Tyler School of Art &amp; Architecture

Anna Bockrath

Adjunct Faculty

Anna Bockrath is an artist and educator based in Philadelphia. Her interdisciplinary studio practice incorporates weaving, silkscreen printing, and sculpture. Her work asks questions about loss, care, and time. Bockrath’s work has been exhibited…

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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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Jessica Braum

PhD Student

Jessica Braum is a Ph.D. candidate whose research encompasses post-war developments in the art of Southeast and East Asia, Europe, and the Americas, with particular attention to the intersections of art, culture, and globalization, and a focus on…

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Moe Brooker (BFA '70, MFA '72)

Moe Brooker (BFA '70, MFA '72) was an internationally celebrated abstract painter with strong Philadelphia roots, best known for his joyous interpretation of African American life on canvas. His style evolved over time into abstract line…

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Gerard Brown

Associate Professor and Program Head of Painting

Gerard brown teaches in Foundations and Painting. He also teaches Graduate Seminar in Teaching in Higher Education. As a writer, Brown has contributed essays to Ceramics: Art & Perception, Philadelphia Weekly and Juxtapoz…

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Doug Bucci

Assistant Professor and Program Head of Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM

ON LEAVE, FALL 2024 Doug Bucci is an artist and educator in the field of jewelry whose work utilizes digital processes to explore and display biological systems and the effect of disease on the body. Computer aided technologies allow Bucci to…

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Antawan I. Byrd (BA '09)

Art History

Antawan I. Byrd (BA '09) was named associate curator of photography and media at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021 and earned his PhD in modern and contemporary art history at Northwestern University in 2022,…

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Susan E. Cahan

Dean and Professor of Art History

Susan E. Cahan is an art historian, curator and educator who specializes in contemporary art and the history of museums. Her research focuses on the relationship between social and artistic change and the confluence of factors that shape the way…

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Hatice Koroglu Cam

PhD Student

Hatice Koroglu Cam (she/her) is a first-year PhD student focusing on Italian Renaissance art. For three years, she studied Journalism and Art History at Istanbul University in Turkey. Hatice graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers University,…

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Kayla Cantu

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Kayla Cantu is an artist who parallels qualities of glass and everyday materials to the human body. Through questioning society’s understanding of normality and abnormality, her practice explores curiosities of discomfort surrounding unruly…

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Joshua Caplan, PhD

Associate Professor of Research

Josh Caplan is an environmental biologist who studies plant and soil dynamics in human-modified settings. With most of his work, he seeks to understand how plants and soils respond to environmental extremes (for example, in salinity, soil…

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Daniel Cappello

Student

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Danny Cappello

Adjunct Faculty

Daniel Cappello is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator based in Philadelphia. His creative practice, spanning sound, sculpture, drawing, and design, is driven by an interest in constructing patterns, rhythms, and structures that embody queer…

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Julia Carita

MA Student

Julia Carita (she/her) is a first-year MA student in art history. She is interested in art that serves the counterculture, particularly the artwork and ephemera created by American punk and queer communities from the 1960s to the present. Julia…

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MeiLi Carling

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David Carnish

PhD Student

David Carnish is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Italian Renaissance studies. His interests are in art, religion and culture as expressed in the genre of sacred images. David works full time for Penn State Health where he serves as the Manager of…

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Barbara Chase-Riboud (BFA '56)

Sculpture

Barbara Chase-Riboud (BFA '56) is an internationally-acclaimed visual artist and author, known for integrating mediums and materials in uniquely expressive ways. Her abstract bronze, knotted and braided silk and wool fiber sculptures dedicated to…

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Ziui Chen Vance

Adjunct Faculty

Ziui Chen Vance integrates motion tracking, virtual materiality, and visual narratives into screen-based immersive environments that expand the boundaries of digital craft and experience. Working across emerging media and extended reality, she…

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Feather Chiaverini

Adjunct Faculty

Feather Chiaverini explores how queer theory, horror, class, and pop culture shape our identities and how these tools can be used flexibly to shape the self. Inspired by the theater and everyday hustle of their family’s costume shop, they use…

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Charlotte G. Chin Greene

Adjunct Faculty

Charlotte G. Chin Greene (they/them) is an artist and curator based in Philadelphia, PA. Utilizing digital fabrication tools, their research-driven practice studies time, virtuality, machines, modes of sensing and perceiving, and the global…

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Laurie Churchman

Adjunct Faculty

Laurie is the principal of Designlore, a place for making, thinking and teaching design. She has over 30 years of graphic design experience recognized by Communication Arts, Creativity, How Magazine, and AIGA. Her book, The Art of Boat Names was…

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Karen Clancy

Adjunct Faculty

Karen Clancy received her BA with a dual degree in Biology and Classical Studies from Colgate University, and her Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design. She explored the diverse field of landscape…

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Hayley Clayton

Student

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William J. Cohen, PhD, FAICP

Adjunct Faculty

Bill Cohen has been a practicing city and regional planner with over 32 years of experience at the municipal and state levels, in addition to the nonprofit sector. He has been on the faculty of Temple University since 2004, where his teaching and…

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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…

Michael Coll

Adjunct Faculty

Michael Coll has managed landscapes in southeastern Pennsylvania for the past 12 years. His focus is the restoration of native ecosystems to facilitate biodiversity and ecosystem functionality. Currently Michael lives on and manages Hildacy Preserve…

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Fred Conner

Adjunct Faculty

Fred Conner is a management consultant with over 30 years of leadership experience in planning, building, and maintaining communities in both the private and public sectors. Noteworthy planning projects have included expeditionary military bases,…

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Madeleine Conover

Adjunct Faculty

Madeleine Conover is a Chinese-American adoptee whose images and sculptures explore the Asian American diaspora through the lens of her adoption, a consequence of China’s former one-child policy. Her recent work focuses on discovering her biological…

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Georgiana Constantinescu

Adjunct Faculty

A Philly-based art director and graphic designer, Georgie has been in the business of creating for nearly a decade. Georgie specializes in branding, print, and web design for nonprofits, institutions, and businesses, with a passion for typography…

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Tracy E. Cooper, PhD

Professor

Tracy E. Cooper specializes in Venetian and early modern cultural history and theory, with particular interests in architecture and urbanism, space and circulation and patronage and collecting studies. As a member of the board of directors for…

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Bill Covaleski (BFA '85)

Design and Illustration

Bill Covaleski (BFA '85) is the co-founder of Victory Brewing Company—an award-winning and critically-acclaimed brewery that distributes across the United States and internationally. Victory beers have won medals at both The Great American Beer…

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Amber Cowan

Adjunct Faculty

Amber Cowan is a sculptor using the material of glass as her primary medium. She is currently working with a process which involves flameworking, blowing and hot-sculpting recycled, up-cycled and second-life glass from thrift stores, flea…

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Finley Cowlishaw

PhD Student

Finley Cowlishaw (they/he) specializes in global contemporary and modern art. Their current research assesses the use of drag assemblages as a method of queer futurity and tool for deconstructing false dichotomies, arbitrary categorizations and…

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Anthony Croasdale

Adjunct Faculty

Tony Croasdale has made fostering ecological literacy his life's work. He is the director of Philadelphia Parks & Recreation’s Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Center and the co-host of the Urban Wildlife Podcast. BS Hort, Tyler School of…

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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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Phillip M. Crosby

Adjunct Faculty

Phillip M. Crosby is the founding principal at DUAL:workshop—an award-winning, research-based interdisciplinary design practice that focuses on both large-scaled urban design frameworks and small-scaled tactical urbanist interventions…

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Zach J. Cross

Adjunct Faculty

Zachary Cross is a landscape designer with multiple years of experience producing designs for projects of all scales.

