Visual Arts Faculty

Master printer and director of 10 Grand Press in Brooklyn, New York, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Publishing and collaborative projects shown at MoMA,  Guggenheim, Whitney, Leo Konig, Art in General, and Museo National Centro de Art Reina Sofia. Exhibited personal work in many national and international shows. Studied at Boston Museum School; Master Classes at The Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts with Helen Frankenthaler, Ken Noland, and Susan Rothenberg. Apprenticed for three years in Paris, France, with Maître d'Art Michael Woolworth at his print atelier. SLC, 2012–

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. BA, MFA, University of California-Los Angeles, School of Film and Television. Writer and director; nominated for the Rockefeller Artist Award, the Edie and Lew Wasserman Award, the Motion Picture Association of America Award, a George Soros/Sundance Institute grant; selected in 2000 by Filmmaker magazine as one of “25 new faces in independent film”; co-founded Soulfire Films (2000), a nonprofit production company; Soulfire’s flagship project, Grenada: A Dream Deferred, is a documentary that revisits the events and circumstances of the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada; directed and produced films for PBS, Bill Moyers, Mel Stuart Productions, the American Legacy Foundation, and Danny Glover’s Carrie Productions. SLC, 2003–

BFA, Washington University. MFA, Yale University. One-person and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe; works included in major private, corporate, and museum collections; awards and fellowships include the Federal Design Achievement Award, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council, and CAPS; public commissions include the MTA and St. Louis Bi-State Development. SLC, 1980–

BFA, The College of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Digital artist and master printer working with 3D modeling, rendering, and multidisciplinary digital media. Exhibitions include Galerie Jette Rudolph and Galerie Thomas Flor, both in Berlin, and Tracy Williams, Ltd. in New York. Recent projects include Empties at Caesura Gallery (Caesura.cc) and FakeShamus: Manifest Destinaut, featured in Beautiful/Decay, Book 8: Strange Daze. As a master printer, he has produced exhibition prints for galleries and museums all over the world, including MoMA, The Guggenheim, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and SFMoMA. Highlights from the past year include prints for the Maurizio Cattelan retrospective at The Guggenheim and the first solo show of photographs by the late war photographer, Tim Hetherington, at Yossi Milo in New York. SLC, 2012–

B.A., Oberlin College. B.M., Oberlin Conservatory. M.F.A., Columbia University School of the Arts. An award-winning video game writer, screenwriter, and director, Patrick has written dozens of best-selling video games for Gameloft, from SPIDER-MAN to CSI: MIAMI. His short film, BROKEN, played in 40+ festivals around the world, winning awards from the New York Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International FF, Woodstock FF , the USA FF,  the Hamptons FF, Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival’s “Best of the Festival” Showcase, and was sold to HBO. His feature screenplay, THE VEIL, was a semi-finalist in the Nicholl Competition, and he developed the story of PLANET B-BOY with director Benson Lee, which sold to Screen Gems and is currently in production starring Josh Peck, Josh Holloway, Laz Alonso, and Chris Brown. SLC, 2012–

MFA, Boston University, Painting, BFA University of Utah, Painting/Drawing. Visual Artist with multiple awards and grants including a National Endowment for the Arts-Artist Grant.  Exhibitions include solo exhibits in New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, and internationally in Paris, Barbizon, Florence, and Lima, Peru.   Notable collections include Random House, General Electric, IBM, McGraw-Hill, Petroplus Holdings, Switzerland, Seagrams-Montreal, and the US Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden.  Currently producing work for exhibitions, creating hand drawn animated shorts and developing a series of e-book artist catalogues. SLC, 2012–

