VITAE
Alan W. Powell
EDUCATION
MFA 1987 Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University with a concentration in Video and Computer Art
BFA 1974 Rhode Island School of Design ~ Film/Video Honors with a minor in Photography
Bucks County Community College: 1998 – 1999 courses in Web Design and Computer Network Administration
Brown University 1974 -78 courses in Electrical Engineering and Music Composition
EMPLOYMENT
TEACHING
2022-present professor emeritus Arcadia.University
2016 – 2022 Professor Arcadia University Communication Program – faculty senate (2016-2018)
2008 – 2016 Associate Professor Arcadia University Communication Program
2003 – 2009 Assistant Professor Arcadia University – Teaching Communication and Video Production II 2000 – 2003 Bucks County Community College – Adjunct Professor teaching Web Design
2001 – 2005 Hunterdon Museum of Art – Summers Teaching Computer Animation and Video
1991 – 2000 Temple University – Associate Professor in the FMA Department from 1991 – Dec. 2000…tenured /promoted 1991
1983 – 1988 Bucks County Community College – Associate Professor in the Media & Performing Arts Dept….tenured /promoted 1987
1973, 1977 – 1978 Rhode Island School of Design – Adjunct Instructor in Film/Video Department
Professional Associations
Board of Director Signal Culture – Owego, NY – Media Residency program 2015 – president – (2019–present)
Board of Directors: Termite TV – media arts group: 2013 – present
Board of Directors: Band of Artists 2011–2014 – Vice President.
Board of Directors: Discovery Service Projects – Non-denominational mission group 2011–2017
Panelist – Philadelphia Cultural Fund 2012–2017
Panelist: NYSCA- Roxbury regional artists grant- panel-chair – 2020–2022
EXHIBITIONS OF NOTE
2023 -
Roxbury Arts Group Roxbury NY Secrets, Confessions & Revelations
Portals: TermiteTV 30th anniversary show Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia Pa
Bushel Arts Delhi NY, Waiting in the deep
ArtsInn Vaudeville show -video projection and performance Flieschmanns NY
Tilt Gallery, Philadelphia -Members show
AMR open studio tour
Lake Charles City Hall, Hit me with your best shot , bird photography
6 artist: managing editor photographer, TermiteTV press
Small Trees Video: as Part of Alan Goldstein’s Elemental Michener Museum of Art
2022 – USA home film/ video festival, Rutgers University-Covid Dreams
Ocean City Arts photography exhibit
Gallery 1053 Fleischmans, NY- Hidden garden
Arts Inn, Fleischmanns NY- Waterfall installation
Ovid Gallery Pine Hill NY – Constructions
Long Year Gallery – invited artists exhibition, Margaretville, NY
2021 – Photography exhibition Ocean City NJ, Arts Center
Covid Dreams – Video Project -broadcast Phillycam July-august 2021
Covid Dream – Buffalo International Film Festival – August 2021
Artist-in-Residence- Electronic, Arts Institute, Alfred University, November 2021
Time Matter Video Festival – Alfred University. November 2021
2020 Raw exhibit Noles Museum of Art
Selfie-Project – publication Studio 190 – Walton NY. Managing editor
Covid Dreams Broadcast. PhillyCam (/2020
Pop-up Show – Stamford NY- Nov – Dec 2020
2019 “Raw exhibit” Noles Art Museum, Atlantic City
“Remember” Walter Meade gallery, Roxbury NY
“Hardware show and Artist book” Roxbury New York
“AMR studio your and fall show”
“Transformations” Pennsylvania Society of Photography
“Ocean City Arts Center Photography Competition
2018 – Longyear Gallery invitational – Photography
Pennsylvania Society of Photography – Americana, Transformations exhibitions
AMR open studio tour- Catskills
Porch gallery: Halcottsville, NY
Ocean City Arts League- Jersey Shore – 2nd prize
Studio 190 – ongoing arts exhibition as lead external artist.
2017 – Catskill 360, Catskill Center , Arkville Ny – photography video installation solo show
“Walk down main Street” Painter’s Gallery Fleishmanns NY, photography, video installation
Trump Dump show-Political Waste” Termite TV Collective, Arcadia University, AMR Open Studios Fleishmann NY, Scribe
Video Center, Phila, PA
“Vessel Show” Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury NY, photography –
Catskill AIR Show , Catskill Center , Arkville, NY video installation, artist photography book
Fungus garden- termitetv – projections – Philadelphia PA
2016 – Color show , Roxbury arts Center, Roxbury NY – Mix Buffer video 3/2016 – 4/2016
Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Cornell University “Signal to Code” 3/2016 – 9/2016
Catskills open artist studio tour July 30/31/2016
Faculty Arts Exhibition – Arcadia University
Termite TV Waste Show, Arcadia University, PhillyCam TV, Meadows Art Park
2015 – Living Deliberately – Walden show – Judy Taylor Gallery- Arcadia University
Expertimental TV Center – 50 year history – gender Rolls .MFA Galleries Hunter College NYC, NY
South OF Here Photo Exhibition – Elys Café Gallery Trinity Buckingham Episcopal Church, Doylestown Methodist Church
2014 – Band of Artist – retrospective of BOA dance works & artists with disabilities – Arcadia University
Philly-Cam Broadcast of Coleman-Powell works 1972–2013
Painting exhibition Invitational – Longyear Gallery , Margaretville, PA
Censorship show –screening Pennybirchfield Art Center Buffalo NY Termite-TV-ElectronMovers
Mountain Lake Biological Station – artist –in residence exhibit summer 2014
Artist-in-Residence – Signal Culture, Owego, NY
2013–Vox Populi –City Wide exhibition with Termite-TV surveillance project. –censorship project.- video installation
Artist-in-residence Artpark , Lewiston NY,
Raven Row Gallery, London (Coughup)
2012–ETC collection Hot Pink, Gender Rolls – ICA, London, England
– Termite TV retrospective, “Anthology of Speaking in Tongues”
– Parting Gifts: Artists Honor Bruce Katsiff, Director/CEO, 1989–2012 – Coleman –powell collection
September 8, 2012 through February 4, 2013 – Coleman/Powell Archive
2011 – ETC collection Video Dome, NYC, NYC
“Tribute to Experimental Tv Center” Anthology Film Archives, July 2011.
