Resume
EDUCATION
M.F.A. in Illustration, Syracuse University
Studio Art, Art Institute of Boston
Certificate in Distance Learning, Indiana University
Certified Online Program Planner, LERN
EMPLOYMENT
Professor, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY.
Full-Professor, 2011-Present
Associate Professor, 2005-2011
Received Tenure, 2003
Assistant Professor, 2000-2005
Program Director | Visual Communications, 2000-Present
Internship Director | Visual Communications, 2000-Present
Content Expert, John Wiley & Sons Publishers, 2008-2009
Web Design Project (online)
Business Practices for the Web
Graphic Design for the Web
Graphic Design Production Practices I
Graphic Design Production Practices II
Digital Prepress
Freelance Designer, Mirror Image Studio, Cazenovia, NY, 1985-Present
Clients: The American Enterprise Magazine, Domino’s Pizza, U.S. Army, Weight Watchers,
Agway, CAVAC, Creative, Young and More Advertising Agency, Pancreatic Cancer Network,
Native Planet, ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse Peace Council, HOPE for Ariang Foundation.
Art Director, L. & J.G. Stickley, Inc., Manlius, NY, 1996-2000
Adjunct Professor, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY, 1991-1995; 1999-2000
Adjunct Professor, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 1997-1998
Adjunct Professor, Tompkins Cortland Community College, Dryden, NY, 1993-1997
Graphic Designer/Illustrator, Gilmore Graphics, Syracuse, NY, 1995-1996
Partner/Owner, Landmark Press, Cazenovia. NY, 1989-1994
Studio Assistant, DeMuth Design/Illustration Studio, Cazenovia, NY, 1988-89
CURRENT PROJECTS
Digital Foundations textbook, preliminary planning underway with Fairchild Books
of Bloomsbury Publishing, UK
Type of the Times Project (thetypeofthetimes.com)
Research, illustration, and web design project utilizing one year of the New York Times that will
culminate in 365 pieces of illustrated type posted on thetypeofthetimes.com website and
disseminated via social media.
Cazenoviacollegeonline.edu Project
Research and web design project to create a faculty resource for online teaching pedagogy
CaztoDublin.com Project
Website and blog with video record to accompany study abroad trip to Dublin, Ireland, 2015
PUBLICATIONS + PRESENTATIONS
“Touring The Troubles: Black Taxi Drivers as Activists and Entrepreneurs”
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture (MAPACA) Association 25th Annual Conference,
Baltimore, MD, 2014
“Alternative Expressions: Identity, Protest, and Visual Communication”
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture (MAPACA) Association 23rd Annual Conference,
Pittsburgh, PA, 2012
“Selling Cars by Selling Detroit: From JW Thompson to Eminem”
American Studies Conference, Detroit Global City: The Motor City in the World,
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 2011
“Pretty in Pink: The Susan G. Koman Network and the Branding of the Breast Cancer Cause”,
article published in the Nordic Journal of English Studies, Special Issue:
Popular Culture, Vol. 9, No. 3, 2010
“The Far East is Soapless:” Cultural Relativism, American Exceptionalism and the Ford Motor
Company’s 1957 Around the World Campaign Tour”
The New England Historical Association Spring 2010 Meeting,
Salem State College, Salem, MA, 2010
“Pretty in Pink: The Susan G. Komen Network and the Branding of the Breast Cancer Cause –
Part I: Brand Development Management”
Mid-Atlantic Popular American Culture Association 20th Annual Conference,
Boston, MA, 2009
“Mothers, Mortar and Meaning: The Power of the Maternal in the Imagery of War.”
