Graduate School Bulletin

Art Department Facilities

Since 1976, the Department of Art has enjoyed the resources of the Staller Center for the Arts. This 226,026-square-foot building includes the Departments of Art, Music, and Theatre and is a vibrant hub of lectures, concerts, performances, and other cultural activities. The complex includes faculty and staff offices, art history classrooms, and a graduate lounge. The first floor of the Art wing features the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, a major Stony Brook University art gallery space devoted primarily to exhibitions of contemporary art, including the annual M.F.A. thesis show. 

The department has substantial graduate art studio space available at an off-campus location (Innovation and Discovery Center or IDC). Each M.F.A. in Studio Art graduate student is provided their own individual art studio space at IDC. Accompanying large common spaces are regularly used for seminars, discussions, temporary exhibitions, presentations, and documentation of work. The Lawrence Alloway Gallery provides exhibition space with media exhibition equipment, and there are several other on-campus locations where students have opportunities to exhibit their artwork. 

Production facilities in the Staller Center include full foundry, metals, and wood shops; a ceramics and ceramic sculpture studio; spacious painting, drawing, and studio classrooms; printmaking studios with etching, stone lithography and photo plate making and screen printing facilities; extensive digital facilities and computer labs; a photography lighting studio, group and individual darkrooms, maker space, print space, sound recording space, among others. Art history classrooms are equipped with media technology. The main library houses extensive collections of scholarship on the arts, including recent exhibition catalogs and the most important art history and criticism journals. Proximity to New York City makes available the numerous libraries, museums, galleries, studios, and publishing institutions of the greater metropolitan area.

Finally, the Pollock-Krasner House and the Pollock-Krasner Study Center, in East Hampton and Southampton, Long Island, are affiliated with the University. Once the home and studio of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, the Pollock-Krasner House is now both a landmark museum and a forum for lectures, seminars, and other academic activities. The Study Center comprises extensive reference materials and archives, including books, photographs, oral histories, and journals available for research.