Graduate Faculty
The graduate faculty consists of artists, designers, art historians, and art educators interested in contributing to every student’s learning experience. Their works have been exhibited and presented nationally and across the globe. They are committed to the highest standards of excellence in their fields and to the realization of the potential of the MFA students. The graduate faculty are diverse in their ideas, their research, and their art, and are engaged in the dialogue of contemporary art.
Jill AnnieMargaret
M.F.A. in Printmaking: California State University, Long Beach / printmaking; drawing; mixed media.
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Roland Becerra
M.F.A. Yale University, School of Art / digital illustration; animation; filmaking
Laurie Blakeslee
M.F.A. in Photography: University of Arizona, Tucson / photography, video, mixed media
Niharika Dinkar
Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook / South Asian visual culture; postcolonial theory, gender and performance studies
Caroline Earley
M.F.A. in Ceramics: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee / thrown and altered form, slip casting, digital and industrial methods, installation, contemporary craft.
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Chad Erpelding
M.F.A. in Painting: Southern Illinois University Carbondale / painting, drawing, digital media, mixed media.
Francis Fox
M.F.A. in Sculpture: University of Wyoming / sculpture.
Tomasz Grusiecki
PhD in Art History: McGill University / central and eastern European art and visual culture, 1500–1700; global art histories; trans-cultural studies
Kathleen Keys
Ph.D. in Art Education: The Ohio State University / community arts, activism, and art education
Lily Lee
M.F.A. University of Oregon / sculpture, steel fabrication, textiles, handweaving, dyeing, nontraditional materials and site specific work.
Craig Peariso
PhD in Art History and Criticism and Cultural Studies: State University of New York at Stony Brook / modern and contemporary visual culture, aesthetics and politics, critical race theory and queer theory
Eryn Pierce
Master of Graphic Design, North Carolina State University.
Jonathon Sadler
M.F.A. in Photography: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / All levels of photography.
Dan Scott
M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing: New York Academy of Art / drawing and painting.
Anika Smulovitz
M.F.A. in Studio Arts: University of Wisconsin-Madison / jewelry and metalsmithing (contemporary adornment, Judaica, and hollowware); body art; contemporary craft; sculpture; fiber art.
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Astri Snodgrass
MFA in Studio Art: The University of Alabama / painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, mixed media.
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Lee Ann Turner
Ph.D. in Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World: University of Pennsylvania / Ancient, Egyptian, Greco-Roman, Medieval art history; Archaeology; Mythology
Kate Walker
M.F.A. in Painting: University of Arizona / painting, digital video, 2D interdisciplinary studio.
Brian Wiley
MFA Visual Studies, Graphic Design: Minneapolis College of Art & Design / Design.