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Section of Art Faculty:

Doug Tyler
Professor of Art
dtyler@saintmarys.edu

BA, Michigan State University, Communications, 1970
MA, Michigan State Academy, Art History, 1973
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Printmaking, 1977

Course areas: Photo Media, New Media, Screenprinting, Holography

Douglas Due east. Tyler, Professor of Fine art at Saint Mary's College since 1977, received his art training at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Tyler is the start recipient of the European Holography Prize and has received artist's fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Quango for the Arts and the Shearwater Foundation among others. His works as an artist have been widely published, including articles in NEWSWEEK, HORIZON Mag, DER STERN (German publication) and in many exhibition catalogs. Tyler gained early on notoriety equally a mural painter and later developed an international reputation for his exploratory work in New Media, particularly the innovative visual form of holography. His artworks have been exhibited internationally including such well known venues equally The Eye George Pompidou, Paris, The Hamburg Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany and the Heart for Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing.

See Prof. Tyler'south artwork and student work on his website.

Bill Sandusky
Professor of Art
sandusky@saintmarys.edu

BFA, John Herron Art School of Indiana Academy, 1968
MFA, Tulane University, Painting, 1970

Course areas: Painting, Printmaking, Volume Arts, Drawing

Professor Bill Sandusky has been teaching at Saint Mary's College since 1981. Before coming to Saint Mary's College, Professor Sandusky lived and worked in Italian republic for seven years. At the Santa Reparata Graphic Art Centre in Florence (1973-1980), Professor Sandusky taught etching, lithography and cartoon, and was a principle printer of etchings and lithographs for professionals working at the Heart. In add-on, he taught painting for the Saint Mary's Rome Program from 1977-1980, and printmaking for the Graduate Programme of Loyola University in Florence 1976/1977. Professor Sandusky's expertise runs across a wide latitude of disciplines. He has taught classes in several areas, such equally painting, drawing, books arts/artist's books, etching, lithography, second Pattern, and served equally the Gallery Managing director in a articulation position with his wife, Giovanna Lenzi, from 1981-1987. Professor Sandusky was the recipient of a prestigious $40,000 Lilly Open up Fellowship (Ely Lilly Foundation) for work in Italy on his own research and production of Artist'due south Books.

For more information, visit Prof. Sandusky's website.

Julie Tourtillotte
Professor of Art
On sabbatical 2012-2013
jtourtil@saintmarys.edu

BFA, Saint Mary'south College
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art

Course areas: Drawing, Fibers, Printmaking and Video

Julie Wroblewski Tourtillotte lives in South Bend, Indiana where she maintains a studio and small farm with her husband, William Tourtillotte. Tourtillotte earned her BFA from Saint Mary's Higher and, after completing an MFA in printmaking at Cranbrook University of Fine art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, she returned to South Bend and has been a member of the art faculty at Saint Mary'due south since 1986. She received the Maria Pieta teaching award from her alma mater in 2005. In recent fabric constructions, videos and prints, Tourtillotte has explored patterns that reveal changes in the environment. She has received fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission and Arts Midwest/NEA and her piece of work has been exhibited at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Krasl Art Center in St. Joseph, Michigan, Stark Gallery in Phoenix, Arizona, Kent State Academy in Ohio and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.

For more information, visit Prof. Tourtillotte'south website.

Elena Brebenel
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art

BFA, University of Arts "George Enescu" (Romania)
MFA, University of Kansas

Class areas: Drawing and Fibers

Elena Brebenel was born and raised in Romania. Her interest in fibers, cartoon and painting dates back to high schoolhouse, when she began studying at the Art high school in Ploiesti, Romania. In 2000 she completed a creative research program in the North of France. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Textile Arts from the University of Arts "George Enescu" in Iasi, Romania. During her undergraduate career she spent v months in England equally an exchange student at the University College Falmouth within the framework of Erasmus program. She moved to America to study at the University of Kansas, where she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Fabric Pattern in 2011.

