An additional contemporary art gallery, The Foreman Gallery, is located in Anderson Center for the Arts. The museum permanently house more than 20,000 items and provides 11 versatile gallery spaces for permanent and special exhibitions, and educational programs. The museum's program office oversees educational programs and museum-education internships. Hartwick's permanent fine-arts collections is curated by art historian Fiona M. Dejardin and includes the van Ess collection of Renaissance and Baroque works and significant 19th and 20th century paintings by Hudson River painters, Childe Hassam, Rockwell Hunt, John Henry Twachtman and others. Tapestries, prints, photographs, drawings, cartoons, ceramics, and sculpture are also included.
Students often assist the curator in the design and content of exhibits.
A regular program of changing and permanent exhibitions makes the Yager Museum a rich learning resource for students, faculty, and community. For information concerning exhibits see the Department of Art and Art History Calendar of Events.