Twenty-Third Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and The Education of Artists; Visions of War:
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2009
“Inciting Insight, Part 1 – Design Pedagogy and Cultural Pluralism”
Twenty-Second Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and The Education of Artists;
Design, the Arts and the Political: Images and words that propagate dissent,
Panel: Strategies for Student Engagement
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 2008
“Message, Media, & Muckraking: The Propaganda of Thomas Nast”
“Politics and Propaganda,” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
Florida International University, North Miami, FL, 2008
“The Writing on the Wall; Site Specific Protest and Cultural Identity During the
1960s Chicano Civil Rights Movement”
“New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness”,
Queens University, Kingston, Ontario CA, 2007
“Touring The Troubles: Black Taxi Drivers as Activists and Entrepreneurs”
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture (MAPACA) Association 25th Annual Conference,
Baltimore, MD, 2014
“Alternative Expressions: Identity, Protest, and Visual Communication”
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture (MAPACA) Association 23rd Annual Conference,
Pittsburgh, PA, 2012
“Selling Cars by Selling Detroit: From JW Thompson to Eminem”
American Studies Conference, Detroit Global City: The Motor City in the World,
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 2011
“Pretty in Pink: The Susan G. Koman Network and the Branding of the Breast Cancer Cause”,
article published in the Nordic Journal of English Studies, Special Issue: Popular Culture,
Vol. 9, No. 3, 2010
“The Far East is Soapless:” Cultural Relativism, American Exceptionalism and the
Ford Motor Company’s 1957 Around the World Campaign Tour”
The New England Historical Association Spring 2010 Meeting,
Salem State College, Salem, MA, 2010
“Pretty in Pink: The Susan G. Komen Network and the Branding of the Breast Cancer Cause
Part I: Brand Development Management”
Mid-Atlantic Popular American Culture Association 20th Annual Conference,
Boston, MA, 2009
“Mothers, Mortar and Meaning: The Power of the Maternal in the Imagery of War.”
Twenty-Third Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and The Education of Artists; Visions of War:
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2009
“Inciting Insight, Part 1 – Design Pedagogy and Cultural Pluralism”
Twenty-Second Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and The Education of Artists;
Design, the Arts and the Political: Images and words that propagate dissent,
Panel: Strategies for Student Engagement
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 2008
“Message, Media, & Muckraking: The Propaganda of Thomas Nast”
“Politics and Propaganda,” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
Florida International University, North Miami, FL, 2008
“The Writing on the Wall; Site Specific Protest and Cultural Identity During the
1960s Chicano Civil Rights Movement”
“New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness”,
Queens University, Kingston, Ontario CA, 2007
EXHIBITIONS / DESIGN
Equine Anatomy Lab Manual, forthcoming publication from Wiley & Sons Publishers
“Dear War” Poster, Syracuse Cultural Workers Date Book, 2010
MasterPeaces—High Art for Higher Purpose
DaVinci Gallery, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA, 2009
2191 Days and Counting, Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY, 2009
Conference Poster Design, “ Citizen Science Central Invitational Conference,”
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, 2007
“The Everyday Apocalypse”, David Thomas Lloyd,
Three Conditions Press, Baltimore, MD, 2003
One World, One Minute, film project in tribute to 9/11, Scotland, 2002
Cazenovia College Faculty Exhibit, Cazenovia, NY 1991, 1992, 2001 – 2009, 2010, 2012
Chameleon Gallery, Cazenovia, NY, 2002
Tompkins Cortland Community College, Dryden, NY, 1994-1996
Nelson Country Store, Nelson, NY, 1992-93
Vera House Art Auction, Syracuse, NY, 1992
WCNY Channel 24 Art Auction, Syracuse, NY, 1992
“Children’s Choices”, client: Domino’s Pizza, Pepsi, Fox 68 WSYT, 1989
Mural, P. J. Dorsey’s Pub and Tavern, Syracuse, NY, 1996
Mural, Burton Street Elementary School, Cazenovia, NY, 1991
Mural, Nelson Inn, Nelson, NY, 1984-85
GRANTS
The Pinet Fund for Faculty and Staff Development, 2014, 2012, 2008 (2), 2002
Teaching Development Mini Grant, Cazenovia College, 2013, 2011
Research Grant, John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History,
Duke University, 2009
“Revolution or Reaction?: Shedding the Grey Flannel Suit for Tie Dyes and Bellbottoms
during Advertising’s “Creative Revolution”
Research Grant, Washington University Libraries, Department of Special Collections,
Modern Graphic History Library, St. Louis, Missouri, 2009
“Robert Weaver: Visionary Commentator or Vanguard Illustrator?”
