NCCC opens art season with faculty exhibit

Niagara Wheatfield Tribune, October 12, 2006

The mixed media works of 12 Niagara County Community College faculty members will open the 2006-07 art season at the college.

“Making a Mark” is an exhibition where the artists have been asked to reveal some insight into their unique creative process. The group features the paintings and drawings of Barbara Buckman and James Goodrich; drawings by Michael Parker, Geeta Harvey and Constance Nowak; print-based mixed media works on paper by Barbara Rowe; photographically based mixed works by Don Scheller; jewelry by Bonnie Ulrich; photographs by Nancy Knechtel; artist-made books and prints by Laura Jackett; prints by Kathleen Sherin; and ceramic sculpture by Shane M. Keena.

The show will be on exhibit through Nov. 17. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Buckman is a professor of fine arts at NCCC. She has a bachelors degree in fine arts from the SUNY College at Buffalo and a masters degree in fine arts from Hunter College. Her works have been shown throughout the United States.

Rowe is an associate professor of fine arts and specializes in screen-printing. She is owner of Abaca Press, a screen-printing business in Buffalo. Rowe’s work can be found in the collections of Frans Masreel Center, Belgium; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Albright Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo; and at the Burchfield and Penney Art Center in Buffalo.

Knechtel is professor of art history at NCCC and has been a contributor to many publications on Frank Lloyd Wright. In this exhibit she has shown an exterior and interior shot of Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Fallingwater,” showing the home’s glass angles and stone cantilevers in a natural setting. Knechtel’s work has been exhibited nationally.

Scheller, Parker, Sherin, Ulrich, Goodrich, Jackett, Harvey and Keena are adjunct members of the NCCC Fine Arts Department.

Scheller, who has a bachelor of fine arts degree from Rochester Institute of Technology and a master’s from SUNY Buffalo, has taught at NCCC since 1999. His works are in the collections of the Castellani Art Museum; Polaroid Print Collection in Massachusetts; Chrysler Museum in Virginia; and Charles Rand Penney.

Parker is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon and SUNY Buffalo. He also teaches at SUNY Buffalo and Daemen College.

Sherin serves as NCCC’s gallery director. She has a masters degree in painting and printmaking from SUNY Buffalo. Sherin also teaches at D’Youville College. Her primary medium is printmaking and her works are one-of-a-kind prints from her new series of assembled monoprint/collagraphs that abstractly ponder the question of boundaries.

Ulrich has been a design instructor for five years and has degrees in English literature and design.

Goodrich has a masters degree from SUNY at Buffalo and a bachelors degree from Buffalo State. He is a teaching artist and visual arts program consultant with the Arts in Education Institute of Western New York, as well as an adjunct faculty member at Erie Community College and Buff State.

Jackett is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology, the State University colleges at Buffalo and Geneseo. She has taught at Onondaga, Cayuga, Genesee and Broome community colleges.

Harvey has taught art at NCCC for the past three years. She was previously an art instructor and is a graduate of Buffalo State College. Her works are in private collections in Japan, India and the Nited States. Keena graduated from Otis College of Art and Design and Rochester Institute of Technology. Prior to coming to Western New York, Keena was a visiting artist at California State College at Los Angeles. He is also a professional photographer and portrait photographer.

There is no admission charge to NCCC’s Gallery.