Faculty

Sven Anderson, Assistant Professor
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Computer Art and Printmaking

Sven Anderson is from Long Beach, California. He received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (85) and his BFA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (83) He studied printmaking with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris France.

Sven was honored to be named an "Apple Distinguished Educator" for 2000-02. The first class of 50 educators from Apple Computer's Higher Education award program.

His interests include printmaking, woodworking, and computer art. He developed a computer automated etching and engraving system for the creation of traditional style prints from computer based imagery. His work can be found in many collections in the United states and Europe.

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Nancy Callahan, Associate Professor
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Drawing, Printmaking, 2D Design, and Artist's Books

Nancy Callahan is known for her creative work in screen printing and is a leader in the field of artist's book. She has exhibited her work since 1968 both nationally and internationally. Based on her research and development of unique book and paper structures, she has lectured at such places as the Center for Book Arts in NYC, Syracuse University, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, the University of Virginia and the Lee Art Center in Arlington, West Virginia.

She has received several research and project grants including two Walter B. Ford Grants, a Drescher Award, an Empire State Craft Alliance Grant, a fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and has just been selected as a Millennium Artist by the MId-Atlantic Art Foundation. She recently completed a residency in Hungary in conjunction with the International Book Arts Symposium. Professor Callahan maintains a studio in Gilbertsville, New York.

Jian Cui , Lecturer
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Computer Art and Drawing

Jian Cui received his MFA in New Media from the Pennsylvania State University, PA, and his MA in Computer Art from Savannah College of Art and Design, GA. He received BFA in Sculpture from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. China.

 Jian Cui's monumental sculptures are seen as landmarks in China, and his drawings, watercolor paintings and Chinese paintings have been published in several books. His recently published 3D modeling and animation works have been widely used as instructional examples by schools throughout United States.

Jian Cui's works are dealing with the internal and external conflicts between an individual and the environment. He is interested in integrating traditional 2D, 3D arts with contemporary digital media. He sees “new” media as a smooth continuation of traditional media.

Allen Farber Ph.D., Associate Professor
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Art History

Allen Farber received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1980 with a major in Medieval Art History and minors in Medieval Intellectual history and Ancient Art. He is responsible for teaching introductory courses in Art History and advanced courses in Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance art.

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Roberta Goldman, Adjunct Instructor
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3D Design

Roberta Goldman received her MFA from the University of Albany in 1997 with specialty in sculpture, printmaking, and photography. She has exhibited in juried shows nationally and has received many awards. She has been a member of 55 Mercer Gallery for the past seven years and exhibits her work nationally.

Roberta currently maintains her studio outside Oneonta where she works in various media such as paper-pulp, plaster, fabric, and photography.

Rhea Nowak , Assistant Professor
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Foundations and Printmaking

Rhea Nowak received her BA from Bennington College in Printmaking and Painting,
her MFA from the University of Connecticut in Printmaking and Drawing, and a Master Printer Certificate from Il Bisonte an international school of printmaking in Florence Italy. Her prints, drawings and unique books have been exhibited in juried and solo shows in both the U.S. and Europe including Italy, Germany, and Bulgaria. Her work involves ideas of continuity, chance, and change, and draws from such sources as Buddhist philosophy, musical composition and current scientific theories.

Science tells us we are not made of particles at all, but patterns of probabilities of interconnections.

Thomas Sakoulas, Associate Professor
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Sculpture and Computer Art

Thomas Sakoulas received his Masters in Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Rinehart School of Sculpture in 1994, and his BFA from Florida International University.

He works in a variety of media, ranging from stone carving and metal fabrication, to digital media, 3D Modeling, Video, and Web Design. His work has been exhibited nationally, and is featured in collections in Florida, Maryland, and New York.

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Nancy Cooper Samstein, Adjunct Instructor
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Drawing

Nancy Cooper Samstein received a Master of Arts from New York University in 1984. Her paintings, drawings, and constructs address a dimension of landscape and its anthropology.

