Direct Message/
@DanielMcElroy on Instagram
Email /
DanielGavinMcElroy@gmail.com
a bit about myself, shall we?
Skill sETS /
Creative Direction
Cinematography
Graphic Design
Video Editing
Photography
Copywriting
Typography
illustration
Fine Art
Programs /
Adobe CC & C6:
Photoshop
Lightroom
illustrator
Premiere
inDesign
etc.
MS Office / Google Apps
Daniel began volunteering for the SingStrong International A Cappella Festival in 2015 and has since become its Media Coordinator, in charge of social media, videography, and photography. He also sometimes teaches the master class “The Business of Show Business” with former touring artist Kris Vicencio.
Daniel augmented his Graphic Design minor by working as a production assistant in the Adelphi University Communications department. There he produced ads for publications including Newsday, AM-NewYork, Metro, The Garden City News, and the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center play bill. He also designed the cover for the Honors College Symposium XVI literary journal.
After traveling to Cuba in January of 2016 with a journalism course from Adelphi, he produced a short documentary on the lives of Cuban artists and the economics of Arte en Cuba: Art in Cuba. He is thrilled that his film won the 2016 Adelphi Student Film and Video Festival and also won Best Editing. He is also honored that Art in Cuba was additionally featured in the Miami Widescreen Film Festival.
Furthermore, he’s excited that Fascicle as Film won the prize for Best Editing at Adelphi’s Film Festival in 2017, received an Award for Excellence in the Videographer Awards that same year, and was featured in the Five More Seconds Festival in 2018 at Local Project: a gallery in Long Island City.
Daniel is a member of Long Island United to Transform Policing and Community Safety and serves as a graphic designer and video editor for the coalition. He is most proud of acting as creative director and project manager, directly formatting The People’s Plan which has been presented to Nassau and Suffolk counties as well as many municipal LI police departments, pursuant to New York EO 203. You can see his work on the One-Pagers here. He currently works as their graphic designer, social media manager, and digital community organizer.
In October of 2022 he worked with the Nassau ACLU chair Susan Gottehrer to write a follow up to The People’s Plan which addresses the shortcomings of Nassau’s reform plan and their own stated goals. He designed the entire piece in 12 days, from receiving the call to final publication. This watchdog report can be found here.
In May of 2023 he began to work for The Women’s Diversity Network as their outreach director focusing on organizational growth and coalition building across Long Island and worked there through August of 2023.
For his first international exhibition, he was invited to Therandë Kosova by Refki Gollopeni to participate in the 2023 Festari (The Festival of Culture and Wine), a week long artist residency where he contributed three paintings to the permanent collection of the Museum of Therandë. Following this he was invited to in the Rahovec International Art Colony by Fehmi Hoxha where he also contributed three paintings.
Daniel helped facilitate the March 2024 ArtsAction Group education and art therapy trip to Therandë Kosova. There he and other teaching artists worked with elementary through 12th grade students on a collective installation entitled “Imagining Place: Mapping New Worlds,” enabling students to imagine and create an immersive sensory installation through traditional and S.T.E.A.M. based art practices. The students transformed Fellbach-Haus Creative Educational Centre’s polished wood floors, white walls, and vaulted wooden ceiling into a landscape with clouds suspended above lights and papers frozen mid-air on which was projected video which both ArtsAction and the students collected and perpared, student ‘self portrait’ creatures on the walls (on top of and woven into branches, vines, and leaves), all above a central set of maps on which high- and low-tech drawing machines—created by a team of robotics students—animations created by a team of youth, and an entire range of handcrafted illuminated plant, insect and animal life created by all of the participants. Large-scale video projections linked to the theme and student work were placed throughout the space, creating a sensory world of imagination, inviting visitors to explore environments visioned by the children and youth. So too, in March of 2023 he facilitated “Freedom to…” “Liria për…”. Here the younger students made drawing/dancing machines as part of a S.T.E.A.M. approach to creating, using glow-in-the-dark paint and paper; combined recorded English and Albanian phrases into interactive touch artworks as well as writing them on wall installations of cut paper; created animations which were projected on the front wall of the Fellbach-Haus arts center, one inside, as well as several looped animations which played on a TV mounted on the hall’s main wall under the city seal. As his introduction to Kosova and ArtsAction group he first participated in March 2018’s ”Outside In / Inside Out: Nga Jasht Mbrenda / Nga Mbrenda Jasht”. This project helped students and children reflect on Kosova’s 10th year of statehood, what celebration offers pause to reflect on personal and collective pasts/presents/futures. In conjunction with looking at artists such as Philip Guston, Annette Messager, Barbara Kruger, and Shimon Attie, the approach involved sharing a memory, a current event and envisioning a future. Students then interviewed community and family members about their memories from the past twenty years. These stories were documented with drawings, video, audio recordings and photography and became the content that informed our collaborative artwork, an interactive timeline. The final exhibition involved the students’ organizing of stories and creating symbols, experimenting with light sensitive paper, and creating a "camera obscura" in one of the center's classrooms, producing an interior which reflects the moment in the mind of the community center’s students.
Also in March he was invited by Hanna Allen to exhibit in New York at Adelphi University’s Department of Art and Art History Alumni Exhibition (one of three featured artists). After participating in ArtsAction Group’s “Imagining Place: Mapping New Worlds,” he created his own painting at Therandë’s Fellbach-Haus then submitted it to be exhibited in April at the ”International Exhibition for World Art Day” in Gliwice Poland at Silesian University of Technology curated by Iwa Kruczkowska.
Daniel graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Adelphi University and a degree from the Adelphi Honors College. He double minored in Art History and Graphic Design, receiving the departmental award for Excellence in Art History for independently curating Centros Comunitarios Cubanos: Cuban Community Centers and excelling in Art and the World I & II; Masterpieces at the Metropolitan Museum (an on-site, dialogue oriented course with Dr. Muratov: archeologist and curator in the Greco-Roman department at the Met); Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture; Theogeny, Myth, and Ritual in Classical Antiquity; Faking It: Intellectual History of Art Forgeries; and the study abroad courses Global Perspectives: Cuba in Transition; Adelphi [partnership with ArtsAction Group] in Kosovo: Art as a Tool in Post-Conflict Societies; and Adelphi in Florence: Experiencing The Italian Renaissance.
⁂