Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Department of Art and Art Professions - Barney Building
34 Stuyvesant Street, New York, NY 10003
Reception Desk: 212.998.5700 Fax: 212.995.4320
To Schedule Appointments with
Academic Advisors & Full-time Faculty:
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/art/appointments
For a complete list of faculty click here.
For a complete staff list click here.
- Advisement Appointments
To schedule an appointment with your advisor, please use the department's online appointment calendar: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/art/appointments
- Awards, Scholarships and Grants
Researching Scholarships and GrantsBlackboardDepartment of Art & Art Professions
Please note for Awards, Scholarships and Grants: all information is subject to change and must be verified by the individual seeking each opportunity.
Awards
Alumni Council Visual Arts Administration M.A. Program Award
(by nomination only)
Awarded annually to a graduating student in the Visual Arts Administration M.A. Program who has demonstrated excellence in course work, internships, service to the community and leadership in arts administration. $300 stipend.
Governor and Mrs. Herbert Lehman Art Therapy Prize
(by nomination only)
Awarded to a graduating student or students in the M.A. in Art Therapy program for excellence in scholarship, research, and clinical work, and outstanding program participation. $300 stipend.
Student Excellence Awards
(by nomination only)
In recognition of fine academic performance and out-of-the ordinary community spirit. $100 book gift certificate.
Scholarships
The Department of Art and Art Professions offers scholarship opportunities for currently enrolled students in the MFA, MA Studio Art and BS and BFA programs.
Approximate Deadline: March
An email announcement will be also sent to all students.
Jack Goodman Scholarship for Art and Technology
Two tuition scholarships of $1,500 each awarded to undergraduate and/or graduate studio art majors whose work is of the highest quality in the area of art and technology (digital, photography, video).
Louis and Rachel Rudin Foundation Multimedia Technology Scholarship
Awarded to undergraduate and/or graduate studio art majors who show evidence of extraordinary potential for artistic achievement in current and developing technologies. Applicants must also demonstrate financial need (as determined by the Office of Financial Aid).
Martin Wong Scholarship
Two tuition scholarships of $1,500 each will be awarded to currently enrolled undergraduate and/or graduate studio art majors whose work demonstrates exceptional promise. Students working in painting and drawing, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking are invited to apply.
NYU Steinhardt
Dean’s Grant to Support Graduate Student Research
Dean’s Grant to Support Undergraduate Student Research
Dean's Research Travel Colloquium
Doctoral Travel Funds
The Samuel Eshborn Service Award
The Ida Bodman Service Award
The John W. Withers Memorial Award
The E. George Payne Memorial Award
For more information:
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/students/
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/financial_aid
http://www.nyu.edu/scholarships
http://www.nyu.edu/financial.aid
For additional opportunities for visual artists and other arts-related professions see Monthly Resource Report.If an instructor is using NYU Blackboard for an academic course, students will be enrolled automatically when they register for the class. Students will need an active NYUHome account in order to use NYU Blackboard.
To access NYU Blackboard, log in to NYUHome, click on the Academics
tab, then click on the course link in the list provided. If the class you are looking for does not appear in the list, try clicking the "Update Classes Information" link at the bottom of the channel.
If you experience trouble accessing an NYU Blackboard site, contact ITS Client Services at 212.998.3333, or fill out a help request with the NYU Blackboard Help Request Form.
Print Reserve
The Reserves Desk, on Lower Level 2 of Bobst Library, holds most printed reserve materials. The other location is the Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media on the second floor. Search for printed reserves.
Electronic Reserve
Items on electronic reserve are part of the ERes system. You can search for your items by course name, instructor's name, or department. These pages require a password; ask your instructor for the password if you do not already have it. - Graduate and Undergraduate Bulletin
- Computer & Media Labs (ITS, Bobst Library, Barney Building)
ITS Computer Labs
Locations and Hours
Computers at the Barney Building
Art in Media Lab, Barney Building, Room 401
Second Floor Mezzanine
Two computers with Mac OS X, Photoshop, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Explorer and Safari are available on the second floor mezzanine.
Sixth Floor East
Two computers with Mac OS X, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Firefox and Safari are available for faculty, staff, students and alumni use. A black and white printer is also available. - Copyright
The Handbook for Use of Copyrighted Materials is the combined effort of representatives of the NYU Libraries, Information Technology Services, and the Office of the Provost, together with the NYU Office of Legal Counsel. For comments or questions please contact fairuse@nyu.edu
- Image Collections
Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)
Web site created by Allan T. Kohl which contains images for download representing ancient, medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and modern times.The Artchive
Images of art works, with historical notes and criticism.Artnet
Provides a comprehensive international directory of museums, art fairs, artists and galleries.ArtServe
Offers access to visual material useful for teaching art history, architecture, and related topics. Began with and retains focus on the Mediterranean region, but has expanded to include other areas of the world.
