Recent Achievements of the RCC Community

Exhibited:
Collette Fournier, adjunct faculty, Art, and Educational Support Specialist, Campus Communications, is featured in Aaduna, an online literary and visual arts publication with “Legacies…African Character, Spirit, and Determination” a three-part exhibition of photographs chronicling her travels to Ghana and other parts of Africa, (See www.aaduna.org Feb. 28 – May 30).  Her work is also included in "Kamoinge: Revealing the Face of Katrina," at The College of New Rochelle in the Gordon Parks Gallery and Cultural Arts Gallery (opening: Sat., March 3, from 3 – 5 pm). Kamoinge is a New York-based collective of African American photographers, and several of the group traveled to Louisiana and document the devastation to communities ravaged by Katrina.  

Honored:
Christopher Plummer, adjunct faculty, Performing Arts, was selected as one of only eight invited Associate Instructors to teach at the annual Society of American Fight Directors - Winter Wonderland Workshop (Jan. 6-8, Chicago, Illinois). Close to 200 participants enrolled in the workshop. Plummer was also accepted to the first annual Advanced Combatant Intensive - a very selective advanced training workshop conducted by renowned Fight Master, Richard Ryan, and Fight Director, Nick Sandys (Jan 3-5, Chicago).

Performance:
Angelo Parra, adjunct faculty, Performing Arts, has been invited to present his Off-Broadway play, The Devil’s Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith (currently at St. Luke’s Theatre), at the 2012 Montreal Jazz Festival (June 28 to July 7). In addition, Parra, in conjunction with the Arts Council of Rockland, Penguin Rep Theatre, and Rockland Center for the Arts, gave two public readings of his work-in-progress, Passing in the Night, a play based on the letters of the renowned composer Kurt Weill and his wife, stage and screen performer, Lotte Lenya (Dec. , West Nyack ,and Jan., Stony Point) 

Published:
Martin J. Lecker, Ed.D., Professor, Business published the article, “When Corporate Leaders Behave Badly” in the Polish Human Resources Management Journal  (Zarzadzanie Zasobami Ludzkimi) published by the Institute of Labour and Social Affairs (Warsaw, Poland).

Eileen MacAvery-Kane, adjunct faculty, Graphic Design and Computer Graphics, published a book, Ethics: A Graphic Designer's Field Guide (2010), to explore three major topics: legalities, integrity, and morality. She continues to write on the subject on her blog at: www.ethicsingraphicdesign.org

Students:
The short play, "Nothing," written by Joelle Almodovar of Pomona, a returning adult student majoring in Performing and Communication Media Arts, is being produced by the Haverstraw Youth Theater (March 29, 30, and 31). These performances will be part of a festival celebrating Women’s History Month. The playwright, Almodovar, has also been cast to play the leading role of Janelle. The play’s title refers to how people often answer the query, “What’s wrong”… even when there may be substantive issues they are dealing with. The story’s focus is a family challenged by several issues including the mother’s petit mal seizures and a child with autism.