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Department of Art and Design
Professor PETER BARNET (Painting) had a
two-person exhibition, “Barnet/Segal: It Runs in the Family,” at the
George Segal Gallery, March 6-April 14, 2012.
Associate Professor CATHERINE BEBOUT
(Printmaking) presented a solo exhibition, “Mapping the Body,” at the
Ruth S. Harley University Center Gallery, Adelphi University, Garden
City, NY, December 6, 2011-January 8, 2012; and was part of the
following group exhibitions: “Fusion-International Contemporary Intaglio
Print Invitation Exhibition,” at Guanlan Original Printmaking Base,
Shenzhen, China, 2012,;“Paper View 2012” Czech Center Gala for Manhattan
Graphics Center, at the Bohemian National Hall, NYC, April 2012;
“Multiple Encounters 2nd Edition,” at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi,
India, January 2012; and “Bebout, Johnson, Welden: Mixed Media Prints,”
at Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, Art League of Long Island, Dix Hills, NY,
March 24-April 29, 2012. She co-curated, with Karen Oremus (Sayed
University, UAE), “Cartographies: Mapping Intersections and
Counterpoint,” an exhibition in conjunction with the Impact 7 Conference
2011 on international printmaking, sponsored by the University of West
England, Bristol, UK. Prof. Bebout gave lectures/workshops at Dowling
College, Islip, Long Island, NY, at Adelphi University, Garden City, NY,
and at Manhattan Graphics, NYC, all in 2011. She served as an external
assessor and consultant at Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design, New
Zealand and was a guest lecturer in their MFA program. She also served
as a board member for Friends of Fulbright India, NYC, organized a
reception for incoming Fulbright recipients at the Bose Pacia Gallery,
NYC, and facilitated networking opportunities for Fulbright Scholars
from India who are conducting research projects in the US.
Adjunct Instructor WENDY ERICKSON
(Photography) was part of a group exhibition, “In-Sight: New Jersey
Artists,” at Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ, November 8-December
20, 2011. She also introduced a second portfolio of photographs, “The
Secret Garden,” printed by Digital Editions Atelier.
Associate Professor DENIS FEIGLER (Industrial Design) gave a workshop, “Design for Brand Identity,” at Moholy-Nagy University, Budapest, Hungary, in March.
Assistant Professor EILEEN FOTI
(Papermaking) had group exhibitions, “Coming of Age: 21 Years of Artist
Proof Studio,” at Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa, in May, and
“Metal as a Medium,” at Riverside Gallery, Hackensack, NJ, in June. She
was a panelist at the 17th Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium,
“Money: Currency, Value and Exchange,” at Paul Robeson Galleries,
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, in November 2011, and a presenter at the
Alliance for Arts & Health New Jersey (AAH NJ) Conference, “Arts
& Health: Connecting Across the Life Span,” at Montclair State
University, Montclair, NJ, in June. Prof. Foti gave two workshops at the
Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Conn.: “Tangible Surfaces,” February
2012, and “Chipboard Relief Prints,” in June. Her documentary film, “A
Ripple in the Water: Healing Through Art,” which she wrote and
co-produced with Patty Piroh (Broadcasting), was screened at the Long
Beach Island Institute for the Arts and Sciences, NJ, August 2011. She
is currently assembling a contemporary art collection ($100,000 budget)
for the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research’s
new building at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
Assistant Professor ROBERTA FRIEDMAN (Filmmaking) was elected to the board of the organization Women in Film.
Adjunct Instructor ASHA GANPAT
(Sculpture) had a group exhibition, “Obsessive Compulsive Design,” at
the Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Asbury Park, NJ, March
3-April 27, and curated the exhibition “Reframe: New Compositions for
Old and Found” at Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ, November
17-December 15, 2011.
Visiting Specialist CHRISTOPHER GASH (Animation/Illustration)
won the Montclair Film Festival Inaugural Poster Contest; his winning
design served as the official 2012 Montclair Film Festival poster.
Professor NANCY GOLDRING (Drawing) published five articles in PresS.IT (Publication of the Italian International Association of Criticism), an article in The Brooklyn Rail, August 2011, and an article in The Architect’s Newspaper,
March 2012. She served as a finalist juror in the 2011 International
Design Competition for Emergency Stations, “Outside the Box: Low and
High Technologies for the Emergencies,” and gave lectures at the
International Association of Architecture, Casa dell’Architettura, Rome,
April 2012, and at the New York Institute of Architecture, May 2012.
Prof. Goldring presented a solo exhibition, “Vanishing Points (Punti di
Fuga),” at the Monitor Space, Casa dell’Architettura, Rome, April 2012,
with an accompanying catalog, and group exhibitions, “From Life,” at the
Radiator Gallery, Long Island City, NY, April 2012, “Classical
Mythology in Modern and Contemporary Art,” at the Benton Museum, CT,
January 17-March 11, 2012, and “Jüdische Frauen in der Bildenden Kunst,”
at Inselgalerie, Berlin, November 2011. Her work was reviewed in
Manifesto, “Review of Vanishing Points: Nancy Goldring,” by Massimiliano
Tomba, May 2012, and in Hyperallergic, “Forms of Life: Breathing New
Life into Traditional Genres,” by Patrick Neal, April 19, 2012.
