Todd
Visual Arts Teacher, Gallery Director
Todd Bartel received a BFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 1985 and also studied in Rome as part of RISD’s European Honors Program. He achieved his MFA in Painting from Carnegie Mellon University in 1993. In 1990, Todd was a recipient of the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C.) and in 2000, he was awarded a Connecticut Council on the Arts Fellowship Grant in support of the continuation of his drawing series, “Garden Studies” and related “Terra Reverentia” series.
Todd has taught at Harvard University, Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Manhattanville College and Bridgeport University. He has been a guest critic at Rhode Island School of Design, Vermont College and New Hampshire Institute of Art and has lectured at Alfred University, Chatham College, Western Connecticut State University, Montclaire State University and The New England Teaching Conference. Currently, Bartel teaches drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, installation art, and conceptual art at CSW. He is the founder of IS (Installation Space), a proposal-based installation gallery, and he is the founder and Gallery Director of CSW's Thompson Gallery, a teaching gallery dedicated to thematic inquiry.
Todd has taught at Harvard University, Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Manhattanville College and Bridgeport University. He has been a guest critic at Rhode Island School of Design, Vermont College and New Hampshire Institute of Art and has lectured at Alfred University, Chatham College, Western Connecticut State University, Montclaire State University and The New England Teaching Conference. Currently, Bartel teaches drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, installation art, and conceptual art at CSW. He is the founder of IS (Installation Space), a proposal-based installation gallery, and he is the founder and Gallery Director of CSW's Thompson Gallery, a teaching gallery dedicated to thematic inquiry.
Todd is a collage-based artist. His work assumes assembled forms of painting, drawing, and sculpture that examine the roles of landscape and nature in contemporary culture.
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