James Fossett
PO Box 279 - Bloomington, NY 12411
w: jamesfossett.com cavedogs.org findinghoward.org
p: 845.334.9918
Education
1997 MFA - Tufts University, Medford, MA, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
1986 BS - Kent State University, Kent, OH.
Exhibitions – Solo
2020 McKenna Theatre, New Paltz, NY, Cave Dogs, Liquid States (Performance)
2019 Bard College at Simon's Rock, Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. Liquid States (Performance)
2019 Reykjavik Fringe Festival, Tjarnarbio Theater, Reykjavik, Iceland. Liquid States (3 Performances)
2018 Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg, South Africa. Shadows of Metsi (2 Performances)
2018 Sibikwa Arts Centre, Benoni, South Africa, Shadows of Metsi (Performance)
2017 O+, BSP, Kingston, NY. Liquid States (Performance)
2017 Skissernas Museum, Lund, Sweden, Grand Opening Event, Liquid States (Performance)
2017 Akademiet For Utæmmet Kreativitet-AFUK, Copenhagen, DK. Liquid States (Performance)
2017 Akademiet For Moderne Cirkus-AMoC, Copenhagen, DK. Liquid States (Performance)
2017 Klub Spacetious, Copenhagen, DK. Liquid States (Performance)
2016 Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, NY, OSS #02 (Outer Seed Shadow) Public Program (Performance)
2016 North East Regional Puppeteers of America, Minneapolis, MN, Puppet 2016 Homecoming, Kerhonkson, NY.
(Performance)
2016 O+, Seven21 Media Center, Kingston, NY, Cave Dogs: Blow Your Horn (Installation)
2015 TheatreROCS Stage, Rochester Fringe Festival, Rochester, NY, Cave Dogs, Sure-Minded Uncertainties.
(3 Performances)
2015 Women’s Studio Workshop/ Catherine O’Leary Pavillion, Rosendale, NY, Au-gust Art Festival, Cave Dogs,
Sure-Minded Uncertainties. (Performance & Workshop)
2014 Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn, NY. Cave Dogs, The Storyteller & The Scientist, (6 Performances)
2014 Decades Out, 2014 Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn, NY. (Performance, Installation and Workshop)
