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Karim Ladha
Savannah
B.S., University of Michigan; M.A., University of California, Berkeley.
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Jeanne Lambin
Savannah
B.S., Loyola University Chicago; M.S., School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Kelly Lancaster
Savannah
A.A., Darton College; B.A., Mercer University; M.A., University of Georgia; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma.
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James Langley
Savannah
B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design; M.F.A., The New York Academy of Art.
A seasoned artist and designer, James Langley counts among his recent projects decorative architectural painting in collaboration with Thomas Gordon Smith Architects at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Civic and ecclesiastical projects include renderings for a 9/11 memorial in Lower Manhattan, decorative painting design for the Cleveland Public Theater, an inlaid marble pattern for historic St Ann's church in Cleveland Heights, and an altar triptych for the Opus Dei Headquarters in New York City. His paintings in private and corporate collections have been acknowledged by the American Watercolor Society, the Institute of Classical Architecture and the National Civic Art Society. Read more about James Langley.
Selected Commissions:
- Decorative mural painting for classical galleries in the American wing, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.
- "Via Dolorosa," 14 oil paintings installed at St. Paul Church, Pensacola, Fla.
- Oil-on-canvas portrait, Dr. Cedric Stratton
- Altar triptych, Murray Hill Place Inc., New York, N.Y.
- Design and painting for Anathan Theater, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, Ohio
Selected Exhibitions:
- "Memory and Desire: The Figurative Art of James Langley," solo exhibition, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich.
- "Imagine New York: An Exhibition of Ideas," Urban Center Galleries, New York, N.Y.
- "68th National Midyear," The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
- "Reconquistare lo Spazio Sacro," international juried group exhibition at Palazzo Valentini, Rome, Italy
- Solo exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Salem, Ohio
Visiting Lecturer:
- Hillsdale College Distinguished Artist Series, Hillsdale, Mich.
- University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, Notre Dame, Ind.
- Pontifical North American College, Rome, Italy
- Ave Maria College, Ann Arbor, Mich.
- Brown University, Providence, R.I.
Courses:
- 2-D Design
- Drawing I and II
- Life Drawing I and II
- Classical Rendering
- Portrait Drawing
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John Larison
Savannah
B.A., Mary Washington College; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Antonio Larosa, Chair
Savannah
M.Arch., Polytechnic University of Milan
Italian-born furniture designer Antonio Larosa studied architecture and design at Milan Polytechnic University, and moved to the United States following graduation. For 20 years he was an independent architect-designer, working on a wide range of projects including architecture, interior design, graphics, exhibitions and furniture. Most recently, he was also a member of the furniture and interior design faculty at Arizona State University.
He has designed numerous collections of furniture and accessories for the residential and contract markets. Many are currently manufactured in Europe and the U.S., and are marketed and sold worldwide.
Visit his Web site.
Courses
- Furniture Design Senior Project II
- Furniture Studio I: Conceptual Studies
- Furniture Studio II: Contextual Studies
- Furniture Design M.A. Final Project
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Dean Lawson
Savannah
B.S., Union College; M.Ed., University of Massachusetts.
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Eun Sook Lee
Savannah
B.F.A., University of Tennessee; M.F.A., University of Notre Dame.
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Josephine Leong
Savannah,
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M.S., University of Essex.
Josephine Leong is chair of interactive design and game development at SCAD. She has taught at institutions of higher education in Singapore, Australia and the United States. In addition, she managed a multimedia start-up, and consulted and managed projects for numerous companies and government statutory boards in Singapore and Japan. Her areas of expertise include computer programming, systems design, local area networking, artificial intelligence, smart-card applications, electronic publishing, Internet and multimedia technologies, and interactive entertainment.
Memberships:
- IEEE Computer Society
- Association of Computing Machinery
Courses:
- Programming Interactivity for the Web
- Databases and Dynamic Web Site Programming
- Interactive Design and Game Development Studio I and II
- Interactive Design and Game Development M.F.A. Thesis
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Amy Lerner-Maddox
Savannah
B.S., City University of New York, Hunter College; M.F.A., New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.
Amy Lerner-Maddox worked as an actress, writer and director at legendary New York theaters LaMama ETC, WPA, Public Theater, Interart Theater, Women's Experimental Theater Ensemble, comedy improvisational group, Proposition and Old Reliable Theater Tavern. Her stage work has been well received by critics at the New York Times, Newsday, Womensweek and the Village Voice. Her films have appeared at the Museum of Modern Art, Directors Guild of America, on A&E, BBC 1 and 2, the Ann Arbor, USA, London BP and Women in the Director's Chair Film Festivals. Television and radio commercial production credits include Lever 2000, Reynolds Wrap, Circuit City, Ronzoni, Michelina's and Lubriderm Lotion, for which "Quick Reminder" was named one of the Best Spots of the 1990s by ADWEEK magazine; and rock videos for BMG Video. Lerner-Maddox is the author of a comedy book titled "Why I Hate Men." Distinguished film director Martin Scorsese selected her to work under his mentorship program for her screenplay "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow." The screenplay was adapted to a television Web series titled "Pineapple Upside-Down Cake."
Selected grants:
- Presidential Fellowship and Puffin Foundation Mobil Corporation for "Pineapple Upside-Down Cake"
- Mobil Oil, Mobil Oil Finishing Fund
- Helena Rubinstein Achievement Award
- Grant Assistantship at NYU's Graduate Film and Television Program
Undergraduate courses:
- Writing Fundamentals for Stage and Screen
- Preproduction
- Production Practicum
- Commercial Production
- Screenwriting
- Directing Actors
- Film and Television Senior Project
Graduate courses:
- Producing for Film and Television
- Writing for Television
- Directing Actors
- Field Production
- Film and Television Professional Development
- Film and Television M.F.A. Thesis
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Monica Letourneau
Savannah
B.A., Roger Williams College; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
In 2005 Monica Letourneau joined SCAD after 10 years as an interior designer specializing in corporate and multi-family housing design in Atlanta, Ga., and Alexandria, Va. She has participated in collaborative projects with the architecture department and encourages the use of community projects in her classes. She addresses sustainable design in all studio projects.
Memberships:
- NCIDQ Certified, #013068
- Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, Accredited Professional
- Interior Design Educators Council
- International Interior Design Association, professional member
- American Society of Interior Designers, professional member
- American Institute of Architects, associate member
Courses:
- Interior Graphics
- Interior Design Studio II, III, IV and V
- Interior Materials II
- Professional Practices
- Interior Design Seminar (graduate)
- Interior Design Studio II and IV (graduate)
- Contemporary Issues (graduate)
- Interior Design Final M.A. Project (graduate)
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Daniel Levine
Savannah
B.F.A., University of Florida, Gainesville; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University.
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Julie Lieberman
Savannah
B.F.A., Old Dominion University; M.F.A., School of Visual Arts.
Julie Lieberman has been teaching illustration since 1986 at East Carolina University, Pratt Institute, School of Visual Arts and SCAD. Her work has appeared in Communication Arts and Print magazines, and on collateral for Savannah Dance Theater and Armstrong Atlantic State University among others. In addition to teaching she is a freelance illustrator, painter and sand sculptor. Her book project, "Survey of Illustration," was published in Korea in 2002. She has several book projects in progress.
Courses:
- Survey of Illustration
- Book Illustration I
- Illustration Portfolio
- Drawing and Design for Illustrators
- Introduction to Illustration
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Jong Hyun Lim
Savannah
B.S., Sungkyunkwan University; M.Arch., Sungkyunkwan University; M.S., University of Pennsylvania.
Originally from South Korea, Jong Hyun Lim earned bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. While and after completing an M.S degree in historic preservation at the University of Pennsylvania, he worked on various conservation and publication projects for the Getty Conservation Institute, the National Park Service, the Center for Historic Buildings of the U.S. General Services Administration, and the Construction and Environment Research Center. He worked as an intern, project manager and academic researcher in both South Korea and the United States. His research activities include documentation, interpretation and assessment of cultural heritage. In 2007, as a visiting scholar at Oxford Brookes University, U.K, he completed his individual research and publications on international vernacular architecture in urban districts. In Fall 2008, he became a full-time historic preservation professor at SCAD.
Awards:
- The Korea Research Foundation Research Fellowship
- The Korea Foundation Grant for the Instructional Materials Development project
- The Anthony Nicholas Brandy Garvan Award for an Outstanding Thesis
- The J. Paul Getty Trust Grant for Graduate Internship
- The Illona English Travel Fellowship
- National Trust Diversity Scholarship
- University of Pennsylvania Research Fellowship
- Brain Korea 21 Research Fellowship
- Outstanding Design Award from the Korean Institute of Architects
Memberships:
- Expert and voting member of ICOMOS/ICAHM
- Individual affiliate of the Asian Academy
- International member of ICOMOS
- Individual member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
- General member of the Korean Archaeological Society
- Regular member of the Korean Association of Architectural History
- Regular member of the Architectural Institute of Korea
Presentations:
- "Use of Ancient Memory as a Strategic Tool of Cultural Tourism," presented at the 10th US/ ICOMOS International Symposium, San Francisco, Calif., 2007
- "Bridging the Gap Between Heritage Documentation and Cultural Reality," presented at the AAHM Research Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 2006
- "Who has the Right to Judge the Value of Heritage?" presented at the Second Annual Ename Colloquium: Who Owns the Past?, Ghent, Belgium, 2006
Publications:
- "Giving Reconstruction a History: Architectural Renaissance in Modern Korea," Working Paper Series for IASTE, Oxford, U.K., 2008
- "A Study on the Family Life and Historic Changes of Architectural Plans of Gyeonggi Vernacular Dwellings in terms of an Inhabitant's Custom," Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea, 2008
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John Longworth
Savannah
B.S., M.Ed., Auburn University.
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Chercy Ione Lott
Savannah
B.F.A., Millikin University; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
Chercy Lott is from Chicago, Ill., where she served as art director for McGill Multimedia/Mosaic OPG, working with a variety of clients including Wabash, Bed, Bath & Beyond, and Sears. Lott and her husband also started their own advertising and graphic design company, working with Good Year, Kubota, AIGA, Allan Haley, Memorial Health, Savannah Morning News and the Savannah Technical Institute. Lott sees freelance work as a way by which she keeps in touch with the business world. This helps to keep her class assignments on the cutting edge of the advertising and design fields and enhances the instructional methods employed in her classes. Lott started her teaching career in the SCAD graphic design department. She then began teaching in the advertising design department, where she helped develop the curriculum and courses for the department.
Awards:
- Silver Award, ADDY Logo Design
- Silver Award, ADDY Advertising Industry Self-promotion
Memberships:
- ADDY chair for local AAF chapter
- Type Directors Club
- American Institute of Graphic Arts
- American Advertising Federation
Courses:
- Introduction to Advertising Design
- Art Direction 2
- Advertising Design Production
- Advertising Design and Typography
- Typography for Advertising Design
- Typography 1 and 2
- Introduction to Graphic Design
- Digital Page Design
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James Lough
Savannah
B.A., University of Colorado; M.A., San Francisco State University; Ph.D., University of Denver.
James Lough, Ph.D., teaches nonfiction writing at SCAD. His book, "Sites of Insight," was published by the University Press of Colorado, and won the Publications Prize from the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities. He also won the Frank Waters Southwestern Writing Award for short fiction, and he has published more than 60 articles, short stories and book reviews. He has served as an editor with several literary journals, including Divide, The Denver Quarterly and Bastard Review.
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Doris Louie
Savannah
B.F.A., Philadelphia College of Art; M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Doris Louie's textile background includes working as a studio production artist/designer, a textile designer for commercial fabrics, and a workshop leader for various art/design/craft institutions, including the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, the Detroit Institute of Arts and the New Mexico Arts Division. Louie taught at East Tennessee State University prior to joining the SCAD fibers department.
Accomplishments:
- Work exhibited throughout the United States and in Japan
- Work published in American Craft, FibersArts Magazine and FiberArts DesignBooks II and III
- Work in the collection of the New Mexico Fine Arts Museum
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John Paul Lowe
Savannah
B.F.A., University of Tennessee; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
A veteran of the comic book industry, John Lowe served as chair of the sequential art department 2003-08. He wrote the book "Working Methods" and has worked as an illustrator for all of the major American comic book publishers. In addition to his teaching and administrative responsibilities he is the monthly inker on the "Betty" comic book for Archie Comics and works on freelance assignments for DC Comics and Devil's Due Publications. He has served as editor for three sequential art anthologies by SCAD students and alumni - "Senses," "Science" and "Discovered."
Selected publishers:
- Dark Horse Comics
- Marvel Comics
- Image Comics
- Cartoon Network
- Warner Brothers Animation
Grants and awards:
- SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, 2006
- Outstanding Graduate Student in Sequential Art, 2002
- SCAD Board of Trustees Fellowship, 2000
- Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vt., 1997
- Silver Medal Award for Mixed-media Drawing, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 1989
Courses:
- Sequential Art Senior Project
- Speed Sketching for Sequential Art
- Advanced Inking Techniques
- Materials and Techniques for Sequential Art
- Penciling and Inking I and II
- Drawing for Sequential Art
- Graduate Studios I, II, III and IV
- Senior Project
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Tom Lyle
Savannah
B.A., University of Florida.
Self-taught as a comic book artist, Tom Lyle has been a practicing professional in that field for 21 years. With work published by Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics and many others, Lyle has a strong working knowledge of the comic book industry. He also did a series of articles for the Silver Bullet Comics Web site about breaking into the industry.
Awards and recognition:
- Created the "Scarlet Spider" costume design for Marvel Comics
- Co-created (with writer Chuck Dixon) the spoiler for DC Comics' Batman Universe
- Award winning short filmmaker of "Bubbas in the Mist" (Best Comedy, 1996 Pegasys Awards) and "Dougie's Room" (Best Dramatic Short, 2002 Silver Sprocket Film Festival)
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Vivian Majkowski
Savannah
B.A., University of Colorado; M.F.A., The Moscow Art Theatre School; Certificate, American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University
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David Malouf
Savannah
B.A., University of California, Berkeley.
David Malouf is one of the primary founders and the first vice president of the Interaction Design Association, which held the organization's first IxDA conference at SCAD in 2008. He was previously senior interaction designer for Motorola Enterprise Mobility where he designed software, webware and hardware interactions and interfaces. In his more than 15 years of experience, Malouf developed his expertise in interaction design, information architecture, user interface design, project management and other client technologies.
In addition to writing for his widely read blog, Malouf has been published online and in print on topics related to interaction design. He also teaches workshops on design.
Courses:
- Human/Computer Interaction
- Interactive Product Design
- Interaction Design Studio
- Information Architecture
- Perceptual and Cognitive Human Factors
- Information Architecture for Designers
- Interactive Product Design Process
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Debra Malschick
Savannah
B.F.A., Temple University; M.F.A., California State University, Long Beach.
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Jeff Markowsky
Savannah
Dip.Vis.A., Alberta College of Art, Canada; M.F.A., School of Visual Arts.
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Lesa Mason
Savannah
B.A., Rosemont College; M.A., Temple University; Ph.D., Indiana University.
Lesa Mason, Ph.D., has been an art history and museum studies professor at SCAD since 1991. She has led off-campus programs to Germany, France, Italy and Washington, D.C. As a recipient of several grants and scholarships, she worked in museums and galleries in Europe. Her doctoral research focused on the historic and technical study of the late medieval Cologne Workshop of the Master of the Holy Kinship. Her current work focuses on finding the connection between the "old" and the "new" in art and on interdisciplinary research in Cologne, Germany, where she is working on the documentation and interpretation of historic sites.
Publications:
- "A Sacred Site: Sankt Kolumba (An Interdisciplinary Documentation in the Arts)," co-author, work in progress.
- Exhibition catalog, "Pour l'Amour des Chiens," SCAD, 2003.
- "Relics" and "Litugical Vestments," "Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia," 1997-98.
- "How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare," East Carolina University Publication of the Joseph Beuys Symposium (June 1995), 1996.
- Exhibition catalog, "Deepening Concerns and New Impulses," SCAD, 1992.
Exhibitions:
- 1998, "A Sacred Site: Sankt Columba," for the National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference, Exhibit A Gallery, SCAD
- 1996, "I Like America and America Likes Me: Action Art by Joseph Beuys," SCAD
- 1995, "How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare," East Carolina University
- 1995, "Medieval Underdrawings in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum," Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
- 1992, "Deepening Concerns and New Impulses," SCAD, The Amerika Haus, Cologne Germany
Selected presentations:
- 2006, "Materials and Techniques of the English Tudor Court," SCAD Museum of Art
- 1995, "How to Explain Paintings to a Dead Hare," Joseph Beuys Symposium, East Carolina University
- 1992, "The Impact of Technical Studies on the History of Art," CAA Session, Harvard University
Selected awards:
- SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, Spring 2003
- Earthwatch Grant, 1996
Courses:
- Survey of Western Art I and II
- Northern Renaissance
- Great Masters' Materials and Techniques
- Art Treasures of the Vatican
- Museum Studies: Conservation
- Joseph Beuys
- Cathedral of St John the Baptist
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Swapnil Mathkar
Savannah
B.F.A., Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai, India; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Jason Maurer
Savannah
B.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
Jason Maurer was the director and co-writer of Fathom Studio's first feature production, "Delgo." He created computer graphics and interactive design work for numerous clients, including the Sci-Fi Channel, the Weather Channel, Leo Burnett and J. Walter Thompson. Maurer also produced and directed the award-winning tutorial series "Windows Without Headaches" and designed station packages for Fox. His work has been featured in Odyssey Productions' "The Gate Beyond The Mind's Eye," and he has won numerous accolades for animation, including 7 Telly Awards and an Addy.
Membership:
Courses:
- Digital Form, Space and Lighting
- Senior Animation Project I and II
- Concept Development for Animation Projects
- Professional Production Practices
- Visual Effects Studio I
- Digital Materials and Textures
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Stephen May
Savannah
B.A., University of Alabama; M.A., M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
Stephen May began his professional career as a freelance photographer in 1983 after he received a B.A. in visual art from the University of Alabama. He transitioned to writing and producing industrial and corporate video, and in 1987 he moved to Savannah, Ga., to obtain an M.F.A. in film and television from SCAD. He joined the staff of the college managing the in-house media production company where he worked with external clients such as MTV and NBC. May produced and directed educational and marketing films that showcased the professional accomplishments of SCAD's international alumni with shooting locations in London, Paris and Florence. During this period he supervised SCAD film and television majors as they interned with the production company. May began his full-time teaching duties in 1997 and since that time has taught many of the courses offered in both the undergraduate and graduate curriculum.
