Faculty & Staff

Sterling Allen received his BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003 and holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.  He is a co-founder and co-director of Okay Mountain, an artist collective and former gallery based in Austin, Texas.  The group, founded in 2005, hosted over fifty exhibitions as a gallery and has work in the permanent collections of numerous national museums.  As a solo artist he has exhibited, organized and completed projects at venues throughout the United States and received a number of residencies including the Artpace International Artist-In-Residence Program in San Antonio, Texas and a residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska.  He lives and works in Austin and is currently an Assistant Professor in Studio Art at Texas State University.

Photo by Myles Pettengil, @myles_standish

Adam Atkinson (he/they) is a metalsmith, curator, and educator. Their work is informed by the visual lexicon of natural history, childhood memories, and material research. The body acts as the primary site for investigation, resulting in objects of adornment and sculpture. Metalsmithing processes such as repoussé are combined with experimental media in wood, concrete, and fur to produce work exploring the liminality of opposing forces. Atkinson received an MFA in Metal Design at East Carolina University (2019), and a BFA at Boise State University (2013). Their work has been exhibited widely including the Metal Museum in Memphis, TN, and Nagoya Zokei University in Nagoya, Japan. They co-founded Spectral Matter (2019), a biennial exhibition highlighting LGBTQIA+ artists. They have received numerous accolades including the emerging artist residency at the Baltimore Jewelry Center, the Emerging Artist Cohort through the American Craft Council, the Winter Residency at the Museum for Art in Wood, and the three-year residency at Penland School of Craft.

Mark Brinkman studied graphic design at California State University, Long Beach. Prior to opening MBA Design in 2002, he worked for seven years at internationally recognized Sibley Petite Design.

Mark has specialized in brand identity encompassing logos, packaging, environmental graphics, e-media, books, and advertising for corporations, small businesses, and nonprofits in almost every vertical market. He has created and managed brands and sub-brands for Coca-Cola, Nike, The United Nations, ESPN, IBM, Boys and Girls Club, Texas School for the Deaf, and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. His award-winning work has appeared in all major industry books and publications, including Graphis, Communications Arts, How, Print, Step-By-Step, and I.D. Magazine.

As his company's model changed to more senior-level associates, the absence of young designers in the studio made him realize that mentorship was just as important a part of his life as design. He now shares his time between teaching, MBA Design, and fly fishing in high-altitude streams for wild trout.

Trey Burns is an artist, writer, and co-director of Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to providing space and support for experimental and large-scale outdoor works by emerging artists. In 2023, Sweet Pass received a Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for Sculpture School, an alternative education and exhibition program designed to deepen artists’ understanding of place. Burns is a 2024/2025 Research Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, UK. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas, TX), Saint Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, MO), Pavillon Vendôme (Clichy-la-Garenne, France), and Wassaic Projects (Wassaic, NY). His recent writing has appeared in Southwest Contemporary, the Holt/Smithson Foundation, Nasher Magazine, the Nasher Prize Compendium, and Burnaway.

Andréa Caillouet is an artist and graphic designer interested in discovering and fostering creativity wherever possible and in whatever shape or form it may take. As an artist, her work has employed an endless variety of media while continually exploring notions of the self, relationships with others, and the concept of home. As a freelance graphic designer she has had the pleasure of working with many clients who share common interests in the worlds of art and socially oriented non-profits. She has designed work for print, the web, and the built environment. She earned BFA degrees in both Graphic Design and Painting & Drawing from Louisiana State University and holds an MFA in Painting from the University of Texas. To learn more about her work, visit her website at www.andreacaillouet.com

Jimmy James Canales is a San Antonio-based artist working in sculpture and expanded media. Canales received his BFA from the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston, and his MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio. His work has been shown throughout the state of Texas as well as nationally, including Boston, MA; Los Angeles, CA; and Las Cruces, New Mexico. Canales is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, most notably the Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Award for Artists (2015), the Tanne Foundation Award (2016) and the Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant (2015). Recently he was selected for the 2018-2019 Blue Star Contemporary Berlin Residency Program at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE.  He works as a Lecturer in Studio Art: Expanded Media at Texas State University in San Marcos.

Andrew Chen is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Art in the School of Art and Design. He received an AB from Harvard University in 2011 and his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2016. His book, Flagellant Confraternities and Italian Art, 1260–1610: Ritual and Experience, was published by Amsterdam University Press in 2018. Since joining Texas State University in 2021, his articles have appeared in Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, Source: Notes in the History of Art, and Viator. Dr. Chen's work has benefited from the support of The Huntington Library, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Kunsthistoriches Institut in Florenz—Max-Planck-Institut, St John's College, Cambridge, and Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

A graduate of Southwest Texas State University, Chris has spent the past 30 years teaching Visual Art at high school-level for San Marcos CISD. She served as a Texas State University Cooperating Teacher for most of those years, mentoring student teachers, block interns, and teachers new to education on her campus.

As part of an Apple Education Grant-winning team comprised of San Marcos High School teachers, Texas State University professors, and a local community arts activist, Chris connected high school students with art + technology for the first time at San Marcos High School, teaching Graphic Design for 20 years. Other educational opportunities she provided Visual Art students include awarding credit-in-escrow for Austin Community College in Graphic Design, and preparing students for College Board Advanced Placement credits in Art History and Studio Art & Design.

In addition to supervising student teachers, Chris is active in Texas Art Education Association, having served on the Executive Board, and currently serving as State Director of High School VASE, a competition structure for high school artists that attracts over 35,000 artwork entries across Texas. She continues to serve as a volunteer Visual Arts advocate and exhibition facilitator for SMCISD.

Jeffrey Davis (AKA "Jefe") is an award-winning designer and design educator, teaching Communication Design in the School of Art and Design at Texas State University-San Marcos since 2000. Prior to joining the faculty Texas State, he worked as the creative director at Judson Design Associates and Senior Designer at Hill Branding in Houston, Texas.

Jeff’s focus in teaching and professional practice is in human centered design, design at enterprise scale, and design centered innovation. He has a quarter-century of design experience in international and national corporate marketing and branding for a broad array of Furtune 500 and Fortune 100 clients across four continents including: Ritz-Carlton Residences, JCB Bank—Japan, Cushman Wakefield, Continental Airlines, Pepsi/Frito-Lay, Houston Rockets, Chevron, Exxon, HP, Mitchell Energy, ConocoPhillips, Cooper Industries, Howard Hughes, The Woodlands Development Company, Texas Medical Center and Hines.

