Alice Zinnes’s Profile Faculty

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Title

Adjunct Associate Profesor

Department

Communication Design

Office

N1127

Academic interests

painting, drawing, the environment

Bio

Zinnes has had seven solo exhibitions in New York City, including at Causey Contemporary Fine Art (Williamsburg, 2009), Galeria Janet Kurnatowski (Greenpoint, 2007), Tribes Gallery (NYC, 2002, 1998), and The Art Center at Queens College, which held a 25-year retrospective of her career (2002). Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, New York Newsday, New York Arts Magazine, The Indypendent, Art New England, and The Queens Tribune. She has received awards from the National Academy of Design, and fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Arts as well as from the Cummington Community for the Arts. In 2006 she was twice given extensive interviews on National Public Radio’s affiliate station, WJFF.

Zinnes teaches at Pratt Institute and New York City Technical College, CUNY. She received her BA from Swarthmore College, a Certificate of Merit from the New York Studio School, her MFA from Queens College, CUNY, and attended the Skowhegan School on a full merit scholarship. From CUNY she has received a CUNY By-Law PhD. Equivalency.

Email address

azinnes@citytech,cuny.edu

Website

http://www.AliceZinnes.com

My Courses

COMD1231 FigureDrawing, Sp 2018 COMD1231 FigureDrawing, Sp 2018

This advanced drawing course develops visual awareness of the human figure. Sensitivity to line, volume, light and shade is explored. Communication designers use the concepts developed in this course in disciplines such as advertising, graphic design, illustration, broadcast design, animation and photography.

COMD1103 FoundationDrawing, SP2018 COMD1103 FoundationDrawing, SP2018

This drawing course introduces basic concepts, tools, techniques and the role of drawing in design, illustration, animation and games. The course will also cover projection systems, plans, elevations, sections, oblique, isometric, one-point perspective and two-point perspective views.