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Foundation

Arlene Grossman
Foundation Department Chairperson
Associate Professor, Foundation
Liaison for Lesley College studio curriculum.
BFA Boston University
MFA Boston University
Co-chaired 2007 College Art Association panel on designing a foundation curriculum for the 21st century. Exhibitions: Wellesley College; Montserrat School of Visual Art. Awards: 2002 AIB Excellence in Teaching Award.

Eugene Dorgan
Associate Professor, Foundation and Fine Arts
BFA Boston University
MFA Boston University
Exhibitions: "The Drawing Show," Mills Gallery, Boston; "National Small Works Exhibition;" "Works on Paper;" Cameron National Drawing Exhibition. Publications: "Cents and Sensibility: Why We Hate the New Money," American Heritage. Awards: 2004 Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant finalist, Drawing; 2000 Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant recipient, Painting; Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant.

Nathan Goldstein
Professor, Foundation
BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago
MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Art Students League, NY.
Art Director, Federal Civil Defense Department. Artist and lecturer nationwide. Books: The Art of Responsive Drawing; Figure Drawing; Painting; Visual and Technical Fundamentals; 100 American and European Drawings: A Portfolio; A Drawing Handbook; Design and Composition; Drawing to See (co-authored with Harriet Fishman). Works in numerous public and private collections, including The Art Institute of Chicago, National Academy of Design, Danforth Museum. Honors: membership in the National Academy of Design, New York.

Peter Hoss
Adjunct Faculty, Foundation
BFA Boston University
MFA Boston University
Forthcoming Exhibitions: Haley Gallery, Albany Museum of Art: Albany, Georgia, April-July, 2008; Moon Gallery, Berry College: Berry, Georgia, Aug 25-Sept 19, 2008; College Auditorium Traveling Exhibition Gallery, Louisburg College, Oct 8-Nov 28, 2008. Exhibitions: 4 Star Gallery; T. W. Wood Gallery, Union Inst. & University; Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston; Raab Gallery, Berlin; Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy; Alon Gallery, Brookline; Refigured Drawing, Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State College; Laughlin Winkler Gallery, Boston; Federal Reserve Building, Boston; Boston Now: Figuration, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Local Visions: Urban Environs, MIT, Cambridge; State of the Arts, Danforth Museum. Awards: Finalist, Massachusetts State of the Arts Competition; Full Teaching Fellowship, Boston University; Full Fellowships Skowhegan School of Painting and Tanglewood School for the Arts.

Candice Ivy
Adjunct Faculty, Foundation
BFA Coker College
MFA School of the Museum of Fine Arts
A multi-media installation artist from South Carolina, Candice Ivy creates work that focuses on themes of cultural and personal history, exploring the relationship between family, community, and landscape. Her video work has been shown in national and international venues such as: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the Rhode Island International Film Festival, Providence, RI; The Berkeley Small Film Festival, Berkeley, CA; and the Sguardi Sonori 2007 Festival in Venice, Benevento, and Frascati, Italy. Ivy's large scale installations have been constructed for Next Wave Arts Festival, Sumter, SC; Accessibility Columbia Installation Festival, Columbia, SC; Off Axis, EspacioCentral/Central Space, Santa Barbara, CA; the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC; and the Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA. Ivy was also chosen as the film/video representative for the The School of the Museum of Fine Arts for the College Arts Association Exhibition.

Mary A.M. Kaye
Professor, Fine Arts and Foundation
BA Radcliffe College,
MA Goddard College
Exhibitions: Boston Atheneum, Copley Society, Goethe-Institute, Boston, Artists Foundation, Boston.

John F. Lanza, Jr.
Professor, Foundation and Illustration
BA cum laude, Amherst College
MFA Boston University
Exhibitions: "Connections," Gallery at Porter Exchange; "Marsh Fever & Wanderlust," James Library & Center for the Arts; "All'Aperto," Helen Bumpus Gallery; Landmark Building, Boston; South Shore Music Circus Gallery; Attleboro museum; Dolphin Gallery, Hingham; Trieste and Vitorchiano, Italy. Honors: "Who's Who In America; 1998 Distinguished Service Recognition Award, Plymouth County Educational Assoc.; 1998 Esther Conant Memorial Award; 1992 AIB Excellence in Teaching Award; 1988 South Shore Art Center Best Realist Award. Publications: illustrator "Total Directing;" McGraw-Hill "Heritage Collection." Affiliations: Gallery Artist, South Shore Art Center; Instructor/Coordinator, Boston Visual School, Trieste and Viterbo, Italy.

Timothy Peck
Adjunct Faculty, Fine Arts and Foundation
BFA The Art Institute of Boston
MFA Syracuse University
Exhibitions: 2003 Faculty Biennial, The Art Institute of Boston; 202 Faculty Exhibition, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art.

Joan Ryan
Associate Professor, Foundation and Fine Arts
BFA Boston University
MFA Boston University
Selected Exhibitions: Solo - Soho 20 Invitational Space, NY; Bradford College, MA; Bromfield Gallery, Boston; Grossman Gallery, MFA, Boston; North American Artist Invitational Bemus Point, NY; Chase Gallery, Boston; Hera Gallery, Wakefield, MA; Smithsonian Institute; Silvermine Guild; DeCordova Museum; Armory Art Center, FL; Fassbender Gallery, Chicago. Awards: 2003 AIB Excellence in Teaching Award; George Sugarman Foundation; Mural Grant Governors Council; Art Lottery Grant, Lexington, MA; Purchase Award, Lexington, MA; Jurist, Lowell Center for the Arts; The Tyrone Guthrie Center, County Mongaghan, Ireland; Cummington Community of the Arts, 1989 and 1991.

Peter Roux
Adjunct Faculty, Foundation
BU Umass Amherst
MFA Massachusetts College of Art

Jean Sbarra
Adjunct Faculty, Foundation
BFA University of Massachusetts
MFA Boston University
Exhibitions: Mark Gallery, Cambridge; C.W. White Gallery, Portland, ME; Kougeas Gallery, Boston, MA; Bowery Gallery, New York, NY.

Laurel Sparks
Adjunct Faculty, Foundation
MFA Milton Avery Graduate School of Art, Bard College
Elaine de Kooning Painting Fellowship
BFA School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Solo exhibitions: Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA; Clifford.Smith Gallery, Boston, MA. Selected group exhibitions: Museum Of Fine Arts, "Traveling Scholars Exhibition," Boston, MA; Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts, Ramapo College, "Affinities: Painting in Abstraction," Mahwah, NJ; Artunited, "Laurel Sparks and Hannah Barrett," Vienna, Austria; Decordova Museum, "Big Bang: Abstract Painting for the 21st Century," Lincoln, MA; Stay Gold Gallery, "What I Love About Dying," Invitational Benefit, Brooklyn, NY. Selected honors, awards, and grants: Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, Nominee, New York, NY; Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Grant, Great Barrington, MA; Massachusetts Cultural Council, Finalist Painting Grant. Selected Bibliography: New American Paintings, Volume #74, (Curator: William Stover), Open Studios Press, Boston, MA; Cate McQuaid, The Medium is Her Message, Boston Globe, March 22, 2007.
Website: www.laurelsparks.com

Stuart Steck
Assistant Professor, Foundation and Art History
BA Cornell University
MA Boston University
PhD Boston University
Affiliations: Photographic Resource Center, Godowsky Research Fellow; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Curatorial Associate; Frederick R. Koch/Sutton Place Foundation, Curator of Decorative Arts; Producer of the Short Attention Span Digital Video Festival: www.sasdvf.org Publications: "The Book House: Redefining Space, Form, and Experience" in Axi: Ome. Recent Projects; "Coming Full Circle: Ellsworth Kelly and Boston, Then and Now" in Ellsworth Kelly: Recent Prints. Awards: Luce Dissertation Fellowship in American Art; Walter Read Hovey Memorial Fund Award; Adelson Traveling Fund Award.

