Celebrate Veteran’s Awareness Week, meet some SBU student veterans, and watch The Great War. Film Description: Chart the ways in which the bloodiest battle in U.S. history, and the ensuing peace, forever changed a nation. African Americans found ways…
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, please join us for a screening of the much loved Disney/Pixar film, Coco! Aspiring young musician Miguel, confronted with his family’s ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his…
The Africana Studies Department and the University Libraries commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Stony Brook University’s Africana Studies Department with a poetry slam of Amiri Baraka’s work. The event will be in the Special Collections Seminar Room on November…
Ruth Appelhof Executive Director Emerita, Guild Hall of East Hampton Angry, outrageous, defiant, and courageous are just some of the words that describe Lee Krasner, the subject of Ruth’s very personal memoir inspired by her 1974 summer with the artist…
Charles A. Riley II, Director, Nassau County Museum of Art Charlie will take us on a private tour of the current exhibition at his museum, for which Eric Fischl was the curatorial advisor. The show features more than a hundred…
Elka Rifkin, Director, Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation Elka will discuss the work of artistic visionary Robert Wilson, who established the Watermill Center in 1992. She will give us a brief history of the site and the programs it offer to visual…
The History of the Southampton Windmill by Dr. Tara Rider Dr. Tara Rider, professor of maritime and environmental history, will discuss the history of the Stony Brook Southampton campus windmill. Once known as the Mill Hill Windmill, it was moved…
While preparing material for a retrospective exhibition of work by her late husband, Magnum photographer Burt Glinn, Elena discovered a remarkable collection of largely unseen photographs of Beat writers, artists and musicians. The photographs—more than 70 of them in color—were…
In Ninth Street Women, published this month by Little, Brown, Gabriel profiles five artists—Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler—who challenged the status quo in the male-dominated art world of the 1950s, when women were…
Studying for finals stressing you? Well, they’re baa-aack! Certified therapy dogs are just the trick to relieve some of that pressure. Proudly working together with the University Libraries, SBU Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) is bringing all your favorite dogs.…