Art
Ceramics
Geoffrey Booras '13g’s solo exhibition, “Stars Falling on a Porous Earth,” opened at SISTERED in Portland, Maine in 2021.
MFA student Hee Joo Yang received the 2021 Residency at the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Anna Kruse '21g received the 2021 International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award.
Anna Kruse '21g (left) and Erin Lee Antonak ’21g (right) both received the 2021 International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award
Metal
Sylvie Alusitz '19g was the 2019-2020 Artist-Resident at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Lydia Martin '17g was awarded the 2021 Windgate Metals Artist-in-Residence at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Shani Richards '16g’s month-long residency at the Baltimore Jewelry Center in 2021 concluded with a solo exhibition.
Jolynn Santiago '19g was the 2019-2020 Artist in Residence at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Painting & Drawing
Ana Maria Farina '21g received the 2021 Professional Development Fellowship in Visual Arts, a highly competitive award given to just one artist each year.
Wes Buchanan '21 is pleased to report “new and exciting heights” in their artistic career. Buchanan sold two works from their thesis body to Dr. Nicola J. Fox, the director of heliophysics at NASA. Fox attended Buchanan’s dissertation, which they presented for the Honors Program at New Paltz, and in August Buchanan met with her to sell her two works, titled L1 and VIS. Fox is planning to exhibit the paintings in the Heliophysics Wing at NASA Headquarters in Washington D.C. Additionally, in September Buchanan was given the opportunity to share their art with top scientists at NASA. Buchanan met and dined with the science directorate of NASA, including the directors of planetary science, earth science, astrophysics, and heliophysics, as well as NASA’s Head of Science Thomas Zurbuchen and gave a live version of their thesis dissertation to this group of individuals.
“I've spent years working on incorporating my love and admiration of science into my work— particularly that of space and rocket science,” said Buchanan. “This was the exact group of people I had been dreaming of sharing my art with. Here's to future opportunities, and only going up from here!”
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Wes Buchanan sets up their thesis work for a live dissertation to a group of NASA scientists
Photography & Related Media
MFA student Karen Miranda-Rivadeneira had a solo show at the Miyako Yoshinaga gallery in 2020 and her work was included in the new publication Latinx Photography in the United States by Elizabeth Ferrer.
Alumna Symone Knox and current BFA student Alex Bennett were awarded Truth be Told fellowships at the Newburgh Community Photo Project in 2020.
Printmaking
In 2021 MFA Alumnx Sariah Park accepted an Assistant Professor of Fashion Design position at Parsons School of Design.
Sculpture
Erin Antonak ’21g was awarded the International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award.
Music
Dylan McCarthy '17 (Music) '18g (MBA), who works as the director of programming at JazzReach, participated in an Arts Chat on Instagram Live with the SUNY New Paltz Career Resource Center. Watch the interview here.
Gabrielle Bouissou '15 (Music, Psychology) '17g (Music Therapy) also participated in an Arts Chat with the Career Resource Center in November 2021. Bouissou works as a creative arts therapist. Watch the interview here.
Jennifer Poroye '24 (Music) was profiled in The New York Times article "Meet the Next Generation of Cabaret Showstoppers."
Michael DeSisto '16 (Music) won big on Wheel of Fortune in 2020. DeSisto, who now works as a music educator in the Hudson Valley, nabbed the $50,000 grand prize after solving the bonus puzzle.
Theatre Arts
After a year of virtual performances, live theatre officially returned to SUNY New Paltz in the fall '21 semester, with performances of "Macbeth," "The Wolves," "La Fuerza de Antigona," and "Stop Kiss."
Natalie Houle ’21 (Theatre Arts) was one of six undergraduates nationwide to receive the Pat MacKay Diversity in Design Scholarship for 2020. Read more.
Lester Mayers '19 (Theatre Arts) was recently featured in New Paltz Magazine, where he discussed his rising career as a poet, artist, and performer.
Sal Nicosia '13 (Theatre Arts) worked as the lighting programmer for then-President Elect Joe Biden and Vice President Elect Kamala Harris' victory speeches on Nov. 7, 2020.
In the absence of an in-person Design/Technology Show, an end-of-semester tradition for over a decade, the Department of Theatre Arts compiled an online collection to celebrate the 2020-21 work of a sampling of students.
The American Theatre Wing produced a video depicting what it’s been like to study and teach theatre arts at SUNY New Paltz during the pandemic.