Throughout his 25-year career Jeff has continually donated his time and talent for cause-based organizations. He has received international peer recognition for his designs, which have raised international awareness for education, global conflict, environmental issues, cancer, human rights, universal healthcare, and marine preservation.

Jeff has been recognized for excellence by leading communication design organizations, publications, and journals, which include: The New York Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club, Communication Arts, Print, How, Good50X70, Logo Lounge, and Graphis Press. He has also served as a board member for AIGA.

His passion for design and design education is both tempered and fueled by a deep love of the outdoors—mainly surfing and fly fishing. He shares these outdoor adventures with his family — daughters Jess and Elli and three rescue dogs, always under the watchful eye of Shannon, his amazing wife of 15 years.

Jeffrey was born in California and grew up in Oregon. He completed his BA at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN. He did a two-year assistantship at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA, where he ran a printshop and helped teach. He completed graduate studies in Printmaking at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

From 1998-2000 Jeffrey was a Fellow at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy, where he worked and taught print and book. In 2000, he accepted a position in printmaking at Texas State University, where he is currently a professor.

Jeffrey shows at Art Palace Gallery in Houston.

Embodying science and technology into art; Heightening awareness on environmental injustice by human civilization worldwide; Amplifying disturbing health issues associated with nutrition: These issues have inspired Nicole DesChamps-Benke's artwork over the past 20 years. Nicole teaches classes that integrate 3D digital fabrication technologies with traditional studio making processes at Texas State University and maintains her art practice in several studios and maker spaces in southern Texas. The Walker Art Museum Shop Gallery (Minneapolis), Aaron Faber Gallery (New York), American Craft Museum (New York), Gallery Okariya (Ginza District of Tokyo), Yamawaki Art college Gallery (Tokyo, Japan) and Tsubame Industrial Materials Museum (Nigata, Japan) have exhibited her work. Additional showcases can be found in publications, such as The Metalsmith’s Book of Boxes and Lockets; Mokume Gane: A Comprehensive Study; Metalsmith Magazine; and The Four Seasons of Jewelry Japanese quarterly journal. Nicole was a featured copresenter at the 1999 Society of North American Goldsmiths conference in St. Louis, Missouri, for being an early adopter of computer aided technologies. The Museum of Art and Design, formerly American Craft Museum, (New York) and Racine Art Museum (Racine) hold her work in their permanent collections. 

Erina Duganne teaches courses on contemporary art, photography, and visual culture. She is also a contributor to the participatory arts and education project Borderland Collective, with whom she organized the traveling exhibition Northern Triangle. Her research and writing address three interrelated areas: artist activism and solidarity practices; documentary photography and its histories; and race and its representation. She is a co-author of Global Photography: A Critical History and author of The Self in Black and White: Race and Subjectivity in Postwar American Photography. Her editorial work includes the forthcoming anthology Cold War Camera; a special issue of the journal photographies; and the exhibition catalogues Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities and Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain. Her writings have also appeared in the journals Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, The Art Bulletin, Photography & Culture, and English Language Notes. Her co-curated exhibition on Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America opened at the Tufts University Art Galleries in January 2022 and, in February 2022, she co-chaired the Feminist Art Project’s Day of Panels at the College Art Association’s annual conference on the theme of “Feminist Solidarities and Kinships.” Her current book project, Visual Solidarities: Art, Activism, and Central America, is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.

Jonathan Faber received his BFA from Alfred University in 1994 and a MFA from the University of Texas Austin in 2003. His work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums across the country, including Cue Art Foundation, the Galveston Arts Center, David Shelton Gallery, and the Blanton Museum of Art. Among his awards are those from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Faber is currently an Assistant Professor at Texas State University in the School of Art and Design. He lives and works in Austin, Texas.

Shannon Faseler earned a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin by following her life long passion for studying and producing art.  An MFA from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago followed shortly after. It was during graduate school, as a teaching assistant, that a love of teaching developed.  After graduation, and a move to the more temperate climate of the west coast, Faseler accepted teaching positions in both studio and art history departments at several Orange County colleges.  In addition to teaching, Faseler was appointed Gallery Director at Irvine Valley College. Recently, she has returned home to Texas and is currently establishing her studio practice while teaching at Texas State University. She continues to exhibit her personal work both locally and nationally. You can read Faseler's full CV here.

Joey Fauerso is an artist and Associate professor at Texas State University. Her work resides at the intersection between painting, drawing, and performance. Over the last ten years she has been working on a series of paintings, drawings and video that rely on gesture and improvisation to explore themes of nature, gender, family, and humor. The inspiration for the work is rooted in her experiences growing up in a Transcendental Meditation community in Iowa, an ongoing interest in the ways gender is expressed and defined in Western art, and most recently her experiences as a parent and observer of the cognitive and creative processes of children. Recently her work has been included in exhibitions at the Drawing Center in New York, The David Shelton Gallery in Houston, and Antenna Gallery in New Orleans. She lives with her family in San Antonio, Texas.

For over 20 years Tommy Fitzpatrick has been creating a large and diverse body of work. Beginning with painting architecture as a geometric representation and then beginning to push towards abstraction, his work allows viewers to see the world through his perspective. By continuing to creatively push himself he now creates his subject matter by piecing it together from found materials and painting from these sculptures he created. 

Born in Dallas in 1969, Tommy Fitzpatrick received a B.A. in Fine Art from the University of Texas in Austin in 1991, followed by an M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art in 1993. His work has been included in over 20 solo and numerous group exhibitions in Dallas, Houston, New York, Madrid, London, Berlin and Seoul. He recently finished a commission for the federal reserve bank of Dallas and his work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Menil Collection as well as the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Fitzpatrick is currently an Associate Professor of painting at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. He resides in Austin. 

Anthony Francis is full-time lecturer in Texas State’s Photography department in the School of Art and Design and currently lives and runs a studio in San Antonio, Texas. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English, a M.A. in Educational Leadership and Human Development from George Washington University and an MFA from The Academy of Art University. His photographic interests engage issues of power and love within the medium, specifically the process of portraiture and matters of the body. 

