Faculty
Art Education
Dr. Victoria Grube
Associate Professor
Vicky Grube, Assistant Professor of Art, received her M Ed from the University of Illinois, her MFA in Theatre Arts and her PhD in Art Education from the University of Iowa. She has taught painting, theatre design, art education and early childhood education at the University of Iowa and surrounding colleges in the midwest. She has a national and a regional NEA in the Visual Arts , has shown her work throughout the midwest notably at the Chicago Cultural Center, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha and won Best of Show at the Nelson Atkins and at the Des Moines Art Center where her work is in their permanent collection.
She has designed sets and costumes for University of Iowa theater productions working with Rinde Eckert and Ducks Breath Mystery Theatre, Leon Martell. In 1988 she received a Diverse Visions Grant from the Mc Knight Foundation of Minnesota for her theatre troupe Pinkys Custom Cakes. Pinkys has performed at the University of Iowa Museum of Art and at the Catherine Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota. Her doctoral research concerns critical theory and ethnographic methodology. She has published in Visual Arts Research.
Grube has presented her research nationally and internationally. She has published in Visual Arts Research, International Journal of Education and the Arts, Journal of Aesthetic Education, Cultural Studies~Critical Methodologies, and in the collection The Heart of Art Education: Holistic Approaches to Creativity, Integration, and Transformation. Eds. Laurel Campbell and S. Simmons.
She has earned three grants and fellowships to study art education internationally in Reggio Emilia, Italy, Fort William, Scotland and Birmingham, England.
In 2009, Grube was named North Carolina Teacher of the Year, Higher Education Division.
EDUCATION
M Ed, University of Illinois
MFA, University of Iowa
PhD, University of Iowa
David Modler
Lecturer
David R. Modler is an artist/educator born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Education degrees in Art Education from Towson State University. With fifteen years of art education experience on all levels, David’s focus shifted to concentrating on a Master of Fine Arts degree in drawing and painting at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA.
EDUCATION
BS, Towson State University
MS, Towson State University
MFA, James Madison University
Alyssia Ruggiero
Assistant Professor
Dr. Alyssia Ruggiero, Assistant Professor of Art Education, received her BS in Art Education from The State University of New York in New Paltz. She earned both her MS and PhD in Art Education from Florida State University. Her dissertation was titled “Addressing Emotions in Education: A descriptive analysis of caring in middle school art classrooms.”
She has experience teaching art in public Elementary, Middle, and High School. Her experience also includes teaching art in community art settings, programs for underprivileged children, and youth detention centers.
Ruggiero’s work has been selected for group and solo exhibitions in Tallahassee, Florida. Her artwork and research is focused on the interpersonal relationships that can evolve around art. Both reflect her interest in the many ways art brings people together.
Ruggiero has presented her work numerous times at the National Art Education Association’s Annual Convention. Most recently her article titled “Bringing art to Life through Multiple Perspectives: Pre-Service Art Educators and Social Justice” was published in the Journal of Art for Life (spring 2011).
EDUCATION
BS, The State University of New York in New Paltz
MS, Florida State University
PhD, Florida State University
Art History
Dr. Eli Bentor
Professor
Eli Bentor received his BA in Art History and African Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MA and Ph.D. in African Art History from Indiana University. Eli’s research on masquerade festivals in Southeastern Nigeria focuses on the way that history is reflected and negotiated at the Aro Ikeji festival. He has published on different aspects of Nigerian art history in African Art, Journal of Religion in Africa, and elsewhere. In 2008–09 he was a Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution and received the first Cristián Samper Outstanding Fellow Award from the Smithsonian Institution.
Dr. Bentor has taught a variety of courses on classical and contemporary African art, cross-cultural studies of masks and masquerade, body art, contemporary art and music in Africa and the African Diaspora, and art and globalization.
