Experience
Cauleen Smith
Filmmaker and visual artist Cauleen Smith was born in Riverside, California in 1967 and grew up in Sacramento, California. She earned a BA from the School of Creative Arts at San Francisco State University and an MFA in directing from the University of California, Los Angeles. Cauleen Smith's recent series experimental psychogeographic films on Sun Ra, improvisation, and creative music, CONSTELLATION CHICAGO (The Way Out Is the Way TUO)(2012) premiered at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in May 12-Sept 16, 2012. This work and research has been pivotal in Smith's life and work, as she now considers herself a perpetual student whose work reflects the process of questioning rather than the expression of mastery.
In the fall of 2008, Smith founded The Carousel Microcinema, a roving cinema space which has enjoyed screenings in San Diego, Chicago, New York and Lagos, Nigeria.
Course: Graduate Projects
Greg Tate
Greg Tate was a Staff Writer at The Village Voice from 1987-2005. His writings on culture and politics have also been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Artforum and Rolling Stone, He currently teaches at Brown University in Africana Studies leading the seminar course 'The History of AfroFuturism and Black Sci-Fi. He has also taught at Columbia University and in Yale's Graduate Art Department. His books include Everything But The Burden, What White People Are Taking From Black Culture (Harlem Moon/Random House, 2003), Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and The Black Experience (Acapella/Lawrence Hill, 2003); Flyboy In The Buttermilk, Essays on American Culture (Simon and Shuster, 1993). Tate is musical director for the umpteen member conducted-improvisation ensemble Burnt Sugar, The Arkestra Chamber who deploy Butch Morris's patented 'Conduction System'. The band regularly performs in Europe, Canada and the United States. Burnt Sugar has released 15 albums on their own TruGROID imprint since 1999.
Course: Graduate Projects
Eric Fleischauer
Eric Fleischauer is a Chicago-based artist, curator, and educator who utilizes various conceptually-driven production strategies in order to examine the ramifications of technology’s expansive influence on both the individual and cultural sphere. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, threewalls, Interstate Projects, Rooftop Films, Microscope Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Kunstmuseum Bonn, and is included in the the Midwest Photographer's Project collection at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
Currently he teaches in the Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Course: Stillness
Heather Mekkelson
Heather Mekkelson is a Chicago-based artist. She received an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Solo exhibitions include threewalls (Chicago), Old Gold (Chicago), and STANDARD (Chicago). Her work has also been included in group shows at The Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), The Figge Art Museum (Davenport, IA), Dominican University (River Forest, IL), The Poor Farm (Manawa, WI), Raid Projects (Los Angeles, CA), and Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA). She has had her work published in Art Journal, Broadsheet (The Contemporary Art Center of South Australia), Time Out Chicago, Chicago Tribune, and Artforum.com.
Course: Stillness
Aline Cautis
Aline Cautis is a Los Angeles multi-disciplinary based artist focused on painting and film. She has had solo exhibitions at Galeria Sabot in Cluj, Romania, Dan Devening Projects and Contemporary Art Workshop in Chicago. She has participated in recent exhibitions at Marianne Boesky, Gaudel De Stampa in Paris, Galeria Pies, Poznan, Poland, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, AMT Projects, Bratislava, Slovakia, Cluj Museum, Cluj, Romania, Control Room, Los Angeles, CA, and Galerie OQBO, Berlin, Germany. In 2010 she was the recipient of the Fulbright Grant in Romania at the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She is part-time faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Chris Kerr
Chris Kerr graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. His paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures have been exhibited locally and abroad. Recent group shows include: "Daydreaming Animals" and "Sunshine and Demented Minds" at Mulherin + Pollard, NYC; "Heads on Poles" at Western Exhibitions, Chicago; NADA, Miami and Pictoplasma, Berlin. His illustrations were included in the Fantagraphics book, "Beasts II" and Beautiful Decay's "Class Clowns" book. In January 2011 he was a resident artist at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Belgium. In 2011, Kerr and Paul Nudd co-curated a 30-person group show comprised of national and international artists called "Blaque Lyte" at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. The show traveled to ADA Gallery in Richmond, Virginia in 2012. Kerr's work has been reviewed in the Chicago's New City, The Reader, TimeOut Chicago, UR Chicago, Chicago Journal, Flavorpill, Beautiful Decay and Flashfilm, Japan.
Todd Chilton
Todd Chilton lives and works in Chicago, IL. Solo exhibitions include Steady at Feature Inc., Angled at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Evens at the Central Utah Art Center, Tony Wight Gallery, Lawrence University, and The Suburban in Oak Park, IL. Recent group shows include Big Youth II at Bourouina Gallery in Berlin, Self-referral Nonobjective at Feature Inc, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Devening Projects + Editions, the Hyde Park Art Center, Dolphin in Kansas City, and Bellstreet Projects in Vienna, Austria. He earned an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005.
Course: Multi-Level Painting and Drawing
Andrea Peterson
MFA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1994; BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Artistic Director at Hook Pottery Paper
Teaching experience: University of Indiana, South Bend; Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame; Hook Pottery Paper; Penland School of Craft, Paper Book Intensive,MI; Jill Littlewood Studios, Santa Barbara; Columbia College Center for the Book and Paper Art and Art and Design Departments and workshops nationally.
Exhibits: Internationally, such as invited to exhibition natural fiber papers at the University of Tubingen, Germany.
Professional services: Conducts residencies at Hook Pottery Paper that focus on the Paper Arts, On of the Board of Directors for Hand Papermaking, Inc. and member of IAPMA (International Artist’s Paper Makers Associaton), Advisory Board of Directors of the Friends of Dard Hunter – an international papermaking organization.
Lectures: 2011 Lisle Guild of Papermakers, IL; Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame.
Course: Papermaking Studio, Book Structures: Creating Artists’ Books, Papermaking Studio, Papermaking Studio, and Papermaking Studio (paper department)
Nathan Tonning
Nathan Tonning received his MFA from the University of Montana in 2012, and a BA from Grand Valley State University in 2007. Nathan currently teaches on either side of the Continental Divide at The University of Montana Western in Dillon and College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Nathan’s work includes frequent collaboration, an examination of the potential of various sculptural materials, and a soft-spoken sense of humor. Nathan’s recent projects include the founding of FrontierSpace in Missoula, and an on-going involvement with a project space comprised of a 16’ travel trailer known as FRNTI3R.