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Natalie Cruz

PhD Student

Natalie Cruz (she/her) is a first year PhD Art History student specializing in global modern and contemporary art. Her past studies have contended with generational and personal memory, historically absent or destroyed archives, language…

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Mia Culbertson

Assistant Professor

Mia Culbertson is a designer and educator whose academic research focuses on diversity, equity, and representation in the design community and in the classroom. Culbertson has a love for combining typography and brand identity with modern…

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Charlie Cunningham

Adjunct Faculty

Charlie Cunningham is a studio artist from Connecticut. He is the co-founder of the Orchard Art Collective in Philadelphia. His interdisciplinary background provides students with a multifaceted education in fine arts and professional practice. …

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Chad D. 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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Matt Curtius

Associate Professor

Matt Curtius is an artist, illustrator and educator whose creative practice is a collaborative endeavor split with his partner, Gina Triplett. Their fine art has been exhibited widely, including at the National Museum of China, Delaware Art…

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Camila Damico Medina

PhD Student

With a broad specialty in Latin American modern and contemporary art history, Camila Damico Medina (she/they)'s research focuses on the entanglements between art and technology, embodiment discourses, projects of modernity, and abstraction…

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María de Lourdes Mariño

PhD Student

María de Lourdes Mariño is an independent researcher and curator currently a Ph.D. candidate at Temple University, where she specializes in Modern and Contemporary Art from Latin America and the Caribbean, including its diaspora. Her scholarship…

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Frank de Santis

Adjunct Faculty

Frank de Santis is an architect and educator whose efforts bridge academic inquiry and practical design, with a focus on beginning design pedagogy and residential projects. He believes architectural education should empower students to thoughtfully…

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Martine Decamp, AICP

Adjunct Faculty

Martine Decamp is Deputy Director for the Philadelphia City Planning Commission. In her 20 years as a planner, she has worked with the community, developers, architects, engineers, attorneys, and elected officials in her roles in community planning,…

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Danielle Degon Rhodes

MA Student

Danielle Degon Rhodes (she/her) is pursuing an MA in Art History with a concentration in arts management. She is an artist, curator, and arts administrator dedicated to improving public access to art and supporting contemporary artists in the…

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Delaney DeMott

Associate Professor and Program Head

Delaney DeMott is an artist and educator whose work highlights the “hiccups” that contribute to one’s lived experience. In addition to actively exhibiting her work, she teaches community-driven workshops at the Banana Factory in Bethlehem, PA and…

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Jane DeRose Evans, PhD

Professor and Chair of Art History

Jane DeRose Evans can be found excavating in and studying coins from areas across the Mediterranean basin conquered by the Romans. Her work has taken her to southern France, Israel, Jordan and most recently Turkey, where she is the coin…

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Ryan Thomas Devlin

Assistant Professor and Curriculum Coordinator

Ryan Thomas Devlin’s research focuses on urban informality in cities of the Global North. He is specifically interested in informal placemaking strategies of immigrant groups in U.S. cities, and how planners, urban designers, and public…

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Jeffrey Doshna, PhD, AICP

Associate Professor and Program Head of Planning & Community Development

Jeffrey P. Doshna is a professional planner, economist and community leader. He teaches courses in community and economic development, quantitative and qualitative research methods and supervises the graduate planning studio. After a term on the…

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Alfred Dragani

Adjunct Faculty

Alfred Dragani is a founding principal of Dragani Martone Studio | dMAS, a Philadelphia-based architecture, planning and interior design studio focused on sustainable and innovative design strategies for the adaptive reuse of existing buildings. The…

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Alice E. Drueding

Alice Drueding, a graphic designer whose practice addresses sociopolitical, cultural, and environmental issues, joined the Tyler faculty in 1989. She has been working in collaboration with Joe Scorsone, Professor Emeritus and former…

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Emily Dugan

PhD Student

Emily Dugan (she/her) is a PhD student who specializes in Early Modern Art in England with a focus on Northern artists working for the court during the 17th century. She has a particular interest in portraiture, and looks to explore the implications…

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Senior Admissions Counselor

Emily is the Senior Admissions Counselor here at Tyler working with all populations of students. As a first-generation college student herself, she feels passionately about helping students navigate the application process. When she’s not working…

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Alana F. Dunoff, FMP, IFMA Fellow

Adjunct Faculty

Alana F. Dunoff, ProFM, FMP, IFMA Fellow, is a strategic facility planning consultant and facilities management professional with more than 28 years of field experience. She is passionate about Facilities Management education and teaching…

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Elizabeth Duong

Student

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Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver, PhD

Assistant Professor

Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver studies the archaeologies, landscapes, and arts of the eastern Mediterranean, with a specific focus on the hybrid material practices created on the borderlands of Bronze and Iron Age empires. Her research and publications to…

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Ivy D’Agostino

MA Student

Ivy D’Agostino is a second year master’s student on the research track. She researches art, objects, and architecture from the Early Modern period and focuses specifically on themes of embodied spirituality, materiality, cross-cultural collision,…

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Thomas Edinger

Adjunct Faculty

Thomas Edinger is a senior transportation planner at the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, where he handles major transportation planning tasks, including managing the Congestion Management Process (CMP) for the region. MCRP Ohio…

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Allan Edmunds (BFA '71, MFA '75)

Printmaking

Allan Edmunds (BFA '71, MFA '75) is an award-winning visual artist, art educator and founder of Brandywine Workshop and Archives—a non-profit visual arts organization that serves as a center for the advancement of fine art printmaking and…

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Sasha W. Eisenman, PhD

Associate Professor and Chair of Architecture and Environmental Design

Sasha Eisenman is a botanist and horticulturist with a diverse portfolio of research projects. Currently, his primary area of research is on the survival, health and ecophysiological responses of plants in green infrastructure systems (tree…

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Amze J. Emmons

Professor and Program Head of Printmaking

Amze J. Emmons is a multi-disciplinary artist with a background in printmaking and drawing. His research interests include wandering and noticing; the politics of architecture; vernacular design; everyday evidence of community; games, play, and…

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Nicole Emser

PhD Student

Nicole Emser (she/her) is a PhD candidate studying the modern and contemporary art of the Caribbean and its diasporas. Her dissertation traces the systematic practices of ordering Caribbean land—from the colonial to the present—mapping the…

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Miray Eroglu

PhD Student

Miray Eroglu is a PhD student concentrating on Ottoman art and architecture and the Islamic world broadly. Her research interests span the 18th to 20th centuries, exploring urbanity, sites of sociability, performance, affect, gender, and sexuality,…

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Anoka Faruqee (MFA '97)

Painting

Anoka Faruqee (MFA '97) is a painter, curator and Associate Dean at Yale University. Known for colorful moiré paintings inspired by Persian and Indian miniatures, 1960's psychedelia and modernist abstraction, her work features overlapping…

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David Feldman

Adjunct Faculty

David Feldman has worked in housing and community development policy and implementation for over 25 years, in the private and non-profit sectors. His work has included funding and technical assistance to community-based organizations for affordable…

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April Finfrock

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Billy Fleming

Assistant Professor

Billy Fleming is an interdisciplinary scholar of climate justice and the built environment and founding co-director of the Climate and Community Institute, a progressive think-tank focused on climate and political economy. His research…

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Emma Flick

Adjunct Faculty

Emma Flick is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in printmaking, print-publishing and community organizing whose work explores archival systems, relationships with place and the materiality of the print process. She teaches printmaking…

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Clifton Fordham, RA, IFMA, LEED AP

Associate Professor

Clifton Fordham is a registered architect who teaches architectural design, building technology and project planning. He is editor of the book Constructing Building Enclosures: Architectural History, Technology and Poetics in the…

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Jesse Forrester

Adjunct Faculty

Jesse Forrester is a 2004 alum of Temple University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in landscape architecture. His professional career began at the Olin Partnership (now Olin) working on the Mill River Park and Greenway, Bethel Performing…

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Jamie Forslund, MEd

Adjunct Faculty

Jamie Forslund, a Tyler MEd alumna, teaches pre-service art and elementary teachers. While Forslund’s classroom teaching experience ranges from preschool to older adults and spans multiple disciplines, the majority of her experience is in…

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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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Albert Fung

Adjunct Faculty

Albert Fung is a printmaker, painter, art instructor and yoga instructor. He has lived, worked, and exhibited in New York and Philadelphia. His work has been led by an inclination toward precision, knowledge-gaining, awareness, and care. MFA…

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Mark Gallagher

Adjunct Faculty

Mark Gallagher is the Vice President of Princeton Hydro, a water resources-oriented consulting firm. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Moravian College and Master of Science degree in Plant Ecology from Rutgers University. He has…

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Dilmar Mauricio Gamero Santos, Ph.D.

