Art & Design Faculty
Faculty

Chris Lavery
Associate Professor of Sculpture
Department Chair
FA 604
MFA, University of Colorado, Boulder; BFA, State University of New York, Fredonia. ¶ Research Interest: Sculpture, Installation, Sound Art, Robotics, Video, Interactive Media.
Sculpture Telephone: 270.809.4350
Sculpture office: FA 1007

Jeanne Beaver
Associate Professor of Art & Design
Metalsmithing and Jewelry
FA 100

MFA, Louisiana State University; BFA, Herron School of Art, Indiana University. ¶ Research Interest: Graphic Design, Web Design, Printmaking. ¶ Director of the Discover China Program

Gregory Scott Cook
Assistant Professor of Art & Design
Graphic Design
FA 615
MFA, University of Nebraska Lincoln; BFA, Murray State University. ¶ Research Interest: Interactive Design, Digital Fabrication, Emerging Methods in Printmaking, Mediated/Mechanical Drawing, Audio Recording/ Performance and situation/Installation as media in Studio Art/Design.

Jessica Fife
Assistant Professor of Art & Design
Painting

Dr. Antje Gamble
Associate Professor of Art & Design
Art History
FA 733
PhD, University of Michigan; MA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison ¶ Research Interests: Modern Italian art and culture; modern and contemporary sculpture; contemporary art; public sculpture; trans-Atlantic movements of art and politics; exhibition histories; curatorial practice ¶ Recent Publications: “Exhibiting Italian Modernism After World War II at MoMA in ‘Twentieth-Century Italian Art’,” in Raffaele Bedarida, Silvia Bignami, and Davide Colombo (eds.), Methodologies of Exchange: MoMA’s “Twentieth-Century Italian Art” (1949), monographic issue of Italian Modern Art, 3 (January 2020), and “Exhibiting Italian Democracy in the 1949 “Twentieth Century Italian Art” at the Museum of Modern Art,” in Modern in the Making: MoMA and the Modern Experiment, 1929–1949, Eds. Sandra Zalman and Austin Porter. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2020. 215-229.

Nicole Hand
Professor of Printmaking
Assistant Dean, College of Humanities and Fine Arts
FA 1007
MFA, University of Miami; BFA, University of South Dakota; BA, Nazareth College ¶ Research Interest: Printmaking, Drawing, Bookbinding

Katie Knoeringer
Assistant Professor of Art & Design
Drawing

MFA, Columbia College Chicago; BA, Wesleyan University ¶ Research Interest: Publishing, artists' books, writing, typography, cooking

T. Michael Martin
Associate Professor of Art & Design
Director of University Galleries
FA 732
MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University; BFA, University of Tennessee, Knoxville ¶ Research Interest: Contemporary Art, Painting, Drawing, Installation Art, Performance Art, Collaborative, Interactive, Experimental, Interdisciplinary and New Media Art

Sarah Martin
Associate Professor of Art & Design
Woodworking and Furniture Design
VA 103 A
MFA, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth; BFA, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Erich Neitzke
Adjunct Instructor of Art & Design
Drawing & Foundations

Cintia Segovia Figueroa
Assistant Professor of Art & Design
Photography / New Media
FA 728
MFA, California State University, Long Beach; MA, California State University, Northridge; BS, The Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education ¶ Research Interest: Immigration, identity, cultural stereotypes, politics and being bilingual.

Dr. Zbynek "ZB" Smetana
Associate Professor of Art & Design
Art History
FA 729
PhD, Rutgers University; BA, Humboldt State University ¶ Research Interest: Italian Renaissance Art, Secondary Fields in Northern Renaissance and Baroque

MFA, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University; BFA, Kansas City Art Institute ¶ Research Interest: Ceramic Sculpture, Handbuilding, Wheel-throwing, Slipcasting

Dr. Rebecca Williams
Associate Professor of Art & Design
Art Education
FA 726
PhD, University of Georgia; MAEd, University of Georgia; BA, University of Louisiana at Lafayette ¶ Research Interests: Art Education, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Aesthetics and Critical Response, Teacher Preparation, Qualitative Research, Narrative Inquiry
Staff

Amanda Combs
Accounting Clerk
Department of Art & Design

Ann Gosser
Administrative Assistant
Department of Art & Design
Emeritus Faculty

Steve Bishop
Professor Emeritus
Sculpture
1979-2010

Karen Boyd
Professor Emeritus
Fibers
1967-1997

Dick Dougherty
Professor Emeritus
Painting and Drawing, Department Head
1992-2013
View Professor Dougherty's work
Learn about Swain School of Design

Clara M. Eagle
Professor Emeritus
Metalsmithing, Department Head
1946-1973

Harry Furches
Professor Emeritus
Metalsmithing
1963-1993

Sarah Gutwirth
Professor Emeritus
Painting and Drawing
1998-2017
View Professor Gutwirth's work

Bob Head
Professor Emeritus
Painting and Drawing
1966-1997

Richard Jackson
Professor Emeritus
Critic Teacher in Art
1956-1981

Michael Johnson
Professor Emeritus
Photography
1973-2008

Dale Leys
Professor Emeritus
Drawing
1977-2018
Watch KET's Interview with Professor Leys

Paul Sasso
Professor Emeritus
Woodworking
1981-2008

Camille Serre
Professor Emeritus
Art Education
1985-2012

Fred Shepard
Professor Emeritus
Ceramics
1963-1999
Watch an interview with Professors Shepherd and Wolfson

Peggy Shrock
Professor Emeritus
Art History
1990-2017

Jerry Speight
Professor Emeritus
Foundations
1975-2005

Emily Wolfson
Professor Emeritus
Painting
1941-1969