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Departments & Areas of Study

Your creative career starts here.

Fuel your artistic endeavors and increase your value with a degree from the School of Fine & Performing Arts.

Art

Create, learn and master professional skills in your preferred medium, or begin your journey to becoming an educator.

Design

Students and faculty collaborate on forward-looking projects, rooted in cross-disciplinary foundations and using cutting-edge tools and technologies.

Music

Join a community of musicians immersed in the creation and performance of music. We teach our students to think broadly with an open mind, and to be flexible in their creativity.

Theatre Arts

Evolve to your fullest potential while exploring performance, design/technology or theatre arts in a diverse, inclusive and welcoming community.

Art History

Dedicated teachers committed to research and scholarship, close student-faculty interaction and critical, analytical interpretation of world art traditions await you in the Art History Department.

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News

“Movement”: Dorsky Museum announces call for Hudson Valley Artists 2025
The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz invites artists working in all media to submit proposals for its annual exhibition of contemporary art made by artists in the Hudson Valley. Titled “Movement,” this iteration is the 18th Hudson Valley Artists exhibition in the series and will pilot a model in which a local artist is brought on as the guest curator to select the art and design the exhibition.
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Tony Award-winning actress and producer LaChanze visits campus
Tony Award-winning actress and producer LaChanze helped the Department of Theatre Arts open its 2024-25 season, visiting with students and sitting for a conversation with the director, writer and actor Jammie Patton. Patton is directing Theatre Arts’ production of “Trouble in Mind” this year, and LaChanze was nominated for a Tony for her performance in the same play on Broadway in 2021.
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Welcome new Hawks! Scenes from an enthusiastic, uplifting Convocation 2024
On Tuesday, Aug. 27, hundreds of students from the incoming class processed down Excelsior Concourse – led by the Saints of Swing brass marching band, and cheered on by faculty and staff – for a ceremony on Old Main Quad and a get-to-know-you BBQ on a beautiful late-summer day.
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The Dorsky Museum

 

The Dorsky Museum creates art experiences that spark curiosity, critical thinking, and delight, connecting and serving the University and the diverse communities of our region. We are a hub for the art and artists of the Hudson Valley - free, open, and accessible to all.

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