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MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART

New Hires in Academic Affairs2017–18FACULTY AND STAFF


Lishan AZGAME DESIGN

Joining as Game Designer in Residence, Lishan AZ is a game designer and writer who creates experiences that blend digital and non-digital play while inviting players to collaborate in shared spaces. Her work ex-plores Black women’s resistance, identity and histor-ical perspectives. Lishan’s M.F.A. thesis, Tracking Ida, is an escape room-style alternate reality game about Ida B. Wells’ crusade against lynching. The project was awarded Best Gameplay at Games for Change 2017. Lishan earned her M.F.A. in interactive media and game design from the University of Southern California, and her B.S. in computer science from Columbia University. In 2017, Lishan was selected Forbes 30 under 30 in Gaming. In addition to Games for Change, her work has exhibited at venues like IndieCade, LA Weekly’s Artopia, Tokyo University, and the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).

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Joseph CarrFIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE

Joining the First Year Experience faculty, Joseph Carr is a filmmaker and multimedia designer working and teaching in Baltimore. He received a BA in communi-cation studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel hill and an MFA in Studio from the depart-ment of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has taught moving image, digital production, and professional practices coursework at the undergraduate and grad-uate levels. Over the past two years he has worked with English Language Learners (ELL) in Art Matters courses at MICA and will be continuing to work with ELL students in First Year Forum and Academic Writ-ing Workshop. His creative interests are in technical photography, scientific illustration, and documentary.

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Stephen EllisLEROY E. HOFFBERGER SCHOOL OF PAINTING MFA

Joining the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting MFA as Interim Director and faculty member, Stephen Ellis has lived and worked in New York since 1973. He is part of a group of American artists who rebelled against self-referential formalism and returned ab-straction to a more active engagement with the world. His work is represented in collections including The Brooklyn Museum, The Ashmolean Museum, and The Fogg Museum. He has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. He has written for publications including ArtCritical, Modern Painters, Par-kett, and Art in America. He has taught at MICA, Cooper Union, SVA, Hunter, NYU, Bard, and Harvard, and he is represented by the Von Lintel Gallery.

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Minsun EoGRAPHIC DESIGN

Joining the Graphic Design faculty as a teaching fellow, Minsun Eo focuses on practice that creates integrated design knowledge, system and experience for art, technology, architecture, fashion and educa-tional sector. His New York-based studio explores graphic design methodology through core-contem-porary design practice and media—brand identity development, exhibition & environmental design, print and digital. He holds an MFA Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design (2013), and a BFA Vi-sual Communication Design from Kookmin University (Seoul, 2008). He worked at 2×4 New York under the guidance of cofounder Michael Rock (2013–15). Mr. Eo was invited for visiting lectures, guest critique and talk by RISD, Boston University and Korean Associa-tion of New York Artists (non-profit NYC organization). Over the course of 10 years he worked with Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Massachu-setts Institute of Technology Self Assembly Lab & MIT Press, AIA (American Institute of Architects) New York, Prada, Perez Art Museum Miami, Graph-ic magazine, Nam June Paik Art Center, Mediacity Seoul Biennale and many more. His work, writing and interviews have been published in various media—Computer Arts, Allure, Asian Graphics Now (Taschen), Graphic, and Monthly Design. His projects have been selected by Type Directors Club (TDC), Art Directors Club (ADC), Adobe Design Achievement Awards, and Output Awards. Also his works have been exhibited in TDC shows, Gwangju Design Biennale and others. He is a member of Korean Society of Typography (KST), a prestigious Korean graphic design organization. Prior to coming to the US, he worked at HongDesign consultancy and TEXT (Seoul, 2007–2011).

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Emily A. GibsonMASTER OF ARTS IN TEACHING

Joining the Art Education faculty, Emily A. Gibson sees teaching and making art as symbiotic. She is equally passionate about both and finds these endeavors work best in tandem like a set of rolling wheels. Gibson received a BFA from MICA and an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and De-sign. As a graduate student, she studied art in Japan and China. She began teaching in the South Bronx and received her certification through Pratt Institute. She has also taught at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, the Jewish Museum, and the Guggenheim Museum. As a professor at the City College of New York, she instructed graduate students on strategies for making art, as well as on the art of teaching. Gibson’s work ranges from abstractions made with salt, ink, and breaths of exhaled air to portraiture. She has exhibit-ed at Recess, Temporary Agency, the LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Spring Break, and E.Tay gallery in New York, and the Revolving Museum and Berkshire Museum in New England.