Eike Wintzer
Adjunct Faculty, Foundation and Design
BA Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
MFA Painting, Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University
Diploma Fine Arts, Ecole Des Beaux-Arts, Toulouse, France
Designer: Fitch Inc., Boston; Ziba Design, Portland, OR; Cybersight, Portland, OR; Landor Assoc., Paris, France; Frogdesign, Altensteig, Germany; Frankfurt-Balkind, Los Angeles, CA. Memberships: AIGA, Boston chapter.

Peter O. Zierlein
Adjunct Faculty, Foundation and Illustration
BFA Pratt Institute
Partial Client List: Seattle Weekly, The Progressive, L.A. Times, L.A. Weekly, PRINT Magazine, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Nation, The Chicago Tribune, Premiere Magazine, Money Magazine, Fortune Small Business Magazine, Spiegel Magazine, Stern Magazine, and Geo Magazine. Website: www.peterozierlein.com

Fine Arts

Michael David
Fine Arts Department Chairperson
Professor, Fine Arts
BA Brandeis University
MFA Boston University, Skowhegan School
Selected Recent Solo Exhibitions: George Billis Gallery, NYC (2004), Pepper Gallery, Boston (2004, 2002, 2000), Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA (2003), Bridgewater/Lustberg Gallery, NYC (2000). Honors: Massachusetts Cultural Council Award Recipient in Painting (2002) Finalist (2000), Artist Resource Grant (2000), Blanche E. Colman Award (1997), MCC/NEFA Fellowship (1996).

Anthony Apesos
Professor, Art History and Fine Arts
BA Honors, Vassar College; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
MFA Milton Avery Graduate School of the Fine Arts, Bard College
Selected Exhibitions: Solo-F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia; More Gallery, Philadelphia; Pine Manor College, MA; St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia; Villanova University Art Gallery, Philadelphia; Levy Gallery, Philadelphia; Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco; University of Pennsylvania; Group-Sketch Club, Philadelphia; Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, MA; Baum School of Art; Allentown Art Museum, PA; Amos Eno Gallery, New York; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Tiajin Fine Arts College, People's Republic of China Book. Art critic for New Art Examiner. Awards: New England Foundation for the Arts in Painting. Books Published: Anatomy for Artists: A New Approach to Discovering the Body.

Ken Beck
Adjunct Faculty, Fine Arts
BA Goddard College
MFA Tufts University, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Ph.D. Union Graduate School
Selected Exhibitions: Solo - Gallery NAGA, Boston; Gallery at the Piano Factory, Boston; Newton Free Gallery, MA; Mills Gallery, Boston. Group - Museum of Fine Art, Boston; America House, Munich, Germany; DeCordova Museum, MA; Samuel P. Harn Museum, FL; Milton Art Museum, MA; Boston Public Library; Leo Castelli, NY. Collections: Boston Public Library; DeCordova Museum; Museum of Fine Art; Bank of Boston; Fidelity Management and Research; General Electric Company; Index Corporation; Pepsi-Cola Company. Awards: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council Recipient in Painting.

Renee Covalucci
Adjunct Faculty, Fine Arts
BA Boston University
MEd Boston University
Post Graduate study in woodblock printing in China and comparative education in Ireland.
Living in China led Renee Covalucci to many professional opportunities. Since 2002, she has curated three exhibitions of contemporary Chinese woodblock prints and visited schools and art centers, conducting workshops and talks on the subject. Covalucci is Vice President of the Boston Printmakers, an organization that produces shows and opportunities for artists, and has become focused on their history while guiding an exhibition and publication of 60 Years of North American Printmaking. Covalucci teaches relief printing: Woodblock I & II (black and white & color); she coordinates internships for Fine Arts students and teaches an Art History elective called Visualize Modern China. The first Chinese print exhibition she made was for the AIB Gallery in 2003 when the school hosted the Southern Graphics Council Conference in Boston. Selected Exhibitions: Boston Printmakers, Boston, MA; Zeitgeist Gallery, Cambridge, MA; Concord Art Association, Concord, MA.
Visit: Boston Printmakers

Liza Folman
Associate Professor, Fine Arts
BFA State University of New York, Buffalo
MFA Boston University
Recent Exhibitions: Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; National Academy of Design, New York; Associated American Artists, New York; DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Randall Beck Gallery, Boston (solo). Awards and Grants: Fulbright Fellowship, Paris; MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterboro, NH; Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grant. Work in Collections: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Boston Public Library.

Santiago Hernandez
Adjunct Faculty, Fine Arts
BFA School of Visual Arts
MFA University of South Florida
Core Fellow, Glassell School of Art, Houston.
Exhibitions: RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI; Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston; OSP Gallery, Boston; Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA; Exit Art, New York; Jenn Joy Gallery, San Francisco. Awards: Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist's Grant, 2002; The New England Foundation for the Arts Artist's Grant, 1996; Graduate Council Fellowship, University of South Florida.

Gerry Hoag
Adjunct Faculty, Fine Arts
BFA Honors Massachusetts College of Art
MFA Boston University
Instructor: Boston Visual School, Trieste, Italy.
Commissions: Renaissance Hotel, NY, Idle Wild Farms, MA.

Constance Jacobson
Adjunct Faculty, Fine Arts
BA Chatham College
MFA Maryland Institute College of Art
Exhibitions: Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA; DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA. Collections: Philadelphia Museum of Art; Worcester Art Museum; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA.
Website: www.constancejacobson.com

Mary A.M. Kaye
Professor, Fine Arts and Foundation
BA Radcliffe College
MA Goddard College
Exhibitions: Boston Atheneum, Copley Society, Goethe-Institute, Boston, Artists Foundation, Boston.

Geoffrey Koetsch
Professor, Art History and Fine Arts
BA University of Wisconsin, Madison
BFA University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
MFA University of Illinois
Exhibitions: University of Massachusetts, Springfield; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Fitchburg Art Museum; Civic Art Center, Caen, France. Awards: Boston City Arts, Arts Lottery, First Night, Cambridge Arts Council

Carolyn Muskat
Adjunct Faculty, Fine Arts
BFA Carnegie Mellon University
Tamarind Master Printer, Tmarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
Owns Muskat Studios, Somerville, MA
Selected Solo Exhibitions: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; Boston Public Library, South End Branch; Common Cause of Massachusetts, Boston, MA; Genetics Institute, Cambridge, MA; Watertown Public Library, Watertown, MA; National Boston Video Center, Inc; Jamaica Plain Art Center, Boston, MA. Awards/Commissions: Egyptian Series, for "Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen," MFA, Boston, MA; Materials Award, "The Boston Printmakers 1999 N. American Print Exhibition," Boston, MA; Professional Development Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council; Watertown Cultural Council Grant; Best of Show, "Ciao! Italia," The Gallery, N. Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA.

Anna Poor
Adjunct Faculty, Fine Arts
BFA Massachusetts College of Art
MFA University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Selected Exhibitions: Alternative Museum, NYC; Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA; Atlantic Gallery, NYC; DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA; The Gallery at C3TV, Dennis, MA; F. Colburn Gallery, Burlington, VT; Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA; Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA; Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA, Chandler Gallery, Wellfleet, MA, David Brown Gallery, Provincetown, MA; A.I.R. Gallery, NYC. Publications: Provincetown Arts Magazine, The Boston Phoenix, Art New England, The Boston Globe, The Vermont Free Press.

Ellen Schön
Adjunct Faculty, Fine Arts
BA Marlboro College
MFA Boston University Program in Artisanry
Selected Exhibitions: Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA; Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA; Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA; Worcester Craft Center, Worcester, MA; Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA; Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA; Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA; Pingree School Gallery, Hamilton, MA; Art Institute of Boston Gallery at Porter Exchange, Cambridge, MA; Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA; Schmidt Art Center, Southwestern Illinois College, Belleville, IL; George E. Ohr Museum, Biloxi, MS; Dyer Arts Center, R.I.T., Rochester, NY; Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA; Young Americans II: Clay and Glass, American Craft Museum, NYC. Awards: Massachusetts Artist Fellowship, Ceramics.
Website: www.ellenschon.com

Sarah Slavick
Adjunct Faculty, Fine Arts
BA Wesleyan University
MFA Pratt Institute
Exhibitions: Giola Gallery, Chicago, IL,; Barbara Krakow Gallery, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA; John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong; Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland, ME; Meridian Gallery, San Francisco.

