All programs will be at 11 a.m. in Room 144 of the
Visual and Performing Arts Center on the WCSU Westside campus, 43 Lake Ave.
Extension in Danbury unless specified.
Zina Saunders: artist,
writer, animator
Monday, September 8, 2014
Zina Saunders is a Manhattan-based artist, writer, and
animator. She attended The High School
of Music and Art and The Cooper Union.
She also learned much from her father, illustrator Norman Saunders.
Ray DiCapua: artist, educator
Thursday, September
25, 2014
Ray DiCapua is Associate Professor of Drawing/Sculpture at
the University of Connecticut, Storrs, where he serves as Associate Head of
Admissions and co-coordinator of the Sculpture Studies area. He is the
recipient of the 2014 University of Connecticut Teaching Fellow Award. He
received his MFA from UMass, Amherst.
Fritz Drury: artist, educator
Monday, October 6,
2014
Fritz Drury’s work, based in
figurative narration, has been widely exhibited with reviews in Art in America. He has shown in NYC at The Painting Center, the
National Academy of Design,55 Mercer Gallery, Charles
Cowles Gallery, and others. He is a recipient of awards and grants
that include an Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship.
Richard Klein: artist, curator, writer
Thursday, October 23,
2014
Richard Klein is an artist, curator, and writer. Since 1999
he has been Exhibitions Director of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in
Ridgefield, CT.
Amber Scoon: artist, writer
Monday, November 3,
2014
Amber Scoon is a mixed media artist and writer. She received her undergraduate degree from
NYU and her MFA in painting from American University’s program in Italy. She received her PhD in Media and
Communications from the European Graduate School in Switzerland, where she is
now the John Berger Fellow. Through
other residencies, she also studied with Marjorie Portnow and Margaret
Grimes.
Scoon is currently Assistant Professor of art at Texas A
& M University, Corpus Christi.
John Goodrich: artist, writer, art critic
Monday, November 17,
2014
John Goodrich is a painter and a writer on art in New York
City. His drawings and paintings have appeared in many exhibitions, including
solo shows at Bowery Gallery in NYC and the Contemporary Realist Gallery in San
Francisco, as well as group shows at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, Kouros Gallery,
Lori Bookstein Fine Art, among others. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New York Sun, The
New York Observer, The New Haven Register, and other
publications.He currently teaches at Haverford College and the National
Academy School of Fine Arts.
Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 8:00 PM Exhibiting
artist James Grashow,
creator of "Corrugated Worlds," will discuss his work at 8 p.m. in
Room 108 of the Visual and Performing Arts Center on the WCSU Westside campus,
43 Lake Ave. Extension in Danbury. The event will be free and open to the
public. For more information, call (203) 837-8403. For a complete list of
similar SVPA events, visit www.wcsu.edu/svpa/events.asp.
