Faculty
Paula Burleigh
Assistant Professor
Co-Director, Public Humanities Program
Affiliated Faculty, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Byron Rich
Assistant Provost, Academic Innovation
Director of Academic Innovation Partnerships
Ian Thomas
Associate Professor
Associate Professor of Ceramics and Sculpture
Esports Head Coach
Staff
Emeritus Faculty
- Sue Buck
- Amelia Carr
- Amara Geffen
- George Roland
- Robert Raczka
- Richard Schindler
Recent Selected Faculty Publications/Achievements
- Angie Jennings received the Jurors Award, Spring Show, Erie Art Museum, juried by Gaetane Verna
- Angie Jennings received an award for Lead Artist, Purposeful Placemaking Mural, Erie Arts and Culture
- Angie Jennings participated in Video Art PGH, Miller Institute of Contemporary Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
- Angie Jennings participated in Transcendental Arrangements, Miller Institute of Contemporary Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
- Doug Luman will be participating in the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair September 9-10 at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Hall of Sculpture. https://pabf.cargo.site/EXHIBITORS-1
- Paula Burleigh presented a paper “Contagion Aesthetics: on Infectious Visual Culture” at the University Art Association of Canada Annual Conference, in Toronto, Ontario (October 2022)
- Paula Burleigh co-chaired the panel “Speculative Histories: Re-writing the Archive” with Nikki Georgopoulis at the College Art Association Annual Meeting in New York, NY (February 2023)
- Paula Burleigh presented a paper “Contemporary Cyborgs: boundary breaking or goddesses in disguise?” at the Popular Culture Association Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas (April 2023).
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Paula Burleigh published “A Biennale Beyond Human,” a review of the 2022 Venice Biennale, in the Winter 2022 edition of Art Journal.
- Byron Rich’s chapter entitled “Epicurean Endocrinology” was published in the book Synthetic Becoming in early 2023.
- Heather Brand was named the Eila V. Bush Endowed Professor of Art
- Paula Burleigh contributed an essay titled “A Journey Outside the Ordinary” to The Dream of Ulysses, a book published by Editions Dilecta on the occasion of “The Dreams of Ulysses, an exhibition curated by Francesco Stocchi on view at Villa Carmignac (Porquerolles, France).
- Paula Burleigh presented “Feminist Speculative Fiction: Inventing Foremothers” for the panel “Feminist Agency: A Matter of Gender, Race, Time, and Place,” convened by the Women’s Caucus of Art at the 2022 College Art Association annual meeting.
- “Twisted Sister: Paula Burleigh on Lynn Hershman Leeson.” Slant for Artforum.com, September 2021
- “Square Roots: Paula Burleigh on Zoom and the Modernist Grid.” Slant for Artforum.com, June 2020
- Doug Eberhardt had his solo exhibition Prints, Zines, and Drawings from the Void at West Liberty University Nutting Gallery, West Liberty WV, 2022
- Doug Eberhardt gave an artist presentation and lecture on contemporary ideas in printmaking, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz NY, 2022
- Heather Brand was a presenter at the Drawn Out Conference hosted by Denison University
- Heather Brand’s works were on view in the exhibition Interaction Now at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, PA. Exhibition dates January 26 – March 7, 2022
- Angie Jennings screened short film for Other Animals at Gattopardo Gallery, organized by Ren Ebel
- Angie Jennings’ exhibition was reviewed of Guides by Angelica Fuentes, published on Daily Lazy
- Ian Thomas’ work Ancestral Portrait was acquired by The San Angelo Museum of Fine art
- Ian Thomas wrote the preface of “Notions: Trevor King” published by Scholes Press, Brooklyn, NYC
- Ian Thomas help a solo exhibition of work at Concepts Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
- Ian Thomas gave a lecture at Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design, Georgia State University
- Byron Rich presented his body of work at Makslas Petijumu Laboratorija, Liepaja, Latvia
- Byron Rich presented The Suburbs of Accra: e-Waste as Neocolonialism at the Renewable Futures Conference in Oslo, Norway
- Byron Rich presented The Suburbs of Accra: e-Waste as Neocolonialism at RIXC in Riga, Latvia
- Byron Rich was Short Listed by Creative Capital for the second time in three years