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FACULTY CATALOG

LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN The School of Art & Design is proud to be accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). This recognition of achievement by our students, faculty, and staff alike highlights the high standards that we expect from all aspects of the Art School. The School of Art & Design has experienced faculty who remain committed and active in their chosen disciplines. They hold the highest degree in their field, PhD or MFA. The School of Art & Design is comprised of five buildings, as well as our gallery space in the Student Center. We have graduate programs in studio art and art education, offering both MA and MFA degrees. We are so fortunate to have both art education and art history, while also maintaining studios in all of the following areas: ceramics, drawing, fibers, furniture design, graphic design, metals, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, time based media, and watercolor. Students and faculty enjoy summer coursework at the Parsons Center for Arts & Sciences up north near Traverse City. Parsons has 86 beautiful acres in between several lakes. We hope that you will stay connected with what is happening in the School of Art & Design at EMU by frequently returning to campus and by keeping an eye on us at http://art.emich.edu.

TWODIMENSIONAL MEDIA

CORRIE BALDAUF Associate Professor 2D Media Cranbrook Academy of Art, MFA, Fiber Reading the book at the bottom of this stack was difficult. It was as if I forgot how to read. Remembering how to read is something like remembering how to have new ideas. When I started adding color tabs to books, it wasn’t to make art, it was an attempt to focus and read carefully. It worked. It worked so well, between page forty-two and seventy-four, that I knew I could stop adding tabs to the pages. Continuing made the process start to look like art. Continuing any particular task is not automatically considered to be an art form that results in an art object. This might be why there is something in a history book that will surprise each of us. This might be why stealing is as contentious as a book being read. Awareness and art are more about action occurring around objects than the objects themselves. Time Stack framed archival print documentation by Tim Thayer 20” x 30” x 2” 2019

CHRIS HYNDMAN Professor Painting and 2D Foundations Ohio University, MFA, Painting and Drawing Chris Hyndman makes paintings that focus on color and texture, structured surfaces, pattern, and the function of digital tools in shaping contemporary images. His work has been featured in New American Paintings, Manifest’s International Painting Annual, the 2018 Evanston + Vicinity Biennial, and solo exhibitions at Bluffton University, the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, and the Susanne Hilberry Gallery. Chris has been a faculty member at Eastern Michigan University since 2001. Audition 6 (left) acrylic and tissue paper on canvas 74” x 56” 2018 Audition 7 (right) acrylic and tissue paper on canvas 74” x 56” 2018

DUSTIN LONDON Associate Professor Drawing, Painting, 2D Foundations University of Pennsylvania, MFA, Painting Dustin London’s work has been exhibited at venues including NURTUREart in Brooklyn, Heskin Contemporary in New York City, Emily Davis Gallery at the University of Akron, the Untitled Art Fair in Miami Beach, Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Holding House in Detroit, and TSA Gallery in Brooklyn. He has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, Millay Colony, Willapa Bay AiR, Jentel, Vermont Studio Center, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. London is a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and his work has been featured in New American Paintings, Fresh Paint Magazine, Art Maze Magazine, Paint Pulse Magazine, and The New York Times. He received a BFA from Michigan State University and a MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Daybreak (left) oil on canvas 64” x 56” 2018 Palindrome (right) oil on canvas 52” x 62” 2016

SANDRA MURCHISON Director & Full Professor Printmaking and Painting Louisiana State University, MFA, Printmaking and Painting Sandra Murchison is the Director of the School of Art & Design at EMU, and the Director of the Parsons Center for Arts & Sciences. For this work, she was a selected as a 2018-2019 Emerging Arts Administrator Fellow by the National Council for Arts Administrators. Sandra has served the printmaking organization SGC International as Archives Coordinator, Vice President, and on the nominating committee. As an artist, she was chosen for a 2017 artist residency by the Alpena Wildlife Sanctuary. Sandra has had solo exhibitions at the University of the Arts, Mansfield University, Loyola University, Rockhurst University, Delta State University, and the Cottonlandia Museum. Her work is featured in Contemporary American Printmakers. Sandra has taught print and book arts courses at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Southwest School of Art & Crafts, and has served as a master printer at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking. Pacific Salmon (left) acrylic paint, collage, and graphite rubbing 36” x 36” 2017 Salt Springs (right) acrylic paint and graphite rubbing on cut boards 24” X 24” 2019

