CAA Conversations

Ray Yeager is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Charleston in Charleston, West Virginia. He teaches traditional art courses such as Drawing, Painting, Design, and several innovative courses that infuse art-based practices and creativity into disciplines such as Business and the STEM subjects. Currently, Katherine’s weeks are filled with teaching Art Appreciation, Art History I & I...

Kirsten Olds is an Associate Professor of Art History at University of Tulsa teaching courses on art and visual culture from the late 18th century to the present. Her favorite assignment was curating the exhibition Dennis Oppenheim: Architecture/Not Architecture, Landscape/Not Landscape with students in my Art of the 1960s and ‘70s course. Heather Vinson is a Visiting Professor of Art History at K...

Jen Proctor is a filmmaker and Associate Professor in Journalism and Screen Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, where she teaches courses in video production film media studies. Her pedagogical research focuses on strategies of inclusion in media production classrooms. Jonathan Rattner is a filmmaker and Assistant Professor in the Cinema & Media Arts Program and the Art Department at V...

Alessandra is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art and Indiana University, and this fall is beginning her 7th year of teaching drawing and painting at her new job at Winona State University. Danielle Head received her BA in Film, Photography and Video from Hampshire College in 2007, and her MFA in Photography from Indiana University in 2011. She is currently Assistant Professor of P...

Jonathan Johnson is an Associate Professor of Photography and Integrated Digital Media at Otterbein University in Ohio and as worked in public affairs and the music industry prior to academia. Takeshi Moro is an Assistant Professor at Santa Clara University, teaching digital and analog photography. Interesting fact: he is a former corporate finance banker and sushi chef.

Sarah Krupp is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska. She teaches 2D & 3D Design, all levels of Sculpture, and sometimes Art Appreciation. Sarah can generally be found coated in a mixture of wood, plaster and metal dust. Since 2007, Meghan has been teaching a combination of foundations and printmaking courses; currently at Wayne State College, one of Meghan'...

Andrew Casto is Head of Ceramics at The University of Iowa, where he teaches graduate and advanced undergraduate level Ceramics courses. Casto has participated in over sixty exhibitions in nine countries, and is a member of the University of Iowa Public Digital Arts Faculty Cluster initiative. Bobby Tso, is an Assistant Professor of Fine Art at Northwest Missouri State University. He teaches all l...

Jessie Van der Laan is an instructor of art at Walters State Community College, in Morristown, TN, teaching Art Appreciation (in person and online), drawing, and printmaking. She is a practicing artist, mom, and is currently expecting her 2nd baby. Melissa Haviland is an artist and professor living in Athens, OH where she teaches printmaking, papermaking, and online art appreciation course.

Molly Sherman is an Assistant Professor in Communication Design at Texas State University. Her practice operates within the overlapping fields of graphic design and socially-engaged art. She is based in San Antonio, Texas. Kate Bingaman-Burt is an illustrator and educator. She lives in Portland, Oregon where she operates her studio and event space Outlet. Along with drawing for herself and other p...

Elizabeth "Libby" McFalls, Professor of Art and Foundations Coordinator at Columbus State University, uses storytelling as a central theme in her mixed media prints, which examine issues of loss and family, she also serves as an Associate VP of Programming of Integrative Teaching International. Rae Goodwin, Associate Professor in Art Studio at the University of Kentucky, works in an expanded studi...

Chris is an associate professor of art during the school year, and art appreciation instructor during the summer at Tarleton State University in Texas. When Chris was in grad school, he and Charles were often thought to be brothers due to our doppeganger looks, so much so that their department head never could get our names straight. Charles Siegfried is an adjunct professor at Clackamas Community...

Joe Lupo received his BFA from Bradley University and MFA from the University of Georgia. He's now an Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator at West Virginia University. Carmon was the Director of the Lamar Dod School of Art at the University of Georgia when he was a graduate student. Carmon Colangelo is Canadian and he started his career in the same printmaking position as Joe at WVU in 198...

Jason Bernagozzi is an Assistant Professor of Art in Electronic Arts at Colorado State University starting this fall. He is also the co-founder of the experimental media arts residency program Signal Culture. Victoria Bradbury is a new media artist, a researcher @CRUMB and Assistant Professor of New Media at University of North Carolina Asheville.

Sophia Brueckner is an assistant professor the University of Michigan at the Stamps School of Art & Design where her ongoing goal is to combine design and engineering with the perspective of an artist to create new technologies in the service of mental well-being. Byron Rich was born in Calgary Alberta, and currently serves as assistant professor of Art at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania.

Elliott King is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Washington and Lee University, where he teaches modern and contemporary American and European art. His research focuses on Salvador Dali's work after the Second World War. Abigail Susik is an Associate Professor of Art History at Willamette University in Oregon, where she teaches Modern and Contemporary Art History in Europe and America. She...

Valerie Powell is an Assistant Professor of Art & the Foundations Coordinator at Sam Houston State University, she serves as the President of FATE [Foundations in art theory and education] & also likes to make art using Shrinky Dinks. Jeffie Brewer is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Stephen F. Austin State University, and he loves cheese but is lactose intolerant.