5 video works part of collected works of the Experimental Television Center”: Electronic Arts Intermix
“Artist of the Delaware River” paintings – Friends of the Delaware
Band of Artists – intersection performance: CEC center Philadelphia.PA 12/2011
2010
“Artpark 1974 – 1984, University of Buffalo Art gallery November 2010
“Cough Up with Willoughby Sharp” Anthology Film Archives, NYC, NY February 2010.
“Honduras Project” Judith Taylor Gallery, Arcadia University , April 2010
2009
“50 Anniversary Show , Stover Mill Art Gallery, Erwinna PA.
“Cough Up with Willoughby Sharp” Videotape exhibition: Artissima in Torino, Italy., Guggenheim Museum, NYC
November 2009.
“Mask Show” Rahway Center for the Arts. Rahway, NJ, March 20009
“Electron Mover Retrospective” Gallery Z, Providence, RI November 2009.
2008 “Just South of Here, A photographic journal” Squeaky Wheel Media Center , Buffalo, NY Sept – November
Poster Design and Painting exhibition, “Domestic Violence Awareness Month”, Oregon City, Oregon October 2008
2007
“The Gun Show” Shore Institute for Contemporary Art Center. Long Branch NJ Spring 2007
“Our Pet TV” artist book by Connie Coleman/ Alan Powell becomes part of the Artist Books/ Rare Book Collection
of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Phila. Pa.
“The Video History Project” Experimental TV Center Owego, NY, Online – DVD collection of Coleman /Powell
Video work and the Electron Movers Collection 1972 – 2000
2006
“Terror” Museum of Modern Art , Termite TV Collective: (participating artist) Feb 9, March11 2006
“TERROR” screening at Detroit Film Center, May 2, 2006
“Sax Man” Sculpture Commission, Williamm & Jean Brenner of Newtown PA
2005
“War & Peace” Lambertville Arts Collation group show Pratts Mill Museum and Gallery Nov- December 2005
“St Vitus’s Dance” No Parachute : a compilation of Indie Music Videos Vol 1 HHBTM DVD video
“The Prisoners” Painting Hunterdon Museum of Art Members Show Jan – March 2005
“Terror” Philadelphia International Film Festival April 10 (“Philadelphia Experimental” program) International House
“Terror” Philadelphia Museum of Art, Moving Pictures – Termite TV & Black Maria Film Festival, April 24
Van Pelt Auditorium presention by DUTV & Philadelphia Museum of Art
“Terror” Athens International Film & Video Festival, May 5, 2005, Athens, Ohio
“Terror” premieres at the 2005 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, PA
2004
“inside OUT… one of Four Exhibitions” July 25 – October 3, 2004, video installation Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
“Alan Powell Chronicles of a Seeker” selected works from diary paintings 3.14 – 4.28, Gallery 31 North, Glen Gardner, NJ
2003
SPEMA Video and Film Festival, as part of the SPE Mid-Atlantic Conference October 17-19 inclusion of 3 tapes
Special juried exhibition by Kristen Accola at Gallery 31 North… August 10 -31 ….. 3 paintings from the Chronicles
Annual Members Exhibition Hunterdon Museum of Art – Videotape installation “DOG SONG” February – March
2002
“Fifty Years: The History of the Hunterdon Museum of Art” Sept. 22 – Nov 17, Hunterdon Museum of Art,Clinton, NJ
A Celebration of Voices: The 25th Anniversary of A Woman’s Place May 25 – September 8, James A. Michener
Art Museum, Doylestown Pa
2001
“Biennial Art Faculty Exhibition” paintings at – Bucks County Community College, November – December
“Pierrot Lunaire; An evening of Music, Dance, Words and Images” Feb. 24, 25 2001, Tomlinson Theater, Temple University
Annual Members Exhibition Hunterdon Museum of Art – Honorable Mention for Oil Painting “All That is Left is Myth”
2000
RISD Film: A Celebration of Contributions to the Film Industry Directors Guild of America, Hollywood -
6/8/2000, curated by Burleigh Smith, Head of the Film Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1999
“MOTION An Exhibition of Essentialist Film and Video”, Oct 2 -Jan 2, 2000 Munson Williams Proctor Institute
“Pioneers & Technology: 10th Annual Feminist Video and Film Festival”, March 26, 1999 CEC Philadelphia
“Paintings and Prints” River Row Arts Gallery, Stockton, New Jersey
1998
“Pioneers of Digital Photography” Syracuse University, traveling photo show curated by Mary Ross, Fall 1998
“Reprocessed Legacies” Rowan University – Westby Gallery, Glassboro, NJ January 26 – February 28 (new video sculpture)
“Faculty Exhibition” paintings at – Bucks County Community College, January – March
1997
“New Paintings” SOLO painting exhibition at Roxbury Center for the Arts, Roxbury, NY October – November
“Bucks County Invitational 1”, a solo exhibition at the James A. Michener Art Museum / Doylestown , PA Feb. 1 – May 4,
