Support The Albert Paley Archive Collection

Gifts to support the Albert Paley Archive collection can be made in a variety of ways. Your gift will support the acquisition and care of the Albert Paley Archive collection.

Albert Paley.

Gifts to the Albert Paley Archives will have a lasting impact on students and scholars from around the world and extend the legacy of this visionary and prominent artist. More information can be found below and by contacting Beth Schoenfeld at baspgd@rit.edu or at 585-475-2681.

Support the Albert Paley Archive Fund  

Archive Naming

The archive collection itself provides a wide range of naming opportunities. Physical space or parts of the collection can bear the name of a donor or honoree.

Naming Opportunities at RIT
Contact Beth Schoenfeld

Planned Giving

Planned giving offers creative strategies for alumni, parents, and friends of RIT to make a gift to the university while also achieving some of their own financial goals. The choice to support RIT is a personal one, unique to each individual, and the choice of planned giving options is the same. Your individual financial situation and goals, your family structure, and your interests at RIT can all be taken into account through one of several gift options. Please contact Beth Schoenfeld for more information about how to support the Albert Paley Archive collection with a planned gift.

Pledges

Making a pledge is a promise to make a gift at a later time or over time. To make a pledge to RIT, you can choose the number and schedule of your pledge payments. For more information about making a pledge over time you can contact Beth Schoenfeld.

Recurring Gifts

Recurring Gifts are an easy, automatic way to support this initiative that works for your budget and schedule. It is convenient, customizable, and will help ensure a steady source of funding for the archive acquisition and preservation once here. For more information about establishing a recurring gift, please contact Beth Schoenfeld.

The Albert Paley Archive Collection


This archive will allow students, faculty and researchers to study and learn in four unique areas.

The Public Art Arena

Paley’s archive documenting the process behind working with a variety of municipalities represents a singular collection documenting the creative process and the resulting artworks that have become indelible, meaningful symbols of place and community.  Students and scholars alike will have access to learn from these primary source materials within the RIT archives. This immense catalog of work will be preserved for researchers and students through RIT’s mission of careful preservation and digitization for broad access.

Professional Practice and Studio Management

The archive will be a resource for artists and students to study and learn about professional practice and studio management.  Students could use the archive as part of a professional practices course and also for their own research in studio management and for specific projects.

The Business of Art

The archive will offer faculty in the College of Art and Design a mechanism to build academic programs around the business of art.  Many archives lack the documentation and records that will be included in the acquisition of the Paley archive and these materials allow for expanding our students’ knowledge in the business of becoming and succeeding as an artist.

Focused Study

The archive will offer RIT Museum Studies Program and the Architecture Program a unique opportunity for study and reflection as to how municipalities, corporations, and other publicly facing entities have approached art and sculpture in the public arena.  This resource will be an invaluable research and study tool for the program.

The Paley Archives at RIT will allow for in depth research and education into the life, work and business of one of America’s most distinguished and influential metal sculptors. The archives at RIT will not only preserve the work of Mr. Paley but also will inspire countless others as they too pursue their own educational and artistic goals.

In addition, many courses can be enhanced through the use of the archive for teaching and learning including:

  • Studio Practice
  • Business and Marketing
  • Public Art
  • Sculpture
  • Architecture and Art
  • 3D Design Technology
  • Goldsmithing (Jewelry)
  • 20th Century Studio Art Movement
  • Design
  • Art Historical Material
  • Intern and residency programs for art students