Course: Re-Inventing Fire
Joel Weissman
Joel Weissman is an interdisciplinary artist whose projects span, and blend together installation, photography, printmaking, performance, and ceramics. Through the use of dissociative and allegorical narrative, his work questions the constructs of our perceptions and mediated experience. Not limited to the confines of the gallery, much of Joel’s work exists in the public sphere, occupying liminal spaces within the postindustrial ruinated urban-scape. Utilizing specificities of context to access more universal ideas, his work is concerned with, memory, identity, authority and place. He received an MFA from Syracuse University in Sculpture/Ceramics and a BFA from Montana State University Bozeman.
Course: Re-Inventing Fire
Dana Carter
Dana Carter brings fabric, drawing and video together in an ongoing exploration of the velocity of loss, the poetics of vision, word-play, and admiration for the cosmos. Carter's installations raise questions of movement and communication across a vast distance and reveal that the atmosphere is a faulty lens. MFA 2008, UIC, Studio Arts. Recent Exhibitions; American Institute of Architecture, New Orleans; LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, New York; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Iceberg Projects, Chicago; Glass Curtain Gallery Columbia College, Chicago; Vox Populi, Philadelphia; Gahlberg Gallery, College of Dupage; Locust Projects, Miami; The Bioscope, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Course: The Happy Accident
Paula Wilson
Paula Wilson’s (American, b. 1975) paintings are hybrid extravaganzas that combine both painting and printmaking techniques in a complex stratum of histories and cultures. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 2005 and has since been featured in group and solo exhibitions in the US and Europe, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Bellwether Gallery, Fred Snitzer Gallery, Fabric Workshop and Museum and the Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw.
Wilson is a recipient of numerous grants and awards including a 2009 Joan Mitchell Artist Grant and the Bob and Happy Doran Fellowship at Yale University in 2009. She lives and works in Carrizozo, New Mexico.
Course: Adventures in Reproduction and The Happy Accident
Camlab (Anna Mayer & Jemima Wyman)
CamLab is a collaboration between Jemima Wyman and Anna Mayer begun at the California Institute of the Arts in 2005. CamLab believes that a contemporary politics of pleasure must acknowledge the contiguity of language and body in facilitating a spectrum of experience that includes alterity, intimacy, and humor. This philosophy materializes in CamLab's process, in particular the duo's social practice work and relational object-making.
Solo shows include Sea and Space Explorations (LA), 40000 (Chicago), and Dan Graham (LA). Group exhibitions include Torrance Museum of Art (LA), Fellows of Contemporary Art (LA), Track 16 (LA), and Galerie Califia (CZ). CamLab has performed in Los Angeles at the Hammer Museum, The Lounge at REDCAT, Wildness at the Silver Platter, and Summercamp Project Project. Recently CamLab's 'Whip What Stat' and 'Houndstooth Cameltoe' videos were screened as part of the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum's ArtLab+ program. In 2012 CamLab staged three event-based works at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Kim Harty
Kim’s work blurs the lines between glass and performance. Her work has shown at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art, Museum of Art and Design, Corning Museum of Glass, and Heller Gallery. Kim was selected as a Creative Glass Center of America fellow in 2008, and participated in a three-month residency at Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center. From 2008-2009 she and co-pioneered the glass performance art group, “Cirque De Verre,” and she served as the managing editor at “Glass Quarterly,” from 2009–2011. In spring of 2012 she was selected as a resident artist for Toledo Workshop Revisited Residency at the Toledo Museum of Art. She is graduating from the School of the Art Institute in spring of 2013 with her MFA in Art and Technology.
Charlotte Potter
Charlotte Potter is a conceptual artist and designer born in the spring of 1981 to a small town in Vermont. She received a BFA from Alfred University in 2003 and Honors MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Glass Department in 2010. Traditionally trained as a glass blower, Charlotte has traveled extensively, working in glass studios in New Orleans, New Jersey, Jackson Hole, Santa Fe and Austin Texas, honing her skill. In 2008, she co-founded the Cirque De Verre, a performance glass troupe that has performed at numerous studios and museums including the Toledo Museum of Art and the Corning Museum of Glass. Her work has been shown internationally and is in the permanent collection of the American Museum of Glass and the Henry J. Neils, Frank Lloyd Wright house. In 2010 Charlotte traveled to New Zealand and Australia where she exhibited and was a visiting artist and lecturer at the Australian University. Currently she is the Glass Studio Manager and exhibiting her work at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia. This summer Charlotte was included in the show entitled FUSION at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, as well as Gallery S12 located in Bergen Norway.
Jerry Catania
MA 1985 Western Michigan University / BFA 1969 Michigan State University
Post-Graduate Work 1985 - 1990 Michigan State University
I began working in glass in 1972 as a part of the experimental beginnings of the Pilchuck Workshop glass school in Washington State. I was accepted to be one of 30 students that summer to work and study glass under the direction of Dale Chihuly and Fritz Dreisbach. In 1985, I started the Ox-Bow glass studio and in 1991 I opened my own studio in nearby Glenn, Michigan, until 2004 when I moved the studio to Benton Harbor, MI and started “Water Street Glassworks“—a not-for-profit school of the glass arts.
As for most people, I am enlivened by the medium of glass - both in its glowing molten state and its striking optical splendor. The blowing and sand-casting processes inspire my creative process. The very physical process of blowing and casting fit my creative concepts and energetic temperament - forcing me to be more intuitive and react more spontaneously. Glass as a material takes on a meaning beyond its optical beauty. Its reflections, distortions, and ‘solid yet transparent’ properties - for me, are metaphors for illusion, paradox, insight, allusion and deception. It can represent a vision, a spirit, an illusion, a memory, a mirage or an ephemeral moment in time.