“The Nude: Beyond the Studio” Philadelphia Art Alliance curated by Patricia Stewart (March 3 – April 30)
1996
“Berk’s Filmmakers International Film Series presents Connie Coleman and Alan Powell” at Albright College, December 3,
“Celebrate 25 Years of the Experimental Television Center at ART IN GENERAL”, New York City Nov. 8 – January, 25,
“Selected Videoworks by Connie Coleman” in the Dubois Gallery at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA Oct. 21 -December 13
CROSSWAVES, a Festival of Performance and Technology presented by American Music Theater Festival / March20-24
1995
“DIGITAL VISION DIGITAL VOICE” Painted Bride Gallery, Philadelphia / curated by Robert Kendall (April 7 – June 24)
“Video and Film by Philadelphia Artists” the Philadelphia Museum of Art curated by John B. Ravenal (April 4 – June11)
“The Nude: Beyond the Studio” Philadelphia Art Alliance / curated by Patricia Stewart (March 3 – April 30)
1994
“INNOVISION `94” a Festival of PA Experimental Video & Filmmakers, New Art Voices, September 9,10,11
“Mailed Art / Mailed Music in Uppsala Sweden”, 4 June – 17 September (in support of Amnesty International)
“Red, White & Blue” videotape selected for inclusion in the Three Rivers Arts Festival by juror Pier Marton, June 3 – 19th
“Red, White & Blue” videotape selected for the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema’s Festival of Independents
“Annual Juried Show” at Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA (oil painting titled PAT’S STORY)
1993
“The Ballet Di.Gi.Tal Suite” CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY / May 8 – June 30 – a solo ten year retrospective
“NEW ART MEDIA an exhibition of artwork incorporating technology” curated by Marlboro Gallery – Largo, MD
“NO-TV and MOVIES #12” at Visual Studies Workshop, Dec. 4,1992 – February 12,1993 “STATIC”
1992
“American Pie: Myth Representations” at Abington Art Center / October 17 – November 25 – 4 person exhibit
International Painting Interactive SlGGRAPH 1992 Chicago / participated at U of PA Computer Graphics Lab
“Plans, Proposals, Models and Documentation: works that surround the making of site-specific and public art” at the Fayerweather Gallery, University of Virginia, Oct. 12 – 31 – Video documentation works included
ART BEAT – a video portrait of Coleman and Powell produced by Suburban Cable for broadcast in April
Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema / 7th Annual Festival of Independents May 14 “The Bache-Mariin Project”
“THROUGH THE LENS” – series of work by independents produced by WYBE-TV 35 “BUNKS BLUES”
1991
Commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of PA to create a collaborative work as the first in a series of its “More Than Meets the Eye” community outreach program – “What’s on Kids’ Minds?”
“Art of Music Video: Ten Years After” at the Long Beach Museum of Art August 1 – 29 curated by Michael Nash to coincide with MTV””s 10th broadcast year – “Gender Rolls” included in this traveling videotape show`Tele-visions: Channels for Changing TV’ at the Long Beach Museum “STAT-lC” curated by Michael Nash for “Critiquing Television with Television”
“BEYOND AESTHETlCS: ARTWORKS OF CONSCIENCE” Part l, at the Alternative Museum, NYC April 13 – May 18curated by Geno Rodriguez “Sweet Talking Guy” 2 channel video sculpture with drawing
`THROUGH THE LENS” – series of work by independents produced by WYBE-TV “STAT-lC” & “ALGEBRA”
“6th Festival of Independents” International House / included installation of “AS THE WORLD TURNS”
“WAR and PEACE” curated group show at Nexus Gallery’ March – April / video installation “Song + Dance”
Commissioned by “New American Radio” to produce 26 min audio work for radio “GROUND WARS: Parts l&2”
1990
SALE of videotape titled “DA.DA Dance “ to the permanent collection of the Futures Center at the New Franklin Institute
COMMISSIONED by “New American Radio” to produce an original 26 minute radio piece “BORDERLAND”
“Arts Festival of Atlanta” September 15-23 Videotape Competition – “Gender Rolls” selected by John Hanhardt
“The Armory Selects” favorite works from the Art at the Armory show – exhibition at the CEC
ART at the ARMORY 1990 – created a video sculpture titled “AS THE WORLD TURNS”
BEST OF SHOW AWARDED at Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Exhibition, Pittsburgh “Stat-ic” and “Bunk’s Blues”
Downtown Community TV, New York City June 19th show of “SERMON”
1989
Da.Da. DANCE PARTY – A Pertormance event by Coleman and Powell which concluded the “Bal’et Di.Gi.Tal” held at International House on September 30,1989 and featured the live cajun music of Beausoliel.
