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STALLER CENTER | EMEDIA STUDIOS | NASSAU HALL | SB MANHATTAN | POLLOCK-KRASNER

STALLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Since 1976, the Department of Art has enjoyed the resources of the Staller Center for the Arts. This structure of 226,026 square feet includes the departments of Art, Music, and Theatre and is a vibrant hub of lectures, concerts, performances, and other cultural activities. This complex includes faculty and staff offices, art history classrooms, and a graduate lounge. The first floor of the Art wing features an art gallery space devoted primarily to exhibitions of contemporary art. The Department of Art is located on the second floor in the Art Wing.

Studio Facilities in the Staller Center include full foundry, metals, and wood shops; a ceramics and ceramic sculpture studio; spacious painting, drawing, and studio classrooms; printmaking studios with etching, stone lithography and photo plate making and screen printing facilities; extensive digital facilities (see below); and a shooting studio with gang and individual darkrooms.

The Visual Resources Library offers an extensive slide collection to support the teaching and research needs of the department, videos and print journals, as well as computer equipment for the ongoing development of a database and digital imaging capacity. Art history classrooms are equipped with slide projectors and digital projectors.

ADVANCED EMEDIA STUDIOS

The state-of-the art emedia SINC Site—a collaboration among the Departments of Art, Music, Theatre, and Instructional Computing—is designed as a multimedia classroom and for general student use. This facility features 21 Macintosh Mac Pro machines. Here, students perform imaging (aided by a variety of scanners and printers), music sampling, editing, and MIDI, DV and HDV video editing, 2D and 3D animation, and Web design. Students create their own DVDs and audio CDs. The entire room is networked and the two front “teaching machines” are connected to a video projector. Owing to a special arrangement with Instructional Computing, graduate students in Art may have extended access to the emedia Site. Others can use the site during staffed weekday hours.

Several advanced studios provide students with opportunities to expand upon the abilities of the emedia Site with a focus on artistic experimentation with new media.
The newly rehabbed Hybrid Studio classrom features17 G5 machines, scanners, drawing tablets, and and large format archival color ink jet printing. The Video Editing Suite provides two professional G5 DV video and audio editing stations with DVD authoring. The Art Lab is an installation space with several laptops, speakers, and sensors designed to mock up physical components and spaces and then move them to exhibitions, installations, and performances. The Laboratory for Technology in the Arts (LTA) is truly interdisciplinary. It has two G5 professional DV and HDV and audio editing stations with DVD burning (one with surround sound) and a laptop for use in exhibitions and performances. Equipment use for Digital Arts courses and graduate students includes digital still and video cameras, tripods, media drives, minidisc and DAT audio recorders, video projectors, and sensors.

SOUTH CAMPUS NASSAU HALL

The heart of the M.F.A. program is a dedicated facility at Nassau Hall. Each M.F.A. student is provided individual studio space and there are large common spaces used regularly for discussion, temporary exhibitions or installations, and documentation of work. The facility also features work spaces that include a wood shop and several networked computers for imaging (including color scanner and printer), DV video editing, web design, animation, and DVD and CD burning.

STONY BROOK MANHATTAN

Classes, lectures, and conferences are now offered at Stony Brook Manhattan. These are designed with the Big Apple in mind and include trips to museums, literary sites, film festivals, and music venues. Here you’ll meet students from Stony Brook and other universities, alumni, and members of arts and community groups. Conveniently located at 28th Street and Park Avenue South, Stony Brook Manhattan is easy to reach by bus, train, and subway.

POLLOCK-KRASNER HOUSE AND STUDY CENTER

Located in East Hampton the PK House is another important resource for our students. The house, studio, and grounds - where both Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner created some of their most famous work - were given to the Stony Brook Foundation by the estate of Lee Krasner after her death in 1984. Under the directorship of Helen Harrison, the site was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994. Our annual fall departmental gathering and "armchair chat" held at the house has featured such speakers as Dore Ashton, Alice Aycock, Arthur Danto, Clement Greenberg, Glenn Lowry, Robert Rosenblum, Nan Rosenthal, Shelley Rice, and Richard Shiff. The Center also hosts a year-long series of lectures, seminars, exhibitions, and other activities. The Study Center comprises extensive reference materials and archives, including books, photographs, oral histories, and journals available for research.

EMEDIA SINC Site

Printmaking Studio

Drawing Studio

Ceramic Firing

Individual MFA Studio