Course: Glass Casting, Multilevel Glassblowing, Multilevel Glassblowing for 2 weeks, Multilevel Glassblowing, Advanced Forms: Intro to Stemware, Beginning Glassblowing (One-Week, First Session), Beginning Glassblowing (Two-Weeks), Beginning Glassblowing (One-Week, Second Session), Multi-Level Glassblowing (One-Week, First Session), Multi-Level Glassblowing (Two-Weeks), and Multi-Level Glassblowing (One-Week, Second Session)
Jerry Catania
MA 1985 Western Michigan University / BFA 1969 Michigan State University
Post-Graduate Work 1985 - 1990 Michigan State University
I began working in glass in 1972 as a part of the experimental beginnings of the Pilchuck Workshop glass school in Washington State. I was accepted to be one of 30 students that summer to work and study glass under the direction of Dale Chihuly and Fritz Dreisbach. In 1985, I started the Ox-Bow glass studio and in 1991 I opened my own studio in nearby Glenn, Michigan, until 2004 when I moved the studio to Benton Harbor, MI and started “Water Street Glassworks“—a not-for-profit school of the glass arts.
As for most people, I am enlivened by the medium of glass - both in its glowing molten state and its striking optical splendor. The blowing and sand-casting processes inspire my creative process. The very physical process of blowing and casting fit my creative concepts and energetic temperament - forcing me to be more intuitive and react more spontaneously. Glass as a material takes on a meaning beyond its optical beauty. Its reflections, distortions, and ‘solid yet transparent’ properties - for me, are metaphors for illusion, paradox, insight, allusion and deception. It can represent a vision, a spirit, an illusion, a memory, a mirage or an ephemeral moment in time.
Course: Glass Casting, Multilevel Glassblowing, Multilevel Glassblowing for 2 weeks, Multilevel Glassblowing, Advanced Forms: Intro to Stemware, Beginning Glassblowing (One-Week, First Session), Beginning Glassblowing (Two-Weeks), Beginning Glassblowing (One-Week, Second Session), Multi-Level Glassblowing (One-Week, First Session), Multi-Level Glassblowing (Two-Weeks), and Multi-Level Glassblowing (One-Week, Second Session)
Liz Craft
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
MFA University of California, Los Angeles / BA Otis Parsons, Los Angeles
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY; Alison Jacques Gallery, London; Halle für Kunst, Lun.berg, Germany; Alison Jacques Gallery, London; Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Venice Beach Biennial, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Migros Museum, Zurich Switzerland; LACMA, Los Angeles CA; Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland; Hayward Gallery, London
AWARDS Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung 2006; Tiffany Award 1999
Course: Ceramics and Sculpture
Anna Sew Hoy
Anna Sew Hoy lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work has been included in a solo exhibition “Nothing All Day,” at the San Jose Museum of Art; the California Biennial 2008; "Now You See It," at the Aspen Art Museum; "Eden's Edge," at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and "One Way or Another," at the Asia Society in New York. She has had solo exhibitions at Sikkema, Jenkins & Co. and Renwick Gallery in New York; and at LA><Art and Karyn Lovegrove Gallery in Los Angeles. Her work is in the collections of the Hammer Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She was awarded a United States Artists Broad Fellowship in 2006. Anna Sew Hoy received her MFA from Bard College in 2008. In 2013, she will have a solo show at Various Small Fires, Venice, CA.
Course: Ceramics and Sculpture
Lori Felker
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Lori chose Filmmaking as her official second language in 2003-ish, bumping German into third place. Eventual fluency is important to her, so she employs many forms/formats, practices frequently with others, and tries not to shy away from expressing her thoughts on behavior, participation, frustration, failure, and in-eloquence. Lori has many lives to live simultaneously. They currently teach/ work at SAIC, coordinate and program for the Chicago Underground Film Festival, make films/videos, project, perform, and compulsively collaborate. A Wexner Center Artist in Residence and a Fulbright Fellow, her work has screened internationally in festivals, galleries and on television. www.FelkerCommaLori.com
Course: Creating Fear (film, video, and new media department)
Jesse McLean
Jesse McLean's work is motivated by a deep curiosity about human behavior and relationships, especially as presented and observed through mediated images. Her recent work continues an ongoing interest in probing this complex transference between what is seen on screen and what is absorbed in the viewer’s mind. Interested both in the power and the failure of the mediated experience to bring us together, her work asks the viewer to ply the line between voyeur and participant.
Course: Creating Fear (film, video, and new media department)
Bryan Baker
Bryan Baker has recently moved to Detroit where he is setting up his letterpress facility, Stukenborg Press, as both a place for ongoing projects, and a printshop that is accessible to the local community. Prior to this Bryan spent three years in Brooklyn teaching printmaking around the city and working in his studio. His studio practice as a printmaker had a chance to develop under a very unique canopy, after graduate school he became a full-time designer and printer at Yee-Haw Industries, 2002-2008, in Knoxville, Tennessee. There he made full custom hand-printed letterpress ephemera for record labels, venues, art museums, and much more. Through the years he spent there two bodies of work took shape; one out of the purely functional side of print, and another which has much less to do with practical applications and is more concerned with cognition and experience. These two modes and manners of approach now often overlap and influence Bryan's current work.
Course: Image and Word (One-Week) and Image and Word (Two-Weeks)
Bridget Elmer
Bridget Elmer is an artist, bookmaker, and letterpress printer, working in Asheville, NC, where she is currently rebuilding her 19th century platen press, tuning up her 20th century flatbed truck, and retrofitting 21st century open source philosophy to book technologies. She received her MFA in the Book Arts from the University of Alabama in 2010, and she will graduate with her Masters in Library and Information Studies in 2011. Having recently taught book arts as an Adjunct Professor at Florida State University and a Visiting Art Professor at Colorado College, Bridget currently serves as an Instructor at Asheville BookWorks. Bridget is the sole proprietor of Flatbed Splendor (http://www.flatbedsplendor.com/) and the co-operator of Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts (http://www.impractical-labor.org/). For information regarding collections, exhibitions and publications featuring Bridget's work, please visit http://www.flatbedsplendor.com/about2.html.