“WYSlWYG, What You See is What You Get” – an invitational exhibition of computer graphics and video imageryat the Blair Art Museum, Nov. 23 – Jan 6 & Johnstown Art Museum Jan. 13 – Mar.1 `The Ballet Di.Gi.Tal”PATTERN AND SYMBOL
at the TOWER, NYC – November 10 – February 1989 curated group show – drawings
“150 Years of Photography: A survey” August – Sept. at the Booktrader Gallery
Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Exhibition – Pittsburgh June 2-18 “Girl on a Swing” & `Two Angels”
UNlCA Festival in Baden-Baden, Germany featured “Gender Rolls”
The Festival of Independents at International House / Spring – “STAT-lC” was first introduced
“DADA PROCESSING – The First Ten Years” April 16 – 28 in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the computer art lab at
Mason Gross School of the Arts Rutgers University – New Brunswick, New Jersey
“Computer Generated Art & Animation”, March – at Commerce Square (IBM Building) Color video photographs
1988
“MATTER OF TIME” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts June 30 – Sept. 25 / a curated group installation and the first exhibit in the Philadelphia ART NOW sequence
“Negotiations for a Heaven on Earth: THREATS, PROMISES, DESIRES” a solo Video Installation Trilogy at The Temple Gallery of Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA – March 30 – May 8th INFERMENTAL 8 The Tokyo Edition 1988 – First International Magazine on Video featured “SERMON”
“POST CURRENTS” at theUniversity of Buffalo, New York November 11 – 13, curated video survey show
“PostIndustrial Expression” – invitational at Sordoni Art Gallery of Wilkes College October 2-301988
UNTAMED VIDEO; Artists’ Tapes from the Experimental Television Center – at the University Art Gallery, SUNY Binghamton
September 29 – October 30th curated by Sherry Miller- Hocking
1987
COLEMAN & POWELL – 6 works from the permanent collection curated by W. Judson, June – The Carnegie Museum of Art
“SONG + DANCE” video installation at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts March 22 – 27
Live PERFORMANCE of “SONG + DANCE” at the Neighborhood Film/Video Project in PhiIadelphia on March 28th
Made in Philadelphia 7” at the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of PA curated by Judith Tannenbaum
“Artists’ Video and the Experimental Television Center” at the Neighborhood Film/Video Project curated by Judith Vassallo
“THE OTHER NEW YORK” at the American Museum of the Moving Image, NY – Tapes from the AFl National Festival
1986
MEDIA HOSTAGES / American Museum of the Moving Image, NY Oct 16-18 Presentation with curator Deirdre Boyle
COLEMAN and POWELL at the Neighborhood Film/Video Project of International House / solo videotape presentation
ANTHOLOGY VIDEO Program at Millenium, NYC – Feb. 27 Coleman and Powell solo screening curated by Bob Harris
NATIONAL VIDEO FESTIVAL presented by the American Film Institute and SONY – ALGEBRA… selected for 2 shows
“Video Marathon” Copenhagen, Denmark selected “HOT PINK”
“Monitor `86” Vastra Frolunda, Sweden selected “HOT PINK”
Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Exhibition – Pittsburgh June 6 – 22 “GLASS VIBES” selected by Bruce Jenkins
POLITICS: ART AND IDEOLOGY / Yellow Springs Institute for Contemporary Studies – presented work June 7
1985
The Utah Media Center – “HOT PINK”
44 ALUMNI at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Oct.4 – Dec.29 (the very first exhibition of RISD alumni)
VIDEO ON PAPER at Film/Video Arts, NYC curated by Jon Burris Nov.14 – Dec.23
“Visions of U.S. Home Video Competition” by SONY & the American Film Institute – prize for “SOUTHERN EXPOSURES”
“Emerging Expressions – The Artist and the Computer” April 13 – Sept.22 – curated group The Bronx Museum of the Arts
“The Artist and the Computer; Personal Vision in a New Age”- Sept. 20th City College of NY, curated by Neil Zusman
“Negotiations for a Heaven on Earth: PART 1, THREATS” … May 6 – June 7th video installation at the Painted Bride
“9th Atlanta Film and Video Festival”, High Museum of Art – April / Atlanta “GLASS VIBES”
awarded New Technologies/New Music prize by Lucinda Furlong of the Whitney Museum
CONTEMPORARY VIDEO, Houston Center for Photography – June 28 – July 28 curated by Laurie McDonald
Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Exhibition, Pittsburgh – June 7 – 23 “ALGEBRA” selected by David Ross
4th Annual NYC Experimental Video and Film Festival “GLASS VIBES” selected by John Hanhardt & others
1984
“Living in Glass Houses” / PORTICO Gallery, PhiIa. April 20 – May 26th – Two Channel video installation & color photos
“MEDIAWORKS” at Nexus Gallery, PhiIa., PA – November 17 – In person videotape screening of Coleman & Powell works
“VIDEO 84” International Video Festival & Conferences, Montreal, Canada – 11 countries Sept.27-Oct.4, Barbara Londoncurated “RADIATION THERAPY” for the United States portion of the show
PORTICO Gallery Group Show at Don Yates Art, June 14-July 14 organised /selected by Stephen Lowy
1984 Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Exhibition , Pittsburgh – Juror’s discretionary award for “RADIATION THERAPY”
“FIVE PHILADELPHIA ARTISTS at School 33”, Baltimore, May – invitational show curated by Janet Kardon of the lCA
