ART - Key Persons
Alisha B. Wormsley is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer. Her work is about collective memory and the synchronicity of time, specifically through the stories of women of color. Wormsley's work has been honored and supported with a number of awards and grants to support projects: The People Are The Light, afronaut(a) film and performance series, Homewood Artist Residency (recipient of the mayor's public art award), the Children of NAN video art and archival project, There Are Black People in the Future body of work.
Her national and international exhibitions include; the Mattress Factory Contemporary Museum, Art on the Bank in London, Octavia Butler conference at Spelman University, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Studio XX in Montreal, Project Row House and the Houston Art League in Texas, Rush Art gallery in NY, and the Charles Wright museum in Detroit. In the last few years her work in public art installation has grown with her design of art in parks and There are Black People In The Future billboard, the afronaut(a) film series, new public work, Streaming Space, a 24 foot pyramid with video and sound installed in Pittsburgh's downtown Market Square and AWxAW a multi media interactive installation and film commission at the Andy Warhol Museum. Wormsley has an MFA in Film and Video from Bard College and was recently awarded the Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University.
Andrew Ellis Johnson was born in Cortland NY to a jazz guitarist, civil war historian father and science major mother who, together, won many bowling tournaments. He made his first life-size faux bronze sculpture of Baron Manfred Von Richtoven at age 13, miniature marzipan figurines of Fats Waller at 11 and his first film cycle on the Battle of Gettysburg at 9. Pursuing film and painting, he studied at SUNY Buffalo and completed his BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After years in Europe and Asia, he earned an MFA in Art at Carnegie Mellon while serving as an artist-in-residence at the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections and curating an exhibition of inmate art at the City Theater.
Subsequently he attended Skowhegan and a Poznan Academy of Art residency in Skoki, Poland. After several nomadic years of teaching and a stint in Amsterdam, he taught at University at Buffalo where he co-founded PED, a socially engaged collective that has performed in Buffalo, Belfast, Chongqing, Rio de Janeiro, St. John's, Tonawanda and Toronto. He joined the CMU faculty in 2004. Recent residency/exchange projects include those at Korean National University of the Arts in Seoul, Fayoum International Art Center in Egypt, University of the Arts London at Camberwell and Sites of Passage in Jerusalem/Ramallah/Pittsburgh.
Across a variety of media and tactics, Johnson explores social and political issues, wrestling with boundaries between aesthetic, political and moral orders. He treats representation - not as a hermetic mimetic pictorial tradition - but as an agency to awaken and combat torpor. Venues for his work have included museums, galleries, arts and video festivals, public collaborations, conferences, and publications in the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Job Titles:
- Marketing & Communications Manager
Andy Warhol graduated with a degree in Pictorial Design from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1949. More than twenty years after his death, he remains one of the most influential figures in contemporary art and culture. Warhol's life and work inspires creative thinkers worldwide thanks to his enduring imagery, his artfully cultivated celebrity, and the ongoing research of dedicated scholars. His impact as an artist is far deeper and greater than his one prescient observation that "everyone will be world famous for fifteen minutes." His omnivorous curiosity resulted in an enormous body of work that spanned every available medium and most importantly contributed to the collapse of boundaries between high and low culture.
As a feminist media artist working in a variety of forms, Angela Washko is committed to telling complex and unconventional stories about the media we consume from unusual perspectives. Washko's practice spans interventions in mainstream media, performance art, digital works, documentary film, video art, and video games. A recent recipient of the Creative Capital Award, the Impact Award at Indiecade, and the Franklin Furnace Performance Fund, Washko's practice has been highlighted in The New Yorker, Frieze Magazine, Time Magazine, The Guardian, Artforum, The Los Angeles Times, Art in America, The New York Times, Rhizome at the New Museum and more. Her projects have been presented internationally at venues including Museum of the Moving Image (New York), Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Milan Design Triennale, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki), Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennial, and the Korean Film Archive. Angela Washko is an Associate Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University.
Faculty News
Professor Beck Invited to Speak at SOMA in Mexico City
Professor DeYoung Presents at Three Conferences this Summer
Professor DeYoung Exhibits with Natalie Westbrook in Seoul
New Monograph of Professor Hubbard to be Published this Summer
Professor Levin Speaks at Stanford Symposium on the Arts and AI
Brent Nakamoto is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in painting and drawing, printmaking, photography, and book arts. He received his BA in Art from UC Santa Barbara in 2012 and and MFA in Visual Arts from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis in 2018. He currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA, where he teaches at Carnegie Mellon University School of Art and is the Program and Marketing Coordinator for Brew House Association. He has also taught at Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media, and been an artist mentor for the Brew House Association Distillery Artist Residency. He has shown work nationally and internationally, including in California, Saint Louis, New York, Pittsburgh, and Kolkata, India. His work is included in the University of Maryland Art Gallery permanent collection.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Artist
Britt Ransom is an artist whose practice probes the lines between human, animal, and environmental relationships through sculpture and installations that are made using digital fabrication processes. Ransom's work is systematic both in construction and in concept, often a direct reflection of observed microcosms found at the surface of our feet, developed in the web of a digital mesh, and made to explore the braided entanglements between ourselves and the other species of plants and animals with whom we share space.
Ransom is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Center Residency, Los Angeles Clean Tech Incubator (LACI) Residency, ZERO1 American Arts Incubator Fellowship, Santa Monica Camera Obscura Residency, Workshop Residence-San Francisco, The Arctic Circle Residency, and the College Art Association Professional Development Award. Her work has been shown most recently at Honor Fraser (Los Angeles), Royale Projects (Los Angeles), Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, CA), Schering Stiftung (Transmediale, Berlin), Texas Women's University, The University of Dallas, and the Chicago Artists Coalition.