He has delivered talks at Society of Photographic Educator’s national conference, Black Portraitures II, and collaboratively at Discrit for Atlanta Contemporary and more. His work has been exhibited widely and is in the private and public permanent collections of The McNay Contemporary Art Museum, Lone Star Colleges, and others. 

Sydney Guzman (b.1997, McAllen, TX) earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in the spring of 2023, following her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Texas State University in 2021. Sydney’s work has been showcased at venues such as The Peal Museum in Baltimore, MD, The Lazarus Gallery at The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD, Rockport Center of the Arts in Rockport, TX, and Texas State Galleries in San Marcos, TX. Currently, Guzman resides in Austin, TX where she serves as a lecturer in The School of Art and Design at Texas State University.

Claire Hendren received her M.A. in Art Museum Studies from Georgetown University and her Ph.D. from Université Paris Nanterre in 2019. She has also worked as a lecturer at the Institut Catholique de Paris and as an assistant to the directors of the NEH Summer Institute Museums: Humanities in the Public Sphere at Georgetown University.

Estéban Hinojosa is an alumnus of both the design and art history programs of the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining Texas State, he taught Italian Art History and Culture for multiple semesters at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. He has taught Ancient Art at St. Edward's University and Art Appreciation at Austin Community College. As a graphic designer and publications assistant at UT's Institute of Classical Archaeology, he contributed to several books on excavations in southern Italy and the Black Sea. His lectures are peppered with his own pictures documenting the buildings, sculptures, and images of the art historical canon, and each semester he leads field trips to museums in Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth, and Austin. In 2023, he earned the College of Fine Art and Communication's Department Distinction in Teaching Award. Before joining the full-time faculty, he was the recipient of the 2016–2017 Part Time Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, granted by the Faculty Senate of Texas State University.

Sarah Hirneisen uses three-dimensional materials and processes to elevate familiar and everyday objects. She received a BFA in glass from Rhode Island School of Design in 2001 and her MFA in sculpture in 2011 from Mills College. Sarah has received a Community Initiatives Grant through the City of Austin, was awarded a residency through the Hungarian Multicultural Center, has received an Individual Artist Grant through the City of Oakland’s Cultural Art’s Program and a Phelan, Murphy & Cadogan fellowship from the San Francisco Foundation for graduate students in the arts. She teaches Sculpture at Texas State University and has taught at Mills College, Cabrillo College, and City College of San Francisco. Sarah has exhibited her work extensively throughout the US as well as Hungary, Korea and England.

Dr. Kevin Jenkins is an Assistant Professor of Art Education. He earned his Ph.D. in 2018 at the University of North Texas. His work has been presented and published nationally and internationally, including in the journals Studies in Art Education, Visual Arts Research, Visual Culture & Gender, the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, and the International Journal of Education through Art as well as chapters in edited books Pedagogies in the Flesh: Case Studies on the Embodiment of Sociocultural Differences in Education, NAEA Women's Caucus Lobby Activism: Feminism(s) + Art Education, and Pedagogical Propositions: Playful Walking with A/r/tography. 

He has extensive experience teaching art to underserved populations including 15 years at community colleges in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. In the community college setting, he taught art appreciation, studio art, and art history survey courses and utilized art museums and gallery spaces as "immersive textbooks" in his courses. This allowed him to create openings for adult students with diverse backgrounds and limited prior exposure to art find connections and build relationships with the artworks, art-making techniques, artists, and art institutions in their communities and beyond. Prior to joining Texas State, Dr. Jenkins taught undergraduate and graduate courses as a doctoral fellow of art education and from 2019-2021 as a postdoctoral scholar of art education at Penn State University.

Bethany Johnson is an artist currently living in Austin. Johnson's work, largely drawings and collage works, investigate the natural world and human attempts to understand, translate, and capture geological and weather phenomena. The works provide sites for the juxtaposition of informational, diagrammatic imaging with more poetic, intuitive compositional structures.

Johnson received her BA in studio art from the Kalamazoo College in Michigan in 2007 and MFA in Painting at The University of Texas at Austin in 2011. Her work is represented by Moody Gallery in Houston, and has been featured in New American Paintings, Hyperallergic, and the Austin Chronicle, among others. Johnson has held residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Denkmalschmiede Höfgen in Germany, and the Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat in Pennsylvania. Johnson will be having her third solo show with Moody Gallery in 2019, as well as completing three residencies in Texas, Vermont, and Germany. 

Brian Johnson holds an MFA from the University of Texas, Austin (1997) and a BFA from the University of South Dakota (1994). Brian was the Master Printer for the Serie Project, where he collaborated with over forty artists, creating several limited edition screen prints. The Serie prints have been exhibited around the world and included in museum collections and publications.

Brian’s personal prints have been included in over two hundred regional, national and international exhibits. Some notable jurors that have selected his work include, Sarah Suzuki, Curator at MOMA, David William Kiehl, Curator at the Whitney, and Roberta Waddell, Curator Emerita at The New York Public Library. His prints are part of several public and private collections. Brian lives and works in Austin TX

Tamara Johnson is an artist, educator and curator working primarily in sculpture, installation, and public art. Her work delves into the nuances of domestic objects, binding humor, sensuality and vulnerability tightly together. Using a wide range of materials from bronze to silicone rubber, Johnson unravels the meaning and metaphors embedded in the familiar. Johnson obtained her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin and her MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Her projects have been exhibited at The Nasher Sculpture Center, the Saint Louis Art Museum, The Blanton Museum of Art, Carillon Gallery at Tarrant County College, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, the Fort Worth Modern, Keijsers Koning Gallery, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Jonathan Hopson Gallery and in New York; Socrates Sculpture Park, The CUE Art Foundation, Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center, International Objects and Maria Hernandez Park in Brooklyn. Johnson has been awarded grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council, The Foundation for Contemporary Art, the Santo Foundation, Southern Methodist University (SMU), the Meadows Museum 2022 Moss/Chumley Award, and recently a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Project Grant for Sweet Pass Sculpture Park. In 2018, Johnson and partner, Trey Burns, opened Sweet Pass Sculpture Park - a nonprofit art space featuring outdoor projects by emerging and mid-career artists on a rotating basis.

