LARCHMONT, N.Y. – May 19, 2023 – PRLog — Expanding the visual presentation of abstract art, Palmer Art presents “Modern Abstraction” exhibiting the renowned artists Al Johnson and Anton. The Palmer Art Gallery is in the art and culture community of Larchmont, New York at 1947 Palmer Avenue. The exhibition will run from May 20 to July 15, 2023, with artist talks and workshops.
Palmer Art has provided quality custom art and framing services to Larchmont and surrounding areas since 1958. The store is currently owned and operated by Carlos Rodriguez. In Mid-2020 even during a global pandemic, he found himself busier than ever before with more requests for products and services then moving to a 2000-square-foot gallery and showroom.
AL JOHNSON
Al Johnson is a well-known and recognized abstract expressionist painter, whose works can be found in private, public, and corporate collections, and exhibitions globally. He is also a commercial artist who creates storyboard art for feature, documentary, and animated films. The scope of his work crosses many genres, including the creation of the original artistic renderings of the Georgia Aquarium and the oil-on-canvas commissioned portrait of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, permanently installed in Brooklyn Borough Hall. During the Centennial Tribute to Romare Bearden, Mr. Johnson was chosen as a Bearden 100 artist. He has exhibited at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum in Japan, Susan Bentley Gallery in London, Maison de Arts in Le Bacares, France, the Guangzhou International Art Fair in China, and in an exhibition curated by Jordan Kantor during his tenure as Assistant Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Al Johnson’s artwork has been praised by critics for its embrace of cosmic abstraction and its exploration of new media.
ANTON MODERN ART
Known as a modern artist with a primitive abstract tribal style, for the past 25 years, Anton’s paintings have been represented, exhibited, and collected internationally. Founder of the curriculum Art No Boundaries, from 2012 – 2020, the artist assisted kids in first through fourth grades at the Milestone School on how to create Abstract Compositions, focusing on the power of Creative Thinking. Recently the artist’s paintings were permanently installed at 42 BROAD, a New Luxury Apartment High Rise in Mount Vernon, NY.
QUOTES FROM THE ARTISTS
“The viewer may experience their own individual expressive emotional response to the captured moment of the work. Undefined limitless possibilities exist when viewing this body of work. While I may have had a particular direction when creating a piece, I encourage the viewer to experience the work in their own way, and draw their own conclusions and make their own discoveries. For this reason, I sometimes refer to my work as “Interpretivism.” – Al Johnson
“The origin from which this style of art has been inspired then birthed, is rooted in African Art and the exploration beyond realism. Like many of the European artists which were strongly influenced by the sophisticated approach to the abstraction of the human figure, I too have been spiritually and soulfully influenced by the Primitive Voices of the Dark Continent, The Black Indigenous, The Tribal”. – Anton
Upcoming Artist Talk and Workshop: Artist Talk: Saturday, June 3rd, 1pm Artist Workshop: Saturday, June 10th, 10 – 2pm
Modern Campus, the higher education industry’s leading provider of solutions for driving student enrollment by attracting, engaging and converting students, today recognized eight colleges and universities for excellence in website design and management.
These eight winners were chosen from over 700 postsecondary institution websites powered by Modern Campus Omni CMS, the only content management system purpose-built for higher education. The winning websites were recognized for their effectiveness at providing students with informative content and engaging user experiences, driving conversions, maintaining interest, and improving enrollments.
In no particular order, the Best Higher Education Websites of 2022 are: Alvin Community College Ferris State University Florida A&M University Hobart and William Smith Colleges Ohio Wesleyan University SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University University of Arkansas Monticello University of North Texas
Since the website is the front door to an institution, it plays a crucial role in driving student enrollment by attracting, engaging, and converting students. It’s one of the first places that prospective students visit and serves as an important touchpoint in their enrollment decision.
Modern students expect higher ed websites to be optimized for their phones, deliver personalized experiences, and showcase the return on their higher ed investments upfront. They also prefer to experience the campus virtually before applying for it, found a recent study of higher school students conducted by RNL.