Her writing has been published in the Leonardo Journal published by MIT Press (2019), The 3D Additvist Cookbook (2016), and The Routledge Handbook on Biology in Art, Architecture, and Design, Routledge Press Essay (2016), and In and Out of View: Art and the Dynamics of Circulation, Suppression, and Censorship (2021).
Ransom was the 2017 SIGGRAPH Studio Chair and the the 2019 SIGGRAPH Art Gallery and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the New Media Caucus. Ransom is a direct descendent of social rights activist Reverdy C. Ransom and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Emma S. and Reverdy C. Ransom Foundation. Ransom is half black, queer, and was was born in 1987 in Lima, Ohio. She received her BFA from The Ohio State University in Art and Technology (2008) and her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in Electronic Visualization / New Media (2011).
Carol Hernandez assists with School of Art financial transactions including staff, faculty, and student reimbursements as well as purchasing card transactions.
Carrie Schneider was born in Chicago in 1979 and is currently a Brooklyn-based artist working in photography, film and video installation. After graduating from CMU, she earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has also attended: the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; the Finnish Kuvataideakatemia (Academy of Fine Arts), Helsinki, as a Fulbright Fellow; and in 2016, the Whitney Independent Study Program. Her work has been shown widely at international arts institutions, including: the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki; the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh; Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norway; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; The Kitchen, New York; Galería Alberto Sendrós, Buenos Aires; and the California Museum of Photography, Riverside. She has received awards from the Jerome Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and a 2015 Creative Capital Award. Her work is represented by Monique Meloche in Chicago.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Art History & Theory
Job Titles:
- Head of School
- Regina and Marlin Miller Head of School / Professor
Charlie White, who succeeds John Carson as Head of the School of Art, is an artist and academic whose work pushes the boundaries of representation in varied genres. His career has encompassed photography, film, animation, public events, popular entertainment and documentary archives. White has more than 20 years of experience as an internationally exhibiting artist, with 14 years in academia, bridging the worlds of art making, pedagogy and school administration.
Before coming to CMU, White was a professor in USC's Roski School of Art and Design, where he established and was area head of a technology-rich program in digital imaging, video and media theory, which thrived across the school's undergraduate curriculum. As director of the school's Master of Fine Arts program from 2007 through 2011, he worked with exceptional artists and teachers, including Sharon Lockhart, Frances Stark, Andrea Zittel and A.L. Steiner, to form one of the most progressive young graduate programs in the United States.
White's work has been discussed and reviewed in periodicals and journals such as The New York Times, Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, Modern Painters, The New Yorker, Wired, Lacanian ink, and EXIT Image and Culture. In addition, his works have been included in two Thames and Hudson surveys, The Photograph As Contemporary Art, by Charlotte Cotton, and The Body in Contemporary Art, by Sally O'Reilly, amongst other surveys on contemporary photography and art.
In addition to his studio practice, White has written about contemporary topics related to photography and popular representation, and he has produced numerous public and non-institutional projects, including a collaborative teen pop album and the founding and editorship of "The Enemy," a critical and cultural journal featuring essays and projects by artists, academics and activists. White's most recent monographs include Such Appetite, Little Brown Mushroom, 2013, and American Minor, JPR | Ringier, 2009. His most recent project, Music For Sleeping Children, is an experimental pop album focusing on the lives of adolescent girls.
White's work as been exhibited at institutions around the world, including solo exhibitions at the Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; FA Projects, London; Loock Gallery, Berlin; Brandstrom Gallery, Stockholm; and LAXART, Los Angeles. Solo institutional exhibitions include the Los Angeles County Museum; Domus Artium in Salamanca, Spain; Oslo Kunstforening in Oslo, Norway; and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, in Ridgefield, CT.
White's work has also been included in numerous group exhibitions such as Spectator Sports, curated by Allison Grant at the Museum for Contemporary Photography, Chicago, 2013; the 2011 Singapore Biennial; Nine Lives, curated by Ali Subotnik at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, 2009; The Puppet Show, curated by Ingrid Schafnner and Carin Kuoni for the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, 2008; Art in America Now, organized by the Guggenheim Museum for the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art in China, 2007; and Sympathy For The Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, curated by Dominic Molon for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2007. In addition to his exhibition history, White has had six monographs of his work published, and his films have screened at the Sundance Film Festival and Director's Fortnight at Cannes.
White was a fellow at the Yale Norfolk Summer Program in 1994, received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1995, and his MFA in 1998 from Art Center College of Design.
Deborah Kass' work is a critical commentary on the intersection of social power relations, personal identity, and the historically dominant position of male artists in the art world. In addition to her years at Carnegie Mellon University, she studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the Art Students League of New York. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally and is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Jewish Museum (New York); Museum of Fine Art, Boston; Cincinnati Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute; Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums; and Weatherspoon Museum, among others, as well as numerous public and private collections. In 2012 Kass' work was the subject of a mid-career retrospective Deborah Kass, Before and Happily Ever After at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh with an accompanying catalogue published by Rizzoli. She is a Senior Critic in the Yale University M.F.A. Painting Program. Kass is represented by Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York.