EDUCATION
BA, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
MA, Indiana University
PhD, Indiana University
Dr. John Stephenson
Assistant Professor
Stephenson’s interest in the ancient Mediterranean was sparked by a marathon bicycle tour he took, starting in Istanbul, riding across Greece and Crete, to Italy and Rome. He received his doctorate in Ancient art history from Emory University in 2006, with a major in Roman art and minor in Egyptian art, and with a specialty in the domestic architecture of late Roman Spain. He received a master’s degree in Greek art from the University of Georgia.
His doctoral dissertation, entitled A Social History of Late Roman Villas in the Iberian Peninsula, examines the palatial and domestic architecture of Spain and Portugal, as well as domestic décor including sculpture, mosaics and painting discovered in the houses. Stephenson has studied Roman architecture on site around the Mediterranean, with three research trips covering thirteen countries, including the Middle East and North Africa. He excavated at the archaeological field school and excavation at ancient Carthage in Tunisia, sponsored by the University of Georgia, and attended the program in Roman archaeology at the American Academy in Rome. His interests are in the social contexts of ancient architecture, the period of late antiquity, spatial and geographic concepts in Roman art, and gender in ancient art. He has taught courses including Roman, Hellenistic Greek, Late antique and Egyptian art.
EDUCATION
BA, University of Georgia
MA, University of Georgia
PhD, Emory University
Dr. James Toub
Professor
Jim Toub, Professor of Art, received his BA from Hampshire College and his MA and Ph.D. from the interdisciplinary University Professors Program at Boston University. He has taught at Hampshire College, the Universite dÃAngers, and in Aix-en-Provence, France at the Institute for American Universities and the Marchutz School of Art. He has taught more than thirty different courses in the areas of modern European and American art history, art criticism and theory, and studio art. His publications and conference papers encompass various modern art topics with special focus on the art of Paul Cezanne, Oskar Kokoschka, and the architecture of Christopher Alexander. His articles have appeared in The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Ethics, Place and Environment and FATE in Review. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited in numerous venues including the Musee Granet in Aix-en-Provence, the Hickory Museum of Art and the Center for Creativity, Craft and Design. He has been the recipient of a University of North Carolina Excellence in Teaching Award and an ASU Student Government Excellence in Teaching Award. His current scholarly and artistic interests are in the areas of landscape studies, the aesthetics of sustainable design, and post-secondary art education.
EDUCATION
BA, Hampshire College 1979
MA, Boston University 1984
PhD, Boston University 1992
Dr. Heather Waldroup
Associate Professor
Heather Waldroup’s research interests include colonial photography from the South Pacific, the history of museums and collecting, contemporary art in Oceania, and digital humanities. Her publications include essays in Photography and Culture, the International Journal of Heritage Studies, Women’s History Review, and Journeys.
EDUCATION
BA, Florida State University
MA, Florida State University
PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz
Art Management
Jody Servon
Associate Professor & Director of Catherine J. Smith Gallery
Jody Servon is an associate professor and director of the Catherine J. Smith Gallery at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. Servon received a MFA in New Genre from The University of Arizona and a BFA in Visual Art from Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Servon’s art projects include installations, drawings, photographs, sculptures, and video. Her work has appeared in exhibitions, screenings and as public projects in the US, Canada and China. Servon attended residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Contemporary Artists Center and Super G Experiential Residency and is a recipient of an individual artist grant and a residency fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council. Articles and reviews have appeared in: The New York Times, Sun Sentinel, The Palm Beach Post, The Miami Herald, Arizona Daily Star and New American Paintings. Servon’s collaborative project Saved will appear in the Fall 2011 issue of AGNI Magazine.
Servon also curates exhibitions focused on contemporary art was a curatorial coordinator at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art in Florida. Exhibition reviews have been appeared in Artnews, South Florida Times, Palm Beach Daily News, The Miami Herald, Neural Online, and El Pais. She currently serves on advisory boards for Elsewhere Collaborative and Turchin Center for the Visual Arts and was a board member of the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design from 2004 to 2010.
