Faculty
Paula Burleigh
Assistant Professor
Co-Director, Public Humanities Program
Affiliated Faculty, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Douglas Eberhardt
Visiting Assistant Professor
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