Diane Samuels is a visual artist with studio and public art practices. She is also co-founder of City of Asylum Pittsburgh that provides sanctuary to writers in exile. Her exhibitions include those at: the Andy Warhol Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh; the Leo Baeck Institute and the Center for Book Arts, New York; the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut; the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati; the Municipal Museum of Art in Gyor, Hungary; the Synagogue Center in Trnava, Slovakia; the Bernheimer Realschule in Buttenhausen, Germany; and the Czech Museum of Fine Arts. In 2013 she was recipient of a Rockefeller Bellagio Residency in Italy and an American Academy in Jerusalem Fellowship. Samuels holds both BFA and MFA degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, a diploma from the Institute in Arts Administration at Harvard University and has received honorary doctorates from Seton Hill University and Chatham University.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Curatorial Practice
- Director of the Miller Institute of Contemporary
Elizabeth Chodos is the director of the Miller Institute of Contemporary Art, assistant professor of Curatorial Studies in the School of Art, and the public art curator for Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to that, she served as executive and creative director at Ox-Bow, school of art and artists' residency. She is the curator of Dara Birnbaum: Journey in 2022; Spirits Roaming on the Earth, the first major monographic survey on Jacolby Satterwhite in 2021; the survey, Andrea Zittel: An Institute of Investigative Living in 2019; and the thematic exhibition Paradox: The Body in the Age of AI in 2018.
Geneva Skeen is an artist, composer, and curator. Influenced by écriture féminine, alchemical metaphors, and a range of musical traditions ranging from holy mysticism to industrial, Skeen works with recordings, voice, mixed instrumentation, architecture, video, sculpture, and software processing. Her recordings, performances, publications, and installations focus on site-specific landscape studies as a means to highlight complex interdependencies between perception, attention, and trauma. In linking the finite resources of our physical landscapes and their infinite digital representations, these works address the myriad ways we embody the emotional tenor of life amidst climate catastrophe and late capitalism.
Skeen has released solo and collaborative musical works on Room40, LINE Imprint, Touch, Dragon's Eye Recordings, and Crystalline Morphologies, which have been reviewed in The Wire Magazine, Pitchfork, Bandcamp, Foxy Digitalis, and others. She has presented work at LAXART, the Broad Museum, Open Space SFMOMA, LAND AND SEA, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the Center for New Music San Francisco, REDCAT, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. As curator/founder of Sequencing, an online transmedia publication series for Fulcrum Arts which explores the intersection of art and science, she has published work from Suzanne Kite, Sarah Rosalena Brady, Felipe Meres, Nina Sarnelle, and others. She is also a member of VOLUME, a curatorial collective focused on sound and time-based practices. She received an MFA from Bard in Music/Sound and a BA in Critical Theory & Social Justice from Occidental College.
Ginger Brooks Takahashi's collaborative project-based, socially enraged practice is an extension of feminist spaces and queer inquiry, actively building community and nurturing alternative forms of information distribution. She is co-founder of queer and feminist journal LTTR; projet MOBILIVRE BOOKMOBILE project; the touring musical act MEN; and General Sisters. She has presented work at the Oakland Museum of California, 2019; Jewish Museum, 2016; Tensta Konsthall, 2015; Brooklyn Museum, 2013; Museo Tamayo, 2010; New Museum, 2009; and Serpentine Gallery, 2008. She received her BA from Oberlin College and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2007.
Job Titles:
- Artist, Engineer, Researcher
- Professor
Golan Levin is an artist, engineer, researcher and educator interested in new intersections of machine code, visual culture, and critical making. His work combines equal measures of the whimsical, the provocative, and the sublime in an eclectic variety of online, installation and performance media. Through responsive artifacts, virtual environments, and media provocations, Levin applies creative twists to digital technologies that highlight our relationship with machines, expand the vocabulary of human action, and awaken participants to their own potential as creative actors. His projects have engaged themes and materials such as interactive gestural robotics; the tactical potential of personal digital fabrication; new aesthetics of nonverbal interaction; and information visualization as a mode of critical inquiry.
Levin is presently Professor of Electronic Art at Carnegie Mellon University, where his pedagogy is concerned with the use of computation as a medium for critical inquiry and cultural innovation. He teaches "studio courses in computer science" on themes like interactive art, experimental capture, generative design, and visualization. Levin holds courtesy appointments in CMU's School of Design, School of Architecture, School of Computer Science, and Entertainment Technology Center. From 2009 to 2022, he also served as Director and Co-Director of CMU's Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, a laboratory dedicated to the support of atypical, anti-disciplinary and inter-institutional research at the intersection of arts, science, technology and culture.
Levin has spent nearly 30 years as an artist embedded within high-technology research environments, including the MIT Media Laboratory, Ars Electronica Futurelab, Interval Research Corporation, and the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), has appeared in the Whitney Biennial, and has been recognized with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Creative Capital, the Rockefeller MAP Fund, and others. A two-time TED speaker, Levin was named one of "50 Designers Shaping the Future" by Fast Company magazine in October 2012.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Art Director
- Associate Professor of Art Director of Foundational Studies
- Project - Based Artist
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Artist
Isla Hansen is an artist working to reinterpret and complicate the relationship between the human body and technological progress. Her solo and collaborative installations, systems, and performances have been exhibited at the Akron Art Museum, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, the Parrish Art Museum, Guild Hall Center for Visual and Performing Arts, and the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh. Isla has been the recipient of a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, the Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship, and has received multiple Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art at the Frontier grants from The Studio for Creative Inquiry. Isla was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and received her BA from Columbia University and her MFA from the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University.
James Duesing has worked in many forms of animation, from traditional hand drawn and early digital work to 3D and motion capture projects. He has explored animation individually and collaboratively in film and digital forms along with its integration into installation, web eBook and print.
