Poster Image
$20
Item#: 2012SYR10
Purchase Details
11x17-inches, printed on heavy weight (100-pound) Hammermill cover paper. We package each print with a piece of chipboard in a clear plastic sleeve.
You also receive…
An information page with photos of the artist and poet, and hand-written comments from each.
Medium- and large-format posters are available by custom order. Contact us for details.
Poem Inspiration Location
Community builds
poster information
Description
Community builds
bridges of thought between us,
hope for the future.
When I saw the image of the bridge, I thought, that's exactly what an academic institution does: bridges minds. For me, OCC also served as a bridge to other institutions. I decided to study there for the first two years of college, then I transferred to SUNY New Paltz, where I earned a Bachelor's degree in creative writing, and then went on to get a Master's degree in English at SUNY Binghamton.
I liked that OCC was part of the community. It was comfortable for me. I was still living with my parents, and it was affordable. I liked the size of my classes. I had some very good professors, some of whom I knew from my family, so it truly was a community college.
I'm an adjunct professor teaching art at OCC. I was asked by the college to make a picture the Syracuse Poster Project would print celebrating OCC's 50th anniversary. I enjoy painting landscapes, but because I was designing a poster, this was different from a painting I would do myself.
The vertical format was important, so I began by looking for something that would fit that format. OCC has plenty of beautiful views, but they're mostly wide panoramic orientation. So I kept walking around campus and finally came upon the bridge that spans the stream and the gorge. The bridge itself became a vertical element and helped me describe a unique feature to the OCC campus.