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Winner of the 2008 Joseph Burger Humanitarian Award (Dowling College, Oakdale, NY), William Thierfelder is a writer, artist, and teacher who lives on the western campus of Dowling College where he is a Professor of English and Humanities.
>> As an artist, William Thierfelder has focused on drawing, exploring various media, especially crayon, pencil, graphite, and oil pastels. His work has been shown at galleries on Long Island and, since 2007, at Monkdogz Urban Art in Chelsea (Manhattan).
GALLERY WEBSITE: www.monkdogz.com
WCBS-TV PROFILE: http://wcbstv.com/video/?id=102204@wcbs.dayport.com
BAREBRUSH FEATURED ARTIST WEBSITE: http://www.barebrush.com/Featured/WilliamThierfelder.html
>> As a writer, Thierfelder publishes under the name T. Richard Williams. His poetry and short stories have been published in such diverse venues as Wild Violet, Aphelion, Shadeworks, Petroglyph, American Poets and Poetry, and Lucid Stone. Two collections of verse, How the Dinosaurs Devoured the Humans and The Letter S, and a volume of short stories titled Ten are currently available at Amazon.com. As Dr. Bill Thierfelder, he has published academic and scholarly work in The Explicator, The Italian Journal, and several regional newspapers, including Outlook Long Island, a publication serving the LGBT community in Nassau and Suffolk counties. He also wrote a memoir about his 115 mile solo bike trek across Long Island for LIGALY (Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth) entitled Deliberate Living.
REGULAR COLUMN: http://www.outlooklongisland.com/
DELIBERATE LIVING: http://www.dowling.edu/faculty/thierfelder/livingintro.shtm
>> As a professor, Bill Thierfelder, widely known as Dr. T or Dr. Bill, teaches a wide-range of subjects in the evening and on weekends, including Myths, Fairytales, and Legends; The Art of Drama; The Art of the Novel; The Art of Poetry; Science Fiction; 20th Century Canadian Writers, The Literature and Culture of New York State; Renaissance English Poetry and Culture; The Gay and Lesbian Experience; The African-American Experience; and The AIDS Pandemic: Its Contexts and Representations.
FACULTY PROFILE: www.dowling.edu/faculty/thierfelder
>>Over the years, he has also been involved in various LGBT causes for many years, including volunteer and activist work for the Momentum AIDS Project (New York City), GMHC (Gay Mens' Health Crisis) , LIAAC (Long Island Association for AIDS Care), Thursday's Child, and LIGALY (Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth). In addition, he has started an annual scholarship at Dowling College for outstanding Gay and Lesbian students.
SCHOLARSHIP: http://www.dowling.edu/fin_aid/shepard.html
>> Recently he started THE FOOD ANGELS PROJECT to raise funds for Long Island AIDS organizations.
http://www.newsli.com/2007/12/12/angels-from-dowling-college-make-a-difference-for-world-aids-day/
He is also a member of and donor to The Jessup Society at The American Museum of Natural History and the Encore Society at The Metropolitan Opera. He also supports a wide range of charitable organizations, especially those devoted to preserving Earth's environment and supporting children-at-risk around the world.
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