{"id":1753,"date":"2016-10-21T15:19:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T15:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.alfred.edu\/iea\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:56:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:56:45","slug":"trustees-eric-and-susan-bershad-visit-the-iea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/2016\/10\/21\/trustees-eric-and-susan-bershad-visit-the-iea\/","title":{"rendered":"Trustees Eric And Susan Bershad visit the iea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row row_height_percent=&#8221;0&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; h_padding=&#8221;4&#8243; top_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; bottom_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243;][vc_column][vc_column_text]Alfred University Trustees Eric (&#8217;69, B.A, M.A, Chairman and Founder of Phillip Jeffries) and Susan Bershad visited the Institute for Electronic Arts during a Trustee Weekend on October 21st, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>During their visit, iea co-director Joseph Scheer gave them a tour of the IEA&#8217;s facilities and work and publications by past artists in residence. Joseph also informed Eric and Susan that the iea will be participating in an exhibition at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, presenting work by Expanded Media students and faculty and iea artists. Joseph will also be giving lectures and workshops on laser cut woodblock printing.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1753 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/10\/71A4333.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/10\/71A4333.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"(left to right) School of Art &amp; Design Dean Gerar Edizel, IEA Co-Director Joseph Scheer, and Alfred University Trustees Susan and Eric Bershad looking at an artist book made by Zihao Chen (BFA 2013), a former student of Joseph Scheer.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1754\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1754'>\n\t\t\t\t(left to right) School of Art &amp; Design Dean Gerar Edizel, IEA Co-Director Joseph Scheer, and Alfred University Trustees Susan and Eric Bershad looking at an artist book made by Zihao Chen (BFA 2013), a former student of Joseph Scheer.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/10\/71A4341.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/10\/71A4341.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Joseph Scheer presenting a book by former student Aodi Liang (MFA, 2016) and the process he used in its creation\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1755\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1755'>\n\t\t\t\tJoseph Scheer presenting a book by former student Aodi Liang (MFA, 2016) and the process he used in its creation\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/10\/71A4344.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/10\/71A4344.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Joseph presenting student and IEA artist work. In the foreground, left to right, is Judy Livingston, Professor of Graphic Design, and Andrew Deutsch, Professor of Sonic Art and current division chair.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1756\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1756'>\n\t\t\t\tJoseph presenting student and IEA artist work. In the foreground, left to right, is Judy Livingston, Professor of Graphic Design, and Andrew Deutsch, Professor of Sonic Art and current division chair.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/10\/71A4348.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/10\/71A4348.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Joseph presenting student and IEA artist work. On the table is a hand carved woodblock print by Tim Pauszek (BA, 2014, Alfred University)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1757\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1757'>\n\t\t\t\tJoseph presenting student and IEA artist work. On the table is a hand carved woodblock print by Tim Pauszek (BA,  2014, Alfred University)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/10\/71A4363.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/10\/71A4363.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Joseph presenting his 2003 artist book &quot;Night Flyers&quot; to Eric and Susan\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1758\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1758'>\n\t\t\t\tJoseph presenting his 2003 artist book &#8220;Night Flyers&#8221; to Eric and Susan\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row row_height_percent=&#8221;0&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; h_padding=&#8221;4&#8243; top_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; bottom_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243;][vc_column][vc_column_text]Alfred University Trustees Eric (&#8217;69, B.A, M.A, Chairman and Founder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90424,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions\/90424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}