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ARTS 202 Field Trip: Storm King Art Center

Storm King Sculpture Park 1 Museum Rd, New Windsor

This trip is for students enrolled in ARTS 202 ONLY. Professor Lori Merhige will bring her Basic Sculpture students to The Storm King Art Center evaluate historical and contemporary sculptural art history and it's relationship to our culture, to develop the conceptual reasoning skills to bring a sculpture from idea to realized form, and to […]

Trip to Dia:Beacon and Lee Price’s Studio

Dia: Beacon 3 Beekman St, Beacon

This event is open to students enrolled in ARTS 302 only. This museum trip is part of an assignment that looks at conceptual drawing. Dia:Beacon is a world class museum of minimalist and conceptual art and has one of the best collections of Sol Lewitt's wall drawings. The class will be studying Sol  Lewitt prior […]

Latin Music Workshops: Cuban Percussion, New York Salsa, and Mexican Mariachi

BC 301

This event is open to students enrolled in "American Musical Traditions" only. Memo and Jacqueline Acevedo, father and daughter, are two remarkably talented, in d-demand, and very friendly percussionist in the New York Latin music and Latin jazz scenes. As a Colombian musician who has lived in Mexico, Spain, Canada, and the U.S., Memo plays […]