Jules Buck Jones creates art inspired by the mechanics and mysteries of the natural world. His body of work ranges from dense, organic watercolors and drawings, to large-scale performances employing costumes and puppetry. He is a founding member and now president of the collective, non-profit, MASS Gallery. MASS Gallery shows local and national artists of all levels, runs an annual artist residency, and houses a small art store. Jules has been accepted and invited to art residencies in Maine, New York, Tennessee, Vermont, and the Florida Everglades. He shows extensively throughout TX with solo shows and representation in Austin, Dallas and Houston. Jules designed the official 2016 Austin City Limits Music Festival poster, and is currently creating a 40’ Mosasaur skeleton for the 2016 Waller Creek Conservancy’s Creek Show. Jules currently teaches painting and drawing at TX State University in San Marcos.

Dr. Sean Justice, Associate Professor, Art Education, teaches and writes about maker education, material inquiry pedagogy, and teacher education in the digital age. His book, Learning to Teach in the Digital Age: New Materialities and Maker Paradigms in Schools was published in 2016 by Peter Lang, Inc. He holds a doctorate in Art and Art Education from Columbia University, Teachers College, where he taught digital fabrication, physical computing, creative coding, and photography, to pre- and in-service teachers from across the curriculum. While at Teachers College, he designed and directed the Myers Media Art Studio, a center for exploratory art and technology research. As an artist he has exhibited photographs, videos and computer animations both nationally and internationally.

Projects
Exploring Early Childhood Teachers' Abilities to Identify Computational Thinking Precursors to Strengthen Computer Science in Classrooms. National Science Foundation award to study computer science education in preK-5 teacher education.  (Abstract #2006595)

Families Learning Together (FLT): Building Sustainable Computational Fluencies in Classrooms and Communities in San Marcos, Texas. A community education project across the curriculum at Texas State University. (FLTSMTX)

Material Inquiry Collaboration and Research Consultancy: http://materialinquiry.com

Sean Justice Studios: http://seanjustice.com

Media
Future teachers integrate technology into art classes with new program. (University Star)
How to Bring Hands-On Learning Back to the Classroom. (100 Mentors Blog)
Makerspace User Group. Association of Technology Leaders in Independent Schools (Webinar)

Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• Justice, S., Morrison, E., & Yorks, L. (2020). Enacting Reflection: A new approach to workplace complexities. Advances in Developing Human Resources. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422320927300
• Justice, S., Bang, A., Lundgren, H., Marsick, V. J., Poell, R. F., & Yorks, L. (2020). Operationalizing reflection in experience-based workplace learning: A hybrid approach. Human Resource Development International. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2019.1621250
• Justice, S., Cabral, M. & Gugliotta, K. (2019). The crayon doesn’t do that: Early childhood and advanced technology. In R. Garner (Ed.) Exploring Digital Technologies for Art-Based Special Education: Models and Methods for the Inclusive K-12 Classroom. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Justice, S., & Yorks, L. (2018). Incidental learning as an enacted encounter with materiality. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2018(159), 91-102. doi.org/10.1002/ace.20289
• Cabral, M. & Justice, S. (2018). “Material Inquiry: Digital Materials, People, and the Relationships Between Them”. In E. Garber, L. Hochtritt, & M. Sharma (Eds.), Makers, crafters, educators: Working for cultural change. New York, NY: Routledge.

Book

Justice, S. (2016). Learning to Teach in the Digital Age: New Materialities and Maker Paradigms in Schools. (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies) New York, NY: Peter Lang, Inc.

Ariel Kay received her B.S. in Anthropology with a minor in Education from Bryn Mawr College, located west of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She holds a M.A. in Art Education from the University of Texas at Austin. Kay is from Austin, TX and taught elementary art for eight years in Austin ISD, six consecutive years at a Title 1 school in East Austin. She continues to teach weekly after school art programming for the upper grade levels at the elementary, as well as volunteer with the 2^nd graders in collaboration with the Contemporary Austin Seeing Special Things Program. She is the co-founder of the Art All Summer program, providing art supplies and summer art programming, in collaboration with Creative Action, to elementary school students in East Austin. Ariel Kay is currently an Assistant Professor of Practice in Art Education, Supervisor of Art Education Student Teachers, and the Office of Educator Preparation Liaison.

MiHyun Kim is a designer, an artist and an educator. Her research agenda focuses on creating meaningful connections between people and their communities. By using digital technology, human experience design, and data visualization, her interdisciplinary nature of projects serves to create a sense of belonging and to enhance humanity. 

Prior to coming to the United States to earn her MFA in Visual Design from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, she worked as a graphic designer at COEX (Convention and Exhibition) center in Seoul, South Korea, one of the biggest cultural venues in Asia. 

Her projects have been recognized from numerous international and national design organizations including Interaction Design (IxD) Association, ico-D, Ars Electronica, CAA, Cumulus, AIGA Design Educator Community, UCDA Design Education Summit, and eyeO festival. 

Her design projects are in the permanent collection at Lonsford Collection at Purdue University Galleries and Denmark Poster Museum in Aabyhøj, Denmark. 

Dr. Sarah E. Kleinman is an art historian, museum professional, and teacher specializing in modern and contemporary art and museum studies, with a focus on Caribbean, diasporic, and expatriate artists and curators. In addition to her work at Virginia Commonwealth University, Dr. Kleinman is a Fulbright alumna, and her forthcoming book In Favor of One’s Time: Locating the Curatorial Practices of Kynaston McShine will be published by the University of Arkansas Press. 

Grayson was born in Austin, Tx and earned his BFA and MFA in Communication Design from Texas State University. After working in the field as a brand, advertising, interaction, and game designer, he returned to TxState to teach in 2004.

Other than wearing geeky t-shirts, slinging tons of “dad-jokes”, and drooling over British motorbikes, Grayson loves to teach Web and Mobile Application Design in both the graduate and undergraduate programs. He also teaches User Experience in our MFA graduate program. Grayson co-hosts an annual hackathon, creating teams of Communication Design, Computer Science, and Business students to solve real-world interaction design problems.

From a research perspective, Grayson has created mobile applications for museums, high-school Government classes, physician-physician communication, and campus safety. Currently, he is developing new rapid prototyping techniques for virtual reality (VR) and working with his students and co-researchers, designing environments to help veterans cope with PTSD and to train EMS personnel.  