Adjunct Instructor KAREN GUANCIONE
(Foundations) presented group exhibitions, “In the Bag: The Art &
Politics of the Reusable Bag Movement,” at the Boston Children’s Museum,
Boston MA, September 16-November 30, 2011, “Reframe: New Compositions
for Old and Found,” at Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ, November
17-December 15, 2011, and “In Stitches,” at the Long Beach Island
Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ, May 10-June 18,
2012. She also co-organized the 17th Annual New Jersey Book Arts
Symposium, “Money: Currency, Value and Exchange,” at Paul Robeson
Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, November 4-5, 2011.
Assistant Professor KALED HAMEIDE
(Fashion Studies) presented the paper, “Microbranding and the Impact of
Technology on the Future of the Brand,” was presented at the World
Conference on Management, Economics, Business & Entrepreneurship
(Virtual Conference), June 28-30, 2012. His paper, “System Dynamics
Modeling and the Diffusion of Products: A Marketing Perspective,”
co-authored with Prof. Tarek Abdelhamid, was accepted for presentation
at the 12th International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change
in Organizations, held at University Center, Chicago, IL, July 6-8,
2012. Prof. Hameide was invited to join the committee for the
International Conference of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and
continued to serve as a committee member and reviewer for the European
Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He was also invited for
the second year by European publisher Laurence King Publishing to review
new fashion book proposals.
Associate Professor JULIE HEFFERNAN
(Painting) presented the solo exhibitions, “Julie Heffernan: Infinite
Work in Progress,” at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City,
OK, February 16-May 27, 2012, and “Boy O Boy II,” at Catharine Clark
Gallery, San Francisco, CA, September 3-October 29, 2011, and group
exhibitions, “Women’s Work,” at the National Academy Museum, New York,
NY, May 23-August 26, 2012; “Twisted Sisters,” at Kristen Dodge Gallery,
New York, NY, May 19-June 24, 2012; “The Perfect Storm,” at Julie Saul
Gallery, New York, NY, June 28-August 17, 2012; and “The Calendar’s
Tales: Fantasy, Figuration and Representation,” at 808 Gallery, School
of Visual Arts, Boston University, Boston, MA, February 2-March 31,
2012. Prof. Heffernan served as a juror for the “Young Contemporaries”
show, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in conjunction with the
College of Charleston Visual Arts Club, Charleston, SC, March, 17-18,
2012.
Adjunct Instructor HYUN JUNG KIM
(Metalwork/Jewelry) curated the exhibition “Metal as a Medium,” at
Riverside Gallery, Hackensack, N.J., June 15-27, 2012 and also exhibited
in that group show.
Two of Assistant Professor WOBBE KONING's
(Animation/Illustration) digital images were accepted in the ACM
Digital Arts Community juried online exhibition, “Environments – Natural
– Constructed,” that went live on May 22, 2012 at
http://arts.siggraph.org/environment/. Prof. Koning was also featured in
MSU’s OIT Faculty Spotlight where he shared his experience with using
blogs as digital workshops.
Professor PAT LAY (Ceramics)
was part of a two-person exhibition, “Pat Lay and Michelle Loughlin,” at
Woolpunk Studios, Jersey City, NJ, 2012, a national juried group
exhibition, “Momentum,” at the National Women’s Caucus for Art, Los
Angeles, CA, 2012, and a group exhibition, “mic: check (The: human mic)
489 artists: 520 works,” at Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, February
26-March 18, 2012. She was a panelist with guest artists Jason Krugman,
{dNASAb}, and Nurit Bar-Shai at “A Salon on Art & Technology,”
moderated by John Ensor Parker at the Eugene Lang College, The New
School, NYC, 2011. Photographs of Prof. Lay’s work were included in
Susan and Jan Peterson, The Craft and Art of Clay, 5th Edition, Laurence
King Publishing, London, 2012.
Associate Professor ABBY LILLETHUN
(Fashion Studies) published “Review of Yves Saint Laurent, Exhibition
and Catalogue, Florence Müller and Farid Chenoune, eds and curators,
exhibition at the Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux Arts de la Ville de
Paris,” DRESS, and an invited paper, “(Re)Defining Fashion,” with Linda
Welters and Joanne B. Eicher, DRESS. Her conference presentation (with
abstract), “Toward a History of World Dress,” with Linda Welters, was
published in the Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the
International Textiles and Apparel Association, November 2-5, 2011,
Philadelphia, PA. Prof. Lillethun served as a board member of the
Costume Society of America, Mid-Atlantic Region, was a member of their
Millia Davenport Publication Award Committee, and was installed June 2,
2012 as a member of their National Board of Directors, Class of 2015.
She also served as research submissions adjudicator for the annual
meeting of the International Textile and Apparel Association held
November 2012, served on the editorial board of the Journal of Fashion,
Style, and Popular Culture, and gave the presentation, “Fashion Design:
Drawing from the Past,” at MSU’s Humanities in the Schools Day, Old Made
New-Dialoguing with the Past, December 2, 2011. Prof Lillethun was
interviewed for the articles, “Why It’s So Difficult for Women to Find
the Right Clothing Size,” Erinn Connor, The Record, April 11, 2012; “On
‘Mad Men,’ Fashion History Unfolds as Characters Evolve,” Erinn Connor, The Record, March 31, 2012; and “Louis Vuitton,” Clay Latimer, Leaders & Success section, Investor’s Business Daily
(in press). She continues as a Faculty Mentor for the MSU Fashion Club,
and received a $2200 Global Education travel grant to Whitecliff
College for the Arts, Auckland, New Zealand.
