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Landmark traveling exhibition to open Thursday, March 8 at Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland.

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is commemorating three decades of NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships with the landmark traveling exhibition Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships. The exhibition, which will travel to seven SUNY campuses between Fall 2017 and Spring 2020, will next be on view at Dowd Gallery at SUNY Cortland from March 5 - April 13, 2018.  The fellowship program has supported more than 4,000 artists in various fields in the visual arts, literature, and performing arts at critical stages throughout their careers. 

The artists in the exhibition are acclaimed and respected around the world, but what is less known is that they all received support from NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships at crucial points in their careers. Curated by Judith K. Brodsky and David C. Terry with the assistance of Madeline Scholl, Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships will feature work by more than 20 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows who have gone on to record significant achievements in their artistic careers. The works on display will show how the fellows have addressed pressing and often controversial issues through their art, including racism, gender equality, sexual orientation, immigration, and globalization.

Participating artists include: Elia Alba, Ida Applebroog, Dawoud Bey, Sanford Biggers, Ross Bleckner, Wendell Castle, Tara Donovan, Carroll Dunham, Chitra Ganesh, The Guerrilla Girls, Barbara Kruger, Christian Marclay, Marilyn Minter, Lori Nix, Tony Oursler, Faith Ringgold, Martha Rosler, Dread Scott, Andres Serrano, Shinique Smith, Carmelita Tropicana, and Fred Wilson.

Artists as Innovators will be celebrated with a public opening on March 8 from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM at Dowd Gallery at SUNY Cortland. As part of the exhibition tour, regional partners will present a complementary exhibition and programming. NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship recipients Peter Beasecker, Sharif Bey, Ariana Gerstein, Dusty Herbig, and Monteith McCollum will show their work in the Hallway and Under the Balcony Galleries at the Dowd Fine Arts Center. These artists represent a small cross-section of an active visual arts scene in Central New York. The artwork selected for the satellite exhibition complements the diverse display of media and artists and demonstrates that the region is a home to many talented artists excelling in their field.

Exhibition Opening

Title: Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships Opening Reception: Thursday, March 8, 2018, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Exhibition Dates: March 5 - April 13, 2018 Location: Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, 40 Graham Avenue and Prospect Terrace, Cortland, NY 13045 Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM; the gallery is closed when college is not in session

Related Programming 

Exhibition Program

All programs will be presented at SUNY Cortland, 40 Graham Ave., Cortland, NY 13045.

March 28, 2018, 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Old Main Building, main Ceramics Studio: Master Workshop: Generating an Idea by Peter Beasecker April 3, 2018, 5:00 PM, Under the Balcony Gallery, Dowd Fine Arts Center: Performance (with Performance for Perfection) and Q&A with Ariana Gerstein and Monteith McCollum April 5, 2018, 5:00 PM, Dowd Gallery, Fine Arts Center: Artist Talk: Dusty Herbig April 10, 2018, 5:00 PM, Dowd Gallery, Dowd Fine Arts Center: Artist Talk: Sharif Bey

Film Series

All films will be screened at Sperry Center, Room 104, 10 SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY 13045.

March 20, 2018, 6:00 PM -7:00 PM: Peter Hutton - “At Sea” March 29, 2018, 6:00 PM -7:30 PM: Barbara Kopple - “Harlan County” April 4, 2018, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Alan Berliner - “Nobody's Business” April 11, 2018, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM: Ralph Arlyck - “Following Sean”

Exhibition Schedule - Upcoming

Fall 2018: Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, August 20 - December 10, 2018, Opening on September 7, 2018

Winter 2019: Cathy & Jesse Marion Art Gallery, SUNY Fredonia, January 22 - March 10, 2019, Opening TBD

Summer 2019: The Joseph C. and Joan T. Burke Gallery, SUNY Plattsburgh, May 24 - August 30, 2019, Opening TBD

Fall 2019: Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook University, Dates TBD

Spring 2020: Westchester Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Westchester Community College, Dates TBD

Exhibition Schedule - Past

Fall 2017: Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, August 30 - November 12, 2017

NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships are administered with leadership support from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Funding for Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships is provided in part by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) with shipping support from Atelier 4.

Find out more about the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program, a $7,000 unrestricted cash grant awarded to individual artists living and working in the state of New York. Sign up for NYFA’s bi-weekly newsletter, NYFA News, to receive announcements about future NYFA events and programs.

Landmark exhibition celebrates three decades of New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships and will travel to seven SUNY campuses between Fall 2017 and Spring 2020.

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is commemorating three decades of NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships with the landmark traveling exhibition Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships. The fellowship program has supported more than 4,000 artists in various fields in the visual arts, literature, and performing arts at critical stages throughout their careers.

The artists in the exhibition are acclaimed and respected around the world, but what is less known is that they all received support from NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships at crucial points in their careers. Curated by Judith K. Brodsky and David C. Terry with the assistance of Madeline Scholl, Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships will feature work by more than 20 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows who have gone on to record significant achievements in their artistic careers. The works on display will show how the fellows have addressed pressing and often controversial issues through their art, including racism, gender equality, sexual orientation, immigration, and globalization.

