Shana Agid

B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. M.F.A., M.A., California College of the Arts. Special interests include bookarts, letterpress printing, the use of visual media and art in political and social movements, and race, gender, and sexuality in U.S. visual cultures. Papers given on constructions of transgender masculinity and bodies at CLAGS and Yale University. Exhibited at the New York Center for Book Arts, the San Francisco Center for the Book, and Southern Exposure, San Francisco. SLC, 2005-

Damani Baker

Courses: Frame by Frame: An Introduction to Narrative Filmmaking

B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. B.A., M.F.A., University of California-Los Angeles, School of Film and Television. Writer and director; nominated for the Rockefeller Artist Award, the Edie and Lew Wasserman Award, the Motion Picture Association of America Award, a George Soros/Sundance Institute grant; selected in 2000 by Filmmaker magazine as one of “25 new faces in independent film”; co-founded Soulfire Films (2000), a nonprofit production company; Soulfire’s flagship project, Grenada: A Dream Deferred, is a documentary that revisits the events and circumstances of the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada; directed and produced films for PBS, Bill Moyers, Mel Stuart Productions, The American Legacy Foundation, and Danny Glover’s Carrie Productions. SLC, 2003-

Mary Berridge

B.A., University of Michigan. M.F.A., Yale University. Solo and group shows include M.H. de Young Museum; Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Soros Foundation; Cathedral of St. John the Divine; United Nations; Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University; and Princeton University Art Museum. Awards include Guggenheim fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ fellowship, Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, and Ernst Haas Award. Author, A Positive Life: Portraits of Women Living with H.I.V.(Running Press, 1997). SLC, 2007-

Mr. Larry Brown

B.F.A., Washington State University. M.F.A., University of Arizona. Painter; one-person and group exhibitions in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and South America; recent exhibitions include Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York City; Butters Gallery, Portland, Ore.; and Morgan Gallery, Kansas City; work is included in major private, corporate, and museum collections; recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. SLC, 1997-2000; 2003-

Gary Burnley

Mary Griggs Burke Chair in Art and Art History

Courses: Visual Fundamentals, Interdisciplinary Studio/Seminar

B.F.A., Washington University. M.F.A., Yale University. One-person and group exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe; works included in major private, corporate, and museum collections; awards and fellowships include the Federal Design Achievement Award, Nation-al Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council, and CAPS; public commissions include the MTA and St. Louis Bi-State Development. SLC, 1980-

Dawn Clements

Courses: Drawing from Life: Subjectivity and Point of View

A.B., Brown University. M.A., M.F.A., State University of New York-Albany. Exhibited in national and international shows. Exhibitions include Pierogi Gallery (NY); Allcott Gallery, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; James Cohan Gallery (NY); Middlebury College Museum of Art (VT); Feigen Contemporary (NY); Brooklyn Museum (NY); Andy Warhol Museum (PA); Tang Museum (NY); Acme Gallery (CA); New Langton Arts Center (CA); 1993 Venice Biennale (Italy); Pump House Gallery (U.K.). Fellowships and grants include fellowship in printmaking/drawing/ artists’ books, New York Foundation for the Arts; Farpath Residency (Dijon, France); artist-in-residence, Middlebury College. Represented by Pierogi Gallery. Artwork included in collections of New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, Seattle’s Western Bridge Collection, and numerous other public and private collections. SLC, 2007-

Lois Conner

Courses: Intermediate Photography

B.F.A., Pratt Institute. M.F.A., Yale University. Photographer/artist. Fellowships: Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts. Works represented in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C. Authored books include China: Photographs by Lois Conner; Panoramas of the Far East; and In the Shadow of the Wall.Taught undergraduate and graduate photography at Yale University for the past ten years. SLC, 2005-2006; 2007-

Ms. Gwen Fabricant

Painting Cooper Union. B.A., Brooklyn College. Painter; exhibitions in New York City and nationwide; works in private collections; recipient of grants from the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation; costume designer for theatre. SLC, 1997- 2000; 2004-

Thomas Allen Harris

on leave second semester

Courses: Media Sketch Book II

A.B., Harvard University. Certificate, Critical Studies, Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program. Television producer and independent filmmaker for international co-productions, documentaries, and experimental films screened at more than 200 film festivals, including Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, and Cape Town. Broadcast on PBS; ARTÉ; Sundance Channel; and Swedish, Canadian, and Finnish television. Exhibitions include the Gwangju Biennale in Korea, the Whitney Biennial, and the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Spain. Films include Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela; E Minha Cara/That's My Face; Vintage: Families of Value; Heaven, Earth, and Hell; and Splash.Installations include “AFRO (is just a hairstyle): Notes on a Journey Through the African Diaspora,” “Black Body,”" and “Alchemy.” Awards: 2006 United States Artists Awards; Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking; Pan-African Film Festival’s Best Documentary Award; Independent Spirit Award nomination; Santa Cruz Film Festival Best Documentary Award; Outfest Best Documentary Award; Atlanta Film Festival’s Jury Award for Excellence in Documentary; Prize of the Ecumenical Jury of Christian Churches; UCSD African and African-American Studies Project’s Outstanding Teaching Award. Fellowships and residencies: Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships, CPB/PBS Producer’s fellowship, Sundance Institute’s Director’s fellowship, Banff Television and Video residency. Grants include the Ford Foundation; South African Ministry of Sports, Arts, Culture, and Technology; National Endowment for the Arts; National Endowment for the Humanities; New York State Council on the Arts; New York Foundation for the Arts; Paul Robeson Fund; Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation; Peter Norton Family Fund; and Lannan Foundation. Taught at the University of San Diego-California in the Visual Arts department, 1994-2002. SLC, 2006-

