Extensive, well-equipped studios and computer laboratories highlight the outstanding facilities for art students at New Paltz. Three major buildings house studio classrooms, production facilities, and computer labs including a new wireless computing lab with a classroom set of laptops housed in the Smiley Art Building. The studio spaces in the Art Department feature facilities for ceramics, metal, printmaking, photography, painting and drawing, graphic design and sculpture. All Art Education students have use of these facilities as majors in the Art Education Program. In addition to these studio area facilities, the Art Education program maintains its own facilities in the Smiley Art Building that function as laboratories to explore art teaching and a small computer lab and resource center for the exclusive use of students in the program.
Students also have direct access to exhibitions and programs of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. Additional resources include the Sojourner Truth Library, the largest public academic library in the Mid-Hudson region, and the Visual Resources of the Art History Department, which houses an extensive collection of slide reproductions of historical and contemporary art and architecture.
