Title: Adjunct Professor
Department: Liberal Studies
E-mail: cosgroah@cobleskill.edu
Office Location: Old Gym 002
Office Phone: (518) 255-5892
Areas of Expertise: Visual Arts and Graphic Design
Courses Taught: Basic Design, Drawing I & II, Painting, Web Design, Web Animation
About Allen: Taught Fine Art and Graphic Design courses full-time in NJ for approximately 25 years. Part time for 2 years at School of Visual Arts, NYC. Currently Lecturer at SUNY Cobleskill.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Full Time Professor: 1975-2002 Professor, Art and Graphic Design
(Retired from full-time teaching, July 2002, Professor Emeritus) Raritan Valley Community College,
North Branch, NJ
Part Time Adjunct Professor/Lecturer, Visiting Artist, Freelance Web and Graphic Design: 2006 – Present, Adjunct Professor/Lecturer, State University of New York, Cobleskill, NY
Basic Design, Drawing I, Drawing II, Painting, Web Page Design, Animation, JavaScript, CSS & HTML 5
2006, Spring, Adjunct Professor, Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ
Typography
2003, Spring, Adjunct Professor, Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ
Art and Graphic Design
1987-1988 Adjunct Instructor, Computer Graphics and Printmaking School of Visual Arts, New York,
1986, Fall, Visiting Artist/Instructor, Mercer County College, NJ
Animation
1986, Summer Visiting Artist/Instructor, Brookdale Community College, NJ,
Computer Art
1974-1975 Adjunct Instructor, Middlesex County College, NJ
Commercial Art
1980-Present, Freelance Artist (See client list below)
Computer courses taught include: Two-Dimensional Design, Computer Art I – IV, Computer Graphics I – II, Computer Animation I -II, Computers as an Artist’s Tool, Typography, & Web Page Design for the Graphic Artist
Traditional courses taught include: Two-Dimensional Design, Three-Dimensional Design, Color Theory, Drawing I – III, Figure Drawing I – II, Airbrush Painting, Graphic Design (mechanicals, typography, layout, etc.), Painting I – II, Photography, Black & White, Printmaking I – IV, Sculpture & Watercolor
EDUCATION
Degrees: Master of Arts, Graphics, New Mexico State University, 1971; Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, New Mexico State University, 1970
Additional Courses: HTML Programming, RVCC, 1997, Computer Art Technical Courses, SIGGRAPH, 1986-1994, Computer Animation, School of Visual Arts, NY, 1986, Computer Art, Mason Gross School of the Arts, NJ, 1984-1986, Computer Programming, Basic, SAS, RVCC, 1983 & Numerous workshops in traditional and computer areas
GRANT ADMINISTRATION: Author and Project Director, New Jersey Department of Higher Education grant for “Computers in Curricula” (awarded $90,000 1983-1984) Directly responsible for the creation of the Fine Arts Computer Studio at Raritan Valley College
Author and Project Director, New Jersey Department of Higher Education expansion grant, RVCC, (awarded $90,000 1986-1987)
Author and Project Director, New Jersey Department of Higher Education expansion grant, RVCC, (awarded $79,000 1988-1989)
Primary Project Consultant to Brookdale Community College for two successful computer art grant projects (1984-1985, $150,000 awarded; 1985-1986, $76,000 awarded)
Program Consultant, Atlantic County Community College
Program Consultant, Stockton State College
RECENT HONORS AND AWARDS: Professor Emeritus, Raritan Valley Community College, 2002; Individual Fellowship, Emerging Genre, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, 2000
EXHIBITIONS (Selected listing): Computer, painting, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, photography 1986-2003
SUNY Cobleskill, Faculty Art Exhibitons, 2006 – Present
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 2003
Hunterdon County Art Museum, NJ, 2001
Chubb Insurance Group, Atrium Gallery, NJ, 2001
RVCC Art Faculty Exhibitions, North Branch, NJ, 1975 – 2002, 2006