MICHAEL REEDY Professor Drawing Northern Illinois University, MFA, Painting Michael Reedy’s work has been included in over 200 national and international exhibitions and can be viewed in numerous private and institutional collections including Clatsop Community College, Minot State University, Shippensburg University, and the Hoffman Trust National Collection in association with the San Diego Art Institute. Recent activities include solo exhibitions at Arch Enemy Arts in Philadelphia (PA), BeinArt Gallery in Brunswick (Australia), Helikon Gallery in Denver (CO), and 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco (CA). His work was also recently featured in Create Magazine, Creative Quarterly, The Moleskine Project Vol. 2 (Spoke Art), and Manifest Gallery’s 12th International Drawing Annual. Burn With Me (left) mixed media on paper 48” x 26” 2019 Death of the Maiden (right) mixed media on paper 45” x 27” 2018

MARIA RUGGIERO Professor Watercolor, Foundations Drawing Kent State University, MFA, Painting Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Maria grew up in Michigan, attending MSU for her BFA, later moving to Ohio to join Kent State University’s MFA program in painting. Maria Ruggiero’s work draws from personal experiences, especially those influenced by events involving her family and travel. Her paintings incorporate imagery from specific places, objects, or events, and often explore the sometimes contradictory or complex aspects of human interactions with the natural world. Her recent exhibitions include a variety of national and regional juried shows including the 64 Arts National Exhibition, Monmouth, IL, the 91st Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition at the Muskegon Museum of Art, the Alaska Watercolor Society 45th Exhibition, 311 Gallery There’s Still Life in Still-Lifes, Raleigh, NC, Art League of Hilton Head 2019 Biennale, and Untitled, a Juried Exhibition at Athens Art Gallery, Crawfordsville, IN. Maria also shows work as a visiting artist in WSG gallery, Ann Arbor, and is represented by Gallerie Nettles, Muenster, Germany. Two Fish (left) watercolor on paper 22” x 30” 2018 Entangled (right) watercolor on paper 25” x 40” 2018

AMY SACKSTEDER Professor 2D Media Northern Illinois University, MFA, Painting Amy Sackstederâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paintings, drawings, collages, and installations explore artifacts as vehicles of human connection to specific places and occurrences. Compelled by our interactions with the land and landscape, she investigates the personal, environmental, and political significances of place. Sackstederâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work has been featured and reviewed in journals such as New American Paintings and the Chicago Tribune. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, most recently at Dutoit Gallery in Dayton, OH; Popps Packing in Hamtramck, MI; Buckham Gallery in Flint, MI; the Detroit Center for Design and Technology in Detroit, MI; The Provincial in Kaleva, MI; LUMP in Raleigh, NC; and Art Metropole in Toronto, ON. She has two three-person exhibitions forthcoming in 2020, at the University of South Carolina Upstate, and Western Illinois University. Sacksteder lives and works in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and has been teaching at EMU since 2006.

