Contributors

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

The most difficult work in a project of this sort comes in the first phase. Accordingly, Dr. Margaret Vendryes and her students must be acknowledged as the real trailblazers for this online gallery. Then, five years later, the students in Writing for Electronic Media set out to more than double the number of works of art in the catalog. Communications Technology majors, English majors, Business Administration majors, and Spanish majors contributed their particular skills to key elements of hte project. While a doubling of the catalogued art was not fully achieved over a mere 6 weeks of coursework, the students participated actively in all phases of this major project.

English 384, Writing for Electronic Media (Spring 2008)

Project Contributors from English 384, Spring 2008¹

Of course, quantity can never be the sole (or even primary) measure of success. For each piece in the original catalog, students on the "links team" conducted research and located excellent supplemental web-based content. The links accompanying the descriptions of the art, along with the textual descriptions associated with those resources, are almost entirely the work of the links team. This work is an indispensible part of the project that makes the website truly part of the world wide web.

The "art team" spent days touring the campus with appropriate digital photographic equipment to secure the best possible visual representations of the art. They digitally edited the art, resized it to fit, and contributed significantly to the interactive visual elements sprinkled throughout the site. Their work here helps put this website on par with some of the best museum websites in the world. This level of production will surprise no one who has seen the quality of work that York College's Communication Technology majors can produce.

And, of course, the overall website would not have been possible without the hard work and imagination of the "web design team." This group reviewed museum website designs, web portfolios, and online galleries to develop a design and color palette for this project. Working from a bare bones web template, team members built a site map to sketch out the connections between content areas, a storyboard sketch of the site, and graphical and interactive features.

