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Ashley Pridmore '05 created this "sea monster" sculpture that was recently installed on a New Orleans street as part of a public art project. Read more about the alumna's recent successes below.
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FLCC Days keynote to explore ADA in higher ed
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A professor of law and former dean at the University of Louisville will give the keynote address at FLCC Days on Monday, Aug. 27.
Laura Rothstein will give a talk titled "Americans with Disabilities Act in Higher Education: Best Practices and Student Success" from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in the Student Center Auditorium. Her remarks will follow a talk by President
Robert Nye and the presentation of employee awards from 9 to 10 a.m. The day begins with a continental breakfast in the auditorium lobby from 8:30 to 9 a.m.
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Laura Rothstein |
During her 42 years in legal education, Rothstein has written 16 books and dozens of book chapters, articles, and other works on disability discrimination, covering a range of issues with an emphasis on higher education. In addition to her work in disability law, she has worked to promote racial and gender diversity within legal education and the legal profession.
Rothstein received her bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Kansas and a juris doctor from Georgetown University Law Center. She joined the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville as professor of law and dean in 2000, serving as dean until 2005. She is currently director of research and faculty excellence and a distinguished faculty scholar.
FLCC Days, also known as "Opening Days," also includes a "Flick-nic" lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. outside the main entrance. Representatives from the Education Advisory Board, a best practices research firm that has been contracted by the College to support and advance the strategic plan, will give a presentation from 1 to 3 p.m. in Room 2267 on supporting adult and part-time student success.
Melissa Soules, disability services coordinator, will also give an interactive presentation, from 1 to 1:45 p.m. in Room 2770, on disability services.
FLCC Days continues Tuesday, Aug. 28 with a Town Hall session with the president and cabinet members from 9:15 to 11 a.m. in Stage 14. Additional workshops and meetings are planned through Thursday.
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Seniors lay tracks in recording studio
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Don Babcock, driver for Quail Summit, volunteers as the director of the senior community's chorus. He's shown leading the group during a visit to the third-floor recording studios.
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Members of the chorus that had come to record its first album in a studio at FLCC on a recent weekday morning were a bit nervous, and understandably so.
They'd never been in a recording studio, and they had 13 songs to complete before lunchtime.
"What if we have to cough?" asked one singer.
"Then you cough," an instructor told them.
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| Bob Potter '85 at work recording the Quail Summit chorus. |
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The music recording studios have hosted a wide array of mostly student musicians from various genres - everything from blues and country to rap and rock. A few years back, famed singer
Zac Brown visited after performing at Constellation Brands-Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center to record tracks for his hit album, "You Get What You Give."
But this group, which arrived by bus on that late July morning, was unlike any that had visited before.
Called the Voices of Quail Summit, the chorus is made up of about 20 or so residents of Quail Summit, a local senior living community. The most junior member is 76, while the eldest,
Joe Bader, is at least a centenarian. (When pressed by a bandmate how many years past 100, he crossed his arms and quipped, "I'm not telling.")
Among them are several military veterans, retired school teachers, homemakers, nurses and a doctor. Many are able to live independently, but some need assistance and reside in Quail Summit's enriched living facilities or in its Village for those with memory care needs.
They'd come to FLCC on the invitation of music studio recording manager
Bob Potter '85, who'd heard about them from a local piano teacher. Bob invited music recording technology student
Jamie Dunton '17 to assist.
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Keeping up with artist Ashley Pridmore '05
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Alumna
Ashley Pridmore '05 is featured in the August/September edition of Garden & Gun magazine for her recent successes, including a public art installation and upcoming solo gallery exhibit in New Orleans.
The article
(click here to read it) reveals Ashley's evolution from a family of seven children growing in Naples without a television but with craft projects, music lessons, fort building and endless amazement with the world outside. "I wanted to be, and was, an artist before I could even verbalize the thought," she told the writer.
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"Flight" by Ashley Pridmore '05 |
Ashley, a 2002 Naples graduate, is a mixed media artist whose focus is on the natural world and the cycle of life and death
(learn more about her work here). After earning her associate's degree from FLCC, Ashley earned a bachelor of fine arts in sculpture and extended media from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007. She resides in Brooklyn, but travels extensively throughout the Gulf Coast region.
