Student Work
Course Projects
Digital Media Techniques
The following student work was created as an assignment for a Digital Media Techniques course to merge photography, image editing, and oil pastels.
The following student work was created as an assignment for a Digital Media Techniques course to create a photo composite of a historic artwork. The asignment is designed to help students develope image editing skills, such as selecting, transforming, and matching tools, while also learning to look and develop spatial understanding.
The following student work was created as an assignment for a Digital Media Techniques course to help students learn to develop artworks from photographs.
Workshop in Digital Photography
The following student work was created as an assignment for a Workshop in Digital Photography course. Students learned about photography, composition, and developing a unified body of work around a theme. Students also explored more advanced image creation methods such as using motion blur, light writing, HDR, and alternative printing processes.
The photographs below are from a Workshop in Digital Photography assignment that explored unlikely beauty within the local environment. The assignment encourages students to examine their community, explore a theme, and consider their biases about beauty. Students were assigned to capture 100 photos and select and edit 15 artworks for a final exhibit. Students were encouraged to emphasize composition and color.
Course: Publication Layout and Design
The following student work was created as an assignment for Publication Layout and Design courses. The students were assigned to explore an academic journal, write an original article, and design a page layout about the publication’s changes over 50 years. They also researched and wrote about how the publication changed, such as the contributors, content themes, design styles, and ink and paper.
Collaborative Course Projects
As the coordinator of the Rowan University Libraries Digital Scholarship Center, I collaborate with faculty to develop innovative, large-scale projects within courses. These projects focus on creating educational resources and real-world experiential learning opportunities for students. Below are examples of some of the work produced by students in classes, internships, and as paid staff.
I developed the Rowan University Arboretum project in collaboration with Dr. Sara Wright’s Plant Diversity Courses. Dr. Wright taught the course and worked with her students on researching tree species and compiling and writing page descriptions. I taught the students to photograph our campus trees and to collect GPS coordinates of the location of the trees. I also supervised student internships and paid student staff to create web pages, illustrations, and to help document our campus trees. Together, we created an accredited arboretum at Rowan University, and we believe it’s the first arboretum created by students, for students. We documented and photographed approximately 1,800 campus trees.
Sampling of student photography for the Arboretum Project
Below are examples of student photographs of our campus trees captured within Dr. Wright’s Plant Diversity courses.
Sampling of student illustrations for the Arboretum Project
Here are some examples of student-created illustrations for the Rowan University Arboretum. I managed students in creating various illustrations related to the campus trees for the Rowan University Arboretum, which I co-led.
Rowan University Public Art Project
I developed the Rowan University Public Art Project to inspire new research, course projects, outreach, and creative development of public art and spaces, and to create experiential learning opportunities for students. I also set out to create more public awareness of Rowan University’s commitment to creative endeavors, the arts, and the wider community. The project is used in all sections of the Art Appreciations course and within Art Criticism, Participatory Public Art, Smell Studio, Art & Environment Studio, and many Urban Geography and Cultural Geography courses.
I have worked with students to photograph the artwork, create the website, and develop course projects such as a projection mapping assignment and an IRB-approved campus survey on public art integrated within an urban geography course. I have also supervised, trained, and evaluated paid student staff and interns who assisted with developing the Public Art project.
Sampling of student photography for the Rowan University Public Art Project
Student photos of an Urban Geography course assignment focused on campus public art. These students planned and created a temporary mural and a campus event around their project. I co-supervised the assignment and taught the students about public art, photography, video recording, and editing. We also performed a projection event at night that included projecting abstract animations on the trees behind the students’ mural.
Please take a look at the short film about the course assignment
