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| Professor Orlanda Brugnola Prof. Orlanda Brugnola has taught at John Jay College since 1982. In the Dept, of Art, Music and Philosophy she has taught philosophy and world religions and studio art. She has also done training through the office of Special Programs. She continues to serve on the Faculty Senate and the College Council, and other committees and is curator of the John Jay Gallery (322T) with Prof. Frank Gimpaya. Prof. Brugnola is an interdisciplinary scholar, poet and painter, writing in the areas of art, philosophy and religion. She is a Fellow and currently in her second term as President of the Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture <http://www.sarcc.org/> and has served as President of the Institute for the Study of Genocide for over a decade. She is committed to interfaith understanding and religious freedom and serves as NGO representative at the United Nations for the International Association for Religious Freedom, the oldest international interfaith organization in the world (org.1900.) http://www.iarf-religiousfreedom.net/ Prof. Brugnola has been an Artist-in-Residence at Henry Street Settlement Abrons Art Center and recently participated in the International Intercultural Collaboration with artists from Tibet, co-sponsored by HSSAAC and the Trace Foundation. Prof. Brugnola received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley; an M.Div. from Starr King in the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley; and an M.F.A. from City College (CUNY). She holds certificates in Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Expressive Therapy, and Field Traumatology. |
| ARTWORKS Solo Shows 2001 Incantations, John Jay Gallery, NYC, curator: Thalia Vracoploulos 1999 Curator's Summer Days, John Jay Gallery, NYC, curator: Frank Gimpaya 1998 Preludes... Polaroid Gestural Drawings, John Jay Gallery, NYC, curator: Frank Gimpaya 1995 Everybody's Fool /Nobody's Fool, John Jay Gallery, NYC, curator: Frank Gimpaya 1986 Woman & Mountain, Bentley College Gallery, Waltham, MA 1986 Unknown, Remembered Gates, Plandome Gallery, Plandome, L.I.,NY 1985 Solitudes, Unitarian Universalist Church of Flushing, Flushing, NY 1983 Moderate Poems, Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, Brooklyn, NY Two-Person Shows 1997 M.F.A. Thesis Show, Compton-Goethals Hall Gallery, The City College, NYC, 1994 Photofinish, Bentley College, Waltham, MA Selected Group Shows 2002 [February] Transversing Cultures, Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center, NYC 2000 Inside and Out Salon: Art Music, Words, General Theological Seminary, NYC 2000 Sensibility and Surface, Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center 2000 Absence of Color, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia 2000 Artists-in Residence Open Studios, Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center, NYC, curated by Molly Herman 1997 Narrative Transformations: Graduate Drawings, curated by Colin Chase, Compton-Goethals Hall Gallery, The City College, NYC 1996 Differing Views, curated by Leopoldo Fuentes, Compton-Goethals Gallery, The City College , NYC 1993 The Shelter Rock Art Gallery Recalls the Plandome Gallery, Shelter Rock Art Gallery, Manhasset, NY 1992 Womanswork II, Bentley College, Waltham, MA 1992 27th Open Juried Art Show, South Nassau Unitarian Church, Freeport, NY 1987 Young Artists, Steinberger-Lesnick Gallery, NYC 1986 Art of Art Therapists, New School for Social Research, NYC 1986 11th Annual Invitational Exhibit, Henry Hicks Gallery 1985 10th Annual Invitational Exhibit, Henry Hicks Gallery Published graphic work 1992 Doubting the Tide, cover design, poems by Carole Wood Hardy (New York: Mellen Press, 1992) 1985/86 "Sweeping," inside cover photograph in Outgrowth 1982 Job, cover and drawings, poem by Richard Korn (Berkeley: Oyez, 1982) Set Design 1998 Adam & Eve, (Johnny Reinhard) American Festival of Microtonal Music, MicroMystery Tour '98 Part I, St. Paul's Chapel. Columbia University. 1997 Odysseus Cello Concerto, (Johnny Reinhard) American Festival of Microtonal Music, MicroMay '97 III: Ear Garden, St. Paul's Chapel. Columbia Universit |
| Music 1989-1990 "Spring is like a perhaps hand," with Nancy Ives, work for cello and voice based on E.E. Cummings's poem of that name, performed by the composers at St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University in A Spring Concert of Vocal and Chamber Music New & Old, April 23, 1989 and Strange things and known things, changing everything carefully: a concert for the last days of May, May 29, 1990. GENERAL PUBLICATIONS 2003 anticipated "Ida B. Wells," The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900), ed. Ari Hoogenboorm, v. 6 , Encyclopedia of American History, Facts on File, Inc. 2001 Moorings: Moments of Meditation and Prayer, 2nd edition, First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY 2001 Moorings: Moments of Meditation and Prayer, First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn 2000 "Thoughts From...," Clinton Chronicle, March 2000 2000 "Good Friday," in Celebrating Easter and Spring, An Anthology of Unitarian Universalist Readings; compiled. Carl Seaburg and Mark Harris, The Anne Miniver Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000. 1994 "Women's Spirituality: A Unitarian Universalist Perspective, Visions of an Interfaith Future, Celia & David Storey, eds., Proceedings of Sarva-Dharma-Sammelana, Bangalore, India, August 1993 1993 "A Bread and Honey Communion," Orlanda Brugnola and Doris Hunter in The Communion Book, ed. Carl Seaburg, Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association, 1993 1993 "Deeper Surprises," On Ministry, First Unitarian Church, Brooklyn 1991 "The Face of Cain: Mirror of the Artist," Proceedings, of the 27th World Congress of the International Association for Religious Freedom 1986 "Gertrude Stein: Lectures in America," review, U.U. World 1986 "SHOAH," review of the film and book by Lanzmann, U.U.World 1983 "Camus," review of the biography by McCarthy, U.U. World 1983 "'Gandhi': A Review of the Film," U.U. World 1983 "Maturity," Kairos, reflection 1979 "Going Home," The Bear Flag 1978 "Lest One Good Custom Should Corrupt the World...," Unitarian Universalist World 1977 "A Parable," Sun Door, Winter Solstice 1977, No. 1. 1975 "Escaping the Therapeutic Sanctuary," EMC Audiotapes (University of California Extension), dialogue between psychodramatist Richard Korn and gestalt therapist George Lane 1970 "Potential for Holocaust," EMC Audiotapes (University of California Extension), dialogue between psychodramatist Richard Korn and theologian Edward Setchko 1965 "The Uses of Transcendence," Chutzpah, Berkeley,C |
| POETRY 1996 Jonah's Prayer Answered; and No One Thought About It, Voices Israel 1996. 1992 Sometimes I want to burn up everything...; Publishers greeting, Oyez, Berkeley, 1992. 1983/84 Horses; Manhattan Poetry Review 3. 1982 Z Kalifornijskiej poetki Orlandy Brugnola in Czeslaw Milosz, Poezje, (Instytut Literacki: Paris 1982), translated into Polish by Nobel Laureate, Czeslaw Milosz. 1977 A Parable; Sun Door, Winter Solstice 1977, No. 1. 1972 King of Thornbushes, (Berkeley: Oyez, 1972) 1970 All the Fountains and The Devil; The Solar Cavern, Summer 1978. |