Course: Book Structures: Creating Artists' Books, Book Structures: Creating Artists' Books, Image and Word (One-Week), and Image and Word (Two-Weeks)
Bryan Baker
Bryan Baker has recently moved to Detroit where he is setting up his letterpress facility, Stukenborg Press, as both a place for ongoing projects, and a printshop that is accessible to the local community. Prior to this Bryan spent three years in Brooklyn teaching printmaking around the city and working in his studio. His studio practice as a printmaker had a chance to develop under a very unique canopy, after graduate school he became a full-time designer and printer at Yee-Haw Industries, 2002-2008, in Knoxville, Tennessee. There he made full custom hand-printed letterpress ephemera for record labels, venues, art museums, and much more. Through the years he spent there two bodies of work took shape; one out of the purely functional side of print, and another which has much less to do with practical applications and is more concerned with cognition and experience. These two modes and manners of approach now often overlap and influence Bryan's current work.
Course: Image and Word (One-Week) and Image and Word (Two-Weeks)
Bridget Elmer
Bridget Elmer is an artist, bookmaker, and letterpress printer, working in Asheville, NC, where she is currently rebuilding her 19th century platen press, tuning up her 20th century flatbed truck, and retrofitting 21st century open source philosophy to book technologies. She received her MFA in the Book Arts from the University of Alabama in 2010, and she will graduate with her Masters in Library and Information Studies in 2011. Having recently taught book arts as an Adjunct Professor at Florida State University and a Visiting Art Professor at Colorado College, Bridget currently serves as an Instructor at Asheville BookWorks. Bridget is the sole proprietor of Flatbed Splendor (http://www.flatbedsplendor.com/) and the co-operator of Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts (http://www.impractical-labor.org/). For information regarding collections, exhibitions and publications featuring Bridget's work, please visit http://www.flatbedsplendor.com/about2.html.
Course: Book Structures: Creating Artists' Books, Book Structures: Creating Artists' Books, Image and Word (One-Week), and Image and Word (Two-Weeks)
Jim Lutes
MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; BFA, Washington State University
Exhibitions: Mid-Career Retrospective, The Renaissance Society; Valerie Carberry, Chicago; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Belgium; Ecole Superieure Des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France; Whitney Biennial, NY; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
Collections: Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Illinois State Museum, SMAK, Gent, Belgium
Awards: Illinois Arts Council Grants; National Foundation for the Arts; Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award; Awards in the Visual Arts
Alison Ruttan
Alison Ruttan’s work has been exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, California, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, California, Galerie Wit, Wageningen, Netherlands, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada, Rocket Gallery, London, England, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, The Drawing Center, New York City, New York, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her work has been written about in Art In America, Flash Art, Chicago Tribune, Art Papers, Chicago Magazine, New Art Examiner. Awards include The Illinois Arts Council, Jerome Foundation, Art & Technology Residency; Wexner Museum, Artists Residency; Wild Animal Park.
Course: Things That Go Bump in the Night (performance department)
Jerry Catania
MA 1985 Western Michigan University / BFA 1969 Michigan State University
Post-Graduate Work 1985 - 1990 Michigan State University
I began working in glass in 1972 as a part of the experimental beginnings of the Pilchuck Workshop glass school in Washington State. I was accepted to be one of 30 students that summer to work and study glass under the direction of Dale Chihuly and Fritz Dreisbach. In 1985, I started the Ox-Bow glass studio and in 1991 I opened my own studio in nearby Glenn, Michigan, until 2004 when I moved the studio to Benton Harbor, MI and started “Water Street Glassworks“—a not-for-profit school of the glass arts.
As for most people, I am enlivened by the medium of glass - both in its glowing molten state and its striking optical splendor. The blowing and sand-casting processes inspire my creative process. The very physical process of blowing and casting fit my creative concepts and energetic temperament - forcing me to be more intuitive and react more spontaneously. Glass as a material takes on a meaning beyond its optical beauty. Its reflections, distortions, and ‘solid yet transparent’ properties - for me, are metaphors for illusion, paradox, insight, allusion and deception. It can represent a vision, a spirit, an illusion, a memory, a mirage or an ephemeral moment in time.
Course: Glass Casting, Multilevel Glassblowing, Multilevel Glassblowing for 2 weeks, Multilevel Glassblowing, Advanced Forms: Intro to Stemware, Beginning Glassblowing (One-Week, First Session), Beginning Glassblowing (Two-Weeks), Beginning Glassblowing (One-Week, Second Session), Multi-Level Glassblowing (One-Week, First Session), Multi-Level Glassblowing (Two-Weeks), and Multi-Level Glassblowing (One-Week, Second Session)
Veleta Vancza
MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art 2003; BFA State University of New York, New Paltz 2000; AAS Fashion Institute of Technology 1993.
Veleta Vancza has been working as an artist for 20 years. She began her career as an art/studio jeweler creating one-of-a-kind conceptual works. More recently she has been working on a larger scale creating sculpture, wall pieces & installations using vitreous enamel on metal integrated with new technologies such as sound-mapping & 3D rendering software. She is recognized for her experimental use of vitreous enamel as an adhesive, as well as her innovations with phosphorescent enamels.
Veleta’s work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as the Museum of Arts & Design (NYC), the Design Museum (Helsinki), the Cheugju International Craft Biennale,and Museum fur Angewandte Kunst. Many of her works have been featured in a variety of books & periodicals such as Sculpture magazine, Metalsmith magazine, The Boston Globe, 500 Enameled Objects & The Art of Enameling: Techniques, Projects, Inspiration. Her works can be found in the permanent collections of the Kohler Company and the Museum of Arts & Design as well as numerous private collections.
Course: Image in Enamel and Image in Enamel
Shannon Stratton
Shannon Stratton is founder and Executive Director of threewalls in Chicago. She teaches in the Fiber and Material Studies and Art History departments at SAIC. Her work includes curating and writing projects on craft and social practice, collecting and artist-run spaces.