EDUCATION
BFA, Rutgers University
MFA, University of Arizona
Graphic Design
Dianne Hodack
Lecturer
Dianne Hodack received a BFA in Communication Design from Kutztown State University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from Goddard College in Interdisciplinary Art. Her interdisciplinary practice combines the disciplines of graphic design, painting, and digital art. She has researched the intersection of design and painting and finds new ways for design to inform painting and painting to inform design. Visual memoir, narrative digital triptychs, and graphic design systems that impact community and experience are specific areas of research.
Before entering the academic arena, Hodack was an award winning art director, designer, and painter. She has also won awards for her illustration and art direction in educational book publishing. She resides in Binghamton, NY and Boone, NC, continues to paint and show her digital work, and designs for various local and national clients.
EDUCATION
BFA, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
MFA, Goddard College
A. Edison Midgett
Professor
Edison Midgett is a Professor in the Department of Art where he has taught digital media and motion graphics since 1988. An award winning artist and filmmaker whose visual art is represented in numerous collections, Ed has exhibited his work nationally and internationally since 1972 at such diverse venues as the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh and the Berlin Film Festival as well as solo exhibitions in New York City and Florence, Italy and has had his Digital Animations and Motion Graphics broadcast on UNC-TV Public Television. Ed received his BFA and MFA in Art from East Carolina University in Greenville, NC.
EDUCATION
BFA, East Carolina University
MFA, East Carolina University
Mark Nystrom
Assistant Professor
Mark Nystrom received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Graphic Design and a BS in Psychology from Virginia Tech. His specialties and research interests include conceptual applications of design and typography, publication design, interaction design, and design as a facilitator of social change. Nystrom’s recent creative research lies at the intersection of science, nature and culture where he is exploring ways of using art and design to renew and strengthen connections to the natural world. Prior to joining the faculty at Appalachian State, Nystrom was co-owner of a design studio in Virginia and an award winning designer and art director for several universities across the nation. He maintains a professional design practice and lives in Boone with his wife and two sons.
EDUCATION
BS, Virginia Tech 1995
MFA, Rhode Island School of Design 2006
Dr. Marilyn Smith
Professor
Marilyn C. Smith’s previous research interests have included discourse analysis, feminism and media; Mexican craft production; cultural studies and media/design. Her current focus examines sustainable design practices that addresses human and environmental needs. Related interests include the changing parameters of design disciplines; creativity, process and design thinking; user-centered design, metadesign, and integrative design education.
During her teaching career she has taught twenty-two courses in areas encompassing graphic design primarily but also studio art, visual culture and women’s studies. Courses frequently taught include Typography III, Graphic Design Senior Studio, Idea Lab, Graphic Design Research and Practice, and History of Graphic Design. She has also taught Women’s Studies courses addressing women and media, the women's movement, and politics of the image as well as Mexican Muralism.
Dr. Smith has published in Visible Language, Journal of Communication Inquiry, NWSA Journal (National Women’s Studies Assn.), Women in Mass Communication: Challenging Gender Values, and served as associate editor on the editorial board of the NWSA Journal [National Women’s Studies Association].
EDUCATION
BFA, University of Georgia
MA, New York University
PhD, University of Iowa
Barbara Yale-Read
Professor
Barbara Yale-Read has taught Graphic Design and calligraphy in the Department of Art since 1986. Her calligraphic paintings have been shown internationally and her work has been selected for several issues of the Letter Arts Review juried annual. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at the Turchin Center for Visual Arts in Boone, NC, and a group show in Concord, NC. Graphic Design commissions include numerous book covers for the National Council of Teachers of English and Utah State University Press. She lives in Boone with her husband and enjoys singing in the St. Mary of the Hills Episcopal Church Choir.
