Faculty
Students have the unparalleled opportunity to work closely with a faculty of internationally recognized artists and distinguished guest lecturers. They are exposed to a broad range of approaches to making and interpreting art, as well as diverse perspectives on the role of art and artists in society.
Faculty
Andrea Fraser – Interdisciplinary Studio
Vishal Jugdeo – New Genres
Gelare Khoshgozaran – New Genres
Tarrah Krajnak – Photography
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Candice Lin – Ceramics
Rodney McMillian – Sculpture
Troy Montes Michie – Painting and Drawing
Rebecca Morris – Painting and Drawing
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Hirsch Perlman – Sculpture
Anna Sew Hoy – Ceramics
Cauleen Smith – Interdisciplinary Studio
Rodrigo Valenzuela – Photography
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Cosmo Whyte – Painting and Drawing
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung – Painting and Drawing
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Lecturers
Dicky Bahto – Graduate Open Area Studio
Jenny Calivas – Photography
Corina Copp – Graduate Open Area Studio
Kim Fisher – Painting and Drawing
Johanna Hedva – Graduate Art Seminar
Grant Johnson – Contemporary Histories of Art and Cultural Theory
Siri Sahaj Kaur – Photography
Laub – Ceramics
Matt Lipps – Photography
Harold Mendez – Photography
Kristen Morgin – Ceramics
Alex Olson – Painting and Drawing
Nate Wolf – Painting and Drawing
Visiting Faculty 2015 – 2026
- Basma Alsharif
- Deborah Aschheim
- Monica Baer
- Uta Barth
- Tanya Batura
- Nicole Belle
- Hannah Black
- Marie de Brugerolle
- Sabeth Buchmann
- Widline Cadet
- Carolyn Castaño
- Fiona Connor
- Njideka Akunyili Crosby
- Diedrich Diederichsen
- Marten Elder
- Darby English
- Paul Carlo Esposito
- Victor Estrada
- Nikolas Gambaroff
- Mariah Garnett
- Liz Glynn
- Rita Gonzalez
- Hannah Greely
- Tim Griffin
- Julia Haft-Candell
- James Harrison
- Richard Hawkins
- Asuka Hisa
- John Houck
- Ben Jackel
- Rindon Johnson
- Pamela Jorden
- Kahlil Joseph
- Dong Hoon Jun
- Stanya Kahn
- Soo Kim
- Olga Koumoundouros
- Cyril Kuhn
- Mona Kuhn
- Owen Kydd
- Mimi Lauter
- Anthony Lepore
- Nick Lowe
- Nancy Lupo
- MPA
- Erlea Maneros Zabala
- Rachel Mason
- Brad Miller
- Nicole Miller
- Robert Miller
- Helen Molesworth
- Dianna Molzan
- Chelsea Mosher
- Jill Mulleady
- Kevin Myers
- Thomas Müller
- Shahryar Nashat
- Ruby Neri
- Kelly Nipper
- Nobuhito Nishigawara
- Lisa Ohlweiler
- Mariner Padwa
- Gala Porras-Kim
- Stephen Prina
- Tia Pulitzer
- Heather Rasmussen
- Nick Relph
- Marco Rios
- Cameron Rowland
- Miljohn Ruperto
- Jacob Samuel
- Sigrid Sandström
- Tia Santana
- John Seal
- Sami Siegelbaum
- Jim Skuldt
- Shinique Smith
- Sean Sprague
- Linnea Spransy
- Frances Stark
- Karen Tepaz
- Kerry Tribe
- Brian Tucker
- Jeffrey Vallance
- Erika Vogt
- Lisa Diane Wedgeworth
- Benjamin Weissman
- Eric Wesley
- Colin Westerbeck
- Jessica Williams
- Andrew Norman Wilson
- Adrian Wong
- Suné Woods
- Suzanne Wright
- John Wu
- Michaela Wünsch
- Mario Ybarra, Jr.
Art Council Chair
- 2020: Patty Chang (winter)
- 2019: Wu Tsang (fall)
- 2019: Stan Douglas
- 2012-2013: Matt Mullican
- 2010: Anthony Hernandez
- 2009: Runa Islam
Emeritus Faculty
- Jennifer Bolande
- Raymond Brown
- Barbara Drucker
- Russell Ferguson
- Roger Herman
- Mary Kelly
- Barbara Kruger
- Paul McCarthy
- Catherine Opie
- Lari Pittman
- Charles Ray
- Nancy Rubins
- Adrian Saxe
- James Welling
- Patty Wickman
Faculty Undergraduate & Graduate Courses
Undergraduate Faculty Courses
- Units: 4
- Studio, eight hours; five hours arranged. Course in basic drawing skills, history, and conceptual concerns, intended as preparation for work in variety of media. P/NP or letter grading.
- Units: 4
- Studio, eight hours; five hours arranged. Basics of painting: introduction to technical procedures, tools, and materials. Discussion of fundamental conceptual and formal concerns. P/NP or letter grading.
- Units: 5
- Studio, eight hours; seven hours arranged. Requisite: course 1A. Drawing as both independent expressive medium and as means of visualization. May be repeated for maximum of 20 units. Letter grading.
- Units: 5
- Studio, eight hours; seven hours arranged. Requisite: course 11A. Varied media and subjects to further develop students' technical and expressive means to implement their ideas. May be repeated for maximum of 20 units. Letter grading.
- Units: 5
- Studio, eight hours; seven hours arranged. Requisite: course 11A. Varied approaches to painting media and content to develop students' technical, expressive, and conceptual tools to understand and explore anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Combination of courses 133 and 133A may be repeated for maximum of 20 units. Letter grading.
- Units: 5
- Studio, eight hours; seven hours arranged. Requisite: course 11C. Selected studies in fine printmaking, historical and contemporary: woodcut, etching and engraving, lithography, silk screen, mixed media. May be repeated for maximum of 20 units. Letter grading.
Graduate Faculty Courses
- Units: 2 to 8
- Studio, eight hours. Study in painting and associated media. May be repeated for credit with consent of adviser. Letter grading.
- Units: 4
- Discussion, four hours; tutorial, to be arranged. Group critique/discussion of students' research. Additional tutorial meetings by arrangement with instructor. May be repeated for credit. Letter grading.
- Units: 4
- Seminar, three hours. Advanced topics in critical theory and study of contemporary art, with emphasis on individuals, issues, and methodologies. Possible areas of study include structuralism, deconstruction, feminist and psychoanalytic theory, commodification, and censorship. May be repeated for credit. Concurrently scheduled with course C180. Letter grading.