Photo by Mike Fallon for Chronogram
Andrea Kantrowitz
Associate Professor Andrea Kantrowitz, director of the Art Education program, was featured in the February 2025 issue of Chronogram magazine. In the story, Kantrowitz recounts her lifelong passion for art and her storied career as an artist and educator, and discusses her 2022 book "Drawing Thought: How Drawing Helps Us Observe, Discover, and Invent."
Read the full story on Chronogram's website.
Andrea Frank
Associate Professor of Photography Andrea Frank collaborated with Professor Oscar Mauricio Moreno Escarraga of UTADEO University in Bogota, Colombia on the project "Somatic Choreographies: Spaces of Encounter Between Art, Communities, and Territory," which involved communities and students in Colombia and the Hudson Valley.
This emergent experiment took shape through exhibitions, performances, talking circles, and other engagements throughout March 2025. Frank also traveled to Bogota from April 4–13 to engage with communities and place there, and to present work with Moreno Escárraga at Proyecto Binario. To learn more, see the full Somatic Choreographies Engagement Itinerary.
Frank was also featured as a speaker at the 2025 Society for Photographic Education Annual Conference on March 8, where she gave a talk titled "Eddy at New Paltz - co-creating toward regenerative relational culture on campus." Learn more on the SPE's website.
Nadia Sablin
Associate Professor of Photography Nadia Sablin recently returned from a sabbatical, during which she completed a Fulbright U.S. Scholar program in Montenegro from September 2024 to February 2025.
Eunkyung Hwang (right) with the Master’s Award recipient (left) at the 2025 NAEA Convention.
Eunkyung Hwang
Assistant Professor of Art Education Eunkyung Hwang received several national recognitions for her dissertation “Misfit Memory Work: Challenges to K-12 Self-Portraiture Lessons Stigmatizing Female Students with Scars and Illnesses.” She was named the first runner-up for the 2025 Elliott Eisner Doctoral Dissertation Award and received the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award in Disability Studies in Art Education at the 2025 National Art Education Association Convention. Her dissertation also received the 2025 Arts-based Educational Research Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association.
Hwang was also a recipient of the most recent round of Faculty Innovation Awards from the Faculty Development Center. According to the FDC, "up to $200 each for teaching materials/training/support, along with recognition and a certificate, will be given to faculty members for new (to them) teaching innovations tried out during the 2024-25 academic year." Hwang presented her ideas alongside fellow awardees at the FDC on March 26.
Emily Puthoff
Associate Professor Emily Puthoff of the sculpture program was a recent recipient of the Faculty Development Center's Teaching Innovation Awards. According to the FDC, "up to $200 each for teaching materials/training/support, along with recognition and a certificate, will be given to faculty members for new (to them) teaching innovations tried out during the 2024-25 academic year."
Puthoff presented her ideas along with other awardees at the FDC on March 28.
Suzanne Stokes
Works by Professor of Art Suzanne Stokes ’91g (Metal) were featured in her recent exhibition "Landmarks & Water Traces: Monoprints and Installation" at Unison Arts & Learning Center in New Paltz from April 5–May 3.
"Through this series of monotypes, Suzanne Stokes explores water as both a physical substance and a powerful metaphor, weaving a collective narrative that reflects humanity’s complex relationship with this essential natural resource," according to the Unison website. "Viewing water through both micro and macro perspectives, she examines its profound role in existence—on both physical and metaphysical planes."
In conjunction with the exhibition, Unison hosted "Layering Light: A Paper Cutting & Lighting Workshop" on April 19, where Stokes guided participants in exploring traditional paper cutting techniques, experimenting with layering and patterns, and crafting unique cut-paper creations.
Learn more about the exhibition at Unison's website.
Daniel Loxton
Adjunct lecturer Daniel Loxton presented his work in a recent solo exhibition titled "You could help me with that," a set of eight paintings created by Loxton in various locations between 2022 and 2025, at Trinagolo gallery in Cremona, Italy. Loxton says he was able to travel to Italy with his family over spring break to attend the show, and also to see his work on view at Miart—an international modern and contemporary art fair in Milan—during the city's annual Design Week.
"I'm super proud of the show and look forward to spending more time in Italy this summer," says Loxton. "I am now officially represented by Triangolo which has led to some promising opportunities for other shows out there. Now if only NYC wasn't such a hard nut to crack..."
Learn more about Loxton's show on the Triangolo website.
Anat Shiftan, “Tiles with Floral Imagery” (2024), porcelain and glaze (photo by Olivia Rose, courtesy Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History)
Anat Shiftan
A show featuring the work of Professor Emerita of Ceramics Anat Shiftan got a shout-out in Hyperallergic's May 1 "What to See in Upstate New York This May" roundup. Shiftan's porcelain and glaze works are included in the group exhibition "Boundless Creativity," a show running through June 1 at the Reher Center in Kingston that "features artworks across a range of media by local immigrant artists who explore themes of identity and heritage."
Read the full story on Hyperallergic's website.
Art Faculty, Alumni Featured in Nexus Show
The show also included New Paltz printmaking alumni Sariah Park ’20g and Xuewu Zheng ’20g.
Printmaking Faculty, Students Attend Conference in Puerto Rico
Printmaking students (Cole Solis Jativa ’25g, Grace Lindenfelser ’25, Beth Itzla ’25, Halla Rhode ’25, and Cris Signoretti ’27) and faculty (Instructional Support Technician Kate Collyer and Visiting Assistant Professor Emilie Houssart) traveled to San Juan, Puerto Rico in April for the Southern Graphics Council International Printmaking Conference.
During the conference, the students participated in an international print exchange and open portfolio sessions. Additionally, Collyer presented a lecture, "Footprints & Imprints," which introduced Collyer's current research into participatory projects, printmaking, and walking as art practice. The lecture, in which Collyer also presented new work in paper and glass, was part of the conference's "Wind Whispers" panel. See the recording of Collyer's lecture on her website.
Check out more photos from the trip on Printmaking's Instagram page.
