Faculty in Art and Design
Directors
  • Ingrid Lilligren-Program Director
    Ceramics: underglazes, combinations of printmaking and clay; interactive and site art
  • Debra Satterfield-Program Director
    Experience Design for Health Care, Design for Behavioral Change, Information Design, Design for Social Inclusion, the Design of Learning Experiences for Children with Developmental Disabilities, Multicultural Communication, Human Interaction Design, Design for Autism, Epilepsy and Cerebral Palsy,...
Administrative Staff



Visual Culture Faculty
  • Cigdem Akkurt-Associate Professor
    Traditional Turkish house interiors and architecture; passive solar design; design for special groups
  • Roger Baer-Professor
    Visual communication; human-computer interface design; product/ industrial design; multimedia and Web-based design

  • Paul Bruski-Associate Professor
    Graphic design practice and education; Multimedia design education; Information design; Mapping; Cultural iconography; Image based storytelling and narrative in new media; Motion graphics; Experience design
  • Barbara Caldwell-Associate Professor
    Global perspectives in creative, pluralistic art education; community building and diversity appreciation in art and teaching; interdisciplinary, cross-cultural art education; photography

  • Anson Call-Associate Professor
    3D modeling, texturing; 3D animation; character animation and rigging; computer lighting and rendering. Curriculum and course development for digital media. 3D animated timepieces.
  • Mark Chidister-Associate Professor
    Studio furniture, relationship between jazz and craft, and the way designers and artists think and learn.

  • John Cunnally-Associate Professor
    Italian Renaissance art history; history of photography; modern art history and criticism
  • Paula Curran-Associate Professor
    Graphic design; designing print work with self-authored text; designing and interpreting text for built work


  • April Eisman-Assistant Professor

    German art since 1933, especially East Germany (GDR) & Leipzig
    Contemporary art and theory


    Selected Publications
    "Painting the East German Experience: Neo Rauch in the Late 1990s," in Oxford Art Journal, 2012...


  • Lisa Fontaine-Associate Professor
    Ecological issues in graphic design education and practice.
    Interactive exhibition design.
    Graphic Design in the built environment.
    Main Street design & revitalization.
    Wayfinding design.
    Placemaking.
    Symbology.
  • Emily Godbey-Associate Professor

    The intersection of image-making with modernity which includes research on photography, early film, and American painting.

    Selected Publications

     “‘Terrible Fascination’: Civil War...


  • Cindy Gould-Associate Professor
    Two- and three-dimensional design; mixed media; traditional textiles of India

  • Steven Herrnstadt-University Professor
    The interaction of art and science; physical computing, scientific and creative visualization; game design and development; interactive realtime simulations; environmental issues and writing; synthetic environments and virtual reality; large-format environmental photography; digital imaging;...
  • Pamela Iasevoli-Assistant Professor
    Graphic communication; design of animal care facilities
  • Sunghyun Kang-Associate Professor
    Web Design, Web Advertising, Website Identity and Branding, Time-based Multimedia, Motion Graphics, Graphic Design and Human Computer Interaction, Design and Evaluation.
  • April Katz-Associate Professor
    Integration and exploration of multiple printing processes, primarily lithographic and intaglio printing using nontoxic polymer plates, genetic engineering ethics and issues related to breast cancer and the BRCA1 gene

  • Ingrid Lilligren-Professor
    Ceramics: underglazes, combinations of printmaking and clay; interactive and site art
  • Fred Malven-Associate Professor
    Health, safety and welfare issues in design (especially fire safety); multi-modal sensory applications in design; environmental navigation, memory and mapping; formal design methodology; industrial design-- furnishings, lighting and tools; application of "pattern languages" to design.
  • Chris Martin-Associate Professor

    Although my drive for creative expression through the design and production of furniture forms continues, my research focus has changed and expanded.

    From June 2008- July 2010 my wife and I served as Peace Corps volunteers, teaching in a rural village in Ghana, West Africa. This proved to...

  • Alan Mickelson-Associate Professor
    Trademark design; industrial design streamline era; industrial and design history; corporate identity; design methodology

  • Joe Muench-Associate Professor
    Metalsmithing: metal forming processes and fabrication.
  • Teresa Paschke-Associate Professor
    contemporary fiber art
    historical embroidery
    digital printing on fabric


  • Chuck Richards-Associate Professor
    Representational drawing; painting; color media; children's book illustrations
  • Debra Satterfield-Associate Professor
    Experience Design for Health Care, Design for Behavioral Change, Information Design, Design for Social Inclusion, the Design of Learning Experiences for Children with Developmental Disabilities, Multicultural Communication, Human Interaction Design, Design for Autism, Epilepsy and Cerebral Palsy,...

  • Lori Stone-Assistant Professor
    Cognition in design education, instructional technology in the studio environment, predicting student success in design programs, interdisciplinary education and formative assessment.



  • Cheri Ure-Senior Lecturer
    Graphic design history, theory, and criticism; typographic design.