BIOGRAPHIES

Academic Services

Peter Benson – Department Head of Photography. Professor of Photography. B.S., University of New Haven; M.A., Goddard College. Photography Instructor, Fairfield University; Director, Ferris Art Center; Staff Photographer, Yale University; Photographer for many national magazines. (1990)

Peter Miserendino – Department Head of Graphic Design. Lecturer in Graphic Design. B.A., Visual Arts/ Illustration, Syracuse University; Associates Degree, Commercial Arts, SUNY. Illustrator and Graphic Designer; Instructor of Graphic Design for Connecticut Institute of Art; Adjunct teaching graphic art production, Elizabeth Seton College; Assistant Art Director at Troll Assocation, Inc., Mahwah, NJ; Art Director, Images Design, Darien, CT; Production Artist, The Ad Team, Yonkers, NY; sole proprietor of PT Pie Illustration and Graphic Design, providing “on-line” art services creating digital, cartoon (including web animation), technical and fine art illustration to corporations world-wide, as well as graphic design services and materials with over 20 years experience in pre-press production. Also is a recording artist/performer and song writer of solo acoustic guitar instrumentals with CDs available on Lighthouse Records; member of ASCAP. (2002)

Pierre Strauch – Department Head of Interior Design. Professor in Interior Design. RA, CID, Designer, B. Arch., 1970 Yale University; Graduate School of Architecture. Taught at Yale University and Fairfield University. Owner of Architecture and contract design firm, New Haven. Bio in Barons, Who's Who in Interior Design; architecture projects published in Concrete Masonry Designs, and Home Magazine. Member: College Art Association and National Trust for Historic Preservation. Associate Fellow of Timothy Dwight College, Yale University. Art One-person and group exhibitions include: Art at the Capitol, Aetna Gallery and GE Corporate Gallery. Art included in corporate collections such as GE, Aetna and SNET. Art reviewed in New York Times, Hartford, Courant, etc. Art published in corporate catalogs. (1970)

Robert E. Zappalorti – Director of the Division of Fine Arts/ Illustration/Foundation. Professor of Fine Arts. Diploma, Paier School of Art; B.F.A., Albertus Magnus College; painter, author; exhibitor: New Haven Paint and Clay Club, Trinity College, Gallery-on-the-Green, Osage Gallery, Gallery 86, and Douglas Gallery; recipient, Benedictine First Prize. Represented by Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich CT, NYC, Nantucket MA. Member: Collegiate Press Editorial Advisory Board. (1971)

Faculty

Rob Hazen Adams – Lecturer in Interior Design; M. Arch., Syracuse University, Cutler, Revels Study Abroad Scholarship, International Study Abroad Program, Florence, Italy; Structures Teaching Assistantship; Design Studio Teaching Assistantship; Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture, North Carolina State University; Intern Architect, Centerbrook Architects; Architectural Intern, Bread Loaf Corporation, Middlebury, VT; freelance designer, sun room addition, Raleigh, NC; Acquisitions Aide, North Carolina State University Nation Golden Key Honor Society, AIAS, math tutor. (2001)

Peter Benson – Professor of Photography. (See Academic Services section)

Peter Bonadies – Professor of Fine Arts and Study Abroad Coordinator. B.F.A., Sculpture, University of Connecticut; M.F.A., Sculpture, Massachusetts College of Art; University of Florence, and University of Urbino, Italy. Instructor: Raffaello Academy, Urbino Italy, SCSU, University of Connecticut, Massachusetts College of Art. Recent lectures at Drew University, Trinity College, New Britain Museum of American Art, FATE Conference. Commissioned sculptor. Founder CPR4Art. Affiliated with College Art Association, FATE, CT Sculpture Society. Recent exhibitions at UConn, Huntington and Bakalaar Galleries, Boston, MA; ECSU. Permanent display, AIN, New Haven. (2000)

Richard A. Brassil – Lecturer in Graphic Design. Diploma, Paier College of Art. Art Director/Designer, Silverman Design Group, and Davidoff & Partners; partner, Hubbard/Brassil Advertising; free-lance with Sprowl Assocation, Sillery Mayer & Partners, Weston Creative Assoc., The River Group, and Barry Blau & Partners. Winner of Best of Show, Connecticut Art Directors' Club; ANDY Award, the Advertising Club of New York; and awards from Communication Arts Magazine, and The Advertising Clubs of Hartford and Fairfield County. (1997)

