hudson Valley Visual Arts Collections Consortium—announce the…
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (Dorsky Museum) in partnership with Historic Huguenot Street (HHS) will hold an opening reception for Binary Visions: Early 19th-Century Woven Coverlets from the Collection of Historic Huguenot Street on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010. The event begins with a gallery talk by the exhibition curators from…
Read MoreNEW 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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,…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreIn 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…
Read MoreThe State University of New York at New Paltz is hosting a daylong symposium focusing on the art featured in the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art’s exhibition, “The Hudson River to Niagara Falls: 19th Century American Landscape Painting from the New-York Historical Society,” on Saturday, Nov. 7. Professor Kerry…
Read MoreBeginning this week, The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz will launch a lineup of programs for the fall that includes gallery talks, lectures and a Nov. 7 symposium.
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz will hold a community roundtable at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 24, in Lecture Center 108 to discuss the “Habitat for Artists Project” with curators, artists and representatives of New Paltz businesses and organizations that have hosted this six-month installation of temporary artist studios at four sites around New Paltz.
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz will present the final two exhibitions in its six-month “Art and the River” series, the college’s contribution to the Hudson River Quadricentennial, this September.
Read MoreGreater Hudson Heritage Network (GHHN) is holding its Annual Meeting on October 2, 2009 at Overlook Lodge, Bear Mountain, NY (Orange). Fourteen awards will be presented at the 24th Annual Awards Towards Excellence program.
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz will host an evening of “Fine Wine + Fine Art” that will include tastings of wine, hors d’oeuvres from the Depuy Canal House, artisanal cheese and chocolates, fine ports and an auction of fine wine and fine art. The event, a benefit for the The Dorsky Museum, begins at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12, in the museum’s gallery.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreDuring a year filled with celebratory events, the 2009 Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial Commission has partnered with the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area and the Historic House Trust of New York City to inaugurate the state’s first ever New York Heritage Weekend, September 12 and 13. Visitors will be welcomed free, or…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz has announced that it will host a series of five major art exhibitions, a symposium, and educational activities to coincide with New York State’s Hudson 400th celebrations. The museum’s Art & The River project will…
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art received an exceptional gift of Andy Warhol photographs from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Warhol, one of the founders of the Pop Art movement of the 1960s, used photography extensively both to document ideas and record daily events and experiences. …
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Neil Trager, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art founding director who will be celebrated with a special retirement party this Saturday, May 10 at the institution that he was instrumental in building, may be among the quietest visionaries to grace the Valley in some time. When first…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — “Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another,” said philosopher Marshall McLuhan who in 1964 coined the phrase “The medium is the message.”
NEW PALTZ — Save the last Saturday in March for the opening of three special exhibitions at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Beat and Beyond: Photographs by Allen Ginsberg, A Discerning Vision: Photographs from the Collection of Howard Greenberg;…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — March 2008 marks the 5th anniversary of the American-led invasion of Iraq, and Americans are attempting to come to terms with the conflict’s purpose, moral obligations, and…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Grace Bakst Wapner’s reflections on spirit stones (Chinese Scholar’s Rocks) is the inspiration for her upcoming exhibition, A Scholar’s Garden, at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Over a twenty-year period, Miguel Gandert created captivating photographs that examine the rituals – sacred and secular – practiced by mestizo peoples of the Upper Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico. The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York has mounted an…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Photographer Helen K. Garber’s urban nocturnes are the subject of the exhibition Urban Noir: L.A.– N.Y. opening Saturday, October 6 with a reception from 2-4 p.m. at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz. The exhibition will be…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony, the oldest continuing arts colony in America (founded 1902-1903), has been an alluring destination for an eclectic group of artists, writers, musicians, and social reformers interested…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Charles Rosen, one of the most distinguished Pennsylvania Impressionist and Woodstock artists will be honored with an…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Installation art pioneer Judy Pfaff, whose thirty-year career has achieved worldwide acclaim and accolades including a MacArthur Fellowship, has collaborated with the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz on an exhibition of new work that opens February 10,…