Program Head and Assistant Professor

Dilmar M. Gamero S. Ph.D. is a Peruvian-born, Philadelphia-based visual artist, educator, and researcher with studies in audiovisual communication, philosophy, theology, and art education. He specializes in documentary production, fine art…

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Doreen Garner (BFA '10)

Glass

Doreen Garner (BFA '10) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose sculptural and installation work focus on the frequently-suppressed history of the exploitation of black bodies—who were used as trial-and-error subjects in operations and tests by…

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Dan Garofalo, AIA

Adjunct Faculty

Dan Garofalo, AIA is an architect, urbanist and sustainability professional and principal at Dan Garofalo, Architect. His professional career includes both architecture and urban design and more than 20 years as a…

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Katie Garth

Adjunct Faculty

Katie Garth’s interdisciplinary practice is based in printmaking and often reflects her interests in language and independent publication. Her work considers tedium as a coping mechanism for uncertainty in an increasingly chaotic world. She has been…

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Kati Gegenheimer

Adjunct Faculty

Kati Gegenheimer was born in Bucks County, PA, in 1984 and lives and works in Philadelphia, where she is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She received an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University…

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Mario O. Gentile

Adjunct Faculty

As founding partner and Studio Director of the Philadelphia-based Shiftspace, Mario helps guide the strategic direction of the studio’s work for the design of environments, experiences and lifestyle products (under the SHIFT brand). The work and…

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Nicolo Gentile

Adjunct Faculty

Nicolo Gentile is a Philadelphia-based artist, writer and fabricator. Composed of leather, latex, iron and steel, his work slips between recognizable materials of kink, industry, and sport to address the oscillating power dynamics of desire, gender,…

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Philip Glahn, PhD

Professor of Aesthetics and Critical Studies and Chair of Art

ON LEAVE, SPRING 2025 Philip Glahn’s research and teaching focus on the histories, theories and practices of art as technology, labor and activism. His writings on the legacies of avant-garde strategies, the politics of drawing, digital media…

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Samuel Gleit

Student

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Ollie Goss

Adjunct Faculty

Ollie Goss is an artist who uses installation, puppetry, and performance to create aberrations in reality as catalysts to propose alternatives for a more equitable world. Their work aims to interrogate how space is inscribed, and the…

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Ollie Goss

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Keith Greiman

Adjunct Faculty

Keith Warren Greiman’s paintings, prints and drawings focus on humans as conduits of the gritty, vibrant energy that propels our day-to-day living. BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University www.keithgreiman.com

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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…

Abby Guido

Associate Professor and Chair of Design and Illustration

Abby Guido is a communication designer, educator, and academic leader whose research focuses on collaboration, leadership, and the evolving role of the designer in education and practice. She investigates how human-centered design principles and…

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David Guinnip

Adjunct Faculty

David R. Guinnup is an applied economist and an urban and regional planner with over 40 years of professional experience in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Delaware. Currently, he teaches the fundamentals of cultural and environmental ecology of…

John Haak, AICP

Adjunct Faculty

John Haak is a city planner with 35 years of professional experience with regional, county and municipal-level planning agencies. His expertise includes comprehensive and community planning, economic development, capital programming, urban…

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Amy E. 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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Marcia Hall, PhD

Laura H. Carnell Professor Emerita of Renaissance Arts

Marcia Hall is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Renaissance Art. She is a teacher and scholar of Italian Renaissance painting who has written widely on painting in the sixteenth century, Raphael, Michelangelo and those who followed them…

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Sara Hall

Adjunct Faculty

Sara Hall is a seasoned User Experience professional who has contributed her expertise across the health, public, and private sectors. Presently, she serves as the Director of Digital Services at the City of Philadelphia's Office of Innovation and…

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Jacob Hammes

Adjunct Faculty

Jacob C. Hammes is an interdisciplinary artist, arts organizer and educator based in Philadelphia. Working primarily in sculpture, drawing and sound, Hammes approaches art as a form of serious play, exploring themes of late capitalist…

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Trenton Doyle Hancock (MFA '00)

Painting

Trenton Doyle Hancock (MFA '00) creates prints, videos, drawings, sculptures, individual performances and collaged felt paintings. His use of color, language and pattern meld into energetic and subversive narratives that employ a personal…

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Sally Harrison, AIA

Professor

Sally Harrison is an architect, urban designer, educator, and scholar whose creative work and research explore the social impacts of design in underserved communities. She is the director and co-founder of The Urban Workshop, an interdisciplinary…

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Jesse Harrod

Associate Professor

ON LEAVE, FALL 2024 Jesse Harrod (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working between Philadelphia, PA, and New York, NY. Their visual art practice encompasses sculpture, painting, stop-motion animation, and other media to…

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John Hatfield (MFA '89)

Painting

John Hatfield (MFA '89) serves on the Tyler School of Art and Architecture's faculty as Professor of Practice and Director of the Arts Management track in the Art History program. He has over 30 years’ experience with art organizations…

John Hatfield

Professor of Practice and Director of Arts Management Track

John Hatfield has over 30 years’ experience with art organizations including as Executive Director of Socrates Sculpture Park, NY for 10 years, Deputy Director and various positions at the New Museum, NY for 17 years and served as Asst. Vice…

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Edgar Heap of Birds (MFA '79)

Painting

Edgar Heap of Birds (MFA '79) is a visionary multimedia artist, educator, activist and member of the Cheyenne tribe whose works range from drawings and paintings to monumental outdoor sculpture. He is best known for his signature bold, …

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Kyle Hearing

Adjunct Faculty

Kyle Hearing is a project manager and senior transportation planner at Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning, where he focuses on transit service and active transportation planning and analysis. Kyle leverages geographic information systems …

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Nathan Heavers

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Nathan Heavers is an ecological designer with a background in horticulture and visual arts. He researches the diverse ways that humans manage, cultivate, and design forests. Currently, Nathan is working on an urban forestry management plan for…

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Cecelia Heintzelman

MA Student

Cecelia Heintzelman (she/they) is a first-year Art History MA student. They graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Ancient History and History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022. She is also the Collections Manager at the LaSalle…

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David Herman Jr., PhD

Associate Professor

David Herman Jr. is a lens-based exhibiting artist, educator and scholar whose work explores the relations between the perceptual and the social as a political endeavor. His research and scholarly interests are grounding in a belief that the…

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Michaela Herr Hlubik, MA, ATR-BC, LPC

Assistant Professor and Program Head of Art Therapy

Michaela Herr Hlubik is passionate about the expressive arts therapies and their ability to heal, empower, transform and uplift people. She is fueled by social justice, connection and community, and integrates her work with people into the…

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Wil Hershner

Adjunct Faculty

Wil Hershner is an architectural designer, artist, and educator. His teaching and research interests are focused on both the digital and analogue processes of making, methods of architectural representation and the role it has as a design tool and…

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Jessica Hische (BFA '06)

Design and Illustration

Jessica Hische (BFA '06) is an award-winning illustrator, lettering artist and graphic designer who has created custom work for established brands, classic books, postage stamps and more. She’s been listed as a Forbes 30 Under 30 twice, which…

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Troy Louis Holleman

Adjunct Faculty

Troy Holleman is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Philadelphia. He received his master's degree in photography with a certificate in Teaching in Higher Education from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in 2017. In 2018,…

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Gemma Hollister

Student

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Kelly Holohan

Program Head of Design and Illustration, Director of Graduate Studies and Professor

Kelly Holohan is a designer activist whose creative research focuses on issues surrounding the LGBTQ+ community, women’s rights, health and wellness and environmental protection. She is co-creator of We the Women, an initiative designed to raise…

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Emma P. Holter

PhD Student

Emma P. Holter is a Ph.D. candidate and University Fellow specializing in the art of Renaissance Italy. Her dissertation topic explores drawing and underdrawing practices, and the production of monochromatic paintings in fifteenth- and sixteenth…

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Elsa Honig Fine (MEd '67)

Art Education

Elsa Honig Fine (MEd '67) was an artist, art historian and founder and publisher of Woman’s Art Journal (1980–2016)—a publication that documents women artists who were celebrated during their lifetimes but are now lost to art history;…

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Rachel Hsu

Adjunct Faculty

Rachel Hsu is an interdisciplinary artist who works with visual art, language, and poetry. Her work has been exhibited nationally, in including in Philadelphia and New York, and her writing has been published in literary magazines including …

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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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Richard Hylton

Associate Professor

Richard Hylton’s research interests focus on Black British Art, African American Art in a Global Context, historical recovery and cultural memory and restitution, contemporary art, and ethnography. Richard Hylton was born in London, England and…

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Akiko Jackson

Adjunct Faculty

Akiko Jackson is from Kahuku, a rural North Shore community on the island of O'ahu, Hawai'i. She holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts. A recipient of numerous long-term residencies and fellowships nationwide,…

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Kyra Jackson

MA Student

Kyra Jackson is a first-year MA student in Art History. They hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts concentrated in Ceramics with a minor in Art History from Louisiana State University in 2022. Their research centers Afro-Diasporic Art; the commonalities and…

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Renee Jackson, PhD

Associate Professor and Program Head of Art Education

Renee Jackson is an artist, critical feminist pedagogue, and scholar, whose research interests relate to the disruption of oppressive mechanisms in education and the integration of game-design and gameplay as collaborative art forms and learning…

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Martha Jackson Jarvis (BFA '75)

Sculpture and Ceramics

Martha Jackson Jarvis (BFA '75) creates sculptures, public art and installations that engage issues of identity and symbols of belief that confront contemporary life yet are firmly rooted in historical traditions and culture. “Each…

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Ken Jacobs, PhD

Adjunct Faculty

Ken Jacobs has more than 30 years of progressive professional experience in historic preservation, project-based research, architectural work and construction administratio. He is interested in the adaptive reuse of 18th- through early 20th-century…

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Abby James

Student

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Valerie James

Adjunct Faculty

Valerie James is an artist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her BFA in 2016 from Tyler School of Art and an MFA in Jewelry and Metalsmithing from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2019. Through the format of jewelry, James…