COORS Southern Images Film and Video Festival, Shreveport, LA… won 3rd Prize in video for “SOUTHERN EPOSURES”
The Artist and the Computer, City College of New York – symposium and exhibit curated by Neil Zusman – April
18th Annual Independent Film and Video Exposition, sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts and Culture Association – February
Juried Selections from the 1983 Three Rivers Arts Festival at the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute February 14 – March 4
Hollywood Erotic Film and Video Festival, Los Angeles – awarded “Most Erotic Video” for “HOT PINK”
CONTEMPORARY PHILADELPHIA ARTISTS / PORTRAITURE curated by Judith Stein & John OIlman at the Art Alliance
1983
“ELECTRA”, The Musee d’Art Moderne de Ia Ville de Paris, art influenced by electricity – video curated by Edmond Cuchot
PROVOCATIVE and PROBLEMATIC VIDEO FROM THE AMERICAN EAST COAST – Institute of Modern Art-Brisbane, Australia
Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Exhibition – juried by John Hanhardt who awarded the Prize for Videography to “FIRST CUT”
“GLASS BLOCK” received the PEOPLES CHOICE AWARD from the festival attendees
NYC Experimental Film and Video Festival: tape shows at Downtown CTV and Millenium
SlGGRAPH `83 ART SHOW – year long touring exhibition in U.S., Europe, and Japan COLOR VIDEO STILLS
The Artist and the Computer Symposium, City College of New York
1982
“IMAGE PROCESS PART l” curated by Shalom Gorewitz at the Kitchen, New York
“Works About Television” curated by Kathryn High at HALLSWALLS, Buffalo, NY
“Tapes from the Experimental Television Center” at the Center for New Television, Chicago – presented by Peer Bode
SlGGRAPH `82 ART SHOW, Boston, MA – 4 videographic stills reprinted in a full color catalog
The New York Experimental Filmtuideo Festival, DCTV – curated by Hunter Yoder
1982 Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh – “WElGHTLESS” received the Award for Videography from David Burke
1981
San Francisco International Video Festival selected “HOT PINK” for KOED broadcast and 17 shows
“ELECTRONIC IMAGE PROCESSING” group show at the Kitchen, NYC curated by Shalom Gorewitz
“IN BLACK AND WHITE AND LIVING COLOR” – a solo multi monitor video installation & tape show at the Painted Bride
HALLWALLS, Buffalo, NY – in person solo videotape screening curated by Kathryn High
Anthology Film Archives, NYC – Tapes from the Experimental Television Center group show curated by Sherry Miller
1980
6th ANNUAL ITHACA Video Festival selected “ADVANCED BOWL RIDING” – reviews in Videography & Televisions
Hartford Video Festival – SECOND PRIZE awarded to “ADVANCED BOWL RIDING”
ATHENS VIDEO FESTIVAL – OUBE Choice Awards for “RENOVATIONS, a self-portrait”
“The Electronic Image” – the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago – “ADVANCED BOWL RIDING”
INDEPENDENT VIDEO AND MULTI-MEDIA PRODUCTION
Susan Hess Modern Dance
Web site development and maintenance since 2001
6 dance pioneers / 5 modern masters Video Productions 1983 – 2008 – An 11 part video series being developed for PBS and Library distribution, online presence
Dance Conduit “Two for the Love of One” , “Heron Dances” and “Passion Prayers”
Video documentaries commissioned by Eva M. Gholson 2001- 2008
“FIFTY-a data portrait”; “Echoes in the Hallway”; commissioned by the Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton ,NJ 2002
Dance Advance Project of the Pew Foundation 2002
13 video productions documenting the Dance Boom Festival
Production of two video documentaries for the Temple University Dance Archives
“Songs of a Woman’s Place” commissioned by the James A. Michner Museum of Art for 2002 Exhibition, Doylestown PA
Pierre Lunaire Dance Opera original Video-projected Stage Sets – funded by Dance Advance and Temple University 2001
INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY / COMPUTER SUPPORT
Design, Specification and Training of a Digital Video /Computer Learning Environment for the Mariposa School District, California 2002
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania – 2001 – 6/2002
Computer Personalities / Video Computer Store technical support specialist 2001
ADDITIONAL EMPLOYMENT
2000 – 2003 Independent Designer of Web Sites, Video Production and Computer Consulting
1978 – 1983 Freelance Video Production. Producer, on-line Video editor, Camera Person clients include Videosmith,
Media Concepts, Cigna Corp, INA Corporation, Gimbels, Shooters Inc. and the DuPont Chemical Corporation
1978 – 1988 Artist in the Schools Program, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Media Specialist
Arts in Special Education Specialist for the Pennsylvania Department of Education
1974 – 1978 Treasurer and Founding member of the Electron Movers Inc., a media arts group in Providence, Rhode Island
INDIVIDUAL GRANTS & AWARDS
2004- 2007 , 2014, 2015Arcadia University Faculty Develop awards, “Color of Terror”, “Road Kills”, “Video Archive”
2003 Arcadia University Faculty Incentive Award for support of solo Painting Exhibition at Gallery 31 North
2003 Arcadianet – Communications Department, Arcadia University – An intranet web site serving the students and faculty of the Communications program. The site provides Course descriptions, research links, AUTV schedules, and equipment tutorials.
