RISD/CCE 1997-2002

Digital Design Studio

Adobe Photoshop

Final Cut Pro

 

NYU 1987-88

Cert Program, Filmmaking

 

Tulane University, New Orleans

MFA Painting

 

RISD 

MAE Education with a concentration in Painting

 

Ithaca College

BFA Painting

 

Selected Screenings and Group Exhibitions

Berlin Shorts 2023
Semi Finalist  The Through Line

The Impact Doc Awards 2023
Award Winner  Twenty Square feet 

Video Art & Experimental Film Festival NY 2023
Honorable Mention 
The Through Line

Blow-up Arthouse film Festival Chicago 2023
Semi Finalist Twenty Square Feet

Accolade Global Film Competition 2023
Award Winner
 
New York Independent Cinema Awards 2023
Nominee

New York Short Film Festival 2022
Cinema Village, Manhattan
 
IPFF International Portrait Film Festival 2022
Sophia, Bulgaria
 
Diorama Room Presents 2022
Tune in to Green 
13 short experimental and expanded documentary films 
by international filmmakers, sound artists and musicians

Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival 2022
Semi Finalist  Twenty Square Feet
 
Through These Eyes 2022
The Torpedo Factory
Screening June 10 – Sept 4
 
Wavelength Curatorial Collaborative
Pandemic Projections : Visions for a New Normal 2022
Gardenship, Kearny, NJ
 
Los Angeles Super Shorts 2021
Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute
 
SENE Film Music Art Festival 2021
Honorable Mention for Best Experimental
 
UNCOMPRESSED : A Time Based exhibition featuring works by 34 individuals and collectives
Coastal Carolina University 2021

BLOW-UP International Arthouse Film Festival
Gene Siskel Fillm Center, Chicago

Extremely Shorts Flim Festival 2020
Houson Media Arts Aurora Picture Show

MicroMania Film Festival 2020
Buffalo Rising

Unrestricted View Film Festival 2020
London

Venice Film Week 2019
Selection of International Independent Cinema
Casa del Cinema
 
Brigade des Images  2019
Paris, espace Shakirail 
La Lose
 
Murze Film Festival
Murze Magazine Interview
 7thedition

Through Compassionate Eyes - Animal Rights 2018
Presented by the Jewish Art Salon
The Charter Oak Cultural Center

TAFFNY
The Americas Film Festival New York 2018
The Americas Award - Best Experimental Film 
'Reeanactments'
Organizers
Division of Inerdiscplinary Studies CUNY, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Colin Powell School of Civic and Global Leadership, Instituto Cervantes New York
Supporters
GOYA, Telemundo, Consulate General of Argentine Republic New York, Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies 

Worldwide Women’s Film Festival 2018
Scottsdale, AZ 

Manhattan Independent Film Festival 2017
in association with the Broadway Film Festival and New York Film Week

ASFF Aesthetica Short Film Fesitval, York, UK 
BAFTA Qualifying festival 2016

Panel Member in Discussion led by Greg McGee

International Video Art Festival
NOW & AFTER 2016
The Darwin Museum, Moscow
Permanent Collection

TAFFNY The Americas Film Festival NY 2016
Organizers
Division of Inerdiscplinary Studies CUNY, Time Warner, Colin Powell School of Civic and Global Leadership
Supporters
Telemundo, The Smithsonian, Goya, Consulate General of Spain New York
Nominated for Best Experimental

The New Media Film Festival 2016
Landmark Theater, Los Angeles

FILMIDEO 2016
11th Annual Film and Video Screenings
The Newark Museum

As iFF International Film Festival, New York
'Moth Vitals" one of 15 international selections

Portsmouth International Film Festival, UK 2015
'Moth Vitals' nominated for
Best Cinematography
Best Sound (Winner)

Venice Experimental Cinema & Performance Art Festival 2015
Palazzo Ca'Zanardi

Montreal International Wreath Awards Film Fesitval
Canada

TMFF Film Festival 2015
Glasgow, Scotland

STIGMART10 Videobiennale 2015 Biennial Edition of https://issuu.com/stigmart10review/docs/stigmart_videofocus_special_edition
Violence Transformed 2014

Screening of EXIT STRATEGY : Education Behind Bars

Massachusetts State House, Doric Hall, Boston

Cambridge College

Resnikoff Gallery

Film Reel Evening Screenings  2013

Queens Hall Gallery, Narberth, Wales

Wales, UK

Films About Workers 2013

Antenna Gallery, French Quarter, New Orleans 

with LA video Collective Freewaves & Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab

Periphery 2013

CINEMA RESET : Multimedia & Experimental Cinema Exhibition 2012

Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans Film Festival

Masters on Main Street 2012

Catskill Film Festival

Video Art & Experimental Film Festival VAEFF 2011

Tribeca Cinemas, NY

Arts in Prison: Sharing Global & Local Practices 2011

Brown University

Screening of EXIT STRATEGY : Education Behind Bars

Persona Art Festival 2011

The Rag Factory, London

Persona Award for Nothing and T Minus Tome video shorts

The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge 2011

Media and Film Festival, Berlin

7th WCA International Video Shorts Festival 2011

College Art Association Conference, NY

Rogue Video 2011

Seton Hall University

Walsh Gallery and Open Air Screenings in Newark

HERA Education Foundation Film Festival 2011

Weekend Series of film, video art and animation by RI and Indian

artists

Celebrating the Pomp Us....

