ARIZONA - Key Persons

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• Associate Vice President, Equity in the Arts Professor, Art

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• Vice President for the Arts
• Vice President for the Arts Dean, Fine Arts Professor, Art

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• Associate Professor

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• Interim Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs / Professor, Art
• Member of the MOCA Tucson Board of Directors

David Taylor's artwork examines place, territory, history and politics. Exhibited internationally, his projects reveal how borders can function not only as spatial demarcations, but also as an amplifying device particularly attuned to geo-political, environmental and social conditions. Pursuing projects that chronicle the changing circumstances of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, he was awarded a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and has released two monographs-Working the Line (Radius Books, 2010) and Monuments: 276 Views of the United States - Mexico Border (Radius Books and Nevada Museum of Art, 2015). His artwork is in the permanent collections of numerous institutions including the Nevada Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, the New Mexico Museum of Art and the MFA Houston. Widely published, Taylor's projects have been featured in outlets such as Art LTD., The Guardian, The New Yorker blog, Politico, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Places Journal, PREFIX PHOTO, Fraction Magazine, the Mexico/Latin America Edition of Esquire Magazine and Arquine. Exhibition venues include the The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, the MCA San Diego, the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington DC, Museo de las Artes Universidad de Guadalajara, Oficina de Proyectos Culturales, MFA Houston, Utah Museum of Fine Arts and the Boise Art Museum. Most recently Taylor was awarded a 2019 residency at Proyecto Siqueiros: La Tallera in Cuernavaca, Mexico, a 2019 Arizona Commission for the Arts Research and Development Grant and the 2023 Tucson Museum of Art Contemporary Art Society Prize. His essay "Refuge and Fortification" was published in the journal PLACES in 2020. In 2022 his collaborative work with Marcos Ramírez ERRE was recognized by Monument Lab and will travel to the Smithsonian American Art Museum for the exhibition Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea in 2023-24. A member of the MOCA Tucson Board of Directors, Taylor chaired the museum's recent Executive Director search which named Julio César Morales to the post. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the UA Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry. From 1999-2006 Taylor worked on the Society for Photographic Education Board of Directors, with four years as the Vice Chair of the organization, and was Chair for the 2002 SPE National Conference, Fact or Fiction: Photography and Mediated Experience, held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Taylor joined the faculty of the School of Art in 2013 with over 16 years of teaching experience.

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• Professor, Art

As Vice President for the Arts, Schulz leads Arizona Arts, a division that provides a unified gateway to the extraordinary arts assets, experiences, and academic programs at the university. Arizona Arts brings together the highly regarded academic programs in the College of Fine Arts-the schools of dance; art; music; and theatre, film and television-together with the university's world-class arts presenting and engagement units, including the Center for Creative Photography, the UA Museum of Art, Arizona Arts Live (formerly UA Presents), and Arizona Arts in Schools K-12 programs.

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• Vice Dean, Fine Arts Professor, School of Theatre, Film and Television

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• Director

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• Associate Dean
• Associate Dean / Professor, Applied Intercultural Arts Research - GIDP / Professor, Art
• Media ( Artist

McMahon came to the University of Arizona in 1980 to study Scientific Illustration (MS in Biology 1983). After several years of professional experience as an illustrator and graphic designer, she received an MFA in visual art (Vermont College, 1996) and was hired in a tenure track position in the UofA School of Art. Between 1990 and 2005 her work addressed the social and cultural construction of motherhood and the politics of intimacy in the mother-child relationship. Since 2005, fueled by her conviction that art and design are foundational in effecting positive change, she has developed a number of projects that support individual creative inquiry among her peers and students through interdisciplinary collaborations and partnerships with community organizations. In 2007 McMahon received a Fulbright Fellowship to work as an artist/designer with the Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans in Mexico and presented her work as a delegate to the World Design Congress (ICOGRADA) in Cuba. From 2010-2012, she served as initiator and director of a collaborative faculty research project focused on regional water, which included 29 participants from art, design, humanities, the natural and social sciences, as well as city and regional water managers. The resulting book which McMahon art directed and co-edited, Ground|Water: Interdisciplinary Responses to a Dry River received national and international design awards and has been collected by over 40 public institutions worldwide. McMahon's artist books are in 15 public collections in several countries. Her visual work has been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions and in solo exhibitions "Redressing the Mother" at AIR Gallery in New York, "Maternal Matters" at Cal State San Marcos, and "In Nature | Of Nature | Perceptions of Place" at University of Wyoming. Her published writings include personal essays about motherhood, op-eds about design and the environment, and technical papers about scientific illustration. Her autobiographic essays are published in Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood (Seven Stories Press, 2002), The Oldest We've Ever Been: Seven True Stories of Midlife Transition (University of Arizona Press, 2008), and The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art (Demeter Press, 2010). Her design work is featured in Clean New World: Culture, Politics, and Graphic Design, (MIT Press, 2002) and Graphic Design: Sustainable Principles and Practices, (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016).