2000 – 2003 For the Love of One Videographer in collaboration with Choreographer, Eva Gholson , a 20 minute video document the collaboration between three Afro-American Women – Funded by Temple University and Pew Foundation.
2000 – 2001 Videographer as part of a Pew choreography grant to Ann Vachon
1999 – Summer Research Grant from Temple University
1994 – PA Council on the Arts Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Arts for the DIS-Placement Project
1992 – 1993 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation VISUAL ARTS RESIDENCY GRANT at CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1992 – NEA/AFI MID ATLANTIC REGIONAL MEDIA ARTS FELLOWSHIP for video production
1990 – SUMMER RESEARCH Grant from Temple University for Interactive Computer Animation
1988 – ARTIST’S FELLOWSHIP / SPECIAL PROJECTS – PA Counil on the Arts
1986 – NEA/AFl MID ATLANTIC REGIONAL MEDIA ARTS FELLOWSHIP for video installation
1985 – ARTIST’S FELLOWSHIP / Media – PA Coun. on the Arts for video installation
1984 – NEA/AFl MID ATLANTIC REGIONAL MEDIA ARTS FELLOWSHIP for video installation
1983 – ARTIST’S FELLOWSHIP IN MEDIA – PA State Council on the Arts for video installation
1974 – NEA ARTIST FELLOWSHIP for video art
SERVICE TO THE FIELD
Panelist – Philadelphia Cultural Fund 2012 -2018 reviewer for arts funding for City of Philadelphia
Board of Directors Signal Culture – Secretary 2015- 2019
Board of Directors Termite-TV Philadelphia media collective 2013 – present
Board of Director – Band of Artists Vice President- artist collective about art & Disabilities
Featured Artist, SPE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference Fall 2003 (The College of New Jersey)
Treasurer and Board Member for the Tinicum Conservancy 2000- 2003, a local 503-C nonprofit land conservation group protecting open space & water resources. Operating budget of $100,000 with assets of development rights to 1700 acres
Volunteer with Discovery Service Projects working in Central America on building projects for the past 12 y ears
Member of the Multimedia / VISUAL TECHNOLOGIES CENTER Advisory Committee BrandywineWorkshop
Artistic Consultant to the new Philadelphia Dances Program, Philadelphia Dance Alliance – Spring 1997
Multimedia Specialist / Presenter for the Philadelphia Schools representing Temple FMA Department
Panelist “Artists in Collaboration” the Institute of Contemporary Art – December 19, 1996 with Judith Tannenbaum
Panelist “Collaborative Artists” the Tyler School of Art Graduate Seminar – November 6, 1996
Invited Speaker at RAMS, ROMS, & RAINBOWS Multimedia Expo at Michener Museum, October 23,1994
Presenter at the American Society for Cybernetics Conference 93 / Philadelphia, Fall 1993
SCAN (Small Computers and the Arts) Fall 1993, Featured Speaker
ASlS Mid-Year Meeting, 1993 / Knoxville, Tennessee, May 23 – 271993, Featured Speaker
SCAN (Small Computers and the Arts) Fall 1992, Featured Speaker
University Film & Video Association / Florida State Univ. Asolo Center, Aug. 1992 panelist and speaker
ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, 1991/Santa Clara, California, April 1991, Featured Speaker
ASlS (American Society for Information Science) 53rd Meeting / Toronto, Fall 1990, Featured Speaker
Broadcast Education Association’s 35th Annual Convention / Atlanta,Spring 1990, Featured Speaker
Broadcast Education Association’s 34th Annual Convention / Las Vegas, Spring 1989, Featured Speaker
Panelist for Arts in Education the PA State Council on the Arts appointed in 1982 – 1984
GRANTS & AWARDS HELD IN COLLABORATION WITH CONNIE COLEMAN
2002 Hunterdon Museum, Clinton, New Jersey commission original work of art to commemorate the Museum’s 50th Anniversary
2001 – 2002 Michener Museum of Art commission for an exhibition to honor A Woman’s Place
1993 WHYY TV Independent Images Post Production Grant for the videotape, “Red, White, and Blue”
1991 Nominated as candidates for the Biennial Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Awards
1991 Commissioned by New American Radio to produce a 26 minute radiopiece GROUND WARS
1990 ATLANTA ARTS FESTIVAL – one of 5 videotapes selected for this show by curator John Hanhardt
1990 Best of the Festival (Video Award) Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh
1990 Commissioned by New American Radio to produce a 26 minute radiowork BORDERLAND
1988 INTERMEDlA WORKS GRANT awarded by the PlFVA Intermedia Works Program and the PCA
1988 Nominated for AWARDS IN THE VISUAL ARTS 8 administered by SECCA
1987 Production Grant from the Neighborhood Film/Video Project for a Videodisc
1986 AFl-SONY’s VISION OF U.S. Festival Award and traveling show
1985 AFl-SONY’s VISION OF U.S. Festival Award and traveling show
1985 “New Music” Award in Video from the Atlanta Film and Video Festival
1984 “Most Erotic Video” Award from the LA Erotic Film and Video Festival
1984 “Juror’s Discretionary Award” from 3 Rivers Film and Video Festival
1984 “THIRD PRIZE” in Video from COORS Southern Film and Video Festival
1983 “VIDEOGRAPHY AWARD” from 3 Rivers Film and Video Festival, Pittsburgh
1982 “VlDEOGRAPHY AWARD” from 3 Rivers Film and Video Festival, Pittsburgh
1981 VIDEO POST PRODUCTION Grant from WXXl Television Workshop, Rochester, NY
1980 to the present Artists-in-Residence at the Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY
1980 Artists-in-Residence at SYNAPSE Video Center, Syracuse University
1980 “SECOND PRIZE” from the Hartford Video Festival
PUBLISHED ARTICLES CITING ARTWORK
Leeann Erickson “Boundaries and Beyond: The Termite TV Collective” Page 5 – Afterimage – May/June 2001
Jeremy Lehrer “Profiles: Termite TV, The Living Documentary” THE INDEPENDENT Film and Video Monthly – OCT
Winter 1997, the Photo Review Vol. 20 Number 1 “BORDERLAND, Connie Coleman” by Miles Orvell
Lawrence C. Hall, “Tinicum Artists Display Video Sculpture” The Morning Call – Feb 13, 1997 FEATURE ARTICLE
Steve Wartenberg, “Artists Explore Media” The Intelligencer Record – February 13, 1997 FEATURE ARTICLE
Connie Coleman, “The Ballet Di.G.Tal Suite”, published essay in the CEPA QUARTERLY Spring/Summer 1993
Wendy Greene, “ETC EXTlNGUlSHES AIR”, THE INDEPENDENT January/February 1993
David Haas, “Independent Film and Video in Philadelphia” SlGHTLlNES Magazine Spring 1991
Copper Giloth and Lynn Pocock-Williams, “A Selected Chronology of Computer Art:Exhibitions, Publications, & Technology”
CAA Art Journal Fall 1990
Stephan Salisbury, “Who needs the Art Museum? 400 Rejected Artists Put on Their Own Show” Phila. Inquirer April 25,1990
Donald Chant Bohn, “An Art Scene in Transition: Philadelphia’s Guarded Optimism” NEW ART EXAMINER May 1989
Steven Rea, `The Camera Always Lies” APPLAUSE Magazine September 1989
“Coleman & Powell: Still on a Roll” RlSDetails September 1988
David O’Reilly, “Artists Among Us” The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine March 27,1988
Connie Coleman, “Exploring New Forms in the Visual Arts Through the Use of Electronic Tools:
Videography and Computer Graphics”, Leonardo (Vol 20, No 3)1987
Stephan Salisbury, “Odd Things at Yellow Springs” The Philadelphia Inquirer June 21,86
“RlSD Profile: Connie & Alan Powell” RlSDetails January 1986
“Young Viewers” (Vol 9, No 2)1986, Media Center for Children, Inc. pp. 7,9 “Art in America Annual 1986-87” (Vol 74,No 8) p.44
Deirdre Boyle, “Video Playback: Men and Women on Tape”, Sightlines (Vol 19, No 2) Winter 1985/86 pp.5-6
“Classroom Computer Learning” (Vol 5, No 4), Nov/Dec 1984, pp.39-40
“Computer Graphics World” (Vol 6, No 8)1983, p.42, DIGITAL PORTFOLIO
“VIDEO 81” (Vol 2, No 1) San Francisco International Video Festival p.24
Joe Baltake, “Video: It’s More Than a Mini-cam” The Philadelphia Daily News December 31,1979 cover feature story p.13 of
EXHIBITION REVIEWS
July 7, 2002, The Philadelphia Inquirer “Show Focuses on abuse of Women” by Edward J. Sozanski
Winter 1997, the Photo Review Vol. 20 Number 1 “BORDERLAND, Connie Coleman” by Miles Orvell
MUSEUMS / GALLERIES Friday, October 4, 1996 “Print Center” The Philadelphia Inquirer by Edward J. Sozanski
May 10, 1995, Philadelphia Weekly “Memory Overload – Is techno-art on a crash course?” by Gerard Brown
May 5, 1995, The Philadelphia Inquirer “Two exhibitions give video art more visibility” by Edward J. Sozanski
May 26,1993, The Buffalo News “Seeing technology with its own tools” by Richard Huntington
May 19,1993, ARTVOlCE `The Ballet Di.Gi.Tal Suite / Connie Coleman and Alan Powell at CEPA Gallery” by L J. Walker
March 1993, NEW ART EXAMINER “American Pie: Myth Representation” by Mary Murphy
