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University Council on the Humanities 2001. She has

taught at MIT’s Visual Arts Program, Hunter College,

Bennington College, Maryland Institute of Art.

John Monti

Professor

M.F.A., Pratt Institute; B.S., Portland State University;

solo exhibitions include: “Synthetic Pleasures,” Bentley

Projects, Phoenix, Ariz.; “Fancy” and “Rondo,” Elizabeth

Harris Gallery, N.Y.C.; “Amatory Bodies,” Sarah Moody

Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and

many group exhibitions; public art projects include

“Fancy for Boston”; “Changing Places,” Metro Tech

Center Brooklyn, N.Y.; Neuberger Museum of Art;

Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute

of Art; recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant,

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, and New

York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant; work is

included in the collections of American Telephone &

Telegraph; the Arkansas Arts Center, The Eli and Edythe

Broad Foundation, the Brooklyn Museum, the Castellini

Art Museum of Niagara University, and the Chase

Manhattan Bank, among others.

Donna Moran

Professor

B.A., CW Post Campus LIU; M.F.A., Pratt Institute;

Donna Moran is a printmaker and painter whose work

has been exhibited nationally and internationally

including solo exhibitions in Australia, Spain and Peru.

Her work is represented in many group exhibitions

and collections. Donna has been Chair of the Fine

Arts Department since 2000 and teaches graduate

printmaking classes including silkscreen and the 1st

year M.F.A. Printmaking Seminar.

Robert Morgan

Adjunct Professor

B.F.A., University of the Redlands; Ed.M., Northeastern

University; M.F.A., University of Massachusetts; Ph.D.,

New York University; Art critic, writer, curator, artist;

books include Art Into Ideas; Between Modernism and

Conceptual Art; The End of the Art World; Gary Hill;

Bruce Nauman and Clement Greenberg. Curator of

the exhibitions: “Komar and Melimid: A Retrospective”,

“Women on the Verge”, and “Clear Intentions”; co-

curator of the Lodz Biennial; recipient of the 1999

Arcale Award in art criticism, Salamanca, Spain.

Cyrilla Mozenter

Adjunct Professor

M.F.A., Pratt Institute; B.F.A., Pratt Institute; has exhibited

at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Drawing

Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Neuberger

Museum of Art. She has been artist-in-residence at

Dieu Donn’e Papermill, the Kohler Arts Center, and

Instituto Municipal de Arte e Cultura-Rioarte, Rio de

Janeiro. She has received grants from NYFA and The

Fifth Floor Foundation. Her work is in the collections of

the Arkansas Arts Center, Birmingham Museum of Art,

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Walker

Art Center, and Yale University Art Gallery.

Dominique Nahas

Visiting AssistAnt Professor

Ross Neher

Adjunct Professor

Thirwell Nolen

Adjunct AssistAnt Professor

Matt Nolen is a studio artist who trained as a painter

and architect. His current body of work is comprised

of sculptural objects and architectural installations in

clay and other materials. His work has been exhibited

internationally and can be found in numerous private

and public collections including: The Cooper-Hewitt

National Design Museum (Smithsonian), NYC; The

Newark Museum, NJ; The Everson Museum of Art, NY;

The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, TX; and the De Young

Museum, San Francisco, CA. Other awards include: NYFA

Fellowship and NEA Fellowship (1995).

Catherine Redmond

Adjunct AssociAte Professor

B.A., Harpur College, SUNY Binghamton; 1969–1974 ,

Art Students League of NY; Adjunct Associate Professor

Selected solo and group exhibitions at David Findlay

Jr., N.Y.; M B Modern, N.Y.; Albright Knox Art Gallery,

Buffalo; Butler Institute of American Art; Babcock

Galleries, N.Y.; Cleveland Museum of Art; Jerry Soloman

Gallery, Los Angeles; Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL.;

collections include: Art Students League of N.Y., Butler

Museum of American Art, Citibank of N.Y., Cleveland

Clinic Foundation, Dreyfus Corporation, Luther College

Museum, Progressive Corporate Collection, and

Reading Public Museum.

Howard Rosenthal

Visiting AssociAte Professor

B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design; M.F.A.,

Pratt Institute.

Miriam Schaer

Visiting AssistAnt Professor

B.F.A., Philadelphia College of the Arts; B.F.A., School of

Visual Arts; Miriam Schaer is a multimedia book artist.

She has exhibited steadily and extensively in solo and

group exhibitions in the US and internationally, and her

work has been mentioned in a long list of articles and

reviews. She is a recipient of a NYFA Artists Fellowship

and her work has been included in the Mary H. Dana

Women Artists Series at Douglass Library, the oldest

and longest-running exhibition series dedicated to

showcasing women artists in the United States.

Linda Schrank

Adjunct Professor

B.A., Mt Holyoke College; M.A., New York University;

Exhibited: Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, New York,

NY; Peccolo Gallery, Livorno, Italy, Kidder Smith Gallery,

Boston, MA; A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY; Brooklyn

Museum; Etruscan Museum, Cortona, Italy; Ceramic

Museum, Monte San Savino, Italy; New York Studio

School; International Print Center, New York, NY Awards:

Residence fellowships: Yaddo; Sanskriti Foundation,

New Delhi, India; Fundacion Valparaiso, Almeria, Spain;

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; Visiting artist

fellowships: Brandywine Graphic Workshop; Visiting

Artist, Ditta Grazia, Deruta, Italy; Cuts + Burns Artist

Residency, Outpost Video Productions, Brooklyn, NY.

Carla Shapiro

Visiting AssistAnt Professor

Elise Siegel

Visiting AssistAnt Professor

Robbin Silverberg

Adjunct AssistAnt Professor

B.A., Princeton University; Robbin Ami Silverberg’s

artwork is divided between solo and collaborative artist

books and large paper installations. She is founding

director of Dobbin Mill / Dobbin Books in Brooklyn.

Dobbin Mill is a hand-papermaking studio and teaching

facility, one of three in NYC. Dobbin Books is