Jim Stroud
Adjunct Faculty, Fine Arts
BA College of the Holy Cross
MFA Yale University
Selected Solo Exhibitions: Barbara Krakow Gallery and Galerie Mourlot, Boston, MA; Gallery 57 Cambridge, MA; Yale A+A Gallery, New Haven, CT; Holy Cross College Art Gallery, Worcester, MA. Selected Group Exhibitions: New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA; Weigand Gallery, Belmont, CA; Butler Institute of American Art, Warren, OH; Boston Center for the Arts; MIT List Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA; University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Art Chicago; The Art show, NYC; The Print Fair, NYC; Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM; Boston University; Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; MFA, Boston, MA; Hankyu Ltd. Presents Atelier Mourlot, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan; Salon de Mai, Grand Palais, Paris, France; Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia. Awards: New England Foundation for the Arts, Massachusetts Artist Fellowship, Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grant.

Amy Sudarsky
Adjunct Faculty, Fine Arts
BFA Washington University School of Fine Arts
MFA Cornell University
Exhibitions: Forum Gallery, New York, NY; Kougeas Gallery, Boston, MA; Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA.

Design

Nathan Felde
Design Department Chairperson
MS MIT
Nathan Felde is a designer of visual communications systems. His work ranges from unique printed posters to exotic prototype media technology. He holds a Master of Science degree from MIT and has work in the collections of major museums. He has lectured at many schools in the US and the EU and is a writer and consultant in design realization.

Joseph Baron
Adjunct Faculty, Design
BA University of Massachusetts / Amherst
Partner, Rattle Advertising, founded in 2000
Clients: The New England Aquarium, Brigham's Ice Cream, teamstudio software tools, Network Health, Framingham State College, Horizon Bank, Polaroid, Boston University, Ocean Spray, Kennedy Library and Museum, T.J. Maxx, America Online/Digital City. Awards: Hatch Awards, Ad Club of Boston; One Show; Communication Arts; New England Broadcasters Association, Best of Broadcast; Print Magazine Annual Review; and Ad Club of New Hampshire.
In addition to team teaching Advertising Concepts at AIB, Joseph has been a guest lecturer in the Boston University Advertising Program, an instructor at Northeast Broadcasting School, and the Executive Director of the Newton Community Schools Program.

Geoffry Fried
Professor, Design

BA Carnegie-Mellon University
MFA Yale University School of Art
Clients: Cambridge Publications, The Clean Yield Group, Digital Equipment Corporation, InForm, Interleaf, Slate Corporation, Pax World Fund, SAP America, Exhibition design and typography for Old South Meeting House, Boston; Boott Cotton Mills, Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell, MA; Digital's Historical Collection, Marlborough, MA.
Publications: Boston Business Journal, AIGA/Boston Journal. Geoffry Fried received his MFA in Design from Yale University School of Art and has been a graphic designer and design educator for more than twenty years. He has worked in the areas of publication, environmental, and user interface design, on projects for the Massachusetts Audubon Society, National Park Service, Tennessee Valley Authority, T. Rowe Price, Digital Equipment Corporation and many others. His essays on design education have been published in The Education of a Graphic Designer, The Education of a Typographic Designer, and The Education of an E-Designer, as well as in the journals of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AI GA) and the Society of Environmental Graphic Designers (SE GD). Fried was previously a vice president of the Boston Chapter of AI GA, and currently serves on their advisory board.

Jim Hood
Adjunct Faculty, Design
BA Fine Arts, Johnson State College
Owner-designer, Jim Hood Design
Clients: Botanica Bostonia, Fish & Richardson, Flour Bakery + Café, the Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project, Harvard Medical School, Trinity Financial, Shepherd Kaplan LLC, Winn Residential. Publications: American Center for Design Annual, Communication Arts, Print, Print Regional Design Annual, Print Corporate Design, and the Type Directors' Club Annual. Awards: Boston Art Directors Club, Creative Club of Boston, Print magazine. Owner-designer of Hood Design, a design consultancy with emphasis on typography, communication, brand, and environmental graphics. Jim has served as Education Chair and board member of the AIGA Boston. Jim Hood teaches courses in design and typography at AIB.

David Horton
Adjunct Faculty, Design
Select clients: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Business School, College of the Holy Cross, Middlebury College, Kenyon College, Simmons College, The Winsor School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Boston College High School. Principal/owner of Philographica in Brookline, MA, David Horton has won numerous awards from organizations such as AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), Communication Arts, Graphis, American Center for Design, The Society of Publication Designers, Print Magazine, How Magazine, Critique Magazine, Step Inside Design, AIGA BONE show, CASE, and Hatch. His work has also been published in books by Graphis, and Rockport Publishers.

Kristina Lamour
Assistant Professor, Design
Liaison, Dual Degree in Visual Art Education
BFA The University of the Arts
MFA Yale School of Art
Clients: Boston Public Schools and the Office of High School Renewal, Fenway High School, and Cambridge Friends School. Kristina Lamour teaches full time at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. Her research interests include preschool age design processes, Polish poster design, and graphic design education history. She consulted for 10 years with pre-K–12 schools and educational publishers on projects that bridge graphic design with pre-k-12 education. She builds graphic design capacity in teachers who have no art background. Projects include posters, symbols, visual poetry, and maps. She is currently developing graphic design projects with several Boston area schools and is writing a book on visual communication for teaching and learning.

Peter Lehman
Adjunct Faculty, Design
MFA Yale University School of Art
Peter Lehman is a Senior Interactive Designer at WGBH, where he has been since 2000. Prior to that, he worked for various studios in Boston and with a start-up company developing 3-D virtual environments. Before the internet, Peter worked as a print designer in studios in New Haven, New York, Toronto, and Zurich.

Colin Owens
Adjunct Faculty, Design
BA School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Managing Director, Gritty Productions, with a focus on advertising, public relations, and marketing services. Colin has been an Information Architect at a number of agencies in London including MRM Partners, DNA, Sapient, CX Partners, Syzygy, Live/Work, and British Telecom as well as at Pixeldance Communications / Lavastorm in Boston. He has also had experience in Boston as a Design Lead at Houghton Mifflin and at Viant and as the Senior Art Director at Digitas.

Rick Rawlins
Adjunct Faculty, Design
BFA Brigham Young University
Rick is the Art Director of Rick Rawlins/Work, a graphic design studio located in Boston, that is committed to powerful, effective, and responsible visual communication. Recognized, in particular, for design excellence while promoting a diverse group of social causes, Work has recently completed projects which memorialize children of the Holocaust, promote the work of authors writing in opposition to social injustice, encourage local recycling programs, and raise funds for area homeless shelters. Clients: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, The Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge Recycling Works, Earthwatch, Friends of Boston's Long Island Shelter, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Mass. Citizens to Prevent Handgun Violence, The New England Foundation for the Arts, Nissan CBR, Northeastern University, Rosemary Porter Photography, Thorn Gibson Swain Architects, and Virtual Music Entertainment. Awards: Council for Advancement and Support of Education Silver medal, included in Print design annual and American Institute of Graphic Arts annual.

Richard Rose
Adjunct Faculty, Design
BFA Rhode Island School of Design
Clients: Nickelodeon, Harvard University, The Boston Pops, The Huntington Theatre, Nickelodeon, The American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Isaac Mizrahi and LL Cool J.
Richard Rose is design director at PopKitchen, Co in Providence, RI. He is an adjunct faculty member at the Art Institute of Boston and the Rhode Island School of Design. His work has won recognition from numerous magazines and organizations including Print, How, CASE, Communication Arts, and the BONE show. His fine art photography has been exhibited at the Gibbs Gallery and he has recently self published a book of concrete poetry.

Frederick Schneider
Adjunct Faculty, Design, Illustration, and Art History
Frederick (Rick) Schneider is a graphic designer and illustrator who began his career in New York first as an advertising production artist and then as an editorial art director. He also began freelancing as an illustrator, creating artwork for the New York Times, Business Week, Psychology Today, The Saturday Review and other magazines, as well as for book publishers including Harper and Row, Penguin Books, and Houghton, Mifflin. He also taught at Parsons School of Design, and since moving to Massachusetts in 1981 has taught at The Art Institute of Boston. He has been the principle of two design firms, Dialog Design and Grafis, with clients which have included regional corporations, small businesses, and publishing companies.