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Brad Jamula

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Brad Jamula incorporates photography into a larger constellation of ideas and mediums to explore issues of identity and connection, as well as to examine structures that define our shared and individual experiences. MFA, Tyler School of Art…

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C.T. Jasper

Assistant Professor

ON LEAVE, FALL 2024 + SPRING 2025 C.T. Jasper’s practice comprises various media, concentrating principally on video art, sound, film, sculpture, installation, collage and manipulative interventions within already existing films. These media…

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Meredith Johnson

Adjunct Faculty

Meredith Johnson specializes in accessible development that utilizes existing space through community empowerment and interdisciplinary thinking. She is the executive director at the East Falls Development Corporation—a non-profit that works in…

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Valerie Johnson

Adjunct Faculty

Valerie Johnson joined Pathways to Housing PA in 2018, and was promoted to Vice President of Advancement and Social Enterprise in 2024. Prior to that, she was the Director of Advancement for Council for Relationships. She also worked as a…

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Kalila Jones

Student

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Simona M. 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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Jessica Jane Julius

Associate Professor and Program Head

Jessica Jane Julius is an artist, educator, collaborator and performer who creates glass installations, objects and imagery that examine how fear is infiltrating the ways in which we navigate the world and presents a look at the anxieties and…

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Matt Karp, AIA

Adjunct Faculty

A licensed architect and an active civic volunteer, Matt Karp focuses on using technology to inform design, construction and sustainability. His experience includes all phases of design, documentation and construction for institutional projects with…

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Lisa Kay, EdD, ATR-BC

Professor and Chair of Art Education & Community Arts Practices

Lisa Kay is an artist/researcher, art educator, and art therapist whose creative voice is manifested in and enhanced by the integration of these three identities. She considers art, teaching, and therapy as an integral part of her art practice. A…

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Laura C. Kazmierczak

Adjunct Faculty

Laura C. Kazmierczak, AIA, NCIDQ, NCARB is a licensed practicing architect with a background in architecture, interior design, and construction management. She has taught introductory design representation in the foundation studio since 2021. While…

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Kayla Keen

Student

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Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta, PhD

Adjunct Faculty and Director of Exhibitions and Public Programming

Dr. Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta ("Dr. Matt") is an award-winning scholar, artist and advocate who currently serves as the Director and Curator of Exhibitions and Public Programming at Temple Contemporary gallery. His research and practice…

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Paul Kepple

Adjunct Faculty

Paul Kepple is the Creative Director and founder of Headcase Design, an award-winning graphic design studio based in Philadelphia that specializes in publishing, typography, and illustration. Paul has created ambitious and richly elaborate book…

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Timothy Kerner, AIA

Adjunct Faculty

Timothy Kerner is the principal of Terra Studio, LLC, an architecture firm in Center City Philadelphia that focuses on residential and educational architecture and community planning. His research focuses on the relationship between…

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Jason Kernevich

Adjunct Faculty

Jason Kernevich is a principal and creative director of the Philadelphia-based design agency The Heads of State. BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University www.theheadsofstate.com

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Kaitlin Kerr

Adjunct Faculty

Kaitlin Kerr is a Philadelphia-based artist, educator, and small business owner with over 15 years of teaching experience. She holds a BFA in Crafts: Metals from the University of the Arts. Through her jewelry brand, Echo Metals, she explores the…

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Melissa Kim (MS '10)

City & Regional Planning

Melissa Kim (MS '10) is Director of Community Impact at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation's (LISC)—a community development financial institution and community development intermediary. In this position, Melissa advances racial justice…

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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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Jessica L. Kirker, PhD

Adjunct Faculty

Jessica Kirker is a visual arts educator that has been teaching artist-scholars ranging from preschool to higher education over her 25+ year career. She has facilitated arts-based learning in a diverse range of formal and informal settings…

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Em Kleaver

Admissions Counselor

Em Kleaver is an arts education administrator, teaching artist, and scholar who comes to their role as an Admissions Counselor at Tyler with a deep passion for guiding students and their families through the college admissions process. Em seeks…

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Grace Ahn Klensin

Director of Admissions

Grace is dedicated to ensuring every applicant feels seen, valued, and supported. She believes in celebrating the individuality of each student and makes it a priority for people from all backgrounds to explore the unique opportunities at Tyler. …

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Tyler Kline

Adjunct Faculty

Tyler Kline is an educator, artist, and curator living in Philadelphia. Kline creates in a multidisciplinary mode, structuring work that conceptually braids and blends notions of emergence, somatics, affect theory, generative media, and techniques…

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Simmie Knox (BFA ‘70, MFA ‘72)

Painting

Simmie Knox’s (BFA ‘70, MFA ‘72) prolific career as a portrait artist includes becoming the first African American artist to receive a presidential portrait commission for the official White House portraits of President Bill Clinton and First Lady…

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Merve Koksal

PhD Student

Merve Koksal is a PhD student and University Fellow focusing on the intersections of modern art and culture with urban space, migration, cross-cultural exchange, and exile in late Ottoman Istanbul, particularly during the Allied occupation (1918…

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Joseph Kopta, PhD

Assistant Professor

Joseph R. Kopta, PhD (he/they) is an art historian of the medieval world, with particular expertise in the visual and material culture of the Eastern Roman Empire. His intellectual interests are informed by issues of materiality, phenomenology of…

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Piper Kozar-Meyers

MA Student

Piper Kozar-Meyers (she/they) is a first year MA student in art history with a focus in early Roman Imperial arts. She plans to mainly focus on numismatics, looking into the use of portraiture and symbolism as propaganda in the Roman…

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Soonduk Krebs

Adjunct Faculty

Soonduk Krebs is the president and creative Director of SK Designworks—a full-service graphic design firm in Philadelphia. She uses her experience to develop creative, dynamic design solutions for some of the region’s most important commercial,…

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Natalie Kuenzi

Adjunct Faculty

Natalie Kuenzi has served as a faculty member at numerous universities and art centers, including the University of Pennsylvania, University of the Arts, Drexel University, Saint Joseph’s University, The Clay Studio of Philadelphia, and Tacony LAB…

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Rob Kuper, PLA

Associate Professor

Rob Kuper teaches undergraduate and graduate landscape architecture design studio and engineering courses. Between 2012 and 2020, he co-directed design-build studio course projects that received almost 40 awards. Recently, Rob has taught the…

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Jake Lahah

Student

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Baldev Lamba, MLA, RLA, ASLA

Associate Professor

Baldev Lamba has more than three decades of experience working as an Architect and Landscape Architect in India, the Middle East and the United States. Lamba’s award-winning projects include the First Ladies Water Garden on the National…

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Em Lane

Student

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Scott Laserow

Professor

ON LEAVE, SPRING 2025 Scott Laserow is a graphic and poster designer who blends traditional graphic design techniques with emerging technologies. His research into political/social/environmental poster design began in 2004. Most…

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Dominique

Student

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Painter

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Marie Latif

Student

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Michelle Leclerc

Adjunct Faculty

Michelle LeClerc strives to add context and meaning to the growing world of information design. She has developed infographics for brands including American Express, Uber and Google. In 2017, she created the data visualization for Elizabeth Warren’s…

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Studio Technician

lydon frank lettuce is an artist, writer, and all-around goon from rural Pennsylvania. They plant poems in your garden and dig diagrams into the sand. They wrestle with the knotted garden hose of language and press your semantic satiation up against…

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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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Ari Lipkis

PhD Student

Ari Lipkis (he/him/his) focuses on Northern Italian architecture from Leon Battista Alberti to Vincenzo Scamozzi, from built works to drawings to theoretical treatises and printed matter. Ari’s research has been on the role of the fantastic or  …

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Dennis Livrone

Adjunct Faculty

Dennis Livrone is a retired environmental planner from the Bucks County Planning Commission. For over 35 years, he represented county government on federal, state, regional, county and municipal planning committees, as well as authored/co-authored…

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Michael LoFurno

Adjunct Faculty

Michael LoFurno joined the Tyler faculty in 2007 and has taught a number of courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level. The majority of his teaching experience has been in the third-year design and construction aspects of the annual…

Brad Lunsford

Facilities Technician

Brad Lunsford is a Philadelphia-based craftsperson specializing in computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing in concert with traditional woodworking and metal smithing. Their work focuses on fabricating objects that make sounds and…

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Dermot Mac Cormack

Professor

Dermot Mac Cormack, originally born in Ireland, is a graphic designer, educator and writer. His research is multi-faceted and involves four interrelated, and mutually reinforcing components: design as a means of educating audiences; the use of…

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Marcella Macalalaga

Student

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Li Machado

PhD Student

Li Machado (they/he/she) is a PhD candidate specializing in Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Art. With a research emphasis on memory and memorials, presence, and absence, Li's work builds on recent histories of queer art, queer…

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Andrew Mahaffie

Studio Technician

Andrew Mahaffie is a visual artist from Washington DC, currently living and working in Philadelphia PA. Andrew graduated with a BFA in Glass from Tulane University and has since worked in the glass community up and down the east coast,…

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Liam Maher

PhD Student

Liam Maher (he/him) is a PhD candidate and Temple University fellow in art history. He received his M.A. in art history from the University of Oregon and his B.A. with honors in art history and political science from the University of Notre Dame. He…

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Jille Mandel

Assistant Department and Program Coordinator

BFA, Photography, Tyler School of Art and Architecture Special Interests in photography, visual arts, illustration, and supporting art students through their education.

