About the Visual Arts Department

Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock was born in New York City, received a B.A. from Hampshire College, and an M.F.A from Rhode Island School of Design. He has taught at Fordham University since 1997 and is the Head of the Visual Arts Department. His focus at Fordham is on photography, the senior seminar in visual arts, and travel courses to Rome and Tokyo.

Stephan has lectured about his work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Harvard University, and Arts Initiative Tokyo, amongst other institutions. He was a resident artist in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s WorldViews studio residency program at the World Trade Center. Select exhibitions have occurred in Austria, China, France, Germany, Japan, Jordan, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.

Additional teaching appointments include the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, and Parsons The New School For Design.

Casey Ruble teaches painting and drawing at Fordham College, Lincoln Center. In her studio practice, she works primarily in paper collage, depicting sites that have a loaded history but appear unremarkable today. She is represented by Foley Gallery in New York and has received fellowships from the Smithsonian Museum, the New Jersey Council on the Arts, and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

Music. Even laughter. And always the gunfire.
2015
paper collage
8 1/4 x 6 inches

Mark Street has been making films, videos and installations for 30 years. His work has moved from tactile, abstract explorations of 16mm film to essays on the urban experience to improvised feature length narratives. He has shown at places like the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Fundacion de Arte Contemporaneo in Montevideo, Uruguay.

He graduated from Bard College (B.A, 1986) and the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA 1992). He has shown work at Anthology Film Archives (1993, 2006, 2009), Millennium (1990,1996), and the San Francisco Cinematheque (1986, 1992, 2009). His work has appeared at the Tribeca (5 times), Sundance, Rotterdam, New York, London, San Francisco, New York Underground, Sarajevo, Viennale, Ourense (Spain), Mill Valley, South by Southwest, and other film festivals.