Ben Stock Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Bronx Ny

Program development and implementation, strategic planning, arts education and business/entrepreneurship education. Management analysis for organizations.Founders H. Marshall McLuhan, Andy Warhol, Jackie Curtis, Ben Stock.

Instructor in Centering Prayer, an ancient form of meditation derived from Nitrian Coptic and Medieval teachings, transmitted to me by the Cistercians, Abbot Thomas Keating and Abbot M. Basil Pennington.

Providing professional and business development for artists: The Science of Culture. Program priority: homeless LGBT youth, providing service learning in the arts.Discovering, cultivating latent gifts, and connecting talented emarginated young people into the mainstream of arts and media, and for art's sake. Recruited by Rebel Without a Cause director Nicholas Ray to develop evolutionary educational experiences to prepare for and secure employment, course material developed by the artist/educator inventors of multimedia: Warhol, McLuhan, Curtis, and Stock.

Image and branding for individuals in the creative industries, e.g. David Bowie [our Ziggy Stardust story was named the gayest ever by Out Magazine in 2008]. Clients have won such awards as the Oscar, Tony, Coty (fashion), Grammy, as well as induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, art gallery representation and museum exhibitions.

Recent exhibitions of my digital photography: Longwood Arts Project (South Bronx Contemporary, 2006-7), the Carrozzini von Buhler Gallery in CVB Space (Warhol and His Wake, 2007), James Cohan Gallery, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. (Postcards from the Edge, Visual AIDS benefit sale, 2006 - ).

AVP is the crime victim assistance agency for the lesbian, gay, transgender and HIV/AIDS communities in New York City. AVP provides free and confidential assistance to thousands of crime victims each year in NY City. The agency maintains a 24- hour crisis intervention hotline staffed by professional counselors and trained volunteers, offering emotional and practical support to victims of homophobia, transphobia, AIDS phobia, bias and violence.

Taking our Pride back to the streets in the BX. Managing nominees selection for Bronx Borough President's annual Bronx LGBT and Allies Awards.

Bronx Ny

Coalition of LGBT social and medical service providers in the Bronx creating a new community center.

Bronx Ny

A network of organizations and individuals looking to strengthen the Bronx.

The New York City Association of Homeless and Street-Involved Youth Organizations is a coalition of service providers, organizations and youth. By coordinating services, planning strategies and speaking in a unified voice, we advocate for and more effectively respond to the needs of homeless and street-oriented youth in the New York metro area. Members are dedicated to mobilizing expertise and resources to assist homeless and street-oriented youth to lead safe, healthy and self-empowered lives.

New York

Statewide coalition of organizations serving homeless youth.

Producing the music special and reality series $treet $mARTS about the making of Just ME -- Ali, the Life of Ali Forney, an opera. Libretto by poet Dean Kostos. Producing Superstar Academy documenting our mentoring program as part of Brainpower Inc.'s performing arts and business education program for homeless LGBT youth.

Sharing experience, wisdom and expertise to promote, advance, enhance Latino arts, developing the management and professional skills of Latino arts organizations and individual artists so they grow, develop and succeed in their respective disciplines. The first Latino artists I worked with and hung out with were Holly Woodlawn, Mario Montez and Salvador Dali.

The ROC Group: Religious Organizations Computing: provides career development, networking opportunities, new skills, resume enhancement for displaced information technology workers, by matching them as volunteers with religious organizations, shelters and soup kitchens needing computer consultancy. 150 consultants, 250 organizations

United Nations

Non-Profit Computing, Inc. (NPC), established in 1984, by John L German and Esther Dyson [ICANN/global democracy, and planetary consciousness] helps over 1000+ non-profit organizations to become more cost effective and self sufficient through the use of the internet and computers. NPC Learning and Access Centers are operating in over 100 after-school programs to allow non-reading grade school students to complete their homework and advance their literacy and numeracy through individual tutoring and computer-aided instruction. NPC matches computer professionals as volunteers to work with non-profit organization staff who need to become computer literate or use advanced technology to support and enhance their work. All Non-Profit Computing services: clinics, consultants, recruiting, software and equipment donations, specialized technical and management assistance, are offered free of charge. Currently as a UN NGO lobbing computer equipment donations over the digital divide into West Africa, reducing inequalities one shipping container at a time.

Bronx Ny

Training and relationship building to advance the non-profit sector in the Bronx. Created and administered "Can You Hear Me Now? Youth Have Their Say." conference.

