Faculty
Our faculty consists of world-class, working artists who bring real-world experience from their studio and professional practices into the classroom. As a student, you will get the chance to work directly with our 5 Guggenheim Fellows, 3 Scholars of the College, 2 CLA Engaged Scholars, 2 Whitney Biennial artists, and the many McKnight, Bush, and Jerome Fellows who serve as instructors here.
Regular Faculty
Christine Baeumler
Specialties
Painting; Drawing; Environmental and community based art
Christina Schmid
Specialties
Writing on the arts, creative nonfiction writing; Contemporary art; Visual culture; Art and Visual/Material Culture of the United States; Aesthetic theory; Visual arts and art theory
Jenny Schmid
Specialties
Combined print media; Digital applications; Photolithography; Mezzotinting; 2D animation; Public art; Experimental video
Paul Shambroom
Specialties
Photography; Nuclear weapons; Democracy, electoral politics
Diane Willow
Specialties
Participatory culture; Creative inquiry and artistic expression with emerging media; Poetic interplay of nature, technology and community; interactive art; Interdisciplinary collaborations; Sound art; Community collaboration; Public art; Responsive environments; Playful explorations :: new modes, new materials, new media; Interactive, socially engaged, contemplative environments
Mathew Zefeldt
Specialties
Installation; Drawing; Painting; Dimensional painting
Affiliate Faculty
Brenda Child
Specialties
American Indian history; Public History and Museums; Ojibwe People of the Great Lakes; American Indian Women and Labor; The History of American Indian Education
Visiting Faculty
Lecturers
Emeriti Faculty
Guy Baldwin
Specialties
iron, bronze art; kinetic sculpture; sculpture; sound emitting works; welding and forging techniques
Jan Estep
Specialties
somatic and contemplative approaches to art (art and yoga, art and mindfulness); text works, artist books, and independent publishing; interdisciplinary approaches to art (art and philosophy, art and cognitive neuroscience); writing on the arts, creative nonfiction writing
David Feinberg
Specialties
the integration of baseball,i.e. Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella; painted sculpture; drawing/painting; color as a counterpoint to shape, words, and visual images; the tragedy of the Edmund Fitzgerald Nov. 10, 1975; WWII; the fatal airplane crash of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper on Feb. 3, 1959; "Voice To Vision", Artwork concerning Genocide; The Great Hinckley Fire of 1894
Gary Hallman
Specialties
electronic imaging; photography; photography as code and symbol; synthetic and narrative imagery
Curtis Hoard
Specialties
ceramics; figure as symbol for emotion, time, and place; low-fired and single-fired sculptural and large hand built vessels; surface treatment embellshment with engobe painting and drawing
Diane Katsiaficas
Specialties
contemporary theory; Drawing, Painting and Mixed Media work; digital drawing; installations; site works; developing visual narratives; Greek culture and art
Jerald Krepps
Specialties
lithography: traditional stone and metal plate, photomechanical applications (positive plate and negative wipe-on); monoprints; relief print applications: traditional and experimental; intaglio printmaking:traditional and photomechanical applications; handmade paper: Tamezuke, Nagashizuki & sculptural applications
Clarence Morgan
Specialties
Individual Studio Research; The relationship between thinking, making and writing; theoretical possibilities within contemporary painting; paradoxical relationship between abstract painting and meaning; studio critique and the speculative nature of art; critical discussions
Wayne Potratz
Specialties
ancient metal casting techniques; metal casting of bronze, iron, and alumninum; sculpture; Steelmaking using the Japanese Tatara; Steelmaking using the Wootz Process