Interruptions: Precipitation, 2018 and 2017, Detroit; fences approximately 120” x 34” in total; installation dimensions and placement vary, silver leaf and acrylic on hand-cut paper, pedestal; 2019; installed in the three-person exhibition Interstitial Interruptions at Detroit Center for Design and Technology, May-July 2019, left Dear World, cut and collaged inkjet prints with gouache on laser and hand-cut paper, 11.5” x 8.25”, 2019, middle Take Your Time, cut and collaged inkjet prints with gouache on laser and hand-cut paper, 8.25” x 11.5”, 2019, right

BRIAN SPOLANS Professor 2D Media, Printmaking University of North Texas, MFA, Printmaking Brian Spolans’ work has been exhibited at 500X Gallery in Dallas, Paradigm Gallery in Philadelphia, Muskegon Museum of Art, International Print Center of New York, and was published in New American Paintings, Fresh Paint and Create Magazine. He co-curated the exhibition Post Apocalypse at Gallery Project in Ann Arbor, and Non-Text at Eastern Michigan University. Content (left) screen monoprint 20” x 16” 2019 Worst friend (right) screen and relief monoprint 20” x 16” 2019

THREEDIMENSIONAL MEDIA

JOHN DeHOOG Professor 3D Media, Foundations Rhode Island School of Design, MFA, Furniture Design John was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1971. His family settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan after stays in both Japan and Iowa. After attending various universities around Michigan, John took an education hiatus to work in a cannery in Alaska. It was there that he found his calling in the pages of American Craft while scouring the tables of free magazines at the Anchorage Public Library. He received his BFA (Furniture Design) from Northern Michigan University in 1996 and his MFA (Furniture Design) from Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. John has recently exhibited work at the University of Michigan Residential College Gallery, the Muskegon Museum of Art, the Midland Center for the Arts, and the Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum. He lives in Ann Arbor and has a studio in his home. Bump Study (left) wood, wire 10” x 6” x 2” 2019 Denial Of The Obvious (right) maple, oak, paint, string 24” x 22” x 4” 2019

JASON J FERGUSON Professor Sculpture, Digital Fabrication, and 3D Foundations University of Delaware, MFA, Sculpture Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performances, videos, and sculptural objects. He received his BFA from Towson University in Baltimore and continued his studies at the University of Delaware where he completed his MFA in 2006. Ferguson’s work has been exhibited internationally including venues in Tokyo, Japan; Berlin, Germany; São Paulo, Brazil; Tirana, Albania; Kolderveen, the Netherlands, as well as national venues in New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, Virginia, and he recently filled two rooms at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. His artwork has been featured in publications including the 3D Additivist Cookbook, SCULPTURE Magazine, SciArt Magazine, Hyperallergic, Artifizz, the Chicago Art Review, and more. He has received awards and grants for his studio work and was the first ever recipient of the Manifest Grand Jury Prize in 2018.

Being, nothing more (above) CNC milled foam, epoxy, color shifting auto paint, and photographic documentation of performance in Tokyo, Japan, 5,616.188 cubic inches; the volume of the artist’s body at age 38, 2018 The Nature of Being (right) 3D printed full-scale replica of the artist’s skeleton from medical scans 20” x 46” x 46” 2017

BROOKS HARRIS STEVENS Professor 3D Media, Fibers East Carolina University, MFA, Fibers Brooks Harris Stevens is an artist and Professor at EMU where she is a part of the 3D Studio area in Fibers. Brooks is continually inspired through the creation of fiberbased work that is deeply rooted in textile traditions. Working with interdisciplinary approaches, she seeks to expand concepts while working with fiber mediums. Her research focuses on finding value in our collective human experiences that are often discarded and overused through the mending of cloth, land, and the built environment.

Recently, she has had work included in the International Fiber Art 2019 exhibition at the Hangaram Art Museum in Seoul, South Korea, as well as Interstitial Interruptions at the Detroit Center for Design & Technology. In January 2020, Brooks will exhibit her work at the University Art Gallery at Central Michigan University, which is a part of Guns: Loaded Conversations, that has been displayed at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles and the New England Textile Museum. Connective Space gold thread & bodysuits, landscape performance in Ypsilanti, Michigan 2019