Tishan Hsu

Courses: Things, Situations, and ”Other“ Things

B.S.A.D., M.Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sculptor and painter; one-person and group exhibitions in the U.S., Mexico, and Europe; work included in major private and museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, High Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), and the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo (Mexico City); honorary member, Board of Directors, White Columns, New York; recipient of grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. SLC, 1994-

Cynthia Lin

B.A., University of California-Berkeley. M.A., M.F.A., University of Iowa-Iowa City. Exhibited in many national and international shows. Recent shows include Drawing Center in New York, Dorsky Gallery in New York, Adam Baumgold Gallery in New York, and Dallas Museum of Art. Fellowships and residencies include Guggenheim fellowship, Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Visiting Artists and Scholars Program at the American Academy in Rome. SLC, 2004-

Ms. Mark

Courses: Digital Fiction Filmmaking

Leah Montalto

Courses: Experiments in Painting

B.F.A., Cleveland Institute of Art. M.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design. Painter; special interests in humanity’s relationship to our environment and the intersection of representation and abstraction in painting. One-person and group exhibitions nationwide; recent exhibitions include Juvenal Reis Experimental Gallery, New York City; e. gordon gallery, Cleveland, Ohio; University of Michigan’s Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, Ann Arbor; Limlip Art Museum, Seoul, Korea. Recipient of eight grants including United University Professions Development grant and Teaching Excellence Award (RISD). Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design (2003); adjunct professor, University of Connecticut (2004-2005); adjunct professor, Massachusetts College of Art (2005); assistant professor, State University of New York-Purchase (2005-2006). SLC, 2006-

Prema Murthy

Courses: Permeable Spaces: Exploring the Leaky Boundaries Between the Virtual and Real

B.A., University of Texas-Austin. M.F.A., Goldsmiths College, London. Digital media, drawing, installation. Exhibited video, digital prints, and installation in numerous exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad. Co-founder of the collective Fakeshop, which was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial. Recipient of grants and fellowships including the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Computer Arts and a Creative Capital grant (Emerging Fields). SLC, 2007-

Jeanine Oleson

Courses: Sculpture as Interdisciplinary Practice

B.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago. M.F.A., Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Rutgers University. Interdisciplinary artist working in installation, photography, performance, and media. Selected exhibitions: Monya Rowe Gallery, New York (solo); Samson Projects, Boston (solo); Bates College Museum of Art, Maine; Participant, Inc., New York; 24/7 at Centre for Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania; P.S. 1, Queens, New York; P.S. 122 Gallery, New York; Bill Maynes Gallery, New York; White Columns, New York; and Galerie Schedler, Zurich. Curatorial projects include the National Contemporary Art Centers in St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Ekaterinburg, and Moscow, Russia; Centro Fundacion de Ludwig, Havana; MIX: The Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival, New York; New York Underground Film Festival 2004; and Video Marathon 2000-2004, Art in General, New York. SLC, 2006-

Kris Philipps

Director, Visual Arts Program

Courses: Printmaking, Artist Books, Advanced Printmaking

Faculty Web site

B.F.A., Alfred University. M.F.A., University of South Florida. Studied at Royal College of Art, London, and held Tamarind Master Printer fellowship; exhibited in many national and international shows; one-person exhibitions include the Newark Museum, Staempfli Gallery, and Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York. SLC, 1983-

Demetria Royals

Director, Film/New Media Program

Courses: From Mammies to Matriarchs: The Image of the African American Woman in Film, from Birth of a Nation to Current Cinema, Fundamentals of Nonfiction Filmmaking, Intermediate Nonfiction Filmmaking, Advanced Projects in Film and Digital Media

B.A., New York University. M.F.A., New York University Graduate Institute of Film and Television. Member, Directors Guild of America; award-winning independent filmmaker; directed, co-produced, and co-edited the performance-based documentaries broadcast nationally on PBS: BrotherMen, Conjure Women, and MaMa’s Pushcart: Ellen Stewart and 25 Years of La MaMa E.T.C; video installations: Report to the Ancestors, National Black Arts Festival (NBAF), Atlanta, and Inventing Herself,Mill Valley Film Festival (Calif.), BAM Harvey/651 World Arts Festival (New York City), and the NBAF at the Cosby Center, Spelman College, Atlanta; recipient of fellowships from the Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Program, the Writers Guild of America, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and Carnegie Mellon University, among others; artist-in-residence at the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at Harvard University; recipient of grants from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the American Film Institute, among others; panelist/consultant: Independent Television Service, the Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, and the Pittsburgh African American Cultural Center, among others. SLC, 2001-