Courses:
- Preproduction
- Introduction to Film and Video Production
- Post Production
- Film and Television Senior Project
- Directing the Documentary
- Documentary Preproduction
- Producing for Film and Television
- Television and Society
- Film and Television Professional Development
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John McCabe
Savannah
B.Arch., B.S., M.I.D., Auburn University.
John McCabe joined the faculty in the SCAD industrial design department in 2007. His research background is in sustainability, an understanding of material reuse and allocation, and nurturing a desire to provide for those in need. He combines these passions to design products that can make a difference on a global level. He has participated in multiple study abroad programs, which allow him to better understand scale, immersive environments and how these relate to architectural and industrial design.
His professional experience includes freelance design for his firm Fulcrum Collaborative, architecture design for Chapman Sisson Architects in Huntsville, Ala., and coordinating industry collaboration studios for SCAD and Auburn University.
Courses:
- Model and Prototype Development
- Introduction to Industrial Design
- Industrial Design in the Marketplace
- Prototype Project Conceptualization/Construction
- Commercial Practices for Industrial Design
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Kevin McCarey
Savannah
B.S., Maritime College; M.A., University of Oregon.
Kevin McCarey is an award-winning filmmaker for such acclaimed documentary series as "Portrait of America" (Peabody-Award) and the National Geographic Specials for which he received four Emmy nominations (two as a writer) and one Emmy Award. His special, "Trumpet of Conscience," aired every Christmas on the Turner Networks for 12 years. McCarey's narrative work includes "San Juan Story," a semi-finalist for Best Live Action Short Academy Award, and the feature film "Coyotes" which won Best Feature Film in the 1999 Savannah Film Festival. He also has worked as a boat captain and oceanographer on expeditions to the Caribbean and the South Pacific.
Awards:
- Primetime Emmy
- Primetime Emmy nominations (4)
- Peabody Award
- CINE Golden Eagles (6)
- CHRIS Awards (2)
Memberships:
- Writers Guild of America, Lifetime Member
- Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Courses:
- Directing the Narrative
- Directing the Documentary
- Screenwriting
- Film History
- Film and Television Senior Project
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Jason Paul McCarthy
Savannah
B.A., University of East London; Master of Arts, Royal College of Art.
Prior to joining the SCAD fashion faculty, British designer Jason Paul McCarthy was a professor at the University of East London, where he taught in the fashion design, fashion marketing and fashion futures programs. He was also a designer with Nocturne, a women's wear label based in London and China. His versatility and experience ranges from menswear to women's wear, across many aspects of the fashion industry, including visual merchandising, branding, storyboarding, design realization, futures of fashion and wearable futures.
Courses:
- Introduction to Fashion Design
- Computer-aided Fashion Design
- Fashion Aesthetics and Style
- Visual Merchandising Communication for Fashion
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Marvin McClendon
Savannah
B.A., Rice University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.
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Dillon McDaniel
Savannah
B.F.A., University of New Mexico; M.F.A., University of Oregon.
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Christopher McDonnell
Savannah
Des.R.C.A., Royal College of Art.
Christopher McDonnell has owned successful retail outlets in London, Tokyo, Osaka and Sydney, with wholesale ranges distributed to stores in 24 countries. He represented the United Kingdom in the Best of Britain pageant, served as head of design and product development at Saks Fifth Avenue and Macy's in New York, and held positions as creative director at Alfred Dunhill International and Paul Stuart Inc., New York. He has lectured at the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martin's in London and was a guest speaker at National Heritage in the U.K.
Award:
- British Designer of the Year
Membership:
Courses:
- Business of Fashion
- History of Fashion
- Senior Collection I
- Fashion Promotion
- Current Trends and Forecasting
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Shawn McKinney
Savannah
B.A., Tulane University; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts.
Before coming to SCAD in 2006, Shawn McKinney taught graphic design at the University of Texas-Austin, Otis College of Art and Design and Wanganui Polytechnic in New Zealand. As a senior designer and art director, McKinney directed identity, marketing, publications and wayfinding projects for Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Sherry Matthews Advocacy Marketing, and fd2s. In Austin, he redesigned the School of Journalism Web site and supervised the design or Orange magazine. In addition to his teaching, McKinney is Web editor and site designer for Drunken Boat, an international online literary journal.
His design work has appeared in Type In Motion (1998), Digital Type (1997) and Typography Now 2 (1996). He served as president of American Institute of Graphic Arts Austin (2003-05) and logo chair of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (2003-05).
Courses:
- Type I
- History of Graphic Design
- Vector and Raster Graphics
- Digital Page and Web Graphics
- Web Design
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Patrick McKinnon
Savannah
B.F.A., M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
Patrick McKinnon teaches foundation studies classes while creating his own work.
Exhibitions:
- SCAD Scholarship Gala, group show, Savannah, 2004, 2005 and 2006
- "NANA: New Artists New Art," group show, Cork Street Gallery, London, England, 2002
- "Modification," solo show, Café Metropole, Savannah, 2002
- "International Young Art," Artlink @ Sothebys, group show, Sothebys Galleries, Tel Aviv, Israel, Chicago and Vienna, Austria, 2000.
- "Self portraits," solo show, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, 1997
Courses:
- Drawing 1, II and III
- Life Drawing I
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Sharon McNeil
Savannah
B.A., Lewis and Clark College; M.F.A., California State University, Long Beach.
Sharon McNeil earned a B.A. in art and theatre from Lewis and Clark College in Portland Ore. While at Lewis and Clark, she spent five months in Greece studying the language and culture on the island of Nysiros. This experience filled her with images and themes that permeate her work to this day. McNeil worked as a scenic artist for many theatrical organizations including Seattle Repertory Theatre, the Seattle Opera and A Contemporary Theatre before moving to California, where she earned an M.F.A. in drawing and painting at California State University Long Beach. She taught at various colleges and universities in Southern California.
Selected Exhibitions:
- Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, Calif.
- PCA Project Gallery, Pomona, Calif.
- Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, Calif.
- Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.
- Period Gallery, Omaha, Neb.
- San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands, Calif.
- Lake Tahoe Community College, Calif.
- Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, Calif.
- Second City Council, Long Beach, Calif.
Courses:
- Drawing I and II
- Life Drawing
- 2-D Design
- Color Theory
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Angela Merta
Savannah
B.A., College of St. Catherine; M.F.A., University of Minnesota.
Angela Merta has been a Ruth Lilly Poetry Award finalist and has published work in the Louisiana Review, Southern Anthology, The Nebraska Review, the Moon City Review and Kalliope.
Courses:
- Poetry Writing I, II and III
- Forms in Poetry
- Modern and Contemporary Poetry
- Composition
- Psychological Realism in Literature
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Andrew Meyer
Savannah
B.A., Bucknell University.
Andrew Meyer has produced many feature films, most notably "Fried Green Tomatoes" and "The Breakfast Club." His other films include "Better Off Dead" and "Bring on the Night." Meyer has been active in the entertainment business for the last 25 years with experience in both the film and the record business.
Courses:
- Screenwriting
- Producing for Film and Television
- Distribution Revolution
- Film and Television Senior Project
- Film and Television M.F.A. Thesis
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Natalija Mijatovic
Savannah
B.A., University of Montenegro; M.F.A., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Natalija Mijatovic has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions throughout the world, including venues in Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, Austria, France, Germany, Montenegro and Serbia, as well as the 50th Venice Biennial in Italy. She is well-versed in conservation techniques and has lectured about topics ranging from Byzantine chanting and architecture to Christian iconography and techniques. Mijatovic creates art in a variety of visual media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, installation and computer-generated imagery.
Selected publications:
- Work reproduced and interviews published in various magazines and newspapers in Yugoslavia, Austria, France and the United States, including Art Crowd, Der Standard, House Style, New American Paintings and Philadelpia Weekly
Awards:
- Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, 2000
- Scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1999
- First Award for the Best Young Talent, given by the Center for Modern Art, Podgorica, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, 1997
Memberships:
- National Association of Fine Artists of Montenegro and Yugoslavia
- International Federation of Journalists.
- St. John of Damascus organization for preserving Orthodox Christian heritage and tradition under the patronage of Patriarchate of Serbian Orthodox Church
Courses:
- Introduction to Painting
- Oil-based Media Exploration
- Water-based Media Exploration
- Intermediate Painting
- Formal Aspects of Painting
- Painting and Drawing I
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Harold Miles
Savannah
Hal Miles is an international award-winning animation and visual effects filmmaker who has taught at SCAD for six years. Prior to that, he spent 25 years in the motion picture, television animation and visual effects production industries in Hollywood. He worked on several films that won Academy Awards for visual effects, including "Titanic," "Terminator II" and "The Abyss." He also created the main, ending and segue titles for the electronic and animation theaters at the 30th anniversary SIGGRAPH conference in 2003. At SCAD, he served as special project supervisor and technical director for the first 24P stop-motion animation production, "Rick and Rocky" (2003), based on the children's book by SCAD President Paula S. Wallace. In addition to teaching, he continues to create animated short films, and also oversees his stop-motion animation and visual effects museum.
Selected filmography:
- "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" (2001)
- "Starship Troopers" (1997)
- "As Good as it Gets" (1997)
- "Twilight Zone, the Movie" (1983)
Selected presentations and lectures:
- 2007, Indie Film Jam, Orlando, Fla., "The Madness of Being"
- 2007, Woods Hole Film Festival, Cape Cod, Mass., "The Madness of Being"
- 2007, The Education Channel, Tampa, Fla., "The Madness of Being"
- 2007, Savannah Film Festival, Savannnah, Ga., "The Madness of Being"
- 2006, Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta, Ga., "Gumby" exhibition lecture
Selected awards:
- 2007, Best Animated Film at the Independents Film Festival, "The Madness of Being"
- 2007, Special Jury Award for Most Outstanding Film, the Winnipeg International Film Festival, "The Madness of Being"
Membership:
- President of the Savannah Chapter of the NFFC
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Anthony Scott Miller
Savannah
B.F.A., Otis College of Art and Design.
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Anthony Scott Miller, Chair
Savannah
B.F.A., Otis College of Art and Design.
Anthony Miller began his career as an assistant designer for Rosemary Brantley, then worked for leading high-end retailer Ecru, where he developed the first of two wholesale lines, ecru prêt and for Fetish Group, Tag Rag. He lived and worked in Milan, Italy, as a designer for Studio Francese representing such companies as Pancaldi & B, Armani, Brunello Cucinello and Lara Biagotti International as corporate design director for Burn International to manage product development from concept to production. Miller was requested to design a bustier by Thierry Mugler for a retrospective with the proceeds benefitting AIDS Health Care Foundation. A 1989 graduate of Otis College of Art and Design, Miller joined SCAD in September 2003 and is chair of the fashion department, where, with faculty, he has developed new degree programs in accessory design, fashion marketing and management, and luxury and fashion management. Miller conceived of the Style Lab mentorship program, and works with top designers who visit the department. He was nominated for the Marty Award for menswear in California, and was nominated for the Rising Star for Tag Rag. Miller is a regular on the Style Network's reality show "Ruby" as a fashion expert, contributes his fashion expertise to NPR, has been a keynote speaker for Color Group International, and is a consultant for the YMA Geoffrey Beene scholarship Committee.
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Christine Miller
Savannah
B.A., University of California; M.A., Goddard College; Ph.D., Wayne State University.
Christine Miller's research interests include how sociality and culture influence the design of new products. She has also explored how the human-computer interface in relation to technology-mediated communication within group, team and network situations has developed. She formerly was a member of the Wayne State University business faculty, where she taught courses that addressed technological influences on organizations. Miller is secretary for the National Association of Practicing Anthropologists, a section of the American Anthropological Association.
Courses:
- History and Interpretation of Innovation
- Facilitating Creative Thinking
- Design Innovation Development and Marketing Strategies
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Robert Miller
Savannah
B.F.A., Davidson College; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts.
Robert E. Miller began his career at the California Institute of the Arts, where he served as assistant to Morton Subotnick and as re-recording engineer for the film department. He later toured with the Merce Cunningham dance company, producing sound designs in association with John c\Cage; recorded and produced "Rainforest," a CD and historical retrospective of the composition by David Tudor; served as audio production supervisor for the department of theater, film and television at UCLA; and worked as sound design supervisor for the Yale University School of Drama and Repertory Theater.
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Bonnie Million
Savannah
B.A., Indiana University; M.A., Utah State University; Ph.D., University of Utah
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Terry Moeller
Savannah
B.A., Sam Houston State University; M.A., M.F.A., Stephen F. Austin.
Since 1985, Terry Moeller has pursued her career as a studio artist. The landscape imagery of her oil paintings and pastel drawings reflects her interest in nature. Her art is represented in the permanent collections of 60 corporations. She has had 11 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 50 group shows. For the past 20 years, she also has maintained an active teaching career at the college level.
Permanent collections (selected):
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Central Carolina Bank
- Exxon
- The Federal Reserve
- Hallmark Cards
- McGraw Hill Publishing Co.
- Shell Oil
- United State Embassies
Courses:
- Color Theory
- Drawing I and II
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Randy Moffett
Savannah
B.A., University of the South; M.A., Ph.D., West Virginia University.
Randy Moffett, Ph.D., is a professor of political science at SCAD. His previous experience includes working on Capitol Hill and at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., and for CARE International in Atlanta. His research interests include campaigns and elections and the role of media in politics. His classes include American politics and both U.S. and global public policy.
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Patrick Mohr
Savannah
B.F.A., California College of the Arts and Crafts; M.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art.
Patrick Mohr is a veteran artist, educator and expert in the field of public art, installation and sculpture. He has produced permanent examples of public art for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Agency, Arts Council of Long Beach and City of Long Beach Public Art Collection. Mohr recently was the invited keynote presenter at the Public Art Expo, co-presented by the Fulton County Arts Council Public Art Program, City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs Public Art Program, and City of Atlanta Department of Aviation Art Program. He was appointed to the steering committee for the Long Beach Cultural Master Plan and Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation strategic planning committee. Mohr has taught at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California State University, Long Beach, and is a Fulbright-Hays Research Fellow.
Awards:
- Design Excellence Award, Long Beach Planning Commission, 1997
- Distinguished Visual Artist Award, Long Beach Arts Council, 1990
- Faculty Development Grant, New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y., 1990
- Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowship, Portugal, 1977-78
Group Exhibitions:
- "Summer Group Show," Metro Arts, Phoenix, Ariz.
- "Percepciones de L.A.," Casa de Valazquez, Madrid, Spain
- "L.A. New Art," Universidad Cumplutense, Sala de Facultad de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
- "Pre-Columbus Quincentenary Primal Experience Extravaganza Sale: A Mohr-Stone Promotion No. 2," Bank of America Gallery Project Room, South Coast Metro Center, Costa Mesa, Calif.
- "Pseudo Trade Theory And Other Dokumenta II," Santa Monica College Art, Santa Monica, Calif.
Collections:
- Mary Norris, (private collection) Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Calif.
- Metropolitan Transit Authority, Metro Art Public Art Collection, Los Angeles, Calif.
- Robert Gumbiner, CEO (retired), FHP Corporation, Long Beach, Calif.
- KPMH Pete Marwick LLP, Washington, D.C.
- University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, Calif.
- City of Long Beach Art in Public Places Program, Public Art Collection
- Long Beach Public Corporation for the Arts, Public Art Collection
- Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, Public Art Collection
- Legacy Partners, Long Beach, Calif.
- California State University San Bernadino, Sculpture Collection
Memberships:
- Long Beach Arts Commission (PCA)
- College Art Association
- California Arts Council
Courses:
- Drawing I and II
- 2-D Design
- 3-D Design
- Sculpture In Context (Public Art)
- Beginning Sculpture Practices I and II
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Robert Mond
Savannah
B.A., University of Dubuque; M.A., University of Nebraska - Lincoln; M.F.A., University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Robert A. Mond was resident lighting designer for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival for 13 years. He also has been the operations manager and tour lighting designer for the Tulsa Ballet Theatre. As a designer for a special events company in Washington, D.C., his projects included Presidential dinners for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, the national awards ceremony for the American Institute of Architects, and Nissan's introduction of the 1990 Z car. His recent work has included designs for the Bristol Riverside Theatre in Bristol, Pa., the Stratford Arts Council in Stratford, Conn., and the Nebraska Rep. In 2008, Mond became chair of the production design department.
Courses:
- Lighting Design for Stage and Screen I and II
- Introduction to Production Design
- Stage Management
- Scenographic Techniques and Applications
- Production Management and Administration
- CAD for Production Design
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Jorge Montero
Savannah,
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B.B.A., Universidad Rafael Urdaneta; M.A., M.F.A., University of Iowa.
Jorge Montero has worked for advertising agencies, publications, publishers and newspapers in Venezuela and the United States. He has served as a guest professor in numerous countries, including Cuba, the Czech Republic, El Salvador, Germany, South Africa, the U.S. and Venezuela. His editorial cartoons have appeared in Venezuela and the U.S., and he has exhibited work in both countries, as well as in Germany.
Membership:
- International Council of Graphic Design Associations
Courses:
- Graphic Design Studio I and II
- Design Methodologies
- Alternative Design Approaches
- Introduction to Graphic Design
- Typography I
- The Role of Graphic Design in Social Awareness
- Photoshop for Designers
- Poster Design
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Laraine Montgomery
Savannah
B.A., M.Arch., North Carolina State University.
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Jeremy Moorshead
Savannah
B.A., Nottingham Trent University, Trent Polytechnic; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
Jeremy Moorshead is chair of the animation department at SCAD. He previously served as technical instructor at the Royal College of Art and animation cameraman at the National Film and Television School, United Kingdom. He was a freelance animation cameraman for numerous independent shorts; his credits include "Grand Day Out" (Nick Park for NFTVS), "Feeling My Way" (Jonathan Hodgson for Sherbet/Channel 4) and "Three Ways to Go" (Sarah Cox for Picasso Picture/Channel 4). He also produced six-minute short "El Caminante," directed by Debra Smith, for Channel 4 Television in 1997.
Awards:
- Winner, best experimental film, Gavà International Film Festival, Spain, 1998
- Special mention, Cinanima, Espinho International Animation Film Festival, Portugal, 1998
- British Academy (BAFTA) Award nomination for "El Caminante," 1997
- Cartoon d'Or nomination for "El Caminante," 1997
Membership:
- Society for Animation Studies
Courses:
- Motion Studies
- Concept Development for Animation Projects
- Experimental Animation
- Senior Animation Project I
- Animation Aesthetics and Practice
- Experimental Processes and Narrative
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Michael Morford
Savannah
B.F.A., M.A., Texas Christian University; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve.*
Michael Morford joined the art history department at SCAD after teaching as an adjunct professor at John Carroll University, Baldwin Wallace College, Kent State University and Case Western Reserve University. He has conducted extensive research in Florence and Rome on 16th-century Italian painting and sculpture, including the influence of dream manuals on Pontormo and the propagandistic imagery of Baccio Bandinelli.