In his book HYPERANIMATION DIGITAL IMAGES AND VIRTUAL WORLDS, animation historian Robert Russett describes Duesing's work this way: "Characteristically composed of dark fantasy worlds and strange hybrids of animals and humans, Duesing's digital animation offers comical and eccentric reflections on human interactions and desires in an increasingly violent and polluted world. On one level his imagery is composed of entertaining cartoon-like characters in various kinds of richly rendered environments. On another level his work probes serious sociological issues in a way that is at once provocative and disturbing."
James Duesing's work has been exhibited and broadcast throughout the world including: MTV, PBS, Showtime, The Movie Channel, The Sundance Film Festival, Siggraph, The Berlin Video Festival, The World Animation Festival in Los Angeles, Hiroshima International Animation Festival, The Southern Circuit, The Stuttgart International Animation Festival, Shanghai Animation Festival, The Tate Gallery and the National Film Theater of London, Film Forum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA in Los Angeles and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has received numerous awards and grants including Creative Capital, Prix Ars Electronica, an American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker Fellowship, an Emmy Award from the National Association of television Arts and Sciences, and several National Endowment for the Arts grants. He Co-Directed The STUDIO of Creative Inquiry and is also the former Director of the Center For the Arts in Society.
Jamie Adams was born and raised in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. After graduating from CMU, he earned an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. His work is represented in the permanent public collections of Museu Brasileiro da Escultura (São Paulo, Brazil), Museum of Modern Art Library (New York), MOMA (Wales), Los Angeles County Museum of Art Research Library, the Pennsylvania Capitol Building (Senate, House of Representatives, Governor's office) and Carnegie Mellon University among others. His work has been cited in publications such as Art in America, Bulletin du Musée Ingres (Montauban, France), and the book Fragonard, Regards croisés, co-authored by Musée du Louvre curators Dimitri Salmon and Jean-Pierre Cuzin. Adams is represented by David Klein Gallery (Birmingham, MI), Zolla Lieberman Gallery (Chicago), Hespe Gallery (San Francisco), Philip Slein Gallery (St. Louis), and Lamensch-Douglas Fine Art (Lyon, France). He resides in St. Louis, Missouri.
Job Titles:
- Special Lecturer & CFA Photo Admin
- Special Lecturer & CFA Photography Administrator
Jamie Gruzska currently teaches photography and is the administrator for the college's interdisciplinary photo program but works in painting and printmaking, autographic forms that have deeply influenced his thinking about photography. Increasingly committed to the huge currency of the "picture on a wall," he has practiced un-discipline in his work, convinced that simultaneity will invite personal invention and fluency. His work harnesses archetypal image genres (i.e. portrait, landscape, abstraction) that are so deeply established that much room exists for our own understanding/ misunderstanding, mythmaking, disintegration, and ultimately, integration. He is very fond of traditional silver-based analog darkroom processes, something he has worked with since the age of eleven, but in the intervening years has focused on painting, intaglio printmaking, and photogravure. The unique accessibility of photography and its special relationship with time have a grip on his work and teaching.
While he is engaged with problems of picture making on a flat surface, he understands that art making of whatever form, especially for students, involves identity forging and motive investigation-areas he finds particularly vital. He encourages students to discover tools they need-photography, painting-whatever medium, as diagnostic programs to run on themselves to figure out who they are.
Gruzska believes in complete creative freedom for artists-(isn't that the reason for selecting the path?)-rejecting commercial galleries and commodification pressures, showing work in non-profit, educational spaces, and museums. He has an ongoing collaboration with sculptor Michael Singer, developing photo-intaglio prints, exploiting the generative nature of the process, while finding collaboration surprisingly rewarding. Similarly, he has found teaching to be integral to his artistic life.
Job Titles:
- Digital & Physical Computing Technician
- Digital and Physical Computing Technician / Adjunct Professor
- Physical Computing Technician
As the School of Art's Digital and Physical Computing Technician, Jenna Boyles maintains and monitors the physical computing lab, laser cutters, 3D printers, CNC routers and soft sculpture studio. She establishes and oversees safety protocols and training for use of these spaces, as well as schedules, trains, and supervises student monitors.
As an artist, Jenna works sculpturally with electronics and things-considered-trash using craft based techniques. Through meticulous organization and careful maintenance, she composes environments in which these materials are collaged into conduits of memory. In her work, the resilience of waste is performed as she plays between the sensitivity and unpredictability of squishy bodies and hard-wired machines. Her practice includes research and workshops in electronic textiles, particularly soft circuitry and heat sensitive fabrics.
She has presented her work at Experimental Sound Studio, 2020; Generator Space, 2020; Mana Contemporary New Media Residency 2018-2019; EXPO Chicago, 2018; Children's Museum of Pittsburgh 2014; Port Discovery Children's Museum, 2013. Jenna was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Artist
Johannes DeYoung is an internationally recognized artist and filmmaker who works at the intersection of computational and material processes. His moving-image works have been exhibited internationally at venues such as: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, Alicante, Spain; Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; B3 Biennale of the Moving Image, Frankfurt en Main, Germany; Hesse Flatow (Crush Curatorial), Jeff Bailey Gallery, Robert Miller Gallery, Interstate Projects, Eyebeam, and MoMA PS1 Print Studio, New York, NY; as well as numerous festival screenings in countries such as Australia, Greece, Ireland, New Zealand, Turkey, and Vietnam. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The New York Post, The Huffington Post, and Dossier Journal.
