PATCHOGUE, NY – OCTOBER 10, 2007 – The St. Joseph’s College Council for the Arts is proud to welcome Gregory Tsontakis-Mally as the Artist-in-Residence from October 30 to November 1, 2007. As part of his visit, Tsontakis-Mally will lecture on the connection of art to academia on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 from 12:40 p.m. to 1:40 p.m. in the McGann Conference Center located in O’Connor Hall on the College’s Long Island Campus.

“Artist-in-Residence” week was created to introduce students to professional artists and their methods. Each year, the College will invite an artist to spend three days on campus, lecturing and listening to students’ inquiries about art while they get to elaborate on their own personal experience as a young artist. During his visit, Tsontakis-Mally will display his watercolor paintings and photographs, and then reveal his creative process and talk about what inspires him to create art.

A Fine Arts graduate of SUNY New Paltz, Tsontakis-Mally earned Master of Science degrees in Arts Education from Long Island University in 1982 and in Arts Administration from Parsons School of Design in 1987. He is a Vietnam veteran and has been teaching for 15 years.

For more information, please contact the Council for the Arts at (631) 447-3323 or visit www.sjcny.edu/calendar. St. Joseph’s College is located at 155 W. Roe Blvd. in Patchogue, and is accessible via the South Service Road of Sunrise Highway, just east of Exit 52 (Waverly Ave.).

About St. Joseph's College

St. Joseph’s College has been dedicated to providing a diverse population of students in the New York metropolitan area with an affordable education rooted in the liberal arts tradition since 1916. Independent and coeducational, the College provides a strong academic and value-oriented education at the undergraduate and graduate levels, aiming to prepare each student for a life characterized by integrity, intellectual and spiritual values, social responsibility, and service. With campuses located in the Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn and in Patchogue, Suffolk, Long Island, the College offers degrees in over 22 majors, special course offerings and certificates, affiliated and pre-professional programs through its School of Arts and Sciences and its School of Professional and Graduate Studies.