Erin Wells
Adjunct Faculty, Design
BA Brown University
Graphic Design Certificate Massachusetts College of Art

Stephanie Zelman
Adjunct Faculty, Design
BFA Parsons School of Design
MFA McGill University, Montreal
Principal, Uturn Design, founded in 2000
Clients: City of Boston, Boston Public Health Commission, TekInsight, Radisson Hotels, Citizens Bank, Little Brown Publishing, Putnam Investments, Montreal Chamber Music Festival, Seagrams, World Wildlife Fund, Vanity Fair Magazine.
Awards: Art Directors Club Student Award (1992); Applied Arts Magazine(1995); AI GA Best of New England Show (2001); Print A-Z (2001); Hatch (2002).
After receiving a BA degree in philosophy and political theory in 1989, Stephanie worked as a graphic designer in Tokyo and then obtained a BFA in Communication Design (Parsons School of Design, NYC). During the past thirteen years, she has designed and art directed conceptual projects in New York, Montreal, and Boston. Upon completing a Masters Degree in Communications (McGill, Montreal), a chapter of her thesis, "Looking Into Space", was published in Graphic Design & Reading: Explorations of an Uneasy Relationship.

Illustration and Animation

Susan LeVan
Illustration Department Chairperson
Assistant Professor, Illustration
AB Anthropology, The University of Michigan
MFA Printmaking, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Exhibitions: Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MA; Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Creiger Dane Gallery, Boston, MA; DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Otis Gallery, Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles. Selected clients: AT&T, Bank of Boston, Boston Globe, Business Week, Dallas Morning News, Fidelity Investments, Newsweek, 3Com Corporation, U.S. News & World Report, WGBH, Watson Wyatt, Xerox. Selected annuals: Communication Arts, How, Print, Society of Illustrators.

John Casey
Animation Coordinator / Professor, Animation and Art History
BA Manhattan College
MA, PhD, Philosophy, Fordham University
Collection: "Ground Green," included in "Synthetic Movements: New Directions for Contemporary American Animation," The Museum of Modern Art Film Library; numerous screenings and purchases via The American Federation of Arts.
Invited Screenings: Anthology Film Archives, Chicago Experimental Film Coalition, San Francisco Cinematheque, Boston Film/Video Foundation, Center Screen, Institute of Contemporary Art, Harvard Film Archive, Boston Visual Artists Union, Mass Art, Ann Arbor Film Festival, among others. Awards: American Film Institute Fellowship; New England Regional Fellowship (NEA); The Artists Foundation Fellowship; New Hampshire State Council on the Arts Artist Fellowship; New Hampshire Film Commission Award.

Thomas Barrett
Adjunct Faculty, Illustration
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Clients: Massachusetts State Lottery, Globe Fearon/Paramount, Dunkin' Donuts, Amtrak, Aer Lingus, Coca Cola, Wendy's, CW Communications, Marvin & Leonard, Cahners Publishing, Northeastern University, General Electric, Harvard University Publications, Houghton Mifflin, Boston Magazine. Awards: Hatch, John Cotton Dana, Print Award of Excellence, Desi Award of Excellence.

David Bondar
Adjunct Faculty, Illustration

Diane Bigda
Adjunct Faculty, Illustration
Selected Exhibitions: Perrin Gallery, Brookline, MA; Norma Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA; Boston Visual School in Italy, Vetralla, Italy. Partial Client List: The New Yorker, Travel + Leisure, Washingtonian, Glamour, Harvard Business Review, Gourmet, Atlantic Monthly, Men's Journal, Parenting, Forbes ASAP, Modern Maturity, Family Circle/Lifestyle, San Francisco Magazine, Woman's Day, Chronicle Books, Scholastic, Harcourt Brace, Harper Collins, Simon and Schuster, Bantam Dell, Mercedes Benz, WGBH Television, Disney On-Line, Hewlett Packard, AT&T, Crate & Barrel, Dayton Hudson, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Detroit News, Baltimore Sun, Chcago Tribune, Logan Airport, Arnold Advertising, Cross Worlds Connections, Tokyo, Bulls Eye Productions, Acorn Marketing, Barnard College, Northeastern University, Smith College, Georgetown University, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Deaconess Hospital.

Jim Carson
Adjunct Faculty, Illustration
BFA University of Massachusetts, Massachusetts College of Art
Jim has been a freelance humorous illustrator since 1980, working in advertising, editorial, institutional, and publishing markets. He has also worked as a graphic designer since 1997. A Society of Illustrators award winner, Carson was a panelist at their symposium for illustration educators. He has taught and lectured extensively on business topics for graphic artists at professional organizations and at colleges, including the graduate programs at Syracuse University and The University of Hartford. He is a member of AIGA and was on the board of the Boston Graphic Artist Guild. Clients: (partial listing) Digital, Bank of Boston, WNEV-TV, Houghton Mifflin, Infocom, Bell Atlantic, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, CIGNA, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, HBO, Honeywell, Lotus, Massport, New England Telephone, Newsday, NYNEX, Philadelphia Enquirer, Polaroid, Prime Computer, Rodale Press, WGBH. Awards: Boston Society of Illustrators, Art Directors Club, Advertising Club of Boston, Creative Club of Boston, Print Magazine; Connecticut Art Directors Club, New England Press Association, "Addy" award. Exhibitions: The Art of the Baseball Card.

Tim Finn
Adjunct Faculty, Animation
Graduate of Rhode Island School of Design
Currently finishing a Master's degree at Tufts/SMFA in Art Education. Tim Finn's animated short "Limboscape" has shown in 20 film festivals on two continents. He has storyboarded and animated for TV's "Home Movies," and is an animation consultant for Rhino Home Video in Los Angeles, CA. He makes zines, comics, and films.

Robert Gifford
Adjunct Faculty, Animation
Owner, Beacon Multimedia Productions
Projects for corporate, medical, scientific and educational clients.
Independent film: "The Adventures of Captain Dynamo" Musician, Songwriter, Co-producer "The Rings" for MCA records and "Bamboo Gang," "The Wicker Men" for Acme Records.

Bethany Gully
Adjunct Faculty, Illustration
BFA in Graphic Design, RIT
Bethany Gully has been a freelance illustrator and designer for twenty-five years, winning awards from Print, How, and the Boston Ad Club. She teaches at the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University, as well as AIB. She has exhibited work at the Piano Craft Gallery and Fidelity, Inc.

Peggy Hogan
Adjunct Faculty, Illustration
Lesley College, Cambridge, MA
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Peggy has worked as a publisher and book buyer at Learningsmith since 1999. Prior to that she worked as a Product Development Manager for gift publications at the Museum of Fine Arts. She also spent almost ten years at Houghton Mifflin Company as a Marketing Manager for children's books. Peggy's earlier experience includes various teaching and counseling positions at elementary and university levels and in the Peace Corps in West Africa.

James Hoston
Associate Professor, Illustration
BFA in Illustration, Pratt Institute
MFA New York Academy of Art
Assistant Painter for Jeff Koons Productions, Inc.; Designer for Marvel Comics
Exhibitions: Hirschl and Adler Modern Gallery, Manhattan;The Studio Museum, Harlem;The Copley Society of Boston; Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor; Long Island Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Gertrude White Gallery, Greenwich, CT; Gallery on 2nd, New York, NY; Fraser Gallery, Washington DC; Society of Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY; Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, NY. Selected Clients: Marvel Entertainment Group, Evergreene Painting Studios, Sony Music Entertainment, Uniworld Advertising Group, Sands Casino and Hotels, MacMillan publishing co., Scholastic, Inc., The American Medical Association, The Weekly Reader. Memberships: Society of Illustrators, Audubon Artists Society, Portrait Society of America, Inc.

