FACULTY
Name |
Office |
Office Hours |
Phone |
Sec |
Th |
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baillyj@fiu.edu |
DM 228 |
by appointment |
305-348-0297 |
5 |
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Prof. William Ritzi |
ritziw@fiu.edu |
ZEB 356 |
|
305-348-2022 |
7 |
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schwartb@fiu.edu |
DM 283 |
Mo 11–13 |
305-348-4025 |
8 |
John Bailly
Fellow, Honors College. John Bailly is an artist. His work explores the random nature of information and the manner in which we process it. Utilizing juxtapositions of diverse data and multiple historical references, Bailly’s work intends for us to reflect on the manner in which we conceptualize our realities. Born in Slough, Buckinghamshire in 1968, of a French father and American mother, he was raised in London, Paris, and Miami. He received his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1993, and is a Fellow of the Honors College. His work has been exhibited at University of Maine Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Texas State University, and several other institutions in the US. He was awarded the 2006 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists and a 2006 State of Florida Individual Artist Grant. In 2007, Bailly and critically acclaimed poet Richard Blanco produced a collaborative project, Place of Mind. He founded and directs Aesthetics & Values at FIU. He lectures and teaches workshops at universities throughout the US.
William Ritzi
Instructor, Art Education. William Ritzi has been a faculty member in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at FIU for the past 14 years. He spends fall and spring enthusiastically teaching and painting, while his summers are spent painting on the outer banks of Cape Cod, MA. He is a third generation Floridian and a summer resident of Provincetown, MA. Mr. Ritzi is a graduate of Florida Atlantic University and Florida International University, where he studied painting, printmaking and art pedagogy. The focus of his teaching at FIU is curriculum and pedagogical practices in visual art, relating to child and adolescent development. He has received awards for teaching including T.I.P., Excellence in Teaching and Merit Awards. His artistic passion and creative research lies in the mediums of painting and printmaking. His oil paintings of vivid seascapes, coastal scenes and still lifes have been influenced by a fortunate life spent along the Atlantic shores of both Florida and Cape Cod. Mr. Ritzi has exhibited his works at the Ormond Memorial Museum in Central FL and the Provincetown Art Museum in MA, and has been a guest artist at Walt Disney’s EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival: Art in the Garden. He has also juried or judged many art exhibitions throughout Florida and the Northeast. His paintings are in private and public collection and have been included in numerous shows in Florida and Cape Cod. He is currently represented by Coconut Grove Gallery in Miami, FL, Jacob/Fanning Gallery in Wellfleet, MA and by Hughes Gallery in Boca Grande, FL.
Bennett Schwartz
Professor, Psychology. Dr. Schwartz conducts research on human memory, with an emphasis on metamemory-- that is, the processes that allow us to monitor and control our own memory abilities. He also focuses on the interaction between memory and consciousness. Dr. Schwartz conducts research on memory in non-human primates that has focused on whether or not great apes, such as gorillas, can remember specific events from their lives. He has written, co-written, and edited three books, and has published widely in Experimental Psychology journals. He won a TIP award for teaching excellence way back in 1997.