Rich Harrington

Education

Maryland Institute,
College of Art
M.F.A.   Painting

Syracuse University
B.F.A.    Illustration

Syracuse University Division of International Programs Abroad
London, England



Industry experience

2013—2014
Tioga Arts Council
Outreach/Membership Coordinator

Managed membership database, processed membership renewals, solicited new members, created correspondence. Designed, created and produced organization’s quarterly newsletter.

2000—2001
ThrottleBox Media, Johnson City, NY
Web/Graphic Designer and Illustrator (Clients)

(Combe Industries, MedTech, Inc., Telebrands Int’l, in-house)

1999–2000
Yoe! Studio, Peekskill, NY
Web/Graphic Designer and Illustrator (Clients)

(The Discovery Channel - The Crocodile Hunter, A&E Home Video, Nabisco, Telebrands, Cartoon Network)


Curricular experience

SUNY Broome Community College, Binghamton, NY 
Dept. of Art & Design

Adjunct Instructor
2004–present

Beginning Drawing, Introduction to Two Dimensional Design, Introduction to Three Dimensional Design, Illustration, Color Theory, Advanced Computer Imagery 

Elmira College, Elmira, NY
Adjunct Instructor
2005–06
Drawing I 

Broome County Arts Council
Tioga Arts Council
Kapow!Art Now
Private Instructor
2011–16

Pastel Painting, Exploring Pen and Ink, Watercolor and Colored Pencil Drawing and Pen and Ink Drawing Techniques

SUNY Broome Community College, Binghamton, NY.
Department of Continuing Education

Instructor
2003, 2011

Pastel Painting

Grants/Residencies/Awards

2023 Cloudcroft Studio Everyday life, Everyday art Best in show Award

2021    Roberson Regional Art Exhibition First Place Award

2019    SUNY Broome Community College SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching,

2016    New York State Council on the Arts Finishing Funds Grant

2016    Creative Capital Professional Development Program Grant

2004    Constance Saltonstall Foundation Individual Artist Grant

2002    New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Grant 

1987    Vermont Studio Center Residency; Johnson, Vermont

Selected exhibitions

2023
Everyday life, everyday art
Cloudcroft Studio Gallery, Apalachin, NY

2021
Roberson Regional Art Exhibition; (Group Exhibition)
Roberson Museum and Science Center, Binghamton, NY 

2016    
This is the way we play and learn. (Solo exhibition)
Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts Gallery Binghamton, NY

Salon (Group exhibition)
Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts Gallery Binghamton, NY

2011
Southern Tier Biennial Exhibition 
Cattaraugus County Arts Council, Olean, NY, Marie Via, curator

Broome Community College Faculty Exhibition; Binghamton, NY 

2009             
Image Art/Image Out 
Visual Studies Workshop, University of  Rochester, Rochester, NY. Various curators 

2007   
Susquehanna Regional Exhibition
Roberson Museum and Science Center, Binghamton, NY. Philip Pearlstein, curator

2006   
Saltonstall: The First 10 Years
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY. Andrea Inselmann, curator

2004   
Upstate Regional Invitational
Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY. Allen Topolski, Colleen Buzzard, curators

Press

Ilana Lipowicz “Rich Harrington: Autobiography in Found Image”, Triple Cities Carousel Magazine, June, 2016

Benjamin C. Klein “Artist draws inspiration from his history, materials”, Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin, May 16, 2016 

Bill Snyder “An Artist Looks at How We Learn and What We Learn”, Artist Cafe WSKG Public Radio, May 19, 2016

Rebecca Rafferty “Yes homo”, Rochester City Newspaper, ART REVIEW: ImageArt, October 14, 2009

Alex Miokovic with Heidi Nickisher “We’re not quite in Arcadia anymore”, RochesterCity Newspaper/Arts,
October 6, 2004

Thelma Golden “Beyond the Regional Impulse”; Spring 1993 Juried Exhibition, School 33 Art Center exhibition catalog

John Dorsey “At School 33; forcing viewers to confront issues of race”; The Baltimore Morning Sun, June 11, 1993 - page 21


Affiliations/Memberships

2013–15    
Member, Tioga Arts Council, Owego, NY

2011     
Member,
 Broome County Arts Council

2019–present
Member, Roberson Museum and Science Center

2009    
Member,
 Communications Association of the Southern Tier

2007    
Member, College Art Association
Member, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY


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