The Visual Resources Library
The department has a wide-ranging and continually
updated collection of 80,000 slides, maintained and
developed by a full-time slide curator. Slides seen
in class are available for review in the Visual Resources
Library, as well as online. There is also a growing
collection of art videos and CD-ROMs. A computer lab
also provides student access to the Internet for the
study and retrieval of images. The slide collection
is currently in the process of being digitized.
Samuel
Dorsky Museum of Art
The department also utilizes the resources of the SUNY
New Paltz Samuel Dorsky Museum
of Art, which has an active schedule of exhibitions
of the art of the past and present, as well as a permanent
collection with particular strengths in American and
Asian art. On occasion classes meet in the museum.
Museum studies courses are coordinated by the staff
of the Dorsky Museum and provide students with the
opportunity to work extensively with the collection
and to assist in organizing exhibitions.