Exhibitions include: Gestures of Resistance (Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland); Reskilling (Western Front, Vancouver) and Resonating Bodies (Soap Factory, Minneapolis). With threewalls she publishes PHONEBOOK, guide to independent art spaces and is collaborating on the formation of a national alliance for artist-run and small not-for-profit projects. Her curiosity about parties stems from an ongoing study of work and leisure in art and life.
Course: UTOPIA and Party as Form (art history department)
Olivia Petrides
Olivia Petrides has had numerous exhibits in galleries and museums in Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Scotland, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Her works are included in the public collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the United States Park Service, the Field Museum, the Illinois State Museum, Openlands Preservation Association, and Iceland’s Hafnarborg Institute of Art, among others. She has received grants, and artist residencies, among which are a Fulbright Grant, American-Scandinavian Foundation Grants, an Illinois Arts Council Governor’s Exchange Award, and a Margaret Klimek Phillips Award. She has been awarded residencies at the Rekjavik Municipal Museum and the Gil-society in Iceland; the Faroe Islands Museum of Natural History; the Virginia Center for Creative Arts; the Vermont Studio Center; Yellowstone National Park; and the Ragdale Foundation. Petrides received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in Painting & Drawing and Visual Communications departments.
Course: Pre-College Program: Landscape Drawing, Pre-College Program: Landscape Drawing, and Pre-College Program: Landscape Drawing
E.W. Ross
MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Former: Program Director, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Residencies; Dean, Continuing Studies, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Performances/Exhibitions: University of Chicago; University of Minnesota; Atlanta College of Art; Western Michigan University; Chicago Cultural Center; Cajarc, France
Awards: Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowship; Chicago Council of Fine Arts; Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art Grant; School of the Art Institute Faculty Enrichment Grant; IAC Governor's International Arts Exchange Grant.
Course: Pre-College Program: Landscape Drawing, Pre-College Program: Landscape Drawing, and Pre-College Program: Landscape Drawing
Michael Andrews
MFA , Cranbrook Academy of Art; BFA , School of the Art Institute of Chicago Adjunct Assistant Professor: Department of Fiber and Materials Studies, SAIC Exhibitions: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston; Washington University; Sarah Lawrence College; Carthage College; Robert Bills Contemporary; Golden; Daily Projects, Seoul; Alkovi, Finland Academic Director: Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists Residency.
Course: Independent Study (available all weeks except 5 & 6), Hot Mess: Costume Construction and Wearable Sculptures, Independent Study, and Swag, Merch, and Souvenirs: The Printed Object
Oli Watt
MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; BFA, BA, University of Florida.
Teaches: School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Associated colleges of the Midwest Chicago Arts Program; Anchor Graphics, Chicago.
Exhibitions: Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Rocket Gallery, London, UK.
Awards: Maxine & Stuart Applebaum Award of Excellence, Minnesota Print Biennial; Tweed Museum of Art Purchase Award.
Visiting Artist: University of Chicago; Barat College, Lake Forest, IL. Publications: Art on Paper, Art US, New Yorker, New Art Examiner, Village Voice.
Course: Screenprinting: Mark. Stencils, and Exposures, Screenprinting: Marks, Stencils and Exposures, Screenprinting: Marks, Stencils, and Exposures, and Swag, Merch, and Souvenirs: The Printed Object
Jonas Sebura
Jonas Sebura received his MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011 and BFA from Alfred University in 2003. He is currently an instructor in the Sculpture Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has been the recipient of the Ox-Bow fellowship in 2009 and the Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship in 2012. Jonas has exhibited throughout the United States in various venues including Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago, The Urban Institute of Contemporary art in Grand Rapids, University of the Arts in Philadelphia, 2739 Edwin gallery in Hamtramck, MI.
Course: Graduate Projects and TCB (Taking Care of Business)
Kristina Paabus
Kristina Paabus studied Fine Arts and Religious Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Printmaking at The Estonian Academy of Arts (EAA), and received a BFA and Art History Concentration from the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2009 she earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and then moved to Estonia as a Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Artist at the EAA. Kristina has taken part in residencies in the U.S., Iceland, Estonia, and Romania; and has exhibited her work in Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis, Rosendale, Providence, Reykjavik, Berlin, and Tallinn. Currently, Kristina lives and works in Chicago where she is a faculty member and Graduate Coordinator in SAIC’s Department of Printmedia.
Course: Etching
Peggy Macnamara
Peggy Macnamara has painted watercolors at the Field Museum for over thirty years. The artifacts, birds, mammals and insects of the museum’s vast collection are the subject of much of her work. Her work is included in the collections of the Field Museum, Illinois State Museum, Spertus Museum and New York State Museum. The Roger Ramsay Gallery, Vedanta Gallery, and Packer-Schopf Gallery have held solo exhibitions of her work. Macnamara most recently had a solo show at the Peggy Notebaert Museum in Chicago, consisting of images of bird and insect nests. Macnamara is the author of several publications including Illinois Insects and Spiders, 2005; Architecture by Birds and Insects, 2008; The Art of Migration, 2012; and the children’s book, Ten, in conjunction with the nest series. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor at SAIC and Artist-in-Residence and Associate of the Zoology Department at the Field Museum.
Course: Flora and Fauna of Ox-Bow: Nature Illustration in Watercolor and Flora and Fauna at Ox-Bow: Nature Illustrations in Watercolor
Anne Mondro
Anne Mondro received her BFA in 1999 from College for Creative Studies and her MFA from Kent State in 2002. She currently serves as Associate Professor at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at University of Michigan where she teaches three-dimensional design, concept courses, and jewelry and metalsmithing. Anne has shown her work nationally and internationally including exhibitions at ARC Gallery in Chicago, Ceres Gallery in NYC, the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, the Fuller Craft Museum, the International Museum of Surgical Science and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.