BLS, SUNY-Purchase. MFA, Hunter College. MFA (forthcoming), Brown University. Shipped titles: Layoff (Tiltfactor Labs, New York), Earth and Beyond (MMORPG, Westwood Studios/Electronic Arts), Aidyn Chronicles (Nintendo 64, THQ). Her plays have been produced off-Broadway at The Brick Playhouse, La Mama Galleria, and Expanded Arts. Her video work has been featured in Digital Fringe, Melbourne, Australia, and on die Gesellschafter.de, Bonn, Germany. Currently the Electronic Writing Fellow at Brown University, where she is working on new forms of interactive narrative, she is also the Internet art and Web cinema reviewer for Furtherfield.org, an arts collective based in London. SLC, 2010–

BA, Bethel University. MFA, Yale University School of Art. Working in painting, sculpture, and video, he employs the tropes of repetition, accumulation, and wit to shape his social commentary. Through the appropriation and compression of multilayered symbols, he untangles the power of these symbols and illustrates how they function in various public spheres. He has co-organized several significant exhibitions, including: Intelligent Design at Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY; Strand at New York Center for Art and Media Studies; and Pac Man at Artist Curated Projects in Los Angeles. He has had numerous solo exhibitions, including African Fractals and Dark Matter at New York's Ronald Feldman Gallery, where he is represented. He has exhibited work in numerous group exhibitions at major institutions, including The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Reina Sofia in Madrid, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, and MIT List Visual Arts Center. SLC, 2010–

Writer-Director: “Songcatcher” - Sundance Dramatic Competition & Special Jury Award for Ensemble Performance, Sloan Foundation Award, Deauville Film Festival Audience Award, two Independent Spirit Awards and GLAAD Award nominations. Lions Gate Entertainment. “The Ballad of Little Jo” - Independent Spirit Award.  Fine Line Features. “The Kill-Off” - Sundance Dramatic Competition, Munich (opening night), London, Deauville, Toronto, Edinburgh, Turin (Best Director Award) Film Festivals. Listed by British Film Instituted as one of   “100 Best American Independents. Cabriolet Films. “Home Remedy”  – Munich, London & Turin Film Festivals.  Premiered at Film Forum in NYC. Kino Int’l Releasing.  Television films as Director: “Good Morning, Killer”  – TNT, “Get a Clue” – Disney Channel, “Comfort & Joy, Tempted & What Makes a Family ” (GLAAD Award) – Lifetime. Dorothy Arzner Award, Director’s View Film Festival. Board of Directors of Independent Feature Project 1994-2000. Sundance Film Festival Jury 1994. SLC, 2012–

BSAD, MArch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sculptor and painter; one-person and group exhibitions in the United States, Mexico, and Europe; work included in major private and museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, High Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), and the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo (Mexico City); honorary member, Board of Directors, White Columns, New York; recipient of grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. SLC, 1994–

BA, Yale University. MA, University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. Has written more than 30 feature screenplays for the Hollywood studios, including Kiss the Girls and Walking Tall. TV credits include on-staff writer-producer for Law and Order: Criminal Intent and developing an original medical drama, Golden Hour, for CBS. His feature movie, Emperor, starring Tommy Lee Jones as Douglas MacArthur, began shooting January 2012.  He has also published 18 novels, most of them for young adults. SLC, 2012–

BA (Economics), Tufts University. MPS, New York University, Interactive Telecommunications Program. Founded Jason Krugman Studio to develop self-initiated and commissioned interactive and illuminated artworks. Clients include Wired Magazine, BMWi, NYC Parks Department, CW Television Network (Gossip Girl) and Claremont University Consortium. His work has been projected on the facade of the New Museum in New York City, commissioned by the Schuylkill Environmental Art Center, shown in galleries in Barcelona and Milan, featured widely in the international media, and blogged about by the Creator’s Project and The New York Times. Previously a visiting artist and teacher at the New School for Liberal Studies. SLC, 2012–

