Professor of Art and a speaker/consultant on educational practice who helps students rediscover their love of learning.

1. SEAN NIXON
1020 Keator Avenue, Rosendale, NY 12472
Cell 845.658.3060 Office 845.688.1588
Email: nixons@sunyulster.edu
seannixon.com
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Presentations
2019 Innovative Technologies and International Collaboration: 2019 High
Impact Practices in the States – Western Kentucky University
Innovative, International Partnerships: SUNY Faculty Development
Conference – SUNY New Paltz
2018 Moderator/Curator, Panel Women’s Studio Workshop, Kingston, NY
2017 The Applied Learning Conference, Niagara Fall, NY
Global Learning Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Design Incubation Colloquium 4.0: SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
Invited Speaker, Saugerties Chamber of Commerce – Saugerties, NY
Presentation, Mini grant: Your Path forward, Faculty Development Day,
SUNY Ulster
Invited speaker, Kingston Sunrise Rotary Club, Kingston, NY
Presenter ” slide slam” Design Week, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
2016 CIT intercultural collaboration and Social Media, SUNY
Potsdam, NY
2015 NUTN National University Technology Network, Panelist via
SKYPE to Washington University WA, in Cuernavaca, Mexico
2015 SUNY COIL Latin American Academy 3, Cuernavaca, Mexico
2014 CIT
2013 STC Successful Teaching Conferences Presenter on Coil
Collaboration via SKYPE to national meeting NUTN National
University Technology Network
2011 Chancellor Zimpher – “The Real World Classroom”
2010 New Paltz Rotary club featured speaker
Teaching Experience & Courses
Present Intro to Design Foundations (Foundation Studio)
Graphic Design l, ll, & lll (Design Studio)
Art History l (online)
Introduction to the Visual Arts (online)
The History of 20th Century Design (online)
2004 – present Full-time faculty, Professor & Coordinator of Graphic
Design Program SUNY Ulster, Ulster County Community
College, Stone Ridge, NY
2000 – 2003 Adjunct Faculty, SUNY Ulster, Norwalk Community College,
Norwalk CT

2. 1996 – 2000 Full-time faculty, Chair, Integrated Media Art, University of
Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT
1993 – 1996 Adjunct faculty, Kean College, Union, NJ
1992 – 1996 Adjunct faculty, SVA School of Visual Arts, NY, NY
1993 – 1996 Adjunct faculty, AGC, Association of Graphic Communication,
NY, NY
1991 – 1992 Teaching Assistant, SVA School of Visual Arts
Awards/Grants/Fellowships
2019 SUNY Performance Investment Fund Grant – Center for Career
Development & Applied Learning
2018 SUNY Community Practice Grant
2017 SUNY Ulster Strategic Planning Innovation Grant
2016 SUNY Scholar Santander travel grant (Mexico)
2016 SUNY Expert - Applied Learning – awarded from Provost’s
office of Applied Learning
2014 – present Applied Learning campus Rep.
2012 Title III mini grant (Road map) Student career development
2010 Title III mini grant (Online course assessment)
1995 Excellence in Teaching award, AGC, Association of Graphic
Communication, NY, NY
Press:
2018 Radio Interview: KCR WGHQ The Real World Classroom & Adult
Learners
2017 Country Wisdom News, The Real World Classroom: taking the satisfy
hunger campaign to the next level, March 2017
Radio Interview: KCR WGHQ The Real World Classroom
Blue Stone Press
2016 Radio Interview: KCR WGHQ The Real World Classroom, COIL &
Mexico travel grant
2016 June, Kingston, New Paltz and Woodstock Times, “This app
could be huge”
2016 February, Blue Stone Press, article interview, article interview
“SUNY Ulster awarded grant for travel
2016 Daily Freeman print and Online (Mexico)
2015 September, Blue Stone Press, article interview, “A road map app
that can change the way students go to school”
2014 June, The Accordian, New letter, Feature article “Discover your
past. Friends of Historic Rochester, Accord, NY
2013 April, New Platz Times, Thank you SUNY Ulster
2010 May, Blue Stone Press, article interview “enriching the lives of
others through technology”
Exhibitions
2015 • Ulster faculty exhibition, Muroff Kotler Gallery
2014 • “Cut and Paste” Muroff Kotler Gallery,

3. 2014 • Habitat for Artist Collaborative project ART PAC-KIT, NY, NY
2013 • Ulster faculty exhibition , Albany NY
• At Brookfield Plaza for the New Museum and Arts Brookfield
Project, Battery Park City, NYC,
2012 • Ornaments Exhibition, Roos Gallery, Rosendale, NY
Education:
1992 MFA Photography/Media, SVA, School of Visual Arts, NY, NY
1983 BFA Photography, PCA Philadelphia College of Art (Uarts)
Philadelphia, PA