DeYoung co-founded the periodic web journal Lookie-Lookie. He served on the New Foundations Board of Study for time-based media at Purchase College, State University of New York; the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Contemporary Art Council; and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, as Digital Literacy Consultant. DeYoung is appointed Assistant Professor of Electronic and Time-Based Media at Carnegie Mellon University. He previously taught at Yale University School of Art (2008-2018), where he was appointed Senior Critic and Director of the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, and at the Yale School of Drama, where he was appointed Lecturer in Design. At Yale, he also served as Principal Investigator for the Blended Reality program in immersive media research. He received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2006.
John Currin was born in Boulder, Colorado. After graduating from CMU, he earned an M.F.A. in 1986 from Yale University. Inspired by Old Master portraits, pin-ups, pornography, and B-movies, Currin paints ideational yet challengingly perverse images of women, from lusty nymphs and dour matrons to more ethereal feminine prototypes. His paintings strike an unnerving balance between the beautiful and the grotesque. Currin has exhibited internationally at venues such as Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, France; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Serpentine Gallery, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; DHC/ART, Montreal; Frans Hals Museum, The Netherlands; and Museo Stefano Bardini, Florence. His work is represented in museum collections worldwide, including the Carnegie Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Art Institute of Chicago; Tate Collection, London; and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. He currently lives and works in New York where he is represented by Gagosian.
John Peña is a multidisciplinary artist who makes art as a way of exploring the natural world and his daily interactions. A few of John's projects include: racing with clouds, making a drawing about his life every day for the last nine years, and creating life-sized plaster word balloons that are precariously balance on two-by-fours. John has exhibited artworks at The Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh, Kevin Kavanaugh Gallery in Dublin, Kate Werble Gallery in New York City, and The Bumbershoot Arts Festival in Seattle, WA. He has attended a number of residencies and fellowships including The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. In 2009, Peña received a Fulbright Fellowship to work and teach in Cali, Colombia for eleven months. In 2012, he was awarded the Carol R. Brown Emerging Artist of the Year Award from the Pittsburgh Foundation. He has also received a Creative Development Grant from The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowment. He currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Jon Rubin is an interdisciplinary artist who creates interventions into public life that reimagine individual, group, and institutional behavior. Projects include Conflict Kitchen (2010-17), The Last Billboard (2010-18), The Royal Danish Protesters (2011), and The Independent School of Art (2004-06). He has exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Mercosul Biennial, Brazil; the Shanghai Biennial; the Carnegie International, The Lyon Biennale; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden; Sazmanab Center for Contemporary Art, Tehran; as well as in backyards, in living rooms, and on street corners. Rubin has received awards from the Art Matters Foundation, the Creative Work Fund, Americans for the Arts, the Creative Capital Award and was a finalist for the International Award for Participatory Art. He recently collaborated with artist Lenka Clayton on projects for the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York and the 15th edition of The Lyon Biennale. He is currently collaborating with Iranian-based artist Sohrab Kashani on a project situated in both Tehran and Pittsburgh titled The Other Apartment.
in Boston, Jonathan Borofsky is an American sculptor and printmaker who lives and works in Ogunquit, Maine, primarily producing public art. After CMU, he studied at France's Ecole de Fontainebleau and earned an MFA from Yale University. In 2006, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon. "Walking to the Sky," donated by art alumna Jill Gansman Kraus and her husband Peter Kraus, was permanently installed on the CMU campus in 2006. It is based on a story that the artist's father used to tell him when he was a child about a friendly giant who lived in the sky. From the early 70's, Borofsky's central concern was to diminish the boundaries between life and art. From 1973 he made use of dreams, combining drawings, paintings, sculptures, projected images, and prints in multi-media installations. Borofsky taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York, 1969-1977, and at California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, 1977-1980. His projects have been exhibited and installed in museums and public spaces around the world.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Art History & Theory
Joyce Kozloff fuses a love for widespread artistic traditions with an activist temperament. A key participant in the 70's feminist art movement in Los Angeles and New York, she became a founding member of the Heresies publishing collective and an originating figure of the Pattern and Decoration movement. During the 1980s, she concentrated on public commissions, many in transportation centers (including the floor of the National Airport in Washington, DC), executed in tile or mosaic, completing sixteen between 1979 and 2003. In the 90's, maps became the foundation for her private work that addressed a range of issues, particularly the role of cartography in human knowledge and as an imposition of imperial will. Recent works, including those produced in the School of Art's Digital Art Studio, have synthesized patterns and mapping in ways that are graphically satisfying and intellectually questioning. Kozloff's work is featured in nearly every survey of late 20th century art of women artists.
In 2002, she was elected into the National Academy of Design. In 2005, she received an Alumni Award from Carnegie Mellon followed by a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women's Caucus for Art in 2009.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Program Assistant
Katharine was born in South Bend, Indiana. After graduating from CMU, she moved to New York City where she studied with Louise Bourgeois and Robert Storr at the School of Visual Arts. Her contemporary allegorical paintings have addressed sexual desire, social and political mores, the excess of American culture, comfort, love, and death. She has exhibited internationally in Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Stockholm, London, and Amsterdam. She has had fourteen solo exhibitions, including seven in New York at P.P.O.W. Gallery, which represents her work. Kuharic has received grants from the Vogelstein and Penny McCall Foundations, Art Matters, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She was named the Milton and Sally Avery Fellow for 2003 and 2004 at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, and a Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy. After teaching at Yale, The New School, School of Visual Arts and Washington University, Professor Kuharic now holds the Kevin Kennedy Chair at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York where she was awarded The Class of 1962 Excellence in Teaching Award.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Program Director
- Professor
Katherine Hubbard uses photography, writing and performance to plumb photography's continuing significance. Considering analog photography as a mimesis of the body, Hubbard asks how its procedures might be called upon to investigate social politics, history, and narrative. In her photographs the physical positioning of one's body has an essential relationship to how one processes images, exploring this encounter as a time based experience. Hubbard's writing practice forms the core of her performances, culling the malleability of vision to frame a politics of looking, bridging the imaginary with the familiar. Hubbard received her MFA in 2010 from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.