Publications:
- Catalog entries for Luca Cambiaso No. 65 and Giovanni Battista Franco Nos. 167-171.
- Short biographies of Cherubino Alberti, Andrea Boscoli, Aurelio Luini, Niccolo Martinelli, Giovanfrancesco Penni, Bernardino Poccetti and Ventura Salimbeni in "Drawings in Midwestern Collections II: 1500-1600," ed. Edward Olszewski, Brepols Press (Belgium), 2006.
Presentations and lectures:
- "Mutual Propaganda Fulfilled: Baccio Bandinelli's 'Hercules and Cacus,'" New College Conference of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, Fla., March 2004.
- "Baccio Bandinelli's 'Hercules and Cacus': Display of Clemency or Reminder of Instabilities?," Sixteenth-century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, October 2003.
- "Athena's Cock (?): An Interpretation of the Fighting Cocks in Panathenaic Amphorae," Ohio University Graduate Symposium, Athens, Ohio, May 2003.
- "The Iconology/Iconography of Andrea del Sarto's 'Portrait of a French Lady' in the CMA," Methodologies in Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, November 2000.
Awards:
- Baker-Nord Fellowship, 2004-05
- Butkin Fellowship, 2004-05
- Case Western Reserve University Graduate Fellowship, 2004-05
Memberships:
- CAA
- Italian Art Society
- Renaissance Society of America
- Sixteenth Century Society
Courses:
- Survey of Western Art I
- Italian Renaissance Art
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John Morris
Savannah
B.S., Clemson University; B.S., M.I.D., Auburn University.
A native of Charleston, S.C., John Morris has been teaching in the SCAD industrial design department since 2001. His prior work experiences include product development, production line process design, graphic design and mapmaking. He has an entrepreneurial design business that continues to produce concept artwork, graphics and maps. His client list includes the Charleston Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Middleton Place Foundation, the South Carolina Irish Memorial, Eden Street Software, and the School of the Building Arts in Charleston.
Publication:
- "Charleston Illustrated: A Historic District Architectural Map" - co-produced with Heather Bailey, 2001.
Courses:
- Introduction to Industrial Design
- Survey of Industrial Design
- Idea Visualization
- Introduction to Computer Aided Design
- Design for the Marketplace
- Advanced Product Rendering
- Portfolio and Resume Design
- Graduate Studios I, II and III
- Marine Studio II
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Deborah Mosch
Savannah
B.F.A., Pennsylvania State University; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Steven Mosch
Savannah
B.A., Pennsylvania State University; B.S., M.F.A., Rochester Institute of Technology.
Since joining the SCAD faculty in 1983, Steve Mosch has committed most of his energy to teaching and building the photography department. Serving as the first photography chair from 1985-97 (also for the 2005-06 academic year), Mosch oversaw the program's curriculum, facilities and faculty during the college's formative years of rapid growth and development. In addition, he has worked as a freelance architectural photographer and has widely exhibited his personal work, which consists of traditional large-format and digital panoramic landscape photographs that investigate the intersections of nature and the human-made environment.
Publications:
- Photographs reproduced in second, third and fourth editions of "Exploring Color Photography," a widely used textbook, by Robert Hirsch.
- Essay for exhibition catalog "Waters of the Southeast: Photographs by Tom Fischer."
Presentations and lectures:
- Several lectures and essays between 1993-97 in conjunction with photographic exhibitions at the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah
- Numerous presentations about personal work to various groups.
Exhibitions:
- Numerous group and solo exhibitions since 1980.
- Upcoming two-person exhibition with wife Deborah Cherry Mosch at Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah, November 2007.
Awards:
- Numerous exhibition and purchase awards since 1980
- 1993-94 Georgia Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grant
Membership:
- Society for Photographic Education (since 1982)
Courses:
- Color Photography (all levels: basic, advanced, graduate)
- Large-format Photography (undergraduate)
- View Camera Craft (graduate)
- History of Photography II
- Landscape Photography (elective course developed by Mosch)
- Photography M.F.A. Thesis
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Laura Mosquera
Savannah
B.F.A., M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Helena Moussatché
Savannah
B.Arch., Instituto Metodista Bennett; M.Ed., Pontificia Universidade Católica; Ph.D., Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Helena Moussatche is a graduated and licensed architect in Rio de Janeiro with a Ph.D. and master's degrees in education. She has practiced architecture and interior design for 20 years. Her academic experience reflects 17 years of teaching architecture and interior sesign, and 10 years of research on educational facilities in both Brazil and the United States. The findings of her studies on the environmental quality and human response to educational indoor environments have been published and have received national and international recognition.
Publications:
- "Environmentally Responsible Specifications," in Louise Jones (Org.), "Environmentally Responsible Design." New York: Wiley.
- With Languell, J. "Life-cycle Costing of Interior Materials for Florida's Schools." Journal of Interior Design v. 28; n.2; Pp. 37-49, 2002.
- With King, J. "Reason or Folly? Interior Designers' Process of Choosing Interior Finish Materials." Interiors amd Sources Magazine. September 2002, pp. 76-79.
- With Languell, J. "Flooring Materials: Life Cycle Costing for Educational Facilities." Facilities, U.K. 19 (10) pp. 333-343, 2001.
- With Languell-Urquhart, J. "Service Life Cycle Costing of Ceiling Systems in Educational Facilities." Facilities Design and Management, May 2001, pp. 24.
Presentations and lectures:
- "Brazilian Architecture: past and present," keynote speaker, Brazil Symposium, Eastern Michigan University, 2004.
- "Sustainability and Interior Materials," School of Architecture and Urbanism, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2002
- "Social Representations in School Architecture," School of Architecture and Urbanism, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2002
- "Material Selection in Interior Design Practice," IDEC International Conference, Santa Fe, N.M., 2002
- "From School Houses to Government Logos: The Meanings of Brazilian Public School's Architecture." Society of Architectural Historians 54th Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 2001.
Awards:
- 2002-03 Teacher of the Year - College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida
- Literati Club/Emerald Awards for Excellence 2002 - Outstanding Paper in the 2001 Volume of Facilities, U.K.
- Interior Design Educators Council Best Paper 2001: "Assessing the Service Life Cycle Costs of Interior Materials Through Collaboration."
Memberships:
- Brazilian Institute of Architects
- Interior Design Educators Council
- U.S. Green Building Council, LEED-certified member
- Journal of Interior Design board of reviewers
- Council of Interior Design accreditation site visitor
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/PROARQ, visiting board of professors in architectural theory and research
Courses:
- Interior Materials I and II
- Interior Design Studios III and IV
- Interior Design Graduate Seminar
- Interior Design Theory and Criticism
- Contemporary Issues in Interior Design
- Final M.A. Project
- Interior Environmental Systems
- Emerging Interior Materials
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Robert Mrozowski
Savannah
B.F.A., Pratt Institute.
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Fernando Munilla
Savannah
B.Des., University of Florida, Gainesville; M.Arch., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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Christine Neal
Savannah
B.A., Bucknell University; M.A., University of Wisconsin; Ph.D., University of Missouri.
Christine Neal, Ph.D., worked as a curator in the art museum field for almost 20 years before joining SCAD. Her experience includes public, private and university art museums across the country. In addition, she has served as an independent art curator. Neal and one of her museum curation classes proposed thematic displays for Savannah's Bethesda Home for Boys Museum.
Selected publications:
- "Sylvia Shaw Judson," American Arts Quarterly, Summer 2002
- "Claude Raguet Hirst: Her [Still] Life Story," Woman's Art Journal, Spring 2002
- "The Still Lifes of Claude Raguet Hirst," American Arts Quarterly, Fall 2001
- Essay, "L'art de Kahlil Gibran," published in the exhibition catalog for "The Garden of The Prophet: Kahlil Gibran, Writer and Painter." Accompanied the exhibition at the Institut Du Monde Arabe in Paris.
- Annual Exhibition Competition, Museum News, 1998 and 1999
Lectures:
- CAA, "New Voices in 19th-century Scholarship," 2000
- American Culture/Popular Culture Association annual conference (1999)
- Southeastern College Art Conference, "Against the Odds: Women Making Their Mark in Art" (1999)
- Art Institute of Chicago, 32nd Annual Graduate Student Conference (1998)
Awards:
- SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development
- Kress Foundation, University of Wisconsin
- Tuition Remission, University of Wisconsin
Memberships:
- Chair, AAM Exhibition Competition, 1997 - 2000
- Judge, Annual Art Fair, Winter Park, Fla., 2000
- Judge, Third Annual Art Exhibition, Brunswick, GA, 1999
- Curators Committee, American Association of Museums
- Southeastern Museum Conference
- Southeastern College Art Conference
Courses:
- Survey of Western Art 1 and II
- Introduction to Museum Principles and Methods (museum studies minor)
- Musuem Curation and Collections Management (museum studies minor)
- American Art
- Independent Study (undergraduate)
- Art History B.F.A. Thesis
- Art History M.A. Thesis
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Marcia Neblett
Savannah
B.F.A., State University of New York at Purchase College; M.F.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Marcia Neblett attended courses at Cornell University and the Art Students League of New York before receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Purchase College, where she studied woodcut under master printmaker Antonio Frasconi. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting and printmaking under Howardina Pindell at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In addition to teaching at SCAD, she serves on the advisory board of the Children's Art League of New York, Inc. .
Awards:
- The Fulbright Foundation
- The MacDowell Foundation
- The Jerome Foundation
- The New York Foundation for the Arts
- The Alden B. Dow Creativity Center
Selected exhbitions:
- The Nehru Center, Mumbai, India
- Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, India
- The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, N.Y.
- The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, N.Y.
- The Plains Art Museum, Fargo, N.D.
Courses:
- Drawing II
- Design
- Color Theory
- Life Drawing
- Medical Illustration
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Andrew Nedd
Savannah
B.A., San Diego State University; M.A., University of California, Davis; Ph.D., University of Southern California.
Andrew Nedd's specialties are modernism in general and Russia in particular. His dissertation was titled "Defending Russia: Russian History and Pictorial Narratives of the 'Patriotic War,' 1812-1912." He served on the organizing committee for the Southern Conference of Slavic Studies conference, which held its 41st annual meeting in Savannah in April 2003. Nedd also played a significant role in initiating a regular biennial art history conference at SCAD, and in Spring 2006 he served as co-chair for the first SCAD art history symposium, "The New Renaissance: An Interactive Paradigm."
Publications:
- "Segodniashnii Lubok: 'Art, War, and National Identity.'" Pearl James, ed. "Picture This!: Reading World War I Posters" (University of Nebraska, 2007).
Selected presentations:
- Fifth Savannah Symposium, SCAD, February 2007. Chaired session.
- "Russian Primitivism Becomes Avant-garde: 'Lubki' in Russian World War I Posters," Modernist Studies Association, October 2005.
- "Reading Tolstoy: Russian Pictorial Narratives of the 'Patriotic War of 1812,'" Association for the Study of Nationalities, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, April 2005.
- "Modernism and the Question of Place," Fourth Savannah Symposium: Architecture and Regionalism, February 2005. Chaired session.
- "Russian Modernism in Central and Eastern Europe," Southeastern College Art Conference, October 2004. Organized and chaired panel.
Awards:
- SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, 2001 and 2005.
- U.S.C. College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Summer Dissertation Fellowship, Spring 2003.
- Short-term residential fellowship, Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Spring 2002.
- Regional Scholar Exchange Program Grant, U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Spring 2001.
Courses:
- Survey of Western Art I and II
- 19th-century Art
- 20th-century Art
- Introduction to Museum Studies
- Russian Modernism
- Treasures of Provence, French Modernism (in Lacoste, France)
- New York as Art Capital of the World (New York City off-campus program)
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Kathleen Newell
Savannah
B.A., Temple University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Delaware.
Prior to joining SCAD as a liberal arts professor in 2006, Kate Newell, Ph.D., taught literature, writing and film at the University of Delaware, where she received the Writing Program Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Wilbur Owen Sypherd Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Humanities.
Publications and presentations:
- "'Washington Square's 'virus of suggestion': Source Texts, Intertexts, and Adaptations," Literature/Film Quarterly July 2006 (34:3).
- "'Carrying its text in its spirit': What Adaptation Studies Can Learn From James," The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Louisville, February 2007.
- "Competing Codes and 'Plastic Possibility': H.W. McVickar's Illustrative Commentary in 'Daisy Miller,'" 2006 International Visual Literacy Association Conference, Fort Worth, October 2006.
- "Adaptation, Hybridity, and Multimodality," 2006 Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, Atlanta, 2006.
- "D.W. Griffith and His Legacy of Literariness," Literature/Film Association Annual Conference, Carlisle, Penn., October 2005.
Memberships:
- International Visual Literacy Association
- Literature/Film Association
- Modern Language Association
- Society for Cinema Studies
Courses:
- Composition
- Composition and Literature
- Literary Films
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Robert A. Newman
Savannah
B.F.A., Pratt Institute; M.F.A., University of Tennessee.
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Huy Sinh Ngo
Savannah
B.Arch., M.Arch., Texas Tech University.
Originally from Saigon, Vietnam, Huy Sinh Ngo is a graduate of the Master of Architecture program at Texas Tech University, College of Architecture. He has practiced architecture and design for more than 12 years in Texas, New Mexico, California, Georgia and Florida. His academic experiences reflect more than 15 years of teaching architecture and digital design media at Texas Tech University, the University of New Mexico, Texas A&M University and SCAD. Ngo has conducted research and produced numerous publications about sustainable architecture and digital design in architecture. His work has been published in several architecture publications, including ACSA, Wiley Publication - Sustainable and Transportable Environment, and Computer Aided Design and Engineering Journal (CADENCE).
Awards:
- 2002 Bentley's Outstanding Educator of the Year Award
- 2003 Coastal Beta Outstanding Educator, technology in architectural design education
Memberships:
- Bentley Architectural Advisory Board
- AutoDesk -- Education Advisory Board
- Savannah Science Seminar Board of Directors
- Coastal Beta
- American Institute of Architects
- The Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture
- President of the ACSA-College of Architecture Information Technology Group
Courses:
- Second, third and fourth-year Architecture Design Studios
- Graduate Architecture Design Studios
- Construction Technology and Materials
- Graduate Seminars - Systems Views and Theory in Architecture
- Sustainable Design and Energy Efficient Design
- Introduction to Architecture
- Architectural Drawings and Delineations
- Various Digital Design Courses - 2-D/3-D Modeling, Rendering and Imaging
- Animation and Visualization
- Multimedia Design and Interactive Design
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Christopher Nitsche
Savannah
B.F.A., M.A., Northern Illinois University; M.F.A., University of New Mexico.
Christopher Nitsche creates sculptures, drawings and temporary installations involving a rigorous exploration of the visual and metaphorical attributes of ship forms. For him the ship is an iconic entity that envelops form and content, connecting humanity with tangible reality. It is rich with an emotional and psychological presence. The processes he employs in creating the work are wide-ranging, allowing the form to transform conceptually and expressively as needed, resulting in dynamic shapes and appearance. For more information, visit www.chrisnitsche.com.
Exhibitions:
- "A Decade of New Hampshire Visual Artist Fellows," Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, N.H.
- "Toys: An Artistic Look at Playthings," Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, Ariz.
- "Vindauga: Two-part Installation," Maxwell Library, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, Mass.
- "La Luz: A Multimedia Outdoor Installation Approaching the Infinite," SculptFest05, Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, West Rutland, Vt.
- "31º North of East," Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas
- "Reflective," University of Wyoming Museum of Art, Laramie, Wyo.
- "Confluence: Sculpture, Installation, Drawings," Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, Colo.
Awards:
- Individual Artist Fellowship for Artistic Merit, New Hampshire State Council on the Arts
- Alumni Association Grant, Keene State College Alumni Foundation
- Faculty Professional Development Grant, Keene State College Foundation
- Fellowship Award for Artistic Merit in Three-dimensional Art, Colorado Council on the Arts
Courses:
- 3-D Design
- 2-D Design
- Beginning Sculpture Practices I
- Installation Art
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Rebecca Nolan
Savannah
B.A., University of Wisconsin - Green Bay; M.F.A., University of Oregon.
Rebecca Nolan is a fine art photographer whose work has been exhibited internationally. She has taught at SCAD since 2001 and is the photography graduate student coordinator and adviser. She has taught at the University of Kentucky, Washington University in St. Louis, Webster University, and several community colleges in the St. Louis area. Influenced by her wanderlust of America, her work addresses place, culture, society, environment and how these concepts influence us as individuals. She is a member of the Society for Photographic Education, Atlanta Photography Group, Houston Center for Photography and College Arts Association, and has served as a guest juror for numerous exhibitions.
Awards:
- Honorable Mention, Magic Silver Exhibition 1998
- Artistic Merit Award, 1996 Women's Works: Northern Arts Council
- University of Oregon graduate fellowships: lab management, creative photography, the Malhuer Workshop, gallery coordinator
Courses:
- Large-format Technique
- Photojournalism, Media, Culture
- Marketing for Fine Art Photography
- Art Marketing for Photography
- Color Technique
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Michael Nolin
Savannah
B.A., State University of New York at Albany; M.A., University of Southern California.
After attending the University of Southern California's School of Cinema/Television, Michael Nolin began his career as a clerk typist in the MGM story department. Seven years later, his résumé included stints as vice president for Columbia Pictures and 20th Century Fox, where he founded a classics-type distribution division that served as an early model for Fox Searchlight Pictures. By the mid-1980s he had established the first of several independent production companies, producing more than a dozen features and television shows before evolving from producer to writer/director. Nolin's films have appeared in major film festivals around the world, including New York, Tokyo, Deauville (France), Toronto and Honolulu. After a few adjunct teaching positions in California, including one at his alma mater, Nolin turned his attention to education full time, first with an appointment as a visiting professor at Brooklyn College. In 2003, he joined the faculty at SCAD.