Lajos Kamocsay
Adjunct Faculty, Animation
BFA Pollack Mihály Technical Institute

Robert Jay Kaufman
Professor, Illustration
BFA San Francisco Art Institute
Clients: The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, Upper & Lower Case, Travel & Leisure, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, Science, Games, Ms., The Wall Street journal, Rolling Stone Publications: Count-A-Saurus, (Four Winds Press, 1989). Exhibitions: New York Society of Illustrators, Galleria Scubert, Milan, Italy; Maryland Institute College of Art Gallery, Contemporary Graphics; Baruch College Gallery, One Man Show, New York, NY; Spectrum Art Gallery, Sports Illustrated 25, New York, NY. Awards: New Jersey Council of the Arts, Print Design Annual, Graphic Design Annual, The Art Institute of Boston Excellence in Teaching Award 2007. Publications: Blockology: An Offbeat Guide to Lower Manhattan, author and illustrator (Turning Corners Press, 2005 www.turningcornerspress.com); Nat, The Man of 1,000 Faces (TIME LIFE Inc. 1991); Count-A-Saurus (Four Winds Press, 1989). Contributed to The Education of an Illustrator, Allworth Press, Steven Heller & Marshall Arisman.

Joey Kolbe
Adjunct Faculty, Animation
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
An accomplished cinematographer and animator, Joey Kolbe is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, where he studied live action film-making and stop motion animation. For six years he worked as a puppet animator and commercial cinematographer for the Boston-based Olive Jar Animation. His work has been shown at the Annecy International Festival of Animation, the Ottawa International Festival of Animation, as well as in local film festivals and venues. Joey is currently working as a freelance cinematographer for commercial and independent features.

John F. Lanza, Jr.
Professor, Foundation and Illustration
BA cum laude, Amherst College
MFA Boston University
Exhibitions: "Connections," Gallery at Porter Exchange; "Marsh Fever & Wanderlust," James Library & Center for the Arts; "All’Aperto," Helen Bumpus Gallery; Landmark Building, Boston; South Shore Music Circus Gallery; Attleboro museum; Dolphin Gallery, Hingham; Trieste and Vitorchiano, Italy. Honors: "Who’s Who In America; 1998 Distinguished Service Recognition Award, Plymouth County Educational Assoc.; 1998 Esther Conant Memorial Award; 1992 AIB Excellence in Teaching Award; 1988 South Shore Art Center Best Realist Award. Publications: illustrator "Total Directing"; McGraw-Hill "Heritage Collection." Affiliations: Gallery Artist, South Shore Art Center; Instructor/Coordinator, Boston Visual School, Trieste and Viterbo, Italy.

Jennifer Moller
Adjunct Faculty, Animation
BA University of Connecticut
MFA Maine College of Art
Jennifer has experience teaching and producing new media, photography, digital video, and installation.
Selected Exhibitions: Provincetown Art Association and Museum; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Space Gallery, Portland, ME; Maine College of Art, Portland, ME; Geral Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Santa Fe Community College; Van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Las Vegas Arts Council; Northwest Photographic Center, Seattle, WA. Partial Client List: Outside Magazine, MS Magazine, CIO Magazine, Mothering Magazine, New Mexico Magazine, The Santa Fean, The Santa Fe Reporter, The Santa Fe Opera.
Curatorial Experience: Provincetown Art Association and Museum; Center for the Arts, Truro, MA; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA. Grants/Awards: Maine College of Art, The Press Women of New Mexico, Las Vegas Arts Council, Mass Arts Lottery Council Grant, Scholastic Art Award, Wethersfield Art League Scholarship.

Peter Murphey
Adjunct Faculty, Animation
Peter Murphey has worked for over five years doing designs, storyboards and animation at the Boston based animation studio, Olive Jar. His illustration work has appeared in Star Magazine, Soap Opera Weekly, True News, Marvel Comics and the Boston Herald. In 2001 King Features syndicated his daily comic strip, Hippy and Pop. Most recently he designed characters that appear in a permanent, multimedia animation exhibition at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. He currently works for The Cartoon Network doing designs for the Harvey Birdman Show and Stroker and Hoop.

Frederick Schneider
Adjunct Faculty, Design, Illustration, and Art History
Pratt Institute; School of Visual Arts
Owner/Partner, Dialog Design, Inc.
Clients: Saturday Review, The New York Times, Business Week, Psychology Today, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe, Reader's Digest, Houghton Mifflin, Atheneum, Penguin Books, Harper & Row, Putnam, The Franklin Library
Awards: Society of Illustrators; NY Historical Society; Print Regional Design Annual; Ad Club of Western Massachusetts

Dave Seeley
Adjunct Faculty, Illustration
BA Rice University
Bachelor of Architecture, Rice University
Partial Client List: Sony, The Village Voice, Randomhouse, Ballantine Books, Loews Theaters, LucasFilm, Bantam Books, Harcourt, Wild Planet, Men's Fitness Magazine, Disney, Fox Interactive, Penguin Publishing, Harper Collins Publishing, Hasbro, Heavy Metal Magazine, Microsoft Game Studios, Simon and Schuster, Galaxy Press, Amazing Stories Magazine.
Awards/Publications: "Visions From the Edge", Profiled as one of six artists in this film documentary; "Exotique, The Worlds Most Beautiful CG Characters"; "Exposé 3. Finest Digital Art in the Known Universe", "Fantasy Art Masters", profiled as one of ten artists; "Spectrum, The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art". Selected Exhibitions: Society of Illustrators, NYC; New England Institute of Art, Brookline, MA; MadWorld Digital Art Show; Baltimore Science Fiction Convention and Art Exhibit Guest of Honor; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Website: www.daveseeley.com

Mark Steele
Adjunct Faculty, Illustration
BFA Boston University School for the Arts
Commissions: Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Fortune, Gourmet, New York Times, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Time, Town and Country. Awards: Print Magazine, Society of Illustrators.
Website: www.marksteeleart.com

Matt Wade
Adjunct Faculty, Illustration
BFA The Art Institute of Boston
Matt is a web, motion, print and environmental designer/developer at Tank Design and for his own freelance project, Didmake Design & Art. His primary focus of work is on interactive and motion projects for businesses, universities, non-profit organizations, e-commerce companies and portfolios for artists and musicians. He is also an avid mixed media artist and printmaker. Clients include: Cavallino Collection, Rue La La, Doegoe 3-D, CBT Architects, Innerscope Research, Harvard University, World Learning and The Boston Public Library.
Website: www.didmake.com

Photography

Christopher James
Photography Department Chairperson
Professor, Photography
BFA Massachusetts College of Art
MAT Rhode Island School of Design
Former Chair of Photography, Visual & Environmental Studies, Harvard University
Author of The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes (Delmar, 2001) and The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes: Second Edition (Cengage-Delmar, 2008) Art & Creative Director, Gang of Seven Records. Christopher James is an internationally recognized artist whose paintings and photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums in this country and abroad. His work has been published and shown extensively, including shows in The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The George Eastman House, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The first edition of his book, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes received unprecedented critical acclaim, was the winner of The Golden Light Technical Book of the Year, and is recognized as the definitive text in the genre. The second, and significantly larger, edition of The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes: Second Edition will be published in February 2008. Christopher was a Professor at Harvard University from 1978–1991 and has lectured and given alternative process workshops throughout the world. He has been Chair of the Photography program at The Art Institute of Boston since 1991.
website: www.christopherjames-studio.com

Marcia Ciro
Adjunct Faculty, Photography
BFA Rhode Island School of Design
MA Antioch New England Graduate School

Christine Collins
Adjunct Faculty, Art History and Photography
BA Skidmore College
MFA Massachusetts College of Art
In addition to the classes she teaches at AIB, Christine has taught photography and foundation classes at The Maine Photographic Workshops and Massachusetts College of Art. She has exhibited at Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA; Storefront Artists Space, Pittsfield, MA; The Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, ME; East End Arts Council, Riverhead, NY; and 357 Gallery, Rockland, ME.

