Ashley Norwood Cooper
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Design
Fine Arts Ctr 316
Tel: (607) 436-3907
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Ashley Norwood Cooper received her MFA in Painting from Indiana University in 2000. She received a B.A. From the University of Georgia in 1995.
Ms. Cooper’s paintings explore contemporary middle-class life. She is interested in the materiality of paint and the domestic narrative. She has exhibited in group and solo shows in NYC and around the country. She lives and has her painting studio in Cooperstown, NY.
Luke Dougherty
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Drawing
Fine Arts Ctr 316
Tel: (607) 436-3907
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Luke Dougherty received his MFA from Buffalo State University. He teaches Drawing I and Drawing II.
Dr. Margaret Dikovitskaya
Adjunct Instructor
Art History
Fine Arts Ctr 222
Tel: (607) 436-3717
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A graduate of Columbia University (M.Ed., M.Phil., Ph.D.), Margaret Dikovitskaya wrote the doctoral dissertation on the rise of Visual Culture Studies in the United States. Her first book, Visual Culture: The Study of the Visual after the Cultural Turn, was published by The MIT Press (2005, 2006) and Paideia (2019).
Dr. Dikovitskaya is a recipient of The John W. Kluge Scholarship at the Library of Congress (Washington, DC), The Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Fellowship (University of Toronto, Canada), The Izaak Walton Killam Fellowship (University of British Columbia, Canada), The Wolfsonian-FIU Visiting Scholarship (Miami), The Collegium Budapest Scholarship (Hungary, EU), and The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Scholarship (Scotland, UK). She has contributed chapters and essays to The Handbook of Visual Culture (Berg, 2011), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (OUP, 2014), and Constructing Race on the Borders of Europe (Bloomsbury, 2021), and scholarly journals.
Most recently, she was the Keynote Speaker at Future of Visual Studies Roundtable (2021 International Visual Sociology Association Conference, London, UK). Dr. Dikovitskaya held research and teaching appointments in North America, European Union, and Japan. She organized and directed three summer institutes in Visual Culture for faculty and museum professionals at the Central European University, Open Society Foundation (EU). As a Subject Matter Expert, she has designed and taught online courses in Art History since 2017.
Leah McDonald
Adjunct Instructor
Fine Arts Ctr 222
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Chris Pettingill
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ceramics
Fine Arts Ctr 236C
Tel: (607) 436-3735
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Chris Pettingill received his MFA in Ceramic Art from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana in 1992, and his BFA degree with honors at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. His introduction to clay began in 1981 while attending Harford Community College in Bel Air, Maryland, and also studied at the University of The Arts, in Philadelphia.
He now lives and works as a potter and ceramic sculptor along the banks of the Susquehanna River in Afton, NY. His work is in use and in private collections across the United States and around the world.
Colleen O’Hara
Adjunct Lecturer
Colleen O’Hara received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the State University Of New York at New Paltz in 2016. In 2013 she received her BFA in Painting from Plymouth State University in New Hampshire.
O’Hara’s work explores process and material, questioning our understanding of physical space. Recording reactions and responses to the physical world, she creates an experience of space that situates meaning in a place where it is gradually revealed, but never fully understood. In her paintings, large marks complement areas of intricate detail, spaces where micro and macro perspectives are referenced. Pairing these contrasting marks allows the work to oscillate between the intimate and the immeasurable.
Colleen’s paintings have been shown in various exhibitions throughout the Northeast.
Hogan-Cero Rhianna
Adjunct Instructor
Fine Arts Ctr 222
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Madeline Silber
Adjunct Associate Professor
Drawing
Fine Arts Ctr 223A
Tel: (607) 436-3515
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Madeline Silber received her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Mount Royal School of Art, and her BA in Painting and Literature from Sarah Lawrence College.
She has exhibited her paintings nationally and internationally. In her work, she attempts to depict the complex subtleties of connection and separation in our contemporary relationships.
She lives in Oneonta since moving upstate from Greenpoint, Brooklyn. She teaches Drawing I and II at SUNY Oneonta, as well as designing brand identities for regional small businesses.
Nathaniel E. Garcia
Adjunct Instructor
Design and Digital Video
Nathaniel Garcia is a video artist and curator from Los Angeles, California. He graduated with an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a BA in Studio Art from Loyola Marymount University.
Garcia has worked as a curator and teaching artist at academies, institutions, and galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and New York. He has participated and won awards in film festivals such as the Los Angeles CineFest, the Cannes Screenplay Contest, BASH- Bay Area Short Films Festival, as well as FEARnyc Horror Film Festival.
He is a doctoral candidate at Teachers College, Columbia University in Art & Art Education with a focus on critical theory as applied to the exhibition of outsider art. He is the founder and director of SPANTZO gallery in New York City.
Janet Wentworth
Adjunct Associate Professor, Drawing & Figure Drawing
Fine Arts Ctr 316
Tel: (607) 436-3907
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Janet Wentworth received her MFA in painting from Brooklyn College and BFA in illustration from Parsons School of Design. She completed postgraduate study at the National Academy School of Fine Art and the Art Student’s League of New York, and studied art in France and Italy supported by foundation grants.
Her intention in art has always rested upon engagement with the human figure, it’s psychological and emotional resonance, and formal concerns emphasizing the interplay of light and shadow on form.
Her early art career included book illustration for HarperCollins, McGraw-Hill, and Houghton Mifflin Co. among others. Her figure paintings and drawings have been exhibited nationally, including the First Street Gallery and the National Academy Museum in New York City, The Butler Institute of American Art in Ohio, and the Copley Society in Boston. Her artwork has received numerous awards, including those from the National Academy of Art, Academic Artists Association, Pastel Society of America, and Society of Illustrators.
Carrie Mae Smith
Adjunct Instructor, 3D Design
Fine Arts Ctr 316
Tel: (607) 436-3907
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Carrie Mae Smith completed an MFA in Sculpture at the University of Delaware and a Four Year Certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2005.
Her work investigates marginalized histories, utilitarian forms, and concerns of equity and sustainability. She is interested in traditional construction techniques and fine craftsmanship whether working with wood, steel, panty hose, cheese-puffs or oil paint.
Smith has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, is a recipient of artist grants from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and the Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation. She has been awarded Artist Residencies at Winterthur Museum and Gardens, RAIR in North East Philadelphia and the Vermont Studio Center.