Selected film credits:
- Teleplay for "Maniac Magee"
- "Wildly Available" (directorial debut)
- "Mr. Holland's Opus" and "Heart Like a Wheel" (both nominated for Academy awards)
- "84 Charlie Mopic"
- "The Pornographer"
- "Full Body Massage"
- "Medal of Honor"
Courses:
- Writing Fundamentals
- Screenwriting
- Advanced Screenwriting
- Graduate Screenwriting
- The Language of Cinema
- Pre-production
- Graduate Producing
- Senior Project I, II and III
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Jeremy Noonan
Savannah
B.F.A., College for Creative Studies; M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Jeremy Michael Noonan has designed printed, knit and woven textiles for Milliken & Co., Absecon Mills and Target Corp. His portfolio also includes designs for automotive, contract, hospitality, bedding, bath and rug products. From concept development to final product, he focuses on examining the relationships between color, pattern and texture as surfaces for everyday use. His interests include bridging the gaps between handmade and mass-produced, vintage and contemporary, and virtual and tactile.
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Sam Norgard
Savannah
B.F.A., University of North Carolina, Greensboro; M.F.A., University of Cincinnati.
Sam Norgard's current work pursues three areas of separate but related interests: perishable constructions, larger sculptural venues and beaded works of adornment. The content of her work is informed by ideas as diverse as Tibetan Sand Mandalas, haute couture and 1940s wallpaper patterns. She is driven by the simple joy of making and find endless possible in visual metaphor. Learn more about Sam Norgard.
Grants and Awards:
- Faculty Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, 2008
- Presidential Fellowship, 2008
- Faculty Research Grant, 2004
- Grant, Annapolis Regional Arts Council, Annapolis Royal, NS, Canada, 2003
- Mini Research Development Grant, 2003
- Who's Who in American Art, 1998-2009
- Chancellors Award for Teaching Excellence (students with disabilities), University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, 1998
Selected Exhibitions:
- "Razzle Dazzle!", May Poetter Gallery, Savannah, Ga.
- Trois Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.
- "Intersectionalities," University of Wisconsin-Madison
- "Landmarks," New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, Wis.
- "Threads," Gulf ArtSpace, Fairhope, Ala.
- Faculty Exhibition, Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
- "One from WI," West Bend Art Museum, West Bend, Wis.
- Galerie Pere Leger Comeau, St. Anne University, Nova Scotia, Canada
- "Scar Tissue," Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, Wis.
- "Remarkable Women," Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wis.
- "Women are Everywhere," Kortman Design Center, Rockford, Ill.
- "Mediated Image," Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
- "Wed to Elements," Arts Place, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada
- "Flora: The Beauty of Botanicals," Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Ill.
- Group Show, Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wis.
- "Elements," Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
- "Water," Walkers' Point, Milwaukee, Wis., and Summit Gallery, Fairhope, Ala.
- "Spare Art Parts," Concordia University, Mequon, Wis.
- "Dwellings," Opelika Art Center, Opelika, Ala.
- "Two Degrees North," Center Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
- "C.A.S.T.," Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
- "A Couple's Things," Center Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
- "Men Who Run with the Arts and a Woman Named Sam," Morning Song Gallery, Lenoir, N.C.
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Art Novak
Savannah
B.S., Northwestern University; M.A., Michigan State University.
Art Novak's copywriting portfolio - which includes work for Fortune 500 companies including 3M and Cargill - encompasses virtually all print and broadcast media as well as advertising collateral. In addition to working for such ad agencies as Campbell-Mithun in Minneapolis and N.W. Ayer in Chicago, Novak wrote numerous video scripts, speeches, songs and live presentations as creative director for Martin/Bastian, a Minneapolis-based firm specializing in corporate communications. Before becoming a professor, Novak also ran a successful copywriting business, the Art of Copy.
Publications:
- Communication Arts
- Format
Awards:
- One Show
- Clio
- Andy
- New York Art Directors
- New York Film Festival
- Telly
- Emmy
Memberships:
- Kappa Tau Alpha (National Journalism Honorary)
- American MENSA
Courses:
- Advertising Perspectives and Profiles
- Copywriting for Print
- Introduction to Advertising Design
- Creative Copywriting
- Persuasive Writing
- Concept and Ad Copy
- Special Topics (National Student Advertising Competition preparation course)
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Debora Oden
Savannah
B.F.A., M.F.A., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Samuel Olin
Savannah
B.A., University of Colorado; M.L.Arch., M.Arch., North Carolina State University.
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Christy Ortiz
Savannah
B.A., St. Edwards University; M.Ed., University of Houston; Ed.D., University of Houston.
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Sharon Ott
Savannah
B.A., Bennington College.
Sharon Ott has directed plays and operas for organizations such as the Manhattan Theater Club, the Public Theater, and Playwright's Horizons in New York; the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.; the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles; the Seattle Opera; the San Diego Opera; Opera Colorado; and many others. She was the artistic director of the Berkeley Repertory Theater in Berkeley, Calif., for 13 years, and the Seattle Repertory Theater for nine years. Ott has collaborated with actors Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, Delroy Lindo, Riccardo Antonio Chavira and Anna Deavere Smith; directors Julie Taymor, Joe Mantello, George C. Wolfe and Mary Zimmerman; and authors Beth Henley, David Henry Hwang, Phillip Kan Gotanda, Nilo Cruz and the late August Wilson.
Awards:
- Tony Award, 1998, Best Regional Theater (Berkeley Repertory Theater)
- Bay Area Theater Critics' awards, Best Direction ("The Tooth of Crime" and "Heartbreak House")
- Hollywood Dramalogue awards, Best Direction ("The Ballad of Yachiyo" and "The Lady from the Sea")
- Elliot Norton Award (Boston), Best Production ("The Woman Warrior")
Membership:
- National Executive Board Member, Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers
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Gokhan Ozaysin
Savannah
B.A., Anadolu University; M.F.A., Florida State University; Ph.D., Anadolu University.
Gokhan Ozaysin, Ph.D., serves as the director of graduate studies for the film and television department. He utilizes his strong academic background to facilitate a collaborative, interactive and innovative learning experience for graduate film and television students. For his doctoral dissertation, he compared the traditional story structure of oral tales to the narrative structure of contemporary movies and instituted storytelling methodology as the focal point of his academic concentration. Ozaysin also specializes in non-linear editing and teaches editing theories and techniques using professional editing platforms, such as Avid Media Composer, Symphony Nitris, DS Nitris and Unity MediaNetwork.
Publications:
- "Bilgisayarla Ders Yazılımı Gelistirme Ortamı: Yazarlık Sistemleri" in Bilisim Dergisi, December 1992, p. 50-60 (essay on computer authoring systems)
- "Video Görüntüsünün Estetigi" in "Video Sanatı: Elestirel Bir Bakıs," Istanbul: Hil Yayın, 1995, p. 44-63 (essay on the aesthetics of video)
- "Kahraman Annenin Canavar Bebegi," in 25 Kare Sinema Kültür Dergisi, October 1999, p. 54-62 (essay on the "hero's journey" story structure and "Alien" films)
- "Futbolun Öyküsü" in Toplumbilim Dergisi, September 2002 (essay on the narrative structure of soccer games)
Exhibitions:
- Oglesby Art Gallery, Tallahassee, Fla., 1995
- Izmir International Film Festival, Turkey, 1999
- SCAD, 2005
Awards:
- Adana Altinkoza Film Festival, Short Film Category, Jury Award
- Istanbul History Foundation Short Film Competition, Jury Award
- Marmara University Short Film Competition, Second Prize
- Izmir International Film Festival, Short Film Category, First Prize
- Serbin Communications and Photographer's Forum Magazine, 16th Annual College Photography Contest, Finalist
Recognitions:
- Scholars from Turkey in American Universities, Washington DC: Institute of Turkish Studies Intercultural Center, Georgetown University, 2004
- Who's Who Among America's Teachers®, 9th Edition, Austin TX: Educational Communications, Inc., 2005
Membership:
- Avid Academic Advisory Board
Courses:
- Post-production Techniques
- Advanced Post-production
- Directing the Narrative
- Directing the Documentary
- Film and Television M.F.A. Thesis Preproduction
- Film and Television M.F.A. Thesis Project
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Marlborough Packard
Savannah
B.A., Adelphi University; M.A., Hofstra University; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Verena Paepcke
Savannah
B.A., University of Applied Sciences; M.F.A., The Ohio State University.
Verena Paepcke has been teaching and developing courses at SCAD since 2005 and is a founding member of the Council for Sustainability and Eco-practices at SCAD. Paepcke has taught at The Ohio State University and the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam in Germany. She worked in research and development at Lear Corporation VisionWorks in Southfield, Michigan, developing concepts to incorporate new technologies into passenger cars. In Germany she developed concepts for improving lives of the elderly at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, and designed interiors for the Fairchild Dornier 728 jet with Industrial Design Studio Hamburg.
Presentations and publications:
- Sustainability lecture at the Department of Industrial, Interior and Visual Communications Design, The Ohio State University, April 2007
- "Tools for Balancing Design: Analysis and Evaluation Methods for Restricted Workspaces," The Ohio State University M.F.A. thesis, 2004
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Periklis Pagratis, Chair
Savannah
B.F.A., Higher School of Fine Arts in Athens, Greece; M.F.A., George Washington University.
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Evelyn Pappas
Savannah
B.S., Ithaca College; M.A., Syracuse University.
Evelyn Pappas' professional work experience has spanned 30 years in the bridal industry. She served as supervisor of training at Pietrafesa Inc. in Liverpool, N.Y., and a manufacturer of high-end men's and women's tailored garments for clients such as Polo Ralph Lauren, Brooks Brothers and Nordstrom. Pappas has spent many years sharing these industrial experiences with fashion students at Syracuse University and SCAD. Her areas of expertise in the classroom include the aesthetics of fine clothing and the technical skills of advanced garment construction, tailoring, draping and patternmaking.
Awards:
- First Marshal, Ithaca College Graduation
- Who's Who Among Students in American Universities/Colleges
- Full graduate teaching assistantship
- SU Knit-Wit Award for excellence in scholarship and teaching
- SU Summer Fellowship
Membership:
- Costume Society of America
Courses:
- Fashion Technology
- Apparel Development I and III
- Classic Tailoring
- Rising Star
- Advanced Sewing Technology
- Senior Collections II and III
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Yves Paquette
Savannah
B.F.A., Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; M.F.A., Ohio University.
Yves Paquette is a Quebec native. Prior to his arrival in Georgia, he taught sculpture and ceramics at North Central College in suburban Chicago and at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, N.C.
Awards:
- SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development
- Fellowship, North Carolina Arts and Science Council
Confererence:
- National Conference for Education in Ceramic Arts, Emerging Talent
Exhibition:
- "Reflection" (solo), Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.
Publication:
- "Growth Rings: The Installations of Yves Paquette," Ceramics Art and Perception, Issue 48, pgs. 19-22.
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Melanie Parker
Savannah
B.S., M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Joe Pasquale
Savannah
B.Env.Des., North Carolina State University; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
As an undergraduate student, Joe Pasquale encoded Buckminster Fuller's handwritten notes of Cartesian coordinate polyhedral data onto computer punch cards, beginning an early exploration of digital visualization. As a result, he was hired by Digital Effects Inc. in New York to work on the movie "TRON." He subsequently worked as a session animator for companies in Boston, Mass.; Paris, France; Sydney, Australia; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Copenhagen, Denmark. He served as one of the original animators in the computer graphics department at Industrial Light & Magic, and worked on Oscar-winning visual effects crews for "Terminator II," "Death Becomes Her" and "Jurassic Park." He has taught classes at the San Francisco Academy of Art, and worked as an animation director and manager for the CD-ROM game "Nine." He also developed production plans for musician Graham Nash's Broadway show, "Life Sighs." In addition to his courses at SCAD, he supervises graduate and undergraduate collaborative production projects.
Selected filmography:
- "Hook"
- "The Mask"
- "James and the Giant Peach"
- "Air Force One
- "The Truman Show"
Exhibition:
- New York Museum of Modern Art, architectural simulation of architect Raphael Vinoly's Tokyo International Forum
Selected presentations and lectures:
- New York Institute of Technology in Manhattan
- Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif.
- Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio
- Hellenic Symposium in Athens, Greece
Award:
- Who's Who Among American Teachers
Courses:
- Visual Effects Studio I and II (graduate and undergraduate)
- Visual Effects Portfolio (graduate and undergraduate)
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Andrew Phillip Payne
Savannah
B.E.D., M.Arch., Ph.D.*, North Carolina State University.
Andrew Phillip Payne joined the architecture department at SCAD in January 2008 and primarily teaches Construction Technology and Thesis Design Studios. Payne is also a consultant and principal of the Savannah-based design firm StudioGAP, where he specializes in campus planning and design, accessibility, universal design and materiality. Prior to joining SCAD, Payne was assistant researcher with the Center for Universal Design at North Carolina State University, where he conducted accessibility workshops, design reviews and building evaluations. While at NC State, Payne completed his Ph.D. in design, focusing on way-finding by visually impaired pedestrians. Payne has been an invited speaker at numerous conferences and contributed to several written bodies of work.
Areas of specialization:
- Way-finding and accessibility
- Human use of space
- Campus planning and design
- Construction materials and methods
- Design-build
Selected publications and presentations:
- "Understanding Change in Place: Spatial Knowledge Acquired by Visually Impaired Users through Change in Footpath Materials" (dissertation)
- Proceedings of the INCLUDE 2009 Conference on Inclusive Design, London
- "Aging in Place - Home," Jacksonville Magazine
- "Material Matters," ACSA West Fall Conference paper presentation, Los Angeles
- "OPENSpace: People Space," Conference on Universal Design, Edinburgh, Scotland
- "Universal Design and Perceptible Information," North Carolina Visual Impairment and Blindness Conference, Raleigh, N.C.
- "Universal Design and Living," Southern Gerontological Society National Conference, Greensboro, N.C.
- "Project Manager at Risk: Case Study Overviews," North Carolina State Construction Conference
- "Case Studies as a Teaching Tool," North Carolina State University Graduate Research Symposium
Memberships:
- Society of College and University Planners
- American Institute of Architects
- Savannah Young Architects Forum
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Jesse Payne
Savannah
B.F.A., Indiana State University; M.F.A., Northern Illinois University
Jesse Payne has exhibited on a national and international level and has been recognized for his work through awards and publications. Most recently, Payne completed a private study/apprenticeship with the noted Norwegian figurative painter Odd Nerdrum. Payne has published papers on the topics of design thinking, idea development and creativity, curriculum development and assessment. He is vice president for regional coordinator for Foundations in Art: Theory and Education.
Courses:
- Drawing
- Life Drawing
- 2-D Design
- Color Theory
Memberships:
- Foundations in Art: Theory and Education
- Chicago Artists' Coalition
- College Art Association
- Southeastern College Art Conference
- Mid-America College Art Association
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George Perez
Savannah
A.S., Middlesex Community College; B.S., Southern Connecticut State University; M.F.A., University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
George Perez has been a full-time faculty member at SCAD since 1996. He also has taught summer courses at the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth, as well as a summer workshop at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine. His interests in the furniture-making process range from functional to conceptual work, and include 2-D and 3-D creations in a variety of materials, including wood and plastics.
Exhibitions:
- Haystack faculty exhibition, Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine, 2002
- "Big Picture Show," Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2003
- "Craft Transformed" retrospective exhibition, Star Gallery, New Bedford, Mass., 2003 (selected from University of Massachusetts alumni for exhibition)
Honor:
- Best of Show, "Faith and Form," Ritz Gallery, Brunswick, Ga., 2000
Membership:
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Patricia Perrone
Savannah
B.F.A., M.F.A., Carnegie-Mellon University.
An artist, educator and lecturer, Pat Perrone earned both painting and computer graphics degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University, Perrone became one of CMU's first Master of Fine Arts graduates from its pioneering program in computer graphics/art. She teaches courses in the history of computer graphics/art and digital matte painting at SCAD. In addition, she has been actively involved in SIGGRAPH conventions, the SIGGRAPH Student Volunteer Program, undergraduate and graduate admissions, and efforts to market SCAD students and alumni in the computer graphics/visual effects industry. She was instrumental in founding the college's original computer art program, which has since grown into several different departments, each offering Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees. She also serves as visual program assessment coordinator.
Memberships:
Award:
- Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities
Workshops and Presentations:
- Visiting faculty member
- Art educators' workshops
Courses:
- 2-D Design
- Drawing I, II and III
- Computer Math
- Introduction to Computers
- Rising Star Computer Art
- Electronic Imaging
- Electronic Painting
- History of Computer Art
- Survey of Electronic Art
- Off-campus program in New York City
- Matte Painting
- Concept Development for Visual Effects
- Independent Study
- Internship Supervisor
- Graduate Teaching Assistant Supervisor
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Dawn Peterson
Savannah
B.A., Mary Baldwin College; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Benjamin Phillips
Savannah
B.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Alexandria Pierce
Savannah
B.A., M.A., University of Victoria; Ph.D., McGill University.
An art historian, curator and gallery director for more than two decades, Alexandria Pierce is educated in a range of art historical disciplines, including interdisciplinary teaching and curatorial practice. Her professional background includes teaching, faculty service, student internship and mentoring, community liaison and public lecturing. In 2007, she will participate in the Venice Biennale, Documenta, in Kassel, Germany, and the Art Fair in Basel, Switzerland.
Selected publications:
- "Imperialist intent: Lord Strathcona's Art Collection in Nineteenth-Century Montreal," in "Montreal-Glasgow," Bill Marshall, ed., Glasgow, UK, University of Glasgow, 2005.
- "LANDeSCAPES: Reinhard Reitzenstein and Simon Frank," McMaster Museum of Art, 2004-05.
- "Yechel Gagnon: 'Palimpsest,'" McMaster Museum of Art, 2004.
- "'Sunlight in the Shadow': A Nietzschean Experiment," McMaster Museum of Art, 2004.
- "Enlightenment Materialism and the Modern Moral Subjects of William Hogarth," essay for the exhibition "The Prints of William Hogarth," McMaster Museum of Art, 2004.
Exhibitions (2004-05):
- Cathy Busby: "Sorry" and Garry Neill Kennedy: "Failure of Intelligence"
- "LANDeSCAPES: Reinhard Reitzenstein and Simon Frank"
- "Yechel Gagnon: 'Palimpsest'"
- "'Sunlight in the Shadow': German Expressionist Prints"
- "Einstein's Brain"
Selected presentations/lectures:
- "The 'Powerfield' in Installation Art," guest lecture, department of visual arts, Concordia University, Montréal
- "Mapping European Humanism onto the Colony of Canada," Maxwell Cummings Auditorium, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts
- "Betty Goodwin's Prints," McMaster Museum of Art
- "The Spiritual in Art: The Russian Experience," Knox United Church, Dundas, Ontario
- "Where Traditions Meet: Painting in Moghul India," McMaster Museum of Art
- "The Levy Art Collection," Pumphouse Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Memberships:
- College Art Association
- Association of Art Historians, United Kingdom
Courses:
- Contemporary Art
- 20th-century Art
- Art History Methodology
- Art Criticism
- History of Printmaking
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John Pierson
Savannah
A.B., M.A., San Diego State University.
