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Colgate University features a number of arts facilities to foster and refine the creative endeavors of students on campus, as well as to host visiting artists, musicians, filmmakers, theater groups, and other creative professionals. To find these facilities on campus please consult the campus map.
Rooms in Little Hall and the Ryan studios can be reserved using the university's events management system.
A complete listing of artistic facilities, including film screening rooms, theaters, auditoriums, and more can be found on the arts facilities page.
Classrooms and workspaces
Eric J. Ryan Studio
The studio, connected to Little Hall by an outdoor sculpture court, provides facilities for teaching studio art and theater. It contains spaces for painting, sculpture, and photography, as well as rehearsal rooms for drama.
Location: Campus
Little Hall
Little is home to the Department of Art and Art History. It contains studio art and art history classrooms and faculty offices, as well as the Stilwill Library, a slide library, Clifford Art Gallery, and Golden Auditorium, which offers state-of-the-art projection capabilities. Studios located in the building include printmaking, video, drawing, and digital art. An outdoor sculpture court connects the facility with the Eric J. Ryan Studio building.
Location: Campus
Paul J. Schupf Studio Arts Center
The arts center provides arts students and faculty with approximately 8,000 square feet of studio space.
Location: Downtown, 3 Montgomery St.
Museums and galleries
Clifford Gallery
The gallery features approximately eight exhibitions a year. It is a teaching gallery, and exhibitions are selected by the art and art history faculty to provide examples of work executed in a variety of media that demonstrate issues originating in the academic curriculum.
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Location: 101 Little Hall
Picker Art Gallery
Colgate's fine art museum, the Picker holds a permanent collection of more than 10,000 objects used in teaching, research, and exhibitions. The gallery is accredited by the American Association of Museums and offers a highly competitive student internship program, a community docent program, and various public events. The gallery displays traveling exhibitions of international scope, as well as exhibitions of antiquity, Asian, African, Old Master, and 20th-century works from its permanent collection.
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Location: Dana Arts Center, second floor