Jeffrey Lieber is an art and architectural historian, author of Flintstone Modernism or the Crisis in Postwar American Culture (MIT Press, 2018). Highlighting canonical works within the contexts of Hollywood films and philosophical, political, and literary debates, his book surveys anxieties about the fate of the Classical tradition and durability of art in the post-WWII era. Lieber's wide-ranging interests in the field have been sponsored by the Delmas Foundation Grant for Independent Research in Venice among others. A visiting professor at Harvard University (2015-2016), his articles have appeared in the New York Times and international magazines as well as peer-reviewed journals. In recent years, Lieber has been invited to present lectures at museums and universities in the United States, Australia, England, and Germany. He received his AB from Vassar College and his PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  

Jessica Mallios’ photographs and video work examine how objects are seen—dislocating them, suspending their recognition for the viewer, and exploring the relationship between spectacle and artifice. Mallios was born in Austin, Texas, and holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Her most recent exhibitions include Photography Sees the Surface at Higher Pictures in NY (2015); Local Time at The Center for Ongoing Research & Projects (COR&P) in Columbus (2015); Sightings at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center in Portland (2014); and Sight lines at Artpace in San Antonio (2014).  Mallios is currently Assistant Professor in the School of Art & Design at Texas State University and lives and works in Austin.

Rebecca Marino is a visual artist and curator currently living in Austin, TX. She graduated from St. Edward’s University with a BA in Photocommunications and a minor in Art History. From 2015-19 she was co-editor and co-founder of Conflict of Interest, an online publication highlighting literature and visual art in Texas. Previously the Gallery Director for both Flex Space Gallery and Pump Project in Austin, she has been the Associate Director for Texas State Galleries in San Marcos, TX since 2017.

Tom May received his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Originally from Chicago, Illinois he moved to Austin and opened Clear as Mud Ceramic Studio, producing works for Museum gift shops and Fine Arts festivals. His works have been shown nationally as well as throughout Texas. He started working for Texas State University in 2003 and is currently a full-time Lecturer, teaching courses in Ceramics, Sculpture, and Foundations.

Joshua M G McCormick received his BA in 2008 and MFA in 2019 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has also trained at The Ox-Bow School of Art in Michigan. He has exhibited and performed widely at institutions including Camayuhs, Atlanta; the Soap Factory, Minneapolis; 2nd Floor Rear Festival, Chicago; Links Hall, Chicago; and the Chicago Artist Coalition. McCormick has participated in the ACRE Residency in Wisconsin and collaborated with Project Firebird in Chicago and Juxtaposition Arts in Minneapolis. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Texas State University's School of Art and Design, 2023-2024, he lives in San Antonio, Texas; he was previously a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an instructor and technician at Northwestern University. McCormick has previously taught at After School Matters, Art Reach, and ElevArte Community Studios in Chicago. 

Dorothy Jean McKetta received her degrees in Studio Art and Art History (BA and BFA, 2007; MA, 2012; PhD, 2024) from the University of Texas at Austin, most recently earning her PhD in 2024 with the dissertation “Giorgio Morandi: Los Angeles, 1961.” Her art historical work draws connections between post-war art worlds in Italy and the United States. As a writer and instructor, McKetta often incorporates elements of her studio training into her approaches to art history and criticism.

Professor Meek earned his MFA, with a major in Visual Communication Design, from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio; his BFA, with a major in Printmaking, from University of North Texas (UNT), Denton, Texas; his Texas State Teachers Certification, Secondary Education, from UNT; and doctoral studies in Curriculum and Instruction for Online Learning, Capella University, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

His design and research interests are advertising art direction, branding voice and systems, emerging circular design, design strategy, and design pedagogy including learning outcomes assessment. His professional outcomes have been featured in national and international design competitions and publications including Communication Arts Magazine; New York Art Directors Annual; Graphis Poster Annual, NY; American Advertising Federation competitions; LogoLounge; and Print Regional Magazine.

He has 32 years of teaching experience in the Communication Design MFA and BFA programs at Texas State University. He was the principle investigator, author, and advocate for the Communication Design MFA Substantive Program Proposal, School of Art and Design, Texas State University. He and the Communication Design graduate faculty launched the MFA program in the fall 2007. His graduate and undergraduate student learning outcomes have been featured in competitions and publications including Graphis New Talent Annual, NY; Graphis Poster Annual; AIGA Flux Blueridge Competition; LogoLounge; CYMK Magazine; Posters for Tomorrow; and Good 50 X 70, Competitions and Anthology Annual, Milan, Italy.

His personal interests range from cultivating fruit orchards to Italian motorcycles.

Annie Miller is an Austin-based artist whose work explores the cultural expectations of femininity, fecundity, and aging. Miller holds an MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Women and Gender Studies from The University of Texas at Austin and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from California State University Fullerton. Exhibition of her work includes: FL3X Space Gallery, MASS Gallery, New American Painting, Cage Match Project at The Museum of Human Achievement, The Courtyard Gallery, and CoLab Projects (Austin); WANUSAY (Montreal); McSweeney’s Believer Logger; and Icebox Project Space (Philadelphia). Miller is a full-time lecturer in the School of Art and Design at Texas State University.

Monica Mohnot (b.1982, India) is an artist, a teacher, and a mother who lives and works in Bee Caves, Texas. Her paintings frequently depict abstract bodily forms, simplified landscapes, and idiosyncratic patterns. Monica received her MFA in Studio Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023 and her BFA in Studio Art from Texas State University in 2019. She has shown her work throughout Texas, as well as nationally. Monica is a member of the Austin-based ICOSA Collective. You can see her work on her website.

Ryan Sandison Montgomery is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Austin, TX. He holds a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. His work has recently been featured on Artnet and Glasstire and is held in the City of Austin’s permanent collection. He attended Ox-Bow Art School and Artist’s Residency in Michigan and the Vermont Studio Center. Prior to becoming an educator, Montgomery was a window-dresser in Manhattan, overseeing large installations and managing artist teams. 

Devi Norton is a freelance graphic designer who lives and works in San Antonio. Devi completed her BFA in 1996 at the Rhode Island School of Design and her graduate work in 2013 from Texas State University. Throughout her studies, Devi developed a particular interest in designing books and catalogs for publication. She also works on brand identity, logos, environmental design, brochures, product packaging, posters, presentations, mailers and invitations.

