Adult Noncredit Programs

Alan Dorsey is a woodworker in Brooklyn, NY. He started making custom furniture and cabinetry in 2002, and has been woodturning since 2008. Today he focuses on woodturning for a variety of clients in the NYC area including lighting designers, custom furniture makers, and architects/contractors needing reproduction parts for Brownstone renovations. Teaching is also a vital part of his practice, and he has been leading woodturning classes at Makeville Studio in Brooklyn since 2014. In addition, Alan is the President of Big Apple Woodturners, the AAW affiliated turning club of NYC. alandorsey.com

Rafael Ferrer (rafaelferrer.com) has been a professional voiceover actor for almost 30 years. His voice is one of the most identifiable and requested in the entertainment industry. His voiceover credits include more than 1,000 national commercials, and he has voiced network promos for every major television broadcast and cable network and movie trailers for every Hollywood studio. He is the voice of Pencil in HBO’s Little Curious cartoon series, Stavros in FX’s Archer series, and Darth Malak for the popular video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Ferrer works on both coasts and currently resides in Connecticut.

Arnold Kastenbaum rekindled his love for photography in his early 40s when he connected with other fine art photographers in the local area. Since then he has participated in numerous shows in Westchester county and New York City. In his work no attempt is made to depict an object as it naturally appears. His goal is to create a new object that didn’t exist before. Kastenbaum is well suited to support his photography students on a similar path of personal vision development.

Website: www.akastenbaum.com

Andrew Lattimore has lived in the Hudson Valley Region for most of his life. He studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in New York with Daniel Greene, Edmond Fitzgerald and Harvey Dinnerstein. He studied life drawing and anatomy with artist and anatomist Stephen R. Peck, author of Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist. He also studied at the Academia di Belle Arti and Studio Simi in Florence, Italy. Today he is a recognized portrait painter, who is represented by Portraits Inc. in New York and Portrait Brokers of America in Birmingham, Alabama. He recently completed the official portrait of Gov. George Pataki for the New York State Capitol.

A noted painter of the figure and still life, he is also a prominent landscape painter whose work has recently been featured in PleinAir Magazine. Andrew Lattimore’s work is in numerous collections throughout the U.S. and Europe.

John (JP) Morgan trained and worked as a film editor at renowned visual effects house, R/GA Digital Studios in New York City, before becoming a full-time teacher. Working alongside top commercial directors, designers, animators, and digital compositors, he helped create ground-breaking special visual effects for motion pictures and television. Trained in both 35mm film and computer-based editing platforms, JP has cut everything from TV commercials and documentary films to motion picture special effects and main title sequences. He enjoys teaching and learning from students who share his passion for film.

During a 30+ year career as an A-list studio session player, Juilliard educated Andrew Muson has played upright and electric bass on numerous gold and platinum albums, TV themes, film scores and commercials in every studio in New York and Los Angeles. He’s appeared on stages throughout the world from Carnegie Hall to Montreux, recorded and performed with an eclectic roster of artists that includes James Taylor, The Manhattan Transfer, Bette Midler, Yoko Ono, B.J. Thomas, Leo Sayer, Mary Travers (Peter, Paul & Mary), Albert King and Toots Thielemans to name just a few. In addition to his studio career, Muson has been a pioneering music technologist, composer, producer and music supervisor for numerous television, film and video projects.

Megan Rossman is assistant professor of communications at Purchase College and is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her courses at Purchase College focus on video production, communication and visual storytelling.

Vanessa Solomon is an accomplished sculptor and sculptural technician and holds an MFA (Sculpture) from the University of Cape Town. Vanessa perfected her sculpture making skills (Enlarging, Model-making, Mold Making, Wax-making, Plastic Casting, Metal Finishing, Patina) in the US as the first International Intern at Tallix Sculpture Foundry. She has worked closely with artists Frank Stella and Frank Gaylord (Korean War Memorial), and Jeff Koons, managing the production of many sculptures for the Celebration series. She has exhibited at the UN, NYC, and her works are in the permanent collection of the South African Embassy in London. www.carbonsculptstudio.com; www.vanessasolomon.com

Charlotte Woolf is an interdisciplinary artist and educator with a focus on photography raised in Charlotte, North Carolina and based in New York City. She received her MFA at Purchase College, School of Art + Design and her BA in Studio Art and Women’s & Gender Studies from Kenyon College. Woolf teaches photography to students of all ages and is currently on the faculty at Purchase College.​