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Izzy Mania

Student

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Stephanie Manzi

Adjunct Faculty

Stephanie Manzi is a painter and educator who studies ecology through color, pattern and material. She received her MFA at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2022 and her BFA from SUNY Purchase in 2014. Her work has been shown on both…

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Molly Mapstone

PhD Student

Molly Mapstone (she/her/hers) is a Ph.D. Candidate studying American art. Her dissertation, “Mediating Vision and Negotiating Narratives: Contemporary U.S. Installation Art and Its Expanding Publics, 1966–2019,” investigates key works of…

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Leonor Marion-Landais

Adjunct Faculty

Leonor Marion-Landais is an artist and educator based in Philadelphia, PA. She received her BFA in Sculpture from Montclair State University and her MFA in Ceramics from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Leonor has taught at various…

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Maria Marte

Student

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Joan Marter (BA '68)

Art History

Joan Marter (BA '68) is an academic, art critic, author and distinguished professor emerita of contemporary painting and sculpture in the department of art history at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Marter has written and…

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Amelia Mason

Student

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Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie

PhD Student

Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie (they/them) is a PhD student and University Fellow who specializes in the decorative arts of early modern northern Europe, with research interests in materiality and the embodied knowledge of artisans making and working…

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Christopher McAdams

Associate Professor and Curriculum Coordinator of Architecture, Facilities Management and Historic Preservation

Christopher McAdams is an architect and technologist working with augmented and virtual reality platforms to investigate immersive and interactive spaces. His work uses parametric tooling, digital fabrication, and mixed reality systems to…

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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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Kedrick McKenzie

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Nicole Medina

Adjunct Faculty

Nicole Medina is an illustrator who creates surreal imagery that tells a story and has a sense of adventure. She uses bold color and detailed patterns to create eye-catching illustrations. Some of the companies she's worked with include Target, Meta…

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Andrew Meloney, AICP

Adjunct Faculty

Andrew Meloney, AICP is the Director of Choice Neighborhoods at the Philadelphia Housing Authority, overseeing the implementation and planning of HUD’s public housing and neighborhood revitalization program in Philadelphia. Andrew is passionate…

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Pablo Meninato, PhD

Associate Professor

Pablo Meninato, PhD, is an architect, architectural critic, and educator whose research focuses on the principles and mechanisms that govern the architectural and urban project. A native of Argentina, Meninato has taught and practiced…

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Paolo Mentasti

Sculpture Studio Technician

Paolo Mentasti was born and raised on a plane flying between Sao Paulo, Bogota, and Mexico City. He earned his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2020 and his MFA in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University in…

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Martina Merlo

PhD Student

Martina Merlo specializes in modern and contemporary art, with an intrinsically interdisciplinary approach to their research focus in the visual, sonic, spatial, material and performance cultures of contemporary “house-system” ballroom in the United…

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Rebecca Michaels

Associate Professor

Rebecca Michaels’ background includes extensive experience as an educator, photographer and design professional. She is deeply committed to and passionate about the education of the visual artist and the role of critical thinking in creating…

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Sarina Miller

Adjunct Faculty

Sarina Miller teaches and develops courses in art and design history that incorporate cross-cultural and interdisciplinary elements. A primary component of her holistic pedagogical method involves visual literacy and thematic teaching. She is the…

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Kim Mitchell (BFA '79)

Photography

Kim Mitchell (BFA '79) is a decorated leader in the art world and partner at Brunswick Arts—a firm that promotes and manages the reputation and interests of arts, cultural and charitable organizations—where she helps lead strategic advisory work for…

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Ryan Mitchell

PhD Student

Ryan is a fourth-year doctoral student specializing in Islamic art and architectural history. His research focuses on visual, literary and architectural cultures of the eastern Mediterranean in the long nineteenth century with an emphasis on the…

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Dora Mo

Student

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Monica Mockus

Adjunct Faculty

Monica Mockus is the founder of mock5 design, a strategic creative agency specializing in life sciences with a focus on health equity, accessibility, and patient outcomes. She’s also an adjunct professor at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art…

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Leah Modigliani, PhD

Associate Professor of Visual Studies

Leah Modigliani is Associate Professor of Visual Studies at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She is an artist and scholar with transdisciplinary engagements informed by fine arts, art history, critical geography, urban studies, and politics…

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Sarah Montagnoli

Adjunct Faculty

Sarah Montagnoli is a jeweler and metalsmith based in Philadelphia, PA. Montagnoli received her MFA from the Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM program at Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2021, and BFA from Moore College of Art and Design in 2018. Her…

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Donte J. Moore

Studio Technician

Donte J. Moore is an artist living in Philadelphia with primary concentrations in ceramics and drawing. Donte received his MFA from the University of Delaware in 2019 and is currently the ceramic studio technician at Tyler School of Art…

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Paige L Morris

Adjunct Faculty

Paige L Morris is an interdisciplinary artist and educator in Philadelphia, PA. Building upon her foundation in glass, Morris utilizes material poetics, sound, and video performances to examine language, the complexities of love, and the…

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Ree Morton (MFA '70)

Ree Morton (MFA '70) exhibited during her lifetime at Artists Space, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; as well as Bykert and Droll/Kolbert Galleries. Morton died in a car…

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Kara Ja'Nice 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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Taryn Mudge, PhD

Assistant Professor

Taryn Mudge is an architectural educator and scholar whose research focuses on design pedagogies and methods of visual research in architecture. She recently received a PhD in the History and Theory of Architecture from the University of…

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Ted Mullen

Adjunct Faculty

Ted Mullen is an environmental engineer and planner with 15 years of experience in urban infrastructure planning and design with expertise in urban land development and water and ecological infrastructure. He currently works as a project manager for…

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Olivia Musselman

Student

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Abbey Muza

Student

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Eileen Neff

Adjunct Faculty

Eileen Neff has been working with photo-based images and photo/installations since 1980. Her recent solo exhibitions include the Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, and Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York City. In 2007, the Institute of…

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Steven L. Nelson

Adjunct Faculty

Steve Nelson is a practicing city planner with over 30 years of experience at the municipal and county level, in the non-profit sector and in private practice in Pennsylvania, California and New Jersey. His work has included managing community…

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Jeffrey S. Nesbit

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Jeffrey S. Nesbit is an architect, urbanist, and founding director of the research group Grounding Design. His experience spanning over a decade includes leading design teams for public architecture and large-scale urban projects, along with…

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Adrienne Neszmelyi-Romano (MEd '06)

Art Education

Adrienne Neszmelyi-Romano (MEd '06) is both a practicing and exhibiting jewelry and metal artist, as well as the director of interpretation and innovation at the James A. Michener Art Museum—known for its collection of Pennsylvania Impressionism…

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Emily Neumeier, PhD

Assistant Professor

Emily Neumeier is a historian of Islamic art and architecture who studies the visual and spatial cultures of the eastern Mediterranean, with a focus on the Ottoman Empire. Her research and teaching cover a wide range of material to address…

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Samantha Nye

Adjunct Faculty

Samantha Nye is a painter, and video and installation artist currently living in Philadelphia. She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in filmmaking and had a solo booth of paintings at the Armory Fair that same year. Her work is in the collections of…

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Brendan O'Shaughnessy

Student

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Odili Donald Odita

Professor

ON LEAVE, FALL 2024 Odili Donald Odita is an abstract painter exploring color both in the figurative historical context and in the sociopolitical sense. In recent years, Odita was commissioned to paint several large-scale wall…

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Emily Odonnell

Student

Karyn Olivier

Professor

Karyn Olivier, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, creates sculptures, installations and public art. This year, Olivier is participating in the Whitney Biennial (NY, NY), Prospect.6 Triennial (New Orleans, LA), and the Malta Biennale (Valleta,…

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Brian Olszak

Adjunct Faculty

Brian Olszak is a senior planner at the Montgomery County Planning Commission. He produces legal instruments, such as zoning and land development ordinances and similar technical documents; writes subdivision and land development reviews, as…

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Michael Olszewski, PhD

Associate Professor

Michael Olszewski is an expert in horticultural substrates and seed germination. He has practiced as both a plant biologist and scientist before joining Temple’s faculty. His extensive research has generated several publications,…

