Set in Southern India. Scent of Pepper tells the story of the Kaleyandas, a family born of warriors and the owners of vast estates, they are the envy of the local feudal gentry. Kavery Nambisan's elegiac novel peels away the layers of mystery surrounding a fierce and independent people, while simultaneously portraying a unique and compelling family who will linger on in the minds of every reader.

Scent of Pepper

Literature & Fiction

Kavery Nambisan

Nambisan, Kavery

Genre Fiction

State University of New York Press

Shows how Sawka's experience as a political refugee, and his working method, which emphasized imagery drawn from memory, resulted in powerful works that speak of and to the universal human condition.

Jan Sawka: The Place of Memory (The Memory of Place) (Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art)

Arts & Photography

Sawka, Jan

Trager, Neil C.

Millie, Elena

Individual Artists

Kathy Goodell: Infra-Loop: Selections 1994-2020 explores the through-lines in the artist's work across painting, drawing, and sculpture; examining a mystic language that loops between disciplines, coasts, and generations. In addition to reproductions of Goodell's work, are essays and interviews from critics and artists that expand Goodell's work and artistic practice over the last three decades.

Kathy Goodell: Infra-Loop, Selections 1994–2020 (Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art)

Woolbright, Andrew Paul

In 1970, with the advance from her book Sexual Politics, writer and visual artist Kate Millett (1934-2017) bought a run-down farmhouse on the outskirts of Poughkeepsie, New York. Originally intended as a private retreat, by 1978, in collaboration with her partner Sophie Keir, plans for a women's art colony were underway. Friends, artists, and volunteers from the Women's Movement journeyed to the Farm to renovate the barns and create living quarters as well as art studio spaces. To&#8239;make the colony self-sustainable, Millett&#8239;purchased seventy-three acres of neighboring land; the rather unlikely crop they chose to&#8239;grow&#8239;was Christmas trees.&#8239;By the mid-1980s, summer residencies began, with artists working on the Farm for five-hours a day and spending the remaining time on their art practice. Millett described the art colony as "life after the revolution," a place where women could experience freedoms that the Women's and LGBTQ civil rights movements were fighting for, but that were not yet available in mainstream society. For over four decades Millett Farm was a dynamic haven where artists facing pervasive sexism and homophobia boldly built a space where they could create community and art together. This exhibition catalog tells the story of this inspiring venture in contemporary art and queer feminist activism with archival photographs, an essay by a former colonist Anne B. Keating, and a group conversation between founders of Millett Farm.

Life after the Revolution: Kate Millett's Art Colony for Women (Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art)

Conlan, Anna

History & Criticism

Mary Frank: The Observing Heart (Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art)

Constructing Sustainable Development

Neil E. Harrison

Boston Confucianism

Robert Cummings Neville

When vicious rumors about members of the cheerleading squad increase tension within the school, all signs point to Vanessa as the originator of the lies

The Mate Relationship: Cross-Cultural Applications of a Rules Theory (Human Comm Processes (Dis))

Self-Help

Nicotera, Anne Maydan

Relationships

Poems, short stories, and other personal reactions to works in the permanent collection of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz.

Reading Objects 2008 (Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art)

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

An overview of the career of Eva Watson-Schütze (1867–1935), one the foremost American women photographers of the early twentieth century.

Eva Watson-Schütze: Photographer (Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art)

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