Josef Ritter

  • Professor, Interior Design
  • Program Director Interior Design
Courses: 
  • ID 365 Introduction to Lighting
  • ID 465 Lighting II
  • ID 460 Professional Portfolio
  • ID 372 Digital Modeling
  • ID 425 Retail and Exhibition Design
Josef Ritter, Cazenovia College Professor, Interior Design
Division(s): 
Art & Design
Contact: 
Contact Information Available
Office Location: 
Reisman Hall
Telephone: 
315.655.7181
Email: 
jritter@cazenovia.edu
After several years in practice as an Interior Designer and Lighting Designer, Professor Ritter became a full-time educator. He established the Interior Design Program at Cazenovia College in 1980. Since then he has continued to practice as a Design and Lighting consultant. His diverse lighting projects include: theatrical production, historic preservation, architectural, interior and landscape applications. He has also created and taught CEU accredited courses in Lighting and Computer-aided Modeling for the Illumination Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) and The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). He has been an Educational Member of ASID since 1980. He is a member of the 1824 Society at Cazenovia College.
Education: 
  • B.A. University of Albany
  • MFA Syracuse University
Awards/Honors: 
  • Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award (2000)
  • IESNA Educators Scholarship Award (1993)
  • New York State Theater Institute Affiliation (awarded June 1997)
  • Haworth Inc. $35,000 Grant for facilities equipment and furniture (1987)
  • National Shakespeare Competition Regional Judge (2001)
  • New York State Education Department (Interior Design Program Site Assessor)
Publications: 
  • CEU Accredited Presentation 3D Computer Modeling (IES, AIA and ASID) 2002
  • CEU Accredited Presentation on Lighting for Designers (IES, AIA and ASID) 2002
  • “Lighting Historic Theater Venues”, Illuminating Engineering Society Presentation, April 2002
  • Upstate New Yorker Magazine, “Decorating your Kitchen with Light” April ‘96
  • New York State Facilities Journal (several articles on lighting related topics 1994-97)
  • “New Directions in Lighting Energy Management” Facilities Journal Presentation, Binghamton NY May ’95
  • “The Diana”, Greenleaf Victorian Wood Dollhouses Inc. Commission Design of Victorian Dollhouse – for worldwide distribution. ’96-‘97
Exhibitions: 
  • Cazenovia College Faculty Exhibition ’02, ’03 (Watercolors)
  • The Goodsight Gallery – Cazenovia, NY ’02 (Watercolors)
  • Lighting Design for several Equity Productions 1999 including: And the World Goes Round, I Do, I Do, Broadway At 11 O’clock, Starting Here, Starting Now, Personals, The Real Inspector Hound
  • Director/Designer: Little Shop of Horrors, 2000
  • Founded SummerStage at Cazenovia College 1998
Experience: 
  • Interior/Architectural Design Consultant Since 1980 (numerous corporate and private projects including: Veterinary Hospitals, private businesses, professional theater projects, educational facilities and residential design projects
  • Professional Designer for Goodsight-Herman Productions (an Actor’s Equity Company)
  • Founder and Artistic Director of SummerStage at Cazenovia College
  • New York State Regional Arts in Education Consultant
  • Greenleaf Wood Products Inc., freelance design of Victorian Dollhouses