Read MoreThree artists represented in the exhibition ANXIOUS OBJECTS will participate in Conversations @ the SDMA on July 12, 11:30 am at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. Judith Hoyt, Doris Licht, and Leslie Pelino will share in the discussion. Conversations @ the SDMA is dedicated to building the dialogue…
Read MoreEmerging artists who are candidates for a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) or a Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA) degree will present their creative thesis projects in four successive week-long exhibitions at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. In addition, Bachelor of Fine Arts students with…
Read MoreAn exhibition of 116 Hudson River School paintings drawn from a remarkable and comprehensive private collection will open February 4, 2006 at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz. American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting features the work…
Read MoreAn exhibition of more than thirty Nianhua, Chinese New Year prints from 19th and early 20th centuries, selected from the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art’s permanent collection, will be on view at the museum September 17 through November 6, 2005. “The Cult of Happiness: Chinese Woodblock Prints” is curated by…
Read MoreWhat do contemporary Hudson Valley artists have in common with the Greeks and Romans? – The unusual medium of encaustic. “Encaustic Works 2005”, an exhibition opening at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz on September 17, 2005, highlights the work…
Read MoreJuxtapositions: Selections from the Metals Collection, an exhibition curated by SUNY New Paltz art professors Jamie Bennett and Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, will open at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art on September 17, 2005 with a reception from 2-4 p.m. The exhibition will highlight recent acquisitions, establishing comparisons between a wide…
Read MoreSix artists whose work is represented in the exhibition Recycled, Revisited will participate in Conversations @ the SDMA, a program of discussions between curators, artists, collectors, and SUNY faculty/staff that explores issues related to current museum exhibitions. The discussion will occur on Wednesday, August 10 at 6:30pm in the West…
Read MoreOpening July 1, 2005, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz will present Recycled Revisited: Artistic Responses to the Earth Charter. Curated by John Dahlsen and Dr. Alice Wexler, the show includes a selection of work by artists from the Arts Society of Kingston. The exhibition is…
Read MoreThe name of Woodstock is synonymous with the world-famous Woodstock Music Festival of 1969. But few are aware that in the teens and twenties of this past century another festival had been associated with Woodstock over the course of 16 years. This was the famous Maverick Festival begun in 1915…
Read MoreAs we emerge into the brave new digital age, what will become of photography? In 50 years’ time, will a gelatin silver print look as antiquated as a Victorian tintype? Taking a critical look backwards, The Material Image: Surface and Substance in Photography, an exhibition of photographic works selected by…
Read MoreSUNY New Paltz faculty and staff are invited to take part in Reading Objects 2005. Participants in this interdisciplinary project choose a work of art from the museum’s permanent collection, and write interpretative commentary on the work from their personal or professional perspective. These contributions are displayed alongside the work…
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art will highlight the contemporary art collection of New York residents Jim Cottrell and Joe Lovett, February 5 – April 10, 2005. The 47 paintings selected for this exhibition include works by Basquiat, Haring, Morley, Hockney and others. The focus of the collection includes artists…
Read MoreAn exhibition of 50 paintings by contemporary American realist painter Don Nice will open at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art on Saturday, February 5, with a reception from 2:00-4:00 p.m. The exhibition will be on view through April 22, 2004. Don Nice is a classic figure in American…
Read MoreEmerging artists who are candidates for a Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) or a Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree will present their creative thesis projects in two separate exhibitions at the Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz in December 2004. These popular and challenging exhibitions are designed and…
Read MoreThe Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (SDMA) at the State University of New York at New Paltz presents the first comprehensive survey of Rimer Cardillo’s artistic career. Rimer Cardillo: Impressions (and other images of memory) will open with a reception on Saturday, October 16th from 2pm-4pm at the Samuel Dorsky…
Read MoreOut of the Vault, an impressive multi-part exhibition which highlights components of the permanent collection of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, will be on view through August 8, 2004. About the exhibition: Out of the Vault is developed around works of art drawn from…
Read MoreEach summer, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz mounts an exhibition of work by artists in the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains regions. The purpose for the exhibition is to give emerging, mid-career, and under-represented artists an opportunity to share new developments in their studio work….
