Who Is Director of Woodstock Ny School of Art

Speaker Profiles - Fine & Performing Arts

Vicky Jeudy '03

Actress, Known for Janae Watson in Orangish is the New Black
Major: Theatre Arts

Vicky Jeudy is best known for her breakout role on the American one-act-drama hitting series Orange Is the New Black every bit Janae Watson, a former high schoolhouse track star who, after 1 wrong turn, becomes an inmate at Litchfield Penitentiary.

Vicky got her start in the entertainment world competing in beauty pageants. She was a top 25 semi-finalist in the Miss New York USA competition, where she took abode the championship of Miss Photogenic. Subsequently earning her Available of Arts degree in Theatre Arts, her involvement shifted from pageants to acting. Vicky landed her first few roles in small independent films. Through these projects, she learned that her emotionally nuanced performances — coupled with her professionalism — would create fast opportunities for her future as an creative person.

Born and raised in Queens, NY and of Haitian descent, Vicky is an activist at heart. She believes that as an creative person, she should limited her world views through each of her grapheme portrayals.

Vicky is an gorging reader in holistic health and when not on gear up, can exist seen empowering the youth in her urban customs. She enjoys boxing in her gratuitous time.

Dr. Christine Mullen Kreamer '75

Deputy Managing director and Main Curator
The National Museum of African Art
The Smithsonian Institution
Major: Fine art History

Dr. Christine Mullen Kreamer is deputy director and principal curator at the National Museum of African Fine art, Smithsonian Institution.  Her numerous exhibitions and publications explore fine art and ritual, gender, African systems of knowledge, and museum practice, and they span the disciplines of art history, anthropology, and museum studies.  In addition to research in Togo and South Africa, she has worked on museum exhibitions and preparation projects in Ghana and Vietnam.

Christine received her doctoral degree from Indiana Academy. In addition to articles and essays on traditional and contemporary African arts and museum practices, her more recent exhibitions and co-authored publications include: Conversations: African and African American Artwork in Dialogue (2014); African Cosmos: Stellar Arts (2012); Lines, Marks, and Drawings: Through the Lens of Roger Ballen (2013); Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art (2007); and African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Fine art Drove (2007). She is too a contributing author for an essay on connoisseurship in the 2014 edited volume Visions from the Woods: The Art of Liberia and Sierra Leone and two essays in the 2011 edited volume Representing Africa in American Art Museums (University of Washington Press, 2011).

Renee Levine '10

Sound Designer for National Tours and Broadway
Major: Theatre Arts

Renee Levine graduated from SUNY New Paltz in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts caste in Theatre Arts. She is currently a member of the stagehand union International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) specializing in audio. Her start chore out of college was traveling with the Big Apple Circus equally the sound assistant. Since then, Renee has been a part of the sound departments for numerous Broadway tours, including Elf, Hullo Dolly starring Sally Struthers, We Will Rock Y'all, Grinch, Matilda, and many others. She has also had the opportunity to piece of work in New York for The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, and for the Broadway production of Kinky Boots. She is currently on the road with the national tour of Bullets Over Broadway.

Katharine McKenna

Artist and Gallery Owner
Major: American Studies

Built-in in Berkeley, CA and a long time resident of Woodstock, NY, Katharine McKenna divides her time between the Hudson Valley and the American West. Her luminous landscape paintings reveal a profound attachment to the natural geology and essence of place in her paintings of Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, Utah, and Arizona. Awe-inspiring rock formations run across apartment plains; angular roads eerily cut through landscapes seemingly uninhabited; endless sky and natural geometries dominate. Katharine's influences are evident: Gauguin and van Gogh in color and line, Bonnard in flattened blueprint, and Georgia O'Keeffe in the skillful fusion between the abstract and the figurative. "My goal is to create indelible images that are uniquely individual; each with their own identity, personality, and purpose, while at the same time exhibiting a recognizable vocalization."

Katharine's inspiration is rooted in childhood experiences with her paleontologist male parent, whose expeditions with the American Museum of Natural History in New York exposed her to the American w: a territory that represents to her the concept of wide open spaces, dirt roads, and the final frontier. Museum exhibitions include the Rockwell Museum of Western Fine art, the Booth Western Fine art Museum, the Yellowstone Fine art Museum, the Buffalo Beak Center of the West, the Museum of Northern Arizona, and the Desert Caballeros Museum. Her paintings happily reside in permanent collections of the Rockwell Museum, the Museum of Northern Arizona, the Booth Museum, the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, and at the Desert Caballeros Museum in Wickenburg, AZ where she recently won the People's Choice Accolade 2015 at Cowgirl Up! Exhibition. Katharine has a Available of Arts degree in American Studies with a concentration in Anthropology from Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, and a Master of Industrial Design degree from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. She has worked in a diversity of disciplines over the years, including museum exhibition blueprint, estimator user interface pattern, and colour consultation. Katharine currently teaches painting and color at the Woodstock School of Art in Woodstock, NY. She serves on the boards of Pratt Institute, the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, and the Arts Guild of Kingston, Kingston, NY.

Donna Suchan Smeland '93

Freelance Producer
Major: Advice Media

Donna Suchan Smeland has over 20 years of feel in the entertainment industry. She has produced countless hours of television for networks such as ABC, NBC, PBS, MTV, VH1, IFC, Sundance Channel, and Comedy Central. She specializes in production direction for both studio and reality series, variety specials, live music events, and clemency benefits. Since 2006, she has been a producer on the Emmy Honour Winning Variety TelethonDark of As well Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs which provides pedagogy and support for local families affected past autism. Near recently, she produced NBC'south last two critically acclaimed live musical eventsPeter Pan Live!andThe Wiz Alive! She is a member of the Paley Middle for Media, every bit well as a voting member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS – The Emmy'due south).

Beyond television, Donna has managed events for organizations including Microsoft and the Museum of the Moving Paradigm. She is currently producing the 2016 International Brotherhood of Teamsters Convention. A lifetime member of the Girl Scouts of the United states, she is also a member-at-large of the board of directors of the Girl Scouts of Suffolk Canton since 2012, and is currently the board chair elect. Donna holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Advice Media with departmental honors, cum laude, from SUNY New Paltz. She is an active member of her local church building and the head of its fundraising commission. In her spare fourth dimension, she resides in East Yaphank, NY with her amazingly patient husband, Val, and three unruly cats.

Kristine Corso Tolmie '06

Fine art and Design Section Chair
The College of Saint Rose
Major: Printmaking

Kristine Corso Tolmie joined the faculty of the Center for Fine art and Design at The College of Saint Rose 18 years ago as an offshoot lecturer, and has taught a variety of studio, graphic blueprint, and art and learning classes. In 2008, she was appointed an assistant professor of art for printmaking, and in 2012 was promoted to associate professor, responsible for all undergraduate and graduate printmaking. For the past 3 years, she has served equally the programme director of the Saint Rose Summer Pre-College Visual Arts Experience.

Tolmie holds a Available of Science degree in Graphic Design, a Main of Science in Education degree in Art Education, K-12, and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking from SUNY New Paltz in 2006. In 2013 and 2014, she served Saint Rose as summer co-chair at the Center for Art and Design, and since May 2015, has served equally the fine art and blueprint department chair. Tolmie'due south prints have been exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally in Haifa, Israel and Seoul, Korea. A collaborative broadside impress project with Tideline Press of Long Isle, NY is included in the Rare Volume and Manuscript Drove housed in the Butler Library of Columbia University. She resides in Albany, NY.

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