ARTstor
ARTstor provides searchable access to a series of art and architecture image collections for teaching and research purposes. For best results, use 1024x768 screen resolution.Cisneros Collection
Collection Cisneros includes in-depth information about art and artists from Latin America.Daguerreotypes, 1842-1862
The Library's daguerreotype collection consists of approximately 600 photographs dating from 1842 to 1862. Portrait daguerreotypes produced by the Mathew Brady studio make up the major portion of the collection.Digital Imaging Project
Images of sculpture and architecture, prehistoric to postmodern. Site maintained by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College; includes a featured site each month.
Digital Research Unit
Site hosted by Nottingham Trent University, dealing with performance art, and including links to Performance art archive, Digital performance archive, and sites dealing with the work of Stelarc, kunstwerk-blend, and Alastair MacLennan. There is also a link to the site of the Arts Council, England.Electronic Arts Remix (EAI)
EAI's collection of new and historical works by artists is one of the world'sleading resources for media art. Spanning the mid-1960s to the present, the international collection ranges from seminal tapes by video pioneers to new interactive works by young artists. Over 3,000 works illustrate the richness and diversity of experimental media as a dynamic mode of cultural expression and contemporary art. Works are available for rental and purchase.The Floating World of ukiyo-e
Online version of an exhibition of holdings from the Library of Congress that was held at the Library from September 27, 2001 to January 19, 2002 and curated by Katherine Blood. Presents Japanese prints, books, and drawings from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries as well as related works created by twentieth century Japanese and Western artists.The Getty Research Institute
The Getty vocabulary databases are produced and maintained by the Getty Vocabulary Program. They contain terms, names, and other information about people, places, things, and concepts relating to art, architecture, and material culture.The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
The AAT is a structured vocabulary of more than 133,000 terms, descriptions, bibliographic citations, and other information relating to fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture.The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)
The ULAN is a structured vocabulary containing more than 225,000 names and biographical and bibliographic information about artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants.The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
The TGN is a structured, world-coverage vocabulary of 1.3 million names, including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, and place types, and descriptive notes, focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture.Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
The Gottscho-Schleisner collection is comprised of over 29,000 images primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures. Subjects are concentrated chiefly in the northeastern United States, especially the New York City area, and Florida. Included are the homes of notable Americans, such as Raymond Loewy, and of several U.S. presidents, as well as color images of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair.Grove Dictionary of Art
Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art with ongoing additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference resource.
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
The Institute is a consortium of institutions, scholars, and artists dedicated to exploring the relationship between expressive behavior and social and political life in the Americas. Includes list of courses and seminars and provides access to its newsletter, on-line journals, as well as texts, images, video, and audio of works contributed by artists, scholars and students.International Dada Archive
Provides information on the resources and services of the International Dada Archive at the University of Iowa Libraries.Inventory of the drawings in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan and University of Notre Dame
In cooperation with the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, Italy, Professor Robert Randolf Coleman of the University of Notre Dame produces this inventory-catalogue of the Ambrosiana's collection of some 12,000 drawings by European artists who were active from the fourteenth through nineteenth centuries.New York Public Library Picture Collection Online
The Picture Collection Online is an image resource site for those who seek knowledge and inspiration from visual materials. It is a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.
Photomuse
Collaboration between the International Center of Photography (ICP) and George Eastman House.Rhizome.org at the New Museum
Provides an online platform for the global new media art community to support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways. The ArtBase archive includes net art, software art, computer games, and documentation of new media performance and installation.Russian Archives Online
English-language interface allows access to Russian archival collections of photographs, films, audio clips, and transcripts, including images from The Russian State Film and Photo Archive Krasnogorsk (RGAKFD), The Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documents (RGANTD), and other Russian museums, as well as from the collections of the Hoover Institute. RGAKFD catalogue searchable in English and Russian. Also includes a gallery of Soviet propaganda posters and cartoons.Russian Icons: Index
Presents an index of photographic images of Russian religious icons, compiled by George Mitrevski. Notes the location of each icon and the file size of each image.
Ubu
UbuWeb is a dedicated to experimental performance, art, literature and poetry.Video Data Bank
The Video Data Bank collection includes 1200 titles by 260 artists and covers a broad range of subjects.Web Gallery of Art
Contains over 11,000 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800. Biographies, commentaries, guided tours are available. Free postcard service is provided for the visitors.World Art Kiosk
Database allowing users to search over 30,000 art images from throughout the world, created by faculty, staff and students of the California State University system. Project managed by Kathleen Cohen. - Multimedia
- NYU Email
In order to access your email account, you need to first activate your NYU NetID and set your password. Click here to activate your NetID and email.
