FULL-TIME FACULTY & STAFF
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Molly emma aitken
Assistant Professor
art history
Phone: 212.650.7413
Location: CG-109B
E-mail: maitken@ccny.cuny.edu
Molly Emma Aitken is Assistant Professor of Asian Art. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2001 with a concentration on the art of South Asia. She has curated traveling exhibitions on South Asian jewelry and contemporary folk quilts, and has published numerous articles on Mughal and Rajput painting. Her book publications include When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Susan L. Beningson Collection (Philip Wilson, 2004) and The Intelligence of Tradition in Rajput Court Painting (Yale University Press, 2010). Aitken has explored feminist approaches to South Asian art, questions of interpretation, contextual studies, problems of Occidental conceptual taxonomies in non-western studies and the possibilities for formal analysis and connoisseurship in contemporary art history.
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Becca Albee
Associate Professor
Electronic Design & Multimedia, Photography
Phone: 212.650.7411
Location: CG-238
E-mail: balbee@ccny.cuny.edu
Becca Albee works primarily in photography, often combining her photography with video, sculpture, and installation. Her honors and awards include a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, two residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. She was a participant in the Artist in the Marketplace Program, and received a College Art Association Professional Development Fellowship. Her work has been featured in exhibitions and screenings at the Bronx Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Whitechapel Gallery, The Hudson River Museum, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, and China Arts Objects Galleries.
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Patterson Beckwith
Lecturer
Photography
Phone: 212.650.5647
Location: CG-205
E-mail: pbeckwith@ccny.cuny.edu
Patterson Beckwith is an artist who works with photography. His editorial work has appeared in Artforum, Purple, Index, Vice, and Tokion. Beckwith was a member of the collaborative group Art Club 2000, which was founded in 1992. The group mounted seven yearly exhibits at American Fine Arts, Co from 1993-1999 and had a retrospective exhibition at Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City, in 2000, and an exhibition in 2008 in London at Wolfgang Tillman’s “Between Bridges” gallery. Beckwith’s solo exhibitions include American Fine Arts, Co NYC in 2002 and 2004; Daniel Hug Gallery, in 2006 and Mesler + Hug 2009, Los Angeles. A recent work, “Bananas For Moholy-Nagy”, is the subject of a monograph published in 2010 by The Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Beckwith's work has appeared recently at the Tate Modern in London, Renwick Gallery in New York, and Photogalleriet, Oslo, Norway. |
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Marit dewhurst
assistant professor
art education
Phone: 212-650-7433
Location: Shepard Hall 303D
E-mail: mdewhurst@ccny.cuny.edu
Website: www.maritdewhurst.com Marit Dewhurst is the Director of Art Education and Visiting Assistant Professor in art education. She completed her doctorate in education from Harvard University in 2009 with an emphasis on the intersection between activist art-making and social justice education. She has worked as an educator and program coordinator in multiple settings both nationally and abroad including community centers, museums, juvenile detention centers, and international development projects. Most recently, she founded and coordinated The Museum of Modern Art’s free studio arts programs for teens. Publications include chapters in several books on the use of art in social justice education and articles in The Journal of Art Education and The Journal of Research Practice. In addition, she has co-curated an exhibition on traditional art and HIV/AIDS education with partners at The Michigan State University Museum. Her research and teaching interests include social justice education, community-based art, youth empowerment, and the role of the arts in community development both locally and abroad.
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Joel Wellington Fisher
Lecturer
Photography
Phone: 212.650.5646
Location: CG-205
E-mail: jwfisher@ccny.cuny.edu
Website: www.joelwfisher.com
Joel Wellington Fisher received a BA from the University of New Hampshire where he studied English and psychology in 1997. He received an MFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006. In the fall of 2006 Joel began work and study at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (Academy of Graphic and Book Arts) in Leipzig, Germany on a Fulbright Fellowship. His work has shown nationally and internationally in both group and solo shows. Photographs from his series Washington to Washington appeared in the first annual Platform of emerging photographers 2007 at the Fotomuseum in Winterthur Switzerland.