Job Titles:
- Facilities Manager of Doherty Hall and School of Art Print Technician
- Facilities Manager, Doherty Hall
- Print Media and Digital Print Studios
- School of Art 's Print Technician
As the School of Art's Print Technician, Kellie Hames maintains and monitors the traditional printmaking facilities and the Digital Print Studio. She establishes and oversees safety protocols and training for use of these spaces, as well as schedules, trains, and supervises student monitors. Additionally, she is the Facilities Manager for the School of Art spaces in Doherty Hall.
Kellie Hames is a printmaker and educator originally from Minnesota, who currently resides in Pittsburgh, PA. Hames holds an MFA from Northern Illinois University and a BFA from Minnesota State University Moorhead. In 2012 she was accepted into the world-renowned Tamarind Institute to study fine art lithography, and in 2013 was solely chosen to continue as a second year apprentice printer before being awarded a Tamarind Master Printer Certification. Since then she has done several residencies at Atelier le Grand Village in central France where she worked collaboratively with a variety of artists.
When not working collaboratively, Hames' own work utilizes a variety of mediums, its themes often reflecting on the Midwest suburbs she grew up in, exploring the intricacies and quirks of the neighborhoods, communities and landscapes around her, often through a surrealist lens.
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- Undergraduate Activity Coordinator
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- Associate Professor
- Artist
Kim Beck is an artist whose work includes drawing, print, installation and sculpture. She grew up in Colorado and now lives in Pittsburgh where she is an Associate Professor in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. Her work has been shown widely, including at the Walker Art Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Smack Mellon, Socrates Sculpture Park, Warhol Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Omi Sculpture Park, Hallwalls and on the High Line in NYC. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Art Omi, Cannonball, Helsinki International Artist Programme, Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, International Studio & Curatorial Program, Cité Internationale des Arts, Vermont Studio Center and at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Her work is included in the collections of Agnes Gund, the Philbrook Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum among others. She has received awards from ARS Electronica, the Studio for Creative Inquiry, Pollock-Krasner, Heinz Foundation, Sprout Fund, Pittsburgh Foundation, Thomas J. Watson Foundation and Printed Matter. Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, the Village Voice, Interior Design Magazine, The Believer Magazine, BOMBlog, theartblog, The Architect's Newspaper, and Time Out New York. Beck has also contributed as a writer to Public Art Dialogue and Temporary Art Review and has organized exhibitions and screenings at BravinLee Programs, Artists Image Resource, Delta Axis and the Brooks Museum of Art. Kim Beck has an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and BA from Brandeis University.
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- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate Dean for Academics and Student Success Associate Teaching Professor
Kristen Letts Kovak is the Senior Associate Dean for Academics and Student Success and an Associate Teaching Professor in the College of Fine Arts. She teaches undergraduate courses on drawing, painting, and aesthetic philosophy, including the intra-collegiate seminar, "Passport to the Arts." She studied painting, drawing, and theory at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she received her MFA in 2010.
Her artworks investigate connections between visual, perceptual and cognitive patterning. Kovak uses surface articulations to explore the interplay of representation and abstraction-estranging the familiar and naturalizing the non-objective. "The complexity push[es] against the boundary where comprehensible becomes confusion. It remind[s] me of swimming in the ocean, where the destructive power of the water is always present in your mind, even when you feel capable of making it back to shore."- Eric Lidji
Her works have been exhibited widely in museums and galleries. Most recently, she has had solo exhibitions at 707 Penn Gallery, 709 Penn Gallery, the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, St. Michael's College, Ohio University, Penn State, Baum School of Art, and the Arts Club of Washington. Her paintings and drawings have been featured in more than fifty group exhibitions including the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Wildling Art Museum, Arizona- Sonora Desert Museum, IUPUI, Muskegon Museum of Art, Erie Art Museum, Museum of the Red River, and the Woodson Art Museum.
As a curator, Kovak examines common psychological, aesthetic and theoretical questions underlying seemingly diverse artistic practices. Her recent projects at SPACE gallery ("Cataloguing Pattern," "Degrees of Separation," and "Identity Play") share a characteristic interest in balancing opposing forces to arrive at harmonious states of disequilibrium. She highlights the work of artists who challenge social, political, and material norms.
Her pedagogical research includes cross-disciplinary thinking, representation, perception, and aesthetic philosophy. She was awarded a Wimmer Faculty Fellowship from Carnegie Mellon's Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation to study research-based methods in teaching creative risk-taking.
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- Administrative Coordinator
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- Assistant Professor
- Artist
Lyndon Barrois Jr. (b. 1983, New Orleans) is an artist and educator based in Pittsburgh. He uses magazines, advertising, cinema, and vernacular imagery as primary subjects of inquiry, translating the language of printing and design layout into a variety of formal and material juxtapositions. Barrois received his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis (2013), and his BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (2006). He has recently completed residencies at the Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Fogo Island Arts in Newfoundland, and is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
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- Visiting Professor of Art History & Theory
Maria Elena Versari is an art and architectural historian. Her research focuses on the 19th and 20th centuries and in particular on the intersection between art and technology, the international avant-garde and totalitarian aesthetics.
She studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore, where she received a PhD in Art History with a doctoral dissertation devoted to the international relations of Futurism in the 1920s. She held the positions of Assistant Professor of 19th- and 20th-Century Art at the University of Messina and Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University. More recently, she was the Lynette S. Autrey Visiting Professor in the Humanities Research Center at Rice University and Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute. She has worked as a Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art in Paris and the Wolfsonian Museum and Library and has been a member of The Material Life of Things Research Group (2010-2011) at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She is currently Visiting Professor of Art History and Theory at Carnegie Mellon University.
She has published two monographs, Constantin Brancusi (Florence, 2005) and Wassily Kandinsky e l'astrattismo (Florence 2007; French transl., Paris 2008; Portuguese Transl. 2011) and edited the republication of Ruggero Vasari's seminal Futurist dramas L'Angoscia delle Macchine and Raun (Palermo 2009). She has published widely on Italian Futurism, avant-garde internationalism, 20th-century sculpture, art historiography, Fascist and Totalitarian aesthetics and architecture, iconoclasm and historic preservation.
In 2016, she has published with the Getty Research Institute the first English translation and critical edition of Umberto Boccioni's seminal book Pittura scultura futuriste (Dinamismo plastico) (1914).
As an art curator, she has co-organized Totally Lost, an EU-sponsored exhibition devoted to totalitarian architecture and urban memory involving 186 international photographers and mapping 300 locations worldwide (https://www.spaziindecisi.it/totally-lost-2016/) and, more recently, has curated the exhibitions Archipenko in Italy (Matteo Lampertico Fine Art, Milan 2021) and Archipenko and the Italian Avant-Garde (The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, 2022).
She's currently completing a book manuscript titled The Foreign Policy of the Avant-Garde and pursuing research for a second book on political iconoclasm in the 20th century.
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- Assistant Head of Academic Affairs
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- Multimedia Lab Support Specialist
Mel Bochner grew up in Pittsburgh and is recognized a leading figure in the development of Conceptual art in New York in the 1960s and 1970s. Emerging at a time when painting was increasingly discussed as outmoded, Bochner belonged to a new generation of artists who looked at ways of breaking with Abstract Expressionism and traditional compositional devices. His pioneering introduction of the use of language in the visual led Harvard University art historian Benjamin Buchloh to describe his 1966 Working Drawings as ‘probably the first truly conceptual exhibition.' Bochner came of age during the second half of the 1960s, a moment of radical change both in society at large as well as in art. While painting slowly lost its preeminent position in modern art, language moved from talking about art to becoming part of art itself. Bochner has consistently probed the conventions of both painting and of language, the way we construct and understand them, and the way they relate to one another to make us more attentive to the unspoken codes that underpin our engagement with the world. Bochner designed and created The Kraus Campo at Carnegie Mellon with landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh. The public project was commissioned by and named after art alumna Jill Gansman Kraus and her husband Peter Kraus and inaugurated in 2004.
(Parts of this biography are excerpted from Mel Bochner: If the Color Changes by Achim Borchardt-Hume).
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- Projects Presents Solo Show by Professor
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- Technician
- Artist
- Sculpture Technician
Michael is also an artist and curator. He was raised in the suburbs of Washington, DC, and moved to Richmond to attend Virginia Commonwealth University, where he received his BFA in Sculpture+ Extended Media in 2010. After briefly living in New Orleans, he relocated to Austin to attend The University of Texas' MFA program in Studio Art, completing his degree in 2017. Since graduating, he developed a distinctive career path within Austin's larger visual art community, whether that be through pedagogy, museum/ gallery installation, fabrication, freelance design, a respective studio/curatorial practice, or most commonly some combination of all of the aforementioned. He is a founding member of Partial Shade, a nomadic curatorial project focused on hosting exhibitions in non-traditional art spaces with work that is responsive to, considerate of, and affected by its environment. Since 2016, Partial Shade has had the pleasure of working with over 50 local, national, and international artists that represent a wide spectrum of ways one could make and think about art objects.
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- School of Art 's Sculpture Technician
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- Director Elizabeth Chodos Speaks on Panel on the Future of the University Art Gallery
Nancy Hagin is an award-winning contemporary realist American printmaker and painter who, after graduating from Carnegie Mellon, completed her MFA at Yale University in 1964. Since then, she has taught art at institutions such as Pratt Institute, Cooper Union, University of the Arts, Philadelphia and currently at Fashion Institute of Technology between spending summers working in a barn near Hudson, New York. In 1992, Hagin was elected a full Academician of the National Academy of Design in New York. Her art has been nationally exhibited and is included in major museum and corporate collections. Her work is represented by Fischbach Gallery in New York.
Paul Vanouse's practice in emerging media forms is guided by radical interdisciplinarity and impassioned amateurism, addressing complex issues raised by varied new techno-sciences while using them as a medium. His artworks have included data collection devices that examine the ramifications of polling and categorization, genetic experiments that undermine scientific constructions of race and identity, and temporary organizations that playfully critique institutionalization and corporatization. These "Operational Fictions" are hybrid entities-simultaneously real things and fanciful representations-intended to resonate in the equally hyper-real context of the contemporary electronic landscape. Vanouse's works have won numerous grants and fellowships and have been exhibited in over 20 countries and across the USA at the Walker Art Center, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art, Andy Warhol Museum, New Museum, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, the Louvre in Paris, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt in Berlin, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe, Centre de Cultura Contemporania in Barcelona, and TePapa Museum in Wellington, New Zealand. Vanouse is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo where he also directs the Coalesce Center for Biological Art.