Professor JOHN LUTTROPP
(Graphic Design) was appointed onto the Board of Trustees of the Art
Directors Club of New Jersey and served on the ADCNJ Education
Committee. He completed a three-year term as Faculty Representative to
the MSU Board of Trustees. He was a reviewer for the book, Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide, 2nd Edition, by Johanna Drucker and Emily McVarish, Prentice Hall, March 2012.
Associate Professor ANTHONY PEMBERTON
(Filmmaking) served as a juror on the Kidz Shortz short film
competition sponsored by the Montclair International Film Festival,
January 2012, and was a panelist judge for the Princess Grace
Foundation, judging films nominated from elite film schools around the
country.
Professor KLAUS SCHNITZER (Photography) presented
a solo exhibition/retrospective of his automotive photography, “Klaus
Schnitzer: Auto Focus,” at the Saratoga Automobile Museum, Saratoga
Springs, N.Y., October 1, 2011-May 18, 2012, and a group exhibition,
“Polaroid [Im]Possible: The Westlicht Collection,” at the Westlicht
Museum of Photography, Vienna, 2011, with a catalog by Hatje Cantz.
Prof. Schnitzer also contributed research and photography to the book,
Porsche: Origin of the Species, by Karl Ludvigsen, November 2011,
Bentley Publishers, and published over a dozen automotive articles and
photo essays on various topics ranging from the Jeff Koons Art Car to a
rare 1937/39 BMW 328 Mille Miglia race car (aka ‘Bügelfalte’).
Professor ELIZABETH VALDEZ DEL ALAMO
(Art History) presented a paper, “La rueda de la tumba de Pedro I como
diagrama mnemotécnico” (The Wheel of Fortune Rose on the Tomb of Pedro I
of Portugal as a Mnemonic Diagram), at the Congresso Internacional
“Pedro e Inês: O Futuro do Passado,” in Alcobaça, Portugal, March 25-31,
2012. She was appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of Studies in
Iconography (Princeton University), beginning in 2012, and also served
on the Advisory Committee for the British Archaeological Association
conferences on Romanesque art: Romanesque and the Eastern Mediterranean,
in Palermo, Italy, April 16-18, 2012. Prof. Valdez del Alamo continues
to serve as Editor of the International Census of Dissertations in
Medieval Art (hosted by MSU) for the website of The International Center
of Medieval Art.
Adjunct Instructor MIMI WEINBERG (Art
History) curated the exhibition, “Barnet/Segal: It Runs in the Family,”
at the George Segal Gallery, March 6- April 14, 2012. She also served as
a keynote speaker/panelist at the symposium held in conjunction with
the exhibition, March 22, 2012.
Professor ANNE BETTY WEINSHENKER
(Art History) was granted the Bibliographical Society of America’s
ASECS Fellowship for Bibliographical Studies in the Eighteenth Century
(began May 2012) for a study of the extant copies of a set of engravings
known as the “Tombeaux des princes.” Prof. Weinshenker presented a
paper on that subject, “Collected Remembrances of the ‘Worthies’:
McSwiny’s Publication,” at the annual meeting of the American Society
for Eighteenth Century Studies, San Antonio, TX, March 22-25, 2012.
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School of Communication and Media
HARRY HAINES published the lead
essay, "Soldiers Against the Vietnam War: Aboveground and The Ally," in
Part 2 of the definitive four-volume series titled Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press, edited by Ken Wachsberger and published by Michigan State University Press. With student/veteran KENNETH SVOLTO,
he presented a session titled "Asking, Telling, and The Sky Did Not
Fall" at the New Jersey LGBTQ Student Leadership Conference held at MSU.
Presented a paper at the Symposium on Imagination in the Post-9/11 World: How Have We Changed?, sponsored by MSU's Creative Research Center. Performed in the MSU production of Dustin Lance Black's 8, a dramatic reading of court transcripts of the federal trial involving California's Proposition 8.
CHRISTINE LEMESIANOU
received the 2012 University Distinguished Teacher of the Year award
and presented a paper titled "The Whole World Is Watching: Accusations
and Apologies in the Global Era" at the New Jersey Communication
Association Convention at Monmouth University.
TODD KELSHAW
presented a paper titled "The Value of Humility in Campus-Community
Encounters" at the New Jersey Communication Association Convention at
Monmouth University. Chaired a panel, "Applied Communication in
Entertainment Contexts," and served as respondent on a panel titled
"Continuity and Change in Organizational and Larger Societal Contexts"
at the Eastern Communication Association's Convention at Cambridge,
Mass. Presented a paper titled "The Semantic Web, Crowds, and Collective
Action" on the program It's a Small World: The Impact of Global
Communication in the 21st Century at Montclair State.
HUGH CURNUTT
received the 2012 National Communication Association's Emerging Scholar
Award in the area of Critical and Cultural Studies and published the
following essays: "Flashing Your Phone: Sexting and the Remediation of
Teenage Sexuality" in Communication Quarterly, "Durable Participants: A Generational Approach to Reality TV's 'Ordinary' Labor Pool," in Media, Culture & Society
[Research presented at the National Communication Association
Convention at New Orleans]. Served as chair of a panel titled
"Cultivating New Kinds of Mediated Reality: A Fresh Look at Cultivation
Theory Research" at the National Communication Association Convention at
New Orleans, La., and as secretary, Mass Communication Division,
National Communication Association.
