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We begin our second year of electronic newsletters which are designed to keep our alumni, colleagues and friends informed of the goings-on at Brockport. Last year we sent schoolwide e-newsletters and a department-specific e-newsletter for each of our departments or programs including art, arts for children, communication, dance, physical education and sport, theatre and visual studies. Our 13,000 newsletters sent last year received some very nice feedback (and welcomed updates!) from many of you. If you are in the area and would like to attend one of our fine arts events this year, why not take advantage of our 2-for-1 offer for e-newsletter subscribers? We'd love to have you as our guest. But whether you are near or far, we hope you enjoy receiving the e-newsletters and we invite you to drop us a note and let us know how you are doing. |
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| "Holding On To Heroes" Acrylic, Collage, Drawing, Assemblage on Wood | 
Since graduating from SUNY Brockport, Ron Pokrasso has become a printmaker of world renown. Having received his MFA from Pratt Institute, Ron has had more than 40 solo exhibitions and 150 group shows. His work is in public, private and corporate collections through the US and abroad. In 2000, Ron participated in the Fifth World Invitational Triennale of Small Prints in Chamalieres, France, where he received an award of excellence and in 2003 was the only American invited back for a solo show. Ron will be in Rochester October 12-15 giving a demonstration for the Print Club of Rochester. For more information e-mail bcos@sprintmail.com. |
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| Dr. Natalie Sarazzin, Asst. Professor | 
Director Diane McGhee welcomes Dr. Natalie Sarazzin as the new music faculty member. Natalie will be advising and teaching classes in the AFC Program and Department of Theatre. With Natalie joining our group, the music specialty of the major will reopen. AFC music specialty alumni are encouraged to contact Diane or Natalie through our program office at (585) 395-5279. Please tell us your success stories working with young people in the arts! Look for more on Dr. Sarazzin in next month’s edition of the theatre e-newsletter. Also, visit the arts for children Web site at www.brockport.edu/iac. |
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The Department of Communication welcomed Rochester-area emeriti professors back to campus last spring, recognizing their years of service to our department and our students. It was an opportunity to catch up as well as introduce the emeriti to new faculty members. Dr. Peter Kane and his wife, Marguerite Coniff-Kane, have recently established a scholarship for a promising graduate student in our masters' program. This year's recipient, Jeffrey Delbert, plans to pursue his interest in political communication at the doctoral level when he graduates from Brockport. |
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The Department of Dance is proud to present another dynamic concert season of guest artists, faculty and student works. We begin with a splash with nationally-renowned guest artist Doug Varone and Dancers for a week-long residency in September. In October, the award winning Garth Fagan Dance will perform at SUNY Brockport. Sponsored by Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield, this special concert will help endow the Brockport Scholarship Fund. The semester will end with DANSCORE, a wonderful vehicle for the diverse works of the dance department’s innovative faculty and performed by a select group of talented student dancers. AND SAVE THIS DATE: April 14, 2007! Best of Brockport Dance will celebrate SUNY Brockport’s Rochester area alumni. |
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| Dr. Craig Mattern in the lead at the 2006 Empire State Games | 
Two members of the PES faculty competed in the 2006 Empire State Games held in Rochester this summer. Dr. Craig Mattern participated in the open mens cycling, including individual time trials, a 74-mile road race and a team time trial. His efforts paid off as his Western regional team won the gold medal. And Dr. Rikki Cannioto proved her mettle playing 14 games in 12 hours in the Western Masters Womens volleyball event. Cannioto's team earned the bronze medal. |
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The Department of Theatre is preparing for its 40th season in the Tower Fine Arts Center, including three full-length plays and the department's biennial "Festival of Ten," an evening of 10-minute plays. The season begins with Stop Kiss by Diana Son, a haunting contemporary drama that traces the developing relationship between two young women. The New York Times called the work "a sweet, sad and enchantingly sincere play." Stop Kiss runs October 6-21 and is recommended for mature audiences. |
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The exhibition, Past is Present, opens September 9 at 7 pm at the Visual Studies Workshop Gallery and runs through October 28. On display is the work made by 43 artists from around the world using early photographic processes dating from the 1850s and later including ambrotypes, cyanotypes, platinum prints and gum prints. In addition, two panel discussions are scheduled with selected artists on Saturday, September 9, at 5:30 pm and Saturday, October 28, at 5 pm in the Media Center at VSW. |
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Homecoming Weekend is fast approaching, so mark your calendars! The weekend is September 28-October 1, 2006. Reunion groups will include all of the “6” and “1” classes, as well as theatre, business, African and African-American studies and physical science graduates, education and human development master’s degree graduates, men’s football and women’s gymnastics alumni and graduates who were involved in BSG, music, theatre and those who were library assistants. |
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| from E.E. Cummings Collection at SUNY Brockport | 
Most of us know that E.E. Cummings was one of the most significant poets of 20th Century America. What you may not know is that Cummings also was a prolific artist and referred to himself as a "poet and painter." SUNY Brockport owns a collection of 72 pieces of original art by this famous poet. The Hildegarde Lasell Watson Collection came to Brockport in 1978 when Rochesterian James Sibley Watson, Jr. donated the collection to the college in memory of his late wife. |
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