*_FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE_**February 24, 2011*

Contact:

Suzanne Grady Sara Pasti

Interim Director of Communication & Marketing Director, Dorsky Museum

(845) 257-3245(845) 257-3846



  Chagall scholar Vivian Jacobson and comic performers ‘Fancy Meeting
  You Here’ to lecture and perform at SUNY New Paltz

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*NEW PALTZ***– The State University of New York at New Paltz is pleased 
to announce two upcoming special events presented by the Samuel Dorsky 
Museum of Art:

    * A lecture by Vivian Jacobson, a Marc Chagall scholar, on
      *Tuesday,**March 29th at 7pm*at SUNY New Paltz Lecture Center 102; and
    * A comedic tour of the museum led by ‘Fancy Meeting You Here,’ on
      *Friday, April 1st at 5pm*at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art.


*Chagall Lecture at SUNY New Paltz Lecture Center 102*

On March 29^th at 7pm, Vivian Jacboson willpresent a short illustrated 
talk and participate in a discussion with High Falls resident and 
Chagall scholar Gary Ferdman on Chagall’s time in High Falls.

Jacobson will discuss Chagall’s little-understood three years in High 
Falls, with a focus on the artwork he produced during this period, the 
houses and studios he worked in and owned, and the people he met, 
including Virginia Haggard, his companion and mother of his son. 
Jacobson will sign copies of her book “/Sharing Chagall: A Memoir/”, 
which will be on sale at the event.

In 2001, Vivian Jacobson was appointed a speaker on Marc Chagall for the 
North Carolina Humanities Council.  She has lectured for art groups, 
museums, churches, synagogues, colleges and schools nationally as well 
as in Europe and Israel. Vivian Jacobson was honored to work closely 
with Chagall on major international projects during the last eleven 
years of his life.

Marc Chagall was a prominent 20^th -century Russian-born Jewish artist 
who achieved international prominence for his paintings, works on paper, 
designs for opera and theater, and many other works.

/Free parking is available on campus after 6:30pm./


*Walking Comedy Tour of The Dorsky*

On April 1st at 5pm, ‘Fancy Meeting You Here,’ comedy troupe led by Carl 
Arnheiter and Dave Hill, will take audiences on a provocative April 
Fool's Day tour of the Dorsky Museum's /The Illustrious Mr. X 
/exhibition, assuring visitors that "no artwork is too abstract, no 
modern art too modern, [and] no study of the human form [will be] 
overlooked."

‘Fancy Meeting You Here’ has always enjoyed performing in public places. 
When they were having trouble finding theatrical stages on which to 
perform, they decided to perform on a $350 million one—the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art.

‘Fancy Meeting You Here’ recently concluded an eighteen-month stint at 
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, having previously performed at museums 
in San Francisco, London, Berlin, and Amsterdam. The members of ‘Fancy 
Meeting You Here’ are comedians and writers who work for or have 
performed with The Colbert Report, the Onion, Saturday Night Live, the 
Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, The New York Times, and This American 
Life.

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/Located in the heart of a dynamic college town, ninety minutes from 
metropolitan New York City, the //State University of New York at New 
Paltz/ /is a highly selective college of about 
8,000 undergraduate and graduate students.

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/One of the most well-regarded public colleges in the nation, New Paltz 
delivers an extraordinary number of majors in //Business/ 
/, //Liberal Arts & Sciences/ 
/, //Engineering/ 
/, //Fine & Performing Arts/ 
/and //Education/ 
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/New Paltz embraces its culture as a community where talented and 
independent minded people from around the world create close personal 
links with real scholars and artists who love to teach./