BRIAN NELSON Professor Sculpture, 3D Media Michigan State University, MFA, Sculpture Brian Nelsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work is founded on the dichotomy he has discovered between the Brian has been active in the Detroit area as an basic but complex processes of life. He referinspired artist and teacher for many years. He ences a struggle between science and nature has exhibited nationally at Hall Walls in Buffalo, or sterility and life by using materials such New York, at Spaces Gallery in Cleveland, and as fabricated stainless steel tables, cast lead, at the South Bend Museum of Art. His work cast bronze, test tubes, oxygen tanks, prohas been shown at numerous galleries throughjected video, salt carved into cell structures, out the Metropolitan Michigan areas, at DNA, and tear drops, as well as Petri dishes Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Oakof live organisms and projected video images land University Art Gallery, The Gallery Projof trees swaying in the wind or clouds passect, Tangent Gallery, Buckham Gallery, Cening. Brian is known for his unique ability to ter Galleries, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit combine refined craftsmanship and complex Contemporary, and Birmingham Bloomfield emotional and conceptual ideas into solid Art Center, among others. and fluid sculpture.

Fluoxetine, sold under the brand names Prozac. (not viable due to agoraphobia) (left) welded and fabricated steel, paint 97” x 49” x 25” 2018-19 Cloud with downburst microcell (her breath, for Delores White) (below) altered oxygen tank, welded and fabricated aluminum 84” x 47” x 39” 2019

DIGITAL MEDIA

JASON DeMARTE Professor Photography/New Media University of Oregon, MFA, Photography Jason DeMarte is an established artist best known for his highly detailed and seductive flora and fauna photo assemblages. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally. DeMarte has been featured in journals, textbooks and publications including; the British Journal of Photography, Huffington Post, Feature Shoot, Hi-Fructose, Oxford American, The Elements of Photography, Manifest, Photo Review, and Black Warrior Review. Notable exhibitions include: The Museum of Un-natural History at Clamp Art, New York City; Context at Filter Photo Space, Chicago; and The National: Best Contemporary Photography 2015, Ft Wayne Museum of Art.

DeMarteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solo exhibitions include shows at: Rule Gallery in Denver, CO and in Marfa, TX; Denver Botanical Gardens in Denver, CO; Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Boulder, CO; University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor MI; Wessell Synman Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa; the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography in Detroit, MI; and Gallery Kayafas in Boston, MA. His series Confected is also part of Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Museum of Contemporary Photography Midwest Photographers Project, and his newest series Adorned was selected as one of Photo Lucida Critical Mass top 50 series. Jason is a tenured professor of art at Eastern Michigan University.

Garden of Artificial Delights (above) solo exhibition at University of Michigan Museum of Art Summer 2019 Placid Propagation (below) photo assemblage, pigmented ink print 2019

CHRIS REILLY Associate Professor Photography/New Media, Foundations University of California Los Angeles, MFA, School of the Arts and Architecture Chris Reilly holds an MFA from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture. Working individually and collaboratively, his artwork explores communication, relationships, perception, participation, and collaboration using media including sculpture, photography, software, installation, and open-source tech projects. Recent exhibitions include Body Clock at CAVE Detroit; the Intimate Instruments workshop at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and Music Tech Fest in Ljubljana, Slovenia; and collaborative projects in Hong Kong’s Microwave International New Media Arts Festival. His works are profiled in Hyperallergic; We Make Money Not Art; Wired Magazine; and Punk Planet. Natural Ambivalences (left) software, mirror, inkjet prints, video dimensions vary 2018 33 Year Clock (right) software, video 25’ x 15’ 2017

