Art & Design Faculty Exhibition
Hosted at the QCC Art Gallery
April 16 - June 7, 2015
Curator
Ken Golden
Co-Curator
A. Coffey
Participating Artists
Jules Allen
Javier Cambre
Lisa Cinelli
A. Coffey
Liz Di Giorgio
Kenneth Sean Golden
Susan Natacha González
Jaimie Lyle Gordon
Julia Healy
Timothy Hull
Fuchiawen Lien
Philip Listengart
Malcolm D. MacDougall III
Hayes Peter Mauro
Katherin McInnis
Greg Pitts
Freya Powell
Barron Rachman
Yisun Rho
Michael Ritchie
Bob Rogers
Kaitlin Santoro
Jacqueline Schlossman
Ryan Seslow
Nicholas Striga
Beata Szpura
Lumin Wakoa
Samantha Yoo
Kenny Yurkovitch
Directed & Edited by
Nick Caccese
Music
"Drone in D"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons:
By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Project Supervisor
Phillip Roncoroni
QCC Art Gallery Director
Faustino Quintanilla
QCC Art Gallery Assistant Director
Lisa Scandaliato
The Art and Design Department at Queensborough Community College is committed to teaching as well as being deeply engaged in art making and research. Being an art professor demands a constant assessment of the ways in which art ideas and techniques are communicated and developed. Sharing this information with students presents the faculty of our department with immense satisfaction, as we become partners and witnesses in a learning and creative process, acting as mentors and catalyst agents for our students’ educational and artistic growth. Within the pedagogical parameters of excellence that as faculty we have established, each member of our faculty has a distinctive approach to teaching; we believe that this individualistic freedom in the methodology in which we teach our classes is an enormous asset for our students, as they can get many viewpoints and approaches, therefore developing through a critical process their own sense of being in the world and their own path to follow.
Besides an individualistic approach to teaching, following the democratic tradition of academic freedom, each member of our faculty pursues his or her own artistic practice, and in our department we find a multiplicity of approaches to art making in the most diverse media. Our faculty is engaged with oil painting, digital design and video art, illustration, performance, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, installation, digital and wet darkroom photography. As in our pedagogical approach to studio classes, wherein we believe that our students’ growth is developed through hands-on art making as well as in the use of the most advanced digital technologies, my colleagues and I make art across the most assorted practices.
This pluralism is a manifestation of artistic freedom and a materialization of our belief in a multi-dimensional education. In some sectors within our contemporary society the idea of the one-dimensional man or woman is still being forced into us, trying to make us believe that the right way is to train us as specialized workers in an assembly plant, as opposed to thinking individuals armed with the skills and analytical tools to engage critically and creatively with the world.
As an artist, one of the advantages of teaching is the possibility to research and create outside the limitations that many times are imposed by the “art market”. Constant contact with our students -a future generation of artists and designers- energizes our individual artistic practices; at the same time, our work in the solitude of our studios and participation in exhibitions and public presentations revitalize the information we share in our classrooms. Another advantage, and probably the most satisfying as an art educator, is the continuity in which we participate with our students as art makers as well as keepers and transmitter of the fire of knowledge, freedom and creativity. Our students will be the future keepers of this fire.
Javier Cambre, Associate Professor
Art and Design Department