“Colleges and universities have been leveraging their websites in innovative ways to improve their prospective students’ digital experiences,” said Kimberly Prieto, vice president for product at Modern Campus. “On behalf of Modern Campus, I’m really excited to recognize the institutions that are leading the innovation and accomplishing specific goals with their websites. These websites share the very best of what the institution has to offer in a highly engaging manner.”
A More Personalized Experience for Learners In an era of falling enrollments and high skepticism from students and parents alike, the website plays a critical role in helping to define and establish the importance of postsecondary education.
Omni CMS by Modern Campus enables colleges and universities to design and build websites to meet modern leaners’ expectations and increase enrollments. Each of the recognized institutions are attracting and engaging students by delivering personalized experiences, showcasing career pathways, providing virtual campus tours and more.
“The tools that Modern Campus is bringing out now are allowing us to show instead of tell in a way we haven’t been able to before,” stated Eric Hazen, director of digital marketing at Ferris State University. “We’re able to create an experience similar to the one our students get here. And knowing that all our prospective student journeys start on the website, the ability to personalize the website is critical.”
To find the full listing of the Modern Campus Best Websites of 2022, with screenshots and insights into the factors that make them truly excellent, visit https://moderncampus.com/blog/best-higher-ed-websites-of-2022.html.
Modern Campus Angela Tuzzo 732-758-1100 www.moderncampus.com
Modern Requirements, the preeminent requirements management solutions provider, has received a Champion Medal, earning a top spot in the 2023 Requirements Management Emotional Footprint Awards, from SoftwareReviews. SoftwareReviews is a division of Info-Tech Research Group, a third-party, independent IT research and advisory firm.
The award is based on authentic user-review data. Vendors were rated across key customer relationship metrics and value drivers that make up their overall customer experience (CX) score. Modern Requirements is a Champion in the category earning an overall Composite Score of 8.8/10 and a best-in-class +94 Net Emotional Footprint score. The data published is collected from real end users and meticulously verified. See the full report on www.modernrequirements.com.
Emotional Footprint Champions are selected based exclusively on feedback provided by their users via Software Reviews’ comprehensive online survey. The survey measures user satisfaction across 27 elements of the provider relationship, including strategy, service experience, product experience, conflict resolution, and the contracting process. The result is a Net Emotional Footprint score. This score represents the overall user sentiment, a powerful indicator of the user feeling toward the provider and the product.
As a champion medalist, Modern Requirements’ composite score of 8.8/10 measured users’ ratings of satisfaction that cost is fair relative to value, their plan to renew and likeliness to recommend. Vendor support, ease of data integration, breadth of features and business value created, are some of the highest-rated capabilities associated with Modern Requirements, resulting in a 100% rating for Plan to Renew.
SoftwareReviews also compares and evaluates other vendors in the market using the most in-depth and unbiased analyst reports. Modern Requirements is ranked one of the highest among the Requirements Management vendors reported, such as Jama Connect, Visure, Polarion ALM, IBM Doors Next and Codebeamer.
“I don’t know of any other products that offer what Modern Requirements does. This is a great product, highly recommended. Their full suite of tools is pretty amazing,” said Wendy L, Information Technology Customer.
“We are thrilled and gratified that our clients have positioned our company as an industry leader. The data in this report should provide our current and prospective clients confidence in their tool selection process.” -Bob Savelson SVP Sales Modern Requirements
Modern Requirements also outperformed the category average in multiple product features satisfaction. This demonstrates the application’s ability to extend the capabilities of Azure DevOps in areas such as: ● Collaboration ● Change management ● ALM integration ● Traceability ● And much more
Ready to turn Azure DevOps into a complete, powerful requirements management solution? Get a Free Trial of Modern Requirements by visiting their website.
About Modern Requirements Modern Requirements is a leading enterprise requirements lifecycle solutions provider. Its award-winning flagship product, Modern Requirements4DevOps, is fully embedded in Azure DevOps. Referred to as Microsoft’s Requirements Management go-to partner, Modern Requirements has become an industry staple for those positioned on Microsoft’s leading ALM tools – Azure DevOps Server and Azure DevOps. Modern Requirement4DevOps supports agile, waterfall, and hybrid requirements approaches. It includes an industry-leading feature set with complete project auditability.