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• Professor, Music Director, Graduate Studies - Music

The principal focus of Prof. Brobeck's research is French music and musical patronage during the 15th and 16th centuries. Publications: articles in Musica disciplina (1993); The Journal of the American Musicological Society (1995); The Journal of Musicology (1998); 9 articles for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, rev.ed. (2002); 5 articles for Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, rev. ed. (2003 ff.); an article in Epitome musical (2010); and "A Music Book for Mary Tudor, Queen of France," Early Music History 35 (2016):1-93.. He has taught a wide variety of graduate and undergraduate music history and musicology courses at the UA, including doctoral seminars in Baroque oratorio, symphonic literature, the music of Bach, the music of Beethoven, and Baroque performance practice, and also prepared and teaches fully online versions of Music 330a and 330b (the upper division music history survey required of all UA undergraduate music majors). He has served on over 200 graduate student committees during the past 4 years. He directed the Collegium Musicum of the university from 1989-2004, during which time the group performed works ranging from the Machaut Mass through Bach's St. John Passion, and currently coaches the student ensemble Arizona Baroque. He also holds an appointment as Organist and Director of Music at Northminster Presbyterian Church, Tucson, where he has conducted and/or accompanied a number of major choral works, including Requiem settings by Brahms, Fauré, and Mozart, Mass settings by Haydn and Mozart, and oratorios such as Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Creation, and Mendelssohn's Elijah. He is active locally as an organ recitalist and has a longstanding relationship with the University of Arizona choirs as a harpsichord or organ accompanist. The latter relationship includes a performance of the Duruflé Requiem in April 2012 with the Arizona Choir.

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• Deputy Senior Director of Development, Arizona Arts

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• Director of Development

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• Director of the Hanson FilmTV Institute
• Director, Hanson Institute

Mia A. Farrell is the Director of the Hanson FilmTV Institute. She comes to Arizona from having most recently worked in London at the British Film Institute, where she served as PR Manager, BFI Festivals across the Institute's two biggest film events: the BFI London Film Festival and BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival. In her time at the BFI, she was also the Programme Manager for the BFI London Film Festival Critics Mentorship Programme, which trained mentees from underrepresented communities in the art and business of film criticism and writing and opened the door to their getting paid work in media and achieving their first bylines. With over 25 years experience in the entertainment industry, Mia has worked on numerous international publicity campaigns and has represented films screening at festivals such as the Berlinale, Festival de Cannes, Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, San Sebastián, Toronto and Venice, amongst others. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she worked in non-fiction TV production and development until she became interested in PR. She started working in personal publicity at Susan Geller & Associates before turning her focus to international film publicity at the global public relations firm DDA for nearly ten years, and then as Vice President of International Publicity at Paramount Pictures. She worked on hundreds of titles from the best filmmakers in the business, spearheading worldwide tours for such films as Michael Mann's ALI and Bill Condon's DREAMGIRLS and participating in international tours for blockbusters such as Peter Jackson's THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, Michael Bay's TRANSFORMERS, DreamWorks Animation's popular hit SHREK THE THIRD and David Yates' HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 & 2. In London, Mia developed theatrical release campaigns for the United Kingdom for THE HUNGER GAMES, THE EXPENDABLES 2, FRIENDS WITH KIDS, THE LAST STAND, THE PAPERBOY and THE ICEMAN whilst serving as a consultant with Lionsgate UK. She also worked as a unit publicist and served as a Senior Festival Publicist and PR Manager in the official press offices for the Sundance, Tribeca and BFI London Film Festivals, which led her to develop a particular expertise in the film festival landscape and enabled her to advise documentary and narrative filmmakers on how best to navigate it. Her knowledge and representation of short films at major film festivals gave her the opportunity to work on many titles that garnered awards, including two she looked after at SXSW 2021 that went on to be nominated for BAFTAs. Having always held a special place in her heart for documentaries, Mia handled the audience favorite STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF MOTOWN in Toronto and Stanley Nelson's Special Jury Prize-winning THE MURDER OF EMMETT TILL in Sundance. She also had the opportunity to work with Michael Moore on his political documentary FAHRENHEIT 9/11. Most recently, she has worked with the Academy Award-winning documentarian Orlando von Einsiedel's Grain Media across numerous titles, including his latest feature CONVERGENCE: COURAGE IN A CRISIS for Netflix. Favorite film projects come from a wide range of genres and backgrounds: Ang Lee's BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN premiere in Venice, David Robert Mitchell's THE MYTH OF THE AMERICAN SLEEPOVER and Hou Hsiao-hsien's THREE TIMES, both in Cannes. Other festival highlights include working with directors Gaspar Noe, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Larry Clark, Richard Prince, Matthew Barney, Marco Brambilla and Marina Abramovic on their controversial film DESTRICTED in Sundance and Cannes, which led to Mia looking after Sam Taylor-Johnson's Palme d'Or nominated short film LOVE YOU MORE in Cannes a few years later. She also had the pleasure of representing Jim Chuchu's Teddy Award-winning anthology film STORIES OF OUR LIVES, which screened in the Berlinale's Panorama section and is based on true stories collected from persons identifying as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex in Kenya. This turned out to be one of her most cherished projects. Mia took a two-year sabatical from the entertainment industry and worked as an Artist Liaison Manager for Oxfam Great Britain and as VIP Engagement Advisor for Plan UK. During this time, she worked on campaigns to fight inequality, violence against women and child marriage; as well as to raise awareness of humanitarian emergency response campaigns for Typhoon Haiyan, South Sudan and the Ebola outbreak. For those campaigns, Mia travelled to Honduras with Paloma Faith, Zambia with Emeli Sande, Malawi with Alexa Chung and South Sudan with Keira Knightley. In collaboration with other consultancies, she has acted as an advisor to bring together high profile individuals with international NGOs and to support their campaigns and emergency calls-to-action. This experience allowed Mia to help her filmmaker clients facilitate social impact activities related to their independent film projects and to identify her strongest personal area of interest, at the intersection of film, art, humanitarianism and social justice activism.

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• Director, Live and Immersive Arts Program

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• Assistant Dean, Business - Finance Chief of Staff

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• Executive Director of Development

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• Executive Assistant