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  • Erin Boyle smiling at the camera.

    Erin Boyle

    Adjunct Faculty

    Erin Rose Boyle creates sculpture and installations that feature details achieved through her inventive use of uncommon art materials and techniques. She believes that her best work happens when it involves experimentation and play and provides…

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  • Matthew Colaizzo

    Matthew Colaizzo

    Adjunct Faculty

    Matthew Colaizzo makes mixed-media drawings and prints that examine our relationship to the landscape, with ideas about land accessibility and natural history. He is also self-employed as a fine art picture framer, specializing in conservation…

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    Jazmyn Crosby

    Adjunct Faculty

    Jazmyn Crosby is an interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates communication, technology and ecological resilience. Born and raised in New Mexico, Jazmyn lives in Philadelphia where she received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art and…

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  • Chad Curtis smiling at the camera.

    Chad Curtis

    Associate Professor and Chair of Foundations

    Chad D. Curtis is an artist and educator who is motivated by politics of the environment, land use, climate change and the evolution of these relationships over time. Visually, Curtis’s work references traditional notions of the sublime landscape…

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  • Sam Fritch smiling at the camera.

    Sam Fritch

    Assistant Professor

    Sam Fritch is a photographer whose work seeks to explore the essence of diverse groups, from gun owners to community gardeners to Tyler’s transgender community. This concept extends into his commercial photography business, where he captures the…

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  • Michael Grothusen

    Michael Grothusen

    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Michael Grothusen is a sculptor based in Philadelphia. His work is rooted in an investigative process and a tactile connection to material. It is diverse in terms of scale, scope, and content.  He makes objects, temporary site-specific…

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  • Amy E. Haavik-MacKinnon

    Amy Haavik-MacKinnon

    Adjunct Faculty

    Amy Haavik-MacKinnon holds a BA from Vassar College, a MA from the University of Manchester in England, and a PhD from Bryn Mawr College—all in the field of art history. She has a strong affinity for British culture and history, having lived in…

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    Brynn Hurlstone

    Adjunct Faculty

    Brynn Hurlstone is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, and fabricator who creates consumptive, sensorial objects and environments that invite engagement. She considers trauma and its relationship to precarity, unspeakability, isolation,…

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  • Simona M. Josan-Barkley smiling at the camera.

    Simona Josan-Barkley

    Associate Professor and Curriculum Coordinator

    Simona Josan is an immigrant artist whose research interests concern ideas of displacement and memory. Her work often deals with the creation and fetishism of objects that are stand-ins for past experiences and function as material storytelling…

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  • Nichola Kinch smiling at the camera.

    Nichola Kinch

    Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor

    Nichola Kinch is an artist whose creative production is propelled by technical investigations that span pre-photographic practices to computer aided design and manufacturing. Her practice  centers on the creation of objects and installations…

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  • Alicia Link

    Alicia Link

    Adjunct Faculty

    Alicia Link’s work offers a type of expanded painting that manifests itself across disciplines. Using fantasy and humor to explore the relationship between loss, love and the body, she often lingers in a space that draws attention to the…

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  • Kedrick McKenzie

    Kedrick McKenzie

    Adjunct Faculty and Studio Technician

      Kedrick McKenzie’s work is an inquiry of what lies underneath layers and layers of frontiers. Growing up on the West Coast, where, as Joan Didion puts it, “boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension,” McKenzie…

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  • Kara Ja'Nice Mshinda

    Kara Mshinda

    Adjunct Faculty

    Kara Mshinda (she/her) is a visual anthropologist and interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores identity, memory, and embodiment through photo-based artworks. She employs collage, collaborative portraiture, and alternative photographic…

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  • Christopher Richards

    Christopher Richards

    Adjunct Faculty

    Christopher Richards is an interdisciplinary artist and educator working in Philadelphia. He works in a variety of adoptive methods to engage with ideas about perception, the passage of time, and imparting life to matter. Through both the…

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  • Tad Sare

    Tad Sare

    Adjunct Faculty

    Tad Sare is an experimental animator, artist, and educator. He employs hand-drawn techniques while collaging photographs, video, and sound elements digitally into unique animated shorts. His work blends visual references from pop culture,…

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  • Buy Shaver smiling at the camera.

    Buy Shaver

    Associate Professor and Curriculum Coordinator

    Buy Shaver is a multi-disciplinary, installation-based artist with a visual arts background that includes Eastern and Western painting, graphic design, illustration and exhibition design.  Shaver primarily works site-specifically, often…

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  • Samantha Simpson smiling at the camera.

    Samantha Simpson

    Associate Professor

    Samantha Simpson is an artist who makes interactive VR, books and work on paper. She has a long history of painting on paper but is now making immersive interactive painted worlds in VR. Her work asks questions about empathy, artmaking and…

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  • Matthew Speedy

    Matthew Speedy

    Adjunct Faculty

    Matthew Speedy is an artist and educator working in Philadelphia. His work is concerned with depictions of labor in science fiction, ongoing ecological crises, and how to productively worry about the future. Incorporating a multitude of…

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  • Sean Starowitz

    Sean Starowitz

    Adjunct Faculty

    Sean M. Starowitz has worked in a variety of community-based contexts, spanning more than a decade of socially engaged art practice. He uses archival research and public memory as material to reframe our current understanding of natural…

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  • Kim D. Strommen smiling at the camera.

    Kim Strommen

    Dean Emeritus of Temple University Rome Foundations and Professor Emeritus

    Kim Strommen is an artist, educator and arts administrator who has worked with mixed media to produce art with associations to craft and painting. His works have included wall hangings, woven metal sculpture and architecturally scaled…

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  • Lauren A. Whearty

    Lauren Whearty

    Adjunct Faculty

    Lauren Whearty is a Philadelphia-based painter, curator and teacher.  She is also a co-director of an artist-run curatorial collective, Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, NY. Whearty's paintings investigate personal identity…

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  • Jennifer Zarro smiling at the camera.

    Jennifer Zarro

    Associate Professor and Curriculum Coordinator - on leave for 2025-26 academic year

    Jen Zarro teaches a General Education race and diversity course which draws on historic and contemporary art of the Americas. Her dissertation research focused on prints, maps, and the culture of geography in late 18th century Philadelphia. A…

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