Art History Department at SUNY New Paltz

08/25/2026

Come to the Art History Social on Thursday, September 10 from 4:30-6 PM in the The Dorsky Museum of Art!

Join your Art History faculty and classmates for a relaxed get-together at The Dorsky! There will be light refreshments, conversation, and community as you enjoy In Our Time: R.B. Kitaj and Books, curated in collaboration with students in the Fall 2025 Art History seminar on the artist.

We look forward to seeing all declared art history students (majors/minors/early education Art History concentrators). Plus any undeclared or first years or transfer students who are considering art history!

08/25/2026

Eryn staffing the SUNYNP Art History Association table at the Involvement Event on Parker Quad today! Eryn told me they enjoyed the trip to Greece 🇬🇷this summer. Naxos was a favorite!!!🏺

08/04/2026

Deadline Extended to Wed., August 12! Tell Us Your Story! SUNY New Paltz Art History Alums and Current Students, submit your news for the last 18 months for our 25-26 Newsletter! 🔗🔗in our bio! https://linktr.ee/nparthistory

07/23/2026

Hello Art History Alumnx & Students! We hope you are all enjoying a relaxing yet productive summer break!

Right now we are excited to announce that we are accepting submissions for the Spring 25–Summer 2026 edition of the Department of Art History Newsletter. 🔗🔗 are in our bio! Deadline, Wednesday, August 5th.

The period for entries is different this time because we have changed the newsletter's coverage from the calendar year to the academic year. This way we can gather news over the summer, rather than during the busy end-of-year holiday season.

Coverage for the upcoming Newsletter is transitional—covering _three_ semesters and two summers—January 1, 2025 through August 1, 2026. After this transition, future Newsletters will cover a two-semester academic year.

Again, links to our Submissions Forms are in our bio. We'd love to hear from majors, minors, AND Early Education Art History Concentrators! If you declared art history, we want your art-history-related news. More detailed instructions are in the forms.

Here are the URLs:
Alumnx News: https://hawksites.newpaltz.edu/arthistoryalumnx

Current Students: https://hawksites.newpaltz.edu/arthistorystudentnews

The deadline is Wednesday, August 5th. The forms allow you to submit a short (about 500 words) narrative in the 3rd person about what you've been up to.

Then you'll upload your photograph with the form. Vertically oriented images are ideal for our layout. Please submit your photos in .jpg or .png format, at good quality resolution. We can reduce the file size of images, but we can't enlarge them.

Let's hear from you!! Any questions, please email Susan at [email protected].

Remember, Art History Loves You! 🧡💙

05/07/2026

🎓💙🧡Congratulations to our ivy-wreathed graduates of 2026! Yesterday we had a blast feting our seniors, whether they be majors, minors, or Early Education Art History concentrators (because we love them all and are so proud of them!) with yummy food and high spirits. Professor Heuer explained that in antiquity, if you had a triumph of some kind, you would receive a wreath, typically a laurel wreath. The laurel is associated with the god, Apollo. But since real laurel is hard to find, it has become the Department of Art History tradition to instead present ivy wreaths to our graduating seniors. Ivy is associated with Dionysus - who is way more fun than Apollo - so we hope our seniors will enjoy the fruits of their scholarly and creative labors, and celebrate! We are so very, very proud of all of you! 🎉

Top Row, l-r, Mia Ponzio, Katie Schmalzle, Jewels Graziano, La'Niece McGlory, Jennie Matela, Luca Santoro.

Bottom Row, l-r, Kaydi McInerney, Sam Christian, Liv Martinez

We love you all and wish you the best of everything!

04/23/2026

SAVE THE DATE: Tuesday, May 5 at 3PM


to be human
Student Organized Presentation
at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
Professor Olga Dekalo’s Practicing Methods in Museum Professions

This presentation was organized by SUNY New
Paltz students Hart Frable, Ayne Gray, Elijah
Kissel, Lillianna Patterson, Anthony Pelliccia, Mia Ponzio and Kaitlyn Ruszcyk in Professor Dekalo's course.