Participating artists include: Elia Alba, Ida Applebroog, Dawoud Bey, Sanford Biggers, Ross Bleckner, Wendell Castle, Tara Donovan, Carroll Dunham, Chitra Ganesh, The Guerrilla Girls, Barbara Kruger, Christian Marclay, Marilyn Minter, Lori Nix, Tony Oursler, Faith Ringgold, Martha Rosler, Dread Scott, Andres Serrano, Shinique Smith, Carmelita Tropicana, and Fred Wilson.

Exhibition highlights include The Guerrilla Girls’ “How Women Get Maximum Exposure in Art Museum,” perhaps one of the most recognizable works of the feminist art canon. The feminist art perspective is further explored through the works of Ida Applebroog and Chitra Ganesh; both Applebroog’s “Winnie’s Pooh” and several works by Ganesh reference mainstream imagery in surprising, sometimes disturbing ways that highlight alternate articulations of femininity to the broader public. Other featured works include stills from Dread Scott’s “Money to Burn” performance on Wall Street, a transgressive act that questioned one of the foundations of the international economy. By burning one bill at a time and encouraging others to follow, Scott made physical what happens on stock markets around the globe every day. Dawoud Bey approaches social issues through a more intimate, anthropological perspective, displaying his photographs alongside the personal accounts from his sitters. Through these works and others, the exhibition makes clear that NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows are no strangers to confronting taboos and constructing alternate realities that question established systems.

Artists as Innovators will be celebrated with a public opening on Saturday, September 9, 2017 from 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM at The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. It will travel to Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland; Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University; Marion Art Gallery, SUNY Fredonia; Burke Gallery, SUNY Plattsburgh; Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook University; and Center for the Arts, Westchester Community College, full schedule below. As part of the exhibition tour, regional SUNY partners will present complementary exhibitions and programming.

“The work in this exhibition shows how these influential artists interpret our times, questioning our values and prompting social awareness, but at the same time creating works of art that are innovative and full of visual power,” said Co-Curator, feminist visual arts advocate, and NYFA Board Chair Judith K. Brodsky.

“SUNY is proud to partner with The New York Foundation for the Arts and open its doors to all New Yorkers, so they can join us in being inspired by some of the most well-respected artists of our time,” said SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher. “Thank you to NYFA for its ongoing support of New York’s artists and to the SUNY campuses serving as hosts to this outstanding exhibit,” she added.

Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Chair of the New York State Council on the Arts, said, “We are pleased to acknowledge our fruitful collaboration with NYFA during the past 31 years. NYSCA has invested over $30 million, to provide cash awards of $650,000 annually to artists, living and working in New York State. These fellowships provide unrestricted support, and have nurtured thousands of diverse, engaged members of New York State's creative communities. It is exciting to see this outstanding exhibition, which presents to the wider public the tangible results of what NYSCA, in concert with NYFA, has initiated and supported.”

“The Dorsky and its SUNY partners are thrilled to be participating in this collaboration with NYFA,” said Sara Pasti, the Neil C. Trager director of the Dorsky Museum, who also serves as chair of the SUNY Council of Museums and Galleries. “We’re particularly honored to have the opportunity to open ‘Artists as Innovators’ here in New Paltz, as the exhibition provides a unique opportunity for our students and regional audiences to see work by extraordinary contemporary artists who have played an influential role in art history. This is likely to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” Pasti said.

In addition to the visual artists in the exhibition, the roster of NYSCA/NYFA Fellows includes such significant figures as A.M. Homes, David Henry Hwang, Tony Kushner, Lynn Nottage, and Suzan-Lori Parks in theatre and literary arts; Todd Haynes, Spike Lee, and Mira Nair in film; Meredith Monk, Julie Taymor, and Yvonne Rainer in the performing arts; and Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio in architecture.

Exhibition Opening

Title: Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships Opening Reception: Saturday, September 9, 2017, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Exhibition Dates: August 30, 2017 - November 12, 2017 Location: The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY 12561 Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM; Closed Holidays and Intersessions

Exhibition Schedule

Fall 2017: Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, August 30 - November 12, 2017

Spring 2018: Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, March 5 - April 13, 2018

Fall 2018: Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, August 20 - December 10, 2018

Winter 2019: Cathy & Jesse Marion Art Gallery; SUNY Fredonia; January 22 - March 10, 2019; Opening Friday, February 1, 2019

Summer 2019: The Joseph C. and Joan T. Burke Gallery, SUNY Plattsburgh, May 24 - August 30, 2019, Opening TBD

Fall 2019: Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook University, Dates TBD

Spring 2020: Westchester Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Westchester Community College, Dates TBD

NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships are administered with leadership support from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Funding for Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships is provided in part by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) with shipping support from Atelier 4.

Find out more about NYFA’s Curatorial Services for organizations and the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program, a $7,000 unrestricted cash grant awarded to individual artists living and working in the state of New York.