School of Contemporary Arts (CA)
Dean - Steven Perry
| Faculty: | ||||
| Tobin Addington Mary Ellen Allison Marta Bautis Bonnie Blake* Mack Brandon Rachel Budin Peter A. Campbell Regina Clark Meredith Davis Kelly Dolak Renata Gangemi Shalom Gorewitz* |
James Hollenbach |
Andre Perry Steven Perry Ruma Sen H. Beba Shamash Maria Siano Matthew Swarts* Maria Vail Terra Vandergaw Warner Wada Jay Wholley* Jo Winiarski (*disclaimer below) |
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Majors: Communication Arts Contemporary Arts Music Theater Visual Arts |
Minors: Music Theater |
| Related Links: Career Paths The Angelica and Russ Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts |
About the School
The School of Contemporary Arts provides an
understanding of the established traditions in the Fine Arts
and Communication Arts while simultaneously preparing students
to embrace new means of expression. The School, which is inherently
interdisciplinary in its structure and its goals, recognizes
the interconnectedness of the arts in contemporary society,
and encourages students to develop and communicate ideas in
multiple media. Excellent instruction in the visual, communication,
theatrical, and musical arts takes place in small studio, lab,
seminar, and discussion settings, as well as through activities
outside the classroom environment. Practical experience, public
presentation, and reflection are integrated into the educational
process in many ways, such as through Internships and Cooperative
learning assignments, play production, musical performance and
recording, visual arts production and exhibition, and the production
and viewing of video, film, and design.
The School’s faculty are dedicated teachers, nationally
known for their artistic and professional achievements and scholarly
work. Some have won awards from such major art funding sources
as the National Endowment for the Arts, John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation, and the Kellogg Foundation. In addition
to the full-time faculty, the school has attracted many working
artists and media professionals to teach as adjunct faculty to
serve as guest directors and designers, or to inspire our students
as artists in residence.
The School of Contemporary Arts offers five majors: Communication
Arts, Music, Theater, Visual Arts, and the Contemporary Arts
Contract Major (an interdisciplinary major that enables students
to develop individualized programs that correspond to their special interests and career goals). These programs lead to the Bachelor of Arts
degree. Minors are available in Music and Theater.
Contemporary Arts students are actively involved with "The
Ramapo News," the college newspaper, WRPR (90.3 FM), the
college radio station, and RCTV, the student club for television/video
production. Others participate in the Ramapo Chorale, the
Gospel Chorus, or Visual Artists Society, a student club dedicated
to nurturing the artistic process and presenting visual work.
Many students hold paid positions that support the work of the
School, such as Art Gallery monitors, computer lab technicians
and monitors, film/video studio and equipment check-out staff,
and costume shop staff, scenery shop and sculpture studio technicians. In addition,
many students are hired each year to support professional performing
arts events as theater technicians, box office staff and ushers.
The School is housed in the Angelica and Russ Berrie Center
for Performing and Visual Arts, featuring state-of-the-art theater,
music, and visual arts spaces, and in newly renovated facilities
in C and H buildings, which provide a professional quality television
studio and audio studio, digital imaging and
writing labs, a Final Cut Pro editing lab, a field production
classroom, and private editing suites. Additionally, the School
occupies a free-standing sculpture studio complex. Students
benefit from the professional performing arts programming on
campus which includes music, dance, and theater performances
in the Sharp Theater, and from the visual arts exhibitions in
the College Art Galleries, which focus on contemporary art in
changing exhibitions, and which feature one of the foremost
collections of works from the Americas and the Caribbean in
the permanent collection.
The School of Contemporary Arts encourages students to engage
in Internships and Cooperative Education experiences. External
placements are facilitated in graphic
and web design, print journalism, radio, television, professional
theater, art galleries and museums, etc. Organizations where
our students have been placed include Minolta, Sharp Electronics,
Sony, WNET-TV, WABC-TV, WWOR-TV, Cablevision, The Bergen Record,
American Museum of Natural History, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
the Roundabout Theater Company, the Joseph Papp Public Theater,
and others. In addition to hands-on training, students receive
degree credits for their experiences.
CA SCHOOL CORE REQUIREMENTS
- CA First Year Topics (satisfies first year seminar requirement)
- Two designated CA Upper Level courses (300-400 level)
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