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Megan Foster
Lecturer
Printmaking
MFA Program Co-Director
Phone: 212.650.7425
Location: CG-227
E-mail: mfoster@ccny.cuny.edu
Megan Foster received a BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2002. She has an extensive background in traditional and digital printmaking techniques. She has worked as a master printer for artists such as Kara Walker, Kiki Smith, Sarah Sze and Barnaby Furnas. Megan has had solo exhibitions of her paintings and prints in many galleries within the US and in Europe.
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Wendell "Skiter" Freeman
Senior College Lab Technician
Electronic Design & Multimedia
Phone: 212.650.7403
Location: CG-123
E-mail: skiter@ccny.cuny.edu
Wendell "Skiter" Freeman is the Computer Technician for the Electronic Design and Multimedia program's Lab and for the CCNY Art Department. Skiter's essential function is to keep the department's computers and the EDM lab's 60+ computers networked and operating: he handles computer repair, technology troubleshooting, hardware and software orders and upgrades, and manages the EDM lab monitors, among many other indispensable functions.
Skiter has over 17 years of experience with Macintosh computers. He started as a recording engineer for artists such as Queen Latifah, Jodice, Book of Love, LL Cool J and Miles Davis. Using Macintosh computers in the recording studio led to his expertise in repair and maintenance, and after working for the best in the Mac business (Tekserve and even Apple itself) he now "runs a tight ship" at The City College of New York.
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Leopold Fuentes
Assistant Professor
Painting, Drawing and Foundation
Phone: 212.650.7414
Location: CG-240
E-mail: lfuentes@ccny.cuny.edu
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Susan elizabeth gagliardi
Assistant Professor
art history
Phone: TBD
Location: CG-109
E-mail: sgagliardi@ccny.cuny.edu
Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi is a specialist in West African art history. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California at Los Angeles after conducting extensive fieldwork in Burkina Faso and Ghana. Her most recent research focuses on power associations, the great patrons for the arts in Senufo- and Mande-speaking towns across western Burkina Faso and southern Mali. Gagliardi examines the arts, knowledge, and interpersonal networks power associations promote. She considers how power association leaders, artists, patrons, and audiences shape and respond to dynamic arts and performances. She also investigates diverse strategies for assemblage and tensions between the seen and unseen dimensions of the visual arts. To support her work, she has earned Fulbright-IIE and Fulbright-Hays fellowships as well as fellowships from the National Museum of African Art (Smithsonian Institution), the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (National Gallery of Art), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Ethan Ham
Associate Professor
Electronic Design & Multimedia
EDM Program director
Phone: 212.650.7402
Location: CG-129
E-mail: eham@ccny.cuny.edu
Website: www.ethanham.com
Ethan Ham is a sculptor and installation artist whose work often investigates human creativity through generative art processes and appropriation. His recent projects include a show at PS 122 Gallery and commissions from Rhizome.org, Turbulence.org, and The Present Group. His background includes a stint in the computer game industry in varying roles including game designer, producer, programmer, and executive.
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Ellen Handy
AssOCIATE Professor
Art History
Phone: 212.650.7431
Location: CG-244
E-mail: ehandy@ccny.cuny.edu
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Craig houser
lecturer
Art history
Phone: 212.650.5963
Location: CG-132
E-mail: chouser@ccny.cuny.edu
Craig Houser has a B.A. in art history from Carleton College, an M.A. from Hunter College, and a Ph.D. from the CUNY Grad Center. His scholarship focuses on modern and contemporary art in relationship to issues related to gender and sexuality, as well as institutional and social politics. He also has substantial experience working in museums as a curator and educator. He was a curatorial fellow in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and an assistant curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. In addition, he was also an editor for College Art Association, which publishes The Art Bulletin and Art Journal. Houser’s publications include “Rachel Whiteread: Vienna Holocaust Memorial,” in Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art (University of California Press) and “The Changing Face of Scholarly Publishing: A History of CAA’s Publications,” in The Eye, the Hand, the Mind: The College Art Association and the Visual Arts since 1911 (Rutgers University Press).
