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Six Brockport students had their artwork selected for the 2006 Fall SUNY Student Art Exhibition, the first of three SUNY-wide student art shows to be held in Albany during the 2006-07 academic year. Exhibited at SUNY's historic State University Plaza, the show contains a lively range of 129 student artworks from 24 SUNY campuses. Each work in the exhibit was selected by the art department at the student's home campus. The students selected to participate from Brockport were: Erin Aubeuf, Midnight Hour 2005; Heather Boyd, It Continues 2006; Kelly Hider, Mary Lee Needed Proper Watering 2006; Steve Oas, My Time at the Mug Machine 2006; Douglas Waite, It Started with a Kiss 2006 and Tristan Walach, Mid-morning Confusion 2005. |
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Arts for Children Interdisciplinary majors are developing ways to help teachers teach the performing arts using interactive technology. As a Dana Foundation grant project partner with The Performance Lab of Minnesota and the New Jersey Department of Education, SUNY Brockport students are practicing teaching and learning dance with artist Gloria McLean of New York City. On-line you can watch brief video clips of in-class assignments performed by AFC art, music, dance, and theatre students. They have taken Gloria's brief movement phrase then manipulated the elements to create a new phrase in simple compositional form. Throughout the spring, students will continue to experiment with live interactive learning by connecting to graduate students at New York University, the artist, broadcast facilitators from Minneapolis, undergraduate students at Rowan University of New Jersey and youngsters at an elementary school in Minnestoa. |
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We're proud to welcome back Vince Gonzalez '90 as the 2007 undergraduate commencement speaker at the May 12th ceremony. A journalism and political science double major, Vince began his career as an intern for Dan Rather. As a correspondent for CBS Evening News, Vince's award-winning reports featured an investigation of the nation's second-largest blood bank releasing HIV-tainted blood, developments in California's electrical power crisis, and coverage of the Catholic Church's cover-up of abusive priests. He has received two Columbia University Alfred I. DuPont Awards, and an Emmy, as well as awards from Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Society of Professional Journalists. Professor emeritus Fred Powell remembers his former student with pride: "Vince sought to have The Stylus cover and report upon events and happenings not only on the Brockport College campus, but also those taking place in the Brockport community. The editorials and columns he wrote were always well researched, thoughtful and interestingly written. It is no wonder that Vince has found his niche and made his mark in the world of professional broadcast journalism." |
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Beginning the new year on the right foot, visiting professor Bill Evans and two groups of SUNY Brockport dancers performed at the inauguration ceremony for Elliot Spitzer, Governor of New York. Roy Harrington Tracy and Daniel Walczak performed Alternating Current. Evans joined tap dancers Courtney Andrews, Marisa Ballaro, Leah Fox, and Abbey Germano in Suite Rhythm, accompanied by African Music Specialist Khalid Saleem. Evans choreographed both works. |
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It started as a dream. Now, that dream is being realized. Thanks in part to the efforts of Dr. Reggie Ocansey, eight students from Ghana, who served as graduate teaching assistants in the Department of Physical Education and Sport and obtained their Master’s degrees in physical education, are now bringing their expertise back to their homeland. All have completed doctoral degrees at prestigious universities such as Ohio State University and the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. These individuals are now returning to Ghana to work at the University of Winneba. Plans are underway to establish a doctoral program at Winneba. Dr. Ocansey will spearhead these efforts while continuing to facilitate the exchange program between SUNY Brockport and the University of Winneba. |
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Come back to campus and join us for the official party Saturday, February 24. It's part of the presentation of Festival of 10, our biennial performance of ten new 10-minute plays selected in national competition. We’re also celebrating the inclusion of last fall’s production of Stop Kiss in the regional Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival at SUNY New Paltz in January, one of only six full-length plays invited to the festival. Joining the student cast directed by professor Richard St. George, music faculty member Bill Hullfish added color to the production as a saxophone-playing street musician. Also at the festival, assistant professor Ruth Childs was named incoming regional chair of the New Plays Program, and associate professor Trish Ralph received the Gold Medallion (a national award) for her service to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. The Kennedy Center Gold Medallion is presented to those who have made extraordinary contributions to the teaching and producing of theatre and to the development and quality of the Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival. |
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We anticipate a lively spring season of visiting artists-in-residence thanks to a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The artists develop a personal project while interacting with graduate students in the VSW/SUNY Brockport MFA Program in Visual Studies. Each guest artist will give a public lecture at the end of their stay. Join us for this season's artist series: |
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Thirty years ago, Rochester philanthropist James Sibley Watson, Jr. and his wife Nancy gave their collection of 72 original artworks by E.E. Cummings to SUNY Brockport. Art historians have deemed the collection one of the most significant of Cummings' work as it represents both his abstract and realistic periods. Unfortunately, time has taken its toll on the collection, and most pieces are in need of repair and restoration. By gathering community support, we have begun the process of repair and re-framing to once again make the collection available for public display. |
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