Art

Current Faculty & Staff

• Heather Brand – Eila V. Bush Endowed Professor of Art
• Paula Burleigh – Assistant Professor of Art History; Director of Allegheny Art Galleries
• Doug Eberhardt  – Adjunct Instructor of Art
• Jack Honeysett – Instructor & 3D Technical Specialist
• Angie Jennings – Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
• Douglas Luman – Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Affiliated Faculty, Art
• Gina Panzetta – Academic Building Coordinator
• Byron Rich – (Chair) Associate Professor of Art; Director of Academic Innovation Partnerships
• Ian F. Thomas – Assistant Professor of Art

Emeritus Faculty

• Sue Buck
• Amelia Carr
• Amara Geffen
• George Roland
• Robert Raczka
• Richard Schindler

Recent Selected Faculty Publications/Achievements

• 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