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Kira Nam GreenePAINTING


Joining the Painting faculty as a McMillan/Stewar Endowed Chair in Painting, Kira Nam Greene was born in Seoul, Korea, and now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from San Fran-cisco Art Institute and her MFA from School of Visual Arts, Ph.D. in political science from Stanford Uni-versity and BA in International Relations from Seoul National University. Greene’s work explores female sexuality, desire and control through lush still-life paintings of food, surrounded by complex patterns and abstract design. Imbuing the feminist legacies of Pattern and Decoration Movement with transna-tional/multicultural motifs, Greene creates colorful paintings that are unique combinations of realism and abstraction, employing diverse media such as oil, acrylic, gouache, watercolor and colored pen-cil, etc. More recently, Greene’s interest in food has expanded into examining ethical aspects of modern food consumption and the proliferation of advertising imagery on our visual culture in a series of paintings of mass produced and brand name food products. In this latest series, Greene combines typical Pop Art tropes with her signature transnationalism, subverting the marketing slogans out of context among highly crafted patterns rooted in older cultural traditions. Greene has shown her work widely at venues such as Sheldon Museum of Art, Brown University, Salisbury University, Wave Hill, Bronx Museum of Art, Noyes Museum, Accola Griefen Gallery, Lodege Gallery, Kiechel Fine Art, A.I.R. Gallery and Jane Lombard Gallery. Her work has been covered in publications such as Artnet News, Art F City, Wallpaper, W Maga-zine, Lincoln Star Journal, Art21 Blog, Hyphen Maga-zine, The Korea Daily and New York Art Beat.

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Jerome HarrisGRAPHIC DESIGN

Joining the Graphic Design faculty as a teaching fellow, Jerome Harris is a graphic designer original-ly from New Haven, Connecticut. He holds an MFA in graphic design from Yale University, and a BA in Advertising from Temple University. During his grad-uate studies he was a teacher’s assistant for Pame-la Hovland’s Intermediate Graphic Design course for undergraduate students. Since graduating last Spring, he was an active designer in the greater New Haven area, working for Yale, with local arts nonprofit Artspace, as well as multiple small businesses and organizations in the area. He designed the identity for the Black Pulp! Exhibition, which examines evolving perspectives of Black identity in American culture and history from 1912 to 2016, curated by William Villalongo and Mark Gibson. Jerome was also a guest critic for the Emerging Professionals Workshop held by the AIGA Connecticut Chapter, reviewing graduate and undergraduate graphic design students’ port-folios. Outside of design Jerome is a dance teacher, gamer, home cook, and aspiring DJ.

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William HartlandANIMATION

Joining the Animation faculty, Willy Hartland was born and raised in Washington DC and is now a New Yorker of 33 years. He has carved out a distinguished career in animation. A recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Film, and many international film awards, Willy writes, directs, and an-imates his own projects for the Web, TV, and Film. He has also worked as a storyboard artist on 3 features, and numerous TV shows, among them MTV’s “Beavis and Butthead” and “Daria.” Proficient in Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Flash, and Cinema 4D, he con-tinues to experiment with new techniques in digital media. In recent years he has begun a successful career as a professor of animation, teaching at such prestigious schools as MICA, FIT, and CUNY.

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Victoria JangCERAMICS

Joining the Ceramics faculty, Victoria Jang is a ceramic mixed media artist from San Francisco, California and the recipient of the 2017–18 AICAD teaching fellowship. Jang’s fundamental understand-ing of contemporary social politics and the Asian American history on immigration and intersections of other racial and ethnic groups allows her to recreate and imitate cultural assimilation and hybridity in her art practice. Jang earned her BFA in 3D4M in 2010 at the University of Washington in Seattle and her MFA at California College of the Arts in San Francis-co in 2014. Jang received the Headlands Center for the Arts Fellowship, the Retired Professor’s Award by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Murphy Cadogan Contemporary Arts Award, and was a featured artist by San Francisco’s Asian Pacif-ic American Multicultural Foundation, Kearny Street Workshop in 2014 and the Korean Cultural Cen-ter in Los Angeles in 2015. Recently, Jang was the 2016–2017 visiting artist in ceramics at University of California, Berkeley.