John Pierson has taught furniture design at SCAD since 1997. He established, owned and operated JM Pierson and Company, Fine Contemporary Furniture Makers from 1984-97. He taught furniture design classes at Miracosta, Palomar, Southwestern and Mesa community colleges, and his work has been exhibited and published primarily in California. His article, "Bent Lamination," appeared in the December 1995 issue of Fine Woodworking Magazine.
Courses:
- Materials and Techniques
- Design Studio: Introduction to Furniture
- Furniture Practices: Laminated Form
- Furniture Practices: Seating Design
- Survey of Furniture Design
- Evolution of Furniture Design
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Connie Pinkerton, Chair
Savannah
B.A., State University of New York at Albany; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
Following a career in archeology, Connie Capozzola Pinkerton studied historic preservation at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She has been a professor of historic preservation at SCAD since 2002, and specializes in research, documentation and survey of historic cultural resources. Pinkerton also teaches courses in SCAD's cultural landscape program, which is housed in the historic preservation department. Current research interests include historic urban landscapes and sustainability. Pinkerton is the co-author of "The Savannah College of Art and Design: Restoration of an Architectural Heritage."
Pinkerton has more than 15 years of experience in Cultural Resource Management and Section 106 compliance. She specializes in architectural surveys, National Register nominations, and research. Her experience as an archeologist includes fieldwork and artifact analysis throughout the Mid-Atlantic, the Southeast and Puerto Rico.
Memberships:
- US/ICOMOS
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Georgia Historical Society
- Coastal Heritage Society
Presentations and lectures:
- 2007 Symposium on Campus Heritage Planning (Boston Preservation Alliance), Boston, Mass.
- 2007 International Symposium on Cultural Landscapes Cultural Towns, New Harmony, Ind.
- 2007 23rd International Conference on the Beginning Design Student, Savannah, Ga.
- 2006 Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, panel moderator: "Gentrification and Historic Preservation."
- 2003 Annual Meeting of the Society of Georgia Archivists, Savannah, Ga.
Publication:
- "The Savannah College of Art and Design: Restoration of an Architectural Heritage." Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2004.
Awards:
- 2006, 2008 Roger Williams University International Fellow
- 2000 Jeffrey Weiss Award, The Theatre Historical Society of America
Courses:
- HIPR 101 Introduction to Historic Preservation
- HIPR 202 Recording and Interpretation for Historic Buildings
- HIPR 203 Preservation Research
- HIPR 701 Introduction to Preservation
- HIPR 706 Preservation Research and Survey
- HIPR 749 Historic Preservation M.A. Final Project
- HIPR 791 Historic Preservation M.F.A. Thesis I
- HIPR 792 Historic Preservation M.F.A. Thesis II
- CULT 160 Fundamentals of Cultural Landscape
- CULT 305 Culture of the Landscape
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Daniel
Powers
Savannah
B.F.A., Ohio University; M.F.A., Marywood University.
Daniel Powers has 25 years of experience as a freelance illustrator and art director. He has published more than 20 children's books and creates editorial illustrations for a variety of magazines. His artwork has been exhibited at the Society of Illustrators conference and at the Bologna Children's Book Fair. Powers has taught throughout the United States as well as in France, Germany and Mexico. He served as artist in residence at the Kalani-Honua Institute for Cultural Studies. His work is included in the collections of the Mazza Museum and the Kerlan Collect, and in the Meridian International Center's traveling exhibitions. .
Awards:
- Recipient of the Ezra Jack Keats/Kerlan Memorial Fellowship at the University of Minnesota
- Recipient of the American Booksellers' Association's Pick of the List for "Jiro's Pearl"
- Rotary Scholar
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Audra Price, Chair
Savannah
B.F.A., University of Connecticut; M.A.T., Maryland Institute College of Art; Ph.D., Florida State University
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Tricia Quackenbush
Savannah
A.S., Vincennes University; B.S., M.A., Ball State University.
Tricia Quackenbush has more than 10 years of industry experience and has been a professor in the fashion department at SCAD for two years. She teaches fashion design with an emphasis on technical design. Her work experience includes all aspects of the merchandising and management fields of the fashion industry, as well as buying and developing displays. Quackenbush has also held assistant design and patternmaking positions. She has been sewing for more than 35 years, specializing in innovative pattern development, perfection of fit and sophisticated fabric usage.
Courses:
- Fashion Technology
- Advanced Fashion Technology
- Apparel Development II and III
- CAD Patternmaking
- Senior Collection II and III
- Rising Star
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Nan Rainey
Savannah
B.A., College of William and Mary; M.F.A., Pratt Institute.
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Steven A. Ramsey
Savannah
B.F.A., Cleveland Institute of Art; M.F.A., Illinois State University.
A professional illustrator and glass artist, Steven A. Ramsey has had illustrations exhibited internationally at SIGGRAPH and MacWorld Expo, published in 3D World magazine and featured on the covers of several national business publications.
Awards:
- Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, SCAD
- First prize, Strathmore Papers International Digital Art Competition
- First prize, MetaCreations Corp. International DigitalArt Competition
- Second place, Impressions Magazine Industry Award
- Second place, State of Illiniois Awards for Craft
Memberships:
- College Art Association
- Glass Art Society
Courses:
- Drawing 1 and II
- 3-D Design
- Introduction to Sculptural Processes: Cold Glass
- Introduction to Sculptural Processes: Warm Glass
- Pate de Verre
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Dennis Lee Randall
Savannah
B.A., University of Maryland; M.A., Kansas State University; Ph.D., University of Georgia.
Dennis Lee Randall is a playwright with extensive experience as an actor and a director. He is also a student of classic American film comedy and has written a book on the subject.
Memberships:
- Dramatist's Guild
- Society for Cinema Studies
Courses:
- Greek and Roman Drama
- Modern Drama
- American Drama Since 1945
- Playwriting
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Conrad Rathmann
Savannah
B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology; M.Arch., Clemson University.
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Roger Rawlings
Savannah
B.A., Hunter College; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., City University of New York.
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Sandra Reed
Savannah
B.F.A., Drake University; M.F.A., George Washington University.
Sandra Reed has mounted 10 solo shows, including those at the University of North Florida in 2001 and at the Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum in LaGrange in 1997. In more than 25 group exhibitions, Reed has received awards designated by top national jurors, such as Ivan Karp, Neal Benezra, Lisa Phillips and Francesco Bonami. She also has exhibited her work in numerous small-group shows, such as "Two Views on Landscape" (with Martha MacLeish at Bender Fine Art in Atlanta) and "Site.Sight.Cite" (with Henry Dean and Jeff Markowksy at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Savannah). Reed has served as juror for numerous exhibitions and wrote the forward to Peterson's 2006 College Guide for Visual Arts Majors.
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Jane Rehl
Savannah
B.A., University of Virginia; M.A., Rutgers, State University of New Jersey; Ph.D., Emory University.
Jane Rehl, Ph.D., has been teaching for more than 30 years while also maintaining strong ties to the museum world. She holds a Ph.D. in art history from Emory University and has taught at Rutgers University - New Brunswick, Skidmore College and Emory University. She also has served as assistant curator and assistant director of the Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers, curator of the permanent collection of art at Skidmore College, gallery director and curator of the Museum of the Historical Society of Saratoga Springs, and assistant curator of the Arts of the Ancient Americas at the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University.
Publications (most recent):
- "Weaving Principles for Life: DWW Textiles of Ancient Peru." In "Andean Textile Traditions: Papers from the 2001 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum," eds. Margaret Young-Sánchez and Fronia W. Simpson (Denver Art Museum, 2006).
- "The Order of Things in Ancient Peru: Metaphors in Warj-Related DWW Textiles," in "Approaching Textiles, Varying Viewpoints, Proceedings of the Seventh Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America," (Textile Society of America Inc., 2000).
Presentations and lectures:
- "The Natural Law of Change in Late Intermediate Period Discontinuous Warp and Weft Weaving of Ancient Peru," Textile Society of America Symposium, Oakland, Calif., Oct. 9, 2004.
- "Weaving Principles for Life: Discontinuous Warp and Weft Textiles of Ancient Peru," Andean Textile Traditions Symposium, Denver Museum of Art, Jan. 27-28, 2001.
- "The Order of Things in Ancient Peru: Metaphors in Wari-Related Discontinuous Warp and Weft Textiles," Textile Society of America Symposium, Santa Fe, N.M., Sept. 21-23, 2000.
Curated exhibitions (select):
- "The Social Life of Kuba Cloth," M. C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, 1998.
- "Whistler Prints," Permanent Collection of Art, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., 1982.
- "Faith Ringgold: Black. Woman. Artist. A Retrospective," Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., 1973.
Memberships:
- CAA
- American Association of Museums
- National Museum of the American Indian
- The Textile Society of America
- The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.
- The Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
- The Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah
Courses:
- Survey of Western Art I and II
- Ethnographic Art
- Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture of Mesoamerica
- Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture of Peru
- Museum Administration
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Judith Reno
Savannah
A.B., Boston University; M.Arch., University of California, Los Angeles.
Judith Reno studied passive energy design with Thom Mayne at Southern California Institute of Architecture. Her University of California, Los Angeles, Master of Architecture thesis was about urban infill for Venice Beach; her thesis committee chair was Charles Moore, Ph.D. Following six years of professional experience in Los Angeles architecture firms, she taught at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, Auburn University, and University of Tennessee. At SCAD, she served 10 years as fifth-year architecture design coordinator, authored the curriculum for the urban design program, and is the postprofessional year master of urban design. Her research topics include culture, cognition fabrication, and 3-D sustainable cities.
Membership:
- Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
- Conference chair S.E. regional, "History/Post-History," Savannah, Ga.
- Conference session moderator/reviewer, "Administrators"; Savannah; international, Rio de Janeiro; S.E./S.W. regional, New Orleans, La.; National Technology, San Francisco/Washington, D.C.
Honors:
- Harvard University, Executive Seminar and SCAD Presidential Fellowship: "Affordable Workforce Housing"
- AIA national urban design honors w/ SCAD team: C. Sottille, M. Thoms, and L. Meyers
- S.E. ACSA Special Projects Fund w/J. Burton: "Sustainable Infrastructure for Southern Cities"
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Faculty Development Grant
- UCLA Regents Travel Grant
Selected professional experience:
- Dan Dworsky, Los Angeles: design development, Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX
- Gelman and Greenberg, Los Angeles: job captain, Hotel California
- Charles Kober, Los Angeles: construction documents, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and Houston, Texas, mid-rise commercial
- Urban Innovations Group, Los Angeles: competition, Chas Moore's Orinda, Calif., house addition
- Freelance design: Crown Point Restaurant/Conference Center, Dana Point, Calif.; Santa Monica Heritage Square Museum awarded $100,000 Federal Grant; Scholl Residence, Eagle Rock, Calif.
Selected publications:
- MLK/Montgomery Corridor Revitalization Plan, Savannah, Ga.: co-authored with the Savannah Development and Renewal Authority.
- Reno, J: "Metamorphosis of Cultural Dreams in the LA Avant-Garde House: Innovation and Consumption in a Capitalistic Economy," The Harvard Architecture Review, Issue 11.
- Reno, J./Kaplan, M.: "Otherside of Seaside," Foundations in Architecture, O. Cappleman /M. Jordan, Van Nostrand Reinhold.
- Reno, J.: "Constructing Beginnings: Technology in Architectural Education," JAE, Vol. 45.
Lectures, papers, exhibits:
- International Making Cities Livable conference papers: Savannah, Ga., and Carmel, Calif.
- IAPS 12 conference paper, Thessalonica, Greece
- AIA Diversity conference paper, Washington, D.C.
- "National Conference on the Beginning Student": Arizona State University/University of New Mexico
- Beaufort, S.C. Government Center presentation, exhibition, community workshops
- Invited lecturer and guest critic: University of British Columbia, University of Cincinnati, Clemson University, Hammons, SOA Drury College, University of Maryland, Portland State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
- ACSA conference papers: International, Havana, Cuba w/D. Parrish; S.E. Regional, University of North Carolina, J. Burton; National Technology, University of California San Diego; National Technology, U. Southern California; National Technology, San Francisco; National Technology, Washington, D.C.; S.E. Regional Plenary Session, University of Tennessee; National Construction, Materials and Technology Institute, University of Pennsylvania.
Service:
- Mayor's Task Force, Savannah Public Market Feasibility Study, SDRA
- Promotion/tenure committee member in absentia, Montana State University architecture department
- Member of Citizens Committee for Revitalization of Third Street Mall, Santa Monica, Calif.
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David Ringholz
Savannah
B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo; M.I.D., North Carolina State University.
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John
Rise
Savannah
B.F.A., Arizona State University; M.A., M.F.A., University of New Mexico.
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Stuart Robertson, Chair
Savannah
A., University of Kentucky; M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Stuart Robertson brings vast professional experience as well as many awards and accolades to his position as chair of the visual effects department. Prior to joining SCAD, Robertson held supervisory positions at R/Greenberg Associates in New York and Los Angeles and at Industrial Light & Magic in San Rafael, Calif. He served as an independent visual effects supervisor in Los Angeles where his clients included Columbia Pictures, Paramount, New Line Cinema, MGM, ABC Television, Miramax Films and Centropolis FX.
Selected awards:
- Academy Award for Achievement in Visual Effects, "What Dreams May Come," 1999
- BAFTA Award nomination, Special Visual Effects, "Zelig," 1984
- Visual Effects Society Awards nomination, Best Visual Effects in a Television Miniseries, Movie, or a Special, "Stephen King's Rose Red," 2003
Selected film credits:
- "Zelig" (1983)
- "Predator" (1987)
- "The Abyss" (1989)
- "Back to the Future, Part II"(1989)
- "Ghost" (1990)
- "Last Action Hero" (1993)
- "The Shadow" (1994)
- "Immortal Beloved" (1994)
- "The Ghost and the Darkness" (1996)
- "Volcano" (1997)
- "What Dreams May Come" (1998)
- "The Patriot" (2000)
- "Stephen King's Rose Red" (TV mini-series, 2002)
- "Willard" (2003)
- "Scary Movie 3" (2003)
Memberships:
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (executive committee 2005-06)
- Visual Effects Society (executive board, 2003-04, 2007-present)
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Don Rogers
Savannah
B.A., Bob Jones University; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
Don Rogers has more than 25 years of professional experience as a studio illustrator, graphic designer, freelance illustrator and professor, and has taught at SCAD since 1984. He has worked with a wide range of advertising, corporate and editorial clients including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Wendy's, Ballantine Books, The Boston Globe, McDonald's, Coca-Cola Company, Moody Press, Sylvania and GTE. Rogers is a member of the National Caricature Network, the New York Society of Illustrators and the American Society of Classical Realism. Visit Rogers' Web site.
Exhibitions and awards:
- Society of Illustrators
- SCAD Art Educators' Forum
- Richmond Illustrators Club
- 3x3 magazine's Pro Show
- Blue Cubed
- Applied Arts
- Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles
- International Illustration Cybernet Competition 2000 (Society of Korean Illustrators)
- First place mixed-media and second place acrylics, Grass Roots Art Show
- Graphis Press' "Counting Sheep"
Courses:
- Illustration Materials and Techniques
- Drawing for Illustrators
- The Art of Caricature
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Julie Rogers-Varland
Savannah
B.A., Spring Arbor College; M.A., Harvard University; M.Arch., City University of New York, Columbia University.
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Jesus Rojas Ache
Savannah
B.A., Instituto de Diseno de Caracas; M.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, Jesus Rojas' design career began at age 14 when he started designing and building surfboards. Following his design studies, he returned to Venezuela in 1998 and established his own design company, Station Design, where he designed yacht interiors, custom kitchens, retail stores and shopping centers.
Rojas has spearheaded numerous projects while a professor at SCAD that have resulted in the creation of working prototypes, including the custom-designed car, EXO Spyder, and Grand Prix motorcycles for Red Bull. Additional industry partnership projects his classes have worked with are Kicker by Stillwater Designs and Kids II.
Courses:
- The Development of Product Form
- Computer Modeling
- Special Topics in Toy Design
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Frederique Rolland-Mills
Savannah
Dip. de Maitrise, University of Nantes; M.A., Ph.D., University of Kentucky.
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Arpad Daniel Ronaszegi
Savannah
Dip. Arch., M.Arch., Technical University of Budapest; M.Arch., University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Capri Rosenberg
Savannah
B.A., Pepperdine University; Ph.D., Duke University.
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E.G. Daves Rossell
Savannah
B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
E.G. Daves Rossell, Ph.D., teaches American architecture and urbanism, vernacular architecture and cultural landscape. His research interests include field study of the built environment of Savannah and its surrounding Lowcountry; exploration of the history of technology and particularly illuminating engineering; and cross-cultural comparisons of material culture. Rossell founded and directs the Savannah and the Lowcountry Initiative, an educational effort engaged in uncovering, recording, preserving and presenting history through archival research, fieldwork, drawing and writing. The initiative provides opportunities for students, many of whom have never before done primary research, had their research impact local communities, and seen that research and effect published. SALI was developed out of Rossell's direction of the 28th annual meeting of the Vernacular Architecture Forum: Savannah and the Lowcountry. Rossell is co-editor of a forthcoming University of Virginia book titled "Commemoration and the City: Monuments, Memorialization and Meaning." He chairs the Chatham County Historic Preservation Commission and has served as chair of the Georgia National Register Review Board, as chair of Vernacular Georgia, and as co-editor of ARRIS: The Journal of the Southeast Society of Architectural Historians.
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Andrea Rountree
Savannah
A.A., Armstrong Atlantic State University; B.A., University of Georgia; M.A., M.F.A., Northern Illinois University.
Andrea Rountree has 20 years of teaching experience - five years in secondary school and 15 at the college level. She recently completed her sixth year in the foundation studies department at SCAD. As an employee of Friends of Community Public Art, Rountree designed and executed murals and mosaics for public parks in Illinois. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, cultural centers and museums in Illinois, including the "Chicago Show," and she has had solo exhibitions at the ARC Gallery in Chicago. Positive reviews of her work have appeared in the Toronto Globe and Mail, a nationally syndicated column by Byron Belt of Newshouse News Service, and Art Calendar. She is one of 11 artists featured in the book "The Great Walls of Joliet" by Jeff Huebner (University of Illinois Press).
