Pratt Munson is a part of Munson’s Art Campus

Pratt Munson is a part of Munson’s one-of-a-kind campus that features the world-class Munson Museum of Art in the centrally located upstate New York city of Utica. Munson offers art experiences for the youngest of artists to the talented students at Pratt Munson to the European and American masters displayed in the Museum.

This environment offers Pratt Munson students the unique chance to interact with art at all levels. As part of the Munson community, Pratt Munson students have free access to all of the Museum’s programming, including weekly independent and foreign film screenings, preview events for exhibitions, and other special events.

A highlight of the Museum of Art’s year is the annual Sophomore Exhibition, when students’ works are displayed in the same spaces as Dali, Picasso, O’Keefe, Warhol, Cole, Dewitt, and others.

Also in the Museum of Art complex is the Pratt Munson Gallery located in the historic Fountain Elms adjoining mansion. This gallery features contemporary artists who are at the height of their careers. Because of Pratt Munson’s small cohort, students get unparalleled access to artists who come to Utica, often guest lecturing.

MUNSON MUSEUM OF ART

The Museum of Art includes 20 galleries and boasts a permanent collection of more than 25,000 American and European 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-Century paintings and 19th-Century decorative arts. The Museum of Art comprises two main adjoined buildings: the mid-century architectural cube designed by Philip Johnson and Fountain Elms, a refurbished 1850s mansion that houses the decorative arts collection, the Terrace Cafe, and the Pratt Munson Gallery. The Museum of Art presents three to five exhibitions each year, in addition to the six to eight exhibitions at the Pratt Munson Gallery.