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Modern Campus, the higher education industry’s leading modern learner engagement platform, today announced the launch of the Modern Campus Signal Vine + Lumens SMS Connector. The connection between Modern Campus’ continuing education and conversational text messaging solutions is designed to transform student communication in the non-traditional space by propelling enrollment and credential completion.
The Modern Campus Signal Vine + Lumens SMS Connector will create an automated flow of data between the two solutions for timely and effective learner communication. This is the first in a series of connectors Modern Campus will launch to help colleges and universities efficiently communicate with key demographics of students through conversational text messaging.
Through the pandemic—and against the backdrop of a higher education industry in crisis—continuing education (CE) and workforce development units have evolved and gained prominence within their institutions. Across the board, 56% of institutional leaders said the role of their CE units grew since 2019. Staff are being challenged to better support their learners’ academic, professional and personal growth, helping colleges enroll more diverse audiences and retain those learners through credential attainment. With this expanded scope, program staff need to engage learners in more meaningful and impactful ways.
It’s clear that the work of continuing and workforce education units is more important than ever. But most of these providers are still using outdated tools to connect with their busy students. In many cases, communication happens over email and is difficult to track.
With the Modern Campus Signal Vine + Lumens SMS Connector in place, divisional staff can seamlessly leverage SMS text messaging to communicate with students. They’ll be able to nudge learners to take the actions needed to earn their credentials, and prompt learners to enroll in courses and programs that may be of interest or required to complete their chosen programs.
What’s more, the Signal Vine + Lumens SMS Connector will help continuing and workforce education staff deliver the experience modern learners expect. By leveraging the core functionality of Modern Campus Signal Vine, staff efficiency increases as inbound requests are automatically triaged. Common questions receive pre-defined responses while more complex requests are routed directly to staff for specific follow-up.
The Modern Campus Signal Vine + Lumens SMS Connector:
· Enables staff to leverage AI-based Blended Messaging® to build long-term engagement with targeted learner demographics so the right students receive the right messages at the exact right time. · Connects learners with critical support, leading to increased retention, degree and certification completion, and re-enrollment rates. · Streamlines the transfer of data between Signal Vine and Lumens, driving efficient and effective engagement campaigns.
“Building connections between our Modern Campus solutions helps build the kind of ecosystem today’s higher education institutions need,” said Modern Campus Chief Product Officer Reuben Pressman. “Learners and leaders alike demand systems that work and a seamless experience that makes life easier. The Signal Vine + Lumens SMS Connector shows our commitment to delivering on that expectation.”
For more information, visit: https://moderncampus.com/signal-vine-plus-lumens.
About Modern Campus
Modern Campus is obsessed with empowering its nearly 2,000 higher education customers to thrive when radical transformation is required to respond to lower student enrollments and revenue, rising costs, crushing student debt, and administrative complexity.
The Modern Campus engagement platform powers solutions for non-traditional student management, web content management, catalog and curriculum management, student engagement and development, conversational text messaging, career pathways, and campus maps and virtual tours. The result: innovative institutions can create a learner-to-earner lifecycle that engages modern learners for life, while providing modern administrators with the tools needed to streamline workflows and drive high efficiency.
Learn how Modern Campus is leading the modern learner engagement movement at moderncampus.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
Modern Campus Angela Tuzzo 732-758-1100 www.moderncampus.com
The Association of Registrars of the Universities and Colleges of Canada (ARUCC) and Modern Campus, the higher education industry’s leading modern learner engagement platform, today announced a partnership that will enhance interoperability between Modern Campus Destiny One—the most-used student information system for continuing and workforce education—and the ARUCC MyCreds™ | MesCertif™National Network.
MyCreds™, powered by Digitary, is a Canadian shared service and platform that provides students and graduates access to a secure, online, password-protected learner credential wallet, with official documents issued by their institution. Modern Campus plans to build an API connector with MyCreds™, to launch in November 2022, enabling institutions on the MyCreds™ platform full interoperability for badges with their Modern Campus Destiny One local environments.