YI LUO received the
Montclair State University Student-Faculty Research Award, a research
grant from the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations at the
University of Alabama, and published the essays: "Demystifying the
Social Media Use and Public Relations Practice in China" in S. Duhe
(Ed.) New Media and Public Relations; (with collaborators) "Contemporary Chinese Public Relations Education: Development and Challenges" in the Asian Journal of Communication; and (with collaborators) "An Inside-Out Exploration of Chinese Public Relations Education" in the Journal of Public Relations Review,
which also received the PRIDE Award for Outstanding Contribution to
Public Relations Education for 2012 by the Public Relations Division of
the National Communication Association (NCA). She also presented the
following papers: "Effective Public Relations Leadership in
Organizational Transformation: A Study of Multinationals in Mainland
China" at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication Conference at St. Louis; "The Influence of Confucianism on
the Legitimacy of Chinese Organizations" at the Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communication at Chicago; and "A Dialog
with Social Media Experts: Measurement and Challenges of Social Media
Use in Chinese Public Relations Practice" at the International
Communication Association Conference at Phoenix.
CHRISTOPHER McKINLEY published
the essay titled "Examining the Presence of Problem Gambling Awareness
Messages on College Counseling Center Websites" in Health Communication, and his essays "Cultivation Theory" was accepted for publication in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Media Violence, and "Food Marketing to Children on Spanish-Language
Television" was accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of the
Journal of Health Communication. Presented the following papers:
"Pulling the Plug on Grandma: Obama's Health Care Pitch, Media Coverage,
and Public Opinion" at the Association for Education in Journalism and
Mass Communication Conference at Chicago, and "Investigating the
Multidimensionality of Character Involvement and Its Impact on Viewers'
Binge Drinking Perceptions" at the National Communication Association's
Convention at New Orleans.
JOEL PENNEY published a book review "Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity" in Text & Performance Quarterly.
He also presented the following papers: "Citizen-Advertisers:
Promotional Culture, 'Mediated' Commodity Displays, and Political
Action" at the International Communication Association Conference, at
Phoenix; and "Visible Identities, Visual Rhetoric: The Self-Labeled Body
as a Medium for Political Persuasion," and "Theorizing Connections
Between Embodies Political Expression and the Dialogical Public Sphere:
Some Notes from a Dissertation on Political T-Shirts," both at the
National Communication Association Convention at New Orleans.
LARRY WEINER
Developed and sustained key relationships with Autism New Jersey,
Hackensack University Medical Center, Opera New Jersey, the Alliance for
Arts and Health New Jersey, and the New Jersey Advertising Club, all
client organizations for which "Red Hawk Communications," a boutique
public relations agency operated by our chapter of the Public Relations
Student Society of America (PRSSA), provides PR services. Developed new
relationships with XM/Serius Radio and Goya Foods for Red
Hawk Communications to embark on projects in the coming year. Also
represented the Department/School in dialog with Autism New Jersey to
develop a proposal for a certification program for human resources
professionals working with autistic adults in the workplace.
DICK HINCHLIFFE
Developed relationships with key regional and national professional and
collegiate radio associations, and organized the first national College
Radio Day in cooperation with other college radio stations in New
Jersey and throughout the U.S. Facilitated the station's first simulcast
of a webcast originating in the DuMont Television Center. Developed
strong alumni connections, including a weeklong "Alumni Takeover" in
which graduates who now work professionally in radio and related fields
returned to campus and performed on-air duties.
LARRY LONDINO directs the location shoots and also serves as one
of the videographers on a television documentary spotlighting the
Newark-Montclair Urban Residency Program, with PATRICIA PIROH and
documentary filmmaker Ken Browne. Also attended the Third International
Conference on Sports and Society (Cambridge, England) and presented a
panel as part of a parallel session, “Celebrity and Legacy: Tiger and
the Media: Before and After,” exploring Woods’ relationship with the
media before and after the disclosure of his extramarital affairs and
served on an Emmy-judging panel “Sports-Series.” He was appointed to a
task force by the United States Golf Association and the Professional
Golfers Association and serves on the oral history committee in an
effort to catalogue and produce a series of additional interviews with
African American golfers and also other people who had some influence
and impact on black golf. In February, attended the symposium (and task
force committee meeting) "American Champions and Barrier Breakers"
highlighting the careers of Jackie Robinson, Joe Louis and Althea
Gibson, discussing their contributions to fostering racial tolerance
through sport at the USGA Museum.
STEVE McCARTHY developed and produced five webcasts titled MSU Remembers: 10 Years After 9/11, Don't Laugh at Me (focus on bullying), We Are As One (in reaction to an anti-gay bias incident on campus), Arab Spring: One Year Later (focusing on Tunisia), and Get a Job. Developed key relationships with NJTV and submitted student-produced video pieces used in the nightly statewide broadcasts. Produced a video documentary about the Cali School of Music's Vocal Accord tour of Austria and Italy. Began a two-year documentary project in conjunction with Dr. DAVID SANDERS focused on the efforts of Swedish NGO Spiritus Mundi to help orphans and disadvantaged youths in Jordan. Directed students in the production of public service announcements for the Dodge Foundation's Poetry Festival scheduled this October at Newark's New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
BEVERLY PETERSON completed and secured educational/non-theatrical distribution for her feature-length documentary, What Killed Kevin?, about workplace bullying, which this year, has been featured in the major media outlets such as the Washington Post, Huffington Post, Virginia Public Radio, and Chronicle of Education. Presented Research at NJCA's 16th Annual Conference Program, "Documentary in the Age of New Media."PATRICIA PIROH directed Remembering 9/11: Ten Years Later, a live, two-hour webcast, and Don’t Laugh At Me, and We Are As One live webcasts in response to the bias incidents on campus. Also directed Arab Spring live webcast. Served as coordinating producer for the series The Giblin Report, a series that is produced for Assemblyman Thomas P. Giblin. Coordinating producer for Destination Montclair, a series produced by the Township of Montclair, and began shooting a new documentary about the Montclair-Newark Urban Teacher Residency Program with LARRY LONDINO.
