Credits
It is difficult to be sure we are crediting everyone who had some hand in this project. If we missed you, we apologize. Send us a note and we can be sure to add your name to the list here.
Special Credit Goes to the Following Individuals
- Donald Boney - Mr. Boney possessed a critical audit/catalog of much of the art on campus. Just when we thought we'd never find information about a few key pieces of art, we found Mr. Boney. He shared his files with us, and really helped us out.
- James M. Como - Professor Como was generous enough to sit for an interview. Without his assistance, we would have struggled to push our understanding of Sina Yussuff's contributions to York's art as far as we did.
- John Drobnicki - Professor Drobnicki opened the Library up to the class, consulted with a number of individuals, lent us the Library's files on York's art, and provided us with a bit of oral history on some of the pieces.
- Noel Gamboa - Mr. Gamboa consulted with Dr. Cripps on at least four separate occasions. He willingly shared with the class all the information he had on the art at York College, and even did a little research to help fill in some gaps.
- Michel Hodge - Mr. Hodge helped us by establishing the connection to Donald Boney. When Dr. Cripps approached Mr. Hodge regarding a couple works of art, he told a story about a recent art audit and was confident that Mr. Boney possessed the auditors' report. From that lead we were able to track down some history on two beautiful works of art in the Performing Arts Center.
- Matthew Katz - Mr. Katz runs York College's Performing Arts Center, a facility with nearly a dozen works of art in it. While Mr. Katz did not know much about a couple key paintings, he gave generously of his time by offering us what he did know, by encouraging us to explore works of art we had not yet seen, and by expressing genuine interest in learning more about the art in his building.
- Daniel Phelps - Mr. Phelps provided support, encouragement, and assistance with a number of technical aspects of digital photography and image editing. Most notably, he helped several students learn how to get the most out of the "Zoomify" feature in Photoshop. This feature is implemented in several works of art in the online gallery. Daniel also lent the students his camera. Without this hardware loan, we would have been unable to provide the reader with the very high-quality images seen throughout the site.
- Jim Ryan - Mr. Ryan maintains the servers at York. He quickly gave us the server space we needed, when we needed it.
- Michael Smith - Professor Smith helped effect the handoff from Dr. Vendryes' initial work on this project to Dr. Cripps. He also encouraged his Communications Technology majors to enroll in the course within which this work took place.
- Margaret Vendryes - Dr. Vendryes is listed as one of the contributors to this project because she is a contributor. But she was also available for electronic consultation throughout the Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 terms, after she had left York College. Her information about the genesis of the initial project proved invaluable.
Web Design Ideas and Tools Credits
- Dan Cederholm - Dan Cederholm's work on "bulletproof" CSS-based web design undergirds much of the structure and presentation in the project website. The site isn't exactly bulletproof, but it's a lot closer to it than it might otherwise be.
- Dynamicdrive.com - Dynamic Drive's (http://www.dynamicdrive.com) sample rollover navigation provided the original inspiration and some help on coding the horizontal top-level navigation on the site.
- Stu Nicholls - Stu Nicholls was kind enough to grant us permission to use and modify CSS-based "Cross-Browser Multi-Page Photograph Gallery" found on his CSSplay (http://www.cssplay.co.uk/) website. A number of the works of art are presented here using versions of Nicholls' galleries.
- A number of credits for the project website appear only in the HTML or CSS code. This approach is consistent with the documentation style used within the coding community, and enables individuals interested in key technical tricks, hacks, or patches to track down the originators.