EDUCATION
BA, Towson State University
MFA, East Tennessee State University
Clay
Lynn Duryea
Associate Professor
Currently Associate Professor of Art, Lynn Duryea was a nationally-exhibiting studio artist working in Maine for over 20 years before attending graduate school at the University of Florida, earning a Master of Fine Arts in May 2002. Lynn is a Founding Trustee of Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts and was the Program Coordinator and Artist-in-Residence for The Watershed Workshop for People with HIV/AIDS. She is a co-founder of Sawyer Street Studios, an artist-owned ceramic facility in South Portland, Maine and was the first visual artist to receive Portland, Maine’s YWCA Women of Achievement Award. She was an Emerging Artist at the 2004 NCECA Conference (National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts). Her work is represented in numerous publications including Discovery: Fifty Years of Craft and Transformation at Haystack, Carl Little, ed., The Best of Pottery edited by Jonathan Fairbanks and Angela Fina, Dry Glazes by Jeremy Jernegan and a cover article by Glen Brown in the October 2004 issue of Ceramics Monthly, “Lynn Duryea: The Energy of Edges.” Lynn’s work has been exhibited extensively, with solo exhibitions at The Works Gallery in Philadelphia and Lacoste Gallery in Concord MA among others. Group shows include Contemporary New England Ceramics at the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester NH and International Emerging Ceramic Artists Invitational Exhibition, FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums, Fuping, Xian, China.
EDUCATION
BA, Bucknell University
MFA, University of Florida
Lisa Stinson
Professor
Lisa Stinson is a Professor of Art and has taught for over twenty years, the last fourteen at ASU. She is the Co-director of the Foundations Program and the Studio Clay Area. She received her MFA in Ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design, a BFA in Ceramics from New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University and a BA in Psychology from Wells College.
Her professional activities include numerous national exhibitions, lectures and ceramic workshops. Some of her exhibitions include: “New Explorations”, Art Cellar Gallery, NC, “A Defining Edge”, Collaborative works with Ken Carder, Blue Spiral Gallery, NC, The Society of Arts and Crafts, MA, Santa Fe Clay Gallery, NM, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Arts, NC, and Arrowmont - School of Arts and Crafts, TN.
Her research in sustainable design and art education has been selected for presentations at national conferences. These include: Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), Foundation in Art Theory and Education (FATE), National Conference of Ceramic Arts and Education (NCECA).
She has been active in her ceramic work with an emphasis on glaze formulation research and innovative building design. She has received three grants to further pursue this research and has been ask to lead numerous national workshops. These include: The 92nd Street Y in NYC, Worchester Center for the Craft, MA and West Chester Art Workshop, NY. She has also participated in a residency at Archie Bray Foundation, MT. and spent a summer leading workshops and managing the ceramic area at Art Park, Lewiston, NY.
She has a daughter and maintains a private studio where she does her own work as well as collaboration work with her husband artist Ken Carder.
EDUCATION
BA, Wells College
BFA, NYSCC at Alfred University
MFA, Rhode Island School of Design
Drawing
Jason Watson
Assistant Professor
Jason Watson is a mixed-media works-on-paper artist, specializing in figure drawing, found objects, and printmaking. Prior to teaching at Appalachian State, he lived in the New York City area, showing his work at galleries, universities, and non-profit spaces throughout the northeast region. His solo exhibit, “Jason Watson: A Second Look,” was recently on view at the Jersey City Museum in Jersey City, NJ during 2007–2008.
Over the past few years he has participated in several artist residency programs, at the Newark Museum of Art, Cooper Union Emerging Artist Residency Program, the Lower East Side Printshop and most recently at the Elsewhere Artist Collaborative in Greensboro, NC. Watson has also worked as a graphic and exhibitions designer for the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York and has served on fellowship committees for the New York Foundation for the Arts.
His current work is an investigation of alchemy as a metaphor for contemporary studio practice. In his “Basement Alchemy” series of drawings, Watson is developing open-ended visual narratives based on his studies of figurative museum sculpture contrasted with thrift store and discarded found objects.
www.jwatsondrawing.com
www.jwatsonsketch.blogspot.com
EDUCATION
BFA, University of North Carolina at Asheville
MFA, State University of New York at Purchase
Fibers
Jeana Klein
Assistant Professor
Jeana Eve Klein was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan and moved with her family to Hendersonville, North Carolina in 1987. She has considered herself a North Carolinian ever since. She earned her undergraduate Art & Design degree from the School of Design (now College of Design) at North Carolina State University, and her Master of Fine Arts from Arizona State University.