MARC ROSENWEIG moderated the ongoing series of panels jointly sponsored by the Broadcasting Department and the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center on Sports Media Ethics. Procured Tom Kaminski, WCBS radio Traffic and Transit Manager Editor, for the department’s Allen B. DuMont Broadcaster of the Year Award and interviewed him for a special edition of Carpe Diem. Anchored MSU Remembers: 10 Years After 9/11, and Don’t Laugh at Me, and served as an interviewer and script editor for the webcast Arab Spring--- One Year Later. Serves as columnist for the247newsroom.com, which takes a critical look at key media industry issues, including ethics, sports media and media management. The website has more than 1,600 subscribers who receive a five-day-a-week email newsletter with links to a variety of columns and key media industry news.
DAVID SANDERS developed copyright education curriculum for primary schools under a grant from the Music Publishers Association of the United States, who commissioned the project through the National Music Council of the United States. Served as executive producer of “The Copy Kid,”an animated video short, designed to illustrate the importance of respecting creators and the work they create, that was produced as a tool for the copyright education curriculum in partnership with Emmy Award-winning artist Bevin Carnes. Produced the National Music Council’s annual American Eagle Awards honoring Nile Rogers , Peter Yarrow, Paquito D’Rivera, and The Doris Duke Foundation. Member of task force of intellectual property advocates organized by the Recording Industry Association of America convened to research and make a recommendation for a management company to receive the creative communities endorsement to oversee the new .music top level domain proposed by ICANN (International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) for the Internet. Created an international arts education project with the Swedish NGO Spiritus Mundi that will bring several MSU broadcasting students, as well as selected arts education students, to Jordan and Egypt over a two-year period.
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John J. Cali School of Music
BRIAN ABRAMS (Associate Professor—Music Therapy) served as Conference Chair for the Second International Health Humanities Conference: Music, Health, and Humanity,
hosted by Montclair State University in August. In attendance at the
three-day event at the Montclair State Conference Center were
professionals and graduate students from various disciplines: medicine,
psychology, literature, arts, music, and music therapy; and from
universities and healthcare agencies and other human services
organizations throughout the world.
MICHAEL ALBAUGH (Associate Director for Administration) was promoted to First Vice President of the board at the Arts Council of the Morris Area.
MAGDALENA BACZEWSKA
(Adjunct Faculty—Piano) recently recorded a 4-CD classical piano album
for the New Hope Fertility Center Music Collection, performed a recital
with violinist Kinga Augustyn at the Sevenars Festival in Massachusetts,
and served on the faculty and performed at the International Keyboard
Institute in New York.
DON BATCHELDER (Adjunct
Faculty—Trumpet, Brass Program Coordinator) is principal trumpet with
the New York City Opera and a busy classical free-lancer. He was
recently featured on the well-reviewed recording of Copland's Quiet City
in its original chamber music instrumentation, restored by saxophonist
Christopher Brellochs. He is pursuing a Doctorate in Musical Arts degree
at Rutgers University.
ROBERT BUTTS (Adjunct Faculty—Introduction to Music) conducted a reading of his opera Mark Twain and the General with the Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey (BONJ) and guest soloists in May and conducted the premiere performance of his opera in August. He composed the music to a libretto by New Jersey playwright Jewel Seehaus-Fisher. The performance was part of the 2012 BONJ Summer Music Festival. In September, the edition by Dr. Butts of Alessandro Scarlatti's oratorio La Giuditta (1693) was used in a talk and performance at the Fall Salon presented by the Caspersen Shool of Graduate Studies, Drew University program of Arts and Letters.
LISA DeLORENZO (Professor—Music Education) was awarded a 2012 Choice Book Award for her recent publication, Sketches in Democracy: Notes From an Urban Classroom ((Rowman & Littlefield, published in February), by the American Educational Studies Association. Her article, “Missing Faces in the Orchestra: An Issue of Social Justice?” appeared in Music Educators Journal (June 2012). During the 2011-2012 academic year, Dr. DeLorenzo presented at the National Network for Educational Renewal conference and the New Jersey Music Educators Association conference. She was also an invited clinician for the Westwood and Glen Rock school districts. Dr. DeLorenzo continues to research urban teaching and is presently working on a project to determine why there aren't more teachers of color in the music education profession. Dr. DeLorenzo, along with MARISSA SILVERMAN (Assistant Professor, Music Education), visited and interviewed students at a number of New Jersey universities for this project. In addition to her responsibilities at the university, Dr. DeLorenzo taught eighth-grade general music weekly at the Cicely Tyson School of Performing and Fine Arts in East Orange.
RENÉE ANNE LOUPRETTE
is organist and associate director of music and the arts at Trinity
Wall Street in New York City. She received a glowing review from The New York Times for her inaugural performance in a new organ series she directs, Pipes at One.