Swipe through to see a sneak-peek of the
artworks featured in this presentation!

From Slide 3:

Amy Bennett (b. United States, 1977)
Matchmaking, 2012
Oil paint on wood
Gift by Virginia M. O’Brien (SUNY New Paltz Alum ‘01)

Beata Wehr (b. Poland, 1958)
A Double Whole, 1998
Mixed media bookbinding
Gift of Marna Anderson

Amanda De Leon (b. Spain, 1908 - 1990)
Peddler (Street), 1953
Oil on canvas
Museum Purchase

Joseph Constant (b. Israel, 1892 - 1969)
Swan and Sygnet, n.d.
Olive wood
Gift of The Estate of Joseph Constant

Thomas Leo Blackwell (b. United States, 1938)
B. Altmans…, 1990
Oil on canvas
Gift of Aaron J. Miller, New York

Neil C. Trager (b. United States, 1947)
Lunch Break, 1973-1976
Gelatin silver print
Gift of Neil C. Trager

Neil C. Trager (b. United States, 1947)
Used Car Salesmen - Bedford Avenue, 1973-1976
Gelatin silver print
Gift of Neil C. Trager

Les Krims (b. United States, 1942)
Paul Diamond in the Engine Compartment of His Volvo, 1978
Gelatin silver print
Gift of Marcuse Pfeifer

03/10/2026

The Art History Association cordially invites you to the final presentation of its 2025-2026 lecture series, Activism & Art, which will be a virtual talk by Dr. Allison Rudnick, Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on Thursday, March 19th at 7 PM EDT over Zoom.

Dr. Rudnick's presentation, "Activist Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art," focuses on her experience organizing two recent exhibitions that prominently featured activist art: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Revolution, Resistance, and Activism (2021-2022) and Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s. She will also discuss her work acquiring objects that originally served activist functions, such as protest posters, and consider the questions that arise when such objects enter a museum collection and are reframed within an institutional context.

Please register for the Zoom from the 🔗 in our bio or copy and paste the url at https://suny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tBoGZH_cTqqTHFHXhnlreA

AI-generated closed captioning will be provided. Please contact Department of Art History Chair, Dr. Keely Heuer at [email protected] or at (845) 257-3829 regarding other accommodations.

03/04/2026

💰📣Applications for 2026-2027 Scholarships are open! Deadline to apply is Tuesday, April 7.

Relevant Art History Scholarships and Dorsky Museum Funded Internships are listed below, but you may qualify for other funding opportunities too (e.g. search study abroad).

🔷🔶The Art History Award: Varies up to $1500, awarded to Art History majors annually, prior recipients may reapply.

🔷🔶Alison Wilhelmy ‘09 Memorial Art History Scholarship: $1000 award (two given annually) for Art History majors and minors wishing to study overseas through a SUNY New Paltz program or independent study.

🔷🔶Owens Family Arts Administration Internship Fund: annually sponsors a paid part-time internship reporting to the director of the Dorsky Museum of Art.

🔷🔶De Stephano Annual Museum Scholarship: annually funds a paid part-time internship at the Dorsky Musuem of Art.

Apply through the Scholarships 🔗in our Bio or point your browser to https://newpaltz.academicworks.com/

03/04/2026

Reminder: The Department of Art History's Careers Event, with Dinner at 5:30 PM in JFT 1010, followed at 7PM by a Zoom with five alumnx panelists happens tomorrow, Thursday, March 5!

Even if you haven't RSVPed for dinner and can come, please do!!! Or Register for the Zoom panel at 7PM, or come to JFT1010 if you want to join the discussion in person.

Zoom registration link is in our bio at https://linktr.ee/nparthistory

03/04/2026

Twenty-five years of research, documentation and discussion from the wonderful site, Wellesnet: Orson Welles Web Resource, is being archived by the The Library of Congress! What a great addition to resources on film history!

The Library of Congress will preserve Wellesnet's content and scholarship in its archive.