Public art

With the incomparable beauty of the rolling foothills of the Adirondacks as a backdrop, SUNY Adirondack proudly displays public art throughout its picturesque campus. The college offers a self-guided tour of its outdoor artworks, available to campus visitors, faculty, staff, students and alumni.

The brochure was designed in part to introduce SUNY Adirondack’s Art Collection, a compilation of more than 1,000 pieces from more than 300 local, national and international artists.

In the college’s Visual Arts Gallery in Dearlove Hall, SUNY Adirondack offers a variety of exhibitions throughout the year emphasizing creativity, vision and imagination, exposing the campus and outside communities to works of artists from within, as well as outside, the Lower Adirondack and Capital regions.

Follow the Visual Arts Gallery on Instagram @sunyadk_art

Bruno LaVerdiere, a longtime adjunct professor of Art at SUNY Adirondack, died Aug. 13, 2022, leaving behind generations of students and colleagues he inspired, as well as a monumental body of artwork.

At age 13, LaVerdiere joined Saint Anthony’s Seminary to become a priest. He took vows to become a Benedictine monk at St. Martin’s Abbey in Washington. While in monastery from 1955-69, he studied Incan archaeological sites, Japanese ceramics and figurative sculpture at the Art Students League.

He began teaching art at Greenwich House Pottery in New York City and The Penland School of Craft in North Carolina. He fell in love with a fellow artist, left the monastery and relocated to Hadley in the Adirondack Mountains, where he raised his son, Julian, and worked for the rest of his life.

LaVerdiere taught classes at such institutions as Rochester Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State