Spring / Summer 2006 Faculty
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Jane Dickson is a painter living and working in New York City. Born in Chicago, She graduated from the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Harvard University. Her work, now represented through Marlborough Gallery, examines social and cultural themes is included in many public collections such as the Brooklyn Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art , the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art , and the Library of Congress.

Stephen Westfall is an abstract painter who lives and works in New York. His paintings have been described as "having the ability to hold, simple and silent, a thought." His current appointment is as Chair of the Painting department at Bard  College, Milton Avery School  of the Arts.  He has received three National Endowment for the Arts awards and two grants from the New York State Council on the Arts. Westfall's recent solo exhibitions include museums and galleries in San Francisco, New York, Santa Fe, Philadelphia, Munich, and Paris.

Barbara Grossman is a painter who  resides and works in Connecticut. She has exhibited nationally for over 25 years and recently was awarded a visual arts fellowship by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. A Fulbright Scholar (Germany), Grossman  is a member of the National Academy Museum and  has  twice received the Academy’s Award in Painting. She has held teaching positons at the University of Pennsylvania,  Vermont Studio Center,  Chautauqua Institution and Yale University. Most  recently she was the Artist-in-Residence at Hollins University and Dartmouth College. Currently she serves on the graduate faculty at Yale School of Art.

Dan Jocz - Daniel Jocz has been called the bad boy of contemporary jewelry design. He incorporates aspects of architecture, sculpture, painting, drawing within the decorative arts. Trained as a sculptor and draughtsman, based in Cambridge Mass, Jocz has gained international prominence in the metalsmithing field. www.joczstudio.com

George Hildrew - Brooklyn based figurative and abstract painter, George Hildrew has exhibited in New York at Poindexter Gallery, Luise Ross Gallery and E.M. Donahue Gallery. His Work has been described as mannered conceptualism within a contemporary folk tradition. He has been a Fulbright Scholar to Italy.

Coco Fusco is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer and associate professor in the Visual Arts Division of Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She has performed, lectured, exhibited and curated around the world since 1988. She is the author of English is Broken Here (The New Press,1995), The Bodies That Were Not Ours and Other Writings (Routledge/inIVA, 2001) and the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (Routledge, 1999) and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (Abrams, 2003). Fusco is a recipient of a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts.Fusco's works have been included in such events as The Whitney Biennial, Sydney Biennale, The Johannesburg Biennial, The Kwangju Biennale, The London International Theatre Festival, and VideoBrasil.


Spring / Summer 2005 Faculty

Judy Glantzman - A figurative painter based in New York City. She has received a Guggenheim Foundation Grant, Pollock Krasner Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts Grant & others. http://www.dactyl.org/art/artists/glantz/glantz_2003.html

Barbara Grossman

Margaret Lanzetta - A New York based painter who recently was included in the Queens international at the Queens Museum. Her solo show in 2005 will be at the ATP Gallery in London & 1006 at theKenise Barnes Gallery in New York. www.margaretlanzetta.com

David Cohen - David is the art critic for the New York Sun and editor of the online publication artcritical.com. He is also gallery director of the New York Studio School.

David Packer - British Born Ceramic Sculptor, David Packer, lives and works in New York. His recent shows have been with Garth Clark Galleries in New York. His solo show spring of 2005 was at Enoch Pratt Gallery in Baltimore. www.packerdavid.com

George Hildrew

Carolyn Zick
- Carolyn Zick is a west coast painter based in Seatle, who received her MFA from SUNY Albany. She is one of the most well respected "art bloggers" in the US. Fall of 2005, she will be an artist in residence in Akureyri, Iceland. www.dangerouschunky.com

Elena Sisto - Elena Sisto is a New York based painter who shows at Littlejohn Contemporary (NY). Her paintings of single figures are both emotionally and plastically charged. She has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowships. www.elenasisto.com

Dan Jocz