Memberships:
- ARC Gallery, Chicago
- Mythopians
- Chicago Artists Coalition
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Andre Ruschkowski
Savannah
Doctorate in Musicology, Diploma in Musicology, Humbolt University
Andre Ruschkowski, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized electro-acoustic composer and audiovisual artist. He joined SCAD from the University Mozarteum Salzburg in Austria, where he was a professor of electronic and computer music. He earned a doctorate in musicology from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, and worked at the University of Cologne, Technical University Berlin and the Academy of Sciences Berlin. Ruschkowski also has written a book, "Electronic Sounds and Musical Discoverings," which is the standard text for teaching electronic music at German-speaking universities.
Awards:
- Sonic Circuits Award of the American Composers Association, Minneapolis/St. Paul
- Prize of the City of Varese at the International Competition for Electroacoustic Music "Luigi Russolo," Varese (Italy)
- Award of the Competition of Radio Art, SACEM Paris (France)
- First Prize Competition for Computer Music, Braunschweig (Germany)
Memberships:
- International Computer Music Association
- Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States
- Electronic Music Foundation
- German Society for Electroacoustic Music
Courses:
- Sound Art
- Audiovisual Synthesis
- Modular Synthesis and Audio Programming
- Sound Design Resources and Analysis
- Introduction to Sound Design
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Ruben Salinas
Savannah
A.A., The Art Institute of Houston; B.A., Universidad Regiomontana; M.F.A., Stephen F. Austin State University.
With a specialty in figure drawing, Ruben Salinas worked for 20 years in as a freelance illustrator and storyboard artist for the Hively Agency, Academy Sports and Outdoors, Ogilvy and Mather, and Rives Carlberg Advertising.
Memberships:
- Conceptart.org
- College Art Association
Courses:
- Drawing I and II
- Drawing for Design
- Life Drawing I
- 2-D Design
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Morgan Santander
Savannah
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A., University of Chicago.
Visit Morgan Santander's Web site.
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Mary Elizabeth Sargent
Savannah
B.F.A., East Carolina University; M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Liz Sargent earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in fiber at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2002 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in fiber from East Carolina University in 1989. Her work is on display until May 2008 at The Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston. Her pieces also have been exhibited as part of Metropolis Magazine's editor's picks at the International Furniture Fair in New York and Neocon World's Trade Fair in Chicago, and have been featured in Selvedge and other publications.
Selected exhibitions:
- "Hot House: Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook, 1970-2007," Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
- "Fray," Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- "Trace," Kirkland Arts Center Gallery, Kirkland, Wash.
Reviews:
- Elizabeth Pagliacolo, "Design File: Floor Polish," Azure, March/April 2006, 112.
- Liz Good, "Once Wearable, Now Art," FiberArts, January/February 2005, 80.
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Brian Schindler
Savannah
B.A., University of California.
Before joining the SCAD faculty in Fall 2007, Brian Schindler spent six years at Sony Pictures Imageworks as a 3-D digital character animator and character TD; his film credits there include "Beowulf," "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" and "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." Schindler began his 20-year animation career at Kroyer Film Studios, where he worked as a modeler for opening titles, a technical director and a 3-D computer animator. At Boss Studios, he advanced from Rotoscope artist and compositor to animation director and CG supervisor. Prior to Sony, he worked as a modeler, 3-D layout artist, character TD and 3-D computer animator at Warner Bros. Feature Animation.
Additional film credits:
- "The Polar Express"
- "Stuart Little 2"
- "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"
- "Jetsons: The Movie"
- "Tom and Jerry: The Movie"
- "FernGully: The Last Rainforest"
Television credits:
- "An All-Star Toast to the Improv"
- "George Carlin: What Am I Doing in New Jersey?"
- MTV Video Music Awards, 1988
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Joerg Schodl
Savannah
B.A., Columbia College; M.F.A., American Film Institute.
Joerg Schodl studied painting in Vienna and lived in the Middle East before coming to the United States. He earned his undergraduate degree in film and video from Columbia College Chicago and his Master of Fine Arts in cinematography from the American Film Institute. Schodl's work has won numerous awards, has aired on HBO and has been featured at the Cannes Film Festival. Before joining SCAD, Schodl taught digital cinematography at the California State University, Northridge.
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Todd Schroeder
Savannah
B.F.A., Ohio University; M.F.A., Kent State University.
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Karl Schuler
Savannah
B.A., Humboldt State University; M.A., Ph.D., New York University.
Karl F. Schuler, Ph.D., teaches courses in medieval, monastic and fortified architecture. As a graduate student, he specialized in medieval and Islamic history and archaeology. His dissertation on the 12th-century chapterhouse murals at the royal monastery of Sigena in Aragon has led to various articles and presentations on medieval chapterhouse decoration. His current research interests include Spanish mission architecture and fortifications. Prior to joining the SCAD architectural history department in 1996, he served as a research assistant in the medieval department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art under a Chester Dale Fellowhip and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowhip, and taught at Kean College, City University of New York and Manhattanville College. He is a retired veteran with 27 years combined service in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard Reserve and serves as a member of the Coast Guard Auxillary. He also is a board member of the Coastal Georgia Archaeological Association and remains active in local historical organizations.
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Andrew Scott
Savannah
B.F.A., Long Island University; M.F.A., Ohio State University.
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Burton J. Sears
Savannah
B.A., Depauw University; M.F.A., University of Southern California.
B.J. Sears joined the faculty of the film and television department at SCAD in January 2005. His career as a film editor has spanned 30 years and has included work on feature films for major studios, documentaries and films for television. Among them are "Virtuosity" (Paramount), "Jacob's Ladder" (Carolco), "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (Orion), "Henry and June" (Universal) and "Amadeus" (Orion).
Memberships:
- Motion Picture Editors Guild
- American Cinema Editors
- University Film and Video Association
Courses:
- Film and Television Senior Project
- Introduction to Film Production
- Postproduction Techniques
- Advanced Postproduction
- Postproduction (graduate)
- Theory of Motion Picture Editing
- Aesthetics of Film Editing
- Film and Television Professional Development
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Charles Shami
Savannah
B.F.A., Jacksonville University; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
Charles Shami's background is in 3-D animation and commercial art. Prior to teaching at SCAD, he served as assistant to the director of technology in Norris Hall, the college's sequential art building. As a professor, he adapted the Advanced Survey of Computer Art Applications course for online delivery via SCAD-eLearning.
Exhibitions:
- Juried Student Exhibition Award, Jacksonville University, 1989
Lecture:
- "Learning One on One," graduate lecture
Award:
- Dean's List, SCAD, 1997-2000
Courses:
- Advanced Survey of Computer Art Applications
- Digital Design Aesthetics
- Modeling, Materials and Lighting
- Environment and Level Design
- Studio I and II
- Interactive Design and Game Development Portfolio
- Digital Form, Space and Lighting
- Rising Star Program, 2000
- SCAD Summer Seminar, 2003
- Art Educators Forum, 2000-04
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William Shanahan
Savannah
Chicago Academy of Fine Arts; M.S., Illinois Institute of Technology; D.B.A., Ph.D., International School of Management.
Bill Shanahan, D.B.A., Ph.D., operated Shanahan Marketing Communications, a full-service marketing, advertising and public relations firm in Chicago, prior to teaching at SCAD. He also has taught design, business, psychology, law and marketing students in the marketing communications program at Illinois Institute of Technology; marketing at the International School of Management, Paris; and Consumer Behavior at Institut Supérieur Européen de Gestion, Paris. In addition, he was a prime architect and the program director of an eBusiness program at The University of Chicago. Shanahan has guest lectured to students of the University of Notre Dame, Roosevelt University, and the University of Management and Marketing, Warsaw, Poland.
Awards:
- ADDY awards for consumer advertising
- Eagle awards for financial advertising
- Tower awards for business-to-business advertising
- Echo awards for direct marketing
- PIMA Gold Award for merchandising through mass marketing
Memberships:
- American Marketing Association
- Direct Marketing Education Foundation: Professor's Academy
- Beta Gamma Sigma (academic honor society)
Courses:
- Business of Advertising Design
- Business Practices of Advertising Design
- Advertising Design Studio I: Creative Strategies
- Global Advertising
- Understanding Client Objectives
- Advertising Perspectives and Profiles
- Political Advertising
- Art Direction II (Direct-response)
- Advertising Design M.F.A. Thesis
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Rachel Shane
Savannah
A.A., American Academy of Dramatic Arts; B.S., Northern Arizona University; M.S., Drexel University; Ph.D., The Ohio State University.
Rachel Shane, Ph.D., is the co-founder of , a national consulting firm for nonprofit organizations. Prior to her appointment at SCAD, she served as the managing director of the Elm Shakespeare Company in New Haven, Conn., and the associate director of education at the Delaware Theatre Company. Previously, she worked as the Theatre for Young Audiences Tour Director and Theatre Summer Camp Director for the Hippodrome State Theatre in Gainesville, Fla.
Selected presentations and lectures:
- "Advice from the Field," Association of Arts Administration Educators Conference, 2006
- "Negotiating the Creative Sector: Actors in the Theatrical Industry," Social Theory, Politics and Art Conference, 2005
- "The Creation of Organized Artistic Labor," Social Theory, Politics and Art Conference, 2004
- "First National Performing Arts Convention: Issues and Trends," Social Theory, Politics and Art Conference, 2004
- "A Question of Sustainability: A Case Study of a Professional Nonprofit Theater Company," Edward F. Hayes Research Forum, 2004
Awards:
- SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, 2006
- Best Thesis Award, Drexel University, 2001
Memberships:
- Association of Arts Administration Educators
- Americans for the Arts
Courses:
- Working for Arts Organizations (undergraduate)
- Principles of Arts Administration (graduate)
- Legal Issues in Arts Administration (graduate)
- Fundraising for the Arts (graduate)
- Promoting the Arts (graduate)
- Arts Administration M.A. Thesis (graduate)
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Minho Shin
Savannah
B.F.A., Hanyang University; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Jose Luis Silva
Savannah
Titulo de Licenciatura en Diseño Grafico, Universidad del Bajio; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
Jose Silva is a native of Guanajuato, Mexico. With a background in graphic design and illustration, he is an independent animator firmly rooted in traditional art. His work has been featured in numerous forums in Mexico and the United States. In 2000, he won first place in "The Art that Moves Us," a national competition sponsored by Daimler-Chrysler. In 2000, he was a grant recipient in the Liquitex Excellence in Art Purchase Award Program, and in 1999, his work received honors in "Protect Our Cultural Heritage," an international competition for UNESCO.
Presentations and lectures:
- 2006, Presentation about animation, Design Week hosted by CEDAC, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
- 2005, Presentation about animation, First Latin American Encounter of Animation hosted by Universidad Veritas, San Jose, Costa Rica
- 2004, "The Pipeline for the Animated Short," lecture about animation, San Jose, Costa Rica
- 2002, "Natural Filters," presentation about motion graphics, Asia International Education Center, EC Multimedia Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
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Christoph Simon
Savannah
M.A., Royal College of Art.
Before joining SCAD, Christoph Simon taught animation at the Filmakademie Baden Wuerttemberg. He also worked in London as an animation director for TV commercials, short films and music videos, serving as head of animation at Pankino Productions and later working with Pearly Oyster Productions, Acme Filmworks (L.A.) and Bermuda Shorts. His animated shorts for "Was Not Was" were screened in Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation and on MTV's "Liquid Television." His TV logo for Locomotion TV was nominated for best graphics at the British Animation Awards, and the "Bristleworm" commercial was featured in Stash magazine.
Selected filmography:
- "Gone Fishin'"
- "Locopath"
- "Euro-Deutschland"
- "What up Dog"
- "Earth to Doris"
Courses:
- Motion Studies
- Concept Development for Animation
- Animation Portfolio
- The Short Short
- Animation Design
- 2-D Collaborative
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Scott R. Singeisen, Chair
Savannah
M.Arch., Savannah College of Art and Design.
Scott R. Singeisen has been the chair of the SCAD architecture department since 2007 and has taught at the college since 2003, with focuses on design studios, design theory and history, and urbanism. Prior to joining SCAD, Singeisen was in private practice in Sarasota and Orlando, Fla., where he received numerous regional awards for design and preservation projects, and served as a visiting design critic at several major universities. Most recently, he was awarded a teaching fellowship at the University of Hawaii in conjunction with the 7th International Symposium on Asia Pacific Architecture: Architecture + Movement in June.
Areas of specialization:
- Sustainability in architecture
- Teaching sustainability
Selected awards:
- Who's Who Among American Teachers & Educators
- Florida Trust Historic Preservation award, Tarragona Arch, Daytona Beach, Fla.
- ABC Excellence in Construction Eagle Award, Lakeview Middle School, Winter Garden, Fla.
- Outstanding Achievement in Humanities, SCAD
Selected publications:
- "Building Patterns," affordable housing pattern book for the Southeast, SCAD and the Coastal Empire Habitat for Humanity
- "Savannah Preservation Efforts Embrace Modernism," DOCOMOMO Georgia Chapter Publication, Atlanta
Memberships:
- American Institute of Architects
- Savannah Young Architects Forum
- DOCOMOMO International
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
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John Sisti
Savannah
State University of New York.
John Sisti began his career at A&M records, where he worked with artists such as George Harrison, the Captain and Tenille, Hoyt Axton and Barbra Streisand, as well as with engineers and producers including Phil Ramone, Henry Louis, Phil Specter and Jeff Barry. He taught at the Sherwood Oaks Experimental College and also held a three-year position at the Berklee School of Music's music production and engineering department. In addition, he worked in the first digital editing facilities at Pacific Sound Services, and later moved to Columbia Pictures/Sony Entertainment.
Awards:
- Two Emmy Awards, Best Sound, "Mad About You" (sound supervisor)
- Golden Reel nomination, Best Sound Editing, "Mad About You" (sound supervisor)
- Oscars, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound, "Bram Stoker's Dracula"
- Golden Reel nomination, Best ADR Editing, "Bram Stoker's Dracula"
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Debra Smith
Savannah
mB.A., Liverpool Polytechnic; M.A., Royal College of Art.
Debra Moorshead worked as a freelance animator for 12 years in London. She also directed a six-minute short, "El Caminante," for Channel 4 Television in 1997.
Awards:
- Winner, best experimental film, Gavà International Film Festival, Spain, 1998
- Special mention, Cinanima, Espinho International Animation Film Festival, Portugal, 1998
- British Academy Award nomination for "El Caminante," 1997
- Cartoon d'Or nomination for "El Caminante," 1997
- British Academy Award nomination for "Touch," 1991
Courses:
- Animation I and II
- 2-D Character Animation
- 3-D Character Animation
- Concept Development for Animation Projects
- Senior Animation Project I and II
- Graduate Animation Studio I and II
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Jessica Smith
Savannah
B.F.A., University of Washington; M.F.A., University of Kansas.
Jessica Smith's creative work is informed by research into the social and political role of decorative pattern in Western culture. She has lectured on this topic to a broad range of audiences and recently was part of a panel discussion at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, "Groundbreaking: The Past as Inspiration." As an artist, she specializes in subtly subversive installations that merge digital technology with hand-produced objects. Smith produces a limited-edition line of home textiles, Domestic Element; her patterns merge historical motifs with contemporary conversation. She designed one of these patterns for Art Basel Miami - Design '05.
Selected exhibitions:
- Atlanta Museum of Design
- Cooper Hewitt National Design Triennial: "Design Life Now"
- Walker Art Center's "Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes"
Selected publications:
- The New York Times
- The Times (London)
- I.D. Magazine
- FiberArts
- O Magazine
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Yafong Song
Savannah
B.S., Peking University; M.S., Ph.D., Washington State University.
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Hyun Jong (Jay) Song
Savannah
B.Law, Han Nam University; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
Jay Song was born and raised in Tae Jeon, South Korea, and has been a metals and jewelry professor at SCAD since 1999. Her work has appeared throughout the United States, including the SOFA Exhibition in Chicago and New York; Taboo Studio in San Diego, Calif.; Aaron Faber in New York; Sculpture to Wear in Santa Monica, Calif.; Yaw Gallery in Birmingham, Mich.; and the Craft Alliance Gallery in St. Louis, Mo. Her pieces have been published in Metalsmith magazine as well as in a Lark Publications book titled "The Ring."
Courses:
- Metals and Jewelry Studio II: Design and Fabrication
- Stone Setting
- Metals and Jewelry Senior Project
- History of Metals and Jewelry as Source
- Concept Development for Metals and Jewelry
- Multiples: Objects for Adornment
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Craig Stevens
Savannah
A.B., Colby College; M.A., Fairfield University; M.F.A., Ohio University.
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David Stivers
Savannah
B.A., Oregon State University; M.A., Carnegie Mellon University; Ph.D., University of Delaware.
David Stivers, Ph.D., focuses in his research and writing on the manner in which documents and archives are used in 19th- and 20th-century American historical fiction. He also is interested in literary biography, historiography, archival theory and book history. He recently developed the English course Detective Narratives for SCAD.
Other courses:
- Composition
- Composition and Literature
- Today's Classics: 1945-Present
- Writing the Graduate Thesis
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David Stone
Savannah
B.F.A., Cornell University.
David Stone is a supervising sound editor and Hollywood film and television veteran. His dialogue editor skills have surfaced in films such as "I Am David," "Dolores Claiborne," "Ocean's 11" and "Ocean's 12." Sound effects were his focus on many action movies including "Speed," "Gremlins," "Predator" and "Die Hard." Stone supervised the sound editing for "Beauty and the Beast," "City Slickers 2," "Batman Returns," "Edward Scissorhands," "Gremlins 2" and "Malice," among approximately100 feature films. He is a five-time Motion Picture Sound Editors' Golden Reel Award winner for Best Sound Editing, and won the 1992 Academy Award for best Sound Effects Editing for his supervising work on "Bram Stoker's Dracula." He began his animation career at Hanna-Barbera, where he was an animation in-betweener, a sound editor and writer for "The Fred and Barney Show." Presently, Stone enjoys a teaching career in sound design for film students, formerly at DePaul University, and now at SCAD. A Cornell University graduate in fine arts, Stone believes that sound is half of every movie.
Awards:
- Five-time MPSE Golden Reel Award winner as Supervisor and Sound Editor; also garnered several nominations
- Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing, 1992
Memberships:
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Sound Branch
- Motion Picture Sound Editors, former vice president
- Local 700, Motion Picture Editors' Guild
- Local 839, The Animation Guild (formerly Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists)
Publications:
- Editor, Moviesound Newsletter, 1989-1993
- Presentation and panel, Iowa State University, 2000
- Motion Picture Sound scholarship and practitioners' conference: Presentation and panel, Business College Nowy Sanc, Poland 2005: International conference on Games development and education
- Presentation and panel, "Now Hear This, An Evening on Animation Sound": Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, August 2008
- "The Foley Grail," illustrator/editor for DVD documentary
short (Book by Vanessa T. Ament, Focal Press, February 2009)
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Matthew Stromberg
Savannah
B.F.A., M.F.A., University of North Texas.
