Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts

The Quick Center offers a wide range of resources — spacious art galleries, the 321-seat Rigas Family Theater, instructional spaces for the visual and performing arts, vocal and instrumental labs and rehearsal rooms, study and storage spaces — making it an education and entertainment hub for not only the campus but the community at large.

The Quick Center includes the F. Donald Kenney Museum and Art Study Wing, named after the late F. Donald Kenney, a university trustee and arts patron. The Kenney wing added galleries, a prints and drawings room, study and support spaces, further enhancing the Quick Center's reputation as a center for regional collaboration and thought.

Quick Center galleries are open to the public year round at no charge.

Group tours are also available. To request a tour, please complete and submit our Gallery Tour Request Form.

Quick Center Exhibitions

Students looking at art in a Quick Center gallery

The university's encyclopedic art collection, which includes Asian, European & American, Modern & Contemporary art, as well as pieces from the John Rogers Statuary Groups, is installed on an ongoing basis in Quick Center galleries.

In addition, featured installations are in place on a rotating basis throughout the year. Our galleries are open to the public at no charge.

VISIT EXHIBITIONS

Performing Arts Series

The Quick Center hosts an annual performing arts series in conjunction with the Olean nonprofit organization Friends of Good Music.

The series features live performances of classical and international music, theater and dance. Season subscriptions are available, with discounted single-performance tickets available to students.

VISIT PERFORMING ARTS

Arts Education Programs

Two Quick Center educators holding giant paint brushes by the traveling Artmobile.

We're all about encouraging the next generation of art lovers at the Quick Center.

Our programs include annual juried art exhibitions for schoolchildren, special performances for young audiences in our Rigas Family Theater, visits to schools across the region by our Quick Center Artmobile, professional development days for art teachers, and much more.

VISIT ARTS EDUCATION

Our Fair Trade Gift Shop is located in the Quick Center's first-floor Box Office area.

The principles of fair trade are in line with the teachings of St. Francis. It's a simple way to make a difference to the lives of the people who grow and make the things we love. Fair trade does this by changing the way trade works through better prices, decent working conditions and a fair deal for farmers and workers in developing countries.

We work with suppliers such as Global Goods, Ten Thousand Villages, Matr Boomie and Prosperity Candle to bring unique items to you for reasonable prices.

A few Quick Center and SBU logo items are available as well.

Take a Seat

The Quick Center's Take a Seat program is a seat-naming initiative in the center's Rigas Family Theater.

For a tax deductible gift of $250 to $1,000, your name(s) of your choice will be inscribed on a plaque on the back of a seat in the Quick Center's Rigas Family Theater. You will also be recognized in a program on the opening night of our performance season.

Your gift provides necessary funds to support the QCA and its many projects for schoolchildren from the local area. Your contribution also ensures that the QCA can continue to present internationally recognized performers from the world of classical music, theater and dance at ticket prices affordable to our audiences.

Make a Take a Seat donation

The Guild at the Quick Center

The Guild for the Quick Center, established in 2004, supports the Quick Center's many projects for schoolchildren.

Your tax-deductible gift of $25 to $1,000 or more provides necessary funds to help the QCA present this special programming, ensuring that we can continue to present internationally recognized performers from the world of classical music, theater and dance at ticket prices affordable to our audiences.

Marianne Letro Laine, inaugural chair of the Guild, continues in that position today. She and her husband, Erick, retired president of CUTCO Corporation, have been instrumental in the development of The Quick Center.

Become a Guild member today.