BFA, School of Visual Arts (New York). MFA, Yale University. New York-based photographer/artist with solo exhibitions at numerous galleries and museums worldwide, including: Frank Elbaz Gallery, Elizabeth Leah Gallery, Monte Faria Gallery, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Monte Clark Gallery. Works represented in numerous permanent collections, including: The International Center of Photography (New York), Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art (New York), and Whitney Museum of American Art. Guest lecturer at Columbia University, Columbia College of Art, University of California-Los Angeles, and numerous others. Her photos have been published widely and featured most notably in Art in Review, The New York Times, Vogue, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and Harper’s Bazaar. Her photography is featured in numerous books and catalogues, including: Art Photography Now, Bright, Susan (Aperture Foundation, 2005), Old Joy, Jonathan Raymond (Artspace Books, 2004), and Justine Kurland: Spirit West, John Kelsey (Coromandel, 2002). SLC, 2011–

BA, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. MFA, Columbia University. Award-winning writer, director, and producer. Festivals and awards include: Best of Fest, Edinburgh International Film Festival; Filmmaker Magazine, Audience Choice Award; Scenario Award, Canadian International Film and Video Festival; second place, Best Short, Galway Film Fleadh; Best Comedy/Best of Night, Polo Ralph Lauren New Works Festival; BBC’s Best Short Film About the Environment, Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival; opening-night selection: Three Rivers Film Festival; Hong Kong International Jewish Film Festival; Irish Reels Film Festival; Seattle True Independent Film Festival; New Filmmakers Screening Series; Hoboken International Film Festival; Miami Jewish Film Festival; Munich International Student Film Festival; Palm Beach International Jewish Film Festival; Pittsburgh Israeli Jewish Film Festival; Toronto Jewish Film Festival; Vancouver Jewish Film Festival; finalist in Pipedream Screenplay Competition; third prize, Acclaim TV Writer Competition; second place, TalentScout TV Writing Competition; finalist, People’s Pilot Television Writing Contest; Milos Forman Award; finalist, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Student Film Awards. Current feature film projects include: screenwriter/director/producer, Strange Girls, Mdux Pictures, LLC; screenwriter/director, Shoelaces. SLC, 2007–

BFA, Yale University School of Visual Arts. MFA, Yale University School of Art. Photographer and video artist, whose work concerns itself with the primal and mythological. Solo and group shows include: The Photographers’ Gallery, UK Chashama Gallery, New York (2013); College of the Canyons Art Gallery (2012; HomeFront Gallery, NY (2011); World Class Boxing, Miami (2010); Kate Werble Gallery, NY (2009), International Center for Photography (2008) White Columns, NY (2004) Jen Bekman Gallery (2004), Queens Museum of Art, New York (2004); and The Yale Art Gallery (2000). Received the New York State Residents Grant for Excellence in Photography (1996), the Robin Forbes Memorial Award in Photography (1997), the Barry Cohen Award for Excellence in Art (2000), and a NYFA grant (2012). Her work has been published in various magazines, books, and catalogues; her first monograph, All The Queens Men, (Daylight Books, 2013) is a decade-long investigation into masculinity. Faculty member at Hunter College, New York University, and School of Visual Arts in New York City. SLC, 2013-

BA, Westfield (Mass.) State College. MFA, MS in Art History, Pratt Institute. Attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant in painting and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. Taught at Princeton University, Pratt Institute, and New York University. Recent exhibitions at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, Martin Asbaek Projects in Copenhagen, Fleisher Ollman Gallery in Philadelphi,; The Lab in Dublin (Ireland). His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Southern Methodist University, and New Museum of Contemporary Art. SLC 2010–

MFA, Yale University School of Art. BA, Fordham University Lincoln Center. Solo Exhibitions: Eyes Look Through You, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany; Who Are You This Time, Galerie Thomas Flor, Düsseldorf, Germany. Taught previously at Hunter College, and The Cooper Union, New York City. SLC, 2012–

