Geraldine Velasquez, Ed.D.
 

Website: GeraldineVelasquez.com

• Professor of Art and Design
• Founding Director of the Forum for Research and Criticism in the Crafts at Georgian Court
• Artist – works on paper, surface design, collage and digital art
• Author – magazine articles and reviews; children’s books, short stories
• Links: www.nytimes.com/1988/03/06/nyregion/ne-jersey-opinion-perspectives-on-crafts.html 
• www.glass-on-metal.com/a-life well-lived - Reflections of Marilyn Druin
• Ornament Magazine, Vol. 27, No2 winter-Marilyn Druin, Divine Intervention;  
• Curator
• Evaluator for Middle States Association Higher Education

Education:

• Rutgers University, Ed.D. 1987
• Montclair University,  MA in Fine Art  1976
• Hunter College,  BFA 1964
• Parsons School of Design,  Graphic arts and Web design

Courses taught:

• Computer Graphics, Editorial Design and Illustration, Fashion Design and Illustration, Advanced Illustration, Graphic Design, Crafts, Textile Design, Jewelry Design, Book Arts: altered books, artists’ books

Artist Exhibitions and Curator:  partial listing

• Monmouth Museum: Fabulous Fiber 2009 
• www.flicker.com/photos/georgiancourt/sets 
• Brookdale Community College Alumni Exhibition 2003
• My Cup Runneth Over, GCU
• www.nytimes.com/1993/11/14/nyregion/crafts-metaphor-for-artists-overflowing-lives.html 
• Curator for Long Beach Island Arts Foundation
• Illustrators Who Teach, Society of Illustrators Museum, NYC
• Faculty Exhibitions: Georgian Court University, Monmouth University.
• Transformations, Pen and Brush Club, NYC

Publications: partial listing

• Attitudes and beliefs of contemporary craftsmen. Doctoral dissertation, Rutgers University.
• Primary areas of scholarship: Contemporary Crafts: fiber, jewelry, exhibition reviews,  art and politics,  graphic design and politics
• Editor of monograph The Creative Impulse, the narrative of the personal. The Forum for Research and Criticism in The Crafts, GCC
• Conference Proceedings: National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists.  SVA  1994 – 2004.  partial list:
  • Shaping beliefs through graphic design
  • Information graphics: preparing design students for the cyber-world
  • The art of lying and the family photo album
  • Drawing on the computer, a right brain activity   (Eric indexes)
  • Marilyn Druin: Divine Intervention. Ornament Magazine
  • A life well lived – reflections of Marilyn Druin. www.glass-on-metal.com 
  • Reviews of Northeast Enamel Society Exhibition, Metalsmith Magazine, Glass on Metal Magazine, 1997, 1998

Presentations: partial listing

• A Passion for Justice: art and politics of Ben Shahn, BCC 2010
• Holistic workshops: Drawing and Writing for Wellness, GCU 2010, 2009
• Northeast Enamel Guild Annual Conference, Newark Museum, 2003
• The Popular Culture Association, 1992, 1993
• The National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists 1994- 2004
• Keynote Address: New Jersey State Council on the Arts
• Celebrity cruise lines: enrichment speaker on art history

Service to Profession

• Evaluator for NJSCA Crafts Fellowships
• Middle States Evaluation Teams

Honors:

• GCU Technology in Teaching Award
• Who’s Who listed since 1994
• Who’s Who in the East
• Who’s Who in Education
• Who’s Who in Art
• Cambridge Who’s Who of Outstanding Scholars