Brandon Benevento – Lecturer in General Education. M.A. in Humanities; Wesleyan University, CT.  B.A. in English Literature; St. Michael’s College, VT. Adjunct Instructor of English, Gateway Community College, CT. Freelance Writer, New Haven Magazine. Writing/Editing Consultant, The Graduate Institute, Milford CT. (2010)

Steven Brennan – Lecturer in Illustration. B.F.A., Illustration, Paier College of Art. Freelance illustrator in book, magazine, and advertising. Many private and corporate portrait commissions. Working primarily in oil on board and more recently in the digital medium. Clients include: The United Nations, CitiBank, Corporate Report, International Business Magazine, People Magazine, Golf Digest, TV Guide, Field and Stream, Merryl Lynch, Paramount Pictures. Eli Lilly, Simon and Schuster, and Ballantine Books. Commissioned with Harlequin Books for 50-60 paperback novels per year. Member of Society of Illustrators Received first prize at the Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition. (2007)

Francis Rexford Cooley – Lecturer in Academic Studies (See Administration listing.)

Glen Curtis – Lecturer in Photography. St. Petersburg Junior College. Academy for Forensic Photography and Crime Scene Investigation. Freelance Commercial Photographer; Prepress Consultant. Member: Professional Photographers of America; Professional Photographers Association of New England. CT Professional Photographers Association. (2002)

Rosemary DeLucco-Alpert – Lecturer in Photography. B.A. in Communications. University of Connecticut Freelance Photographer. Published in national magazines including U.S. Kids, Good Housekeeping; Weekly reader. Cover Photography, "Caduceus" vol.3, Publisher Yale University New Haven. Numerous professional workshops. Studied under Ansel Adams in California. Numerous exhibitions including: Cilantro's, Guilford; R.J. Julia's, Madison; Casey Greene Gallery, Willimatic; The Playhouse on the Green, Bridge- port; Yale Shoreline Medical Building, Guilford; Connecticut Hospice, Branford; Shoreline Arts Trail, Guilford. Member: American Society of Picture Professionals, The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, and the Shoreline Arts Trail. (2002)

John B. DiGioia – Professor of Graphic Design. Diploma, Paier School of Art. Graphic designer; formerly art director, BBD&O; art director, Early Years magazine; member, Art Directors Service, NY; New Haven Advertising Board; American Cancer Society; Graphic Design advisory board, Tunxis Community College; member, CT Art Directors Club; Award recipient of the Society of Illustrators; Ad Directions; Linweave Creative Papers; Connecticut Craftsmen; Ford Motor Company; Connecticut Graphic Arts; Christmas Seals. (1967)

Ron Eichorn – Lecturer in Interior Design. B.S. in Economics; B. Arch. Principal of Ron Eichorn Design, Lighting/Architecture; Registered Architect, CT; Regisered Interior Designer, CT; Member: American Institute of Architects, AIA Connecticut, Illuminating Engineering Society of North America. Juror, Yale University; Instructor, Architecture Licensing Exam; Guest Lecturer in Lighting Design, Princeton University; Guest lecturer in Basic Design, M.I.T.; Assistant Professor of Architecture, University of New Mexico, Teaching Assistant, University of California, Berkeley. Holds U.S. Patent No. 503,327 with ECA, Undershelf Task Light in Hayworth and Alma Desk furniture systems. (1998)

David Eustice – Lecturer in General Studies. Ph.D, SUNY at Binghamton, NY. Bayer Corp., CGI Pharm., Greenwich Science Center. Numerous Publications including Journal of Biology and Chemistry. (2010)

John F. Falato – Professor of Fine Arts. Diploma, Paier School of Art; B.F.A., University of Hartford. Instructor: Greens Farms Academy, Silvermine College of Art. Advertising and illustration, Lennon and Newell, Inc., NYC. Represented in many public and private collections. Recipient of numerous prizes and awards including 1999 Weir Farm Award of Merit, Arts for the Parks Competition. Published in Art from the Parks, North Light Books, 2000. Represented by Harmon-Meek Gallery, in Naples, FL and by Fischbach Gallery, NYC. (1985)