Adetty Pérez de Miles, Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Art Education Program, earned a dual Ph.D. in Art Education and Women’s Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include contemporary art and theory, socially engaged art practices, the intersection of art and technology, postcolonial and feminist theory, post-qualitative inquiry, and teacher education in the visual arts. At Texas State University, Pérez de Miles teaches courses in curriculum and pedagogical design to prepare preservice teachers to enter the field of art education and earn Texas Teacher Certification (EC-12).  Professor Pérez de Miles’s teaching is guided by arts-based and inquiry-based approaches to learning, digital pedagogies, socially responsive teaching centered on equity and diversity, and exploring critical and post-critical frameworks to support inclusive LGBQ+ and transgender curriculum and instruction. Prior to her teaching experiences in tertiary education, Pérez de Miles earned All-Level Teacher Licensure and was an art educator in public schools. She taught Advance Placement Art History, AP Studio (drawing, photography, ceramics), and led her schools’ International Baccalaureate Diploma Program in the Visual Arts.

Dr. Pérez de Miles is the author of numerous peer-reviewed scholarly articles and book chapters on dialogic pedagogy, art as social practice, decolonial street art, visual culture, new media, material inquiry (New Materialism), feminist epistemology, and  Latin American art. She has given numerous presentations at national and international conferences in the US, Portugal, Turkey, Australia, and Germany. Prof. Pérez de Miles has taught graduate and undergraduate seminars in Brazil, and was the keynote speaker for Cross | Trans Cultural Communication: Art & Design as Social Practice, at the Graduate School of Creative Industry at the National Taiwan University of Art (NTUA), Taipei, Taiwan, 2017.

Select Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• Pérez Miles, A. (2019). Unbound philosophies & histories: Epistemic disobedience in contemporary Latin American art. In J. Baldacchino (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of art and design education, volume 1. Histories and philosophies of art & design education. Wiley-Blackwell and the National Society of Art and Design Education (NSEAD). Link
• Pérez Miles, A. (2019). Street art interventions: Nuclear cake & atomic ray goats on the rez. In A. Wexler & V. Sabbaghi (Eds.), Bridging communities through the arts (pp. 204-210). New York, NY. Routledge. Link
• Pérez Miles, A. (2018). Journey notes of Panamerica: The social practices of art—a conversation between Pablo Helguera and Adetty Perez de Miles. In E. Gonzales & S. Reisman (Eds.), Mobilizing pedagogy: Two social practice projects in the Americas by Pablo Helguera and Suzanne Lacy. Amherst, MA. Amherst Press. Link
• Pérez Miles, A., & Kalin, N. (2018). Speculative realism(s) objects / matter / entanglements of art and design education: Special issue. International Journal of Education through Art, 14(1), 3-12. Link
• Pérez Miles, A. (2018). The social expulsion of the migrant: Aesthetic and tactical interventions. Journal of Social Theory in Art Education (JSTAE), 38, 5-15. Link
• Pérez Miles, A., & Jenkins, K. (2017). (Re)Born digital – Trans-affirming research, curriculum, and pedagogy: An interactive multimodal story using Twine. In A. Knochel & R. Patton (Eds.), Special Iissue: Born digital: (Im)Migrating to digital art education. Visual Arts Research, 43(1), 43-49. Link
• Pérez Miles, A., & Libersat, J. (2016). ROAM: Walking, mapping, and play: Wanderings in art and art education. Studies in Art Education, 57(4), 341-357. Link
• Pérez Miles, A. (2016). The antinomy of autonomy and heteronomy in contemporary art practices. Special issue: Ranciére, art education, and politics. Knowledge Cultures, 4(5), 43-60. Link      

Book

Keifer-Boyd, K., Hoeptner Poling, L., Klein, S., Knight, W. B., & Pérez Miles, A. (Eds.). (in-press) National Art Education Association Women’s Caucus Lobby Activism: Feminism(s) + Art Education. National Art Education Association. (Anticipated publication date, 2021). 

Elvia Perrin received her MFA from the University of North Texas at Dention in 2002. She was a collaborator, printer and artist at Flatbed Press + Gallery in Austin, Texas for seven years. She has taught printmaking and foundation courses locally for over a decade. She currently is a Lecturer of Art at Texas State University and working in her own printmaking studio. Elvia is the Founding Executive Director: PrintAustin, a city-wide contemporary print event. She has collaborated with Retailers Pottery Barn, Crate and Barrel and TRNK, NY and has shown nationally and internationally. Elvia is currently represented by Wally Workman Gallery and  lives in Austin, Texas. 

Jessamyn Plotts is an artist living and working in San Marcos, TX. She received her BFA from Texas State University in San Marcos, TX in 2015 and my MFA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX in 2019. Her work, a combination of painting, drawing, and performance, deals with boundaries, particularly how we differentiate art, life, and subjective experience.  She studies perspective and the use of the picture plane to explore relationships between her body, pop culture figures, identity and subjectivity, and the way we contain those ideas in the neat rectangular packages of pictures.  Influences include Adrian Piper, Carolee Schneeman, Julia Kristeva, Marcel Proust, Francis Bacon, Rackstraw Downes and Pieter Schoolwerth.  Jessamyn has exhibited work both regionally and nationally, with solo shows at Inner Space: a Chamber Gallery in Dallas Texas and Texas State Universities FLEX Space. Her work has been featured in the publications New American Paintings, D Magazine, Holding Pattern, and Peripheral Visions.  Additionally, she was the recipient of a Merit Scholarship award at the Vermont Studio Center in 2019. 

Nishra Ranpura is an interdisciplinary designer, researcher, and creative technologist. She earned her Bachelor in Textile Design from National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), in Gandhinagar, India, and holds an MFA with honors in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design, The New School, in New York, along with a minor in Anthropology and Design. Her work explores the interactions between the physical and the digital through experimental and speculative narratives. She researches, practices, and teaches across the disciplines of new media, digital fabrication, digital design, creative technology, and design research. Essentially, she makes things and breaks things. Sometimes, she writes, and oftentimes, she wonders.

Jason Reed is Texas-based artist and educator. With a background in geography, his work deals with the confluence of land, politics, and visual histories. He is a Professor of Photography and the Jones Professor of Southwestern Studies at Texas State University and holds a BA in Geography from the University of Texas and an MFA in Photography from Illinois State University. Reed has created gallery and public space exhibitions at venues such as Artpace in San Antonio, Krannert Museum at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, storefront windows in Miles, Texas, Galerie Reinthaler in Vienna, Austria, Dallas Contemporary, La Asamblea Legislativa in Mexico City, and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.  