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Catalina Strother
Savannah
B.S., M.Arch., Ion Mincu Institute of Architecture; M.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Scott Sworts
Savannah
B.E.D., University of Colorado, Boulder; M.Arch, University of Colorado, Denver.
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Heather Szatmary
Savannah
B.S., University of Texas at Austin; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
Balancing an undergraduate degree in architecture and a master's degree in fine art with an obsessive interest in objects and language, Heather Szatmary builds metaphorical mixed-media assemblages. She has exhibited her work in venues throughout the United States, including North Carolina State University, University of Wisconsin and the Jacksonville (Fla.) Museum of Modern Art, and internationally in England, India, Canada and Australia.
Coverage:
- Jackson, Ally. "Communication Breakdown." Campus Chronicle, 14 December 2001.
- Gitlin, Holly. "Excess Is Best." Creative Loafing/Connect Savannah, 6 October 2001.
- Shuter, Marty. "Look Beyond the Periphery at Installation." Savannah News-Press, 18 February 1996.
- Hamilton, Lynn. "Heather Szatmary: Constructed Realities." ART PAPERS, January-February 1996.
Memberships:
- College Art Association
- Foundations in Art Theory and Education
Courses:
- 2-D Design
- 3-D Design
- Color Theory
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Durwin Talon
Savannah
Durwin Talon, B.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design; M.A., Syracuse University; M.F.A., University of Hartford.
Durwin Talon has been an illustrator, graphic designer, art director and educator. His research, development and teaching interests include technology with emphasis in visual communication, storytelling with roots in comic art, and traditional and electronic techniques. He was awarded an SBC Fellowship and several research grants for his academic pursuits. Talon has given numerous lectures and presentations on illustration, sequential art, video games and new media. He has written books on sequential art ("Panel Discussions" and "Comics Above Ground"), and his electronic illustrations have been featured on the covers of publications, in gallery exhibitions and advertising. He has served as chair of the Interface Symposium and VisionFest: Student Animation Competition for the New Media Program at Indiana University School of Informatics. His creator-owned projects include "Bonds" (Image Comics, 2007-08) and "Beautiful Scars" (with Guin Thompson, Archaia Studio Press, 2008). "Bonds" was included in the Society of Illustrators 49th Annual and exhibition.
Courses:
- Survey of Illustration
- Editorial Illustration
- Materials and Techniques
- Drawing and Design for Illustrators
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Ming Tang
Savannah,
eLearning
B.Arch., M.Arch., Tsinghua University; M.A., Michigan State University.
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Christina Tarbell
Savannah
B.A., Boston University; M.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Kimberlie Tatalick
Savannah
B.S., B.F.A., Miami University; M.F.A., Temple University.
Kimberlie Tatalick is chair of the SCAD metals and jewelry department. She has taught a variety of courses focused on integrating computer-aided design software and rapid prototyping processes into object-oriented curriculums. As chair, she has worked to develop a stronger link between the metals and jewelry program and companies such as Inc. 500, Baccarrat and Swarovski. Her work has been included in several exhibitions that focus on the integration of new technology into the metals and jewelry discipline.
Exhibitions:
- "Virtual/Tangible II," Velvet DaVinci Gallery, San Francisco, 2006
- "Tabletop Metal," juried by Boris Bally, St. Louis Craft Alliance, St. Louis, 2005
- "Virtual/Tangible," Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference, Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, 2005
- "Refined IV; Innovations," SFA Gallery, Nacogdoches, Texas, 2005
- "In Response Memorial Commissions," Savannah International Trade and Convention Center, Savannah, Ga., 2002
Presentations and juries:
- Juror, Swarovski National Design Competition, 2006
- "Learning Curves," national student juried slide exhibition for the Society of North American Goldsmiths National Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, 2005
- "Technology and the Jewelry Curriculum," Society of North American Goldsmiths Educators Dialogue, San Francisco, 2003
Awards:
- SCAD grant for "Diagram of Ordered Chaos" (Sept. 11 memorial), exhibited at the Savannah International Trade and Convention Center, 2002
Courses:
- Form and Inspiration
- Computer Aided Design for Metals and Jewelry
- History of Metals and Jewelry
- Advanced Computer Aided Design for Metals and Jewelry
- Studio Jewelry Design and Practice
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Lewis Tate
Savannah
B.A., Furman University; M.S., Nova University.
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Geoffrey Taylor, Chair
Savannah
M.Arch., Savannah College of Art and Design; Master of Design Studies, Harvard University; Doctor of Design, Harvard University.
Geoffrey Taylor has been named art history chair. After completing the Master of Architecture program at SCAD in 1994, Taylor earned Master of Design Studies and Doctor of Design degrees from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Taylor returns to SCAD following service as a research scholar in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he previously received the Chester Dale fellowship. A Samuel H. Kress curatorial fellow and a visiting fellow at Harvard University's Houghton Library, Taylor specializes in Italian Renaissance drawings and prints. SCAD honored him as 2005 Outstanding Alumnus.
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Kebedech Tekleab
Savannah
B.F.A., Howard University; M.F.A., Howard University.
Kebedech Tekleab is a published poet, a painter and a sculptor. Since graduating in 1995, she has had several solo shows and participated in more than 20 group exhibitions. She has lectured at various conferences and art institutions and been featured on TV and radio programs. She collaborated with the late Skunder Boghossian to create an outdoor sculpture for the Embassy of Ethiopia in Washington, D.C., for which she received a national award from the government. Tekleab has received institutional recognition for her work through exhibitions, commissions and purchases. Recently, the Holocaust Museum in Illinois purchased one of her paintings for its permanent collection. She has taught at Montgomery College in Takoma, Md., Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Va., and Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Permanent Collections:
- Illinois Holocaust Museum, Skokie, Ill.
- Ethiopian Embassy, Washington, D.C.
- Archives Navy Memorial, Washington, D.C.
- Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington, D.C.
- Harris Patricia School, Washington, D.C.
Solo Exhibitions:
- Delaware State University, Dover, Del.
- Radford University, Radford, Va.
- University of the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C.
- University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, Md.
- North Dakota State University, Fargo, N.D.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
- Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, N.Y.
- Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Fla.
- Addison Ripley Fine Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Courses:
- Color Theory
- Drawing I and II
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Scott Thorp
Savannah
B.F.A., Georgia State University; M.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art.
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Hal Tiné
Savannah
B.F.A., Carnegie Mellon.
Hal Tiné is a nationally known scenic designer with more than 200 design credits on productions for Broadway, the Metropolitan Opera, network and cable television, feature films, regional theater, opera, ballet, off-Broadway and off-off Broadway. Through his design firm, Pinxit, he has designed and produced exhibit and commercial projects for such clients as the Smithsonian Institution, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Opera and New York Philharmonic Orchestra in the Parks, Coty Cosmetics and Kraft Foods. He has taught scenic design, rendering, drafting and sources of scene design at Purchase College, Purchase, N.Y., and was resident designer for New York Grand Opera and the T. Schreiber Acting Studio in New York City.
Included in publications:
- "Scenery for the Theatre," Burroughs and Sporre
- "The Creative Image," Sporre
- "Drawing and Designing for the Theater," Pektal
Awards:
- Shared the 28th Annual Bard Award for Excellence in Architecture for the Metropolitan Opera and New York Philharmonic Orchestra in the Parks
Memberships:
- United Scenic Artists, LU 829 - All categories
- United States Institute for Theater Technology
- Theatre Communications Group
- American Association of Museums
- T. Schreiber Acting Studio, president, board of directors
Courses:
- Scenic Design for Stage and Screen
- Advanced Scenic Design for Stage and Screen
- Concept Development for Production Design
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Matthew Toole
Savannah
B.F.A., Georgia Southern University; M.F.A., Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville.
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Sean Trapani
Savannah
B.A., Florida State University.
Sean Trapani spent more than 15 years in the advertising industry, where he worked as a copywriter and creative director for large and small ad agencies, including a stint for Erwin-Penland, a Hill-Holliday shop. He has led creative efforts in developing television, radio and print advertisements for Monster.com, Verizon Wireless and scores of other household-name companies. Trapani is also a published editorial writer who has contributed to travel magazines, trade journals and the Boca Raton News. At SCAD, he collaborates with local businesses to introduce real-world advertising challenges to his students.
Awards:
- More than 25 ADDY Awards, including one Best of Show
- More than 10 Telly Awards
- Two Silver Microphone Awards
- Two APPY Awards
- EMA Award National Radio Award
- Excellence in Radio Advertising Grand Prize winner
Courses:
- Creative Copywriting
- Copywriting for Broadcast
- Introduction to Advertising Design
- Branding Theory
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Doris Treptow
Savannah
B.S., Fundação Educacional de Brusque; M.F.A, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Doris Treptow held several positions in the Brazilian apparel industry starting in 1991. She has had a variety of work experience, serving as a senior designer at Tifa Casual Wear, a designer at Buettner S.A. and a fashion coordinator at Havan. She started her own consulting office, where she provided trend forecasting and product development for apparel manufacturers. Her teaching experience started in 1996 and includes community colleges, art colleges and universities in Brazil.
Publications:
- "Inventando Moda," a fashion design textbook used at top universities in Brazil; is in its fourth edition
Courses:
- Introduction to Fashion Design
- Computer-Aided Fashion Design
- Computer-enhanced Fashion Design
- The Business of Fashion
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Rebecca Trittel
Savannah
B.A., University of Southern Mississippi; M.A., Ph.D., University of Essex.
Rebecca B. Trittel, Ph.D., began teaching at SCAD in 2001 and became chair of the art history department in August 2005. Her areas of specialization include portraiture, 19th-century art, British art and modernism.
Publications:
- Dictionary of Artists' Models, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
- "Constable & Wivenhoe Park: Reality and Vision," Catalog, University of Essex, 2001.
- "The Hermit of Eartham: William Hayley and his Friendship with George Romney," Transactions of the Romney Society, vol. 5, 2000.
- "Printing the Unprintable: The Bicentenary of Goya's 'Caprichos,'" Catalog, University of Essex, 1999.
Presentations and lectures:
- Presented a paper about the "Self-portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds" in the Earle W. Newton Center for British and American Studies, Savannah, 2005.
- Delivered a presentation about the unveiling of newly discovered paintings and illustrations by Pierre Auguste Renoir and Norman Rockwell at Red Baron Antiques, Atlanta, 2003.
- Chaired a session at the Blake and the Enlightenment conference, University of Essex, 2000.
- "Gold Braid and Brass Buttons: The Military Uniform's Influence on Men's Civil Fashions of the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries," Conflicting Visions: The Culture of War in Europe 1660-1815 Conference, University of Leicester, UK, 1999.
Memberships:
- College Art Association
- Southeastern College Art Conference
- Association of Art Historians
Awards:
- Marquis's Who's Who of American Women, 2006
- SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, 2003
- National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs Travel Grant, Colchester, UK, 2001
Courses:
- Survey of Western Art I and II
- 19th-century Art
- British Portraiture
- French Modernism
- Treasures of Provence
- Masterpieces in English Collections
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Richard Tyler Tunney
Savannah
B.A., Humbolt State University; M.F.A., University of Texas at Austin.
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Rebecca Turner
Savannah
B.A., College of William and Mary; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University.
Rebecca Turner joined the art history department at SCAD in Fall 2005. She specializes in medieval art history and has been teaching both bricks-and-mortar and online classes for more than 10 years.
Memberships:
- College Art Association
- The International Society of Medieval Art
Courses:
- Survey of Western Art I
- Medieval Art and Architecture
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Mark Tymchyshyn
Savannah
B.S., Illinois State University; M.F.A., Wayne State University.
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Mick Ulichney
Savannah
B.F.A., University of Akron; M.F.A., Kent State University.
A veteran of 29 years in advertising and marketing, Mick Ulichney has served as vice president, creative director, art director, copywriter and broadcast producer for both large and boutique-sized agencies, where he developed creative strategies and concepts for projects ranging from branding campaigns to new product launches. His large-scale neo-pop paintings have been accepted into regional and national juried shows and have won numerous awards of merit.
Selected marketing awards:
- Addy Awards including Best of Show, Gold, Silver and Bronze
- Cleveland Society of Communicating Artist Awards
- Penny Awards including Best of Show
- CASE National Grand Gold
- Columbus International Film & Video Festival Award
Memberships:
- American Advertising Federation
- Cleveland Society of Communicating Artists
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Butler Museum of American Art
- Telfair Museum of Art
Courses:
- Introduction to Advertising Design
- Art Direction I
- Art Direction II
- Advertising Perspectives and Profiles
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Mark Uzmann
Savannah
A.B., Western Kentucky University; M.A., Spalding University; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
Mark Uzmann has been involved in the mental health and psychology fields for approximately 35 years, working in both service positions and education. He has been a licensed professional counselor in Georgia since 1986. An accomplished photographer, his work has appeared in numerous exhibitions and publications, and two of his pieces are in the permanent collection of the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah.
Memberships:
- International Transactional Analysis Association
- American Group Psychotherapy Association
Courses:
- Introductory Psychology
- A Psychology of Self
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John Valentine
Savannah,
eLearning
B.A., Mercer University; M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University.
John Valentine, Ph.D., teaches philosophy at SCAD. His areas of specialization are aesthetics, existential philosophy and philosophy of religion. He has published five professional articles, one book, and more than 100 poems in various journals and chapbooks. He also has developed two fully online courses, Aesthetics and World Religions, for SCAD-eLearning. Prior to joining the faculty at SCAD, Valentine taught college-level philosophy throughout Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee, and served as chair of the division of social sciences at East Georgia College.
Selected publications:
- "Nihilism and the Eschaton in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot," Florida Philosophical Review, Winter 2009.
- "Beginning Aesthetics: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art," 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill, 2007.
- "Prototypes of Existence and Essence in Camus's 'The Stranger,'" Florida Philosophical Review, Volume VI, Issue 1, Summer 2006.
- "A Note on the Visually-Indistinguishable-Pairs Argument," Florida Philosophical Review, Volume V, Issue 1, Summer 2005.
- "A Formalist Theory of Art," Southwest Philosophy Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, July, 1998.
Honors and Awards:
- Presidential Fellowship, Savannah College of Art and Design
- Sigma Mu Scholastic Society, Mercer University
- Who's Who in the South and Southwest
- Best Instructor, School of Humanities, University of Alabama/Birmingham
- Who's Who Among America's Teachers
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Larry Valentine
Savannah
B.A., Elmira College; M.F.A., State University of New York at New Paltz.
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Kurt Vargo
Savannah
School of Visual Arts; M.F.A.* Savannah College of Art and Design.
Kurt Vargo came to SCAD after more than 20 years of teaching at the School of Visual Arts. His illustrations have appeared in books, magazines, annual reports, children's videos and posters in the United States, Europe and Japan. He has won numerous awards in the communications arts field, and his work has appeared in prestigious trade publications, including American Illustration, Big Book of Illustrations, Communication Arts and 3x3 Magazine. Clients include TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Reader's Digest, Showtime, The Chicago Museum, Scholastic Publications and more.
Awards and memberships:
- Founding member, Illustrators Partnership of America
- Member, Graphic Artists Guild
- Who's Who Among America's Teachers
Courses:
- Editorial Illustration I
- Advertising Illustration I
- Pastel Techniques
- Illustration Self-promotion
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Joel Varland
Savannah
B.A., Spring Arbor College; M.F.A., State University of New York at Buffalo.
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Christine Wacta
Savannah
D.P.L.G., D.E.F.A., Ecole d'Architecture Paris-La-Defense; M.Arch., University of Minnesota.
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Stephen Wagner
Savannah
B.A., Emory University; M.A., Florida State University; Ph.D., University of Delaware.
Stephen M. Wagner's area of specialization is art and architecture of the European Middle Ages, with a special focus on manuscripts produced in France and Germany between the eighth and 11th centuries. He is the mentor for the art history department's graduate studies program and the faculty liaison for the Art History Society.
Publications:
- Review of "Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images," New York: Palgrave, 2002, for , September 2006.
- "The Impact of Silk on Ottonian and Salian Manuscripts," in "Proceedings of the Eighth Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America," 2003.
Presentations:
- "Continuity and Innovation in Eleventh-Century Manuscripts Made at Echternach,"
- 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 2007.
- "The Impact of Silk on Ottonian and Salian Manuscripts," biennial symposium of the Textile Society of America, "Silk Roads, Other Roads," Northampton, Mass., September 2002.
- "Luxurious Trappings in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries: Textiles and Manuscripts and their Implications for Ottonian Court Culture," 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 2002.
- "Theophanu's Gift and the Impact of Byzantine Silk on German Illuminated Manuscripts," Dumbarton Oaks workshop, "Focus on Byzantine Textiles," September 2000.
Memberships:
- Byzantine Studies Conference
- College Art Association
- International Center of Medieval Art
- Medieval Academy of America
- Southeastern College Art Conference
- Southeastern Medieval Association
- Textile Society of America
Courses:
- Survey of Western Art I and II
- Medieval Art
- Early Christian and Byzantine Art
- History of Medieval Manuscripts
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Steven J. Wagner
Savannah
B.A., University of South Florida; M.S., Ph.D., Clemson University.
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Michael Wainstein
Savannah
B.A., Hunter College, M.F.A., University of Cincinnati.
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Ashley C. Waldvogel
Savannah
B.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University; M.F.A., Pratt Institute.
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Roger Walton
Savannah
B.F.A., Wright State University; M.F.A., Brooklyn College.
As an artist, Roger Mark Walton has won awards and has had his work exhibited extensively. His art has been featured in shows at the Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Sherry French Gallery in New York City, Erector Square Gallery in New Haven, Conn., the Carnegie Art Center and the Georgetown National in Washington, D.C. His artwork has been chosen for exhibitions by jurors such as Wolf Kahn, William Bailey, William Beckman, Neil Benezra, Peter Tatistcheff and Ivan Karp.
Walton also has lectured at various venues and has given docent lecture tours at the S.R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Prior to joining the SCAD faculty in 2000, he taught at the University of Dayton, Sinclair Community College and, briefly, North Central College.