GRAPHIC DESIGN

LESLIE ATZMON Professor Graphic Design and Design History Middlesex University, London, PhD, Design History Eastern Michigan University, MFA, Graphic Design Exhibition catalogue essay on Darwin diLeslie Atzmon is a designer, design historian, agram for +ultra. gestaltung schafft wisand design critic. She has published in Eye, sen (the relationship between design and Design and Culture, Communication Design, knowledge), Nikola Doll/ Horst Bredekaand Design Issues. Atzmon edited Visual Rhetmp/ Wolfgang Schäffner, Curators, Humoric and the Eloquence of Design (Parlor Press boldt University, Berlin, Leipzig: E.A. 2011) and co-edited Encountering Things: DeSeemann, Fall 2016. sign and Theories of Things (Bloomsbury 2017) with industrial designer Prasad Boradkar. “Intelligible Design: The Origin and VisualMost recently, she edited The Graphic Design ization of Species,” Communication Design, Reader (Bloomsbury 2019) with Teal Triggs of Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2016. the Royal College of Art. In 2016, she was a Fulbright Fellow at Central Saint Martins in “Dimensional Typography and the UnLondon investigating the topic of Darwin and bearable Flatness of Being” and “What We design thinking. Atzmon and colleague Ryan Mean when We Talk about Form,” in The Molloy were awarded a Sappi Ideas that MatEducation of a Graphic Designer, Steven ter Grant, which supports design that changes Heller, Editor, New York: Allworth Press, lives for the better. For the grant, students 2015. (Originally in Eye: The Internarebranded Ypsilanti’s non-profit Riverside Arts tional Review of Graphic Design blog, Center as a community arts hub. Atzmon reSeptember 2009). cently curated the exhibition Design and Science, and is currently working on a collection The Graphic Design Reader (left) also entitled Design and Science (forthcoming Teal Triggs and Leslie Atzmon, Editors Bloomsbury 2020). London: Bloomsbury Press April 2019

Encountering Things: Design and Theories of Things (right) Leslie Atzmon and Prasad Boradkar, Editors London: Bloomsbury Press October 2017

ANDREW MANIOTES Professor Graphic Design Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MFA, Visual Studies Andrew Maniotes was born in Munster, IN. He received a BFA in Visual Communications and Photography double major from the Herron School of art, I.U.P.U.I, Indianapolis, and an MFA in Visual Studies from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Maniotes began teaching at EMU in 2002. His graphic design practice often focuses on promotions and branding, while his personal work and curatorial efforts tends to concentrate on political activism. Maniotes curates The Posters of Discontent, which is a quadrennial exhibition that examines poster design and points of contention in the current socio-political arena. His work was also featured in the Posters on Politics as well as the publication same name. As a member of the American Association University Professors, Maniotes was responsible for creating a new visual identity as well as direct action pieces for the organization. Further political visual work has been featured in various local direct-action campaigns as well as local media coverage in MLive, Michigan Radio, and WEMU NPR’s All Things Considered. Freedom For the Press (left) digital output 24” x 36” 2017 Shame (right) digital output 18” x 24” 2018

RYAN MOLLOY Professor Graphic Design University of Texas at Austin, MFA, Design from el paso, tx barch, texas tech university architectural intern, alvidrez architecture, inc. mfa, university of texas at austin visiting lecturer, university of texas at austin professor, eastern michigan university some highlights: adc young guns the 3-d type book co-author, 2012 nea art works grant w/ leslie atzmon 2017 sappi ideas that matter w/ leslie atzmon & riverside arts center hamilton wood type museum new impressions exhibition incorrect idiom, dreamers never prosper (left) 3-color letterpress using custom woodtype 8.5” x 11” 2019 American Zig-Zag specimen broadside (right) 3-color letterpress 18” x 13” 2018