LORI McCANN
(Assistant Professor—Voice) taught for the eighth year at the American
Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. She also participated in
multiple events at the National Conference of the National Association
of Teachers of Singing (NATS), where she was a representative of the New
York City Chapter of the organization. Dr. McCann was an invited
adjudicator for the Artist Awards (NATSAA), a panelist for the Carnegie
Hall Royal Conservatory (Toronto) Achievement Program, and a
co-presenter for the NYC-NATS-sponsored event, A Microphone Workshop,
that addressed the interface between audio professionals and singers and
their teachers, as well as microphone techniques. In August, she
completed extensive training to become a member of the College of
Adjudicators for the Carnegie Hall Royal Conservatory of Music
Achievement Program, a highly effective, sequenced course of music study
from beginner to advanced levels that inspires excellence through
individual student assessments. As a Founding Voice Teacher Member, her
aim is to help spread this excellent program of study to voice teachers
and music schools throughout the country in order to help raise the
level and scope of early training of the nation's vocal students.
MARY ANN MUMM
(Adjunct Faculty—Violin) traveled to "Esperanza Azteca" in Puebla,
Mexico, for a teaching/performance residency in May. Also in May, she
worked with "Filarmonica Joven de Colombia" in Bogata, Columbia. As FJC
chair of strings, she helped the national orchestra prepare and tape the
first international broadcast of the popular radio program From the Top.
In June, she was guest soloist and artist teacher at the 2012 Alfredo
St. Malo International Music Festival in Panama City, Panama, and she
spent the month of July working with Youth Orchestras of the Americas in
a Chilean residency and tour including work with conductors Benjamin
Zander and Carlos Miguel Prieto. As coordinator of the YOA Leaders
Program, she also oversaw musical outreach programs in major cities
throughout Chile for the month. In August, she was on the ASTA/NJ 2012
Chamber Music Institute faculty.
MARK PAKMAN (Adjunct Faculty—Piano) was an adjudicator for the National Young Musicians Showcase Competition, Professional Music Teachers Guild Competition, Joseph Israel Bookstaber Competition, New York Regionals of the International Chinese Competition and served as one of the two judges of the 2012 Princeton Festival Piano Competition. He also performed and taught at the Summit Festival (Purchase, N.Y.) in July. In January, he served as translator for Moscow Conservatory's Vice-President Dr. Larissa Slutskaya in her lecture on the History of the Moscow Conservatory Piano Department, given to Montclair State students, faculty and community.
PEG ROBERTS
(Adjunct Faculty—Strings Technique) served as artistic director and
faculty in the ASTA/NJ Chamber Music Institute, held at Kean University
in August. Several Cali School students assisted as counselors and
assistant coaches and performers: JHI-EUN GU (BMus, Education '15—Violin; ASTA@ MSU student chapter President), ELAINE WISNIEWSKI (BMus, Education ‘13—Violin), EUGENIA KIM (BMus, Education ‘14—Violin), CHRYSELLE ANGDERSEN (BMus, Education ‘13—Violin), and TERRENCE THORNHILL (MA, Performance ‘12—Cello). LINDA McKNIGHT (Adjunct Faculty—Double Bass), MARY ANN MUMM (Adjunct Faculty—Violin) and YEN YU (Preparatory Center Faculty—Violin) also taught at the Institute. Guest artists included the Shanghai Quartet (Cali School Artists-in-Residence).
HOLLI ROSS (Adjunct Professor—Vocal Jazz) released a solo recording, You'll See,
to great reviews. She performed with jazz master Mark Murphy at the
Schroon Lake Jazz Festival. In addition, she was a guest
clinician/instructor at Princeton University: Jazz Vocal Collective,
presenting clinician for the Amy London Jazz Vocal camp, and performed
at the Oscar Schindler Performing Arts Center Jazz Festival
CHIA-CHING SHEN
(Adjunct Faculty—Pianist) gave a solo performance in the Dame Myra Hess
Concert Series at the Chicago Cultural Center which was Broadcast live
on WFMT 98.7 fm and streamed live at wfmt.com. She also performed solo
concerts at the Edward Water College (Jacksonville, FL) and Wheaton
College (IL).
MARISSA SILVERMAN (Assistant
Professor—Music Education) published articles including “Community music
and social justice: Re-claiming love,” in Gary McPherson & Graham
Welch (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music Education; John Dewey and James Mursell: An Introduction, Visions of Research in Music Education; and edited a special Issue of Visions of Research in Music Education; "Music and homeschooled youth: A case study," in
Research Studies in Music Education (33(2): 179-195); and two book
chapters written with David J. Elliott: "Why music matters: Philosophical
and cultural foundations," in Raymond MacDonald, Gunter Kreutz &
Laura Mitchell (Eds.), Music, Health and Wellbeing (Oxford: Oxford
University Press) and "Rethinking philosophy, re-viewing musical
experience," in Wayne Bowman & Ana Lucia Frega (Eds.), The Oxford
Handbook of Music Education Philosophy. (New York: Oxford University
Press.). Her presentations at conferences include: “Expanded visions for
music and music education” at the Second International Health
Humanities Conference, Music Health, and Humanity, Montclair State
University; “Educating the ‘whole’ child: Does happiness count?” at the
International Society for Music Education, World Conference,
Thessaloniki, Greece; “Round-Table – Community Music Today” The
International Society for Music Education, Community Music Commission,
Corfu, Greece; and “A Conception of ‘Meaningfulness’ in Life and How
Music Education Can Help” At the Aims of Music Education. MayDay Group
Conference 24 at Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI). She was
also awarded a
Fulbright Specialists Grant, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki Finland.