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Anna Indych-López
Associate Professor
Art history
Phone: 212.650.5163
Location: CG-251
E-mail: aindych@ccny.cuny.edu
Anna Indych-López specializes in the modern art of Latin America, specifically Mexico. She received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University in 2003. Her work focuses on exhibition culture, cross-cultural perceptions, reception analysis, and the relationship between art and politics. A frequent contributor to exhibition catalogues on Modern Mexican and Latin American art, she has also published on contemporary Latino/a artists. She received the College Art Association's Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant for her book Muralism without Walls: Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros in the United States, 1927-1940 published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2009 and is co-author (with Leah Dickerman) of Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art published by MoMA in 2011.
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lise kjaer
lecturer
Art history
Phone: 212.650.7429
Location: CG-230
E-mail: lkjaer@ccny.cuny.edu
Lise Kjaer received her Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York in 2008. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in twentieth century and contemporary art, art history survey and MFA seminars. Her area of research includes issues of identity in modern and contemporary art, and global art history. Kjaer’s dissertation Awakening the Spiritual: James Turrell and Quakerism considered the artist’s light installations in view of his renewed interest in Quakerism, Quaker tenets, history and tradition. Current research involves an anthology (co-edited with Dr. Will Wroth) on the scholar Ananda K. Coomaraswamy’s influence on twentieth century art, tracing the impact of the writer and curator’s publications, exhibitions and scholarly involvement with Southeast Asian art on twentieth century American, Asian and European art and art history. Kjaer has previously received an MFA with Distinction from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland in 1992. She has exhibited internationally in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Poland and the United States, and been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, Bamse Kragh-Jacobsen’s Award, and been a fellow of NIFCA, a Nordic artist in residency program in Helsinki, Finland. Along with her scholarly work in art history, Kjaer continues her art practice exhibiting sculptures and installation pieces that are often time-based, ephemeral and participatory inviting the viewer to become a part of the work.
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Holly Kurtz
Phone: 212.650.7420
Location: CG-109
E-mail: hkurtz@ccny.cuny.edu
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Hajoe Moderegger
Associate Professor
Electronic Design & Multimedia
Phone: 212.650.7406
Location: CG-131
E-mail: hmoderegger@ccny.cuny.edu
Website: www.meineigenheim.org
Hajoe Moderegger works in collaboration with Franziska Lamprecht as eteam. Their work fuses land ownership, participation and utopian ideas through the use of new media tools and physical presence. They have produced work in many media including video, web, installation and live performance. Their work has been featured at the PS1, New Museum, Eyebeam, Momenta Art, Art in General, MUMOK Vienna, Neues Museum Weimar, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, TIDF Taipei the 11th Biennial of Moving Images, Geneva and the 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam. They have been awarded a NYSCA film & media grant, a Marion Ermer Grant and a Creative Capital Grant in emerging media. They are fellows of Macdowell and Yaddo and were the recipients of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Sylvia Netzer
Professor
Ceramics
Phone: 212.650.7435
Location: CG-106 B
E-mail: snetzer@ccny.cuny.edu
Sylvia Netzer has had several recent one-person exhibitions: Disturbing, 2003, Appetites, 2004, and Hopeful Monsters, 2007. She has participated in many group shows, including the Fat Attitudes show at Columbia University, the encaustic exhibition at William Paterson College, and the auction for the Watermill Center for Arts and Humanities. She had a residency at the Glen Gerry Brick factory in York, Pennsylvania in 2006, and in 2007 she co-curated an exhibition, Women Touch: Ceramics at A.I.R. Gallery. She also curated several shows at Gallery 128 on the Lower East Side and at A.I.R. Gallery and was included in “One True Thing” at the A.I.R. and Putney School, Vermont, curated by Dena Muller. She was twice-nominated for a Louis Comfort Tiffany grant, 2005 and 2007, and for the annual exhibition of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2006. She teaches courses in all areas of ceramics, on the graduate and undergraduate levels.