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Vanessa López MASTER OF ARTS IN TEACHING

Returning to MICA in a new full-time position as fac-ulty in Art Education, Vanessa López received a BA in Art History from Purchase College and an MA in Art Education from MICA. Her research interests include cultural identities in school settings and urban edu-cation. She taught art for ten years in Baltimore City Public Schools, is an actively practicing artist, and her writing has been included in publications including the Art Education journal and the book Art and Social Justice Education: Culture as Commons. She has served on the writing team for the National Core Arts Standards in Visual Arts, as the coordinator for the 2010 National Art Education Association Convention, and on the Fine Arts Education Advisory Panel for the Maryland State Department of Education.

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Victoria Rose PassART HISTORY

Joining the Art History faculty, Victoria Rose Pass has been an Assistant Professor of Art History at Salisbury University for the last four years. Her research considers the history of fashion culture in the 20th and focuses specifically on issues of gender and race. Her most recent publications include an essay titled “Schiaparelli’s Convulsive Gloves” published in 2015 in Extravagances, the final volume of the Habits of Being series from the Univer-sity of Minnesota. She co-edited the volume, Wom-en’s Magazines in Print and New Media with Noliwe Rooks and Ayana Weekley, which was published by Routledge in 2016. The volume also included her essay, “Encountering Africa in Vogue: Irving Penn’s African Essays.” She is the current president of the Design Studies Forum, an affiliated society of the College Art Association. She received her BA in Art History from Boston University, her MA in Art Histo-ry from the Art Institute of Chicago, and her PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester.

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Amy SheraldPAINTING

Joining the Painting faculty as a McMillan/Stewar Endowed Chair, Amy Sherald received her MFA in Painting from MICA (2004), BA in Painting from Clark-Atlanta University (1997), and was a Spelman College International Artist-in-Residence in Porto-belo, Panama (1997). In 2016, Sherald was the first woman to win the Outwin Boochever Portrait Compe-tition grand prize; an accompanying exhibition, The Outwin 2016, has been on tour since 2016 and will open at the Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO in October 2017. Sherald has had solo shows at venues including Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago (2016); Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore (2013); and University of North Carolina, Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Chapel Hill (2011). In May 2018, she will present a solo exhibition at Contemporary Art Muse-um, St. Louis, MO. Group exhibitions include South-ern Accent, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC (2016); travelled to Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY (2017); Face to Face: Los Ange-les Collects Portraiture, California African American Museum, Los Angeles (opens July 2017). Residencies include Odd Nerdrum Private Study, Larvik, Norway (2005); Tong Xion Art Center, Beijing, China (2008); Creative Art Alliance, Baltimore (2016); and Joan Mitchell Foundation, New Orleans (2017). Public collections include Smithsonian National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian National Museum of African American Art and Cul-ture, Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Columbus Museum, GA; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; and Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC. Sherald is represented by Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago.

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Leslie SpeerPRODUCT DESIGN

Joining as the inaugural chair of the new Product Design program, Leslie Speer is a designer and edu-cator with a long time passion for helping people use design to improve their world and others’ lives. For the last 20 years she has been educating students, currently as a professor in industrial design at San José State University and, before that, as professor and assistant chair at the California College of the Arts. She emphasizes innovativ e interdisciplinary courses and projects, often with students or user populations in emerging markets like as Africa, Cen-tral America and China. She pioneered the teaching of sustainable design and design research to under-graduates while at CCA and for ten years co-taught a new product development class with design students collaborating with MBA and graduate engineering students from UC Berkeley. Speer received the pres-tigious Educator of the Year award from the Industrial Designers Society of America in 2009.

Professionally she has worked for companies and cli-ents in the US, Europe and Mexico, including Dupont, Philips, Oracle/Sun Microsystems, frog design, the Costa Rican Ministry of Culture, Banomex and vari-ous NGOs. She has extensive consulting experience in developing markets in Mexico, Costa Rica, China and Cameroon working on initiatives using design to create economic stability for artisans and rural farm-ers. She is a guest lecturer at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle in Paris and at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts in China. She has her bachelors in industrial design from California State University at Long Beach and her master’s in design (MDES) from Middlesex University in the UK.