Pepón Osorio

Professor

Pepón Osorio is known for his provocative, large-scale, multimedia installations that merge conceptual art and community dynamics. His visual language, explosive and elegance challenges traditional art canons with richly textured monumental…

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Xia Osorio

Student

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Nicole Ozdemir

Adjunct Faculty

Nicole Ozdemir is a senior planner at the Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC) with a profound commitment to public service and equitable development. Since joining PCPC in 2014, Nicole has been an advocate for public engagement, working to…

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Sharyn O’Mara

Associate Professor and Program Head of Sculpture and Director of Graduate Studies

Sharyn O’Mara is an artist and educator whose interdisciplinary works explore the marks of language and the language of marks. Her practice is comprised of drawing, sculpture, glass, printmaking and installation. O’Mara’s current work involves…

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Jennifer Packer (BFA '07)

Ceramics Glass and Painting

Jennifer Packer (BFA '07) creates portraits, interior scenes and still lifes that are, as art historian Jessica Bell Brown describes, “emphatically mundane and radically tender.” Through a limited palette and simple brushstrokes, Packer’s paintings…

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Matthew J. Palczynski

Adjunct Faculty

www.arthistorylecturer.com Matthew Palczynski’s research focuses on vanguard art since ca. 1900, with a particular emphasis on the intersections between painting and architecture. One of his primary goals is to use art in unexpected ways,…

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Albert Paley (MFA '69)

Albert Paley (MFA '69) is considered one of the most masterful and influential metal artists in the world. He is known for his massive public sculptures that have been commissioned around the United States and shown across the world. Early…

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Alpesh Kantilal Patel, PhD

Associate Professor

ON LEAVE, FALL 2024 + SPRING 2025 Alpesh Kantilal Patel’s (they/he) art historical scholarship, curatorial projects, and art criticism reflect their queer, transcultural, and decolonial approach to global contemporary art as evidenced by their…

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Erin Pauwels, PhD

Associate Professor of Art History and Undergraduate Advisor

ON LEAVE, FALL 2024 + SPRING 2025 Erin Pauwels is an historian of modern and contemporary art in the Americas with special interest in photography, Indigenous Studies, and ecocritical approaches to visual culture. Her research explores the…

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Laurie Beck Peterson

Adjunct Faculty

Laurie Beck Peterson prefers working in 19th-century photo processes. Her work in gum bichromate, cyanotype and platinum palladium explores a renewed commitment to "slow art." Working collaboratively with the architecture program, Laurie and her…

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Daphne Philippousis

Student

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Allen Pierce

Adjunct Faculty

Allen Pierce is the principal of Heima, an architecture and design practice focused on small, high-craft projects that seek depth of experience through the careful tuning of material in time. A co-founder of the “ideas workshop” Gnomon, Allen is…

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Thomas Piombino

Student

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Joanna Platt

PhD Student

Joanna Platt is A PhD student specializing in modern and contemporary art history. Her primary interests are the representation of labor and the economics of art and production, especially regarding issues of class and social status. Joanna is…

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Samantha Porter

Adjunct Faculty

As the director of place-based initiatives for the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity, Samantha Porter is interested in interdisciplinary, community-driven approaches to planning and community development. As a…

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Alice M. Rudy Price

Adjunct Faculty

Price received a Ph.D. in art history from Temple University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Price and Emily C. Burns are the editors of Mapping Impressionist Painting in a Transnational Context (Routledge 2021). Burns and Price’s next…

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Ali Printz

PhD Student

Ali Printz is a scholar, painter and interdisciplinary artist, and curator who studies Modern and Contemporary Appalachian art. Her interests lie in ecocriticism, the conjuncture of fine art and craft, and marginalized histories in American Art. She…

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Amira F. Pualwan

Adjunct Faculty

Amira F. Pualwan is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Philadelphia. She has completed residencies at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and the Women's Studio Workshop Beisinghoff Residency. She is…

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Alessandra Puglisi

Student

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Noah Randolph

PhD Student

Noah Randolph is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. His research focuses on the intersections of monuments and public art with issues of memory, race, and politics. Since 2019, Noah has…

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Andrea Ray, PhD

Associate Professor and Program Head of Visual Studies

Andrea Ray has an interdisciplinary practice that often include sculpture, sound installations, writing, and digital objects. Ray's practice approaches the subjects of kinship, attachment, and care, attempting to repair an alienated subjectivity…

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Mike Ray

Student

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Marissa Raybuck

Adjunct Faculty

Marissa Raybuck is a Philadelphia-based graphic designer whose work blurs the line between the modern and the relatable. She currently works at Running Press Book Publishers, an imprint of Perseus Books, where she employs her design specialities of…

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Student

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Katie Receveur

Student

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Andrew Reid

Adjunct Faculty

Andrew Reid is engaged in cutting-edge economic and community development practice nationally, focusing on major social and economic challenges, such as gentrification, equity, inclusive growth, food access, housing, infrastructure, access to…

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Christopher Renn

Adjunct Faculty

Christopher Renn is an Associate at Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, an internationally recognized design firm known for their humane and responsive design approach. With more than 15 years of professional experience, he has helped lead award…

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Rachael Reynolds

PhD Student

Rachael Reynolds (she/her) specializes in the history of photography and other works on paper. Her dissertation focuses on the performativity of photographic processes from capture to darkroom through analysis of work by Anne Brigman, Nell Dorr,…

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Jameson Rich

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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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Jeff Richards, RA

Assistant Professor

Jeff Richards is a registered architect whose work explores the potential of architectonic components such as material, structure and building envelope to both reinforce and transform conceptual approach. His teaching and practice examine the…

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Amy B. Ritter

Adjunct Faculty

Amy Ritter is an artist and educator whose interdisciplinary work explores class dynamics and the American Dream. Her work comprises of sculptural installation, photography, video, and public sculpture. She grew up in the rural town of Orefield,…

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Amy Rivera

Adjunct Faculty

Amy Rivera is the owner of the structural engineering consulting firm, Rivera Structural Design, LLC. She is an appointed member on the Board of Building Standards for Philadelphia's Department of Licenses & Inspection. MS, Drexel University …

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Christina Roberts

Adjunct Faculty

Christina Roberts is a Master Printer and educator specializing in interdisciplinary collaborative practice with 30 years of experience at The Fabric Workshop and Museum. She is co-founder of Marafiki Arts, a 501(c)3 community project in rural Kenya…

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Tyler Rockey

PhD Student

Tyler Rockey is studying the Italian Renaissance and its various engagements with a broad spectrum of historical periods and artistic materials. His primary research pursuits are the labile conceptions of temporality and originality in works “after…

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George Rodriguez

Assistant Professor

Born and raised in the border city of El Paso, TX, George Rodriguez creates highly ornamented, figurative ceramic sculptures, often underlined by a connection to the sociopolitical issues the artist explores. His world curiosity grew as a…

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Alessander Rojas

Student

Raúl J. Romero

Adjunct Faculty

Raúl Romero is an artist whose practice explores the intercommunication between people and the environment. Drawing from technological histories, communication tools, ancient artifacts, sound production tools, instruments, and his Puerto Rican…

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Henry Rosenberg

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Brittany Rubin

PhD Student

Brittany Rubin (she/her) studies print culture and the history of the erotic body in the Early Modern Netherlands. Prior to her matriculation, she worked at the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, where she first served as a Kress Fellow…

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David Rupp (BArch '82)

Architecture

David Rupp (BArch '82) is an accomplished architect who has developed a distinguished career in project management and construction management of complex high-design buildings over the course of his more than 35-year career. One of his…

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Fauzia Sadiq Garcia, RA, LEED AP, IFMA

Associate Professor and Program Head of Architecture, Facilities Management and Historic Preservation

Fauzia Sadiq Garcia is an Associate Professor of Instruction at Temple University and Curriculum Coordinator of Facilities Management & Architecture Majors. She is a registered architect, educator and artist harnessing technological…

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Pegah Saebi

Student

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Kathleen Salisbury

Adjunct Faculty

Kathy Salisbury enjoys the wonder of hands-on horticulture and sharing the experience with others. As director of the Ambler Arboretum of Temple University, she creates connections between people and plants, building an understanding that access to…

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Lauren Sandler

Associate Professor and Program Head of Ceramics

Lauren Sandler is a ceramic artist and educator whose work utilizes the layered and complex history of clay as a place to unearth stories, particularly those that have been erased, distorted, or rewritten. Through the familiarity and…

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Kaitlin Santoro

Adjunct Faculty

Kaitlin Santoro is an interdisciplinary artist who explores time, impermanence, loss, and memory. Working across photography, video, glass, and printmaking, her work shows the fragility of the mind and the fleeting nature of time. MFA, Tyler…

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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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Bryan Satalino

