Murray Tinkelman, Director

Murray Tinkelman is an award-winning illustrator who has won Gold Medals from The Society of Illustrators, The New York Art Directors Club and The Society of Publication Designers. He has over 200 Awards of Merit from The Society of Illustrators. His illustrations have appeared in a variety of publications such as Atlantic Monthly, Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, The New York Times, The Saturday Evening Post, and The Washington Post. In addition, he has worked for publishers such as Ballantine, Berkley, Doubleday, Putnam, HBJ, Macmillan and Time Life among many others. Murray has also been commissioned by the National Park Service to do drawings and paintings of National Parks and Monuments, as well as by the U.S. Air Force to be an artist-reporter on specific missions. He has had a one-man exhibition of his baseball art at The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York in 1994 and The United States Sports Academy in Daphne, Alabama in 1995. Murray gives presentations on his work as well as on The History of American Illustration and related subjects at Museums, Universities, Colleges, and Art Associations from coast-to-coast.

Murray is Professor Emeritus from Syracuse University after teaching there for twenty-seven years in the undergraduate program and as the Director of the Limited Residency MFA in Illustration Graduate Program. He was the Chairman of the Illustration Department at Parsons School of Design and taught there for fourteen years.

Murray was the recipient of the Koopman Chair at The Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Fall semester of 2002. He was recipient of the 2001 Syracuse University, Continuing Education Faculty Citation Award.

He also received the 1999 Distinguished Educator in The Arts Award from the Society of Illustrators in New York City. Murray received the 1995 Sports Artist of The Year from The United States Sports Academy and the 1970 Artist of The Year Award from The Graphic Arts Guild in New York City.

Murray is on the Board of Trustees at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and he is also on the Low Illustration Committee at the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, Connecticut.

Carol Tinkelman, Program Administrator

Carol Tinkelman has been Murray Tinkelman’s partner in Tinkelman Studio since its inception in 1957 where her responsibilities include organization and scheduling of illustration projects as well as lecture, exhibition and teaching schedules. She is responsible for coordinating their Mail Order, Limited Edition Autographed Sports Print business and manages the Tinkelman Studio website. She administers the traveling Artist and the Baseball Card art show, which in 1989 was created and is still curated by Murray Tinkelman.

In 1977 Carol Tinkelman was hired as the Westchester Coordinator for Parsons School of Design, School of Continuing Education - Westchester Division. She became Director of this program in 1979 where her responsibilities included: designing curriculum, hiring faculty, interviewing, advising and registering all students for the Associate Degree program and for the Continuing Education classes, writing copy for the Westchester catalogue, coordinating space needs in Westchester and administrative coordination with the New York City office. She remained in this position until Parsons closed their two branches in 1991.

In addition to her work with Parsons Westchester Division in 1977, Carol Tinkelman was the Westchester Coordinator for the New School for Social Research, Center for New York City Affairs, Masters Degree Program until 1982. This program included; Human Resources and Management, Gerontology Services Administration, Health Service Administration, and Travel & Tourism. She was responsible for registering all students, coordinating space needs in Westchester, textbook purchasing and distribution to students, and administrative coordination with the New York City office.

From January 2006 to the present, Carol Tinkelman has been the Program Administrator for the Low Residency MFA in Illustration Program at the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford.

Nancy M. Stuart, Ph.D, Dean

I joined the Hartford Art School in November 2011. I was attracted to the H.A.S. for many of the same reasons you may be: its history, rigorous programs, quality faculty, outstanding facilities, and location. The close proximity to New York City and Boston is a real advantage, in addition to the 200 art-related organizations within a fifty-mile radius. Add to that the numerous visiting artists, distinguished lecturers, and exhibitions at the Joseloff and Silpe galleries on campus and you have a vibrant urban environment for working, living and learning. The school has been educating successful artists for 134 years since it was first housed in the Wadsworth Atheneum, the nation’s oldest public art museum; it’s an honor to become part of this legacy.

I believe the Low Residency MFA in Illustration has an unparalleled reputation because it brings together outstanding professional artists as students and teachers for intensive exploration and growth. I encourage you to explore the potential of this innovative program to inspire, challenge and truly change your life and career.

H. Frederick Sweitzer, Interim Dean of Graduate Studies

Fred served for many years as a department chair in ENHP, overseeing dozens of academic programs at the graduate and undergraduate levels.  One of his tasks during that time was to hire the initial faculty for, and assist in the design and implementation of, the Ed.D. program in Educational Leadership.  In his time as Associate Dean of ENHP, Fred served as the chair of the Graduate Studies Committee and as liaison to the Graduate Council.  He also served on the search committee for the first Dean of Graduate Studies and was instrumental in designing the role of responsibilities of the new position.

For the past three and a half years, Fred has served in the Office of the Provost, focusing on important issues such as new faculty orientation and development, assessment, recruitment of minority faculty, and improving teaching and learning.  He has also been the primary liaison to the Office of Institutional Partnerships and Research.  Among his accomplishments during this time was co-chairing the NEASC Steering Committee.