Professor Randall Reid has obtained both a national and international record. His artworks have been added to private collections in Australia, Canada, England, Indonesia, Mexico, Netherlands, Switzerland and The United States totaling over 68 cities. His work has also been added to 28 public collections including the Austin Museum of Art. Three scholarly monographs, Randall Reid: Layers of Perception  (56 pages), Recontextualized: Ordered Layers (100 pages) and Full Circle: Randall Reid (88 pages) were produced about his artwork and process.  These three artist’s books have won a total of 6 awards from regional, national and international design competitions. Randall Reid is represented by the following galleries: the William Campbell Contemporary Art Gallery, Ft. Worth, TX, Costello/Childs Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ, Davis Gallery, Austin, TX, and Nuart Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.  He has participated in solo shows at: The Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX, Grace Museum, Abilene, TX, Joan Grona Gallery, San Antonio, TX, McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX, Nuart Galery, Santa Fe, NM, Poissant Galery, Houston, TX, D.M. Allison Gallery, Houston, TX, St. Edwards University, Austin, TX and William Campbell Contemporary Art Gallery, Ft. Worth, TX and had a retrospective totaling 93 works at the Katy Contemporary Art Museum in Katy, TX.

 Mr. Reid has given artist talks at the McNay Museum, the Grace Museum, the Galveston Art Center, St. Edwards University, the Katy Contemporary Art Museum, and the Paia Contemporary Gallery, Maui, HI. He has received the Presidential Seminar Award and the Dean’s Seminar Award for Scholarly/Creative Research, he also received a Research Enhancement Grant and was awarded two Developmental Leaves at Texas State University.

One of his works Sky Chief hung for three years at the American Embassy in Kuwait.  Sky Chief was the cover image for the Art in Embassies Exhibition Catalog, which included a review, essay and biography. Additionally, many critical essays and published articles have been written about his work.

Mr. Reid received his B.F.A. from Louisiana Tech University in 1978 and a M.F.A. from Texas Tech University in 1981. After six years as an artist-in-resident he began his teaching career at Texas State University in 1988 where he teaches foundation courses in drawing and design.  He has shown his work in over 350 exhibitions spanning 36 states and 4 countries including Kuwait, Chile and Canada.  

Soomin Jung Remmler was born in Seoul, South Korea, and relocated in San Antonio, Texas where she earned an MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2008. In 2007, Soomin was awarded a residency at the Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy. She is a nationally and internationally internationally exhibiting artist and a full-time lecturer at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. Recent exhibitions include: McNay museum of art in San Antonio TX (2022), grayDUCK gallery, Austin, TX (2022), Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX (2021); Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, TX (2021); Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, MN (2020); Hopkins Arts Center, Hopkins, MN (2020); Brea Gallery, Brea, CA (2019); Culture Commons Gallery, San Antonio, TX (2019); the Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL (2018); Gallery Hye, Seoul, South Korea (2017) and the Hunting Art Prize (2015). Her work is part of private and public collections including Aspen Art Collection UK, City of San Antonio, University of Texas at San Antonio and Independent Bank Art Collection, Texas. 

Liz Rodda is an interdisciplinary artist living in Austin, Texas. Her work involves investing found materials, primarily video, with meanings unintended by the original maker. Since joining the faculty at Texas State University, she has initiated and headed Expanded Media, a new area of specialization within the Studio Art Program. Encompassing theory and practice, Expanded Media is an interdisciplinary approach to art making that includes, but is not limited to, video/sound, performance, socially engaged projects, and site-specific installation. 

Claudia Röschmann is a Professor in the Communication Design program in the School of Art and Design; Adjunct Doctoral faculty in the Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization (MSEC) program; Honorary Professor of International Studies and Associate Director for Entrepreneurship in the Materials Applications Research Center (MARC) at Texas State University. She was head of the Communication Design program from 2014 to 2020, and directed the MFA program, a non-traditional low residency program that utilizes emerging technologies to support digitally engaged learning, from 2010 to 2020. She brings 25+ years of international design experience and strategic entrepreneurial thinking to the university where she teaches typography, conceptual strategies, editorial and typeface design, as well as entrepreneurship. In her new role as part of innovation and entrepreneurship efforts on campus she runs virtual Entrepreneur Boot Camps, and leads community efforts in the Central Texas Innovation Corridor. She gets very excited about international and cross-disciplinary projects, and speaks at conferences about typography, design thinking and digitally engaged learning.

Originally from Germany, she moved to New York in the 90s to work for Vignelli Associates before moving to Austin with her husband, where she runs ROESCHMANNdesign, a design studio focused on brand experiences for non-profit clients. She holds a BFA and MA from the Hochschule für Künste, Bremen, and an MFA from Texas State University.

Molly Sherman is an artist, graphic designer, and Associate Professor of Communication Design at Texas State University. Her practice consists of socially-engaged projects and client-based collaborations. She has worked at Project Projects in New York and with a range of cultural institutions including the Hammer Museum and Amherst College. Her work has been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, the Matisse Museum in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, New Seasons Market, the Parthenon Museum, the Portland Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art, and the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University.

Holly Sterling is an Associate Professor of Communication Design. After graduating with a BFA from Middle Tennessee State University, she worked as an art director and creative lead for the Tombres Group, The Drawing Room, A. Richard Johnson, Stone + Ward, Undercover Books, and Y&R SicolaMartin. Her client roster included firms such as IBM, Dell, Motorola, Nickelodeon Network, Ruby Tuesday, The Rockefeller Foundation, and TCBY. After joining Texas State in 1995, she has continued to remain active as a creative strategist and pro bono designer partnering with area firms to work with clients including: Pervasive Software, Texas Department of Health Services, Glaxo Smith Kline, Abbott Spine/Zimmer, Motive, Profitfuel, Ivyworldwide, The Phoenix Center, American Cancer Society, Girlstart, etc.

Holly Sterling also serves as Communication Design Internship Coordinator.

