Visual Arts
Everyone is an Artist
Discover your creativity through drawing, painting, printing, or sculpting… Expressing your ideas and emotions visually creates joy, self-confidence, and pride.
In a world where much of our expression is online or intangible, making things with our hands provides a break from our busy digital lives.
From finger painting to portfolio prep and everything in between, explore the universe of art and creativity at CSMA.
Visual Arts Faculty
Nicholas Daniluk
Nicholas Daniluk is a pastel artist from Ithaca, New York focusing on the human form in near-photorealism. He has a BFA with a concentration in drawing from Pratt Institute. See his work at www.nicholasdaniluk.com.
Catherine Montgomery
Ithaca born artist Catherine Montgomery is a published botanical and scientific illustrator who's works have been published in Biology for Engineers, and has been awarded the Artists Crossroads Grant to create multicultural children's storybook art for public...
David Estes
My friend Ted and I shared a common purpose: “In the end it is about everything. Everything human that can be fit into it - passions and doubts, incapacities and sensualities, concepts and curiosities. Our work is about how little we can know, and how powerful that...
Irina Kassabova
Irina studied Fine Arts at Veliko Tarnovo University in Bulgaria, from where she was originally. Her father was also an artist and a university professor and gave her the first serious lessons in drawing and art. She came to the United States more than twenty years...
Rose Tirrito
Rose Tirrito is an artist and educator living in central New York. She holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in art education and has spent many years teaching art across various ability levels and stages of development. Her pedagogical approach is informed by...
Ryan Abb
Ryan Abb is a graphic novelist and collagist with a gift for finding humor, simplifying complicated subjects, creative combination, and establishing a rapport with students. His current dream is to capture imaginations with a sci-fi cartoon starring a clumsy kid from Indonesia who gets caught up in a team of aliens.
Rob Licht
Rob’s work delves into the significance of place in our lives; on the influences of the land, where we choose to live and the associations of memory, longing, and spiritual well being to those places. He typically works in welded steel; but also in wood, cement, bronze as well as digital photography and drawing.
Jessica Baron Warner
Jessica Baron Warner received a BFA from SUNY Purchase with a concentration in painting and drawing. Before graduating, she spent a summer studying in Italy, which continues to have an impact on her painting.