Course: Meaning Found: Exploring the Found Object in Jewelry and Meaning Found: Exploring the Found Object in Jewelry
Andy Hall
Andy Hall lives and works in Chicago. He is faculty in the Designed Objects
department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; BD, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Selected Exhibitions: Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL; Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany Selected Reviews and Publications: 2012 Greenberg, Blue. “Brilliant Design Running on Solar Power”, Herald Sun, 7/26/12; Stabler, Bert. “Modern Model”, New City, 4/10/12; 2010 Smith, Lisa. “24 chairs in 24 hours”, core77.com, 3/18/10
Course: Design-Build and Design Build (sculpture or designed objects department)
Carl Baratta
Carl Baratta received an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He currently teaches a drawing class called 'How To Steal' at SAIC. His artwork has been exhibited in various galleries nationally in Chicago, Dallas, Austin, Santa Fe, San Francisco, Detroit, up and down both coasts, and has shown internationally in Tokyo, Japan and Rome, Italy. Last year Carl was featured in a group show at the 2011 Venice Bienale at the Rome Pavilion. He recently had work up in Chicago at The DePaul Museum’s group show, ‘After Image’, had an installation at The Roger Brown Study Collection, and collaborative woodblock prints at Columbia College. He lives and works in Chicago. www.carlbaratta.com
Course: Egg Tempera
Jerry Catania
MA 1985 Western Michigan University / BFA 1969 Michigan State University
Post-Graduate Work 1985 - 1990 Michigan State University
I began working in glass in 1972 as a part of the experimental beginnings of the Pilchuck Workshop glass school in Washington State. I was accepted to be one of 30 students that summer to work and study glass under the direction of Dale Chihuly and Fritz Dreisbach. In 1985, I started the Ox-Bow glass studio and in 1991 I opened my own studio in nearby Glenn, Michigan, until 2004 when I moved the studio to Benton Harbor, MI and started “Water Street Glassworks“—a not-for-profit school of the glass arts.
As for most people, I am enlivened by the medium of glass - both in its glowing molten state and its striking optical splendor. The blowing and sand-casting processes inspire my creative process. The very physical process of blowing and casting fit my creative concepts and energetic temperament - forcing me to be more intuitive and react more spontaneously. Glass as a material takes on a meaning beyond its optical beauty. Its reflections, distortions, and ‘solid yet transparent’ properties - for me, are metaphors for illusion, paradox, insight, allusion and deception. It can represent a vision, a spirit, an illusion, a memory, a mirage or an ephemeral moment in time.
Course: Glass Casting, Multilevel Glassblowing, Multilevel Glassblowing for 2 weeks, Multilevel Glassblowing, Advanced Forms: Intro to Stemware, Beginning Glassblowing (One-Week, First Session), Beginning Glassblowing (Two-Weeks), Beginning Glassblowing (One-Week, Second Session), Multi-Level Glassblowing (One-Week, First Session), Multi-Level Glassblowing (Two-Weeks), and Multi-Level Glassblowing (One-Week, Second Session)
Jerry Catania
MA 1985 Western Michigan University / BFA 1969 Michigan State University
Post-Graduate Work 1985 - 1990 Michigan State University
I began working in glass in 1972 as a part of the experimental beginnings of the Pilchuck Workshop glass school in Washington State. I was accepted to be one of 30 students that summer to work and study glass under the direction of Dale Chihuly and Fritz Dreisbach. In 1985, I started the Ox-Bow glass studio and in 1991 I opened my own studio in nearby Glenn, Michigan, until 2004 when I moved the studio to Benton Harbor, MI and started “Water Street Glassworks“—a not-for-profit school of the glass arts.
As for most people, I am enlivened by the medium of glass - both in its glowing molten state and its striking optical splendor. The blowing and sand-casting processes inspire my creative process. The very physical process of blowing and casting fit my creative concepts and energetic temperament - forcing me to be more intuitive and react more spontaneously. Glass as a material takes on a meaning beyond its optical beauty. Its reflections, distortions, and ‘solid yet transparent’ properties - for me, are metaphors for illusion, paradox, insight, allusion and deception. It can represent a vision, a spirit, an illusion, a memory, a mirage or an ephemeral moment in time.
Course: Glass Casting, Multilevel Glassblowing, Multilevel Glassblowing for 2 weeks, Multilevel Glassblowing, Advanced Forms: Intro to Stemware, Beginning Glassblowing (One-Week, First Session), Beginning Glassblowing (Two-Weeks), Beginning Glassblowing (One-Week, Second Session), Multi-Level Glassblowing (One-Week, First Session), Multi-Level Glassblowing (Two-Weeks), and Multi-Level Glassblowing (One-Week, Second Session)
Ben Dowell
Ben Dowell is an artist who utilizes many mediums including painting, sculpture, film, and video. He has shown his work widely in New York and internationally. Highlights include Gavin Brown @ Passerby, Smith Stewart, Luis Adelantado Valencia, Sara Meltzer, Horton Gallery, and Galeria Alberto Sendros. His work has been written about in the Brooklyn Rail and Hyperallergic.
He received an MFA from Hunter college and was awarded fellowships at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation. He currently lives and works in Queens, NY.
Course: Survivalist Shorts (film, video, new media department)
Jennifer Sullivan
Jennifer Sullivan is an interdisciplinary artist who works in video, performance, collage, painting and sculpture. Her work has been exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at Freight + Volume, and Las Cienegas Projects, as well as exhibitions and performances at MoMA, PS1, Horton Gallery, Arthouse, and Klaus von Nichtsaggend. She has completed residencies at Skowhegan, Ox- Bow, Yaddo, and Voom HD Lab. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times and Art Papers, and her videos are included in the Geisel Library collection at the University of California, San Diego. Sullivan received an MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in 2005. She lives in and works in Ridgewood, New York.
Course: Survivalist Shorts (film, video, new media department)
Anton Reijnders
For more then 30 years Anton Reijnders has been active as a sculptor. In his work he combines different materials but the ceramics medium is often the starting point. As Head of Studios and Workshops of the European Ceramic Work Center he was involved in dialogue with artists from all over the world, the driving force behind setting up the material research programme and author of 'The Ceramic Process.'
