At Rockport College, we are all active professionals in our own fields. Teaching for us is a privilege that balances our working time with a chance to share what we have learned. The conservatory atmosphere at Rockport College encourages a stimulating learning environment. It supports ideas and creativity with caring and trust. The students are challenged and grow through vigorous discussion and rigorous critiques. We expect excellence and an aptitude for personal resilience and we work to develop these traits. Our aim is to prepare the students for a profession and for their lives. This school has a cooperative community of easily accessible teachers. We have worked to design an enriched educational context which nurtures and fosters the development of aesthetic intelligence and artistic sensibilities. Visually gifted students do well in this responsive framework. Our classrooms are laboratories of experiment and dialogue and we work to engage each student's individual intellect and imagination. The students attracted to this college are bright, challenging and courageous. They form strong bonds to each other and to this faculty. We would like to thank them. They are always a pleasure to teach and to know.  Director of EducationElizabeth Greenberg received her BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design and completed her MFA in photography at Vermont College. She is a commercial studio photographer, as well as a fine-art photographer and teacher. She worked as an assistant to Arnold Newman and ran her own business as a commercial photographer in New York City. Elizabeth is the Director of both the College and the Workshops' Photography Programs, a member of the Photo faculty and the MFA Program Administrator. Director of Professional Certificate Program in PhotographyBrenton Hamilton received his AA degree from The Workshops and the University of Maine in 1985. He received his MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and has been a member of the Rockport College Faculty since 1992. Currently directing the Professional Certificate Program in Photography at Rockport College, Brenton is a fine art photographer whose work is represented by the John Stevenson Gallery in New York City. Brenton teaches B & W Craft, Extended Print, The History of Photography and Alternate Processes and critiques at the workshops. Chris Pinchbeck has a BA from Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA. Currently he is an active freelance editorial and commercial photographer working for magazine and stock sales. He brings wide commercial experience to his teaching. Jan Rosenbaum is a photographer, author and teacher. He holds a BFA in photography/printmaking from Wayne University in Detroit and a masters of science in management of technology, Polytechnic University, New York, NY. Jan also has a masters of science in photographic and imaging science from the Rochester Institute of Technology and an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has taught at Wayne State University and the University of Michigan. Jan is the Chair of the MFA program at Rockport College and teaches in the AA and Professional Certificate photography programs. Film FacultyBeth Cohen is a filmmaker and teacher. She has worked as an associate producer and editor for six years at Stanford Mediaworks, and currently teaches at Rockport College and freelances as a director, line producer, and an editor. She holds a Masters degree in Documentary Film and Television from Stanford University and a Masters in education from the University of Pennsylvania. Beth is on the AA, Professional Certificate and MFA faculty at Rockport College. Kim Davis, Film Faculty & Assistant Librarian, has been with the school for just over two years. She has overseen several independent studies in film history with both undergraduate and graduate students and has taught film appreciation in the community classes. She holds a M.A. in Critical Cinema Studies and a B.A. in Communications with an emphasis in film history. She has worked at Warner Brothers Studios, San Francisco State University, The San Francisco Silent Film Festival, The Museum of Radio & Television and The Jesse L. Lasky Museum. Rob Draper, ACS, Film Faculty is a Director of Photography with more than 25 years of international experience. He has photographed "The Spitfire Grill", "Matter of Justice", and "Tales From The Crypt". Draper has won numerous awards including the Australian Cinematography Association Award for his photography of the TV movie, "The Three Stooges". He was the original DP on the hit TV series "Ed." Rob has been leading workshops for 15 years, and is one of the most articulate and dynamic teachers in film. Fred Thorne, MA, Film Faculty, is an academically honored and award-winning writer, producer and director in Film and TV. Fred began his career in TV with CBC-TV as a lighting director. He became a camera operator, then TD, and eventually switched from the technical side to become a producer and director. As a writer and director, his experience ranges across the spectrum from feature motion pictures to aerospace science education, spanning the breadth of Film and TV communication in depth. Ten years on the faculty at California State University, Chico, Fred is Chair of the Writing Division of the Broadcast Education Association, Founding Chair of the Faculty Script Competition, a member of the Writers Caucus of the University Film and Video Association, a member of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, and is a Founding member of the Digital Cinema Society.
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