Charles Heasley, Professor of Art, Digital Imaging, Books, Printmaking, (M.F.A. Western Michigan University)

email: heasleyc@cortland.edu

Charles Heasley graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico, in printmaking with a concentration in lithography. He received both a Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts from Western Michigan University in printmaking and multimedia. Awarded a post graduate curatorial fellowship certificate from the Tamarind Instutue of Lithography in 1980, he arrived at Cortland in 1981.

web portfolio: http://web.mac.com/heasleyc/iWeb/heasley%20portfolio

The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in prints and artist's books in 1984, Heasley has also received research grants from the SUNY Research Foundation and the Faculty Research Program supporting investigations into print/photographic technologies. He has given workshops in photomechanical printing processes including: collotype, photogravure, and waterless lithography at West Virginia University, Syracuse University, and Northern Illinois and the University of Texas at San Antonio,and was an invited artist presenter for the Drake National Print Symposium in 1997. His printed works are in public and private collections in Europe, the Orient and throughout the United States. Recently, he displayed at the national gallery of King St Stephens, in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, following an invitation to participate in the 1st Hungarian/American collaborative symposium for artist books in Mor, Hungary.

During his tenure at Cortland, he has developed a program in print/media and artist's books and has taught all levels of drawing, printmaking and photography, and is currently a full professor of print and digital media and part of the New Media Design faculty.