21st Century Fund for Innovation, 2008, 2003, 2002
Summer Grant, Cazenovia College, 2003, 2002
AWARDS
Distinguished Faculty Member, 2012
Best Print Advertisement, Home Ad Ideas, March 2000 Issue
Syracuse Herald American advertisement, March 5, 2000
Best Print Advertisement, Home Ad Ideas, August 1999 Issue
The New York Times full-page advertisement, August 14, 1999
Best Print Advertisement, Home Ad Ideas, November/December 1999
The New York Times advertisement, November 28, 1999
Best Print Advertisement, Home Ad Ideas, September 1997 Issue
The New York Times advertisement, September 13, 1997
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 1994
Featured Artist, Cazenovia Bicentennial Winter Festival, 1993
MEDIA PUBLICATIONS
“Bringing It Home: The Power of Design”, article published in the
Cazenovia College Magazine, Winter 2012 Issue
“Women’s Art as Protest Against War”, article published in the Syracuse Peace
Council Newsletter, Vol. 3, September 2010
“Expressions of Outrage: The Power of Art in Social Protest”,
article published in the Syracuse Peace Council Newsletter, Vol. 3, September 2010
ConnexUs, “First Year Seminar Success”, Fall 2001
Cazenovia College Publication.
MEDIA APPEARANCES
Radio Talk Show Guest, Women’s Voices: Reflections on War and Peace.
WAER Radio, Syracuse, NY. March 26, 2003
TV Talk Show Panelist, Straight to the Source. Cable channel 13, Syracuse, NY. February 2001
Syracuse Herald Journal, “It’ll Be OK, Mom”, March 16, 2003
INVITED LECTURES & PANELS
Generation X Panel, Professional Development Day. Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY, 2005
BlackBoard Workshop. Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY, 2003
PowerPoint Workshop. Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY, 2002
Issues in Distance Learning. Cazenovia College Faculty Development Day, Cazenovia, NY, 2002
Quark Workshop, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY, 2001
The Business of Art, New York State Summer School for the Arts,
Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY, 1998
Key-Note Speaker, Advertising Posters, Rotary Club. Cortland, NY, 1995
COURSEWORK & WORKSHOPS
Taming the Jaguar and Other Occupational Hazards, Northeast Regional Workshop of UCDA
(University and College Designers Association). Philadelphia, PA, 2003
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX and HTML, Noble Desktop,
New York, NY, 2003
Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace, LERN.
Rena Paloff, PhD, and Keith Pratt, PhD., 2002
Semiotics and Design, Three day workshop.
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 2002
Designing Online Instruction, LERN.
Dr. Rita-Marie Conrad. PhD., 2002
Teaching Online, LERN.
William A. Draves, 2001
Diversity in Education, SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY, 1994
Graduate Department of Vocational – Technical Education
Curriculum Development, SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY, 1994
Graduate Department of Vocational – Technical Education
MacIntosh Workshops, BAKA Computers, Syracuse, NY, 1994
Grant Writing Workshop, Cazenovia College, 1992
CONFERENCES ATTENDED
Transcultural Exchange Conference, Boston, MA, 2011
College Art Association Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, 2008
College Art Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, 2006
Mastering Today, Preparing for Tomorrow, Teaching and Learning Mentors Institute,
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mi., 2003
LERN Conference, Teaching on the Net, 2003
Spark Business Growth, Creating Business Promotions on DVD,
Apple Seminars, 2003
Communicate Your Creativity, PDF files, Apple Seminars, 2003
Web Design in Mac OS X – featuring Adobe GoLive, Apple Seminars, 2003
High Impact Learning Solutions with Streaming Media
RealNetworks and Compaq, 2002
ACT Sales Strategy Workshop, e-learning programs
Syracuse University, 2002
The Smith Museum of Art Symposium: The Visual Arts in the Digital Age
Smith College, Northampton, MA, 2001
MacWorld Keynote, New York, NY, 2001
ICON Office Solutions Technology Showcase, Syracuse, NY, 2001
CNYEC’s (Central New York Educational Consortion), Eighth Annual Conference,
Professional Partners in Education: A Program for New Faculty, 2000
First Class Client System and Electronic Transfers, The New York Times
New York, NY, 1996
Syracuse and the Internet, Chamber of Commerce, Syracuse, NY, 1996
Doing Business on the Internet, Syracuse, NY, 1996
Successful Teaching Conference, Corning, NY, 1995
The Arts In An Electronic Environment, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 1987
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
Committee on Assessment and Student Learning (CASL), 2014-Present