Elena's contempo work consists of textile objects and installations, a combination of fabric and paper and explores the theme of retentivity. Though elusive and inaccurate in some situations, retention forms the foundation for the strong beliefs nosotros hold virtually ourselves. Her pieces illustrate ways in which we encode remembrances, the sacred value that memories have for u.s.a., and the importance of preserving them. Her research interests include the report of coded language of maps, and how materials acquire and communicate meaning.

Elena Brebenel's work has been shown both nationally and internationally including countries such as England, France, Romania, and America.

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Krista Hoefle
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Art
kristaSMC@gmail.com

BFA, The Savannah College of Art and Design (Furniture Design)
MFA, The Pennsylvania State University (Sculpture)

Class areas: Sculpture & Installation, Pattern, Digital Media

Krista Hoefle has been educational activity at Saint Mary's College for over 10 years, having previously taught Sculpture and Design at Penn Land University, where she received her MFA in Sculpture. Hoefle'southward installations explore cyborg identity, the (female) body mediated and transformed by engineering. She creates speculative narratives about a fictional grapheme that--unlike the anti-science morality tale of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein--reside in a techno-utopian future, filled with visual traces of brilliant, creative intelligences. Pre-cyborg realities are presented as restrained and express, while transhuman existences blossom with brilliant and brilliant cybernetic optimism. Her speculative narratives are constructed through a combination of electronic objects, prints, video, sound, and other technologically infused elements intermingled together in an installation surroundings that bleeps and blops.

Contempo exhibitions include: "Under One Roof" at the South Shore Convention and Visitors Centre (Hammond, IN); "Mystery Scientific discipline" at Tryk Tryk Tryk Gallery (Copenhagen, Denmark); "Ah Wilderness" at Ebersmoore Gallery (Chicago, IL); "Mischief Night" at the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL); "Ii Minute Picture Festival" at the Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, PA); "Video Dada" at Room Gallery, University of California (Irvine, CA), curated by Martha Gever; "Paper City" and "X" at Mixed Greens Gallery (NYC, NY). Krista has had residencies at Ballast Graphics (Chicago, IL) and The Experimental Television Middle (Owego, NY), and was a Visiting Creative person in the Sculpture expanse at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN). Her work has been reviewed in regional and national publications such equally Sculpture Mag, Art Papers, and TimeOut Chicago.

For more data, visit Prof. Hoefle'southward main website
...and other places on the web: mydeadbodyisadorable.com, vimeo.com/kristahoefle, youtube.com/kristahoef.

Sandra Ginter
Assistant Professor of Art
sginter@saintmarys.edu

BFA, Kansas City Art Institute
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Fine art (Ceramics)

Grade areas: Ceramics, Sculpture, Design

Sandra Ginter received her B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute and her G.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Fine art. She is currently didactics at Saint Mary's College in South Bend, Indiana. Her ceramic works investigate aspects of scientific discipline and philosophy. These two fields of report help fuel creative ways of exploring the relationship between the microbiological levels of our connection to other things. Mrs. Ginter has recently returned from an invitational residency at The International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemet, Republic of hungary.

Exhibitions include:

South Bend Museum of Fine art (South Bend, IN); Krasl Gallery at the Box Factory (St. Joseph, MI); S Shore Convention Center (Hammond, IN); Spaces Gallery (Cleveland, OH); University of Illinois--Wesleyan; Evanston Art Center (Evanston, IL); Southwestern Michigan College (Dowagiac, MI); Media Union Gallery, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI); Saniwax Gallery (Kalamazoo, MI); Baltimore Clayworks (Baltimore, Doctor); AMACO Gallery (Indianapolis, IN); and selected galleries during NCECA conferences in La Jolla, CA, Kansas Urban center, MO, and Phoenix, AZ.

For more than information, visit Prof. Ginter's website.