GEORGE SPITZER
(Adjunct Faculty—Voice) sang in two concerts of Charles Ives Art Songs
and Operatic Novelties of the 19th Century in the Lake Champlain area of
Vermont. One concert was recorded on Lake Champlain Access Television
(LCATV).
GWENDOLYN TOTH (Adjunct Faculty—Harpsichord)
toured Europe in June and July, performing in the Netherlands, (two
concerts near Groningen), Basel, and the Trevi nel Lazio "Trebantiqua"
festival. She also released her latest CD, Music on the Arp Schnitger
Organ in Noordbroek (Netherlands). She recently gave a CD release
concert at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (N.Y.), performing works by
Scheidemann, Pachelbel, and J. S. Bach. Toth and her husband, Dongsok
Shin, performed a special Patrons concert at the Metropolitan Museum.
They performed music of Mozart for four hands and one and two pianos on
two of the antique instruments from the collection, which are rarely
allowed to be played in public.
HEATHER BUCHANAN
(Associate Professor, Director of Choral Studies) was in residence at
Berklee College of Music in Boston in April. She presented a variety of
Body Mapping workshops and lectures as part of their Performance
Wellness Institute. Dr. Buchanan has accepted an invitation to write a
chapter on Body Mapping for a new text book Perspectives on Teaching Singing: A celebration of Voice Pedagogy in the 21st Century.
Cali School Director ROBERT CART’s new edition of Richard Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder and Trois Mélodies,
accompanied by his compact disc of these songs, was published in March
2012 by Music Minus One. Last October, Dr. Cart appeared as Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana in Auburn, Ala., and, as solo recitalist, he performed at Mansfield University, Rohrer Concert Series, and Wesley College.
DEAN DRUMMOND (Associate Professor, Theory/Composition) directed and played harmonic canons in a performance of Harry Partch's Daphne of the Dunes
at Zankel Hall in New York City. The concert was part of the American
Mavericks Festival sponsored by the San Francisco Symphony.
KAREN GOODMAN (Professor,
Music Therapy) presented two invitational addresses last spring:
“Inaugural Lecture: Processes in Music Therapy,” Haredi College of
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, and “Internalization of Theory to
Practice,” Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. As a recipient of a
Global Education Award, she also interviewed and observed multicultural
music therapy clinical projects throughout Israel. Prof. Goodman is a
contributor to Bio-Guided Music Therapy (Miller, 2011) and the forthcoming Dictionary of Music Therapy (Kirkland, 2012). She continues her consulting work with Creative Arts Healthcare at UMDNJ.
MARSHA HELLER
(Adjunct Professor, Oboe) participated in many performances with the
Queen's Chamber Band, including world premieres of several pieces
commissioned by the group. She had several Carnegie Hall concerts with
the New York Pops, many performances with the Bronx Arts Ensemble,
another world premiere with the Queens Symphony (not related to the
Queen's Chamber Band) and was a soloist in Bach's B Minor Mass in Avery
Fisher Hall.
YIKYUNG DIANA HUGHES (Adjunct Professor,
Piano) performed as soloist in the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23 with the
Rockland Symphony Orchestra (N.Y.) in February 2012. In April, she was
one of the pianists for the 3rd Annual Social Networking Concert in
Saint Peter's Church, NYC. Her trio premiered an American composer, Emma
Diemer's Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano.
KEN LAM
(Associate Professor, Director of Orchestral Studies) gave clinics and
masterclasses for the Hong Kong Scout Orchestra (Hong Kong), Clayton
Valley High School (Calif.), Hereford High School (Md.), John P Stevens
High School (N.J.) and music teachers of Howard Country Public Schools
(Md.), judged competitions at Towson University (Md.), New Jersey Youth
Symphony, Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestra and guest conducted the
Illinois Symphony Orchestra and the Kentucky Music Educators
Association's Inter-Collegiate Orchestra.
ERIC MILLER
(Adjunct Professor, Music Therapy) delivered the keynote address in
April at the Fifth International Conference on Music and Psychotherapy
in Bangalore, India. The address related the development of
psychological theory with bio-guided music therapy (Miller's 2011 book
of the same title). Dr. Miller also instructed a seminar in bio-guided
music therapy at Vimhans Hospital in New Delhi for doctors, nurses and
healthcare practitioners. He also presented at the Southeastern region
of AMTA music therapy conference in Charlotte, N.C., in March. Last
spring, Dr. Miller received a grant from David's Fund to conduct a
series of seminars across the US in bio-guided music therapy. He will
be bringing a "mini-Ott lab" on the road to facilitate student
experiences with music and physiological measurement and intervention.
SUSAN PALMA (Adjunct Professor, Flute) released her solo CD Elegante
in May. Joining her for this New South American Flute Music album are
many musicians including Borromeo Quartet, Branford Marsalis, Ivan
Lins, Edward Arron, Cyro Baptista with music by Paquito D'Rivera, Pablo
Ziegler, Ivan Lins, Heitor Villa Lobos.
JAN PROKOP (Adjunct Professor, Voice) published an article “Quality of Life Issues in Singers with Voice Disorders” in The Voice (Member Newsletter of The Voice Foundation, Winter-Spring 2012)
MARGARET ZUFALL ROBERTS
(Adjunct Professor, String Techniques) organized the ASTA/NJ Shanghai
Quartet Festival (January 29, 2012) at the Cali School. Shanghai Quartet
members Weigang Li, Yi-Wen Jiang, Honggang Li and Nick Tzavaras coached
chamber groups including middle school and high school students.
