Lyme Academy

BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
MFA, Yale University, School of Art

Roland has also studied at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and The Cleveland Institute of Art. He 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” won The Moving Pictures Magazine Short Film Contest – Spring 2007 Cannes Edition.  DEAR BEAUTIFUL was selected by the judges as the Animation Prize Winner.

BA, Wesleyan University
MLS, Wesleyan University

Jennifer has taught at the Williams School in New London, CT and the Old Lyme High School where she currently teaches a variety of courses at all levels including Honors and Advanced placement English. 

BFA, Pennsylvania State University

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.

BS, University of North Dakota
MFA, Yale University School of Art

BFA, George Washington University
MFA, Hartford Art School

After graduation from college Gladwell pursued her studies of fine arts in Florence, Italy under the tutelage of Nerina Simi and Pietro Annagoni.  Upon returning to the US Gladwell began her professional career exhibiting in New York City, Chicago, California, Indiana, the UK and Europe. She was a two time recipient of the Greenshield’s Memorial Grant, the Posey Foundation Grant and NY CITA Fellowship for Painting. She was a visiting artist at the 2011 Venice Bienale, Marist College Program.  Nancy was recently selected as a winner of Expo 30, 2012 by Margot Norton, Associate Curator of the Whitney Museum, N Y.  She has taught painting and drawing in Italy, at C.W. Post University and, since 1994, at Lyme Academy College.

BS, Texas A&M
MFA, The New York Academy of Art.

Debra has taught at the Parsons School of Design and in the MFA program at the New York Academy of Art. She is represented by Stricoff Fine Art in New York where she has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, the most recent in March 2010.  Her paintings were also included in group exhibitions at Fuse Gallery and Island Weiss Gallery in the summer of 2010, and will be exhibited at Muroff Kotler Gallery on the campus of SUNY Ulster in September. After a two-month long residency at the Pouch Cove Foundation in Newfoundland in 2007, the foundation hosted a solo exhibition of the work she completed there.

BA, University of Hartford;
MS, Western Connecticut State University.

BA, Boston College
Ph. D. and MA, University of Illinois

Maureen Kiernan, Ph.D. Chair of Liberal Arts. Dr. Kiernan studied English and Sociology at Boston College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa; her graduate degree is in English and Film Studies from the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana. Dr. Kiernan has taught films studies and literature on three different continents, living and teaching at universities in Britain, Germany, Egypt and Tunisia. She has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar and has published on international cinema, especially the cinema of the Arab world. Her international travel experience is central to her newly published essays on pilgrimage and travel narratives. She has been a professor in interdisciplinary arts programs at the American University in Cairo and at the Cleveland Institute of Art before joining Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in 2011.

BA, Mount Holyoke College
MA, New York University
Ph. D., Stony Brook University

Kathleen MacQueen holds a doctoral degree from Stony Brook University in art history and criticism with a certificate in cultural studies. She writes on contemporary art giving special attention to the complexities of creative practices that are infused with both aesthetic philosophy and ethical commitment. Her column, Shifting Connections, appears monthly on bombsite.com and she has published essays and reviews in The Art Book, Seachange Journal, Art Criticism, and the Journal of Multicultural and Cross-cultural Research.

BA (Art Education), University of Texas at El Paso
BFA, Art Center College of Design
MFA,  New York Academy of Art

Randy 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.

Deane G. Keller Endowed Chair of Classical Drawing and Figurative Art.

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.

BFA, SUNY Purchase

Patricia 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.

Diploma, Scuola di Scalpellini scultori
MFA, New York Academy

Peter Simon Mühlhäußer currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Bad Boll, Germany in the Region of Stuttgart.

During 2004-07 the Artist studied at the professional school, “Johannes Steinhäuser” which resides in Lasa, South Tirol in Italy. He earned degrees for both Stonemason and Stone carver for his practice in the well-respected material, lasa-marble.

In 2009 Mühlhäußer received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art. He earned two significant awards and graduated with the honor of Cum Laude. The awards included the Walter Erlbacher Award, complimenting his understanding and execution of anatomy, and the 2009/10 Fellowship Award, offering him a 1-year extended study and exhibition at the New York Academy of Art.

Mühlhäußer is represented by Janine Bean Gallery in Berlin, Germany, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel in Chelsea, NY and Galleria Accesso, in Pietrastanta, Italy.

BFA, North Carolina School of the Arts, Pratt Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University
MA, University of California, Berkeley

Richards graphic work has appeared in various national publications and museums,  and he has received an Eisner Prize for Creative Work, and an Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission. His fine press work is held in private and public collections, including Yale University’s Arts of the Book Collection.   

Hartford Art School

BA, Holy Cross College
MFA, New York Academy

BFA, Studio, Louisiana Tech University
MFA, Boston University

Stephenson exhibited in the recent Contemporary Realism Biennial at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.  Her work is included in corporate and private collections throughout New England and the South, including the Masur Museum, Pfizer Corporation, and The Griffis Art Center.  A recipient of the Painting Fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Stephenson has been a member of the faculty since 1995.  She serves as the current Chair of the Painting Department.

BFA, Hartford Art School

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.