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Alfred University's Art Museums and Galleries
Alfred University, in the village of Alfred, New York (an area of 1.2 square miles), has five galleries or museums most of which are on campus grounds. This list includes the Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramics at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, The Fosdick Nelson Gallery, the Robert C. Turner Gallery, and the Cohen Center Gallery. In addition, there are other exhibition spaces for undergraduate and graduate students to show work in including the Sculpture Dimensional Studies Exhibition Spaces, the Cube, the Box and the Cell Space, the Printmaking Critique Room, the Flex Space, the New Deal, and the Rhodes Room. Work from permanent collections are also on exhibition in the Saxon Inn and around campus in the offices of faculty. Further exhibition spaces include the John Woods Studios of the Institute of Electronic Arts (IEA) within the School of Art and Design (SoAD), NYSCC.

Schein-Joseph Museum of International Ceramic Art at NYSCC
The Schein-Joseph Museum of International Ceramic Art at NYSCC in Alfred University was established as an official institution in 1991. Yet, almost a century prior, in 1900, Charles Fergus Binns, the founder of the College of Ceramics, had initiated a collection of his student and faculty’s work under his directorship. The International Museum of Ceramic Art was later re-named after the generous couple Pamela Joseph and Jay Schein whom were members of the Alfred University Board of Trustees as well as alumni class of 1962. Currently, the majority of the funds for exhibitions come from the members of the museum. Not until 2001 did the museum inhabit their current space; located temporarily on the second floor of Binns-Merrill Hall in a 1,500 square-foot historical space. The architecture is refurbished yet still holds the historical charm of the original building: the long arched windows, the original chandeliers, and a fireplace. The entirety of the collection (approx. 8,000 pieces) is housed in multiple facilities. The collection's range of inventory includes original pieces from master ceramicists that have studied at Alfred University and early works from MFA students from the past few years in addition to art historical objects such as Henry Varnum Poor’s pottery.The permanent collection is broad in it’s ownership of internationally recognizes ceramists Kitaōji Rosanjin, Bernard Leach, Shoji Hamada, and Lucie Rie to name a few. Also. unique from other University Art Museums and Galleries (UAMGs), the collection houses advanced ceramic technology such as a bullet-proof (ceramic-plated) vest, a femoral hip joint replacement and a ceramic (zirconia) watch.

Robert C. Turner Gallery
Alfred University’s student-run gallery, the Robert C. Turner Gallery was founded in 2011. The gallery has two floors; the main space and the catwalk in which also has the “black box” interactive space for expanded (electronic) media. Part of their mission as a student run facility is to maintain a “professional gallery space driven by creative and conceptual freedom.” This statement attests to whom the space is in honor of. Internationally acclaimed artist and Alfred University alumnus, Robert C. Turner is named after this gallery space. He was a professor of ceramic art at Alfred University with a sixty-year long career in ceramics. Turner once said, “What part, if any, can and should the art world play in revitalizing people of a perhaps degenerative culture, a culture in which people seem to be morally soft, often, and unaware of their actions, insensitive to the moral religious values in situations. Have not art and those people who know its value more to say than they have said, not only to make art a more vital and integral part of community life, but to minister to the spiritual needs in the broadest sense of the term?” This quote abides by the student’s efforts in upholding such a special space for exhibiting their own works.