Kelly L. Roe, Program Director

Kelly Roe teaches Graphic Design and Book Arts at SUNY Oswego. She is an alumna of Oswego and earned her MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. Kelly’s involvement with the Institute started thirteen years ago as a printmaking teacher during the first year of the program. As Director of the Institute for the past eight years, she has developed classes designed to give students essential experiences in a variety of artistic disciplines. Kelly’s staff includes teaching assistants who are recognized for their outstanding abilities as artists and educators.

Mackenzie Baker, Program Coordinator

Mackenzie Baker attended SUNY Oswego, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design in 2004 and her Master of Arts in Teaching in 2006. After teaching temporarily throughout several schools in Central New York, she now resides at Auburn High School as an art teacher. Once a student of the SUNY Oswego Summer Art Institute in 1999, Mackenzie has spent the past five years gaining experience as a Teaching Assistant, Instructor, and Assistant Director for the Institute. She looks forward to her return as the Program Coordinator for Summer 2008.

Visiting Artist

Judy Levy

Judy Levy has taught art for 15 years at RIT and 3 years at Alfred University. When she is not creating a Hanging Lawn from her 4th floor apartment, painting multicolor dotted lines in a parking lot, or setting up anonymous word installations, she is teaching Drawing, 2D Design, Photography, "Off the Wall," "Words and Images," and "Visual Art and Performance." Judy has participated in numerous exhibitions, and her bookworks are in collections all over the U.S. and in Europe.

Cara Brewer Thompson

Cara Brewer Thompson received her MFA in printmaking from Syracuse University in 1991. Never a traditional printmaker, her work from that time to now has focused on photography as a tool for collecting and commenting on the natural world. Her recent pursuits include multimedia and web design. Multimedia projects currently center around the 24 acres of her Baldwinsville home. "Mojo Pond, a Digital Portrait" investigates her farm pond and its surroundings using a combination of Flash animation, video, still photography, and sound. It can be viewed in progress at www.pond.brewerthompson.com Other recent projects include forays into online collaborative fiction. Cara invites her audience to help create works of fiction at www.onceupaonalie.com and The Onion Baker's Daughter at www.onceuponalie.com/stories

Instructors/visiting artists subject to change.

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