Terence Falk– Lecturer in Photography. B.F.A., Cum Laude, Photography, University of Bridgeport. Thirty years experience in fine art and commercial photography, which included assignments for annual reports and editorial clients. Master exhibition black and white printer for Richard Avedon, Bruce Davidson, Philippe Halsman, Horst, Duane Michals, Eva Rubinstein, and Rodney Smith. Exhibited widely in New England and New York. Selected in 2003 as one of only several photographers (out of nearly one-thousand applicants) to exhibit in the “Biennial Exhibition of the Portland Museum of Art”, in Portland, Maine. Solo exhibitions include, “Borrowed Light: The Photographs of Terence Falk,” at The Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport, Maine (2004). Also showed at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (1996) and The Fitchburg Museum of Art in Massachusetts (1996) as one of three photographers cited among the twenty-five top contemporary artists in New England for their annual “New England/New Talent” exhibition. Teaching includes advanced classes at the Creative Arts Workshops and at The University of Bridgeport, in Connecticut. Currently on the faculty at Maine Photographic Workshops, F.I.T. in New York and Paier College of Art, in Hamden, Connecticut. Awarded an Artists Residency Fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Sweet Briar, Virginia and a Weir Farm Visiting Artist Fellowship at Weir Farm Art Center, in Wilton, Connecticut. (2006)

Kahn Gasimov – Lecturer in Fine Arts. M.A. in Sculpture, University of Art, Baku; BFA in Sculpture, College of Arts, Baku; School of Arts, Baku (former USSR). Majority of recent works are held by collectors in Moscow, Geeneva, Antwerpen, Tel Aviv, Jersusalem, and Toronto. Some selected commisions and ehibitions of sculptures including: Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, completed a number of life-size wax figures for museums; Mashantucket Pequot Museum, CT, 111 life-size Native American figures; Motown Cafe, NV and NY, commisioned to sculp life-size portraits of Motown performers. Numerous solo shows in Canada, Jerusalem, Moscow and Baku. (2010)

Richard Gedney– Lecturer in Interior Design. Founder and owner of Kitchens by Gedney, Madison CT. Certified lighting consultant for CT Light and Power Company. Published in Good House-Keeping Magazine. Chapter representation for the Southern New England Chapter of the National Kitchen and Bath Association. (2002)

Michael Grimaldi – Lecturer in Photography and Graphic Design. B.F.A., Photography, Pratt Institute, NY. Ford Foundation Grant Recipient. Owner: M. Grimaldi Studio, Milford CT since 1981. Artistic and commercial photography; Corporate and advertising photography. Taught at Parsons School of Design, NY; Upsala College, NJ. Numerous group exhibitions and books. (2005)

Gerd Groenewold – Lecturer in General Education. M.A., Philosophy, Yale University, New Haven CT. B.A., Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Fellow: Philosophy Department, Yale University. Taught classes in Philosophy of Architecture; Introduction to Modern Philosophy; Introduction to Ancient Philosophy. Graduated Summa Cum Laude. Member of Phi Betta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi; Golden Key Honor Society. (2008)

Albert Guarnieri – Lecturer in Graphic Design and Photography. Graphic preparation artist in the printing industry since 1978, holds a Masters Card, for Offset Color Camera and Offset Scanner Operation issued by Master Printers of America, a division of the Printing Industries of America Inc. Expert in many graphic software which where developed for the printing industry, strong emphasis on image retouching. Commercial Photographer with Graphics House, 1973–1978. Studio photographer for many fine studios; Jay Storm and Creative Studio in New Haven, CT and studied portraiture with S. Andre Petrelle. Photography contract for the 1973 Albertus Magnus Yearbook and Secretary/Treasurer and photographer/graphic designer for the Marine Mammal Recovery Foundation. (2001)

Richard Hoyer – Lecturer in Photography. M.A., Photography, Fairfield University; B.A., Science/Music, SCSU; Graduate Studies, Photography, Columbia University, NY.; Internet Engineering and Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA. Photography instructor: Manchester Community College, Worchester Art Museum. Awards: Artwell Gallery, Nicholas & Johnson Silver Gavel Award; Wood Memorial, Silver Anniversary Biennial National Group Show, Simonds Photography Award. Extensive solo and group exhibitions. Publication: Photography for United Way Publication. Member: American Society of Media Photographers; Society for Photographic Education; Editorial Photographers; College Art Association; International Center for Photography. (2005)

Philip Lique – Lecturer in Genera Education and in Graphic Design, M.F.A.,in Painting from Western Connecticut State University, B.F.A in Graphic Design from Paier College of Art. Philip lives and works as an artist in New Haven, Connecticut. Lique's work was exhibited in the DeCordova 2010 Biennial, Lincoln, MA, as well as in solo and group exhibitions at Art Space, New Haven, CT. In addition to teaching, Lique freelances as a fabricator, designer, curator and Co-Founded the experimental exhibition project Stockroom. (2001)

