Warren Roberts and Marijo Douherty

Announcements:

Resources for a possible installation on "The Character of Street Life"

from the New York State Museum:

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/streets.html#state

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The next meeting of the State Street exhibit Advisory Committee will be on Wed. January 30th at 3:00pm, University Art Museum. Parking passes will be given at the meeting.

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Planned Exhibition

"State Street: Gateway to Empire"

September 13 through October 27th, 2002

Opening reception; Saturday, September 14th, 5-8 p

The exhibition will present aspects of an impressive legacy from the heart of the Capital City of Albany, New York. Utilizing historical documents, drawings, photographs, paintings and artifacts coupled with the research of U/A faculty, museum curators and citizen expertise, the exhibit will illuminate and make accessible to an interested audience the heritage of a city which was truly the “Gateway to Empire”. Focusing on selected sites located on State Street, as well as on the city’s changing architecture, the exhibit will highlight the growth from Fort (1676) and fur-trading post to Dutch and Colonial Settlement to Mercantile Center and Hudson River Commerce to its present status as the Capital City of one of the most important states in America. With the assistance of historians and curators and loans from prestigious collections such as those from The Albany Institute of History & Art; the New York State Museum and other private and public collections, the exhibit will play a central role in the U/A campus Fall ’02 celebration of Albany’s Heritage.

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There will be a meeting of the State Street Exhibit Committee of Albany

Heritage Friday, January 4, at 10:00 a.m. in Earth Sciences 223 at the

University at Albany.   It was decided at the first meeting of the committee

that the title of the exhibit will be Heart of the City:  Four Centuries of

the Architecture of State Street, Albany, New York, 1695 to Present.  The

purpose of the January 4 meeting is to decide on the themes and layout of

the exhibit.  Those on the committee who would like to participate in this

discussion are warmly encouraged to attend the meeting.  The discussion at

the first meeting on December 7 was far-ranging and productive; by

developing further and formalizing the ideas put forth then we should be

able to complete our task, which is to give our report to Marijo Dougherty

by mid-January.  The Earth Sciences Building is at the northeastern end of

the podium at the University at Albany; it is adjacent to the Fine Arts

building where the committee met on December 7.