Cory Barber: BFA, Concentration in Graphic Design (May 2005) from Puchase College’s School of Art and Design (Dean’s List). Cory previously taught art to children 3-14 at the Tennis Plus Summer Camp (1996 to present). He has also designed and silkscreened t-shirts for the Culture Shock 2005 Music Festival as well as designing and co-editing Thrash Compactor Skateboard Multi-Zine. Cory is well-versed in a number of different printmaking techniques, including photo emulsion, woodcut, monoprints and lithography.
Jessica Benjamin: Biography coming soon.
Deena Feinberg: BA Cum Laude, Psychology and Photography, Southampton College, New York, 2006. Feinberg started her career as Director of Special Projects at Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY. She has remained an active part of the photography community changing roles from Photo Editor of Spin Magazine, Exhibition Co-Curator at Mode: Models and Masterminds of Mode fashion photography exhibitions (Japan), as well as being a Photographers Agent at Michele Filomeno and a fashion and advertising Producer at 646 Productions. Currently, Deena is a Freelance Photographer focusing on child portraiture, an educator and avid equestrian.
Jennifer Gorman: Jenny Gorman received her MFA from Tulane University in 1993. She has been teaching digital and traditional photography at Applied Arts since it first opened in 2003. Gorman has just published "Branded -The Making of a Wyoming Cowgirl" with journalist Deirdre Stoelzle-Graves. You can view her work at www.brandedthebook.com & www.jennygorman.com.
Margia Kramer: Kramer is a painter and documentary artist whose multi-media installations have been awarded one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of Art. Her works, which have been shown throughout the U.S. and abroad, have received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the Public Art Fund. They have been included in exhibitions at P.S. 1 and the Dia Art Foundation, and are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and numerous private collections. Recently, she moved from New York City to Sag Harbor where she is working on a new group of paintings. Kramer’s education includes undergraduate studies with Ad Reinhardt, Burgoyne Diller, and Jimmy Ernst. As a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in art history at the Institute of Fine Arts (N.Y.U.) she received the M.A. degree. She has been Assistant Professor of Art at Duke University, the University of Illinois (Chicago) and the University of Hartford/Hartford Art School, and Adjunct Professor at Hunter College and The Pratt Institute.
Charles Ly: Biography coming soon.
Kathleen Lee: BA, Smith College. BFA, Parsons School of Design, London City and Guilds: Certificate with Honors in Advanced Portraiture; workshops with Mary Ellen Mark, Keith Carter, Andrea Modica, Charles Harbutt, Teresa Engel, others. After working as a painter and printmaker, Lee became interested in making portraits in various media, including photography. For many years, she was an advertising Art Director in New York before making the decision to step to the other side of the camera. Although private commissions for individual and family portraits comprise the major part of her work, she has exhibited recently at Sylvester and Co., as part of the Amagansett Applied Arts all media Juried Group Show, at A Room of My Own, New York and at the London City and Guilds. You can view her website at : www.kathleenlee.com.
Dale Scott: Dale has had a varied career: she received her B.A. in Dance, Drama & English Literature from Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania. She then attended the Barnum & Bailey Circus Clown College with the Ringling Brothers and studied tightwire and acrobatics with Philippe Petit at the New York School for Circus Arts. Dale performed as a clown and tightwire walker with the Big Apple Circus in New York. She moved to Paris on a Fulbright Grant in 1980 and performed in theaters throughout France and was Administrator and later Director of the Experimental Theater Wing of New York University in Paris. Dale taught Circus Arts for Actors at New York University and then took a turn in her career, receiving her M.L.S. from Queens College, University of New York and becoming Head of Children’s and Young Adult Services at the John Jermain Library in Sag Harbor. Dale is a French language instructor and librarian at the Ross School in East Hampton, NY.
Rudolph Serra: M.F.A. University of California, Berkeley, M.A. University of California, Berkeley, B.A. San Francisco State University. Serra has received Three National Endowment for the Arts Grants for Sculpture and a research grant from The University Of Connecticut. He has been a visiting Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, East Stroudsburg University, Bennington College, Sarah Lawrence College. Solo exhibitions include The University of Houston, Baruch College , Haenah Kent Gallery, John Davis Gallery, Kenmare Square, Outdoor Sculpture, Nassau Museum. He has collections with Brenda Richardson, former Director of The Baltimore Museum of Art, and Muhlenberg College. Group exhibitions include, Youngblood Gallery, Rutgers University, and The University of Massachusetts.
Alexander Stadler: Author, illustrator and a textile designer. Alexander was born in New York City in 1968. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated in 1990 with a BFA in Printmaking. Mr. Stadler is the author and illustrator of Beverly Billingsly Borrows a Book (Harcourt, Silver Whistle), Beverly Billingsly Takes a Bow (Harcourt, Spring 03), Lila Bloom (FSG, Frances Foster Books, Spring 04), Beverly Billingsly Can't Catch (Harcourt, Spring 04), Ducan Rumplemeyer's Bad Birthday (Simon & Schuster, Paula Wiseman Books, Fall 04), and Beverly Billingsly Takes the Cake (Harcourt, Gulliver Books, Spring 05). Mr. Stadler's titles for adults include the forthcoming What Willie Wore, Scenes from the Life and Wardrobe of a Fashionable Little Dog (Chronicle, Spring 03) and Mr. Alexander's Four Steps to Love (Quirk, Spring 04). He has illustrated Doggy Days and Kitty Kapers (Tenspeed) as well as Barbara Bottner's Charlene Loves to Make Noise (Running Press). As a textile designer he has created work for Comme des Garçons, Jack Lenore Larsen, Donghia, Nina Campbell LTD, Todd Oldham and babyGap. He is currently colaborating with wallpaper designer Elizabeth Dow on a collection of children's bedding. You can visit him on the web here.
Daniel Waldron: BFA Cum Laude, Visual Arts, Purchase College (SUNY), 2002. Daniel has been involved in fine art printing since 2001. He has run editions in silkscreen, monoprint, and drypoint etching for artists such as Cassandra Hooper and Chuck Close. Mixed media works have been exhibited in the Puffin Room and the Artist's Space in SoHo. Daniel also returns to Brooklyn occasionally to pursue his other passion: music.
