Featured Exhibition
Jan Sawka: The Place of Memory (The Memory of Place) February 8 – November 22, 2020
Hanna Sawka gives a tour of Jan Sawka's "Post Cards" to Jill Parisi's studio printmaking class in Jan Sawka: The Place of Memory (The Memory of Place).
Fall 2020 public programs
Events will take place virtually
SEPTEMBER
Saturday, September 19, 2 pm
Curator Talk: with Hudson Valley Artists 2020: New Folk curator, Anna Conlan
Join here, no registration required: https://newpaltz.webex.com/newpaltz/onstage/g.php?MTID=e2db17b45aa0839a81122798b8fdd5897
The event will also be streamed on the museum's Facebook page and a recording will be available afterwards.
Thursday, September 24, 6 pm
Curator Talk: with We Wear the Mask curator, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak
Saturday, September 26, 2 pm
In Conversation: Bill Aguado, Exectuive Director and Charles Biasini-Rivera Co-Founder and Director Emeritus of En Foco, Inc. in a conversation about the founding and history of the organization. Founded in 1974, En Foco is a non-profit that supports contemporary primarily U.S.-based photographers of African, Asian, Latino, Native American and Pacific Islander heritage and makes their work visible to the art world, yet remains accessible to under-serviced communities. Past recipients of En Foco Fellowship are featured in the exhibition Dos Mundos: (Re)Constructing Narratives.
Sunday, September 27, 2 pm
Family Day: The Mailiad: A Mythic American Adventure, Part 1
Join artist Ben Pinder for an interactive, ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ style Zoom adventure across a mythic American landscape. Participants will engage and help make decisions that affect the narrative while learning about performance, collaboration, myth making, and the importance of the US Postal system. Ben will help prepare for your adventure by providing templates and instructions for making masks, and drawing animals that will be used in the video meetup and performance.
Family Day registration at http://www.newpaltz.edu/museum/learn/familydays
Wednesday, September 30, 2 pm
Grant Writing Workshop for Artists: Accessing State and Local Grant Funds with Lilia Perez, Grants & Programs Manager at Arts Mid-Hudson
OCTOBER
Saturday, October 3, 2 pm
Discussion: Join New Folk curator, Anna Conlan, SUNY New Paltz Art History Professor, Kerry Carso, and renowned local artist exhibiting in New Folk, Ryan Cronin, for a talk about the history of the Hudson Valley as a place which draws artists and makers, why it has been such a beacon, and how it plays out today.
Friday, October 10, 2 pm
Virtual Tour: Virtually visit Dos Mundos: (Re)Constructing Narratives with Curators Juanita Lanzo and Stephanie Lindquist.
Sunday, October 11, 2 pm
Family Day: The Mailiad: A Mythic American Adventure, Part 2
Join artist Ben Pinder for an interactive, ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ style Zoom adventure across a mythic American landscape. Participants will engage and help make decisions that affect the narrative while learning about performance, collaboration, myth making, and the importance of the US Postal system. Ben will help prepare for your adventure by providing templates and instructions for making masks, and drawing animals that will be used in the video meetup and performance.
Family Day registration at http://www.newpaltz.edu/museum/learn/familydays
Saturday, October 17, 2 pm
Presentation: “Thomas Cole vs. H.D. Thoreau: American Scenery in the Age of Abolitionism” with Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, curator of We Wear the Mask
Saturday, October 24, 6 pm
Artists Talk: “Poking Holes and Piercing Through” A talk with Caitlin Rose Sweet and Ben Pinder, artists featured in the exhibition New Folk
Both hailing from small towns in America, Caitlin Rose Sweet and Ben Pinder make work which simultaneously embraces Americana and folk traditions while exposing the social constructs (and constraints) surrounding them. We will explore the fascinating work they produce and join them in a discussion on how they are poking holes and piercing through American myths of masculinity, gender and labor, and craft and art, in an attempt to level hierarchies and detoxify beliefs.
Thursday, November 5, 2 pm
A Dialogue on Environmental Racism: Join students from the SUNY New Paltz El Museo Escolar club and artist Danny Peralta, featured in Dos Mundos: (Re)Constructing Narratives, for a dialogue and information session on environmental issues in the Caribbean and Latin America and how they affect Indigenous peoples, followed by an information session on what we can do to help in NYC and the Hudson Valley.
Saturday, November 7, 2 pm
Artist Talk: with exhibiting artists Erika Morillo, Antonio Pulgarin, and Aaron Turner, featured in Dos Mundos: (Re)Constructing Narratives
Saturday, November 14, 2 pm
Artist Talk: with exhibiting artists Laylah Amattullah Barrayn, Yu-Chen Chiu, and Anthony Hamboussi, featured in Dos Mundos: (Re)Constructing Narratives
Funding for The Dorsky’s exhibitions and programs is provided by generous donors and friends of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art and the State University of New York at New Paltz. Additional major funding is provided by the Dorsky Museum Contemporary Art Program Fund.
