Visiting Artists/Exhibitors

2009/10
KEITH CARTER photographer, dubbed “Poet of the Ordinary” by the Los Angeles Times; lives in Beaumont, Texas; holds endowed Walles Chair of Art at Lamar University.

LARRY POONS preeminent American abstract painter, born in Tokyo, Japan in 1937; represented by Danese, New York.

2008/09
JUDY PFAFF

JUDITH PAGE

THERESA CHONG

WARREN ISENSEE

KATIA SANTIBANEZ

2007/2008
ISIDRO BLASCO photographer, born in Madrid, Spain; Lives in New York City, represented by DCKT Gallery, Chelsea, NYC.

MARION WILSON mixed media artist based in Syracuse, New York.

2006/2007
CONSIDERED DRAWING SYMPOSIUM Crit Street, professor of art, University of Northern Iowa; Susan D’Amato, professor of art, Syracuse University; Mary Lum, professor of art, Bennington College.

WOODY PIRTLE acclaimed graphic designer, Pentagram partner; recipient of the 2003 American Institute of Graphic Arts Medal.

2005/2006
KATARINA WONG installation artist based in New York City.

2004/2005
PATRICIA JOHANSON large-scale, environmental sculptor, based in Buskirk, New York.

ELISE ENGLER painter, works on paper, based in New York City.

2003/2004
TANJA SOFTIC printmaker, painter, born in Bosnia of Muslim heritage.

MARSHALL ARISMAN acclaimed illustrator, graduate chair of illustration, School of Visual Arts, NYC.

DEAN SNYDER sculptor, professor of art, Rhode Island School of Design.

2002/2003
CHRIS ROMER sculptor based in New York City.

SUSANNA COFFEY painter, represented by Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC.

PAULA SCHER graphic designer, principal of Pentagram Studios, NYC.

2001/2002
MICKI WATANABE Japanese-American artist/storyteller, based in NYC.

LES LEVEQUE video, installation artist, screened at the 2000 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, serves on graduate faculty of Bard College.

2000/2001
BONNIE RYCHLAK chief curator, Isamu Noguchi Foundation, Inc., personal assistant to Isamu Noguchi.

STEVEN HELLER senior art director for The New York Times, presents Paul Rand.

1999/2000
FRANCIS CAPE British sculptor, represented by Murray Guy Gallery, Chelsea, NYC.

1998/1999
DUANE MICHALS internationally renowned photographer.

PAUL DAVIS Prix de Rome in the Design Arts.

JENNY HOLZER internationally acclaimed American artist, known for her use of language, aphorisms and abstract messages on electronic signboards, posters, television spots and an array of objects; first woman artist to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale (1990).

1997/1998
LINDA LEE sculptor, New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship.

DEBORAH MUIRHEAD Guggenheim fellow, professor of art, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

SEYMOUR CHWAST co-founder Push Pin Studios with Milton Glaser.

1996/1997
JONATHAN KIRK sculptor, co-founder, studio manager of Sculpture Space, international artists residency program, Utica. New York.

KEVIN BUBRISKI photographer

1995/1996
CHRISTO and JEANNE-CLAUDE internationally renowned artists based in NYC.

PATRICIA BELLAN-GILLEN 1995 Pittsburgh Artist of the Year, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, associate professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University.

1994/1995
GEORGE TSCHERNY internationally acclaimed graphic designer based in New York City.

JAMES O. CLARK sculptor based in New York City.

SYLVIA DE SWAAN photographer, director of Sculpture Space, international artists residency, Utica, N.Y.

LUCINDA DEVLIN photographer, adjunct faculty at SUNY New Paltz.

1993/1994
NANCY SPERO New York based feminist artist, founder of A.I.R. Gallery, first women artists cooperative in New York City.

1992/1993
LEON GOLUB political painter; panel discussion with Ken Johnson, art crtitic; art faculty from SUNY Albany,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, IEAR Studios, and Saint Rose.

APRIL KINGSLEY New York based art critic, historian, curator American Crafts Museum, author of The Turning Point: Abstract Expressionism.

1991/1992
WILLIE BIRCH African American artist and teacher at Hunter College.

EVE ANDREE LARAMEE sculptor and teacher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Rhode Island School of Design, from New York City.

DIANE SPODAREK video and performance artist from New York City.

1990/1991
BILL and MARY BUCHEN sculptors of sound and light installations from New York City.

JOAN JONAS performance and video artist from New York City.

ELIZABETH MURRAY New York-based painter and feminist artist.

JOSEF RAMASEDER Austrian painter and PhD from New York City.

ED MITCHELL photographer, assistant professor of art, Saint Rose.

1989/1990
JUDY PFAFF New York City based sculptor and teacher, Yale University and The School of Visual Arts.

LESLIE SILLS ceramic sculptor, feminist, author of Inspirations: Stories About Women Artists, currently lives Boston, Massachusetts.

BARBARA GRAD painter and teacher at the Massachusetts College of Art.

1988/1989
ROBERT LONGO multi-media artist from New York City.

KATHERINE KADISH painter, printmaker and curator of "Contemporary Chinese Works on Paper."

PETER TAYLOR regional painter and art department head at Hudson Valley Community College.

ANTONI MILKOWSKI sculptor, Chatham, New York.

HARRY MILLER Albany Volunteer Lawyer for Artists.

1983/1984
TIM CUNARD sculptor, professor of art, Williams College.

SUSAN EDER artist, teacher at North Adams State College.

CRAIG DENNINS printmaker, associate professor of art, Williams College.

1982/1983
KATHERINE KADISH painter, printmaker from Ohio.

THERESA SCHWARZ painter from New York City.

1981/1982
BARRY MOSER printmaker, proprietor, Pennyroyal Press, New York, NY.

JOHN MACARTHUR Albany Volunteer Lawyer for Artists.

1980/1981
ELISABETH MUNRO SMITH sculptor from New York City.

MARIAN GRIFFITHS director, The Sculpture Center, New York City.

ANN SPERRY sculptor from New York City; constructed gallery installation with art students;
re-installed in Japan in 1992.

ELEANOR MUNRO keynote speaker, Sixtieth Anniversary Celebration, The College of Saint Rose; art historian, author and critic.

NOEL SUTER art critic, Albany Times Union and Metroland.

1979/1980
JIM MUELHMAN New York City based painter, 1979-80 recipient New York State CAPS Grant.

CAROLYN MCKEEVER painter and graphic artist from Michigan.

JAY YAGER sculptor, video/performance artist, professor of art, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Three CAPS artists, three visiting artists and grant recipients, Creative Artists Public Service Program of New York State:
Marion Cajoi - feminist filmmaker; Debbie Mayer - Writer; Mimi Weisbord - lecture, "Women and the Creative Process."

1978/1979
JACK O'HARA printmaker and teacher, University of Bridgeport, Conn.

ARTURO SANDOVAL Professor of Art, University of Kentucky, artist-in-residence constructed a large-scale woven collage with art students.

WILLIE MARLOWE painter and professor of art, Junior College of Albany.