Photographs: Danielle Moir
Biographical Sketch
Marc Fasanella holds a PhD in Art & Art Education from New York University and was a professor of Art and Architecture, as well as Ecological and Graphic Design for three decades. He has worked extensively as an independent curator, design build specialist in wood and landscape, and served as an environmental non-profit founder / director.
Marc began his academic training in the New York State University system as an undergraduate in Industrial Arts, a program similar to Bauhaus education in that he was introduced to design philosophy and received technical training ranging from drafting to ceramics, graphics to electronics, metalwork to photography. His Masters degree from New York University in Post Secondary Technology and Industrial Education focused on teaching students to use industrial skill for socially responsible design. Marc’s concentrated interests were passive solar architecture and the British method of Craft, Design, and Technology education. As a doctoral candidate in Art and Art Education he studied aesthetics and the philosophy of nature. His dissertation, The Environmental Design of Jones Beach State Park, delved into the geology, economics, politics, environmental impact, and aesthetics of the park’s construction.
Dr. Fasanella serves as lead executor for the Ralph Fasanella estate collection and has written and lectured about his father, a self-taught social realist painter. He authored the monograph Ralph Fasanella: Images of Optimism published by Pomegranate Press.
A skilled afro-cuban percussionist he has been a founding member of a jazz / world quartet, and quintet with whom he performed extensively on the East End of Long Island.
Currently Marc is involved in an array of creative and intellectual pursuits in the areas of Art, Craft, Design, Ecology, Essay, Percussion, as well as Folk / Punk doggerel and Poetics.
Marc resides with his wife Anne Moyer in Friendship Cottage - a 600 square foot 1920’s cottage on .18 of an acre that they are re-constructing in Rocky Point, Long Island.