An eight-foot tall bronze "sea beast" she created, titled "St. Kampos," was installed in New Orleans this past spring as part of a public-private partnership between the city's Department of Parks and Parkways, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Helis Foundation, from which she received a grant, the article reported. In October, her first solo show in the U.S. opens at the Soren Christensen Gallery in New Orleans.
Her works were featured in an exhibit titled "By Land or By Sea" in a deconsecrated Franciscan cathedral called Monks Church Museum in Germany. She was an artist in residence at the Molzberger Academy in Hilmsen, Germany in 2014. (
Click here to read a Daily Messenger article about the exhibit.)
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Strategic Plan now available online
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The 2018-2023 strategic plan, now titled FLCC Forward, is posted on the website at flcc.edu/strategicplan. The layout on the webpage divides the plan into three sections: strategic priorities, strategic imperatives and objectives (with associated goals and metrics).
A brochure for visitors and friends of the college and an 11 by 17 poster with a condensed version of the plan are under development. These will be distributed to help maintain a common frame of reference as individuals, departments and working groups plan out their roles in fulfilling the plans objectives.
Reports on the strategic plan will be conducted through
College Council, and a strategic plan grant process will be announced this fall with awards to be made in spring 2019. As part of the funds the Board of Trustees set aside for the strategic plan, the College has allocated $250,000 for a strategic plan grant process to be implemented by the
Governance Executive Committee this academic year. See future editions of eNews for more information.
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About 30 eighth and ninth graders from Rochester city and charter schools visited the main campus earlier this month. The teens attend a summer camp program called Horizons at Warner at the University of Rochester. They toured the main campus and nature trails, had lunch in the cafeteria and learned about financial aid and various areas of study. Lenore Friend coordinated the tour as part of the Early College and Career Awareness Program. Olivia Bacot, Berna Ticonchuk '79, Jessica Youngman and student Leah DeGraw led the tour and presentations. Interested in assisting with future visitors? Contact Lenore at Ext. 1623.
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FLCC out in the community: Gloria Dancause '86, adjunct faculty member, is one of several area artists who have painted children's chairs that are now being auctioned to benefit the Partnership for Ontario County.
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Gloria Dancause is shown among the chairs being auctioned as a fundraiser for the Partnership for Ontario County. |
The 14 vintage student chairs have been decorated with messages of hope and are now on display in an exhibit called "The Empty Chair" at the Rusty Brundage Memorial Gallery in the Cheshire Union Building. The exhibit runs through Sept. 3, when a silent auction will be held.
The exhibit is dedicated to a generation of young people who have seen peers lost to violence. The chairs are meant to encourage students moving forward. Proceeds raised from the sale of the chairs through the silent auction will go to programs that benefit families and children through Partnership for Ontario County. For more, check out this
recent article in the Daily Messenger.
Get your picture taken: Full-time faculty and full- and part-time permanent staff are invited to visit Room 4604 at the main campus between 12 and 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 15 to have a portrait taken. Photos will be eventually added to the FLCC website to support a common request from Professional Development Day to help foster connections. Copies of images will be made available for use on email, LinkedIn and conference programs. Questions can be directed to
Heidi Marcin
at Ext. 1609.
Media watch
On tap at CMAC: The summer concert season at Constellation Brands-Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center continues Friday, Aug. 24 with a concert by the
Brett Eldredge. For a full schedule and ticket information,
click here. Some additional reminders about CMAC:
- On concert days, CMAC will often close Marvin Sands Drive behind the amphitheater, preventing access to the main campus from East Lake Road (Route 364). Employees should make a point of using the Lakeshore Drive entrance on those days.
- The College does not have a role in the selection of concerts, the dates for which concerts are scheduled, the operation of the concert or the sale of tickets.
Finger Lakes Hour events:
Daily: Indoor/outdoor mile walk, meet at bottom of the main stairwell, 12:30 p.m.
Tuesday: Free yoga with
Beth Johnson, 7:30 a.m., mat room (over the gym)
Friday: Group walk to the lake and back, meet at main entrance, 3:30 p.m. (see news items above for more)
Click here for a primer on the Finger Lakes Hour. What else is going on at FLCC? Check the website calendar for weekend and evening sports and cultural events. Other announcements are posted on the intranet all week long.
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