Nita Sturiale balances an interdisciplinary life as an artist, teacher, and entrepreneur.
Nita's artwork explores wave behavior, cognition, and emerging technologies. She has presented her work at Boston Museum of Science, MIT's Media Lab, Cambridge River Arts Festival, Tufts University, Mills College, Harvard University, in Wales, Beijing, and Milan, as well as online. She is included in Stephen Wilson's book, Information Arts (MIT Press, 2001). Nita has been a member of the Nature and Inquiry artist group since 1991. With this group, she directed the award-winning Invisible Ideas - a GPS-enabled audience participation event premiering at the Copley Society of art in conjunction with Boston Cyberarts Festival 2003. In 1996, her podcast, Stations of a Commute [1], was featured in the Conflux Arts Festival in NYC. Her most recent project is the Regali Artist Residency in Sicily [2]
As a teacher, she is committed to guiding students towards realizing their intellectual and creative potential through interdisciplinary study, digital media, and conceptual development. She is a tenured Professor in the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art. She also taught two signature courses in mobile computing and web production at Harvard University. Previously, she has taught at Endicott College, Greenfield Community College, Carnegie Mellon University, as well as in various K-12 environments in MetroBoston. She was a founding member of the Boston Cyberarts Festival's Youth committee and the Nature and Inquiry Artists group.
Nita's entrepreneurial activities include co-founding SmartWorlds, a software company developing applications for mobile devices. In addition to working in high tech, Nita and her husband, Giuseppe Taibi, import the Taibi family's Sicilian Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Olio Taibi, [3] into the United States.
As a Jacob K. Javits Fellow, 1994-97, Nita received a Ed.M, Harvard Graduate School of Education and a M.F.A., Tufts University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, combining art, science and education. Her BFA is from the Massachusetts College of Art.
She lives between Boston and Sicily with her husband, Giuseppe and their two daughters, Ella Francesca and Gaia Valentina.
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Nita is currently working on this wikipedia entry - User:USERNAME/Dawn Kramer