Gene Mayer  – Lecturer in Graphic Design. B.F.A., Communication Design, Pratt Institute, NY.  Principal and Creative Director, Gene Mayer Associates, Inc., since1985. His work has been recognized by The American Institute of Graphic Arts, The CT Art Directors Club, The International Association of Business Communicators and the Society of Typographic Arts. Clients include General Electric, The Hartford Financial Services Group, Bayer, United Technologies, Kraft Food and Tiffany & Company. Member: American Institute of Graphic Arts, CT Art Directors Club, International Association of Business Communicators, National Investors Relations Institute.  (2006)

Laura Marsh – Lecturer in General Education. M.F.A., Yale University School of Scupture, New Haven CT. B.F.A., Cleveland Institute of Art in Painting. Marsh pursues mixed media work that challenges popular notions of beauty, sexuality, and gender politics. She currently teaches Introductory Art and Art History Classes at the University of New Haven, Digital Arts Classes at Naugatuck Valley Community College, and Art History at Paier College of Art. Marsh has been included in several group shows in New Haven and New York. Marsh co-founds Stockroom Projects, independent and ongoing project series, with her partner, Philip Lique. (2010)

Francis J. McAuliffe – Lecturer in Photography, M.S., SCSU, (1984) Seton Hall University. Freelance industrial, architectural and wedding photography, and promotional copy writing. Director of Communications, Centrig Industries. Television News producer, WTHN-TV (8), New Haven, and WPVI-TV (6), Philadelphia. Radio News caster, KYW Newsradio, Philadelphia. News director for Lancaster County, PA, WLYH-TV (15). Exhibitor of fine photographs under a dominant theme of the architectural legacy and historical trace of "New England's Lost Civilization.

Frank McLaughlin – Lecturer in Illustration. A.A., University of Bridgeport. Guest Lecturer, Fairfield University and Yale University; Co-developed the Writing to Read Program for IBM with Dr. John Henry Martin at Nova University, FL. Over 40 years of experience in the field of comics. Clients include Marvel Comics (Captain America, Iron Fist, Spiderman and many others); D.C. Comics (Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, many others). Other clients include Dell, Broadway, Archie, Defiant, Valiant and Charlton (where he served as comic editor). His work on syndicated strips include: The Heart of Juliet Jones with Stan Drake, Nancy with Guy Gilchrist, Stan Smith's Tennis Tips for Washington Star Syndicate. Currently the artist for Gil Thorp for the Tribune Media Syndicate. Authored and illustrated How to Draw Mon- sters for Comics and How to Draw Those Bodacious Bad Babes of Comics for St. Martin press. (1968)

Muriel Miller – Lecturer in Fine Arts/Foundation Studies. A.S. (Fine Art), Quinebaug Community College; B.S., Eastern Connecticut State University; B.F.A.. UConn; M.S. Art, Central CT State University. Currently an instructor at Eastern CT State University and Central CT State University, teaching color theory, painting and drawing. Teaching Art Location Studies Abroad for 11 years in Ireland, England and Australia. As a recipent of AAUP Grants has painted in the Southwest National Parks and has done workshops in Wyoming. Member: Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Exhibition: Canton Gallery on the Green, University of DT, Farmington Art Guild, Chapel on the Green (Columbia), CT Academy of Fine Art. Affiliation: CT Art Educators Association, Mystic Art Association, Wadsworth Atheneum, Essex Art Association, Lyme Art Association, Artworks Gallery and others. (1995)

Peter Miserendino – Department Head of Graphic Design. Professor of Graphic Design. (See Academic Services listing.)

Louis Monaco, Jr. – Professor of Illustration. Diploma, Paier School of Art. Illustrator; cover and jacket designer for Appleton, Century and Crofts; New York Graphics; Crown Publishers; and the Xerox Corporation; recipient of Benedictine Award. Exhibition: New Haven Arts Festival, New Haven Paint and Clay Club. (1968)

Perry Obee – Lecturer in General Education. M.F.A., Painting, Western CT State University, CT. B.F.A., Painting and Printmaking, Ohio Wesleyan University, OH (Magna Cum Laude). Visual Arts Fellow, CT Commission on Culture and Tourism. Program Associate, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, CT. Teaching Assistant, WCSU, CT. Numerous group and solos shows throughout CT and NY. (2011)

Ann O’Brien – Lecturer in Graphic Design. B.Sc., Communications, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland. Creative Director/Owner, O’Brien Designs. Freelance designer for a long list of corporate clients, some of which include: IBM; Cigna; Healthnet; Danbury Hospital; CT Historical Society. Awards received from CT. Boston and The New York Directors Awards. Published in: The Society of Publication Designers, Graphic Design USA; Storks and Bonds. (2008)