Tiffany Johnson Bidler
Assistant Professor of Fine art
Director, Moreau Fine art Galleries
tbidler@saintmarys.edu

BA, Vassar College
MA & PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Course areas: Fine art History

Tiffany Johnson Bidler is a specialist in American art and cloth culture, gimmicky art, and critical theory. Her research addresses fine art history's biases and exclusions past attention to issues of race and gender. She teaches a global art history survey and upper-level courses in modern art, contemporary fine art, performance, and theory and method. She too serves every bit Director of the Moreau Art Galleries.

Publications:

"An Appetite for the Maternal: Reading Boyishly and the Unmaking of Effeminophobia." Review of Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J.M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D.West. Winnicott, by Ballad Mavor, Art History 34 (June 2011).

"Bodies of Show: Inquest Photography in the Trial of Lizzie Borden." In Murder on Trial: 1620-2002, edited by Robert Asher, Lawrence B. Goodheart, and Alan Rogers, 235-271. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005.

Selected Conference Papers:

"1970s Feminist Operation Art and The Coming of Age," National Women's Studies Clan Annual Briefing, Oakland, California, 2012.

"Bound Cut: Kara Walker's Suicides," Mid-America College Art Clan Annual Briefing, Detroit, Michigan, 2012.

Co-Chair, "Intervention and Transformation: Fred Wilson'south Mining the Museum Twenty Years Later on," Annual Coming together, American Studies Association, Baltimore, Maryland, 2011.

"Color and Corners in Thomas Eakins'south Professor Benjamin Howard Rand and Dan Flavin'south Pink out of a Corner To Jasper Johns," Annual Coming together, Higher Art Association, Houston, Texas, 2007.

Marcia Rickard
Professor Emeritus
mrickard@saintmarys.edu

BA, Indiana University, Art History, 1970
MA, Dark-brown University, Art History, 1973
PhD, Brown University, Fine art History, 1978

Course areas: Art History

Marcia Rickard has taught at Saint Mary's College for over 30 years and sees herself as a generalist rather than a specialist in a detail surface area of art history. Having traveled widely, she brings to the art history classroom first-paw knowledge of many cultures and smashing enthusiasm for a broad range of courses. Although she notwithstanding teaches gothic art, the expanse of her dissertation, and nineteenth century fine art history, her secondary surface area of emphasis in graduate school, she has expanded her repertoire to include Asian art, also equally travel courses to Europe and China. Her interest in museums has led to consulting and lecturing at the Fine art Institute of Chicago and educational activity museum historiography and culture courses in London and Santa Fe equally well equally at SMC. She has received several NEH Seminar and Institute awards for study of Asian art, as well equally travel and teaching grants from Saint Mary'southward. In addition she has won the higher service accolade and stepped in to be Associate Dean for a period of 2 years. Recent research has focused on the piece of work of Jean Charlot, a 20th century painter/printmaker, especially his frescoes in Mexico and the United States. She collects and lectures on Asian textiles, and is currently learning the hands-on skills of the fibers creative person. As a past board member of NASAD, she supports its mission and is a site visitor.

Kelly Harrington
Lecturer
kharring@saintmarys.edu

BFA, Saint Mary'southward College, Art, 1989
MS, Indiana University, Fine art Education, 1992

Course areas: Art Appreciation, Drawing, Art Education

Kelly Harrington is a painter who utilizes color symbolism, abstraction and appropriation in her figurative work which is presently focused on themes of identity and emotional feel. Harrington received her bachelor's caste in art from Saint Mary'southward College followed by her chief'south degree in Art Education from Indiana University during which fourth dimension she studied and taught Art on the Navajo Reservation in southern Utah. She taught K-half dozen Art in the John Glenn School Organization for many years prior to having her own children and has taught preschool-adult students in diverse settings including local museums and private lessons. She has also developed and taught afterward school programs for both gifted/talented and at-take chances students. Harrington has received several awards and grants including an Artist-in-Residency for the John Glenn School Corporation, Teacher of the Year at North Liberty Elementary, a national Quango for Bones Education grant, an Indiana Individual Artist grant and, nearly recently, a Kinesthesia Enquiry grant from Saint Mary's.

Mary Klemczewski
Staff Assistant
mklemcze@saintmarys.edu

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