Faculty
Brandon Briggs
Instructor, Painting/Drawing
Faculty member since 2012.
M.F.A., University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Painting, 1995; B.A., Columbia College, Chicago IL, Liberal Education, 1991; Post Graduate Fellow, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 1987; B.A., Jutland Fine Arts Academy, Denmark, 1985. As a painter and printmaker, Guldbeck''s work seeks to exploit conditions of visual and psychological indeterminacy. The work explores the complicated relationships of ordering within nature and our need to make sense out of very complex, non-hierarchical systems.
Mille Guldbeck
Professor, Coordinator of Graduate Studies, Painting/Drawing
Faculty member since 1999.
Charles Kanwischer
Professor, Associate Director of School of Art, Painting/Drawing
M.F.A., Yale University School of Art, Painting and Printmaking, 1987; B.F.A., University of Iowa, Printmaking, 1985. Responsible primarily for teaching drawing courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level, Kanwischer's own work in drawing addresses cultural and organic change in the contemporary landscape.
Faculty member since 1997.
Casey Jex Smith
Instructor, Paint/Drawing
Faculty member since 2012.
Dennis Wojtkiewicz
Professor, Area Head of Drawing/Painting, Painting/Drawing
Known for highly-rendered drawings and paintings with the emotive quality of light as a primary concern. Recent work begins to pose questions regarding the nature of representation, particularly hyper-realist/photo-realist representation vs abstraction, and the place for analog work in a digital age. Solo exhibiton opened at the Sugarman-Peterson Gallery in Santa Fe August 2012.
Faculty member since 1988.