STATE OF THE ART

State of the Art is a television series designed to showcase artists and their works. This series highlights those individuals who support artists and their endeavors. This includes Gallery Directors, Curators, Educators, Publishers and Historians. All of these guests will discuss their experiences in the Arts and Arts Education. State of the Art utilizes the TV Production Studios operated by students in the Television Production Magnet Program at Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, New York. The cohosts, also from Roosevelt High School, are students in the Fine Arts Magnet Program interested in pursuing careers in the Arts. It is hoped that all students will benefit from this interaction with well-known figures in the Art Community. This program exposes these artists to the community at large in order to ameliorate an interest and appreciatiom of the Arts. Simultaneously, students in the Television Production and Visual Arts Magnets will actively participate in the production of this unique series.

This series is broadcast daily on Channel Nineteen WDMC-TV the Yonkers Board of Education's Educational Access Channel on cable tv in the City of Yonkers. This program is also aired on Bronxnet Cable, TCI Westchester, Harrison Cable, and Continental Cable in Ossining, N.Y.

FRED NOLD

Fred Nold has taught in the Yonkers Public Schools for the past twenty-three years. He was Chairman of the Fine Arts Department at Roosevelt High School. Prior to ocming to Yonkers, Mr. Nold was an assistant Art Director at Fletcher, Richards, Calkins, and Holden, an advertising agency in New York City. Mr. Nold is also a dynamic artist whose oil paintings and sculptures have been exhibited in galleries throughout Westchester and New York City. he is a graduate of Parson's School of Design and New York University; he also has attended the graduate school at The New School for Social Research and Hunter College. Working out of his studio and home in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, Mr. Nold has exhibited his works widely. They have been displayed in the River Museum at the State University in Purchase, New York, Westchester County's Bridge Gallery in White Plains,New York, The Craftsman's Gallery in Scarsdale, New York, The Kottler Gallery in New York City, The Green Gallery in New Rochelle, New York, The Daytop Art Festival in New York City, (where he was a contributing artist along with Robert Motherwell, Joseph Smith and Moses Soyer) and most recently at Sotheby's York Avenue Galleries, New York City, for the previews of the Channel Thirteen Collection's televised auction of art and antiques. He is currently showing in local galleries in Westchester and in Naples Florida, where he now lives.