The majority of Jeana’s studio practice is devoted to mixed media quilts. These works straddle the lines between textiles and painting, realism and abstraction, fact and fiction. Her process is often obsessive, with layer-upon-layer of tedious hand processes. Jeana’s work has been shown nationally, appearing in more than 50 exhibitions in the last five years. Recent solo and duo exhibitions have included “Rundown” in South Carolina, “Short Stories” in Florida, “In Stitches” in Washington, and “In With The New” in North Carolina.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Art & Design, North Carolina State University
MFA, Arizona State University
General Education
IlaSahai Prouty
Assistant Professor
IlaSahai Prouty lives in the mountains, but grew up by the sea. Her studio is in the basement because there is no attic. Prouty received her MFA from the California College of Art in San Francisco CA and a BFA from Brown University in Providence RI. She is currently an assistant professor and coordinator of the General Education programming in the Art Department.
She creates projects that consider language, physical sensations, death and repetition. Her sculptures, installations, public art and prints often explore non-verbal experiences. She has created casts and prints of skin, tidal sand, hands, bones, and knots as part of these works. She ties knots, breaks them, and puts them back together again. She balances little men on spoons. She maps the pores and wrinkles of her skin.
Prouty was a Resident Artist at the Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC and has exhibited at venues throughout the United States including SECCA and the Asheville Museum.
Prouty has twenty-plus years experience in Experiential Education training facilitators and educators and developing experiential curriculum. She is co-author of Adventures in Peacemaking, Diversity in Action, and Achieving Fitness.
EDUCATION
BFA, Brown University
MFA, California College of Art
Core Program, Penland School of Craft
Metalsmithing & Jewelry Design
Margaret Yaukey
Professor
Margaret Yaukey was born in Dacca, Bangladesh and spent her childhood there and in Georgetown, Guyana. Her family returned to the United States settling in Washington, DC where Margaret graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1980. In 1984 she earned a BA in Philosophy from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. Margaret completed two post baccalaureate year-long studies, 1990–92. The first was at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, and the second University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. In 1996 she earned her MFA in Metals/Jewelry/CAD/CAM from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Elkins Park, PA.
EDUCATION
BA, Grinnell College
MFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Post Baccalaureate, Rhode Island School of Design and University of Washington
Painting
Michael Grady
Professor
Michael Grady is an exhibiting artist, writer and educator. Raised in Columbia South Carolina, he completed his BFA in Studio Art at the Boston Museum School and Tufts University and his MFA in Painting at Pratt Institute in New York. He has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, Academy of Art University and JFK University in Berkeley California where he chaired the Department of Arts and Consciousness before coming to Appalachian State University.
Grady‘s paintings reflect a long interest in Asian art and philosophy which he combines with Euro-American approaches to landscape and abstract painting. Grady has visited Asia on numerous occasions and has worked closely with both contemporary and traditional Chinese artists. He has published articles on cross-cultural issues in contemporary art and new approaches to college level art education. Grady has also been active for many years in the exploration of art and healing, and the study of creative process. He has exhibited his paintings and lectured in Germany, New Zealand, China, and throughout the United States.
EDUCATION
BA, College
MFA, University
Gary Nemcosky
Professor
Gary Nemcosky received his BFA at West Virginia University in 1982 and an MFA from East Carolina University in 1985. He did some additional study of Art History at the University of Cincinnati from 1987 –1989, after which he began teaching here at Appalachian.
Nemcosky’ work through the years has always been about process and technique, with a major emphasis on the exploration of mixing and combining various media—traditional media, digital collage, and everyday materials, such as instant coffee and shoe polish.
For the last few years he has been working in watercolor almost exclusively. Watercolor has an aesthetic that he believes is different for every enthusiast. Nemcosky has loved the medium for years but only dallied with it in sketchbooks on holiday. He became interested in what he could do with this medium if he focused on it entirely over an extended period of time. In doing so, he produced a couple of series of works, from blues musician that were somehow connected to the state of North Carolina to the people and landscape Edisto Island, South Carolina.