Publications:
- Art included in "Developing Ideas in Artwork," M. Stephen Doherty, Watson Guptil Publishers
- Art included in "Watermedia Techniques for Releasing the Creative Spirit," Marilyn H. Phillis, Watson Guptil Publishers
Lecture:
- Public Lecture Series, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Ohio, 1996 and 1997
Awards:
- The Elizabeth Greensheilds Foundation
- The Ohio Arts Council
- Graduate fellowship, Brooklyn College
- The Expanding Horizons Award, Wright State University
Courses:
- Materials and Techniques of Rubens
- Introduction to Painting
- Graduate Painting Studio I and II
- Oil-based Media Exploration
- Water-based Media Exploration
- Painting and Drawing I and II (graduate)
- Life Drawing I, II and III
- Intermediate Painting
- Watercolor
- Color and the Painted Image
- Realist Painting
- Life Painting
- Advanced Life Painting
- Narrative Painting
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Peili Wang
Savannah,
eLearning
A.F.A., Sichuan Fine Arts Institute; B.F.A., M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
Born in Sichuan, China, Peili Wang became interested in the arts as a child. A 1994 graduate of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, he pursued a career in interior design and construction-site management. Although this experience provided a strong foundation in occupational knowledge, he felt his artistic qualifications needed further broadening, so he moved to Savannah to study at SCAD. "As a professor, I enjoy sharing my enthusiasm for space, color, form and light, and experimenting with ways in which different media enhance architectural perspective," he said.
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Ben Ward
Savannah
B.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
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John Waters, Chair
Savannah
B.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University.
John Waters served as president and creative director of Waters Design Associates in New York for 25 years. He has provided brand programs, marketing materials and special publications for such clients as American Express, Arrow Electronics, Bacardi, James River and Westvaco. He also designed CD-ROMs, Web sites and interactive applications for Harris Interactive, IBM, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Wall Street Journal and the United Nations, among many others. Waters has served as an adjunct professor of visual communications at the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute and Syracuse University, and he has juried shows for ADC, SPD, AIGA and D&AD Global.
Selected publications:
- "The Real Business of Web Design," Allworth Press, 2004
- "Design in Depth" (work featured)
- "Graphic Design: New York" vols. 1 and II (work featured)
- "The Business of Graphic Design" (work featured)
- "Web Design Now" (work featured)
Recent presentations:
- "The Fine Art of Web Technology," MABCA Arts and Technology Symposium, Montgomery, Ala., 2006
- "Mkanig Snese from Nsosnese," Visual Communications Symposium, Syracuse University, 2005
- Moderator, third annual Forum for New Ideas, Business Committee for the Arts, New York, 2005
Exhibitions (digital prints):
- Wheeler Opera House, Aspen Colo
- Metropol, Pittsburgh
- Union Square Gallery, New York
- Satchi & Satchi, New York
- Saks Fifth Avenue, New York
Recent awards:
- Creativity 36 (September 2007)
- American Corporate Identity, 2006
- Graphis Interactive Design, 2005
- Ninth Annual Webby Awards, 2005
Memberships:
- American Institute of Graphic Arts
- Design Management Institute
Courses:
- Typography I and II
- Digital Page and Web Graphics
- History of Graphic Design
- Package Design
- Production Design
- Publication Graphics
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Crystal Weaver
Savannah
B.S., Morehead State University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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Peter Weishar
Savannah
B.A., Union College.
Peter Weishar is the dean of the School of Film and Digital Media at SCAD. He has been a professional artist, art director and animator for almost 20 years. His work has appeared in Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report, and at Disney's EPCOT Center, the SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater (1998 and 2000) and the Museum of Native American Culture. Before joining SCAD, he taught computer animation and design at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, where he also served as director of the new media and computer animation programs. Weishar is the author and on-screen talent for the Strata 3D Pro Video Series.
Publications:
- "CGI: The Art of the Computer Generated Image" (Abrams, 2004)
- "Blue Sky: The Art of Computer Animation" (Harry N. Abrams, 2001)
- "Digital Space: Designing Virtual Environments" (McGraw-Hill, 1998)
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Rebecca Weldon
Savannah
B.S., Angelo State University; M.A., Spalding University; M.A., Ph.D., Ohio University.
Rebecca A. Weldon, Ph.D., teaches about and researches interpersonal and health communication, focusing on populations of women and children, including issues of conflict and health information sharing. She has taught in a variety of venues, including standard four-year institutions, medical school, middle and high schools, and special education classrooms. Weldon has received recognition for her innovative teaching practices from Ohio University and the International Communication Association. Her courses at SCAD include public speaking; interpersonal, nonverbal, small group and health communication; and persuasion. She also serves as council chair for innovative teaching and learning.
Selected publications:
- Tardy [Weldon], R.W., & Hale, C.L. (1998). "Bonding and Cracking: The role of Informal, Interpersonal Networks in Health Care Decision-making," Health Communication,10, 151-173. Republished in "Beyond these walls: Readings in health communication" (ed. Linda C. Lederman; 2007). New York: Oxford University Press.
- Weldon, R.A. (2001) "Instructors' Manual for Bridges Not Walls" (Ed. John Stewart, 2001). New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Weldon, R.A. (2001) "The Rhetorical Construction of the Predatorial Virus: A Burkian Analysis of Non-fiction Accounts of the Ebola Virus." Qualitative Health Research, 11, 5-25.
Memberships:
- Southern States Communication Association (2008-09)
- National Honor Society of High School Scholars (2005-07)
- National Communication Association (1990-2002)
- International Communication Association (1990-2002)
- International Network of Personal Relationships (1993-2000)
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Andrea Wells
Savannah
B.S., Skidmore College.
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Marilyn Whitney
Savannah
B.A., M.A., Michigan State University; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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Pamela Wiley
Savannah
B.S., Florida State University; M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Pamela Wiley has extensive experience as a professional studio artist, producing home and personal accessories and fine art; a textile designer/design consultant in New York City; a stylist in the New York ribbon and trim industry; and a prop designer/fabricator for Broadway productions. Wiley is chair of and professor in the SCAD fibers department.
Awards and accomplishments:
- Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, SCAD, 2002
- Solo exhibition, "Preconceived Notions," Delta College, Midland, Mich., 2002
- "Multiple Choice," fibers faculty group exhibition, SCAD, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah, 2005
- Designer/consultant on line of pillows for Anthropologie, 2005
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Robin Williams, Chair
Savannah
B.A., University of Toronto; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
Robin Williams, Ph.D., has served as chair of the architectural history department since its founding in 1996. He teaches courses in modern European and American architecture and urbanism, as well as research methodologies. He also frequently leads off-campus programs. At the University of Toronto, he served as a principal research assistant for an exhibition and book documenting the university's historic architecture, and as architectural photographer for several documentation projects. His master's thesis, focusing on the First Unitarian Church by the American architect Louis I. Kahn, won two essay competitions sponsored by regional chapters of the Society of Architectural Historians and was published, in part, in a study of Kahn's work. His doctoral research examined the transformation of Rome into the capital of united Italy during the late 19th century. Williams has lectured extensively and published on both this topic and his more recent interest - the city of Savannah and its urban plan. Since 1997, he has directed the Virtual Historic Savannah Project, and he also is an active member of local and state committees and boards concerned with heritage, preservation and planning.
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George Williams
Savannah
B.A., University of the South; M.A., University of Florida, Gainesville; Ph.D., University of Houston.
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Christopher Williams
Savannah
B.A., College at Cortland; M.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art.
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Kirt Witte
Savannah
B.S., Sam Houston State University; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
Kirt Witte's background in photography eventually led to his career in 3-D animation and modeling. He worked on the PlayStation 2 video game "Spy Hunter" and has worked in advertising, multimedia and photography in the freelance, corporate and Internet arenas. Professor Witte is an Autodesk Certified Maya Instructor.
Selected publications:
- 2007, "Color Imaging: Fundamentals and Applications by Erik Reinhard" (cover image), A K Peters Ltd., Wellesley, Mass.
- 2006, Commissioned 2007 calender, "The Other Savannah," Hilb, Rogel, & Hobbs, Savannah, Ga.
- 2006, Commissioned interactive kiosk, "Building with Light," Telfair Museum of Art, Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, Ga.
- 2005, Book acknowledgement, "High Dynamic Range Imaging: Acquisition, Display, and Image-Based Lighting" by Erik Reinhard, Greg Ward, Sumanta Pattanaik, and Paul Debevec
- 2005, Southern Living Magazine, February
Selected exhibitions:
- 2006-07, "More of 'The Other Savannah,'" Moon River Brewery Gallery, Savannah, Ga.
- 2006, Masters of Photography International Charity Exhibition, Curitaba, Brazil
- 2006, "Day on the Island," Isle of Hope United Methodist Church, Savannah, Ga.
- 2005, "Arts on the Island," Savannah, Ga.
- 2004, "Ossabaw," The Gallery, Savannah, Ga.
Selected presentations and lectures:
- 2007, "High Dynamic Range Imaging," Tamkang University, Danshui, Taiwan, and Yuan Ze University, Taipei, Taiwan
- 2006, "High Dynamic Range Imaging," Asia International Education Center, Taipei, Taiwan
- 2005, "High Dynamic Range Imaging," Annual 3December Alias|wavefront 3D User Group Meeting, Atlanta, Ga.
- 2005, "The Other Savannah," The Landings Art Association, Savannah, Ga.
Selected awards:
- 2006-07, Who's Who Among American Teachers
- 2006, International Color Awards/Masters of Color Photography, first place, abstract
- 2005, Sierra Club Award, honorable mention, University of Georgia Marine Science Center's "Coast Week 2005"
- Award of Merit No. 1
- Award of Merit No. 2
- 2004, first place, wildlife, University of Georgia Marine Science Center "Coast Week 2004"
Membership:
- International VR Photography Association, professional member
Courses:
- Digital 3-D Visual Effects
- High Dynamic Range Imaging
- Modeling for Visual Effects
- Matte Painting
- Visual Effects Studio I and II
- Advanced Survey of Computer Art Applications
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Joel Wittkamp
Savannah
B.F.A., University of Illinois; M.Des., Royal College of Art.
Joel Wittkamp is president and CEO of Joel Wittkamp Design, a firm he established in 1986. He has received more than 200 patents for his designs for companies such as Dow Chemical, Rubbermaid and IBM, and his designs have won numerous awards, including a Gold award from the Industrial Design Society of America. He has been a member of the SCAD industrial design faculty since 2003, and has been recognized by Business Week magazine as accomplished faculty.
Selected memberships and publications:
- Industrial Design Society of America
- Society of Artists and Designers (England)
- Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Society of Plastic Engineers
- S.E. Center for Business Growth and Entrepreneurship
- California Consumers United National Advisory Committee
- "Ideation: The Art of Generating Ideas" (NCSU Press)
- "Creativity: Why & How" and "A Designers Challenge" (Design Quarterly Review)
Courses:
- Manufacturing and Assembly Technology
- Emerging Manufacturing Materials
- Industrial Design Studio I and II
- Industrial Design in the Marketplace
- Industrial Design Innovation
- Industrial Design M.A. Final Project
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Meghan Woodcock
Savannah
B.A., Virginia Tech; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Timothy Woods
Savannah
A.A., B.Des., University of Florida, Gainesville; M.Arch., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Timothy Woods has taught at SCAD since 1992, with focuses on design studios, design theory and culture, and sustainability. Prior to joining SCAD, Woods taught at the University of North Carolina, the University of South Florida and the University of Louisiana. He has always maintained a practice that which includes architectural design, industrial design, and installation art and fine art in the United States, Honduras and East Africa. Most recently, his "Moon River" house was featured in a Rizzoli publication titled Southern Cosmopolitan, and his LOCI MODular house was published in Natural Life magazine.
Areas of specialization:
- Design pedagogy and theory
- Sustainability in architecture
Selected awards:
- Who's Who Among American Teachers and Educators
- American Institute of Architects Education Honor Award for a paper titled "A Layered Approach to Critical Discourse"
- Charles A. Lindberg Foundation Certificate of Merit for the Arts and Humanities supporting research in Africa under the project titled "'Ujamaa' Made Manifest: Balancing Culture, Country and Technology"
- Beaux Arts Video, Award Winner at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, shown in New York, Los Angeles and London
Selected winning competitions:
- c2c-home Competition
- Installation, "Glossolalia" for "Reflections on Jane Fonda"
- Installation, "Walls from Invisible Cities #4" for "Functional Follies" competition
- Design Competition for the president's House at the University of South Florida, Honorable Mention, published in Florida Architecture magazine
Selected publications:
- "Moon River House," Rizzoli publication titled Southern Cosmopolitan
- "LOCI MODular" house published in Natural Life magazine
- "Moon River House," Metropolis Magazine
- "The Future has Arrived," The South Magazine
- "Skidaway Modern," ArchitectureWeek
- Paper for ACSA Southeast Regional Conference, "Between First and Third Worlds," titled "The Village Caught Between Three Worlds"
- Paper for ACSA Southwest Regional Conference, "Internationalism, Culturalism, Regionalism"
- Paper given at Preservation Institute: Nantucket Seminar, titled "The Preservation of a Tri cultural Building Tradition: The Act of Construction as an Anchor for the Evolution of House and Village in Rural Tanzania"
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Lynn Wright
Savannah
B.F.A., University of Alabama; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
After graduating from SCAD, Lynn Wright was hired by Ohio Dominican University in 1995 to establish a photography program. She returned to Savannah in 1997 and has been a professor in the photography department at SCAD since her return.
Publications:
- "Seasons of Savannah," cover, 2001
- "The Art of Teaching: Regional Faculty Invitational Exhibition" catalog, 1998
- Perspectives, the journal for the association for general and liberal studies, vol.26.1 Spring, 1996
- Art Communication International, Art Collection CD, 1995
- Photographer's Forum 1994 Best of Photography Annual
- Silver Works
- The Decatur Daily
Selected exhibitions:
- "Many and Varied: Faculty Photography Show," Alexander Hall, Savannah, 2006
- "Southern Diaspora," Desoto Row Gallery, Savannah, 2005
- "Southern Exposure," Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah, 2003
- "Kaleidoscapes: Views from Material and Immaterial Worlds," Red Gallery, Savannah, and Savannah Gallery, Atlanta, 2003
- Faculty Show, Bergen Hall Main Gallery, Savannah, 2002
- "Intermediary: Works by SCAD Photography Faculty and Staff," Savannah, 2002
Courses:
- Introduction to Photography
- Intermediate Photography
- History of Photography I
- Digital Imaging 1
- Digital Craft
- Photographic Arts I (also through SCAD e-Learning)
- Mixed-media Photography
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Dihua Yang
Savannah
B.Arch., Tsinghua University; M.Arch., University of Maryland.
Dihua Yang worked as a junior architect in the HOK Group Inc., and an assistant architect at both Beijing Tsinghua Andi Architectural Design and Consultation Co. and the First Design Division of the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, before joining the faculty at SCAD. She is a registered architect by NCARB.
Awards:
- Honorable mention, 2007 Skyscraper competition, 2006
- Second place, Miami Monument, 2005
- Second prize, International Competition, Shanghai University Campus Planning and Design,1998
- Honorable mention, Beijing Housing Design Competition, 1997
Selected publications:
- "Real Time Visualization," the Open House International Journal. Vol. 32. 2007
- 2007 Skyscraper Competition, featured in the L'ARCA magazine, No. 226, 2007
- Scion Show Room Design Competition, featured in Surface magazine, Spring 2007
- "Reclaim Industrial Landscape," New Landscape, China, 2007
- "The Competitive City (translation), Urban Age, China, Summer 1999/Vol.7 No.1
Courses:
- Architectural Design Studio IV, V and VI
- Visualization in Electronic Design
- Electronic Design I
- Architectural Drawing
- Architectural Graphics
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Weisheng Yang
Savannah
B.S., University of Science and Technology of China; M.S., Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics; M.S., Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany.
Weisheng Yang served as a research scientist at the Wuhan Institute of Physics and Math, Chinese Academy of Sciences before joining the SCAD faculty. He also has served as a visiting scientist at the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Italy and Sophia University in Japan. His research interests include several complex variables, complex analysis (one variable) and related operator theory; applied statistics, especially those related to health and environment; and computational mathematics and numeric analysis. Yang also received a Prize for Natural Sciences (second class) in Hubei Province, China.
Select publications:
- "Characterizations of Bergman spaces and Bloch space in the unit ball of Cn," Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 347(11)(1995), 4301-4313 (with C.H. Ouyang and R.H. Zhao).
- "Exact location of α-Bloch spaces in and Hp of a complex unit ball," Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, 30(3)(2000), 1151-1169 (with C.H. Ouyang).
- "Vanishing Carleson type measure Characterizations of Qp,0 spaces," C. R. Math. Rep. Acad. Sci. Canada, 21(1)(1999), 1-5.
- "Characterizations of little α-Bloch spaces on the unit ball of Cn," The Bulletin of the Hong Kong Mathematical Society (BHKMS), 2(1999), 213-221 (with W. Zhuo).
- "Mobius invariant Qp spaces associated with the Green's function on the unit ball of Cn," Pacific J. Math., 182(1)(1998), 69-99 (with C.H. Ouyang and R.H. Zhao).
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Woon Kee Yong
Savannah
M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Lisa Jaye Young
Savannah
B.A., University of Pittsburgh; M.Phil., Ph.D., City University of New York.
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Weihua Zhang
Savannah,
eLearning
B.A., Northeast Normal University; M.A., Nankai University; D.A., State University of New York at Albany.
Weihua Zhang, D.A., joined the SCAD faculty in 1996. A scholar in African American literature, she also has published creative nonfiction and poems. Her photography has appeared in Savannah galleries and the Telfair Art Fair, as well as the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. In 2004, she served as the sole author and project coordinator of the Chinese Cultural Heritage Workshop Series, which received a grant from the Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs' Weave-A-Dream program.
Select awards and honors:
- SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development for the proposal "Dream Variations: A Journey Across Two Continents, A Memoir," 2006
- Inclusion in "Who's Who in America," 2003
- SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development for the proposal "Chinese Immigrants in Savannah: A Photographic Journey," 2003
- Inclusion in The American Scholar, 2000
- Research grant from the Benevolent Association of the State University of New York at Albany for the project "A Historical Perspective on Black Male-Female Relationships in the United States," 1994
Memberships:
- The National Ethnic Studies Association, 2006-present
- The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature, 2007
- The Popular Cultural Association, 2005
- The Margaret Mitchell House and Museum, 2005-06
- The Modern Language Association of America, 1993-2005
- The Georgia Historical Society, 2003-05
Select courses:
- Composition
- Composition and Literature
- African American Literature (also developed and taught the online version)
- Today's Classics: 1945-present
- Asian American Literature
- Freshman Composition for ESL Students
- All levels of ESL courses in Reading/Vocabulary, Grammar/Writing, Listening/Speaking and Oral Skills
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Jason Zimmer
Savannah
B.F.A., McKendree College; M.F.A., New York Academy of Art.
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