Deborah Davidson
Adjunct Faculty, Photography
BA State University of New York
MFA School of the Museum of Fine Art
Selected Exhibitions: Solo - The Space, Boston; Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College. Group - Dana Art Gallery, Wellesley; Newport Art Museum, RI; Fitchburg Art Museum, MA; New Art Center, MA; South Florida Art Center, Miami; Grossman Gallery, Boston; Aidekman Gallery, Tufts University, Medford; Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston; Erector Square Gallery, CT; Mills Gallery, Boston; Boston Public Library. Selected Collections: Osgood Collection, Boston; Babson College, Wellesley, MA; IBM Massachusetts; Boston Public Library; Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Publications: Syracuse Herald American; The Miami Herald; Art New England; The Boston Globe. Selected Awards: Cambridge Arts Council; Framingham Education Foundation; Newton Foundation Grant; Somerville Arts Council; Foundation Awards, SUNY, Binghamton, NY.

Ted Dillard
Adjunct Faculty
BA Philosophy, University of Maine
Ted's career in photography has spanned over three decades, from his first work with his father in his grandfather's darkroom, followed by his early work for the local newspaper, then through over twenty-five years of commercial and advertising work for a national client base. He has exhibited nationally, and has taught at the Maine Photo Workshops, New England School of Photography, and Northeastern University - in addition to The Art Institute of Boston. In the late 1990s, Ted joined Calumet Photographic as Digital Imaging Specialist, and then at EP Levine, working in every major product line of digital camera, scanner, printing and color management system including Leaf, PhaseOne, Hasselblad, Nikon, Canon, Epson, HP, and X-Rite. He founded the Pixel Institute, where he wrote The Digital Imaging Masterclass, which would ultimately be edited and published as RAW Pipeline, by Lark Books in 2008. Ted is on the Board of the Griffin Museum of Photography, and is the Founder and the Director of the Boston2Portland Ride to Cure Parkinson's.
Website: www.teddillard.com

John Goodman
Adjunct Faculty, Photography
BA History, University of Wisconsin
Solo Exhibitions: The Art Institute of Boston; June Bateman Gallery, NY; Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston; Fitchburg University; Tatar Alexander, Toronto; Saba Gallery, NYC; Robert Klein Gallery, Boston. Group Exhibitions: Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston; MFA, Boston; Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston; Panopticon Gallery, Boston; DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Maine Coast Artists, Rockport; Edelman Gallery, Chicago; Kopekin Gallery, Los Angeles; The New York Public Library; Portland Museum of Art; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NY; Fogg Art Museum Print Room, Harvard University; Walker Art Museum. Permanent Collections: Art Institute of Chicago; Boston Public Library; Henry Buhl Collection, NYC; DeCordova Museum; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; MFA, Boston; MFA, Houston; New York Public Library; Portland Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Selected Clients: Woolrich, Reebok, Fleet, Fidelity, Levi Dockers, The Gap, Etonic, Gucci, Louis/Boston, IBM, Puma, Houghton-Mifflin, NY Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Time, Details, Audubon, Outside, Esquire, Atlantic Monthly, Rollingstone, Self, Yoga Journal, Boston Globe Magazine, GQ.

Cig Harvey
Assistant Professor, Photography
MFA Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport College
Cig Harvey, MFA, is not only a passionate full time educator, she is also a prolific working photographer, exhibiting fine artist and book artist in the contemporary photographic circuit. She was named one of Photo District News "Emerging 30" international photographers to watch in 2005 and since then has gone on to have numerous solo and group shows in NYC, Houston, Miami, Aspen, Maine, Barcelona and London, in addition to shooting work international campaigns and editorial assignments in the commercial world: most recently, the Kate Spade fall 2007 campaign and ten new book covers for international best-selling author Anita Shreve. She is represented by galleries both in America and in Europe and her images are held in numerous collections worldwide, including The International Museum of Photography at The George Eastman House, Rochester, NY and The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Texas. Her clients include Bloomingdales, Little Brown and Company, Surface Magazine, W Hotels, Martha Stewart, O magazine and Ralph Lauren. Her commercial work has been shown in Vogue, W, Harper's Bizarre, New York Magazine and Vanity Fair. Cig regularly gives artist's talk at seminars and symposiums around the country on her personal work and its place in the history of the medium. She is currently at work on her first monograph with Chronicle editions.
Website: www.cigharvey.com

James Hull
Adjunct Faculty, Photography
James Hull is an artist, an educator, a critic, and an independent curator. Hull has exhibited videos in Barcelona, Providence, Boston, Los Angeles and Westport, Connecticut. He has exhibited sculpture, photography, and painting in Boston and Atlanta. Hull was the Founding Director/Curator of the Green Street Gallery, a non-profit gallery located in a subway station in Boston for nine years. He has a background in museum and gallery installation, a BFA in Biomedical Illustration and a MFA in sculpture. James Hull was the co-founder of The Boston Drawing Project at The Bernard Toale Gallery (a flat file project that includes the work of over 175 artists) and curator of the project for two years. He has taught or lectured at RISD, Boston University, Wellesley College, Mass Art, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Georgia State University, Suffolk University, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Museum of Fine arts, Boston, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and has served as juror for many regional exhibitions.

Stella Johnson
Adjunct Faculty, Photography
BFA San Francisco Art Institute
MS Boston University College of Communication
Grants: 2008 Fulbright Senior Specialist, Riobamba, Ecuador; The International Music and Art Foundation, Vaduz, Liechtenstein; 2006 Fulbright Senior Specialist, Morelos, Mexico; 2003-2004 Fulbright Scholar, Morelos, Mexico, Crim-UNAM; Cultural Collaborative Artist-In-Residence Grant, New England Foundation for the Arts, Boston, MA. Artist Residency: Northeastern University, Department of Visual Arts, Boston, MA. Monograph: AL SOL: Photographs from Mexico, Cameroon and Nicaragua published by the University of Maine Press in association with exhibitions at the University of Maine Museum of Art, The Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University in 2008. Awards include: Silver Award, B&W Magazine Single Image; Top 50 Critical Mass 2006; Black & White Magazine, Portfolio Spotlight, Issue 50, April, 2007; Women In Photography International Competition, Honorable Mention; American Society of Magazine Photographers (ASMP) Big Picture Award, Boston, MA. Selected national and international exhibitions include: The University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine; The Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography, Turner Falls, MA; Silver Eye Online Gallery Exhibition; St. Edward's University Art Gallery in Austin, TX. Exhibition travels to Center for Contemporary Art in Abilene, TX, Fotofest in Houston, Texas; The Galletly Gallery, New Hampton School, New Hampton, NH; Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; Buba Café, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico; Filmoteca de la UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico; Milton Academy, Nesto Gallery, Milton, MA; Jardin Borda, Cultural Institute of Morelos, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico; Endicott College, J. David Broudo Gallery of Art, Beverly, MA; Humanity Is One. Tepotzlan, Tlayacapan, Zacualpan de Amilpas, Cuautla, Morelos, Mexico. Solo exhibition. Traveling exhibition celebrating 10th anniversary of cultural protection assigned by UNESCO; Fidelity Investments Advertising Agencies Gallery, Boston, MA; Photographic Resource Center Members' Exhibition, Boston, MA.
Website: www.stellajohnson.com

Margot Kelley
Adjunct Faculty, Photography
BA College of the Holy Cross
MA and PhD Indiana University
MFA Massachusetts College of Art
In addition to her many years teaching in the fields of American literature, writing, and photography, Margot has distinguished herself through her academic service, including participation in campus-wide curriculum development, college planning committees, program development, and student advising. She has held a tenured faculty position and served as the Assistant Dean of Ursinus College. Selected exhibitions include: Photographic Resource Center (Boston, MA); Copley Society of Art/Cyberarts Festival (Boston, MA); SOIL Gallery (Seattle, WA); AXIOM Gallery (Boston, MA); Berman Museum of Art (Collegeville, PA); Central Wyoming College (Riverton, WY); Spalding University (Louisville, KY); University of North Carolina (Asheville, NC); Unity College (Unity, ME); Massachusetts College of Art (Boston, MA); and Sea Studio Gallery (Tenants Harbor, ME). Selected publications and presentations include: Local Treasures: Geocaching Across America (with a foreword by Frank Gohlke) Center for American Places/ University of Chicago Press, 2006; "Annihilating surprise: Henry James, Alvin Langdon Coburn, and the edge of authentic representation," delivered at the Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities (Honolulu), 2004; "Trigger Points and Snap Shots: Vision and History in Richard Powers' Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance." Interfaces: Image Texte Langage (vol. 1) 19/20 (2002); "Mythographics and Time: The Work of Robert Parke Harrison," delivered at the Society for Photographic Education National Conference, (Las Vegas, NV), 2002; "Seeing Slavery Anew: Visuality in Boucicault and Dunbar," delivered at MELUS 2000, (New Orleans), 2000; and "Signs and Bodies": African-American Phototexts and the American Imagination. Lecture delivered at the Society for Photographic Education National Conference (Tuscon, AZ), 1999.