EDUCATION
BFA, West Virginia University
MFA, East Carolina University
Ali Raza
Assistant Professor
Raza received BFA with distinction in Painting from National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan 1992 and MFA in Drawing and Painting from University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2001. He taught Drawing and Painting at the University of Minnesota as an adjunct faculty for two years before joining Appalachian State University as an Assistant Professor in 2004. Raza works in Painting, Mixed Media, Drawing, Printmaking, Sculpture and Digital Imaging. His artworks have been part of several international shows such as:
- “Printmakers of Pakistan 1947–1997” Bradford Museum, England
- “Pakistan: Another Vision” Brunei Gallery, London
- “Painting Over the Lines: Five Contemporary Artists from Pakistan” Indo Center of Art and Culture, Chelsea, NY 2002
- “Takhti,” Art Gallery of Mississauga, Canada 2003
- “Masala: Diversity and Democracy in South Asian Art,” William Benton Museum, Storrs, Connecticut 2004
- “Beyond Borders” Contemporary Art from Pakistan National Gallery of Modern Art, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai, India 2005
- Contemporary Printmakers from Pakistan “Festival of Muslim Cultures: UK 2006” Oriel Ceri Richards, Swansea, UK 2006
- “Art Unites" 25 SAARC Artists” Lalit Kala Academi, Dehli 2007
- “Moving Ahead” National Gallery of Art, Islamabad, Pakistan 2007
- “Desperately Seeking Paradise” Art Dubai 2008
- “Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art From Pakistan” Asia Society, NY 2009
- “State of Things: Recent Art From Pakistan,” Aicon Gallery London, 2009-2010
- “Resemble, Reassemble,” Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi, India 2009-10
- “Mixed Up Views,” a solo show, Art Sawa, Dubai, UAE 2011
EDUCATION
BFA, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
MFA, University of Minnesota
Photography
Kathleen Campbell
Professor
Kathleen Campbell is an artist, teacher, and writer. Her interests lie both in the visual arts and in art history and criticism. She has published articles in exposure, San Francisco Camerawork Quarterly, CEPA Journal, En Foco and Photo Metro. She is a past National Board Member of the Society for Photographic Education (1997-2003), working as Publications Chair and acting editor of the critical journal, exposure, in the field of photography (1999-2000).
Campbell has received several awards and grants, both for her individual work and as a curator, from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York State United University Professions and the North Carolina Arts Council. Her work has been reproduced and/or reviewed in Susan Ressler (Ed.), Women Artists of the American West, Robert Hirsch, Exploring Color Photography and Photographic Possibilities, Suzanne J.E. Tourtillott (Ed.), PhotoCrafts, and in various catalogues, magazines and newspapers, such as Art Papers, The Journal of the Print World, New City Verve, Chicago and The Villager, NYC. Collections include the George Eastman House: The International Museum of Photography and Film, the Museum of New Mexico, the Asheville Art Museum and the Polaroid Corporation.
Her work in photography and mixed media has been exhibited widely at such places as Soho Photo (NYC), the Philadelphia Print Center, the Schneider Gallery (Chicago), Houston Foto Fest, the Houston Center for Photography, the Asheville Art Museum (Asheville, NC), the Museum of New Mexico (Santa Fe) and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY). Referring to its traditional spiritual iconography, her work critiques the materialistic and rationalist attitudes of the West. Her most recent body of work is a series of archival digital prints entitled Relics from the Garden.
EDUCATION
BA, College
MFA, University
Printmaking
April Flanders
Assistant Professor
April Flanders holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art and Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Florida State University and a Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from Arizona State University. She has had solo exhibitions at galleries in Arizona, Florida, Tennessee, Missouri, North Carolina and Delaware. Her work has also been featured in group shows at museums and galleries nationally and internationally. Her work is in several public collections, including the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson Museum of Art and the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts.
Her training is steeped in the tradition of classical printmaking where the printer masters each individual process to create successful images. Her creative interest however, lies in expanding the notion of the print to include non-traditional approaches such as drawing, installation, digital media, painting and collage.