2014 Garrision Art Center, Garrision, NY. Cave Dogs, Sure-Minded Uncertainties. (Performance)
2014 PortFringe, Portland, ME. Cave Dogs, Sure-Minded Uncertainties. (Performance)
2014 The Opera House, Boothbay Harbor, ME. Cave Dogs, Sure-Minded Uncertainties. (Performance)
2013 Decades Out, Art Directors Club Gallery, NY, NY. (Installation and Video)
2013 O+ Festival Kingston, NY, Cave Dogs, Sure-Minded Uncertainties. (Performance)
2013 FringeNYC, New York, NY, Cave Dogs, Sure-Minded Uncertainties. (5 Performances)
2013 Back Stage Productions, Kingston, NY, Cave Dogs, Sure-Minded Uncertainties. (Performance)
2013 High Meadow Performing Arts Center, Stone Ridge, NY, Cave Dogs, Sure-Minded Uncertainties. (Performance)
2012 New Orleans Fringe Festival, New Orleans, LA, Cave Dogs, Sure-Minded Uncertainties. (4 Performances)
2012 St. Petri Cathedral, Malmo Festivalen, Malmo, Sweden, Cave Dogs, Sure-Minded Uncertainties. (Performance)
2012 The Grand Ol & Mat, Art Space and Restaurant, Malmo, Sweden. After Hours with Cave Dogs. (Performance)
2011 Alfred University, Alfred, NY, Cave Dogs, Sure-minded Uncertainties. (Performance).
2008 No_Space Gallery, Rosendale, NY, Where Water Meets Water; Swimming Hole Photographs. (Photographs)
2008 Powerhouse Theater, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, Cave Dogs, Archaeology of a Storm. (Performance)
2007 High Meadow School, Stone Ridge, NY, Cave Dogs, Archaeology of a Storm. (Performance)
2006 Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, OK, Recent Work. (Photographs)
2006 The Tap Room, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Cave Dogs, Archaeology of a Storm. (Performance)
2004 McKenna Theatre, New Paltz, NY, Cave Dogs, Ferrous City. (Performance)
2004 Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM, Cave Dogs, Ferrous City. Performance)
2002 Mobius, Boston, MA, Cave Dogs, Ferrous City. (Performance)
2002 McKenna Theatre, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY, Cave Dogs, Ferrous City. (Performance)
2001 Mobius, Boston, MA, Cave Dogs, Ferrous City. (Performance)
2001 Green County Council for the Arts, Catskill, NY, Families of the Field. (Photographs)
2000 HERE, New York, NY, CultureMart Festival, Cave Dogs, How to Build a Raft. (Performance)
2000 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Cave Dogs, How to Build a Raft. (Performance)
1999 Henry Street Settlement New York, NY, Cave Dogs, How to Build a Raft. (Performance)
1998 Massachusetts College of Art Boston, MA, Cave Dogs, How to Build a Raft. (Performance)
1998 Mobius, Boston, MA, Cave Dogs, How to Build a Raft. (Performance)
Exhibitions – Group
2020 O+, Front Street, Kingston, NY. Liquid States (Photographs)
2018 Woody Gaddis Gallery, University of Central Oklahoma. Modern Tribalism: Polarization and the Social Connect/Social Disconnect. (Photographs)
2017 Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY, Intimately Unfamiliar, (Photographs)
2014 Photo Center of The Capital District, Troy, NY. Biographies James Fossett & Robert Heineki. (Photographs)
2013 KMOCA, Kingston, NY. Small Moments: Recent works by James Fossett, Chad Ferber, and Josephine Bloodgood. (Photographs)
2012 Hudson Valley Coffee Traders, Kingston, NY. The Covers Show: 1993-2012, (Photographs)
2011 Art Society of Kingston, Kingston, NY. The Covers Show: 1993-2011, (Photographs)
2011 Unison Art Center, New Paltz, NY. The Covers Show: 1993-2011, (Photographs)
2010 Umbrella Arts, 317 East 9th Street, New York. NY, Bed Two. (Photographs)
2009 The Center For Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, Documentary. (Photographs)
2009 The Center For Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, Mind’s Eye. (Photographs)
2007 Kingston Sculpture Biennial, Arts Society of Kingston, NY, Cave Dogs, Archaeology of a Storm (Performance)
2005 Marist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, Faculty Exhibition. (Photographs and Video)
2005 Women’s Center Art Gallery, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA. Women in Motion. (Prints and Video)
2004 Dutchess Community College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY. An Exhibition of Works from Purchase College, SUNY & SUNY New Paltz (Photographs)
2004 Starr Gallery, Newton, MA. The Power of Puppets: Suspended Reality. Installation, Video.
2002 Albany Center Galleries, Albany, NY. Silver, A 25th Anniversary Exhibit. (Photographs)
2001 Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY. Influences- Faculty Exhibition. (Photographs)
1999 Rye Gallery, Rye, NH, Photowork. (Photographs)
1999 The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 1999 Faculty Review. (Photographs)
1998 Cantor Art Gallery, Worcester, MA, Out of The Studio. (Photography, Video)
1997 Revolving Museum, Boston, MA, Open Studios Group Show. (Photographs, Video)
1997 Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA, Annual Student Show. (Photographs)
1997 Mobius, Boston, MA. Works in Progress #41. How To Build a Raft, Act 2. Curated (Performance)
1997 Mobius, Boston, MA. ArtRages deRanges. How to Build a Raft, Act 2. Curated (Performance)
1997 Boston Center for the Arts-Mills Gallery, Boston, MAArranged Marriages, Family Rooms, & Laundry Detergent: A Project of the Revolving Museum. (Installation, Photographs, Video)