JULIA ROLWING
(Adjunct Professor, Voice) was a semi-finalist in the Baltimore Liszt
Society's Competition, and, in March, sang the lead role in Puccini's Tosca with the Abilene Opera, in Texas.
BRIAN HOLMAN
(Adjunct Professor, Voice) gave recitals with internationally acclaimed
tenor Francisco Casanova last spring in Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic (Teatro Nacional) and Sharpsville, Pa. He collaborated with
Metropolitan Opera Radio host Ira Siff and soprano Sabrina Palladino in a
series of lecture recitals in New York City. Healso conducted two
performances of Verdi's Aida with Vera Musica Productions at Columbia University Teachers College.
GEORGE SPITZER (Adjunct Professor, Voice) sang a recital in February of Kurt Weil Three Penny Opera
selections at the Anne Goodman Recital Hall in the Kaufmann Center of
the Arts in NYC. In March, he sang a recital of Charles Ives art songs
at the Church of the Epiphany concert series with his chamber group
Melodeon.
ANASTASIA SWOPE (Adjunct Professor, Voice) sang as the soprano soloist for the New Jersey premiere of Requiem by British composer Bob Chilcott in March, and the Rutter Requiem in May.
TANYA WITEK
(Adjunct Professor, Flute) performed this year with the New York City
Ballet Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the American Symphony
Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, the Lenape Chamber Ensemble and the
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She appeared on a panel entitled "Meet the
Moment: Preparing for College Auditions" at the New York Flute Fair in
March and also served on the New York Flute Club's nominating committee
this spring.
DAVID WITTEN (Professor, Piano) was an
adjudicator at the Mieczysław Munz Piano Competition at Juilliard School
of Music. His concerts this spring included recitals in Leshowitz
Recital Hall (March), and Middle Tennessee State University (March),
followed by a Piano Master Class for the local piano students.
MEG ZERVOULIS (Adjunct Professor, Accompanist) made her commercial off-Broadway musical direction debut on Rated P...for Parenthood, a new sketch comedy musical that was originally developed at SOPAC (South Orange Performing Arts Center). As a conductor, Meg also helmed the inaugural NYC concert of a new music ensemble, Hotel Elefant.
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Department of Theatre and Design
KAREN GAYLE taught a two-week
residency in Tel Aviv, Israel. She served on the faculty for summer
intensive at Young Dancers Program at Joffrey; at Steps on Broadway; and
for The Ailey Experience at Alvin Ailey. Her company Xodus Dance
Collective was invited to perform in Toronto at the IABD Festival
(January) and Choreographers Canvas at MMAC (May).
JAY T. JENKINS taught
for the Cairo Opera house this summer and witnessed the historic
election firsthand. He also directed and choreographed Leon Thomas on
his Nickelodeon tour with Big Time Rush and finished the Summer singing
with D'Angelo in His US tour with Mary J Blige. Will be guest teaching
for the Alabama Dance Festival in January.
NANCY LUSHINGTON
taught a one-week residency in Ferrara, Italy; a two-week residency for
the Horefitika Vimata Organization teaching and choreographing in
Nicosia, Cypress; conducted a one-week residency teaching technique and
repertory at the Bolzano Dance Festival in Bolzano, Italy; and Ballet
Schule Graz in Graz, Austria.
DIANN SICHEL was a guest
artist in the Senior Seminar on Physical Intelligence at Ailey/Fordham
University, Oct 9. She serves as the artistic advisor for 10 Hairy Legs, Randy James, artistic director (www.10hl.org)
MAXINE STEINMAN
performed in Brazil in June before resuming her MFA studies at the
University of Wisconsin. She will be presenting her thesis performance,
Say It With Flowers, in December. She served as a guest with
Annabella Gonzalez Dance Theater; taught and performed in the II
CONGRESSO BRASILEIRO DE DANÇA MODERNA; received a Graduate Student
Fellowship Award for MFA studies at the Peck School of the Arts,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin; was invited to perform in the American Dance Guild
concert on September 7; and invited to set two works at Alma College in
the fall.
Assistant Professor ELIZABETH McPHERSON and Adjunct Professor LAURIE ABRAMSON
worked for the New Jersey Department of Education designing model dance
curriculum, creating assessments, and adjudicating dance students in
vocational high schools through the winter and spring of 2012.
ELIZABETH McPHERSON
presented a paper at the Society of Dance History Scholars' Annual
conference in June, and made presentations at the National Dance
Education Organization Conference this October and the Congress on
Research in Dance this November.
LORI KATTERHENRY received
a Student Faculty grant in the amount of $2,000 to bring MSU dancers to
the 2013 American College Dance Festival at Hofstra University in March
2013.
NEIL BALDWIN's Legends of the Plumed Serpent-Biography of a Mexican God, a massive study originally published in hardcover by PublicAffairs (N.Y.) in 1998, is now available as an e-book
via Amazon. In the book, "Neil Baldwin has created a mosaic of words
and images retelling the myth of the Plumed Serpent (or Quetzalcóatl) as
it has evolved through the millennia. He has also created an essential
guidebook for the armchair traveller and passionate tourist alike."
(Amazon.) He also served as moderator, in Danceworks'
post-performance "Talkback” with choreographers Chase Brock and Ryoko
Kudo last April 13; and moderated Bill T. Jones' post-workshop
conversation on March 24.