Flanders’ current work addresses the issue of native versus invasive botanical species in the Appalachian region using a variety of media. Relying on the visual language of seduction, she creates work where viewers are confronted by their own attraction to the beauty of an ultimately destructive organism. Using pattern, repetition, and layered color she seduces the viewer, luring them into a garden of exotics.
EDUCATION
BA, Florida State University
BFA, Florida State University
MFA, Arizona State University
Scott Ludwig
Associate Professor
Scott Ludwig is a visual artist and Printmaking Area Coordinator in the Department of Art at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, where he teaches contemporary printmaking and drawing. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and his Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Ohio University.
His experience and technical interests are wide-ranging. Although “trained” as a printmaker, his conception of the medium embraces a contemporary interpretation of the form and process. Extending beyond works on paper and into installation, the artist explores the convergence of digital media, photography, painting, drawing, papermaking, and various sculptural forms.
Ludwig actively exhibits his work both nationally and internationally. Over the past several years, he has been awarded numerous grants and residencies, including a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship to Turkey in 1999. Since 2005, he was awarded a series of grants that funded research and travel to China, Scotland, Cuba, Turkey, British Columbia, Death Valley/The Great Basin, and the Barrier Islands of Southern Louisiana.
EDUCATION
BA, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
MFA, Ohio University
Sculpture
Christopher Curtin
Associate Professor
Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1971, Christopher Curtin received his BA from Georgia State University and his MFA from University of Texas in Austin.
Curtin has participated in may exhibitions including TELIC in Los Angeles, California in March of 2005, Project Creo in St. Petersburg in March of 2005, and The Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth (BEAP) in Western Australia in 2004. He has also recieved many awards. The most recent award includes the URC Grant to travel to Australia to participate in BEAP. Curtin now resides in Boone.
EDUCATION
BA, Georgia State University
MFA, University of Texas in Austin
Emeritus
Judy Humphrey
PROFESSOR EMERITUS
humphreyjl@appstate.edu
Dr. Eric Purves
PROFESSOR EMERITUS
purvesel@appstate.edu
Dr. Marianne Suggs
PROFESSOR EMERITUS
suggsms@appstate.edu
Part-Time Faculty
Adam Adcock
ASSISTANT TECHNICIAN / Foundations / Sculpture
104 Wey Hall
828.262.2573
Jeri Allison
Instructor, FOUNDATIONS / DRAWING FUNDAMENTALS
113G Edwin Duncan
828.262.8184
Angela Bubash
Instructor, Metalsmithing & Jewelry DESIGN
Angela honors the tradition of her craft while referencing historical and contemporary art and design. Ephemeral observations drive the work as she captures fleeting moments of discovery and creates awareness. Technical mastery and process are irresistible and connect her to the past while the intrinsic personal dimension of jewelry compels her curiosity.
Angela is currently dividing her time between teaching at Appalachian State University and maintaining her own studio practice. She attained a BFA from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and a MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She was also an artist in residence at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina.
She has received various grants and awards including a Ruth Chenven Foundation grant and a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant. Her work is exhibited internationally and is in numerous public and private collections. Angela has work published in several books and print media. She has also lectured and presented at many venues across the county including SOFA Chicago (IL), Oklahoma State University (OK), and Winthrop University (SC).
EDUCATION
BFA, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
MFA, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Yi Chen Chang
Instructor, Fundamentals / Graphic Design
112E Edwin Duncan
828.262.8182
Vicki Clift
Instructor, ART INTRODUCTION
207 Wey Hall
828.262.2095
Rosa Dargan-Powers
Instructor, ART INTRODUCTION
303 Wey Hall
828.262.7799
Tyler Deal
Instructor
112E Edwin Duncan
828.262.8182
Tim Ford
Instructor, Painting / Drawing
313B Wey Hall
828.262.7253
Lillian Goudas
Instructor, ART HISTORY
Goudas began teaching art history in 1997 at the State University of New York, College at Oneonta, and then at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. While in New York and New England, she also was a lecturer for public programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Since moving to North Carolina with her family in 2003, she has taught online and seated courses at Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute in Hudson, and was thrilled to join the Appalachian State University faculty in the fall of 2007.
