Welcome to The Museum Experience!

 Hello Museum Experience Class,

The first week of class begins Monday, March 18. The class runs for 8 weeks. It's time to launch this class and get going! By now you have read the syllabus and have started making plans for your outings. The first order of business this week is to get you to post an introduction and bio of yourself here on the class blog.  Posting a picture of yourself would be terrific! In your post, indicate a general plan on how you will do your 5 museum visits.  It is important to pace yourself and actually make those visits on different days.  For undergraduate day students, you may decide you need to only visit the Yale Art Gallery.  That is okay.  As the oldest and I would argue, best university art museum in the country, it truly has a world class collection that spans the entire spectrum of art from ancient to modern. It is a miniature Metropolitan Museum of Art in my opinion and is only 1 1/2 miles down from the Albertus campus on Chapel Street, near the green.  The Yale shuttle is free and will take you door to door.

To get things started, let me tell you a bit about myself.... I have been teaching full time at Albertus for the past 43 years and am grateful for the opportunity to spend my life working with students who want to learn more about art. I've been married for the past 49 years to my high school sweetheart and have 2 wonderful sons, 44 and 40. My main interest is photography and I earned an M.F.A. in still photography from Rochester Institute of Technology. At Albertus I teach not only Photography but a range of other courses which include Foundation Design (2-D and 3-D), Graphic Design, Ceramics, Intro to Computer Art, and this course for Gen Ed.

So, welcome! It is my sincerest wish that you will find this class to be enriching and enjoyable. I am here to do everything I can to support your success. The key will be good communication all the way through. Don't ever hesitate to email me and I am available to talk to you on the phone as well.