ART EDUCATION & ART HISTORY

CAM McCOMB Associate Professor Visual Arts Education Pennsylvania State University, PhD, Art Education Associate Professor of Visual Arts Education In 2018 Dr. Cam founded the Instructional Dr. Cam McComb is an artist/researcher/ Design Collaborative (IDC), an intergenerateacher committed to exploring the intersectional professional learning community comtions between art making and the scholarship mitted to helping preservice-practicing art of teaching and learning. Her doctoral dissereducators to design professional development tation, “Think, Record, Reveal: Studio Process practices that meet their everyday needs. Assessment and the Artistic Thinking it ReHer photographs Archetype Construction S-A2 veals,” focused on pre-adolescents’ ability to and Painting the Fantasy S-F19e were taken self-regulate their own artistic thinking pracon site in a Southeast Michigan suburban eletices (2010, Pennsylvania State University). mentary school as part of the Ideation-to-ImThis research launched her interest in finding plementation research. authentic strategies for documenting, assessing, talking about, and representing artistic Archetype Construction S-A2 (left) thinking strategies to others. Dr. Cam is currently finalizing two IRB approved studies: 1. Ideation-to-Implementation: Examining the Effectiveness of Preservice Art Teachers’ Modified-Choice Lesson Plans When Implemented in Authentic Classroom Settings. A study funded through an EMU Faculty Research Fellowship. 2. Learning to Demonstrate Artistic Practice to Others: An Action Model for Thinking & Learning.

Painting the Fantasy S-F19e (right)

ALAN POTTER Full-Time Lecturer General Education Eastern Michigan University, MFA, Painting Alan grew up in Ann Arbor, and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1981. He received his MFA in painting from EMU in 1990 and has been teaching in the Art School for the past thirty years. For the past sixteen years, Alan has been teaching Art Appreciation as a fully online course. Swimmer 1 (left) acrylic on paper 9” x 12” 2019 Swimmer 2 (right) acrylic on paper 9” x 12” 2019

PAMELA STEWART Assistant Professor Art History The University of Michigan, PhD, Art History

“Hoc maiorum religioso exemplo: The Medieval Origins of Milan’s Stational Crosses.” Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2020.

Pamela Stewart specializes in the visual culture of the Italian Renaissance and Ba“Reinventing the Cross in Early Modern Miroque, with a focus on the intersections of lan: Memory, Ritual, and the City as Palimpart, ritual, and devotion in sixteenth-censest.” Paper presented at the annual meeting tury Milan. She is more broadly interested of the American Association for Italian Studin art and the Catholic Reformation; the ies, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, materiality of the sacred; early modern art NC, March 2019. theory; spectacle, ephemera, and performance studies; the production of place; the “Performing the Passion in the Ritual City: history of the body; modes of viewership; and Stational Crosses and Confraternal Spectacle somaesthetics and the senses. She received in Late Renaissance Milan,” in Space, Place, her PhD from the University of Michi& Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Late gan and a BA (magna cum laude) from the Medieval and Early Modern City, ed. Diana BulUniversity of Pennsylvania. len Presciutti. Leiden: Brill, 2017: 217-243 Dr. Stewart has presented her work at Lapidary Metaphors and Tangible Presence in national and international conferences and Titian’s Crowning with Thorns, paper presentpublished articles on ritual viewing and imaged at the annual meeting of the Renaissance ination. Her current book project, ImaginSociety of America, Boston, MA, April 2016 ing Christ, Performing the Passion: Art and “Ritual Viewing in the Chapel of Corpus Devotion in Early Modern Milan, 1500-1630, Christi: Bernardino Luini’s Passion Cycle for explores the use of images, monuments, and the Church of San Giorgio al Palazzo, Milan” installations by religious confraternities to in The Sacralization of Space and Behavior in the forge affective bonds to Christ’s suffering Early Modern World, ed. Jennifer M. DeSilva. body and activate the spaces of devotion— Aldershot: Ashgate, 2015: 101-140 chapels, oratories, and the city streets—to fashion a dynamic sacred topography in late Stational Cross of San Senatore, completed Renaissance Milan. Other projects include ca. 1616. Sculpture of St. Helena by Giovanni Place/Performance/Identity, a volume of Pietro Lasagna after a design by Il Cerano essays co-edited with Leslie Atzmon. (Giovanni Battista Crespi). Corso Italia, Milan. Photo credit: Pamela Stewart