Besides having taken part in exhibitions throughout the world Anton Reijnders has contributed to conferences, symposia and workshops over the world and twice visiting professor at the New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Currently he is teaching at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Course: Thinking Through Form
Duncan Mackenzie
Duncan MacKenzie is an artist, pundit, educator and a founding member/ producer of Bad at Sports. (www.badatsports.com) His works have appeared in galleries all over the world including Canada, Australia, The United States of America, New Zealand, Estonia and England. Bad at Sports, a project he began with Richard Holland in 2005 is one of the USA’s largest arts resources and continues to grow every week. His work has been discussed in Flash Art, Art Forum, the New York Times, Time Out and many other venues. He is the author of over 300 interviews and has worked with such people as Rodney Graham, Kerry James Marshall, Suzanne Lacy, Martha Wilson, Helen Molesworth, Francesco Bonami, Luc Tuymans, Johanna Drucker, Julie Ault, Carol Becker, James Rondeau, Jeff Wall, and David Salle. He currently enjoys a posting as an Assistant Professor in Art + Design at Columbia College Chicago.
Course: Toward a New Sincerity
Jimmy Wright
Jimmy Wright’s pastel work was on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in the exhibition "The Lens and the Mirror: Self Portraits from the Collection," and a twenty-year retrospective of his work was held at the Springfield Museum of Art, MO. DC Moore Gallery, New York and Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago, have presented several solo exhibitions of his work. Wright has been featured in publications such as American Artist, Architectural Digest,Art on Paper, ARTnews, Bomb, The Pastel Journal, The New York Times, andThe New Yorker. Wright earned a BFA with honors from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1967 and a MFA from Southern Illinois University in 1971.
Course: Pastels and Drawing, Pastels and Drawing, and Drawing Marathon
Jerry Catania
MA 1985 Western Michigan University / BFA 1969 Michigan State University
Post-Graduate Work 1985 - 1990 Michigan State University
I began working in glass in 1972 as a part of the experimental beginnings of the Pilchuck Workshop glass school in Washington State. I was accepted to be one of 30 students that summer to work and study glass under the direction of Dale Chihuly and Fritz Dreisbach. In 1985, I started the Ox-Bow glass studio and in 1991 I opened my own studio in nearby Glenn, Michigan, until 2004 when I moved the studio to Benton Harbor, MI and started “Water Street Glassworks“—a not-for-profit school of the glass arts.
As for most people, I am enlivened by the medium of glass - both in its glowing molten state and its striking optical splendor. The blowing and sand-casting processes inspire my creative process. The very physical process of blowing and casting fit my creative concepts and energetic temperament - forcing me to be more intuitive and react more spontaneously. Glass as a material takes on a meaning beyond its optical beauty. Its reflections, distortions, and ‘solid yet transparent’ properties - for me, are metaphors for illusion, paradox, insight, allusion and deception. It can represent a vision, a spirit, an illusion, a memory, a mirage or an ephemeral moment in time.
Course: Glass Casting, Multilevel Glassblowing, Multilevel Glassblowing for 2 weeks, Multilevel Glassblowing, Advanced Forms: Intro to Stemware, Beginning Glassblowing (One-Week, First Session), Beginning Glassblowing (Two-Weeks), Beginning Glassblowing (One-Week, Second Session), Multi-Level Glassblowing (One-Week, First Session), Multi-Level Glassblowing (Two-Weeks), and Multi-Level Glassblowing (One-Week, Second Session)
Norwood Viviano
Norwood Viviano received a BFA in Sculpture and Glass from Alfred University and MFA in Sculpture from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He currently heads the Sculpture program at Grand Valley State University.. In 2012, he was the recipient of a Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant. Recently he was an Artist-in- Residence, at The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY, the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA and was awarded an Artists' Residency, at the KohlerCompany in Sheboygan, WI. Viviano’s recent exhibitions include Zolla/Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, IL, Esther Claypool Gallery in Seattle, WA, and Heller Gallery in New York, NY. His work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, Czech Republic, John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI, and the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA. www.norwoodviviano.com
Course: Metals Casting for Sculpture and Glass Prototypes
Israel Davis
BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; MFA, University of Iowa. Currently: Assistant Professor of Art, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI; Ceramics Program Director, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI. Taught: Hope College,Holland, MI; Ox-Bow, School of Art and Artist’s Residency. Residencies: Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Ox-Bow, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts.Israel Davis is an artist and educator living and working in West Michigan. He currently holds the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Sculpture and Functional Art at Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University. He also serves as the Ceramics Program Director at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, MI. Davis has taught courses at Ox-Bow and has given workshops at colleges and universities across the country. His work has been exhibited both regionally and nationally in group and solo exhibitions, most recently including: Yunomi Invitational 2012, Akar Gallery, Iowa City, IA, and Instructional / Play a solo-exhibition at Krasl Art Center in Saint Joseph, MI.
Course: Image and Surface and Objects and Images: Screenprinting and Narrative
Shawn Decker
Shawn Decker is a composer, artist, and teacher who creates sound and electronic media installations and writes music for live performance, film, and video. His is positioned at the intersection of music composition, the visual arts, and performance, using physical and electronic media to investigate, simulate and praise the natural (and unnatural) worlds. He frequently collaborates with other artists, including most recently Jan Erik- Andersson and Anne Wilson. As an artist whose work spans multiple disciplines, for making use of technology and technological processes on the one hand and incorporating traditional elements such as Irish and American folk fiddle-traditions on the other – merging physical elements and techniques from sculpture with environmental sound and music performance, Decker sees art and artmaking within a very broad context. As a senior faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, education is another element within his broad-based practice, with teaching supporting artistic production, and vice-versa.
Course: Ornithology for Artists and Ornithology for Artists (science department)
Mike Rossi
BFA, Northern Michigan University; MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art. Studio artist
Teaching Experience: Ox-Bow School of Art (Saugatuck, MI), Kalamazoo College (MI), Smartshop Metal Arts Collective, (MI)
Exhibitions: The New Steel v.2 (National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis), Bloom (Brookfield Craft Center, CT), All About Me (Open/end Gallery, Chicago); FERRO 2005 participant, Vechta, Germany
www.rossimetaldesign.com
Course: Blacksmithing: Sculptural Forms, Blacksmithing: Sculptural Forms, Blacksmithing: Sculptural Forms, and Out of Thin Air
Jo Dery
Jo Dery is an interdisciplinary artist who experiments with storytelling. Her works include animated films and videos, drawings, prints, illustration, installation projects, and artist/small-press book publications.Her animations have screened at festivals nationally and internationally, and she has exhibited her drawings and prints in Providence, New York, San Francisco, Portland, and Los Angeles. Her books can be found in independent stores like Ada Books (Providence) and Quimby’s (Chicago), or purchased online from Little Otsu. She has completed residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, as well as participated in an animation workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland. Most recently, she designed an installation project for the DeCordova Museum Biennial, at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Massachusetts.
