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SHIRA AVIDOR
Part-time Instructor, Painting
BFA, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem; MFA from Boston University. She exhibits her paintings in Boston, New York, and Tel Aviv and currently lives in West Hartford.
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Roland Becerra
Full-Time Assistant Professor - Painting
BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; MFA, Yale University, School of Art He has also studied at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and The Cleveland Institute of Art. Mr. Becerra has been awarded the Ralph Mayer Prize, Yale School of Art; the Schickle-Collingwood Prize, Yale School of Art and the Mable Wilson Woodrow Memorial Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Fellowship Show Prize. Selected Exhibitions included at the Rodger Lapelle Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate, Norfolk, CT; Yellow Springs Art Foundation, Philadelphia, PA; Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Fine Artist’s Workshop, Chicago, IL. He has work has been published in several publications including Artnet.com, and Philadelphia Style.

Roland’s short film, "DEAR BEAUTIFUL" recently won The Moving Pictures Magazine Short Film Contest – Spring 2007 Cannes Edition.   DEAR BEAUTIFUL was selected by the judges as the Animation Prize Winner. Winners in each category were flown to the Cannes Film Festival earlier this month and their work was featured in the Moving pictures section of the Short Film Corner of the Festival.

To view the film, follow this link:  http://www.movingpicturesmagazine.com/shorts/videos/dearbeautiful

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BRIAN CRAIG-WANKIIRI -
Visiting Artist, Sculpture

Brian Craig-Wankiiri studied at the New York Academy and received his BFA from Pennsylvania State University. One of his life-size bronze sculptures was represented in the 2004 Lyme Academy College exhibition, Artists Talk, in which he also participated in a panel discussion. He is represented by John Pence Gallery in San Francisco, CA.

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Don Gale  
Professor of Sculpture, Full-time, Chairman of Sculpture Department
BFA, MFA, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California; Attended Art Center School of Design in Pasadena, where he studied under the direction of Lorser Feitelson, pioneer American post-surrealist.  He is a fellow, member, and former vice-president of the National Sculpture Society and a member and former member of the Board of Directors of the New York City Sculpture  Guild. Don was also appointed to serve as a delegate to the Fine Arts Federation of New York City. He is currently represented by the Cline Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona and at Gallery Henoch, Chelsea, New York, New York. His work has been widely selected for public collections and commissions, including the Mohegan Sun in Norwich, Connecticut.

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Sharon Gregric-Gale 
Adjunct Instructor, Sculpture 
BS, Psychology-major and Art History–minor, University of Wisconsin, Madison Wisconsin. BFA and MFA, sculpture and design, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California. Studied architecture at UCLA, Los Angeles, California. For the last 20 years she has taught classes and seminars in California, New York, Colorado and Connecticut.   Her work is in private and public collections such as her “Tree of Life” in the sculpture garden of Temple El Beth in West Bend, Indiana.  At the present, Ms. Gregric is working on the sixth, life-size figure of an eight-figure commission for “Mohegan Sun” in Uncasville, Connecticut

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Nancy Peel Gladwell  
Full-Time Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing, Chair of the Painting Department
MFA, Painting, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford. BFA, Painting, BA George Washington University, Washington, D.C.  Ms. Gladwell did her graduate work at George Washington University, Washington, DC; Accademia Delle Belle Arte, Florence, Italy and Studio de Nera Simi, Florence, Italy. She exhibits her paintings nationally and has work included in national museums and galleries. She has taught in Italy and at C.W. Post College, Long Island University, New York.

Debra Goertz 
Adjunct Instructor, Drawing & Painting

Ms. Goertz studied at the Arts Students League and holds an MFA from the New York Academy; among her teachers was Deane Keller.  She serves on the Faculty of Parsons School of Design where she teaches in Foundation Studies and on the Faculty of the New York Academy where she teaches at the graduate level in the Drawing and Anatomy department. She is a painter, primarily of the figure, with a resume of solo and group exhibitions in New York, Washington, Paris and the Netherlands. She is represented in New York by Stricoff Fine Arts and in Haarlem, the Netherlands, by the Ton Warndorff Gallery.

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Randolphlee  McIver  
Full-time Assistant Professor, Sculpture
B.A. in Art Education, University of Texas at El Paso, B.F.A. with honors in Painting from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena California, M.F.A. the New York Academy of Art where he graduated summa cum laude and was the first recipient of the Walter Erlbacher Award.  He has taught at the Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie, NY the Guild Hall in East Hampton and is currently teaching at the New York Academy of Art, the Graduate School of Figurative Arts. .  A recipient of the New Jersey State Council of the Arts Fellowship, he has participated in numerous group exhibitions throughout the U.S., and is part of a summer exhibition at the New York Academy of Art, selected by Vincent Desiderio, Eric Fischl, and Jenny Saville.