Associate Professor

Bryan Satalino is a designer, educator and entrepreneur whose practice and teaching focuses on the intersection of design and entrepreneurship. He is interested in how the iterative process can shape designed artifacts by incorporating economic,…

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Rick Sauer

Adjunct Faculty

Rick Sauer has 35 years of experience in the non-profit housing and community development field. For the past 24 years, he has served as executive director of the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations (PACDC), a membership…

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Judith Schaechter

Adjunct Faculty

Judith Schaechter lives and works in Philadelphia. Her work is collected internationally and is represented in the collections of the Smithsonian, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Victoria and Albert in London and the Hermitage,…

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Mollie Schaidt

Adjunct Faculty

Mollie Schaidt, a photographer and sculptor from Virginia, is concerned with systemic issues and social injustices impacting the lower socio-economic class in the United States. She examines the long-term effect of poverty on this population…

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Paula Scher (BFA '70)

Design and Illustration

Paula Scher (BFA '70) is commonly referred to as a “titan of postmodern design,” as well as a “hall of famer” and “rock star” of the graphic design industry. Described as a “master conjurer of the instantly familiar,” by TED, Scher’s influential and…

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Peg Schofield

Adjunct Faculty

Peg Schofield is an educator and registered horticultural therapist in the Philadelphia region. She presents workshops and horticultural therapy sessions, working with individuals dealing with PTSD, stress-related illnesses and those coping with…

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Emily Schollenberger

PhD Student

Emily Schollenberger (she/her) is a PhD candidate specializing in Modern and Contemporary Art of the Atlantic World, with a focus in the history and theory of photography. Her dissertation considers contemporary artists’ reimagining of landscape…

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Alexandra Schoolman

PhD Student

Alexandra is a fourth-year PhD candidate specializing in Latin American art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her research interests include conceptualism, marxism, avant-gardism, and social practice, particularly as they address the intersection of…

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Josh Schott

Adjunct Faculty

Josh Schott is the UI art director at Anthropologie. His skills include UX/UI, branding and identity, as well as advertising. MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University BA, Susquehanna University www.joshschott.com

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Fernanda Senger

PhD Student

Fernanda Senger (she/her) is a first-year PhD student in the field of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art, with a focus on modernist printmaking in Brazil and its relation to hemispheric and transatlantic networks in the first half of the…

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Georgena Senior

Adjunct Faculty

Georgena Senior is a Philadelphia-based artist, educator, and designer. As an artist, her work centers around themes of archetypes, goddess culture and iconography. Georgena’s focus is handbuilt ceramics supported by screenprinting and illustration…

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Nathan Shampine

Adjunct Faculty

Nathan Shampine is the natural lands manager of the Mt. Cuba Center—a 530-acre botanical garden in Delaware’s Appalachian Piedmont that is critical to preserving the integrity of the remaining natural habitats of this physiographic region in…

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Eleanor Sharpe

Adjunct Faculty

Eleanor Sharpe is the executive director at the Philadelphia City Planning Commission. She serves in a dual capacity as head of the planning commission and deputy to the director of the city's Department of Planning and Development, responsible for…

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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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Paul Sheriff

Professor

Paul Sheriff is a graphic designer and educator who specializes in design for the nonprofit sector. His studio, Sheriff Design, has repositioned cultural organizations, such as the Annenberg Center of the University of Pennsylvania, The Grand…

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Mark Shetabi

Associate Professor

ON LEAVE, SPRING 2025 Mark Shetabi is an artist whose work examines a disjointed and subjective overview of history through concurrent bodies of work in painting, sculpture and installation. Born in New York, as a child he lived in Tehran,…

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Holly Shimizu (AS '74)

Horticulture

Holly Shimizu (AS '74) is a nationally-recognized horticulturist, consultant and educator focused on plant conservation and sustainability, with a robust background in public gardens. Among her diverse and respected 40-year career, she was…

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T. Shokry

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Ruby Shtino

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Robert Shuman Jr., AIA LEED AP

Associate Professor

Robert Shuman’s practice is dedicated to the making of consequential works in real space and time, with craft and consideration both of their sustenance of essential human experience and appreciation of their impact on our common environment. He…

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Lisa Sigal (BFA '85)

Painting

Lisa Sigal (BFA '85) is a practicing artist in painting and sculpture, whose work utilizes and expands upon notions of space and the built environment, investigating how art can challenge set ideas about property, containment and freedom. …

Angela Sileo

Junior Admissions Counselor

Angela Sileo is an Admissions Counselor who provides application support at both the both the undergraduate and graduate level. She is passionate about connecting with prospective students and their families to show all that Tyler has to offer. …

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Laurie Simmons (BFA '71)

Laurie Simmons (BFA '71) is a renowned photographer and filmmaker. Her staged domestic scenes, featuring dolls, miniature objects and costumed people, permeate a dreamlike quality while interrogating, among many subjects, stereotypes of…

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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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Erin Smith

Adjunct Faculty

Erin Smith works in the land stewardship department for the region’s leading land conservation organization, Natural Lands. She is able to bring her hands-on experience in environmental restoration and natural resource management practices to the…

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William R. Smith, AIA (BArch '79)

Architecture

William R. Smith, AIA (BArch '79) is Senior Vice President of Shopoff Realty Investments. With over 30 years of experience, Smith has led the design and construction of high profile, luxury projects throughout the world. Prior to his work…

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Sofia Sneathen

Student

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Benjamin Snyder

Adjunct Faculty and Manager of the Greenhouse Education and Research Complex

As manager of the Greenhouse Education and Research Complex at Temple University Ambler, Benjamin Snyder oversees the use and care of various educational horticulture features, including a tropical greenhouse collection, organic food production…

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Kathryn Snyder, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC

Assistant Professor

Kathryn Snyder is an artist, board-certified clinical art therapist and researcher in the intersecting fields of art therapy, education, and mental health care. She holds a PhD in Creative Arts Therapies from Drexel University. Kathryn’s…

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Keith Somers

Adjunct Faculty

Keith Somers is the Creative Director of DIY Media Group. He has extensive knowledge working with multiple brands and in various marketing channels and is skilled in web design, print design, art direction, brand identities, typography, SEO and…

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Stephen Souza

Adjunct Faculty

/*-->*/ Owner of Clean Waters Consulting, LLC and founder of Princeton Hydro, LLC, Stephen J. Souza has over 35 years of project experience managing and restoring aquatic ecosystems and implementing green infrastructure stormwater…

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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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Lamont Speller

Student

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Katey Stafford

Adjunct Faculty

Katey Stafford is Designer + Illustrator + Maker at Hideaway House Studio. Tucked away in a peaceful patch of trees, her studio is nestled within a charming old stone house. Katey believes design should be fun, vibrant, and full of life! Whether it…

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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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Jeremy Stoff

Adjunct Faculty

Jeremy Stoff is community planner for the Bucks County Planning Commission where he serves in a variety of planning roles, including comprehensive planning, downtown revitalization, and stormwater management planning. In his role, he also uses…

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Maria Stracke

Adjunct Faculty

Maria Stracke is an artist and educator whose material-based investigations in painting, drawing, mixed media and ceramics consider notions of nostalgia, home, place and family. Interrogating constructions of "Asian Americanness," in relation to…

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Jackie Streker

PhD Student

Jackie Streker (she/they) is a PhD student studying the history of prints and printmaking and specializing in the literal and symbolic growth of the medium to a monumental scale during the Holy Roman Empire. They received degrees in Art History from…

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Kim D. 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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Jesse Sullivan

PhD Student

Jesse Rhianyu Sullivan (she/her) is an art history PhD candidate with an artist’s background. Her methodology prioritizes close looking, merging artistic, technological, and scientific approaches, while working alongside professional artists and…

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Joni Sullivan

Adjunct Faculty

Joni Sullivan is a painter, educator, and writer living in Princeton, NJ. She received her MFA from Boston University and her BHA (Bachelor of Humanities and Arts) from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Eric Tamulonis

Adjunct Faculty

Eric Tamulonis is a landscape architect in private practice as founder of PARRICUSdesign and former partner at WRT and principal at OLIN. In 40 years of practice, his work has focused on public open space and academic campus planning and design…

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Kristen Neville Taylor

Adjunct Faculty

Kristen Neville Taylor creates immersive installation-based environments designed to lead the viewer through a phenomenological and pedagogical experience that probes the events that shape human perception of nature. Taylor is a recent…

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Corinne Teed

Assistant Professor

Corinne Teed is a research-based artist working in printmaking, book arts, time-based media, and social practice. Their work lives at the intersections of queer theory, ecology, and critical animal studies in the context of settler colonialism…

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Kishan Singh Tehara

Adjunct Faculty

K. S. Tehara is a practitioner and researcher currently based in New York City. He leads Investment Manuals, a curatorial project that questions the value placed on objects through a blend of performance, design, and critical inquiry. His practice…

