Joe Fusaro will be an Artist/Educator in Residence in our department April 19-21st and will be visiting classes and studios and giving a presentation. He is the Senior Education Advisor for Art21 and will model how to use Art21 films in guided discussions.
Lois Hetland says, “Joe is a brilliant facilitator of classroom conversations. He exemplifies the artist-teacher model that we espouse in Art Ed. He’ll teach us a lot about how to work as a practicing exhibiting artist while teaching in a full-time context and maintaining a global presence through blogs, films, and consulting.”
Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to meet this teacher’s teacher!
Schedule of Events:
Tuesday April 19 Joe Fusaro will be visiting Portfolio and Seminar I and II classes for discussions, critiques, and studio visits.
Wednesday April 20 from 1:00-5:00 he will do individual studio reviews. A sign-up sheet is on the door of South 205.
Wednesday April 20, 5:30-7:30pm in Kennedy 406 Joe Fusaro will be giving a presentation on Facilitating Discussion from Art21 Films.
Joe Fusaro is an exhibiting artist, art educator certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, and the Visual Arts Chair for the Nyack Public Schools in New York since 2003. Prior to joining the Nyack Schools he was a teacher and staff developer in the New York City Public Schools for 13 years. He received his Masters in Education from the City University of New York and his BFA from Hofstra University.
Mr. Fusaro works as the Senior Education Advisor for the PBS series, Art21, and is also an adjunct instructor for NYU’s Graduate Program in Art and Arts Professions. He has presented staff development workshops and teacher training for education associations, museums, and school districts throughout the United States, including the National Art Education Association, the New York State Art Teachers Association, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Walker Art Center, and the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Mr. Fusaro writes the weekly column, Teaching with Contemporary Art, for the Art21 blog, which explores a variety of issues in art education today. He has also had the opportunity to interview artists such as Eleanor Antin and Janine Antoni for the column: http://blog.art21.org/category/teaching-with-contemporary-art/
Artist statement:
I create paintings, drawings and mixed-media about gesture and the human form. That’s often where it starts. When I make collage, my interest is in creating a compression of space whether a figure is featured or not. My influences stem from the raw expression in gesture and movement that are discovered when sketching and photographing people at work, in conflict, and even at rest (but restless).
Most works begin working from source material and a few calligraphic lines that get built up into thick paint or heavy pencil lines. The work will continue to grow both literally and figuratively, with layers of line, color, and even collaged 35mm photographs that I usually take myself.
The process of adding and stripping away media is essential to my art, since the finished work is often discovered through covering and uncovering the ground. Works often become complete only when they reveal the history of marks.
For more information on works by Joe Fusaro, visit www.joefusaro.com
Figure (Paul and Joe Fusaro) Watercolor and vellum on paper, 2009