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Maria Politarhos
Photo Lab Manager
Photography
Phone: 212.650.7426
Location: CG-224
E-mail: mpolitarhos@ccny.cuny.edu
Maria Politarhos is a photographer who uses traditional photography, photo-printmaking and historic alternative photographic methods in her work. She studied photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology and The City College of New York, where she completed her MFA in 2000. Maria works as a College Lab Technician/Photo Lab Manager and an adjunct instructor teaching photography at CCNY.
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Ina Saltz
AssOCIATE Professor
Electronic Design & Multimedia
Art Department Chairperson
Phone: 212.650.7408
Location: CG-131
E-mail: inasaltz@ccny.cuny.edu
Website: www.bodytypebook.com
Ina Saltz works primarily in print-based media design with a specialization in typography and publication design. Her creative work consists of photographic and written documentation of the cultural phenomenon of textual tattoos with respect to their typographical significance and the implication of the lettering style in relation to the content. She also writes on a variety of design-related topics for several professional graphic design journals. She is the author of the following books: "Body Type: Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh," [2006] a photographic documentation of typographic tattoos; "Typography Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Working with Type," [2009] a guide for professional designers; "Body Type 2: More Typographic Tattoos," [2011] a second volume of her photographic documentation; and is co-author of "Typography Referenced: A Comprehensive Visual Guide to the Language, History and Practice of Typography," [2012] a reference book for professional designers and students of typography.
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Harriet Senie
Professor
Art History & Museum Studies
Director of Museum Studies
Phone: 212.650.7430
Location: CG-230
E-mail: hfsenie@ccny.cuny.edu
Harriet F. Senie is director of the MA program in museum studies and teaches the required museum studies seminars in that area. She is the author of The ‘Tilted Arc’ Controversy: Dangerous Precedent? (2002), Contemporary Public Sculpture (1992), and co-editor of Critical Issues in Public Art (1992; 1998), as well as numerous articles and essays on public art, memorials, and audience response. She is currently working on a book tentatively titled Transforming American Memorials: From Symbolic Cemetery to a Light in the Sky: Vietnam to 9/11.
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Tom Thayer
Lecturer
Painting, Drawing & Foundation
MFA Program Co-Director
Phone: 212.650.7588
Location: CG-109 B
E-mail: tthayer@ccny.cuny.edu
Website: www.tomthayer.net
Tom Thayer’s work lyrically combines elements frail and feeble in nature, crudely parroting reality, in an effort to reveal the poetry that underlies our own existence. His ideas are realized through a variety of media and activities including paintings, drawings, sculptures, film performance and work- shops. His artworks and performances have been exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Living Theater, New York, BBC Radio 3, London, and numerous other national and international venues. He teaches Painting/Diverse Media at the City College of New York.
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Annette Weintraub
Professor
Electronic Design & Multimedia
Phone: 212.650.7421
Location: CG-109
E-mail: weintraub@ccny.cuny.edu
Website: www.annetteweintraub.com
Annette Weintraub is the founder of the Department’s Electronic Design and Multimedia program, and currently Department Chair. She teaches courses in Design for the Web (I and II), BFA Thesis and Electronic Design I. She is a media artist whose work is an investigation of architecture as visual language; her projects explore the dynamics of urban space, the intrusion of media into public space and the symbolism of space. Her projects have been shown at The Whitney Museum of American Art in the first Biennial to include internet art, at ICP [International Center of Photography], International Film Festival/Rotterdam, Thirteen/WNET TV’s Reel New York.Web, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires; FILE in Brazil; 5th Biennial of Media and Architecture in Graz and numerous other national and international venues. Commissions include: The Rushlikon Centre for Global Dialogue, CEPA, and Turbulence. In 2007 she was a panelist in Computer Arts for the New York Foundation for the Arts [NYFA].
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