BFA-Industrial Design, Cleveland Institute of Art. BFA-Sculpture, Cleveland Institute of Art. Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Experience in visual art and industrial design. Founding partner of Hybrid Product Design + Development Inc., an industrial design consultancy in Brooklyn, New York. Hybrid projects span a range of product categories from housewares to sustainable transportation systems. Holder of two patents: C-Safe surgical tool, 2007; office equipment, patent pending. Hybrid’s Mini Modal New York City taxicab has been recognized nationally and globally and from various articles published in The New York Times, 2005, 2007; Business Week; Rides Magazine, 2005; Echo99, 2009; and Focus Magazine, 2010. Fine art exhibited nationally and internationally, including SculptureCenter NYC, The Butler Institute of American Art, and Smith College. Work reviewed by Chicago Times, Village Voice, and Detroit Metro Times. SLC, 2012–

BFA, Alfred University. MFA, University of South Florida. Studied at Royal College of Art, London, and held Tamarind Master Printer fellowship; exhibited in many national and international shows; one-person exhibitions include the Newark Museum, Staempfli Gallery, and Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York. SLC, 1983–

B.F.A. New York University. The New School ,New York, Certificate in Producing. Co-founder and Director of Instruction at The International Film Institute of New York, currently working in collaboration with Sarah Lawrence College.  Recent production credits  include a feature length documentary  titled,“Last Call”  (Director and Cinematographer)  now in post-production, Producer on the feature length narrative titled “ Central Avenue”  scheduled to cast Marisa Tomei  and Lorraine Bracco, and a book-in-progress on Cinematography lighting techniques titled” Lighting Tricks and ShortCuts.”  In addition he is staff, faculty and the head of the Cinematography Concentration at Columbia University's Graduate Film Division where he supervises students on Thesis productions. Past work includes four one-hour specials on Latino’s in the media for network television, short documentary projects, films, music videos, and industrials. SLC, 2009–

BA, Kunstgewerbeschule Zurich and Keramisch Fachschule Bern. MFA, San Francisco Art Institute. Painter and sculptor; one-person shows nationwide and in Europe; works represented in private and museum collections; recipient of Schweizer Kunststipendium; awards from San Francisco Art Festival, Oakland Museum, and the National Endowment for the Arts. SLC, 1986–

MFA, Columbia University. Writer and associate producer of Steven Spielberg’s fantasy film, Hook, and received story credit for Madeline. Her first produced film was Once Around, directed by Lasse Hallstrom. Uncredited work in order of the size of her contribution, as she sees it, includes Jurassic Park, The Other Sister, Only You, Enchanted, and Polar Express. She has collaborated with many established directors on both produced and unproduced material, including Norman Jewison, Alfonso Cuaron, Alfonso Arau, Luis Mandoki, Sabiha Sumar, Garry Marshall, and Rob Reiner. Adjunct professor at Columbia Graduate Film School, an advisor for Sundance Institute, an instructor (summer 2010) at la FEMIS in Paris, and an advisor (summer 2011) at Maisha Film Lab, founded by Mira Nair. She will be advising emerging Rwandan writers in Kigali, Rwanda. Recently co-wrote a script with Sabiha Sumar, an award-winning Pakistani director and alumna of Sarah Lawrence College. The film, Rafina, was shot in October 2010 in Karachi, Pakistan, and completed in summer, 2011. Winged Boy, a story she rewrote for Gold Circle, was produced in spring 2012. SLC, 2009–

BA, University of Illinois. MFA, Columbia University School of the Arts. Screenwriter, director; wrote and directed two feature films, Maryam (2002) and Loveless (2011). Serves on the screenwriting faculty of Columbia University’s School of the Arts and of Hunter College. Awards include: Golden Reel Award for Best Film, The Tiburon International Film Festival; Emerging Filmmaker Award, St. Louis International Film Festival. SLC, 2011–

BA, Queens College. MFA Yale University. One-person and group shows at the Museum of Modern Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and National Portrait Gallery. Works represented in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, St. Louis Art Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Art in Boston, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Princeton Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and Museum of Modern Art in New York. Recipient of grants and fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts, Camera Works, CAPS, Art Matters, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Author of Time Frames: City Pictures and Auto Portraits. SLC, 1999–

MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of Art, Bard College, Elaine De Kooning Painting Fellowship. MA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. BFA, Tufts University. Solo exhibitions: Angels of Light, Pleasure Dome, and Christmas in July, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA; Against Nature, 443 PAS, New York, NY; Clifford•Smith Gallery, Boston, MA. Taught at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston; Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University; Massachusetts College of Art. SLC, 2012–

BA, Boston University. MA, Emerson College (Boston). Postgraduate studies as a Revson Fellow at Columbia University School of the Arts, Graduate Film Division, and the Columbia University Digital Media Center. His two-part documentary series on the parallel lives of African American and black South African young people in post-apartheid South Africa and post-9/11 America was broadcast on South African Broadcasting Corporation TV (SABC) and PBS and screened at festivals in the United States, as well as internationally. Concurrent with his own work, he has taught at New York University, Pratt Institute, City College, and Hunter College, all in New York City. He was awarded artist fellowships in film and video by the New York Foundation for the Arts and honored by the Black Filmmaker's Hall of Fame for his narrative short, Deft Changes. SLC, 2007–

BA, Salem College. MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Also studied at the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago and at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Currently completing a certificate in documentary production and editing from New York University. Received multiple awards and grants for her work and exhibits, both nationally and internationally. Current studio orientation is video installation with elements of comic image painting and sculpture. For the past several years, studio work has included an application of Freudian theory to American culture and identity. SLC, 2007–

BA, Dartmouth College. Photographer/artist with exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Recipient of two Guggenheim fellowships and a Prix de Rome. Author of American Prospects, On This Site, Stranger Passing, and 10 other books. SLC, 1985–

BA, Fairfield University. MFA, Columbia University School of the Arts. Postgraduate study: American Film Institute, New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Screenwriter, producer, director. Recent awards, grants, festivals: Grand Prize, Nantucket Film Festival, Tony Cox Award in Screenwriting; Nantucket Screenwriters Colony; World Jewish Film Festival, Askelon, Israel; Tehran International Film Festival; Berlin Film Festival Shorts; Uppsala Sweden Film Festival; USA Film Festival; Washington (DC) Jewish Film Festival; Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival; Temecula Valley International Film Festival “Best of the Fest”; Portugal Film Festival Press Award; Fade In Magazine Award/Best Short Screenplay; Angelus Film Festival Triumph Award; Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Award; Heartland Film Festival Crystal Heart Award; New Line Cinema Filmmaker Development Award; Hamptons International Film Festival; Schomburg Cultural Grants. Raindance Pictures: projects developed for Columbia/Tristar/Sony, Lifetime, MTM Productions, Family Channel, FX, Alliance/ Atlantis, Capella Films, Turman-Foster Productions, James Manos Productions, FX, Avenue Pictures. SLC, 2003–

BA, Brown University. MFA, University of California-San Diego. Work has been exhibited at venues such as The Kitchen, Foxy Production, X-initiative, Eyebeam, the Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego), Edith Russ Haus, and the Western Front. SLC, 2012–

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. Studied at University of London School of Visual Arts. Executive producer/producer/writer. Credits include: Super Size Me; Anywhere, USA; Class Act; Convention; Google Me; Fiornes: The Rest I Make Up; Thundercats; Silverhawks; MTV's Real World. Awards include: Academy Award nominee, Best Documentary; Sundance Film Festival, Special Jury Prize, Dramatic Competition; Sundance Film Festival, Best Director, Documentary; Sarah Lawrence College Alumnae/i Citation of Achievement; TELLY Award; Artivist Film Festival, Best Documentary; Rhode Island International Film Festival, First Place, Best Documentary; AURORA Award, Platinum Best in Show; Chicago International Film Festival, First Place; US International Film and Video Festival. Founder, Studio On Hudson production company. SLC, 2011–