Art Program at SUNY Plattsburgh
Turn Your Skill and Knowledge of Art into a Career
If you have a deep-rooted desire to make and study art, and you want to explore that desire, our program has the faculty and the facility to give you the skills and assurance to pursue art as a career.
Achieve Your Potential with a Solid Foundation, Experience, and Involvement
Within a liberal arts college, the artist and the art historian work within a specific discipline. That discipline has its own traditions and history, its own processes, skills and vocabulary. Our program is carefully designed to give you a solid foundation, breadth of experience and depth of involvement. This program will help you achieve your potential, whether you become an artist, or an art historian.
To achieve our goal, we have created a broad and exciting curriculum and encourage the highest standards. We take seriously our responsibility for helping you identify your goals and for creating a supportive environment in which you can achieve them. We strive to nurture, nourish, and encourage your personal expression and vision, not just teach you a certain way of working.
Our Experienced Faculty Will Help You Grow
We are artists and art historians actively involved in our own creative practice, exhibitions and publications; we are equally fulfilled by helping you mature in your work, grow in self-confidence and move on to lead fulfilling lives. Our hope for you is that your years here will be a time of discovery, hard work and tremendous personal growth.
Art Program News
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SUNY Plattsburgh Honors Sheri Dumont with Excellence awardSheri Dumont has been selected to receive the 2008-2009 Teaching Excellence Award for Adjunct Faculty. This award honors adjunct faculty who have demonstrated consistent, effective and outstanding teaching. Student opinion surveys from 23 sections of Dumont's Introduction to Photography class show that from 80 to 90 percent of her students give her the highest ranking of excellence on virtually every criterion listed. Many write that she is the best teacher they have had. “She makes everyone … feel like an artist,” wrote one student. Read more. |
Plattsburgh continues to be well represented in Best of SUNY Art Exhibit
The Art Department of SUNY Plattsburgh has participated in all of the best of SUNY Art Exhibitions since the series began in 2002. Plattsburgh is one of only a few campuses that have sent work to every one of the exhibits. Moreover, Plattsburgh continues to be a consistent winner of awards and places in the summer shows which feature the best student artists from all the participating SUNY colleges. Since its inception in 2002, 10 SUNY Plattsburgh student works have been selected for Best of SUNY Student Art Exhibitions.
In 2002-03, the first year of the exhibit series, Plattsburgh submitted a total of 12 works for the fall and spring shows. Each summer there is a Best of SUNY Exhibit which includes works selected from the Fall and Spring shows. Four works were selected for the 2002-03 Best of SUNY Student Art Exhibit. The students whose work was selected for that show were Amanda Mavis Agnew, (Photograph); Tina LaMour (Wood and Metal Sculpture); Ben Lock, (Sculpture); and Kahoru Otani, (Book.) Ms. Otani's work was selected to receive one of the three "Best of Show" prizes, which carried a $1,000 cash award.
In 2003-2004, the second year of the series, Plattsburgh submitted a total of 10 works for the fall and spring shows. Six Plattsburgh students had work selected for the Best of SUNY Student Art Exhibit. No other campus had as many works chosen for that show, though many other campuses submitted as many or more works to the earlier shows. Students whose works were chosen were: Lorraine DeLaney (Photograph); Melanie Finlayson (Print Series); Kimberly LeClaire (Painting); James Ryan (Metal Sculpture); Michael R. Shanley (Fiberglass Sculpture); and Elizabeth Wilde (Oil). Two one thousand dollar "Best of Show" scholarships and four five hundred dollar "Honorable Mentions" were awarded at this show. James Ryan received one of the "Honorable Mentions."
In 2004- 2005 four of our students appeared in the Best of SUNY Student Art Exhibition: Andrew McGill (Smoked Stoneware); Kris Waid-Jones (Aluminum and Wood Sculpture); Genessa Chaimberlain (photography) and Motoko Hiraiwa (painting). Brian Gooden's work in two areas of concentration appeared in both the 2005-2006 show and the 2006-2007 show. His work in photography and his posters from graphic design were featured in two different summer shows. Along with Brian's work in 2006-2007 Kim Wheelock's painting was shown.
2007-2008 was another banner year for Plattsburgh with works by Phuong Dang (drawing), Paul Howe (sculpture), Nicole Weber (computer art), Jay Price (ceramics) and Crystal Wood (sculpture) being shown. Both Jay and Crystal took Best in Show scholarship awards of five hundred dollars each. Congratulations to all these fine student artists whose work has brought honor and distinction to them personally, as well as our department and to SUNY Plattsburgh.
Questions, Comments, Suggestions?
If you would like more information about art at Plattsburgh State, please contact
Dr. Karen Blough, Chair
Office: Myers Fine Arts 211
Phone: (518) 564-2468
E-mail: karen.blough@plattsburgh.edu
Kimberly Hall-Stone, Secretary
Office: Myers Fine Arts 220B
Phone: (518) 564-2179
Fax: (518) 564-2199
E-mail: art@plattsburgh.edu
Art Department
Myers Fine Arts 220 B
Plattsburgh, NY 12901