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Randy Melick  
Full-time Associate Professor of Drawing and Anatomy, Chair of Drawing Department
BA, Princeton Universitry; MFA The New York Academy of Figurative Art. Taught at New York Academy of Figurative Art from 1990 to 2001 where he was MFA program and Faculty Chairman. Exhibitions include Hacket-Friedman Gallery, San Francisco; Hirschl and Adler Gallery, New York; Gallerie Benamou, Paris and the Arnot Museum, NY. Mr. Melick holds the Deane G. Keller Endowed Chair of Classical Drawing and Figurative Art.

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Patricia Miranda  
Adjunct Instructor, Painting
Patricia Miranda received a BFA from SUNY Purchase, and a scholarship at the School of Sacred Arts in NYC. She has exhibited at Wave Hill, Bronx NY; Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont NY; Coleman Fine Arts in Charleston, SC; Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY; Sakai City Museum Gallery, Osaka, Japan and the Cape Museum of Fine Art in Dennis, MA, to name a few. She is Director of Miranda Fine Arts, a contemporary gallery in Port Chester, NY and co-founder of Loftarts, an affiliation of galleries, artists, curators and educators. She is on the Board of Trustees of The Society of Gilders; the Advisory Boards of the Katonah Museum Artist’s Association and the Concordia College Art Gallery in Bronxville, NY, as well as co-founder of The Gabriel Guild, an arts and education organization.

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James Reed  
Instructor, Printmaking, Part-time
 BA, University of Missouri, Kansas City. MA, San Francisco State University and Tamarind Institute. Owner/Master Printer, Milestone Graphics, Bridgeport, CT.  Mr.  Reed's work is included in the following selected collections: IBM, General Electric, Tamarind Institute, Achenbach Print Foundation, New York Public Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas.  He has received a Ford Foundation Fellowship and a Rockefeller Research Grant.  Selected solo exhibitions include Alta Gallery, Denver, Colorado; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco and participation in more than 75 group exhibitions throughout the United States and Mexico.

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Susan Stephenson  
Full time Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing, Chairman of Foundation Program
BFA, Studio, Louisiana Tech University; MFA, Painting, Boston University. Stephenson was an artist-in-residence at the Association for Visual Arts in Chatanooga, TN, and at The Griffis Art Center in New London, CT. Past exhibitions include "Realism Now: Traditions and Departures" at Vose Gallery in Boston and "Color and Light," a solo exhibition at the Masur Museum in Louisiana. She recently received the Painting Fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Her work is in private and corporate collections throughout New England and the South.

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Jerry Weiss  
Part-time Instructor, Painting and Drawing
Studied drawing with Roberto Martinez in Miami, Florida, painting at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design in New York City. Mr. Weiss has had one-man exhibitions at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts and galleries in New York, Boston, New Jersey, and Maine. His paintings are represented in numerous public, private and corporate collections, including the New Britain Museum of American Art; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston; Pfizer, Inc., in Groton, Connecticut; Debevoise and Plimpton, New York and the Harvard Club of New York. Mr. Weiss has taught workshops and lectured in Florida, New York state, Washington, Maine, and Colorado. He is listed in Who's Who in American Art and Who's Who in the East. He is currently represented by The Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, Connecticut,and Portraits Inc., New York.   For more information please visit Jerry's website:
http://www.jerrynweiss.com

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Justin Wiest
Adjunct instructor, Drawing Justin Wiest earned a BFA from the Schuler School of Fine Art and a MFA from the New York Academy. He is a Silvermine Art Guild member and teaches portrait and figure classes there. The 2007 Summer American Artist "Workshop" magazine had a feature article on his methods of figure painting. He is represented by Stricoff Gallery and Gallery Roca, where he will have a solo show in September 2008.

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Peter Zallinger  
Full-Time Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing, Chair of Post-Baccalaureate Program
BA, Fine Arts, Yale University; post-graduate work in drawing and painting at Boston University. Mr. Zallinger wrote and illustrated three natural history books for Random House; in 1999, he updated the most recent of these, Dinosaurs and Other Archosaurs, to reflect new discoveries and the shift in taxonomy to Phylogenetic Systematics. His books have been published in America, Europe, and Asia. Mr. Zallinger has three portraits in Yale University's permanent collection. His work has been displayed worldwide and resides in private collections in the United States and Japan.

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David Dewey  
Emeritus Professor of Painting
BFA, Painting, Philadelphia College of Art; MFA, Painting, Washington State University. His paintings are included in museums and national collections. Mr. Dewey has had numerous solo exhibitions and has exhibited in several gallery group exhibitions, including the Fischbach Gallery in New York City. His recent book The Watercolor Book, Materials and Techniques for Today's Artist, was published by Watson Guptill. 

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Dan Gheno

Studied at the Santa Barbara Art Institute; Art Students League and the National Academy of Design.  Dan exhibits throughout Connecticut; Santa Barbara Museum of Art Rental Gallery, California and the Port of History Museum, Pennsylvania.  He is frequently featured in national publications.  Dan lives in New York City and also teaches at the National Academy of Art.  Dan taught at Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts for many years.