Topolski Century Gallery, London 2010

Female Shorts : Film & Video Showcase 2010

Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA

Twin River Media Festival 2010

Official Selection

New Media 2010

Khaki Gallery, Boston

Perishable Theater 2009

First Impressions / Second Thoughts 
screening with David Eliet's Holodomor

Main Street Independent Film Festival 2009

Random Acts of Video

Historic Rosendale Theater, NY 2008

Arizona Digital Media Investigations 2008

Northern Arizona University, School of Communications

Dreams & Possibilities / Praxis 2007

Video  Hometown Memory : A Nuclear Tale

New York International Independent Film & Video Festival 2007

Action on Film Festival, Long Beach Convention Center 2007

Diving into Digital  2006

Bergen Museum of Art & Science

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2005

The First Show 2004

Turiya Modern Art , Saratoga Springs

The New Orleans Media Experience 2003

DVD Projections on historic buildings

Claiming the Spirit  2002

Brandeis University

Panel Discussion : The Artists Discuss Their Work

Selections from the Irving Sandler Artists File 2002

Curated by Natasha Arenow, London

Digital Wallpaper 2002

Nexus Gallery 

Center for Digital Art, NY

Reactions 2002

EXIT ART, New York

HERA Educational Foundation

Curated by Judith Tannenbaum, RISD Museum Curator of

Contemporary Art

3rd International Festival of Experimental & Performance Art 2001

Curated by The Dostovesky Foundation, Wimbleton, London

First to See the Light 2000: An Alternative Photography Exhibition

Wanganui Polytechnic, New Zealand

inclusion in presentations on photographic revolution, hybrids and

related topics by Professor & Chair, Mary Steiglitz, Dept of Art & Art History, Iowa State University : 

Visual Communications Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder

9th Annual Symposium on Electronic Art. Liverpool and Manchester, England

31st International Visual Literacy Conference, University of Georgia

Ylem / Artists Using Science and Technology Forum, San Francisco

Exploratorium

Photos are Us: An Exhibition of Alternative Photography 1997

Ohio State University

Women, Animals & Oppression 1995

Society for Photographic Education National Conference

An Issue of Identity 1994

Marymount Manhattan College Gender Institute

Souvenirs of the Reagan / Bush Years 1993

Puchong Gallery, New York

Puchong Gallery, NY

Photography: Artists of Central New York 1991

Munson Williams Proctor Institute Museum of Art

Dia de Los Muertos : Homelessness 1990

Alternative Museum, NY

VESTIGES / Bookworks 1990

SUNY Potsdam, Ithaca College, Simms Fine Art, New Orleans

Art & Photography Faculty Exhibition 1989

Ithaca College

Work of the Spirit 1988

Works by artists associated with NYFA

Ceres Gallery, NY

Voices & Vessels : Life in the Balance 1987

Visual Artists Exchange for Collaborative Art funded by the NEA

Project Facilitators : Faith Ringgold, Vanalyn, Green, Nancy Azara

Ceres Gallery, NY

Drawn & Quartered : A Salon of Subversive Images 1986
 

Curated by Bill Arning

White Columns, NY

Gallery Artists 1986

P.P.O.W., NY

Women in the Mainstream 1984

Curated by Lowery Sims. Curator of 20 C Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Summer Faculty Exhibition 1983

RISD, Woods Gerry Gallery

Artists for Survival : The Nuclear Threat 1982

M.I.T. Historical Museum

RISD, Woods Gerry Gallery

Persona Award for Video Art  2011

Persona Art Festival, The Rag Factory, London

 

Technology in Training Grant 2002

State of Rhode Island / CCRI

 

Art Matters 1991

 

PBS film project by NYC filmmaker W. Joseph Hourihan 1988

Film addresses e.e. cumming's challenge to an "incredible, unanimal mankind"

 

Funded by The National Endowment for the Arts. Participants selected by Dr. Harriet Senie, Director of Museum Studies, CUNY and Bernice Steinbaum, Director, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. 

Project facilitator: Faith Ringgold

 

Experience
 

Professor of Art & Digital Media 1993-Present

Community College of Rhode Island

Chair Art Department 1997-2000

Acting Chair  2006

Digtal Art, Video Art, Painting 1 & 11 and Foundations

 

AmeriCorpsVISTA Project Supervisor 1998

Project Seed: A Recycling Program that Explores the Creative Process

Refuse Figures Exhibition at the RI Convention Center

Sponsored by the Community College of Rhode Island and The Corporation for National Service

 

Faculty MFA Program in Painting 1997

Vermont College of Norwich University

 

Cultural Diversity & the Art Making Process 1996

Providence Campus, Community College of Rhode Island

 

Course Development : The Book as Art 1993

RISD / CCE

 

Adjunct Faculty 1988-92

Art Department

Ithaca College

 

Adjudicator and Discussion Leader on Photography 1990

Media Arts Symposium

Roy H. Parks School of Communication

Ithaca College

 

Guest Lecturer 1989

Art and Artists Lecture Series at Ithaca College

 

Visiting Lecturer in Painting 1983

Tulane University, University College

 

Instructor 1983

Pre-College Summer Foundation Program

RISD