“INTERNATIONAL PAINTING INTERACTIVE” SlGGRAPH ART SHOW, Chicago July 25-311992
“VIDEO MUSlCA TELEVISION: 10 ANOS DE VlDEO-MUSICA Y CAMBlOS EN LA TELEVISION” Institutode Estudios Norte Americanos December – February 1992
“ART OF MUSIC VIDEO: Ten Years After” Long Beach Museum of Art August 1-29,1991
“BEYOND AESTHETICS: ARTWORKS OF CONSCIENCE” Exhibition Catalog – The Alternative Museum April – May 1991 New York / pp. 6-7,14, 35 and 37
“ART AT THE ARMORY 1990” Exhibition Catalog – April 26-29,1990 p.13 Philadelphia, PA
“In The Afterglow of TV Land” – INFERMENTAL 8 The Tokyo Edition 1988;
The first international magazine on video,pp. 20-22
Made in Philadelphia 7” December 11,1987 – January 26,1988 The Institute of Contemporary Art, Univ. of P pp. 6,8.15,30
Harriet Senie, “Is it or Isn’t it a Real Estate Office?”, 1987 Phillips Simkin DARING: A Commissioned Project,
The Temple Gallery, Temple University pp. 10-19
1986 National Video Festival” December 4-7,1986, Presented by theAmerican Film Instrtute and Sponsored by SONY
“44 Alumni: Rhode Island School of Design” October 4 – December 29,1985, Museum of Art, RISD, p.16
“RlSD AT WORK” Rhode Island School of Design 1985, researched by Nancy Bodo, p.10
“The Artist and The Computer: Personal Visions in a New Age”, Sept. 20,21,22,1985 Aaron Davis Hall,
City College of New York, p.28
“VIDEO 84: International Conferences of Montreal” Sept 27 – October 4,1984 Conference and Exhibition Catalog, pp. 61-62
“Visions of the U.S.: Best of the 1ST Annual Home Video Competition” 1984 “ELECTRA”, MAM Musee d’Art Moderne de Ia Ville de Paris, December 101983 – February 5,1984 Exhibition Catalog
“In Collaboration With the SlGGRAPH ‘83 Exhibition of Computer Art” August 4-16,1983
“SIGGRAPH `82 Art Show”, July 26-30,1982
“The Video Review’ Sign, Value and Behavior”, exhibit catalog, Museum of Art RI School of Design, May 20-30,1982
“Views by Women Artists”, Women’s Work: A Nat’l Collection of Video by Women chosen by Ann-Sargent Wooster, Feb.’82 “Glass in Sculpture”, April 7-30,1978, HERA Gallery, Wakefield, Rhode Island
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Jeremy Lehrer “Profiles: Termite TV, The Living Documentary”
THE INDEPENDENT Film and Video Monthly – October 1999
Lawrence C. Hall, “Tinicum Artists Display Video Sculpture” The Morning Call – Feb 13, 1997 FEATURE ARTICLE
Steve Wartenberg, “Artists Explore Media” The Intelligencer Record – February 13, 1997 FEATURE ARTICLE
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ART JOURNAL of the College Art Association
Connie Coleman, “The Ballet Di.G.Tal Suite”, published essay in the CEPA QUARTERLY Spring/Summer 1993
Wendy Greene, “ETC EXTlNGUlSHES AIR”, THE INDEPENDENT January/February 1993
David Haas, “Independent Film and Video in Philadelphia” SlGHTLlNES Magazine Spring 1991
Copper Giloth and Lynn Pocock-Williams, “A Selected Chronology of Computer Art: Exhibitions, Publications, and Technology” CAA Art Journal Fall 1990
Stephan Salisbury, “Who needs the Art Museum? 400 Rejected Artists Put on Their Own Show”
Philadelphia Inquirer April 25,1990
Donald Chant Bohn, “An Art Scene in Transition: Philadelphia’s Guarded Optimism” NEW ART EXAMINER May 1989
Steven Rea, `The Camera Always Lies” APPLAUSE Magazine September 1989
“Coleman & Powell: Still on a Roll” RlSDetails September 1988
David O’Reilly, “Artists Among Us” The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine March 27,1988
Connie Coleman, “Exploring New Forms in the Visual Arts Through the Use of Electronic Tools: Videography and Computer Graphics”, Leonardo (Vol 20, No 3)1987
Stephan Salisbury, “Odd Things at Yellow Springs” The Philadelphia Inquirer June 21,86
“RlSD Profile: Connie & Alan Powell” RlSDetails January 1986
“Young Viewers” (Vol 9, No 2)1986, Media Center for Children, Inc. pp. 7,9
“Art in America Annual 1986-87” (Vol 74, No 8) p.44
Deirdre Boyle, “Video Playback: Men and Women on Tape”, Sightlines (Vol 19, No 2) Winter 1985/86 pp.5-6
“Classroom Computer Learning” (Vol 5, No 4), Nov/Dec 1984, pp.39-40
“Computer Graphics World” (Vol 6, No 8)1983, p.42, DIGITAL PORTFOLIO
“VIDEO 81” (Vol 2, No 1) San Francisco International Video Festival p.24
Joe Baltake, “Video: It’s More Than a Mini-cam” The Philadelphia Daily News December 31,1979 cover feature story