Mr. David Connolly
12655 Vandelia St.
Frisco, TX 75035
469-733-6734
972-377-8431
david@dconnollyfineart.com
http://www.dconnollyfineart.com
12655 Vandelia St.
Frisco, TX 75035
469-733-6734
972-377-8431
david@dconnollyfineart.com
http://www.dconnollyfineart.com
My name is David Connolly and I have been making and teaching Art for over 15 years. It is my great passion and I enjoy doing it, professionally and personally in addition to teaching experience, I have an expansive visual vocabulary in the areas of painting, prints and drawings of various types and time periods (including the medium/ material make-up, traditional and contemporary methods). I have an academic and self-taught background in painting, drawing, foundations and computer graphics for over ten years, (and am an artist working in the areas of drawing, painting and print).
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
I believe that students are largely brilliant—it is just that some of them do not really have any idea as to how brilliant, and what kinds of capabilities lay deeply within them or just beneath the surface. It’s my job to help them to see their own brilliance, or distance they must travel to find it, and then give them the tools to go and get it. This compels me to hold students to a very high standard, and thus I push them to strive for academic excellence in all their projects, writing samples, class participation, group and discussion interaction, critique, personal management, and ambitious goal setting. Along the same line as having high standards for them, I believe that students must learn to grow in maturity and their abilities to pursue excellence of character and personal integrity, both in the areas of academics and life beyond the classroom, as they are expected to learn to contribute to the world they live in at some level, with a spirit of excellence, reliability and commitment.
I am largely Socratic and use cooperative learning models, and believe in using a context, working from a foundational, pivotal point building a scaffold of knowledge for the students to later fill in the details through research, failure and practice. Failure I have discovered is a friend to the learner who fails under appropriate circumstances. When the learner fails in the presence of love, admiration, acceptance and respect, that learner maintains focus, is able to get back up and aggressively try again with dignity intact. This learner who fails in an interactive, non-condemning environment has found success time after time, learning how to embrace personal values and communal values, and contribute as a respectful and respectable member of the group. Since I place great confidence in failure as a teacher, I work to co-labor alongside the student with patience, giving them room to fail and succeed.
The brain seems to be a fantastic sorting machine or puzzle solver, that wants to make pieces fit, and is daring to try pieces that do not seem to fit just to make puzzling things make sense. I want my students to be willing to dig anywhere and challenge any premise to find what works, or expert knowledge or the best practice (etc.), and so they must be willing to build, tear down, fail and be beaten by the process of learning and practicing, all to make the pieces fit.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Art Education. Univ. of N. Texas, in progress.
M.F.A., May 2001. University of Tulsa. Major emphasis in painting and printmaking with minor emphasis in Art History
B.F.A., May 1997. University of Tulsa. Major emphasis in painting with a minor in Art History
University of Tulsa School of Art in Italy, Montone, Italy
EXPERIENCE
2002-2008
Adjunct Professor. Mountainview College Dallas, TX
Museum Studies, Beginning and Advanced Painting, Beginning and Advanced Drawing, Art Appreciation and Museum Studies.
Art Instructor. Trinity Christian Academy Dallas, TX
Beginning and Advanced Painting, Beginning and Advanced Drawing, Video Animation, Documentary Film, Digital Photography, Senior Thesis Practicum: Advanced Placement (AP)Art , and Studio Art (Foundations).
Private Instructor. Dallas, TX
Classical Renaissance and Baroque to Contemporary Painting and Drawing Techniques,
Adjunct Professor. Tarrant County Community College Ft.Worth, TX
Art Appreciation
Studio Artist/ Owner. DConnolly Fine Art Frisco, TX
Freelance work for professional development, commissions and exhibitions; www.dconnollyfineart.com
2001-2002
Gallery Staff. Royce Myers Art LTD Tulsa, OK
1998-2001
Graduate Teaching Assistant. University Of Tulsa Tulsa, OK
Assisting professors Chuck Tomlins and Virgil Lampton. Slide/copy work, lecture & instruction, grading and critiquing.
Art Substitute Teacher. Hale High School Tulsa, OK
Photography Instructor. Alcott Elementary Tulsa, OK
Lecturer. University of Tulsa Tulsa, OK
African American Art.
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
2008
PCPC Arts Festival “Genesis: Beginnings”. Dallas, TX
“Mi Casa Su Casa”. Mountainview College, Dallas, TX
“Saturday Night Fever”. 500x Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007
One Man Show, La Misha, McKinney, TX
Mountain View College, “Faculty Show”, Dallas, TX
2006
From the HeArt: Arts and Crafts Exhibition Houston, TX
One Man Show, Chievres, Belgium
One Man Show, Mountainview College: Tree Top Gallery Dallas, TX
2005
Premium Goods, "Tall American Tales". One Man Show, Houston, TX
Time Warner Cable (Office Building), Austin, TX
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX
2004
Trinity Christian Academy, "Faculty Show". Dallas, TX
2001-2002
Royce Myers Art Ltd., Tulsa, OK
2001
Royce Myers Art Ltd., Tulsa, OK
Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX
BOK Building Downtown Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
Annual Gussman Show, Alexander Hogue Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2000
Juried Show, St. Philip Neri Newman Center, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
The Annual Gussman Show, Alexander Hogue Gallery, Tulsa, OK
1999
Annual Gussman Show, Alexander Hogue Gallery, Tulsa, OK
1998
The I.A.O. Gallery, Oklahoma City, Ok
Annual Gussman Show, Alexander Hogue Gallery, Tulsa, OK
Pyramid Atlantic Sixth Books Arts Fair, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Series IV: Traveling Print Show: Southwest Texas Institute of the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX
Coronado Studios Gallery Collection. Austin, San Antonio, TX
Series 95-97 The University of Texas, Pan American in Edinburgh, TX
1997
Series 95-97: The Center for Hispanic Arts/ Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Senior Show, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
Carvalli Chiostro, Montone, Italy
ACAC Gallery, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
1996
One Man Show, Farmer's Branch Manske Library, Farmer's Branch, TX
1993-1995
Annual Gussman Show, Alexander Hogue Gallery, Tulsa, OK
1992
Brookhaven College, Dallas TX
COMMERCIAL LIMITED COLLECTIONS
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Coronado Studios and Gallery, Austin, TX
University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
SunTX Capital Partners, Dallas TX
Fellowship Bible Church, Tulsa, OK
Nadel & Gussman,LLC., Tulsa, OK
Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX
Institute for Latino Studies-Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