Co-chair, NASAD Accreditation Committee, 2014-Present
Faculty Council, 2004-2011, 2014, 2015
Chair, 2006-2007
Library Task Force co-chair, 2009
Faculty Development Task Force, chair, 2011
Steering Committee, Middle States Accreditation, 2010-2013
Internship Committee, 2000-2014
Faculty Mentor
Program Assessment Committee, 2008-2014
Art & Design Foundation Committee, 2004-2005, 2010-2013
Faculty Advisor, Visual Communications AIGA Student Group, 2001-2013
Rank & Tenure Committee, 2008-2009, chair 2011-2012
Commencement Speaker Committee, 2009, 2011
Honors Committee, 2005-2009
Chair, Visual Communications Faculty Search Committee, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Associate Dean for Academic Technology Search Committee, 2008
Faculty advisor, Images Magazine, 2001-2006
Long Range Planning Committee, 2004-2006
Faculty to Board Committee, 2003-2007
Post Tenure Review Sub-committee, 2004-2005
Art & Design Grand Opening Committee, 2004
Communications Faculty Search Committee, 2003-2004
Distance Learning Group, co-chair, 2002-2004
Multicultural Committee, 2002-2004
Institutional Review Board, 2001-2004
South Campus Computer Budget Committee, 2000-2004
English Composition/Writing Faculty Search Committee, 2003
IT Director Search Committee, 2002-2003
Faculty Advisor, Visual Rebellion Student Group, 2002-2003
Faculty Secretary, 2002-2003
Art & Design Ground-breaking Ceremony Committee, 2003
Ad Hoc Grade Grievance Committee, 2002
Computer Users Group, facilitator, 2001-2002
Technology Certificate Committee, 2001-2003
First Year Seminar Committee, 2000-2002
Art & Design Building Committee, 2000-2004
Honors Committee, 2001-2002
Assessment Committee, 2001-2002
Program Director Committee, 2000-2001
Co-Chair, BlackBoard Pilot Group, 2001
Judicial Board, 2000-2001, 2001-2002
Faculty advisor for Re-Visions, Student Literary Guild publication, 1996
Field trip faculty advisor, ArtWorks Art Club, 1996
College Compensation Committee, 1994
Model Coordinator for figure drawing classes, 1992-1994
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Textbook Reviewer, Fairchild Books, 2014-Present
Board Member, ArtRage, The Norton Putter Gallery, 2009-Present
Co-curator, International Women’s Day, 100 Years of Women Rocking the World Exhibition, 2011
Organizer, Beehive Collective Exhibition, 2009
Events/Fundraising Committee, Social Media Committee
Board Member, HOPE for Ariang, 2009-2011
Website/Marketing Committee
Panelist, Portfolio Review Night. Syracuse Ad Council, Syracuse University.
2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
Member, Graphic Design Advisory Board, Bryant & Stratton College, 2006-2009
Volunteer, designer, computer consultant, Vera House, Cazenovia, NY, 2001-2005
Judge, Scholastic Art Advisory Committee, Syracuse, NY, 2004
Designer, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, 2002
Designer, Northeast Community Center, Cazenovia, NY, 2001, 2002
Team leader, Power Serve, Cazenovia, NY, 2001, 2002
Artist In Residence, Burton Street Elementary School, Cazenovia, NY, 1991
Artist, Winter Festival Snow Sculptures, Cazenovia, NY, 1988-95
Volunteer, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2001
Designer, Cazenovia Winter Festival, Cazenovia, NY, 1993, 2001, 2002
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Co-chair, Activism area, The Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA)
IGAEA, The International Graphic Arts Education Association
Aiga-gain, AIGA Journal of Design for the Network Economy (gain.aiga.org)
Syracuse Ad Club
College Art Association
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Stone Quarry Art Park, Cazenovia, NY
National Art Education Association, Reston, VA
United States Society for Education Through Art, Columbus, OH
COURSES TAUGHT
WASSUP? A History of TV Commercials
Protest and Propaganda (Graphic Design for Social Change)
Power To The People (Inciting Insight: Art and the Masses)
Social Media Design
History of Visual Communications
Senior Portfolio
Advanced Senior Portfolio
Senior Seminar
Senior Project
Digital Foundations
Package Design
Advanced Package Design
Designing for the Web
Visual Communication Internship
Graphic Arts Technology
Agency Tours
HTML and Beginning Web Design
Designing Your Life: A Creative Process
Typography
Advertising Design
Advanced Graphic Design
Research Problems in Graphic Design
Graphic Design
Introduction to Illustration
Illustration
Digital Illustration
Advanced Illustration
Painting III Honors
Professional Workshop in Illustration
Fashion Illustration
Poetic Illustration
Figure Drawing
Figure Drawing Honors
Design 1
Design 2
The Realist Genre: Methods & Concepts
Using the Arts
Bridge Studio