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Tyler Tempest

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Davis Hanscom Thal

Adjunct Faculty

Davis Hanscom Thal is a Philadelphia-based glass artist and educator whose practice explores the intersections of materiality, identity, and nature through a queer lens. A graduate of Temple University’s Film and Media Arts program, Thal…

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Marianna M. Thomas, AIA

Adjunct Faculty

Marianna Thomas, founder/principal of Marianna Thomas Architects, sees every project as both place-making and storyline in which occupancy by new users is a chapter. Her teaching connects aspirational UNESCO guidelines and patterns of everyday…

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Hallie E. Thornton

Adjunct Faculty

Hallie is a senior designer with over 13 years of experience creating playful, impactful work across both print and digital. She is a reliable, collaborative creative with a deep love for typography, and a special interest in lettering and…

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Nghi To

Student

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Srđan Tunić

PhD Student

Srđan Tunić specializes in contemporary art, with a focus on public art (graffiti, street art and murals) and activism, through the lens of transcultural and queer theories, implementing horizontal art history approach. He graduated from UC Davis …

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Abegael Uffelman

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Naomi Urey

Student

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Talia Valenti

Student

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Kyra Van Voorhees

Student

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Thomas Vance

Adjunct Faculty

MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University BFA, Cleveland Institute of Art

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Ulysses Sean Vance

Associate Professor

My research in architecture is directed by accessibility in buildings and involves designing interventions for the health and well-being of underserved communities. It is research founded on inclusive decision-making in the planning and…

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Idalia Vasquez-Achury

Adjunct Faculty

Idalia Vasquez-Achury explores transitions, ambiguity, and the fluidity of diasporic experience. Working across photography, installation, performance, and artist books, she fuses factual and fictional elements to challenge linear and monolithic…

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Kukuli Velarde

Adjunct Faculty

Kukuli Velarde is a Peruvian artist based in the United States since 1987. She has received awards and grants such as the Virginia Groot First Prize (2023), the Guggenheim Fellowship (2015), the United States Artists-Knight fellowship (2009), the…

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Judy Venonsky

Adjunct Faculty

Judy Venonsky passionately pursues the intersection of ecology, art and science. She is a practicing Landscape Architect and Associate at OLIN where she spearheads the Eco Lab research team, infusing design excellence with emerging knowledge of…

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Armando Veve

Adjunct Faculty

Armando Veve’s illustrations depict uncanny juxtapositions, whimsical storytelling, and commentary on contemporary and historical subjects. His vividly detailed compositions—a Sonoran Desert toad applying lipstick, absurd furniture designs, a…

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Jillian Villafuerte

Student

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William Villalongo (MFA '01)

Painting

William Villalongo (MFA '01) is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, installation artist and curator, as well as an associate professor at The Cooper Union School of Art. Working out of the notion of Blackness as a verb, he reframes familiar images,…

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Megan Voeller

PhD Student

Megan Voeller (they/them) is an educator, curator and writer whose work focuses on critical intersections of contemporary art and health. Their research explores how contemporary artists engage with concepts and practices of health, healing, and…

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Jeremy Voorhees

Associate Professor and Architecture Foundations Curriculum Coordinator

Jeremy Voorhees is a designer and researcher focusing on the political and cultural dimensions of architectural design. Primarily concerned with cities, his work explores the role that architecture and architects play in shaping communities…

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Rachel Vorsanger

PhD Student

Rachel Vorsanger studies modern art from Europe and the United States. Her research examines the role of gender and displacement in the works of women abstract artists with a focus on Madrid, Barcelona, and New York City as sites of international…

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Ashley Wagner

Adjunct Faculty

Ashley Wagner works creatively in the nonprofit and small business fields as a project manager and communications director. In previous community development work, she managed a small business alliance and directed community arts projects and…

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Nitza Walesca Rosario

Adjunct Faculty

Born in the Bronx and raised in Northern Philadelphia, Nitza is a Caribeña ceramic artist and educator whose work combines a multitude of influences to communicate nuanced ideas of the self. It is through her artistic practice that Nitza embodies a…

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Angela Washko (BFA '09)

Painting, Drawing, Sculpture

As a politically-engaged feminist media artist working in a variety of forms, Angela Washko is committed to telling complex and unconventional stories about the media we consume from unusual perspectives. Washko's practice spans interventions in…

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Na Wei, RA, LEED AP

Associate Professor

Na Wei is the Founding Principal of WEI architects (aka Elevation Workshop), a design firm originally founded in New York and currently based in Beijing since 2009. The idea of the genius loci is very particular in Wei’s work. She professes a…

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Bess Wellborn-Yates

Adjunct Faculty

/*-->*/ Bess Wellborn Yates is particularly interested in sites with complex histories and their intersection with community-based design initiatives and urban ecological restoration. She teaches landscape design studios, courses…

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Ashley D. West, PhD

Associate Professor

Ashley West is an art historian of the early modern period, 1400-1700, with a particular expertise in the history, practice, and theories of printmaking. Her interest extends to cross-cultural encounters between the Holy Roman Empire and its…

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Brenna West

Student

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Mallory Weston

Associate Professor

Mallory Weston is an artist whose work involves a marriage between traditional jewelry and metalsmithing techniques and textile techniques to create large-scale wearable pieces. She merges analog processes with computer-aided design to create…

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Jonathan Wetstein

Adjunct Faculty

Jonathan Wetstein, MPS is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University’s Community and Economic Development Graduate Program and carries a long-standing commitment to urban revitalization-related project through the lens of food systems. His…

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Lauren A. 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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Frank White

Adjunct Faculty

Frank White is a sports designer by day, and adjunct professor by night. After graduating from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2020, he began working for the Philadelphia Flyers, and recently completed his 4th season with the team. Frank…

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Susan White

Adjunct Faculty

Susan White is an artist, printmaker, teacher, parent, small business owner and a gardener who lives and works in Philadelphia. Her artwork references the natural world and utilizes printmaking, installation and book arts. Solo exhibitions…

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Bridget Wiese

Adjunct Faculty

As a lens-based artist, Bridget Wiese uses her background in architecture to create interdisciplinary works centering around the concept of alternative domestic spaces. Her current work combines miniature rooms and digital manipulation to create…

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Mitch Wiesen

Adjunct Faculty

Mitch Wiesen is an obsessively passionate (or passionately obsessive?) creative. They are a designer and illustrator at Truth & Consequences – a branding agency with a really long name, the owner and founder of a boutique font foundry – Deli…

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Hannah Wilke (BFA and BSEd '62)

Hannah Wilke (BFA and BSEd '62) was a legendary artist and feminist icon who worked in sculpture, drawing, assemblage, photography, performance and installation. She is considered the first feminist artist to use vaginal imagery in her art—a…

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Kate Wingert-Playdon

Senior Associate Dean and Director of Architecture

Kate Wingert-Playdon is focused on cultural identity as expressed in design and construction histories, buildings and sites. Her applied and scholarly research begins with the premise that a more comprehensive understanding of the cultural…

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Mark Winicov

Adjunct Faculty

www.markwinicov.com Mark Winicov is a visual artist working within the photographic medium. His work is derived from both analog and digital practices with an interest in the constructed image. He has extensive experience in the commercial space…

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Andrew John Wit

Associate Professor

Andrew John Wit leads research focused on novel building systems generated through composites, emerging tools and robotics. He is a co-founder of the interdisciplinary research group wito*, Laboratory for Intelligent Environments; co-author of…

Tamsen Wojtanowski

Adjunct Faculty

Tamsen Wojtanowski believes in art and its ability to open an individual's world up to new experiences and conclusions. In her studio practice, she explores the materiality of the photographic medium. Interested in where photography might…

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Matt Wolf

Adjunct Faculty

Matt Wolf founded Wyndetryst Graphic Design Studio in 2010, after working as an in-house graphic designer for 8 years at various higher education institutes. He has been running a design studio, focused on both print and website design, for over a…

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Emily Wyner

Adjunct Faculty

Emily Wyner is an organizational development practitioner with roots in racial and economic justice movements, public health, and cooperatives and other membership organizations. She is currently a senior associate at KONU, where she designs and…

Arianna Yazjerd

Student

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Gillian Yee

PhD Student

Gillian Yee (they/she) specializes in global contemporary art from 1980 to the present. With an emphasis on looking at art in the United States through a diasporic lens, their goal as a scholar is to explore and expand the realm of queerness,…

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Nathan W. Young

Assistant Professor

Nathan Young (he / him) is a designer and educator interested in using graphic design to amplify truths through the seemingly impenetrable noise of contemporary public discourse. Drawing from an abiding interest in performance, Young's…

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Lisa Yuskavage (BFA '84)

Painting

Lisa Yuskavage (BFA '84) is a painter known for her highly original approach to figurative painting that has challenged the genre through its use of bold, eccentric, exhibitionist and introspective characters who are both subject and object…