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 Hello! The School of Arts and Performance of The College at Brockport sends you best wishes as we begin a new academic year.
Plans for upcoming months include some interdisciplinary efforts in the School. Art is teaming with the Visual Studies Workshop on a 40-year photographic retrospective. Art, Physical Education and campus photographer Jim Dusen will collaborate to present a photo exhibit of women athletes. Communication is rolling out its state-of-the-art digital broadcast equipment for production classes. In the Spring, look for the second Best of Brockport Dance concert, a benefit for student scholarships. Theatre will produce its sixth biennial Festival of Ten (an evening of 10-minute plays). Finally in April, we'll host Emmy-award winning actor Anthony Zerbe in another Cummings collection benefit to be held at the Memorial Art Gallery.
We hope you enjoy hearing from us. We always enjoy hearing from you. Please take a minute and update us on your whereabouts and your goings on.
With warm regards,
Francis X. Short, PED
Dean, School of Arts and Performance
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Art
Summer 2008 saw student work installed on South Avenue in Rochester. Bruce Fernandez, Lisa Chentfant and Matthew Crane were all students of Jennifer Hecker in Spring 2008 and were given the totem project as an
assignment. Fernandez was a senior citizen auditing the
class. Chentfant graduated in May. Crane is a current BFA student concentrating in
sculpture.
 Greg Parizek (BS in Studio Art) was awarded a $1000 "Budding Artist Scholarship" at the 8th Annual Arts at the Garden juried art show held at Sonnenberg Gardens in Canandaigua, NY, in August. He was one of four finalists selected to exhibit their work. This is the first time this scholarship has been offered to area students.
 Lori Mills had her piece, "Adaptions," accepted into "Made in New York, 2008" at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn, New York. She received a First Place Award.
 BFA Printmaking student Leah Derring (far left in photo) participated in a summer workshop at the Frogman's Press in Beresford, SD.
 Kitty Hubbard's Delta College students continue to produce podcast projects and experiment with new venues in digital media. Click here for examples.
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Interdisciplinary Arts for Children
Dr. Natalie Sarrazin's new book, Indian Music for the Classroom, will be published this December in conjunction with the Music Educators National Conference. This multicultural book contains lesson plans for use in the K-16 classroom to introduce students to Indian classical, folk and popular music.
Dr. Juanita Suarez's Latina Dance Project presents on campus in October. This ensemble features performers from Mexico, Brazil and the United States. Future presentations are scheduled for New Mexico, California and Vittoria, Brazil.
In addition, Dr. Suarez will be published in Fields in Motion: Ethnography 'At Home' in the Art Worlds of Dance scheduled for release in Spring 2009. Suarez completed her sabbatical in Dujiangyan, China, and plans to establish a teaching residency there for Arts for Children students.
 In November, Kevin Warner will facilitate a teacher training institute in Lone Wolf, OK, in conjunction with the Oklahoma Fine Arts Institute. Warner's presentation will focus on exploring the languages of dance and literacy and how these languages help elementary teachers expand arts integration in their classrooms.
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Communication
 We're proud to announce that the first recipient of the Buffalo Broadcasters' Association Tim Russert Medal of Merit is our own Amanda Hartman. The award recognizes an outstanding student in broadcasting and journalism from a Western New York college. The unanimous choice of the award committee, Amanda has much in common with the ideals of the late Tim Russert. She not only pushed herself to do exemplary work, she brought along her colleagues, creating workshops to teach other students to write, shoot, edit and create graphics. Amanda will receive the $1,000 prize at a banquet in Buffalo. She is currently in the masters program at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University.
 The much anticipated digital/HD conversion of the Edwards studio is complete and will be inaugurated this year! Students will be able to shoot and edit in high definition format and the new server technology will make it easier to incorporate HD field pieces into studio-based productions.
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Dance
Save this date! On April 4th the Department of Dance will present The Best of Brockport Dance 2009 at the Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Rochester. All proceeds will go towards the Friends of Brockport Dance Scholarship Fund. Please put on your "glad rags" and support the dance students at The College of Brockport. We hope to see you there!