Fred Levy
Academic Computing Lab Manager
Adjunct Faculty, Photography
BA San Francisco State University
MFA School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Exhibitions: E'space, Bewegung Gallery, 848 Community Space, The Eye Gallery, Photo Metro, and Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Pro Arts Consortium, and Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA.

John Lueders-Booth
Adjunct Faculty, Photography
Ed.M., Harvard University
Exhibitions: US Senate, Washington, DC; Addison Gallery of American Art; Museum of Modern Art; Aperture/Burden Gallery, NYC; Dartmouth College, The DeCordova Museum, The Morgan Center for The Visual Arts which included the last formal portrait of Julia Child, by Jack Lueders-Booth. Publications: Aperture; John Lueders-Booth/Artist in Residence, Dartmouth College; Harvard Advocate; Afterimage; New York Times; Boston Globe; "Inherit the Land": 100 photographs by Jack Lueders-Booth of families who live in and off the dumps of Tijuana, with introduction by Luis Alberto Urrea. To be released and distributed by Consortium Press in April 2005. Grants: Cambridge Arts Council, N.E.A., Library of Congress, The Artists Foundation. Collections: Addison Gallery of American Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Modern Art; Hood Art Museum, Colombia College, The DeCordova Museum.

Darren Miller
Adjunct Faculty, Photography
BFA The Art Institute of Boston

Angela Mittiga
Adjunct Faculty, Photography
BFA The Art Institute of Boston

Katherine McVety
Adjunct Faculty, Photography
BFA University of Colorado, Boulder
MFA Columbia University
Selected Exhibitions: Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA; Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University; Ladyfest Philly; Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University; Rockefeller Arts Center, SUNY; Kennedy Museum of Art, Athens, OH; Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO; DGA Gallery, NYC; Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, NYC, Berrie Arts Center, Mahwah, NJ; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Publications: Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Times of London, der Spiegel, South China Morning Post, Newsweek. Grants/Awards: Ohio University Research Grant; TIPS III Grant, Ohio University; Fellowship, Columbia University; Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center.
Website: www.KatherineMcVety.com

Lazaro Montano
Adjunct Faculty, Photography
BFA Florida International University
MFA School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Exhibitions: Gallery 535, Oni Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Clifford-Smith Gallery, Bernard Toale Gallery, and School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Dynamite Gallery and Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI; Newtown Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA; LFL Gallery, NYC; Photoworks Gallery and Florida International University, Miami, FL. Publications/Reviews: Boston Globe, ArtsMedia, Boston Herald, The Phoenix, Bay Windows, and Photo Review Magazine. Awards/Scholarships: Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
Website: www.lazaromontano.com

Dana Mueller
Adjunct Faculty, Photography
MFA Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston
BFA The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
Studies in Photography, Fine Arts, Political Science.
Recipient of the 2007 St. Botolph Club Foundation Grant. Mueller's work has been exhibited at the Photographic Resource Center, the Art Institute of Boston, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, among others. Her work is part of the permanent collection at the Boston Public Library and the International Institute of Boston.
Website: www.danamueller.net

Matthew Nash
Assistant Professor of New Media
MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The perpetual collaborator, Matthew Nash has a long history of creative partnerships. Working with artist Jason Dean under the name Harvey Loves Harvey, the partnership creates works that explore the nature of friendship, communication, human interaction and failure. Harvey Loves Harvey has shown at a academic, alternative and commercial galleries, including Oni Gallery, The Boston Center for the Arts, GASP, The Rhys Gallery, Rotunda Gallery, The Art Institute of Boston. Recently they created a new work for the Conflux Festival in New York. Harvey Loves Harvey is represented by Judi Rotenberg Gallery. Nash has also collaborated with a number of other artists. In 1995 he helped create The Number Foundation, and in 2006 he was part of the team that created the Art Showdown game show at Art Interactive. Nash is also the publisher of Big RED and Shiny, an arts journal for New England. Since 2004, BRS has published more than 1000 articles, reviews, essays, interviews and other writing related to the arts. BRS has received several grants from LEF Foundation in support of their work, and in 2007 published their first book. He has appeared on Fox News, National Public Radio, Black Book Magazine, Boston Magazine and been reviewed in The Boston Globe, Art News, Art New England, and many others.
Websites: www.mr-nash.com, www.harveylovesharvey.com

Andrea Raynor
Adjunct Faculty, Photography
BFA Maine College of Art, Portland ME
MFA School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
In addition to teaching classes at AIB, Andrea is a full time professor in Northeastern University's digital arts department. She also maintains a painting studio in Boston. Recent shows in both photography and painting include: Proof Gallery, Boston MA; 545P Studio, Providence RI; Maine College of Art, Portland, ME; Hall Space, Boston, MA; solo show at Bentley College, Waltham, MA. She has published work in American Photo; Time Out, New York; Details; The Village Voice; Color Photography, A Working Manual and Photography, First Edition.

Neil Rennie
Adjunct Faculty, Photography
BA University of Massachusetts
MFA Rhode Island School of Design
In addition to teaching photography at AIB, Neil has also taught at Simmons College, Northeastern University, New England School of Photography, Martha's Vineyard School of Photography, Danforth Museum School, and the Maine Photographic Workshops. He is also the owner of Photopia Color Portfolio Printing, specializing in printing for artists and commercial photographers. Clients include Francis Olschafskie, Starr Ockenga, John Lueders-Booth, John Goodman, and Kurt Stier. Selected Exhibitions: The Art Institute of Boston, Federal Reserve Bank, Gallery NAGA, Nucleo Eclettico Gallery, Boston, MA; Messeo de Art Contemporaneo, Caraca, Venezuela; and Mystic Art Association, Mystic, CT.

Bonnell D. Robinson
Director of Exhibitions
Professor, Art History and Photography
BA Columbia University; graduate studies with Minor White, MIT
MFA Rhode Island School of Design
Exhibitions: Addison Gallery of American Art; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Carpenter Center for Visual Studies, Harvard University; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition; Houston Center for Contemporary Photography; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY. Collections: Graham Gund Collection; Polaroid Corporation, Addison Gallery of American Art, Fogg Art Museum, Irish Architectural Archives, Dublin. Lectures:Tufts (Graduate Seminar in Department of Music). Publications: Co-curator and co-author of A Timely Encounter with 19th Century Photography in Japan, a traveling exhibition (catalog by Harvard). Awards: Massachusetts Council on the Arts Grant; AGFA Corporation Grant.

Benjamin Sloat
Adjunct Faculty, Art History and Photography
BA University of California, Berkeley
MFA School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University
Recent Shows: Front Gallery, Oakland, CA; Safe-T Gallery, Brooklyn; Aqua Art Fair, Miami; Bridge Art Fair, Miami; Art Now Art Fair, Miami; Gallery 1600, Atlanta; OH&T Gallery, Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston; Chambers Fine Arts, NY; Contemporary Artist's Center, North Adams; Harvard University, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Providence Arts Club, Cooper Union, Pelham Arts Center, NY. Visiting Artist Lectures: UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, RISD, Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Association for Asian American Studies Conference, SCAD, UMass Boston, Tufts University, Mass Art, SMFA, Coker College. Reviews: Oakland Tribune, East Bay Express, Boston Globe, New York Times, Boston Herald, Providence Journal.

Jane Tuckerman
Professor, Photography
BFA The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University
MFA Rhode Island School of Design
Exhibitions: Witkin Gallery, New York; Museum of Natural History, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Amsterdam Foto '85; Camera Work Gallery, San Francisco; International Center for Photography, New York; Panopticon, Boston; Silver Image Gallery, Seattle; Instituto Chileno Norteamericano de Cultura, Santiago, Chile. Publications: Aperture, Time-Life Books. Awards: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship; New Works Fellowship, Massachusetts Council on the Arts. Collections: Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Harvard University.

