SummEr/FAll 2011 - Nazareth College

Two Nazareth Professors
Picture the World
O
ne is an introspective conceptual artist who uses archetypes
to examine the beauty and tragedy in life. The other is an
offbeat open book who uses linear perspective to interpret
realistic images. Both are Nazareth College art professors
and esteemed painters whose work has earned national and
international reputations.
And while Kathleen Calderwood and Maureen Brilla-Fitzpatrick may have
different approaches to their art—and different personalities—they have a
unified vision when it comes to viewing the world and its occupants.
“Everything is connected to everything,” Calderwood says of the relationship
between physical truth and the creative process.
“Everything affects everything else,” Brilla-Fitzpatrick summarizes in a
separate interview.
Deborah Dooley ’75, Ph.D., dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, says
Nazareth is honored to have such talent on campus. “It is an extraordinary gift
to any institution when an artist is capable of being artist and teacher. These
women remind us that we don’t only see the world through words, and
that there is a deeply creative and affective dimension to learning.”
Deeply engaged with and equally beloved by their students, Calderwood
and Brilla-Fitzpatrick eagerly demonstrate that the devil may be in the
details—but that those details are open to interpretation.