 Summer 2008 brought two nationally known dance companies to campus for three-week residencies. Brockport students as well as dancers from other colleges participated in these dance intensives with The José
Limón Dance Company and Doug Varone and Dancers.
 And the Department of Dance proudly welcomes Habib Iddrisu as a Presidential Fellow. A doctoral candidate in performance studies at Northwestern University, Habib earned an MA in history at Bowling Green State University. Previously, he was a Visiting Professor at Lake Erie College and Cleveland State University, Ohio. In fall 2007, Habib was an adjunct lecturer in dance at the College at Brockport.
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Physical Education and Sport
PES faculty have received accolades recently. Dr. Luz Cruz received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and was also recently featured in Rochester's Her magazine ("Women to Watch") as well as Rochester's Spanish newspaper El Mensajero.
Dr. Cesar Torres received the 2007 Reinhard Sprenger Award for Young Scholars from the International Society for the History of Physical Education (ISHPES).
And Dr. William Stier received the 2008 Distinguished Contribution Award from the Biennial International Council for Health, Physical Education Recreation - Sport and Dance (ICHPER-SD).
 Camp Abilities celebrated its 13th anniversary by opening its newest camp - this one in Guatemala City. Fifteen visually impaired youngsters participated in team sports for the first time in their lives. Camp founder Lauren Lieberman and colleague Cesar Torres traveled to Guatemala to bring such sports as track and field, beep baseball, goal ball and bowling to the campers. |
Theatre
 Summer 2008 found Brockport theatre majors working on and off stage throughout the northeast and beyond.
Kate Derry worked crew at Albany's Park Playhouse during their production of West Side Story.
Ian Hildreth was audio engineer at Geva Theatre Center in Rochester and did sound design for Menopause: The Musical.
Yusuke Nemoto acted with a theatre company in Japan. Chet Brassie was assistant technical directgor at Genesee Community College and a cast member of Jesus Christ Superstar.
Amanda Charlebois interned at St. Michael's Playhouse in Colochester, VT, building and painting sets, working flies, operating spotlights and even throwing snow and a boot off the catwalk!
 Amanda Macy interned this summer in public relations in the Public Theatre in New York City. Her wide-ranging duties included scheduling interviews with actors, helping schedule press seats for all Public Theater shows and coordinating opening night events.
Daryl Acevedo was a scenic technician and a member of the run crew for four productions at Merry-Go-Round Playhouse in Auburn, New York.
 Elizabeth (Liz) Trupia worked at Theatre Three in Port Jefferson, NY, managing their Main Stage show and two children's theatre productions. She is now employed fulltime as their assistant artistic director.
 Spencer Christiano taught acting at Downstair Cabaret Theatre's Summer Education Program while also working as stage manager, director, sound board operator and lighting designer for their bi-weekly showcases. You can catch Spencer in the role of Mickey Finn in DCT's ongoing production of Flanagan's Wake.
 And Jason Simpson worked as the assistant stage manager for the Bristol Valley Theater in Naples, NY, for their summer productions.
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Visual Studies Workshop
In celebration of a significant anniversary, the Workshop presents Archive: 40 Years at the Visual Studies Workshop at the Tower Fine Arts Gallery September 2 - October 7. Founded by Nathan Lyons in 1969, Rochester's Visual Studies Workshop
has built an archive of artists' books, photographs, film and video,
and various printed ephemera. The collections of the VSW represent an
age of exploratory advancement and oft-times provocative visual
phenomena.
 We also welcome interim executive director Tate Shaw and interim assistant director Kris Merola to the Workshop. Both have begun efforts to expand membership and continue the Workshop's offerings.
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E.E. Cummings Exhibit coming in April
Mark your calendars now for April 5th at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester when the College hosts Emmy award-winning actor Anthony Zerbe performing a one-man show about poet and painter E.E. Cummings. "It's All Done with Mirrors" will accompany the unveiling of the first 35 restored Cummings works in the College's collection. Check here for details.
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