Andrew Warren
Adjunct Faculty, Photography
MFA Tufts University

Joshua Winer
Photography Lab Manager
Adjunct Faculty, Photography
BA College of the Atlantic
MFA Massachusetts College of Art
Selected Exhibitions: The Photographic Resource Center, Museum of Fine Arts, Clifford-Smith Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA.

Art History

Susan M. Ashbrook
Art History Program Coordinator
Assistant Professor, Art History
BA University of Wisconsin
MA Boston University
PhD Boston University
Susan has taught art history courses Boston University; Babson College, Wellesley, MA; and University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA. She currently teaches and runs the art history program at AIB. She has also been an active member of the arts community in Boston, serving as a board member of the Gibson Society, Inc., the Vice President of the Victorian Society in American, New England Chapter, and participating in symposiums on the history of art. In 1996 she gave a talk entitled, "Clare Leighton: From England to New England," to the Historians of British Art Annual Meeting.
Awards: Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Grants and Special Projects Grant. Publications: "William Morris and the Ideal Book" in Pre-Raphaelite Studies, edited by Liana Cheney, Edwin Mellen Press; "Clare Leighton" in 1989 Women's Caucus for Art Awards Catalogue.

Henry Altmann
Adjunct Faculty, Art History
BFA cum laude, Pratt Institute
MFA Queens College
Exhibitions: Rose Warner Gallery, Cincinnati, OH; Starr Gallery, Jewish Community Center, Newton, MA. Collections: First National City Bank of New York, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, numerous private collections. Awards: Who's Who in American Art, 1978 and subsequent editions; Fulbright Fellowship

Diana Arcadipone
Associate Dean of Extended Programs
Adjunct Faculty, Art History
BFA Western Michigan University
MFA Ohio University
Exhibitions: Minneapolis College of Art and Design; Arbeiten mit Papier, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Duren, West Germany; Visible Language Workshop, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (solo); Internationale der Papierhunst, Duren, West Germany; Eight State Painting Competition, Speed Museum, Louisville, KY; Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston. Publications: Papermaking, Jules Heller (Watson Guptil Publishers); Fiber Arts Magazine; Modern Style (Main Street Press); Downeast Magazine, Independent Publishers Group Spring Catalog, Chicago, IL. Awards: National Endowment for the Arts grant; Dorland Mountain Artist Residency, CA; Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant

John Casey
Animation Coordinator
Professor, Animation and Art History
BA Manhattan College
MA, PhD, Philosophy, Fordham University
Collection: "Ground Green," included in "Synthetic Movements: New Directions for Contemporary American Animation," The Museum of Modern Art Film Library; numerous screenings and purchases via The American Federation of Arts.
Invited Screenings: Anthology Film Archives, Chicago Experimental Film Coalition, San Francisco Cinematheque, Boston Film/Video Foundation, Center Screen, Institute of Contemporary Art, Harvard Film Archive, Boston Visual Artists Union, Mass Art, Ann Arbor Film Festival, among others. Awards: American Film Institute Fellowship; New England Regional Fellowship (NEA); The Artists Foundation Fellowship; New Hampshire State Council on the Arts Artist Fellowship; New Hampshire Film Commission Award.

Grace Consoli
Adjunct Faculty, Art History
BA Hunter College
MA State University of New York at Stony Brook
In addition to her degrees, Grace studied painting and art history at L'Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy and at the University of Florence. She has taught courses at AIB, the New England School of Art and Design, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston University, and The Art Institute of Florence. She has also given educational art tours in Italy, directed galleries such as the David Brown Gallery in Provincetown, MA, and hosted local radio interview with artists such as Georg Baselitz, Jim Peters, and Paul Bowen. Publications: Artsmedia Magazine; Metro, an art and culture magazine in Florence, Provincetown Poets, and The New York Times.

Naomi Just
Adjunct Faculty, Art History
BFA Massachusetts College of Art
MA Lesley College
Naomi has taught studio art and art history courses at AIB, the Adult Baccalaureate Program, and in the Creative Arts and Learning Program at Lesley University as well as at Bunker Hill Community College and Hanover High School. She has been involved in the development of art curriculum for the Boston Public Schools and the Hanover School System. She has also participated in a number of organizations and community projects, such as SoulCare Collaborative, Arts Lottery Council, Pembroke Arts Festival, and Middleboro Arts Festival.
Exhibitions: Pembroke Arts Festival; Golden Gull Gallery, Plymouth, MA; and Lesley College, Cambridge, MA.

Raymond Liddell
Adjunct Faculty, Art History
AB Harvard College
MA Bryn Mawr College
Raymond teaches art history courses at AIB, Emerson College, Boston University, and Endicott College, among others. In addition to teaching he has been an art and photography critic for Essex County Newspapers, Seacoast Newspapers, Cape Cod Times, Boston TAB, ArtsMedia Magazine, and NPR. His other professional experience includes positions as an arts management consultant at Liddell & Associates, Executive Director of The Archaeological Institute of America, and Vice Director of The Brooklyn Museum of Art. Raymond has participated in archaeological expeditions to Turkey, Libya, and the Falkland Islands.

Tim Norris
Adjunct Faculty, Art History
BA University College, University of Durham
MSM Lesley College
PhD Candidate University of Birmingham
Selected Publications: New Art Examiner; Art in Theory, 1900-1990: An Anthology of Change Ideas; Views, Photographic Resource Center, and in catalogues in Contemporary British Photography, Northeastern, and Boston College. Lectures, performances, and exhibits: Monsterrat College of Art, Massachusetts College of Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Science, WMFO, WZBC, Artist Foundation Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Curatorial experience: DeCordova Museum, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston City Hall, Photography Resource Center, Boston College, and Northeastern University.

Sunanda Sanyal
Associate Professor, Art History
DFine (Studio) Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta
BA (Liberal Arts) University of Calcutta
MFA (Painting and Installation) University of California
MFA (Art History) Ohio University
PhD (Art History) Emory University
Forthcoming: "Teaching Art History at an Art School: Far behind the 'Frontline'," essay on pedagogy in a volume of essays; A Homecoming Spectacle, documentary film in progress. Research interests: Politics of representation and identity; representation and otherness; contemporary artists from former colonies in global discourses; art pedagogy in nineteenth century Europe and the colonies. Recent publications: "Modernism and Cultural Politics in East Africa: Cecil Todd's Drawings of the Uganda Martyrs," African Arts, 39 (1), Spring 2006, pp. 50-9; "Kabiito Richard's Paintings: A Local Reinvention in a Global Perspective," African Arts, 37 (2), Summer 2004, pp. 34-43. Transgressing Borders, Shaping an Art History: Rose Kirumira and Makereres' Legacy. In Tobias Doering ed., African Cultures, Visual Arts, and the Museum: Sights/Sites of Creativity and Conflict (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2002); L'enseignement de l'art au Kenya et en Tanzanie, Anthologie de l'art Africain au xxeme siecle (Paris: Revue Noire, 2001). English version (2002): Anthology of Contemporary African Art; The Local and Beyond: Francis Nnaggenda's Sculptural Innovations, Nka#18 (Cornell University, 2003).

Stuart Steck
Assistant Professor, Art History and Foundation
BA Cornell University
MA Boston University
PhD Boston University
Affiliations: Photographic Resource Center, Godowsky Research Fellow; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Curatorial Associate; Frederick R. Koch/Sutton Place Foundation, Curator of Decorative Arts; Producer of the Short Attention Span Digital Video Festival: www.sasdvf.org
Publications: "The Book House: Redefining Space, Form, and Experience" in Axi: Ome – Recent Projects; "Coming Full Circle: Ellsworth Kelly and Boston, Then and Now" in Ellsworth Kelly: Recent Prints. Awards: Luce Dissertation Fellowship in American Art; Walter Read Hovey Memorial Fund Award; Adelson Traveling Fund Award.

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