Her work is exhibited extensively and is housed in several collections here and abroad. Currently her work can be viewed at the Black Sheep Gallery in New Lisbon where she lives, works, and raises sheep.

"Truth is beauty
Beauty, truth

Toot, toot, rooty
And rooty, toot, toot"

John Keats and Fats Waller

Yolanda Sharpe, (Chair) Professor
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Painting, Drawing, and 2D Design

Yolanda Sharpe received her Master in Fine Arts from Wayne State University in 1982. In 1979, she graduated from Michigan State University with a B.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking, and B.A. in Art History.

Her paintings and drawings have been exhibited internationally in various galleries and museums.

Sharpe's process of doing these paintings allows for the study of relationships between the physicality of paint, wood and canvas constructions, and color structures. Each painting represents a massive and substantial permanence that is both solid and diaphanous. Surfaces appear to crumble within long passages of time.

Some of the paintings incorporate the mythologies of angels. Other pieces represent larger-than-life universal personalities (Macbeth, Lady Macbeth).

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Sean Scherer , Adjunct Instructor
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2D Design

Sean Scherer began exhibiting his paintings and drawings in New york City in 1989 while attending the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study
Program.

He continues to show in this country as well as abroad including one-person shows in Caracas, Venuezela, Helsinki, Finland, and Montreal Canada.

Sean lives and works near Walton, New York.

Kathernine Spitzhoff, Adjunct Instructor,
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Graphic/Publication Design, 2D Design

Katherine Spitzhoff received her M.F.A. in painting from Brooklyn College (‘86) and her B.F.A. from Saint John’s University (‘78). She lived and worked in New York City until 2004, both painting and exhibiting egg tempera paintings and drawings and working in the field of Graphic Design.

Her paintings and drawings are concerned with the interaction of architectural spaces and nature, domestic ritual, and the symbolism of everyday objects.

Katherine worked in many areas of the design field including corporate identity, packaging, exhibition graphics, and information design. For 12 years she worked in the Design Department of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and currently has a design studio in Cherry Valley, NY. She teaches courses in Graphic Design.

June Tyler, Adjunct Instructor,
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Drawing and 2D Design

June Tyler has her studio, Pondside Pulp and Paper in Norwich, New York where
she gives summer workshops in handmade paper. She received the MFA degree in
printmaking from Syracuse University, an MA in graphics and painting from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BA in Studio Art from SUNY @ Potsdam.
Her work has been exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally. In the summer of 2006 she had a retrospective exhibition of her work from 1975 - 2005, in Norwich at the Chenango County Council of the Arts Galleries.

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Charles Winters, Instructor,
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Photography and Computer Art

Charles D. Winters received a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1966.

He has had a varied professional life as a photographer, teacher and documentary filmmaker. His published books include photographic studies of the Navaho people of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona; family farms in Delaware and Otsego Counties, NY; the Catskill mountains of central NY. Widely viewed exhibitions have accompanied all of the books. His commercial photography is scientific, specializing in college level chemistry textbooks.

He has numerous photo credits in National Geographic Society, Smithsonian, Microsoft Corporation, Time Magazine, Discover Magazine, Cosmos and Forbes.

His educational pursuits have included travel and photography with faculty in geology, anthropology, philosophy and other disciplines, participating in research projects around the world. He has received grants from New York State Council on the Arts, Upper Catskill Council of the Arts, New York Council for the Humanities, J. M Kaplan Fund and Olive B O’Connor Foundation.

Michael Wyshock, Assistant Professor,
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Computer Art & Foundations

Michael Wyshock received his MFA from Florida State University and his BFA from University of Delaware. Wyshock exhibits his work internationally and is included in numerous collections.

His recent works focus on environmental and social-policital changes in the coastal region of Southern Louisiana and have been included in several exhibitions, such as: Transformations, Bishkek, Kyrgystan; Against the Wall, Santa Fe Art Institute; 2004 International Juried Exhibition, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, and the National Drawing Biennial, College of New Jersey.

In 2005 he was awarded a Full Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center as well as a Pollock Krasner Award.