Today’s learners need flexible access to their academic credentials and documents, so that they can share evidence of their knowledge, skills, and abilities whenever—and with whomever—they want, on demand. The collaboration between MyCreds™ and Modern Campus will support learners’ unique education experiences across the full learner lifecycle.
“We’re passionate about supporting institutions in their effort to deliver modern experiences for learners—no matter where they are in their journey. Our focus on helping learners share their skills and personalized badges on any social platform is just one example of that commitment,” says Chad Rowe, vice president of product at Modern Campus, “The MyCreds™ Connector enables colleges and universities to easily issue digital credentials stored and managed externally. This will increase learner engagement, and potentially help to drive subsequent enrolments.”
Any institution’s system administrator can link MyCreds™ to Modern Campus Destiny One in minutes. Once linked, institutions will be able to search or enter IDs for, and associate, any of their existing MyCreds™ badge templates to a Destiny One (Modern Campus’s purpose-built Student Information System) course section, certificate, conference, or ISPM program. With this collaboration, institutions using Destiny One will have the ability to share badge data and load MyCreds™ badges directly to their course catalogs. This feature will be available as an add-on for institutions as they onboard to the MyCreds™ platform.
“MyCreds™ is excited to partner with Modern Campus,” says Charmaine Hack, ARUCC board director of ARUCC MyCreds™, “Establishing strong ties with key student information system providers remains a core interoperability goal of MyCreds™. With this new arrangement, schools will have needed supports between their Modern Campus Destiny One local environments and MyCreds™, which will enhance efficiency and increase the access for onboarding and sharing of data for badges in a streamlined fashion. We are looking forward to the anticipated launch of the supports in late fall 2022.”
“Humber College has been using Destiny One for our learners and their digital credentials for many years. We are looking forward to the Destiny One software connector as it will allow us to automatically send our learner credentials to MyCreds™,” says Ruth Butlin, ITS director of enterprise applications, Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning, “The new functionality will improve our learner mobility as they will be able to store all their academic credentials in one digital wallet, including their micro-credentials.”
About ARUCC The Association of Registrars of the Universities and Colleges of Canada (ARUCC) owns MyCreds™. ARUCC provides leadership in the post-secondary education field and service to its member institutions nationally and internationally, helping foster the advancement of registrarial practices and learner focused service delivery in Canada.
About MyCreds™ MyCreds™ is a national, shared service and platform that provides students and graduates access to a secure, online, password protected learner credential wallet. This virtual wallet allows them to view and share their verified and official transcripts, credentials, and academic documents in a digitized format on a 24/7 basis – anytime, anywhere. Secure, cryptographically signed documents can be sent conveniently and require no further verification. MyCreds™ is the first and only national bilingual system of its kind in Canada. Visit www.mycreds.ca for more details or contact ARUCC’s Executive Lead, Joanne Duklas at info@aruccnationalnetwork.ca.
About Modern Campus Modern Campus is obsessed with empowering its 1,800+ higher education customers to thrive when radical transformation is required to respond to lower student enrollments and revenue, rising costs, crushing student debt, and administrative complexity.
The Modern Campus engagement platform powers solutions for non-traditional student management, web content management, catalog and curriculum management, student engagement and development, conversational text messaging, career pathways, and campus maps and virtual tours. The result: innovative institutions can create a learner-to-earner lifecycle that engages modern learners for life, while providing modern administrators with the tools needed to streamline workflows and drive high efficiency.
Learn how Modern Campus is leading the modern learner engagement movement at moderncampus.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
About Digitary Digitary provides the underlying engine powering MyCreds™. Digitary was launched in Dublin, Ireland in 2005, and has grown to become a leading online platform for certifying, sharing, and verifying academic credentials. Learner-centric since the very start, Digitary enables millions of learners to share their verified academic achievements online, securely, quickly and easily. Digitary is now used by organizations in over 135 countries. For further details, visit www.digitary.net.
Modern Campus Angela Tuzzo 732-758-1100 www.moderncampus.com
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