Art historian Jennifer Stob received her BA from Grinnell College in 2000 and her MA and joint PhD degree from the Department of the History of Art and the Film Studies Program at Yale University in 2010. Her research interests lie at the intersection of contemporary art, experimental cinema and artists’ video. She teaches courses on art after 1945, time-based media, the history of cinema from within the visual arts, avant-garde collectivity and aesthetic theory. In the classroom and in her scholarship, she focuses on the ideological contexts of art and visual culture as well as the different ways that art depicts and engages with social space. Her work has been published in Criticism, Evental Aesthetics, French Studies, Moving Image Review and Art Journal (MIRAJ), Parallax and Studies in French Cinema. Her film programing is a vital supplement to her research and teaching. The screenings she organized for The Black and Blue Danube Symposium at Colgate University in 2013 yielded two essays for anthologies: one for European Cinema After the Wall: Screening East-West Mobility on transnational filmmaker Goran Rebić and the second forthcoming in Watersheds: Poetics and Politics of the Danube River on experimental film and video artist Péter Forgács. She is finishing a manuscript on film theory and the Situationist International and has begun a second project on the Austria Filmmaker’s Cooperative. 

Barry Stone was born in Lubbock, Texas, and earned a BA in Biology and an MFA in Studio Art in Photography from the University of Texas at Austin.

His work is represented by Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York and Gaa Gallery in Provincetown MA and Cologne, Germany and was the founding member of the artist collective, Lakes Were Rivers. His work has been nationally and internationally exhibited, notably at the Center for Art and Media, (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, The Lianzhou Photography Festival in China, and with Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York City. Stone is the author of three monographs of his photographs including, Daily in a Nimble Sea, published by Silas Finch which was a finalist for the Lucie Photobook Awards in New York City, shortlisted for the National Gallery of Victoria Cornish Prize in Australia and was chosen a photobook of note for 2017 by Jeffrey Ladd for Photobooks UK and Elizabeth Avedon, Drift, which was reviewed by Collector Daily, and Lost Pines slated for release in the summer of 2022. His photographs have been acquired by many public and private collections including the Cleveland Clinic, Fidelity Mutual Corporation Collection, The Center for Art and Media (ZKM), The Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, The Athenaeum of the University of Georgia, The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, University of Texas at Austin, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. His work has been reviewed or featured in publications including Harper’s Magazine, Dallas Morning News, Glasstire, Artforum, Artlies, Artnet, Washington City Paper, The New York Sun, TimeOut New York, Texas Monthly, and the New York Times.

Gina McDaniel Tarver specializes in modern and contemporary Latin American art and visual culture with a particular interest in the relationship between art and its institutions, issues of gender and representation, and ecopolitics. She teaches courses in modern and contemporary as well as Spanish Colonial and Pre-Columbian art history and its methodologies. Her book, The New Iconoclasts: From Art of a New Reality to Conceptual Art in Colombia, 1961–1975 (Ediciones Universidad de los Andes, 2016), was supported by a Fulbright grant. Tarver co-edited the anthology Art Museums of Latin America: Structuring Representation (Routledge, 2018). Tarver’s peer-reviewed articles have appeared in the international journals Third Text (London), Artelogie (Paris), and The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum (United States), she has published chapters in several anthologies, and she has presented papers at various conferences and symposia in Chile, Colombia, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 2015, she curated En Medellín todo está muy Caro, a retrospective of the Colombian conceptual artist Antonio Caro, for the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín. She is the author of numerous essays and entries for exhibition catalogs and was co-editor of The New York Graphic Workshop, 1964–1970 (Blanton Museum of Art, 2009). Tarver is the book reviews editor for the journal Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture. 

Dimitry Tetin's multi-disciplinary design practice grew out of his background in ecology, European literature and interest in language. Places and their relationships to the popular American imagination and identity act as an organizing principle for the content and form for the majority of the projects in his experimental publishing practice. He also works independently and collaboratively on publication, web, identity, motion, signage and wayfinding projects for clients in the commercial and not-for-profit sectors. 

He is the coordinator of the Undergraduate Communication Design Program. Prior to moving to Austin to teach and do research at Texas State, he was an Assistant Professor in the Graphic Design Design Program at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He also taught as an adjunct at Rhode Island School of Design and Parsons the New School for Design. He earned his BA in literature, ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Chicago, BFA in Visual Communication from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MFA in Graphic Design from the RISD.

Ana Treviño is an artist and educator living and working in Austin, TX. Her practice bends the rules of filmmaking and is informed by cultural histories. She uses a feminist lens to think about the concept of borders, whether visible, invisible, or blurred. Her connection to the U.S./Mexico border deeply influences her work and the stories she engages with. Through video installation and performance, she explores how she can reinvent subjugated narratives. She has been invited to lecture for the Capstone Lecture Series at Eastern Washington University, led graduate workshops at the University of Texas at Austin, and worked with underrepresented youth in the greater Austin area. Her writing has been published in Gender/Sexuality/Italy, a peer-reviewed journal focusing on gendered identities. Films she has collaborated in have screened at Sundance Film Festival and South by Southwest. She received her MFA in Art and Technology from the University of Florida and a BS in Television and Film Production from Florida International University.

Holly Veselka holds a BFA from The University of Texas at Austin, 2004, and an MFA from the Boston University, 2009. Her recent solo projects include The Inanimate Vastness of Sidereal Space, Wave Hill, the Bronx, NY, 2015; Mars Recruitment Center, Heliopolis, Brooklyn, NY, 2014; and Comet Contemplation Center, DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY, 2013. She is the recipient of multiple awards including being listed in Creative Capital’s 2016 On Our Radar, a 2015 Puffin Foundation Artist Grant, and she was an artist in residence at the Lower East Side Studio Program, New York, NY in 2015. Formerly based in Brooklyn, NY, she managed the contemporary art journal, Paper Monument as well as the Estate of Benny Andrews.

Michael Villarreal received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX, and a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Nebraska. He has exhibited in solo exhibitions at Spellerberg Projects in Lockhart, TX; Doane University in Crete, NE; ACA Gallery at Angelina College in Lufkin, TX; Art Palace Contemporary Art Gallery, Houston, TX; and Project Project, Omaha, NE. He’s been in numerous group exhibitions at galleries such as The International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, NE; Undercurrent in Brooklyn, NY; DATELINE in Denver, CO; Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE; Northern-Southern, Austin, TX; LA Artcore: Brewery Annex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Austin Community College- Highland Campus, Austin, TX. He was an artist in residence at the Navasota Artist in Residency Program in Navasota, TX and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center in Nebraska City, NE. His work has been featured in several publications such as Huffington Post, New American Paintings, and Art Maze Magazine. In 2019, he was a recipient of the Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. Villarreal is a San Marcos-based visual artist and lecturer at Texas State University.