Dan Christoffel | National September 11 Memorial & Museum

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Artist's Statement

Sculpture:

Victory - welded steel. 10 x 6 x 5 ft.

This sculpture explores the ancient "Winged Victory of Samotrace" in a contemporary three dimensional approach. The figure was created as a reaction to 9/11 when the social and national climate was at an emotional and spiritual low. Victory represents my need to express a positive and hopeful view for the future. The sculpture symbolizes the strength that is needed to overcome our dismay and overwhelming sense of loss. - Dan Christoffel

Requiem 9/11 - terra cotta, steel. 7 x 6 x 1.5 ft.

Around the world, one year after the tragedy on 9/11, Mozart's Requiem was played to commemorate those lost in the fall of the Twin Towers. I was moved by the world's outpouring of sympathy for our loss on that day. When we are thinking with our hearts we are the great nation we were meant to be. The fire and Police Personnel who gave their last measure are honored in this work of terra cotta and steel. The terra cotta image and its expression of self-sacrifice represent the courage and dignity of all those Fire and Police Personnel lost. - Dan Christoffel

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DAN CHRISTOFFEL
24 Lighthouse Road
Sands Point, NY 11050-1224
516-767-8249
jchris1@optonline.net
Career summary
Exhibiting artist with fifty years teaching experience. Expertise in oil painting, drawing, terra cotta, stone and steel sculpture, and print making. Accomplished portrait artist and art lecturer including visiting lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Committed to excellence in Education.
Professional Experience
2003 to Present – Artist in Residence - Long Island University at C. W. Post Campus
Board Member - Art League of Long Island
Adjunct Professor of Art - Long Island University at C.W. Post Campus
Visiting Artist - Bethpage UFSD
Visiting Artist at Syosset UFSD and Westbury UFSD
Visiting Artist – Great Neck Arts Center
Art Lecturer – Garden City Cultural Club.
2002 – 2003 – Artist in Residence – Long Island University at C. W. Post Campus
2001 - 2002 – Curator of Fine Arts – The Long Island Partnership for Cultural Development
1960 – 2001 – Educator and Artist: Bellmore-Merrick CHSD; Studio in Art, Drawing and Painting 1and 2,
Drawing and Painting 3 and 4, Sculpture - (Stone, Metal, Clay), AP Art
Instructor: Adult Education
Lecturer: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibiting Artist
Education
Post Masters – Area of study: Print making; Long Island University at C. W. Post Campus, Brookville, New York
Master of Fine Arts – Major: Painting, SUNY at New Paltz, New Paltz, New York
Bachelor of Science - Major: Art Education, SUNY at New Paltz, New Paltz, New York
Undergraduate – Area of study: Traditional Painting, Art Student’s League, New York, NY
Undergraduate – Area of study: Classical Sculpture, National Academy, New York, NY
Awards and Professional Recognition in Education
Edgar B. Allen award – Outstanding teacher - 1968, Long Island Art Teachers Association’s Outstanding teacher of the year – 1976, Bellmore-Merrick CHSD – Teacher of the Year award – 1980, PTSA Teacher of the Year – 1986, Merrick Kiwanis Club – Teacher of the Year – 1990, 1992, Educator of the month – Channel 55 – 1998, nominated by Bellmore-Merrick CHSD as New York State Educator of the year.
Awards, Exhibitions, and Professional Recognition as an Artist
Award of Excellence – A&S Juried exhibit – 1964, 1965,1966, Award of Excellence in painting – Allied Artist – 1968, Montreal Expo – 1976, Award of Excellence in sculpture – Allied Artist – 1980, New York State Art Teachers Award of Excellence – Juried exhibit – 1981, Award of Excellence – Parrish Museum in East Hampton – Juror – Larry Rivers – 1985, Long Island Invitational Parrish Museum – Second Place – 1990, Salmagundi Club Open Juried Exhibit – Honorable mention – 1992, Salmagundi Club Award of Excellence – 1994, Award of Excellence – Open Juried Exhibit – Hutchins Gallery – C. W. Post Campus – 1996, Long Island Open Juried Show at Nassau Community College Fire House Plaza Art Gallery, (Garden City, NY), C.W. Post Campus – 2002-2006, Guild Hall, 2005, (East Hampton, NY Adelphi University – 2002-2006.

Solo Exhibitions
Prime Art Gallery, 1960, (Soho, NY), Fort Sill Gallery, 1961, (Oklahoma), Port Washington Library, 1962, 1970, (Port Washington, NY), New Paltz Community Gallery, 1963, (New Paltz, NY), A&S Invitational,1965,1966, (Hempstead, NY), New Paltz State University Gallery, 1967, (New Paltz, NY), Molloy College, 1969, (Rockville Centre, NY), Bellmore Memorial Library, 1970, 1972, (Bellmore, NY), Wantagh Library, 1971, (Wantagh, NY), Westbury Library, 1974, (Westbury, NY), Bicentennial Exhibit – Bellmore Memorial Library, 1976, (Bellmore, NY), Blue Mountain Gallery, 1980, (Soho, NY), Long Island Art League, 1982, Phantasma Gallery (Windham, NY) “Sculpting Mythologies” – March, 2006.

Recent Exhibitions
The Oyster Bay Historical Society "The Roosevelts Next Door....Portraits of Devotion" (Oyster Bay, NY) 2001
Alfred Van Loen Gallery, South Huntington Library "Lincoln and the Civil Rights Mural" (Huntington Station, NY) 2011
Wells Memorial Library “Jazz: Paintings and Drawings,” (Upper Jay, NY) 2010
Gettysburg College “An Artist and Lincoln,” (Gettysburg, PA) 2010
Newsday Article “Artist Dan Christoffel’s Presidents Day,” January 29, 2010 by Jim Merritt/Special to Newsday
CNBC interview with Chuck Scarborough “Presidents Day,” (New York, NY) 2010
Wells Memorial Library “An Artist and Lincoln,” (Upper Jay, NY) 2009
Theodore Roosevelt Association “TR and the Horse: comrades in arms, friends in life,” (Oyster Bay, NY) 2009
Hutchins Gallery, “Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator and His Legacy,” C.W. Post Campus, LIU (Brookville, NY) 2009
Huntington Art League “Annual Portrait Competition” Juror and exhibit Coordinator, (Huntington, NY) 2009
Roslyn Library “Dan Christoffel: Retrospective Exhibit,” (Roslyn, NY) 2008
Adelphi University “Sculpture Biennial 2006-2007” (Garden City, NY)
Adelphi University “Sculpture Biennial 2005-2006” (Garden City, NY)

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