Solo exhibition, Black Plastic and Masonite, Raritan Valley Community College, 2000
Mortimer Gallery, Solo Exhibit, Art <> Technology, Gladstone, NJ, 1997
Printmaking Council of New Jersey, 1995
SIGGRAPH, International Computer Graphics Conference, Dallas, 1994
Gallery 128, Duane St., New York City, 1992
SCAN Computer Art Exhibitions, Philadelphia, 1987-1992
SIGGRAPH Computer Stereographic slide set, Boston, 1989
Catskill center for Photography, Woodstock, NY, 1986
SIGGRAPH Computer Art Exhibition, Los Angeles, 1986
Painting, airbrush, printmaking; 1975-1986
Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson College, NJ
Butler Art Institute, OH
Denise Rene Gallery, NYC
Ligoa Duncan Gallery, Paris
Newark Museum, NJ
Printmaking Council of New Jersey
Silvermine Artists Guild, CN
Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL
Trenton State Museum, NJ
Washington Square East Galleries, NYU, NYC
COLLECTIONS: Private and public collections including: Gretchen and James Johnson, Pottersville, NJ; New Jersey Public Service Electric and Gas, Newark, NJ
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: Association for Computing Machinery, Special interest group, Computer Graphics
Printmaking Council of New Jersey, North Branch Art Director, 1979-1981; Executive Art
Director, 1981-1983; Board member, 1983-1986; Exhibition curator, 1983
OTHER: Curated invitational exhibitions of computer art at RVCC, 1987 and 2002, including works by fellow computer art pioneers: Donna Cox, Duane Palyka, Hank Grebe, Arnie Levin, Annette Weintraub, Dan McCormack, Isaac Kerlow, et al.
Curated national exhibition of computer art at Franklin Institute, Philadelphia 1992
Curated national exhibitions of computer art at SCAN Conferences, 1987-1992
Olsen, Gary. Getting Started in Computer Graphics. Cinncinati, Ohio: North Light Books, 1989. pg. 40. Image.
Cosgrove, Allen. “Computer Art.” Crossframe Quarterly. 1988.
Double Justice: Race and Capital Punishment. Dir. Tireney and Wicks. Computer graphics,
animation, & video for ACLU, 1992-1993.
Demonstrated aluminum plate lithography in video produced by Nabisco, inc.
CLIENT LIST (Freelance Artist, Animation, Video and Web Page Development): Advanced Video Technologies, Highlands, NJ; American Civil Liberties Union, Washington, DC; AT&T, Basking Ridge, NJ; Carter Company, Somerset, NJ; CTEC Cable; Commonwealth Telephone of Pennsylvania; First Plaza (Germany); General Electric; Graphic Concern Printing; Jaguar Automotive; M.H. Detreich Glass, Chicago, IL; Media Works, Milford, NJ; Midi Corp., Princeton, NJ; Mitsubishi Automotive; Morris Flood Associates; NAACP: Legal Defense and Educational Fund, New York, NY; Public Service Electric & Gas, NJ; Ora Corporation, Parsippany, NJ; Perna Communications, West Caldwell, NJ; Rencom, Inc., Somerset, NJ; Raritan Valley Community College Planetarium; Raritan Valley Community College Tech Prep; Somerset County Public Information Office, Somerville, NJ & Weldotron, Piscataway, NJ
RESEARCH AND GRANTS: Author and Project Director, New Jersey Department of Higher Education grant for “Computers in Curricula” (awarded $90,000 1983-1984) Directly responsible for the creation of the Fine Arts Computer Studio at Raritan Valley College
Author and Project Director, New Jersey Department of Higher Education expansion grant, RVCC, (awarded $90,000 1986-1987)
Author and Project Director, New Jersey Department of Higher Education expansion grant, RVCC, (awarded $79,000 1988-1989)
Primary Project Consultant to Brookdale Community College for two successful computer art grant projects (1984-1985, $150,000 awarded; 1985-1986, $76,000 awarded)
Program Consultant, Atlantic County Community College
Program Consultant, Stockton State College
Professor Emeritus, Raritan Valley Community College, 2002
Individual Fellowship, Emerging Genre, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, 2000