At ASU she has been teaching the art history surveys (Art from Pre-History to 1400 & Art from 1400 to the Present) and has designed and implemented a First Year Seminar ourse entitled Art, Religion & Society. This course is linked to the Residential Learning Community ArtHaus for first year students and she takes her students to New York City as part of the curriculum. Goudas also teaches the Women Artists course, Greek and Aegean Art, and is interested in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
EDUCATION
BFA, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
MFA, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carmen Grier
Instructor, Fibers
Carmen Grier is a studio artist and teacher, currently teaching Fibers at Appalachian State University as an adjunct instructor. Her studio and home are in rural Mitchell County, NC where she resides with her husband, ceramic artist and writer Terry Gess.
In the spring of 1994, she moved to North Carolina to teach at Penland School of Crafts. The following September, Carmen was awarded an Artist-in-Residence Fellowship at Penland School; this three-year gift propelled a major transformation in her work that she continues to investigate.
The divination of the mysteries, meanings and nuances of color on cloth informs and guides Carmen’s work. She looks to historic textile, contemporary painting and the organic world for source and inspiration.
Carmen Grier has received numerous awards, recognition, as well as private and public acquisitions of her work. In 2004 “Stem” was added to the Permanent Collection of the Mint Museum of Craft + Design. In 2005 and again in 2010 Carmen Grier received the Silver Award at the prestigious Smithsonian Craft Show in Washington, DC. Carmen’s work has been featured in publications including Fiberarts and Surface Design Journal as well as North Carolina’s Our State.
EDUCATION
BA, University of Iowa
MA, University of Iowa
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Dr. Janet Montgomery
Instructor, Art Education
Janet Montgomery is a native North Carolinian with a B.A. in Commercial Art from the University of Miami. Her master’s and doctoral degrees are from the Ohio State University in Art Education. Her areas of expertise include cross-cultural and interdisciplinary studies, gender issues, ecology, and technology in education. She was also a visiting professor of art education at Joetsu University in Japan. Dr. Montgomery has presented papers at the Moodle Mini-Moot at Mars Hill College, the United States Society for Education through Art, the National Art Education Association, The North Carolina Art Education Association, and Tokyo University of Fine Arts. She has taught art, art history, and art education at Appalachian for over 10 years, and has taught the same at The Ohio State University, Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute, and Dade County Public Schools.
Current community-based research includes establishing a collaborative nature and ecology program with teachers and students at Cove Creek Elementary School that includes faculty and students from various departments at Appalachian State University, as well as volunteers from organizations such as the High Country Audubon Society, Grandfather Stewardship Foundation, and the North Carolina Agriculture Extension.
Dr. Montgomery is also an active working visual artist. Primarily an oil painter, she also works in encaustic and mixed media. Nature and our relationship to the natural world are predominant themes in her works, which have been included in the All-Ohio Juried Artists Exhibition and the Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Ohio, as well as local venues and private collections. She was awarded a Regional Artist Grant in 2009 to attend Penland School of Crafts. Dr. Montgomery has taught in a variety of capacities at Appalachian State University receiving commendable student and peer evaluations in art history, art education and general education courses in her eleven years on the ASU faculty.
EDUCATION
BA, University of Miami
MA, Ohio State University
PhD, Ohio State University
Lilith E. Nielander
Instructor, Metalsmithing & Jewelry Design
115B Edwin Duncan
828.262.8183
Rebecca Robinson
Instructor, PHOTOGRAPHY
115B Edwin Duncan
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Danny Smith
Instructor
1100 TCVA
828.262.7643
Portrait of Nelle
Vicky Grube
Art Education Faculty
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Events
January 30-March 24, 2012
2012 Department of Art Faculty Biennial Exhibition
Exhibition
Catherine Smith Gallery and Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
February 10
Art Expo 2012 Open House and Jurying
Open House
Wey Hall
February 15
Gwendolyn Yoppolo Visiting Artist Workshop
Visiting Artist Workshop