1996 Koppleman Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA, MFA Thesis Exhibition: Dormant Document. (Installation, Video, Photographs)
1996 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Student Annual Photo Show. (Photographs)
1996 Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA. Pet Paintings. (Photograph)
1996 First Expressions Gallery, Boston, MA, Student Annual. (Photographs, Video)
1996 Arthur Griffin Center for Photographic Arts, Winchester, MA, Annual Show. (Photographs)
1996 New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI, Culture and Agriculture. (Photographs)
1996 Weems Center, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Student Annual. (Photographs, Video)
1995 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. Alter Egos: The Artists Among US. (Photographs, Video)
Films and Video Screenings
2021 Finding Howard, Educational Documentary. Official Selection: Global Peace Festival (Winter Park, FL),
Helsinki Educational Film Festival (Helsinki, FINL), International Social Change Film Festival (Chicago, IL),
Montreal Independent Film Festival (Montreal, QC), Awareness Festival (Los Angeles, CA),
The Most Important Films International Film Festival – nominated for best director and best soundtrack - (Las Vegas, NV), Grand Teton Film Festival (Rexburg, Idaho)
2021 O+, 306 Wall St, Kingston, NY. Wave Form (Video Installation)
2020 Rochester Fringe Festival (online) Liquid States, (Recorded Performance)
2017 4 Channel, Kingston, NY. Interface, (Video Installation)
2015 Akademiet For Utæmmet Kreativitet-AFUK, (Academy for Untamed Creativity) & Akademiet For Moderne Cirkus-AMoC, (Academy for Modern Circus), Klub Spacetious, Copenhagen, DK
2014 Screening of Sure-Minded Uncertainties The Beacons Festival, Yorkshire, England, Re-Connect, (Video Projection)
2012 O+ Festival, Kingston, NY, (Curated), What The Tide Brings In. (Video Projection)
2010 Lumen Eclipse, Sommerville, MA (Juried) Video
2008 Random Acts of Video, Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY. Memorial Day, Roller Girls, A Little Something Extra. (Video)
2007 Random Acts of Video, Rosendale Theater, Rosendale, NY. Memorial Day. (Video)
2007 Hell on Reels, Astoria Film Festival, Astoria, NY, The Ascension. (Animation)
2006 The Tank - Space for Performing and Visual Arts in NYC, The Ascension. (Animation)
2006 Starr Gallery, Newton, MA, Ferrous City (Video)
2006 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Ferrous City (Video)
2006 University of California at Santa Barbara, How to Build a Raft and Ferrous City (Video)
Grants & Awards
2019 New York State Council of the Arts, 2019 Decentralization Grant. Arts Mid-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, NY.
2016 The Jim Henson Foundation 2016 Project Grant, New York, NY
2015 Artist-in-Residence, The Academy for Untamed Creativity, Copenhagen, Denmark
2011 Artist-In Residence, Alfred University, Alfred, NY.
2009 The Jim Henson Foundation 2010 Project Grant. (Cave Dogs Performance Group)
2008 Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship Ballycastle, Co. Mayo, Ireland.
2007 Artist-in-Residence, Meyer Elementary School. Hurely, NY. Ulster BOCES, New Paltz, NY.
2007 Fund for Performance Art Grant (Unprecedented 3rd time award recipient), Franklin Furnace, NY, NY.
2006 SOS Grant (Special Opportunities Stipend for Random Acts of Video). New York Foundation for the Arts, NY, NY.
2006 Artist-in-Residence, Boothbay Region Historical Society, Boothbay Harbor, ME.
2005 Travel Support Grant, Private Funding from TCAR Fulfillment Co.
2003 Seed Grant, Jim Henson Foundation, NYC, NY.
2002 Project Support Grant, NLT Foundation, Boston, MA.
2002 Fund for Performance Art Grant, Franklin Furnace, NYC, NY.
2001 Project Grant and Performance Series, In Exile. Franklin Furnace, NYC, NY.
2000 Artist-in-Residence, Belmont High School/Belmont Cultural Council, Belmont, MA.
1999 Photographer-in-Residence, Massachusetts Cultural Council. Boston, MA.
1997 Project Artist, Cambridge Community Development Project
1995 Pro Arts Public Service Award, City of Boston, MA.
1994 Project and Curriculum Grant, Mid-Hudson Migrant Education Center, SUNY New Paltz, NY.
Residencies, Workshops and Presentations:
2018 Sibikwa Arts Centre, Benoni, South Africa. Artist in Residence - 2 week workshop and performance of Shadow of Metsi, including Sibikwa performers. Additional performances (2) at William Kentridge’s Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg, SA.
2017 Akademiet For Utæmmet Kreativitet-AFUK, (Academy for Untamed Creativity) & Akademiet For Moderne Cirkus- AMoC, (Academy for Modern Circus), Copenhagen, DK, Artist in Residence- 1 week workshop and performance of Liquid States, including AMoC performers.
2017 Presenter, Beyond the Core, F.A.T.E (Foundations in Art: Theory and Education) 16th Biennial Conference, Kansas City Art Institute. Kansas Ciry, KS.
2015 Akademiet For Utæmmet Kreativitet-AFUK, (Academy for Untamed Creativity) & Akademiet For Moderne Cirkus- AMoC, (Academy for Modern Circus), Copenhagen, DK Two groups of students from AFUK & four groups of students from AMoC created and performed a total of six shadow performances. Visiting Artist- 1 week Workshop Series.