The format of your official NYU e-mail address is: YourNetID@nyu.edu. It is possible to select a personal e-mail address (or alias) which can be used in addition to your official address. The format of your alias address is: yourfirstname.yourlastname@nyu.edu. Click here to set up a personal email address.
It is recommended that you use your NYU email because it is the email that the University uses in cases of emergency. You may forward your NYU email so that it is automatically sent to your personal email address. Click here to set up forwarding NYU email.
Questions?
Contact ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, Fourth Floor, 212.998.3333 or at its.clientservices@nyu.edu. - Equipment (Audio/Visual) for Class Presentation
The Art Department has three mobile demo carts with laptops and projectors that can be reserved and checked-out from our Computer Studio on the 4th floor of Barney (401).
For one time reservations, we require at least 36 hour notice although we will accommodate late reservations and walk-ins if the equipment is available. Recurring (weekly reservations) are due at the end of the first week of the semester.
Permanent equipment installed in Barney Rooms 101, 105, 204, 309, 403, 406, 508, and 6W is available without reservations, please check the schedule to verify your classroom does not already have media equipment installed.
To reserve a mobile demo cart, please fill out the reservation form found here:
http://steinhardt.demo-station-reservation.sgizmo.com
Your reservation will not be complete until you receive an email confirmation with the pick up location of the available cart.
Please note the following loan policies:
Equipment is usually loaned for only the class period(s) or the event when it will be used. The user is responsible for the care and security of the equipment during the loan period. We do not have the resources to deliver equipment, it is picked-up and returned by the user or an authorized representative. The user or authorized representative must exchange a current NYU ID for the station at the time of pick-up. The user is responsible for damage to equipment due to carelessness or neglect.
Please email Claudia Joskowicz to cancel reservations in advance. Return equipment as scheduled, in the same condition as received. If problems or delays occur, call 212.998.5728. - Exhibition Spaces
- Graduation
- Commencement
- Health Center
- Wellness Exchange
- Counseling Services
- NYU ID Card
As your official New York University ID card, the NYUCard is an essential part of campus life at New York University. You'll use it for everything from checking out books in the libraries to accessing Coles Sports Center. As a debit card, you can use the NYUCard for making purchases in NYU bookstores, campus dining facilities, select vending machines, and other on-campus locations, as well as at participating off-campus merchants. Your NYUCard also makes you eligible for student discounts at various museums, movie theatres, on-and-off Broadway theatres, and other cultural attractions in New York City. Some neighborhood businesses offer discounts if you show your NYUCard when making a purchase.
With your picture on the front and your account information magnetically encoded on the back, the NYUCard functions as your official University identification card-instantly identifying you as a fully privileged member of New York University-and should be carried with you at all times.
NYUCard Services, 7 East 12th Street, Third Floor, 212.443.CARD (select option 1), nyucard@nyu.edu. - Working at NYU
- International Students
- Internships
Erin Donnelly, Internship Coordinator for the department, can be reached at <erin.donnelly@nyu.edu>.
- NYU Libraries
The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library and Avery Fisher Media Center
70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, 212.998.2505
Contact: Tom McNulty, Librarian for Art, Architecture, Design, and Museum Studies, 212.998.2519.
NYU students have access and borrowing privileges at these non-NYU libraries. Holdings for the Consortium libraries are listed in BobCat.
Cooper Union Library, 7 East 7th Street, New York, NY 10003, 212.353.4186
The New School Library
Raymond Fogelman Social Sciences and Humanities Library, 65 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003, 212.229.5307
Adam and Sophie Gimbel Design Library, 2 West 13th Street, New York, NY, 212.472.8914
Harry Scherman Music Library, 150 West 85th Street, New York, NY, 212.580.0210 ext. 4803
New-York Historical Society, 2 West 77th Street, New York, NY 10024, 212.873.3400
New York School of Interior Design Library, 70th Street, New York, NY 10021
- NetID
NetIDs are an important aspect of our University-wide network services and security. Your unique NetID helps ensure that you are properly authenticated when accessing NYU's networked computer resources. If you are a new student enrolled in a degree program, activating your NetID will also activate your NYUHome service. NYUHome is an easy-to-use portal to many web-based services and tools, including e-mail, spam filtering, Albert, Blackboard courses, computer security alerts, and NYU Libraries resources.
To activate your NYU NetID and set your password. Click here . - Art Course Descriptions
- Opportunities for Artists
- Student Affairs Offices
- Teacher Certification
- Wireless NYURoam
The Barney Building has joined the NYURoam Wireless Access Network.
The locations include: The Commons, Second Floor Mezzanine, Room 204, Educational Resource Center (ERC), Room 402 AB&C, Fifth floor studio spaces, and Sixth floor studio spaces.
For further information or to see other locations around the Washington Square campus visit the NYURoam Wireless Access Network web site. - Writing Center