Ursula Schneider

Courses: Basic Painting: Color and Form, Further Painting

Faculty Web site

B.A., Kunstgewerbeschule Zurich and Kera-misch Fachschule Bern. M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute. Painter and sculptor; one-person shows nationwide and in Europe; works represented in private and museum collections; recipient of Schweizer Kunststipendium; awards from San Francisco Art Festival, Oakland Museum, and the National Endowment for the Arts. SLC, 1986-

Accra Shepp

Courses: Intermediate Photography

B.A., Princeton University. M.A., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Solo and group include the Whitney Museum of American Art, Altria branch; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Anacostia Museum, Washington, D.C.; African American Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Chattanooga African American Museum; Chicago Cultural Center; Centro Colombo Americano, Bogotá, Colombia; Servizio Attivita Culturali, Provincia di Perugia, Italy; Galeri Soemardja, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia; The Light Factory, North Carolina; Bronx River Art Center and Gallery. Public collections include Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Museum of the City of New York. Public collections pending delivery of work include Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Public Library, Bohen Foundation. Awards include Fulbright, Indonesia; New York Foundation for the Arts; Greenwall Foundation; Civitella Ranieri Center, Umbria, Italy; Light Work. SLC, 2006-

Yvonne Smith

Michael Spano

Courses: Basic Photography

B.A., Queens College. M.F.A.,Yale University. One-person and group shows at the Museum of Modern Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and National Portrait Gallery. Works represented in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; St. Louis Art Museum; Baltimore Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Art, Boston; L.A. County Museum of Art; Princeton Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; and Museum of Modern Art. Recipient of grants and fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts, Camera Works, CAPS, Art Matters, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Author of Time Frames: City Pictures.SLC, 1999-

Speight

Courses: Topics in Filmmaking: Images of Resistance in Film

Ms. Robin Starbuck

Courses: Experimental Film/Video I, Experimental Film/Video II

B.A. Salem College, North Carolina; M.F.A. School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Ms. Starbuck holds an MFA in multimedia installation and performance art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Art History and Visual Art from Salem College in NC. She has also studied at the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago, at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is currently completing a certificate in Documentary Production and Editing from NYU. She has received multiple awards and grants for her work and exhibits extensively both nationally and internationally. Her current studio orientation is video installation with elements of comic image painting and sculpture. For the past several years her studio work has included an application of Freudian theory to American Culture and Identity.

Joel Sternfeld

Courses: First-Year Studies: The Personal Horizon in Photography, Advanced Photography

B.A., Dartmouth College. Photographer/artist with exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Recipient of two Guggenheim fellowships and a Prix de Rome. Author of American Prospects, On This Site, Stranger Passing,and four other books. SLC, 1985-

Frederick Michael Strype

Courses: Narrative Structural Analysis in Cinema, Screenwriting, Writing the Screenplay, Advanced Screenwriting Workshop

B.A., Fairfield University. M.F.A., Columbia University School of the Arts. Postgraduate study: American Film Institute, New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Award-winning screenwriter, producer, and director. Awards, grants, and film festivals include Tehran International Short Film Festival; Best of Berlin Film Festival Shorts; Uppsala International Film Festival (Sweden); U.S.A. Film Festival; Marco Island Film Festival; Cleveland International Film Festival; Rome, GA, International Film Festival—Best New Film Award; Portugal Film Festival—Press Award; Fade In magazine—Fade In Award/Best Screenplay; Angelus Film Festival—Triumph Award; Austin Film Festival—Screenwriting Award; Heartland Film Festival—Crystal Heart Award; Rhode Island International Film Festival—Best Feature Screenplay Award; Polo Ralph Lauren Filmmaker Development Award; New Line Cinema Filmmaker Development Award; Hamptons International Film Festival; Schomburg Cultural Program Grants, 2002-2004. President, Raindance Pictures: current feature film projects include screenwriter/producer, Anna Down East—David Foster Productions. Screenwriter, Esperanza—WolfFilms. Writer, producer, director, Next—Cinehaus/Raindance. Independent feature film credits include producer, All or Nothing: A Moscow Detour; producers consultant, Filmic Achievement; co-producer, American Saint; associate producer, Detention; co-executive producer, Ninth Life.SLC, 2003-

Penelope Umbrico

B.F.A., Ontario College of Art and Design. M.F.A., School of Visual Arts. Artist/photographer. One-person exhibitions include Julie Saul Gallery, N.Y.; Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Mass.; Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Ala.; International Center of Photography, N.Y. Group exhibitions include Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.; Lowe Art Museum, Miami; Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Conn.; Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Katonah Museum of Art, N.Y. Collections include Museum of Modern Art; International Center of Photography; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Tampa Museum of Art; Rhizome Art Base. Awards and grants include New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists’ Fellowship; New York Foundation for the Arts, Catalogue Project Grant. SLC, 1999; 2004-