2013 Artist Lecture, FringeNYC & FringeHIGH, The Theater at 14th Street Y, NY, NY, Cave Dogs.
2012 Visiting Artist/Cave Dogs, Artist Lecture and taught an intensive 4-day workshop to 150 First Year Foundation students at the School of Art and Design, to open the school year. Alfred University, Alfred, NY.
2012 Artists’ Lecture: Hudson Valley Artists 2010: Contemporary Art and Praxis, The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, NY Balancing Teaching and Art Career, National Art Education Association, SUNY New Paltz Student Chapter.
2012 Encaustic Monoprinting Intensive with David Clark, R & F Handmade Paints Workshop Series, Kingston, NY Art: 21 Panel Discussion and Screening, SUNY New Paltz, NY
2012 Visiting Artist, Walkway Over the Hudson, Town of Hurley Flag Workshop project, Hurley, NY
2012 Visiting Artist, Light, Shadow, Movement Workshop, Woodstock Fringe Festival, Brydcliffe Theater, NY
2011 Artist in Residence, Environmental Education/Public Art Project. A mural collaboration with the E.C. Myer Elementary School, Hurley, NY and Ulster BOCES, New Paltz, NY
2011 Visiting Artist/Instructor, Light, Shadow, Body & Movement, Vassar College Theatre Department, Poughkeepsie, NY
2010 Visiting Artist, Guest Lecturer with James Fossett, Life Longing Learning Initiative, The Work of Cave Dogs SUNY, New Paltz, NY
2009 Visiting Artist, Guest Lecturer, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, OK Instructor for Lighting/Shadow Workshop for Theatre students, SUNY New Paltz, NY
2009 Instructor for Cave Dogs Multidisciplinary Performance Workshop, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
TEACHING
Undergraduate
ARS 105 Introduction to Studio Art.
ARS 150 Introduction to Photography
ART 102 Design: Color Introduced Fall 2016 as Foundation requirement for all 36- and 60-credit Studio Art Majors. Designed curriculum and oversee three Graduate Teaching Assistants serving as Instructors of Record each semester.
ARS 112 Art Seminar - a series of discussions and workshops. Through dialogue, writing, and independent projects students develop connections between critical thinking and their art studio work.
ARS 250 Basic Photography
ARS 230 Basic Digital Photography
ARS 333 Advance Digital Color Photography
ARS 308 Type and Image
ARS 332 The Large Format Image
ARS 334 Digital Video
ARS 350 The Constructed Image
ARS 365 Work in Progress Review,
ARS 405 Design Theory and Criticism
ARS 450 The Document
ARS 451 Contemporary Issues (Photography)
ARS 452 Senior Studio Photography 1
ARS 453 Senior Studio Photography 2
ARS 490 BFA Seminar
ARS 491 Creative Art Projects BS/BA
ARS 495 Independent Study,
ARS 494 Fieldwork in Art
Graduate
ARS 593 Selected Topics
ARS 754 Digital Video
ARS 758 The Large Format Image
ARS 780 Introduction to College Art teaching
ARS 790 Selected Topics
Service
Departmental
Coordinator, BS Visual Arts Degree Program
Member, Fine and Performing Arts Council
Chair, Departmental Curriculum Committee
Member, Reappointment Tenure & Promotion Committee
Member, Search Committee for Lecturer in Digital Media Production
Member, BS Degree Revision Ad-Hoc Committee
Coordinator, First Year Foundation Program
Member, Theater Search Committee for Sound Design
Member Photo/Graphic Design Tech. Search Committee
Member, Committee on Education Technology
Member, RCPA Committee (Co-Chair FA-09, SP-10)
Member Graphic Design/Foundations Search Committee
Member Photo/Graphic Design Tech. Search Committee
Co-ordinator, Art Department Admissions Committee
Member of Communications Search Committee
Member of Art Education Search Committee
Intern. to College Teaching, 1-2 Grad. students/semester
Member of Advising Mentor Program
Member of Curriculum Committee
SCAP Sub-Committee (Chair FA 07-SP-09)
Member of Facilities and Budget Committee
Chair, SCAP Sub-Committee
Member, SCAP Sub-Committee
University
Senator At Large (F&PA), Faculty Senate
Alternate, Faculty Senate
Member, Academic Affairs
Member, Committee on Education Technology
Member, General Educational Board