Course: Tell It Like A Story
Carrie Gundersdorf
Carrie Gundersdorf is an artist based in Chicago. Solo exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Julius Caesar (Chicago), Shane Campbell Gallery (Chicago), and Gahlberg Gallery, College of Dupage, (Glen Ellyn, IL). She has also exhibited in group shows at Loyola Museum of Art (Chicago), Regina Rex (Brooklyn), Marc Foxx Gallery (Los Angeles), Proof Gallery (Boston), Gallery 400, University of Illinois (Chicago), Tony Wight Gallery (Chicago), and SWINGR (Vienna), among others.
Her work has been discussed in Art Review, Chicago Tribune, Artforum.com, Artnet, Bad at Sports, Art on Paper, and Time Out Chicago. Gundersdorf is the recipient of the Artadia Award and the Bingham Fellowship. She has a BA from Connecticut College and a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Carrie Gundersdorf was selected as the 2013 Cora Bliss Taylor Fellowship for Distinguished Painters
Underwritten by the Warnock Family. Cora Bliss Taylor was a beloved watercolor teacher in Saugatuck and friend of Ox-Bow. Her strong vision and inspiring teaching capabilities left a great impression on her students, and many of her paintings hang in public spaces in Saugatuck/Douglas, providing a visual history of this community. The Taylor Fellowship was established by the Warnock family in 2000 to honor Cora Bliss, and has in the past been used to bring eminent Visiting Artists to the Ox-Bow campus, including François Mechain, Frances Whitehead, Susanna Coffey, Frank Piatek, Ellen Lanyon, Olive Ayhens, Shona MacDonald, and Gladys Nilsson.
Course: Watercolor
Andrew Winship
Andrew received his MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1998) and his BFA from University of Michigan School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor, MI (1995). He is an Associate Professor in Painting, Printmaking, and Graduate Studies at Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN. He has taught for Indiana University Bloomington, Depaul University, and SAIC. He is an active professional and an exhibits nationally/internationally including Kumu Art Museum, Tallin, ESTONIA, Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI; Muskegan Museum of Art, MI, Roots and Culture Contemporary Arts Center, Chicago, IL, and ARTBOX, Indianapolis, IN. His work is housed in select national and international collections.
Course: Etching, Etching (1-week), Etching (2-week), Etching, Etching for 2 weeks, and Portrait as Starting Point
Pamela Feldman
Pamela Feldman is a colorist focusing on natural dyes. She received her BFA from the University of California, Davis and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has earned her Certificate of Excellence in Dyeing, Level I and Level II, from the Handweaver’s Guild of America. Pamela is the editor and publisher of the Turkey Red Journal, an online journal about natural dyes. She is a member of the North Park Community Garden Association, where she maintains a natural dye garden. She is one of the founding board members of the North Park Art Center. Her naturally dyed works have been shown nationally and are in a number of private collections. Images of Pamela’s work can be seen at www.pamelafeldman.com and the Turkey Red Journal can be viewed at www.turkeyredjournal.com.
Mark Pascale
MFA, Ohio State University; BA, Southern Connecticut State College.
Current: Curator of Prints and Drawings, Art Institute of Chicago.
Teaches: School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Curated: Force of a Dream: The Drawings of Joseph Yoakum; After the Crash: Picturing the U.S. 1930-1943; Chicago Stories: Prints, and H.C. Westermann See America First, all The Art Institute of Chicago.
Visiting lecturer: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of FineArts-Houston; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; University of Wisconsin; Folk Art Museum, New York.
Course: Lithography , Lithography: Color, Lithography, Lithography for 2 weeks, Lithography: Color, and Lithography
Alex Gartelmann
Alex Gartelmann was born and raised in the rolling hills and sprawling suburbs of Northern New Jersey. He received his BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA, and his MFA from The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, IL. He is the founder and former director of My House Gallery and part of the artist collaborative team Sebura&Gartelmann with artist Jonas Sebura. His work has been shown at NADA Miami, The Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, The Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, The University of The Arts, Philadelphia, and numerous other locations nationally. www.alexgartelmann.com
Course: Metal Casting I—Mold Making and Bronze Casting Intensive
James Kao
James Kao is a Chicago-based artist who makes paintings and drawings. In 2010 he was the pioneer painter Artist in Residence at the Marina Abramovic Institute-West in San Francisco, and in 2011, he was named the first White Mountain National Forest Artist in Residence. He has mounted one person exhibitions at Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; China Projects, San Francisco, CA; Lloyd Dobler Gallery, Chicago, IL; Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Sandwich, NH. He holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Chicago and BFA and MFA degrees from SAIC. He teaches in SAIC’s Painting and Drawing department.
Course: Multilevel Painting: Outside/Inside and Paint and Landscape: Material as Narrative
Eddie Bernard
Eddie Bernard is an artist, craftsperson, and designer. In 1996 he earned a BFA from RIT and founded Wet Dog Glass, LLC, a small manufacturing firm specializing in art glass processing equipment for schools, universities, public access studios and museums across the US and around the world. As an artist, Eddie has instructed numerous hot glass sculpting workshops at Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Craft; Glass Furnace, Istanbul, Turkey; and The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass. He has lectured and demonstrated in such faraway places as Japan, Taiwan and Korea. Eddie was a founding board member of the New Orleans Creative Glass Institute (NOGCI) from 2006 to 2012 and served on the Board of Directors of the Glass Art Society (GAS) from 2004 to 2011, Central Park NC since 2011 and Craft Emergency Relief Fund Plus (CERF+) since 2011. He was elected to a four year term as Town Commissioner in Star, NC in December 2011.
Course: Sculpting Ideas