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Sukyun WeaverLIBERAL ARTS

Joining as a Graduate English Language Learning (ELL) Specialist and Liberal Arts faculty member, Sukyun Weaver received a BA in Sociology from the University of Chicago and an MA in Applied Linguis-tics from Teacher’s College, Columbia University. Her research interests include culturally and linguistically responsive student support, intercultural training and corpus-based linguistics. She has held ELL-related positions at NYU, Columbia, Pace, and Johns Hop-kins. She has presented to the professional associa-tions for ELL and currently serves as the MDTESOL Higher Ed Chair-Elect. In the classroom, Sukyun believes in empowering students to gain authentic language through autonomous learning for lifelong success.

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Kenya KellyBUDGET AND CONTRACT MANAGER

Kenya Kelly, joins us from Williams Lea in Washing-ton, DC, where she was the Account Manager II and responsible for the operating budgets, contracts, and administrative management services for firm admin-istration. Kenya has extensive experience in budget oversight, budget planning, and employee relations. Kenya started her new position on July 24 with MICA. Outside of MICA, Kenya enjoys family time, travelling, reading and writing.

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Wendy PriceASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC SERVICES

Wendy Price joins us from Washington and Lee University, where she was the Associate Dean of the College with oversight of all the buildings, operating and capital budgets and academic services staff.

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Terra SchehrASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FOR EDUCATIONAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Terra Schehr comes to MICA from Loyola University where she was the Assistant Vice President of institu-tional research and effectiveness, and was responsi-ble for the coordination of assessment, accreditation, and the support of the professional development of faculty in these areas.

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Amber AndersonADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT IN GRAPHIC DESIGN

Amber Anderson has joined as the Administrative Assistant in Graphic Design. Amber is a Resident Art-ist at School 33 Art Center and a regular contributor at BmoreArt. In 2016 she was a Baker Artist Award finalist and was awarded residencies at Wagon Sta-tion Encampment with Andrea Zittel in Joshua Tree, CA and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Finland, Morocco, and Peru. Her first self-published book, Free to a Good Home was purchased by the New York Public Library and is sold at Printed Matter, the world’s leading non-profit for artist books. She is a recent graduate of the multidiscplinary Mount Royal School of Art MFA program at MICA and is the found-er of Ctrl+P, a curatorial project for artist books and editions. She has lived in Nebraska, South America, and the Middle East and now calls Baltimore home.

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Melanie HardyADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT IN ILLUSTRATION

Melanie Hardy is delighted to join the MICA com-munity. She has been working in higher education for the last two years and has a great passion for help-ing students. She is a native of Baltimore who loves experiencing all of the art, music and food the city has to offer. She has a BA in Marketing Communica-tions from Notre Dame of Maryland University and hopes to complete an MBA one day. She believes her purpose in life is to be of service to others and looks forward to working with all the wonderful students, faculty and staff at MICA.

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Anne Marie RooneyADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT IN ANIMATION AND INTERACTIVE ARTS

Anne Marie Rooney is a poet, teaching artist, and arts coordinator with experience working with libraries, museums, community centers, universities, and primary schools. A co-founder of the literary arts collective Line Assembly, she holds an MFA in Poetry from Cornell University, and is currently beginning graduate work in clinical mental health counseling with a concentration in expressive arts therapies. She is very much looking to meeting and working with the amazing MICA community.

She is the author of Spitshine (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012), and No Beautiful (Carnegie Mellon University Press, forthcoming 2018). She also wrote two chapbooks: The Buff, part of The Cupboard’s pamphlet series, and Shell of an egg in an effort, from Birds of Lace. She has won the Iowa Review Award, the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, the Amy Award, the Greg Grummer Poetry Award, and the So to Speak Poetry Prize. Her writing has been featured on Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, Lambda Literary, The Feminist Wire, The Awl, and The Huffington Post, as well as in the Best New Poets and Best American Poetry anthologies. You can read more of her poetry online at Narrative, The Spectacle, The Journal, Typo, Better, Sixth Finch, DIAGRAM, Jellyfish, Devil’s Lake, 30 × Lace, Quarterly West, PANK, Loaded Bicycle, Caketrain, Web Conjunctions, Witness, Leveler, and alice blue; and some fiction at summer stock, Side-brow, Projector, and The Cupboard.

She is a founding member of the collective Line As-sembly, and is currently collaborating with her sister, the painter Julia Rooney, as well as the poet and filmmaker Ben Pelhan, and the poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram.

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