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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. Click below to learn more about each facility.
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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
Longyear Museum of Anthropology
The Longyear consists of a teaching collection of archaeological and ethnographic materials from Africa, Oceania, and the Pre-Columbian cultures of North, Central, and South America. Colgate's own collections of archaeological artifacts are the foundation of the museum. The Longyear Museum typically mounts four or more exhibitions each academic year.
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Location: Alumni Hall, second floor, the Quad
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
Brehmer Theater
Colgate’s major theater productions are held at Brehmer, a proscenium theater with a capacity of 336. Each year Brehmer hosts up to 10 theater productions, as well as concerts and lecture events.
Performances are also given in the “Little Brehmer,” which provides a more intimate relationship between audience and performers as both are located on the main stage.
Location: Dana Arts Center
Memorial Chapel
The chapel is a critical artistic venue. The University Orchestra practices and performs in the chapel, as do numerous musical, singing, and a capella groups. Dancefest, the most popular student event on campus, is held here.
The chapel also hosts regular University Church services, convocations, and many visiting lecturers and performers, including regular appearances by the Manhattan String Quartet.
Location: The Quad
Golden Auditorium
Golden is a 150-seat lecture hall/theater with digital projection capabilities for computer, DVD, dual slide, 16 mm film, and dual 35 mm film projection — a rarity on college campuses. The auditorium is home to the popular Friday Night 35 mm Film Series.
Location: 105 Little Hall
Hamilton Movie Theater
At a time when many small-town movie houses have gone dark, the Hamilton Movie Theater is thriving. A mainstay in the Hamilton village and Colgate community, the theater screens current Hollywood films, midnight films, matinees for children, live opera broadcasts, and indie films, and hosts a book-and-movie club.
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Location: Downtown Hamilton, 7 Lebanon St.
Love Auditorium
Love is a high-capacity lecture hall and theater. The student organization Take Two screens Hollywood movies in the auditorium for free on weekends.
Location: Olin Hall, the Quad
Dana Arts Center
The center, its architecture by Paul Rudolph, is a focal point for the arts on campus. It houses the Department of Music, Picker Art Gallery, Brehmer Theater, and musical practice and instruction rooms.
Location: Campus
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.