Wrote Cistercian Prayer: the Levels of Consciousness and Meaning in Psalmody. I withdrew it from publication during typesetting when I withdrew from the monastery. A collaboration with Ewert Cousins, Director of Spiritual Theology Department, Fordham University and Timothy Leary inner explorer, clarifying Leary's thought on 7 levels of consciousness, conflated with the ancient wisdom of Saint John Cassian/On Spiritual Knowledge Conference 12, 4 levels of mental activity stimulated during the practice of Lectio Divina, leading to anagogy.

Cloistered contemplative monk at Saint Joseph's Abbey, Spencer Massachusetts. Designed and fabricated liturgical vestments and copper enamel altar vessels. Icon writer. Managed production workflow in-shop and outsourced to a team of home-based immigrant sewing workers.

Associate Producer for Emmy Award winning documentary director Helen Whitney, 90 minute prime time national documentary series ABC Close-Up -- episode 'The Monastery.'

Developing educational rallies and organizing large scale convention events happening in 22 simultaneous venues, managing a staff of 1600. Producing edutainment road shows to reach under-equipped local organizations with course materials and high level teachers to improve educational outcomes and membership retention. Providing editorial, educational and research support services to teaching staff. Data mining to discover outcomes of programs not previously tracked.

United States

Spiritual commentary on Gospel story. NDA that's as much as I can say.

South Bend, Indiana, United States

Catalogued a massive collection of leadership and spirituality books, devised an original taxonomy, programmed a word processor to create the index.

New York, New York, United States

Saint Patrick's Cathedral Magazine. Wrote for publication "Let Us Pray" monthly meditations. The idea of the sharing economy in the writings of Saint Augustine, and the parallels between the Crucifixion and the Jewish wedding ceremony and consummation met with censorship and my decision to reclaim my time.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Taking a class in Behavioral Psychology. I was the only student on the ball. Prof asked me to teach one class while he observed. He asked me to take over and disappeared. I taught the rest of the course; I was 3 pages ahead of the class in the textbook.

Composed and performed recorded soundtracks for videos and slide shows produced for the Episcopal Church. Was offered a recording contract by fan Noel Stookey, "Paul" of Peter, Paul and Mary. Passed on the offer as I had places to go.

Worked under Bill Whitehead's mentorship and advance, editing Storm of Kisses, or Forever Rain, the Jackie Curtis story [for Doubleday & Company, now part of Bertelsmann AG's Random House]

Screenwriter, personnel manager, consultant and lighting assistant for the film Andy Warhol's Women in Revolt. Copies available for rent at Netflix, the Museum of Modern Art, the Warhol Museum.

Andy Warhol's Inter/VIEW began on newsprint. Rado and Ragni of Hair, and Viva Hoffman were on the cover nude, and there was Agnes Varda too. Andy loaded Inter/VIEWs into brown paper shopping bags and you couldn't leave home without one. We carried copies of the paper around town as we made the rounds every day. This was an early iteration of social networking media. Free magazine, everyone on "the list" got a copy, and an invitation to be interviewed or to interview a colleague. My paper route included Margaret Mead, Louise Nevelson, Huntington Hartford, Richard Avedon, many more. At first we had but one issue and delivered it over and over to the fun ones.

Created autographed Campbell's Tomato Soup cans for Mickey Ruskin to sell to artist and tourist customers in the front room of Max's. Hand wrote "Andy Warhol" on the cans with a black Pentel felt tip. 29c cans sold for 50 dollars. Created notes to tape on Max's cash register by the front door, addressed to premier celebrities who, um, presumably, were expected that night. Mickey paid in Ruskin Dollars redeemable for food. With rent and contingencies paid by Andy, our own compounding pharmacist, a groupie who ran a car service, we were free from care and could create evolutionary art. Oh, a Pentel pen was 79 cents for the autographs.

Co-creator of the legendary show Jackie Curtis' Vain Victory -- the Vicissitudes of the Damned.

Associate Producer and section manager for pioneering TV talk show host David Susskind's Warhol World featuring Andy Warhol, Jackie Curtis, Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, Viva!, Ritta Redd, Geri Miller, Taylor Mead, Joe Dallesandro.

Created and performed role of Young Lover (duet with Hazel Fischbein) and Letter Carrier (solo) in the Fairy Doll [Karoly Zsedenyi/Josef Bayer] , neo-classical. Danced the role of Groom's Man in Hungarian Wedding [Zsedenyi/ Zoltan Kodaly], classical/folk fusion, ballet and Magyar stick dancing, including east Coast tour and Carnegie Hall concert.

B.A., Art History / Iconology / Philosophy

Hs, Biology

Activities and Societies: Publicity for speaker's Forum. Visual marketing.

Jhs, Sociology

Activities and Societies: DJ for the Magnificent Seven middle school clique. Elected to student council.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Produced musicales for school assembly and organized boy bands. Yum. Who knew ? Radio panelist/interviewer.