Peter Coffin was born in Berkeley, California and studied at the University of California, Davis before earning an MFA at CMU. His work engages with pre-conceptions about cultural ideals to challenge established perception and interpretation. He has mounted over 30 solo museum and gallery exhibitions internationally at venues such as: the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; the Center d'art Contemporain d'Ivry, France; The Barbican, London; Le Centre d'Art Contemporain de Fribourg, Switzerland; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; the Horticultural Society of New York; and Le Confort Moderne, Poitier. His work has been included in art biennials in Berlin, Belgrade, Liverpool, Moscow, New York, Trentino and Yokohama and in numerous museums such as: the Singapore Art Museum; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; El Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; The Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France; Saatchi Gallery, London; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome; and Tate Britain, London among others. He lives and works in New York City.
Upon graduation from Pittsburgh's Taylor Allderdice High School in 1942, Philip Pearlstein enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology, but the draft limited his attendance to one year. After discharge from the army in 1946 he returned to CIT, where he studied with Robert Lepper, Balcomb Green and Samuel Rosenberg, and received his BFA degree in 1949. He is a preeminent figure painter who led a revival in realist art. A distinguished Professor emeritus from Brooklyn College, Pearlstein has paintings in over 70 public art museum collections around the world. In 1982, he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and in 2008, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy in New York, and the Scholastic Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award. He is represented by the Betty Cuningham Gallery in New York.
Born in 1934 in Pittsburgh, Saunders is known for his multimedia paintings which often have sociopolitical undertones, and which incorporate assemblage, drawing, collage and found text. He has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1952, including exhibits in France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Singapore, Korea, Japan, and China as well as throughout the USA. In 2011, Saunders joined numerous notable artists in the Hammer Museum's, Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles 1966-1980 in Los Angeles. Saunders studied at the University of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Barnes Foundation, the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and California College of the Arts (CCA). He is Professor Emeritus at Cal State East Bay in Hayward and is currently Professor of Painting at CCA in Oakland, California.
Renee Stout grew up in Pittsburgh. Five years after graduating from CMU, she moved to Washington, D.C. and began to explore the roots of her African American heritage. She looks to the belief systems of African peoples and their descendants throughout the African Diaspora, as well as to the world and her immediate environment, for the inspiration to create works that encourage self-examination, self-empowerment and self-healing. The lives of Stout's imaginary characters unfold in a variety of media, including painting, mixed-media sculpture, photography and installation. The recipient of awards from the Joan Mitchell, Pollock-Krasner and Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundations, Stout has exhibited across the country and internationally in England, Russia and the Netherlands. Her work is included in major museum collections including the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. In 2014, she received an Alumni Achievement Award. Hemphill in Washington, D.C. represents her work.
Ever since graduating from Carnegie Mellon, Rob Rogers' cartoons have been vexing and entertaining his readers. He is the award-winning editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate, his work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and Newsweek, among other publications. Rogers has also curated three national cartoon exhibitions, Too Hot to Handle: Creating Controversy through Political Cartoons (2003) and Drawn To The Summit: A G-20 Exhibition Of Political Cartoons (2009), both at The Andy Warhol Museum, and Bush Leaguers: Cartoonists Take on the White House (2007) at the American University Museum. In 2015, he curated Slinging Satire: Editorial Cartooning and the First Amendment at the ToonSeum in Pittsburgh where he is currently serving as board president. He is an active member (and past president) of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. In 1999 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His awards include numerous Golden Quills; the 1995 National Headliner Award; the Thomas Nast Award from the Overseas Press Club in 2000 and 2013, and the Berryman Award from the National Press Foundation in 2015. In 2009, Rogers celebrated 25 years as a Pittsburgh editorial cartoonist with the release of No Cartoon Left Behind: The Best of Rob Rogers, published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. In 2015, he released a local cartoon collection called, Mayoral Ink: Cartooning Pittsburgh's Mayors.
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- Electronic Media Equipment Lending, Chroma Key Studio, School of Art Classroom a / V Equipment
Ryan McGinness' paintings, prints, sculptures, and installations borrow graphic elements of public signage and corporate logos, along with images from art history, to create a multi-faceted reflection on contemporary visual culture. Drawing from his upbringing in the surf and skate culture of Virginia Beach and his background in the design industry, McGinness communicates poetic concepts through a cold, graphic, and authoritative visual vocabulary. His work guides viewers to create personal interpretations rather than rending an absolute interpretation. His work is included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; The Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Cincinnati Art Museum; and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; among many others. His work has been shown widely in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Shana Moulton is a media artist who explores contemporary anxieties through her filmic alter ego, Cynthia. Through evocative and oblique narratives in video and performance works, Moulton combines an unsettling, wry humor with a low-tech, Pop sensibility. Born in 1976, Moulton studied at the University of California, Berkeley before her MFA degree at CMU. She has held residencies at the LMCC Workspace Program, Smack Mellon, The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Harvestworks, De Ateliers in Amsterdam and The Sommerakademie in Berne. Moulton has exhibited or performed internationally at The New Museum, MoMA P.S.1, Performa 2009, The Kitchen, Electronic Arts Intermix, Art in General, SFMOMA, The Andy Warhol Museum, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, MOCA Cleveland and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco and abroad at Wiels Center for Contemporary Art in Brussels, The Migros Museum in Zurich, De Appel in Amsterdam, and Palais de Tokyo among others. Her work has been featured on Arte TV and Art21's New York Close Up. Moulton lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and teaches at Kunstakademie in Muenster, Germany.
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- Assistant Teaching Professor