Faculty Spotlight
Faculty
Christopher Arnold
Instructional Areas
Chris Arnold is actively involved with curriculum development in Art & Design. He teaches throughout the Illustration curriculum with a primary focus on studio coursework.
Ivan Brunetti
Instructional Areas
Graphic Novels, Cartooning, Editorial Illustration.
Paul Catanese
Instructional Areas
Thesis Writing, Installation Art, Sound Art, New Media Art, History of New Media Art
Alissa Chanin Kolaj
Cheri Charlton
Instructional Areas
Illustration, Painting, Mural Art, Digital Art, and History of Illustration.
Christopher Eliopoulos
Instructional Areas
Introduction to Illustration, Digital Illustration, Children's Books, Cartooning.
Peter Fitzpatrick
Instructional Areas
Still / Moving Image in relation to photographic practice. Narrative Structures and performance practice.
Greg Foster-Rice
Instructional Areas
As a teacher Foster-Rice is engaged in a wide range of photographic media (historical/digital, still/video) and their relationships to a variety of contexts (artistic, cinematic, commercial, photojournalistic, and scientific). He teaches the History of Photography surveys, Upper-level Theory courses, and special topics courses.
Joan Giroux
Instructional Areas
Sculpture I; Installation/Site-Specific Art; Chicago: Design of Cities and Social Justice; Professional Practice in Fine Arts; Directed Graduate Projects; Senior Fine Arts BFA Exhibition; Foundation Skill: Photoshop; Foundation Skill: Stamps and Stencils
Michael Hays
Instructional Areas
Children's Book Illustration, Digital Illustration, After Effects Animation, Experimental Illustration, Foundation Skills in Adobe Illustrator and InDesign
Andrea Hill Fitzgerald
Taylor Hokanson
Instructional Areas
Foundations, Sculpture, Computer-aided Design and Manufacturing
Friedhard Kiekeben
Instructional Areas
Printmaking, Digital Art, Hybrid Art and Installation, Printed Art, Drawing, Painting, Art Safety
Richard Laurent
Instructional Areas
Richard currently teaches in the Design Department at Columbia College– specializing in Illustration. Outside of Columbia he teaches in the fine arts, specializing in the history and practice of oil painting with a focus on European master painting.
Duncan MacKenzie
Instructional Areas
Printmaking, Sculpture, Chicago Art,
Annika Marie
Instructional Areas
modern and contemporary art history/theory/criticism, 20th Century Art History, Art 1945 to 1980, Contemporary Art: 1980 to the Present, Art Theory Seminar, Art Discourse and Research, Written Thesis
Amy Mooney
Instructional Areas
Art and Civic Engagement, Black Art and Visual Culture, Introduction to Visual Culture, Modern and Contemporary Art, Portraiture, and Theory.
Niki Nolin
Instructional Areas
Image, Motion, Story, Technology, Interdisciplinarity, Collaboration, Empathy, Understanding, Mentorship
Onur Ozturk
Instructional Areas
Art of Islam; Art and Ritual; Art as Spiritual and Social Practice; Design History: Objects and Spaces; Global History of Architecture; Introduction to Visual Culture; Rethinking Museums; Art History Survey: Prehistoric to Modern.
Debra Parr
Instructional Areas
Modern and Contemporary Art history and theory; Modern and Contemporary Design history and theory; Dada, Surrealism, Futurism; Art Theory Seminar; Contemporary Art: 1980 to the Present; Image and Object: Post Punk; Gender, the Body, and Representation
Ross Sawyers
Instructional Areas
Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Photography, Constructed Photography, Studio Photography, Fine Art Photography,
Sa Schloff
Instructional Areas
Color Theory, Documentary, Introduction to Photography
Christopher Schneberger
Instructional Areas
Interests: digital photography, digital imaging, digital printing, film photography, B&W photography, B&W film development and printing, alternative process photography, mixed media photography and art, 3D stereophotography, studio lighting, large format photography. Courses taught: Photographic Practice I, Photographic Practice II, Foundations of Photography I, Foundations of Photography II, Digital Imaging I, Experimental Photographic Techniques, 3D Photography, Foundations of Photography I (film), Darkroom Workshop I.
Philip von Zweck
Instructional Areas
sculpture, radio art, sound art, conceptual art, critical theory, new genres