Reginald Augustin: Mr. Augustin collected information about Ernest Garthwaite, and helped move the original print descriptions of several artists into a format more suitable to the web. He also arranged for and conducted the interview with Professor James M. Como that appears in the Sina Yussuff and Ernest Garthwaite sections of the site. He also made the initial edits for those clips.
Sheena Babb: Ms. Babb (York College/CUNY class of 2008) is an English major and Senior at York College. She worked as part of the links team in charge of locating good web-based resources related to each work of art or artist. She also prepared a description of some of Sina Yussuff's artwork.
Iddan Brown: Mr. Brown conducted research on Doris Price's Phoenix, and participated in the creation of the interactive image displays.
Linda Buie: Ms. Buie (York College/CUNY class of 2003) prepared the description of Houston Conwill's Arc, an installation that greets the visitor as he or she enters the College from the 160th Street entrance.
Yanizie Cameron: Ms. Cameron collected information about York College's Anniversary Quilts. As a member of the project web team, she also designed and created the header graphic for the website.
Marie Clarke: Ms. Clarke's contributions to this project were as a member of the links team and as a contributor to materials on Ernest Garthwaite. She found relevant web-based links for the artists originally covered by Dr. Vendryes' class, as well as interesting material related to the additional artists taken up by the class. She also did some of the research for Ernest Garthwaite's landscapes.
Tawasi Clarke: Mr. Clarke collected information about Nina Buxenbaum's art, and helped move the original print descriptions of several artists into a format more suitable for the web.
Michael J. Cripps, Ph.D.: Michael J. Cripps received his B.A. and his B.S. from The University of Connecticut, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Working from a print catalog of campus art initially created by students in Dr. Margaret Vendryes' 2002 African American Art course, Professor Cripps imagined a an online art gallery as a class project for his 2008 section of Writing for Electronic Media. The project provided students the opportunity to consider connections and discontinuities between print and web writingi. Professor Cripps helped each student team, and guided the individual students in the selection of and research for an artist's work. He also contributed content to the Project section of the website.
Kyle Dabrowski: Mr. Dabrowski prepared background material on Richard Hunt's sculpture. He also handled much of the digital photography and some image editing for the site. And he put the finishing touches on the video interview with Professor James Como. Clips from that interview can be found in the pages for Ernest Garthwaite and Sina Yussuff.
Hannah Evangelista: Ms. Evangelista (York College/CUNY class of 2003) wrote the description of Patricia M. Smith's Model Child (The Saint). This offset print can be found in the A Corridor of the Academic Core, on the first floor.
Gary Flores: Mr. Flores participated in the project as a member of the web team. His influence is visible across the site because he handled much of the initial execution for the overall website layout. The subtle patterns in the background, for example, were created by Mr. Flores.
Davian Francis: Mr. Francis participated in work related to Al Loving's work of art.
Adam Gecker: Mr. Gecker (York College/CUNY class of 2008), major in Business Administration, helped locate relevant external links for a number of the artists as part of the links team, and prepared brief descriptions of the links.
Keston Glasgow: Mr. Glasgow participated in work related to James Johnson's Copper Airplane, and helped with some of the interactive image displays.
Edwin Illoh: Mr. Illoh participated in work related to Penelope Bennett's art, and was an important contributor to the visual treatment of Copper Airplane.
Tawana Lipscomb: Ms. Lipscomb (York College/CUNY class of 2008) is a senior majoring in English. She contributed much of the external information on the website as a member of the links team.
Charity McPherson: Ms. McPherson (York College/CUNY class of 2002) researched Martin Puryear's Ark and wrote the original description of the piece.
Jonathan Norman: Mr. Norman (York College/CUNY class of 2003) researched and wrote the description of Sam Gilliam's Solar Canopy, a painted aluminum installation above the third floor lounge in the Academic Core.
Mark Pearson: Mr. Pearson (York College/CUNY class of 2005) prepared the original description of Sina Yussuff's Landscape II.
Julie Roche: Ms. Roche (York College/CUNY class of 2003) wrote the description of Stephen Antonakos' Neon for York. This installation, created by the artist specifically for York College, can be found on the second floor of the Atrium.
Engelynn Roldan: Ms. Roldan (York College/CUNY class of 2002) prepared the description of James Brown's Farmer's Market.
Seretse Smith: Mr. Smith handled some of the treatment of Sina Yussuff's works on the site, helped move some of the existing print descriptions to the web, and participated as a member of the project web team.
Annette Suarez-Ortega: Ms. Suarez, a Spanish major, prepared the description of Robert Indiana that appears in the Print area of the website. She also helped locate relevant external links for a number of the artists and their work.
Stacey Thomas: Ms. Thomas (York College/CUNY class of 2003) prepared the original description of Gloria R. Ross' Recollection Pond, a wool tapestry based on Romare Bearden's photo collage Memories. She also prepared the original description for Sina Yussuff's Pray America, a painting found in the York College Library.
Charleen Tucker: Ms. Tucker contributed to the overall project as part of the web team. In that role, she helped construct a preliminary site map, and contributed ideas to both the color scheme and branding for the site. Ms. Tucker took primary responsibility for designing the top level navigation. She also handled the research and applicable external links for Steed Taylor’s Mentor's Mark in the parking lot.
Sabrina Urich: Ms. Urich (York College/CUNY class of 2003) prepared the information about Marta Chilindron's Opus II, found in the York College Library
Margaret Vendryes, Ph.D.: Margaret Rose Vendryes received her AB in fine arts from Amherst College, MA in art history from Tulane University, a second MA and a Ph.D. in art history from Princeton University. She taught at Princeton University and Amherst College before entering the faculty at York College and the Graduate Center, CUNY as Associate Professor of Art History in 2000. Dr. Vendryes initiated the print version of this project in the context of an African American Art course she taught at York College in 2002. Dr. Vendryes prepared the description of Frank Stella's Brozozdowce III, a mixed media piece that hangs outside the Cafeteria on the first floor of the Academic Core. In 2008, Vendryes became curator of Fine Art Collection at The Amistad Research Center in New Orleans preparing its first large-scale exhibition and catalog.
Dinar Wibowo: Ms. Wibowo, a Communications Technology major, prepared the description of Recent Works, by post-graffiti artists Crash and Daze. She also handled some of the digital photography and image editing for the site.
Paulette Williams: Ms. Williams (York College/CUNY class of 2003) prepared the description of Elizabeth Catlett's Torso, a mahogany sculpture on display in the York College Library.

Notes

English 384 (Spring 2008), from left to right: Charleen Tucker, Tawana Lipscomb, Michael J. Cripps, Adam Gecker, Reginald Augustin, Davian Francis, Tawasi Clarke, Sheena Babb, Dinar Wibowo, Edwin Illoh, Annette Suarez-Ortega, Gary Flores, Iddan Brown, Yanizie Cameron, Keston Glasgow, and Kyle Dabrowski.

return to top