School of Art and Design
Associate Professor, Graphic Design
Phone: 828-227-2463
Email: malafratta@wcu.edu
Office Address: BAC 241
Education:
- M.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University, Design / Visual Communications
- B.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University, Art Education
Professional and Creative Scholarship:
SECAC
"Communication in the In-Between and Overlapping Spaces"
SouthEastern College Art Conference
Richmond, Virginia
United States Library of Congress
Permanent Collection of Historic Interent Materials
Political Terror Scale
http://www.politicalterrorscale.org
Catholicity: The Universal in The Particular
Juried Virtual Exhibition
http://www.sisyphusproject.net/catholicity/Index/index.html
“Prayers + Reflections”
SECAC Annual Juried Exhibition
Charleston, West Virginia
‘Smart Art’ Digital Art Juried Exhibition
Upstairs Artspace
Tryon, North Carolina
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Faire
Western Carolina University
Presentation: Decoding Visual Culture
Sylva, North Carolina
Congress of the Americas International Conference
Scholarship and Technology in a Fractured World
Present Paper: Making Meaning in a Visual Culture
Puebla, Mexico
Poster Presentation
206th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society
The Radio Sky: Multidisciplinary Research Multimedia and Physics
Undergraduate Research Students and Faculty
Washington, DC
National Science Foundation Grant
Co-Investigator
Internships in Public School Education: Sensing The Radio Sky
A multidisciplinary research project involving physics and multimedia arts and sciences
faculty and students, to design and develop a planetarium presentation and teaching
materials on the radio waves in the sky.
Awarded $249,000.00
National Art Education Foundation:
Teacher Incentive Grant
Integrated Liberal Studies Program
University of North Carolina at Asheville
Course Development: Decoding Visual Culture
(Writing Intensive and Information Literacy Intensive)
Awarded $600.00
Vernacular International Conference
Borders, Boundaries, and Visual Culture
Presentation: Interpretation and Literacy in the Visual Culture Environment
Puebla, Mexico
Design Lecture Series and Workshops
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Studio Connections Summer Workshop
Tucson, Arizona
Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference
Presentation: Visual Perception is Visual Thinking
Raleigh, North Carolina
Arizona Art Education Conference
Tucson, Arizona
Quark To Quasars Symposium
Discussion on collaborative activities with the regions’ scientific visualization and presentation communities.
Virginia Art Education Association Conference
Presentation: Visualizing Information
Portsmouth, Virginia
Fulbright-Hayes Grant
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Universidad de Catolica
Participating faculty; awarded study abroad
Valparaiso, Chile
School of the Arts Research Sabbatical
National Endowment for the Arts Grant
Integrating Arts Across the Curriculum
Participating Faculty
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia
Invited Artist
Tucson, Arizona
Computers in Art and Design Conference
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia
Community Service Associates Award
Richmond, Virginia
Computing Strategies Across the Curriculum
Presenter
The University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont
Symposium on Small Computers in the Arts
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Invitational Group Show
Flossie Martin Gallery
Radford, Virginia
National Juried Computer Art Exhibition
Vincennes, Indiana
Faculty Grant-in-Aid
Richmond, Virginia
Virginia Art Education Association Conference
Roanoke, Virginia
Symposium on Small Computers in the Arts
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Juried Computer Art Exhibition
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Virginia Art Education Association Conference
Arlington, Virginia
Invited Artist
Lexington, North Carolina
Invited Teacher
Richmond, Virginia
Symposium on Small Computers in the Arts
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania