Associate Professor of 3D Design and Animation

Year Joined RCNJ: 2003

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-6288
• Email: alepore@ramapo.edu
• Office: BC-147
• Office Hours: Wed 1:00-12:00 PM, Fri 2:00-3:00 PM
• Personal Website

Courses Offered:

• ARTS 211 - BASIC ART & TECHNOLOGY
• 3D Animation (ARTS 209 - 3-D ANIMATION)
• Intermediate 3D Animation (ARTS 325 - INTERMEDIATE 3D ANIMATION)
• Creative DIY Electronics (ARTS 323 - PHYSICAL COMPUTING)
• Art Activism (ARTS 425 - )

ABOUT THE ELECTRONIC ART AND ANIMATION CONCENTRATION

STUDENT WORK

Education:

• M.F.A. Computer Art, School of Visual Arts (SVA) New York (2003)

• B.F.A. cum Laude, Concentration in Print and Video, Alfred University (1996)

Awards and Special Recognition:

Residencies
• River Summer Teaching Artist, awarded residency aboard the Research Vessel Sea Wolf to teach data visualization and conduct sampling in the Hudson River, July 2011
• Gallery Aferro, Artist in Residence, February 2010-February 2010, Newark, NJ
• Taliesin/ Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Artist in Residence, Spring Green, WI, June 2007
• Taliesin West/ Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Artist in Residence, Scottsdale, AZ, January 2007
• Taliesin/ Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Artist in Residence, Spring Green, WI, Summer 2006
• Engine 27, Audio Residency, New York, NY Spring 2003

Grants
• Meadowlands Commission Grant, March 2011
• Jersey City University Print Shop Access, Summer, 2009, In Kind
• Ramapo College Specially Budgeted Research Grant, Summer, 2009
• Ramapo College Foundation Grant, June 2007
• Support from Taliesin Artist residency program July 2006, January 2007, June 2007
• Support from Colorado State visiting artist program, 2006-2007
• Adjunct Travel Funds, Ramapo College Contemporary Arts Unit, 2006
• Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Grant Recipient, International Flaherty Film Seminar, Vassar College, 2002
• New York Foundation on the Arts grant 2000
• New York State Council on the Arts grant 2000
• New York State Council for the Humanities 2000
• Experimental Television Center grant 2000
• Friends of the Saratoga Springs Public Library grant 2000

Publications
• Wilcox, Emma. Through You Into Action: Celebrating Five Years of the Gallery Aferro Studio Residency, exh. cat. Newark, New Jersey: Gallery Aferro, 2012
• The Jersey City Independent. Carroll, Brendan. “Jersey City Artist Ann LePore on Invisible Barriers, Hip-Hop and Her Latest Curated Show” [Jersey City] December 15, 2010.
• LePore, Ann. Re-Defining Animation, exh. cat. Mahwah, New Jersey: Pascal Gallery, 2008
• University Of Kansas. “Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F.B.Morse. By Kenneth Silverman. Reviewed by Ann LePore.” American Studies Journal 1st ser. 46.1 (2005): 60-61.
• Leonardo Magazine and Digital Salon, New Leonardo Artist Award, Vectors: Digital Art of Our Time, New York, NY 2003

Recent Scholarly and Professional Accomplishments:
Selected Exhibitions/Performance
2012
• Faculty Exhibition, Kresge and Pascal Galleries, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, Sept 12- October 13, 2012, Curated by Sydney Jenkins
• Palisade Pop-Up, Temporary Performance Gallery, Jersey City, NJ June 1-July 10, 2012, curated by Christine Goodman
• Through You Into Action, Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ April 16- June 9 2012, curated by Emma Wilcox
• Mapping for Empathy (the landscape is deadly), Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ March 10- April 14, 2012, Solo Exhibition curated by Emma Wilcox
• Identity Blueprint, The Camera Club, New York, NY December 2011-January 2012, curated by Evonne Davis
• Relexification, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ November 2011-December 2012, curated by Emma Wilcox
• Illustrious, ONE Gallery, Newark, NJ November 2011, -January 2012, Juried, curated by Christine Wagner and Stan Sudol
2011
• Identity Blueprint, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ, October-December 2011, curated by Evonne Davis
• Mapping For Empathy in 4 Dimensions, Kresge Gallery, Mahwah, NJ, September 2011, Solo Exhibition Curated by Sydney Jenkins
• Identity Blueprint, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ May 2011, curated by Evonne Davis
• Freeze, Art House Productions, Jersey City, NJ March 2011, curated by Christine Goodman
• Infinite Rewind, Distillery Gallery, Jersey City, NJ March 2011, curated by Irene Bornegraeber
2010
• Sitelines LoVid: Trichrome Navigation, curated by Andy Horwitz for the River to River Festival, New York, NY August 2010
• ArtReach XVIII, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ June-July 2010, curated by Rodney Gilbert
• Video Melee, Aferro Gallery, Newark, NJ, May 1-28, 2010
• Common Ground, H-Wing Auditorium, Mahwah, NJ April 23, 2010
2009
• Ready To Unveil, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ October – December 2009, Juried
• La Superette Art Fair, La Superette Pop-Up Gallery, New York, NY December 2009 Curated by Kyle Lapidus
• CONJURE, Red Squared Gallery, Spring Green, WI, August and September 2009, Curated by Michael DesBarres
2008
• Expanding Animation, Pascal Gallery, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ November 6- December 10, 2008 (curator)
• Faculty Exhibition, Kresge and Pascal Galleries, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ February 2008 2008-2006 (selected exhibitions)
• Return, Refrain, Taliesin, Spring Green, WI, June, 2007, Curated by Saskia Jorda
• Re-Mapping the Caribbean, Museo De La Casa Reales in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, May 2007, Curated by Carola Driedemie
• Due North, Taliesin, Spring Green, WI, August, 2006, Curated by Saskia Jorda
• Art for Healing, Mushroom Arts and Korea Village, Flushing NY, May 2006, Curated by Hyun Suk Kim
• Rage Against the Machine, Spire Studios, Beacon, NY, March and April 2006, Curated by Robert Modafferi and Jackie Skrzynski
• Temporal Voice Recess, Sharp Theater, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, March 2006