About the Visual Arts Program

Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock was born in New York City, received a B.A. from Hampshire College, and an M.F.A from Rhode Island School of Design. He has taught at Fordham University since 1997 and is the Head of the Visual Arts Department. His focus at Fordham is on photography, the senior seminar in visual arts, and travel courses to Rome and Tokyo.

Stephan has lectured about his work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Harvard University, and Arts Initiative Tokyo, amongst other institutions. He was a resident artist in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s WorldViews studio residency program at the World Trade Center. Select exhibitions have occurred in Austria, China, France, Germany, Japan, Jordan, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.

Additional teaching appointments include the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, and Parsons The New School For Design.

Casey Ruble is a multidisciplinary artist who has worked in painting, collage, artists books, film, and photography. Her work focuses on place, memory, and the excavation of hidden histories, often as they pertain to race in the U.S. She was represented for sixteen years by Foley Gallery (New York) until the gallery closed in September 2023. Ruble has received fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution, Warhol Foundation (through the arts residency PARSEnola), Tulane’s New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, New Jersey Council for the Humanities, and New Jersey Council on the Arts. Her work and curatorial projects have been reviewed in publications including the New York Times, New Yorker, Hyperallergic, Wall Street Journal, Kolaj, and Sculpture Magazine. She has written for Art in America magazine and was an artist contributor to Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker’s Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas. 

Ruble is currently an Associate Clinical Professor at Fordham University. In 2020 she helped found the Visual Arts Program’s Art & Engagement area of study, in which students are supported in making art about the pressing social and environmental issues of the day, often with a community-engaged-learning component. She teaches the A&E course Visual Justice: Enacting Change Through Image-Based Storytelling, as well as Visual Thinking, Drawing, and Senior Seminar. 

Mark Street has been making films, videos and installations for 30 years.  His work has moved from tactile, abstract explorations of 16mm film to essays on the urban experience to improvised feature length narratives.  He has shown at places like the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Gallery in Washington DC as well as venues such as the Point Reyes California Oyster Farm. He graduated from Bard College (B.A, 1986) and the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA 1992). He has shown work in the New York Museum of Modern Art Cineprobe series (1991, 1994), at Anthology Film Archives (1993, 2006, 2009), Millennium (1990,1996), and the San Francisco Cinematheque (1986, 1992, 2009). His work has appeared at the Tribeca (5 times), Sundance, Rotterdam, New York,  London, San Francisco, New York Underground, Sarajevo, Viennale, Ourense (Spain), Mill Valley, South by Southwest, and other film festivals.