Faculty
Bobby Abate
Visiting faculty
BFA, Massachusetts College of Art; MFA, Bard College
I am a multi-media artist working in painting, drawing, film, video, assemblage, sculpture, tarot, technology, and motion graphics.
For many years, my artistic focus was solely on EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKING. My first film, The Zero Order, was made possible by a grant from the Princess Grace Foundation and premiered at the New York Film Festival in 2001. Since then, my films and videos have been shown at festivals, theaters, galleries, and museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Cinematheque, and the Guggenheim in Bilbao.
Nancy Salzer
Visiting Lecturer
B.A. Columbia University; M.F.A. Massachusetts College of Art
Nancy Salzer’s documentary films and experimental-doc videos have shown at museums, festivals, and universities around the U.S.A., Canada, and Europe. Venues include the Margaret Mead Film Festival, American Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art and the Harvard Film Archives. Nancy’s early film, Survival of a Small City, examined the impact of “revitalization” and gentrification on one urban neighborhood. Showings of her more recent work, Excerpts from the Mother Tapes, include the Harvard Film Archives (“Short and Edgy”), 21st Century Motherhood conference (University of Houston), Mothering, Law, Politics and Public Policy (York University), Family, Kinship and Cultural Studies (Kansas State), and “Motherhood and the Nation-State” (NEH Humanities Seminar/Stanford University). Video installation exhibitions of The Mother Tapes include Wellesley College and the Trustman Art Gallery of Simmons College. Nancy has received fellowships & grants from the Bunting Institute (now Radcliffe Institute), the Andrew Mellon Foundation, AFI, NEA, New Jersey and New York Humanities Councils, among others, and was awarded a 2011 Marion and Jasper Whiting Fellowship