Read MoreTo commemorate National Holocaust Remembrance Month observed in April, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz will present Written in Memory: Portraits of the Holocaust. The twenty-two works in the exhibition were created by Jeffrey A. Wolin and selected by Wayne…
Read MoreJudi Esmond has been appointed Education Coordinator at the SDMA. Ms. Esmond is an alumna of SUNY New Paltz with degrees in both fine arts and art education. Prior to joining the staff of the SDMA she held similar positions at the Mill Street Loft in Poughkeepsie, and the Center…
Read MoreRemaining faithful to his own artistic vision, and defying the popular art movements of his day, Milton Avery forged his own aesthetic path through modernity. Milton Avery: Paintings from the Collection of the Neuberger Museum of Art, will be on exhibit at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art January 28th…
Read MoreAgricultural Works, an exhibition of new work by contemporary photographer James Welling, that merges nature, culture and industry of the Hudson River Valley through color photography and music will premiere at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz, New York, on…
Read MoreThe State University of New York at New Paltz Foundation has been awarded a $7,500 art collections care and research grant from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for support of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (SMDA). This is the first time the SMDA has received…
Read MoreEmerging artists who are candidates for a Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) or a Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree will present their creative thesis projects in two separate shows in The Chandler Gallery of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art December 5 – 17, 2003 at SUNY New Paltz….
Read MoreAlice Neel’s Feminist Portraits, Women Artists, Writers, Activists and Intellectuals, an exhibition organized by the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz will open on Wednesday, October 15, 2003 in the West Wing gallery. The exhibition is being held in association with…
Read More“The Photographs of James Van Der Zee,” an exhibition of sensitive and moving images documenting the Harlem Renaissance during 1920’s and 1930’s, will open at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz on October 15th. This exhibition is held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the publication…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The recent work of nine Cuban photographers and video artists including Tania Bruguera, Raul Cordero, Carlos Garaicoa, Luis Gomez, Ernesto Leal, Elsa Mora, Rene Pena, Manuel Pina and Sandra Ramos, will be presented at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, from Saturday, July…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — New Direction for “Hudson Valley Artists 2003” Dorsky Museum Exhibit Highlights Six Emerging Artists Each summer, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz mounts an exhibition of work by emerging or mid-career Hudson Valley artists. This year,…
Read MoreThe expansion of the museum’s permanent collection depends on a large part on the generosity of donors. The following individuals have recently made significant contributions: Elizabeth Ajay, wife of noted artist Abe Ajay, donated an untitled wood and mixed media construction piece via the Babcock Galleries in New York…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Bolton Coit Brown printmaker, painter, renowned mountaineer and co-founder of the Byrdcliffe art colony in Woodstock was truly a Renaissance man, but he is perhaps best known as an innovator in the field of lithography. The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz presents a…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — A noted scholar of modernism who has enjoyed a long professional association with the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Dr. Karl Willers joins the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at State University of New York at New Paltz as curator of exhibitions. Willers…
Read MoreDue to the continued generosity of faculty, alumni, and friends in the community, a number of areas in the permanent collection have recently seen growth. During the year 2002, 117 objects were added to the permanent collection. Highlights include a ca. 1828 sketchbook belonging to Hudson River School founder…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The State University of New York at New Paltz has received a $102,000 gift from Ms. Karen Dorsky to benefit the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (SDMA). Ms. Dorsky, a member of the museum’s 15-member executive board, contributed the endowment to the museum’s director’s fund. The…
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