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New Faces in Academic Affairs2021–22FACULTY AND STAFF

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ruby onyinyechi amanzeMCMILLAN STEWART ENDOWED CHAIR IN PAINTING

ruby onyinyechi amanze received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from Tyler School of Art.

amanze’s practice consists of works on paper about the vast and magical potential of space and the balance between magnitude and weightlessness. Incorporating a working vocabulary of just seven elements, amanze plays with the possibilities of spatial relationships between forms.

Her research is rooted in various three dimensional expressions, including architecture, design, and movement/dance languages such as Gaga. Existing in all these practices is an intentional construction of space and therefore, a recognition of its malleability. Exploring dance further, amanze recently co-founded the dance company, THE DECK which debuted an original piece, tell me a way you pretend to be strong at the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Italy in 2021.

amanze has exhibited her work globally in New York, Johannesburg, Miami, Paris, London and Lagos, including in the California African American Museum, the Drawing Center, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. In 2016 amanze was a finalist for the Prix Canson drawing prize and in 2019, amanze was named the Deutsche Bank Featured Artist at Frieze New York. Her work has been collected by the Smithsonian, The Jewish Museum, and the Studio Museum of Harlem.

She previously taught at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and Drexel University in Philadelphia. In 2012-13, amanze was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship in Drawing to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

amanze lives and works between Philadelphia and New York.

photo credit: Sahar Coston-Hardy

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Melodie Davis-BundrageFIBER FACULTY & CO-DIRECTOR OF THE RATCLIFFE CENTER

FOR CREATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Melodie Davis-Bundrage received her PhD in International Fashion Merchandising from the University of Georgia (UGA), MS in Management from University of Maryland University College, and BBA in Accounting from Howard University. Melodie is an academic leader and creative entrepreneur who works at the intersection of fashion and beauty merchandising, sustainable entrepreneurship, and racial justice. She formerly held the positions of Chair, College of Business and Associate Professor at Johnson & Wales University, North Miami Campus; Assistant Professor and Department Chair, Fashion Marketing and Management at Northwood University; and Ph.D. Candidate/Instructor of Fashion Merchandising at the University of Georgia. At Johnson & Wales, she ran sixteen major programs including two Entrepreneurship majors, and supervised the co-curricular programs housed in the Entrepreneurship Lab and Fashion Lab. During her time at UGA, she was named UGA Next Top Entrepreneur for her skill in creating retail business plans and pitching investors. Her beauty brand, which was launched from the Now That’s Entertainment competition, is currently sold through independent retailers and international distribution channels. She has also published articles and presented papers in the areas of her research interests including: entrepreneurship case studies, consumer behavior towards sustainable fashion and beauty products, teaching and mentoring fashion merchandising students, and history of health impacts from products marketed to Black women.

Prior to her time in academia, she worked for 25 years in retail management including owning a brick & mortar cosmetics boutique and 15 years in corporate and non-profit leadership positions. She has experience auditing retailers and managing finances and human resources for non-profit organizations that have retail divisions.

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Mai Ly DegnanILLUSTRATION PRACTICE FACULTY

Mai Ly Degnan earned her MFA in Illustration Practice from the Maryland Institute College of Art and BFA in Illustration at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Mai Ly is an award winning illustrator based in Baltimore. She is passionate about visual arts education and student creative development. Since 2016 she has been teaching illustration at both MICA and Towson University, working with students in all age groups from high school to graduate school. Along with teaching, Mai Ly has a deep love for visual storytelling and enjoys creating playful lifestyle illustrations using strong female characters, busy patterns, and bright colors. As an active freelance illustrator, Mai Ly works in a variety of markets including editorial illustration, licensing, greeting card design, and adult and children book publishing. Her work has been recognized by The Society of Illustrators of NYC and LA, American Illustration, and 3x3 Magazine. Selected clients include Harper Collins, Chronicle Books, The Norman Rockwell Museum, Quarto Kids, Time Magazine, Boston Globe, Washington Post, VICE, PBS, and NPR. Mai Ly joins the Illustration Practice MFA program this year, as full-time faculty filling in for Kimberly Hall who is on leave.

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Pickett Slater Harrington received his Master in Social Work, with a concentration in organizations and communities, from the University of South Carolina. Pickett has spent his career igniting social change. He is the founder and managing principal at Joltage, a social change design firm that champions innovative solutions to social challenges. He has experience connecting and working with communities and institutions to address complex, systemic social issues. He has served in various roles in national nonprofit organizations including the Children’s Defense Fund, the Urban League, and Public Allies. In addition, he has served as manager of leadership development at Independent Sector, a national leadership network of nonprofits and foundations, where he focused on moving a new generation of social change leaders from next to now. Pickett has also served in various leadership roles in community based groups and organizations. His background also includes serving as an adjunct professor and senior consultant with the Community Building Institute at Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH. His work in Baltimore includes partnering with Seawall, a Baltimore based community developer that believes in using real estate to empower communities. This partnership, in conjunction with residents of Baltimore, led to the development of a community vision for the transformation of Lexington Market. He is also working with the United Way of Central Maryland as they launch Neighbors United, an initiative to build the capacity of neighborhood residents to identify and work on systemic challenges that impact their community. Pickett lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and two kids, and enjoys woodworking, sailing, and sci-fi.

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Pickett Slater HarringtonSOCIAL DESIGN FACULTY

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Yohey HorishitaILLUSTRATION FACULTY

Yohey Horishita (he/him/his) holds a Master of Fine Art and a Bachelor of Fine Art in Illustration from Savannah College of Art and Design (Atlanta, GA). Horishita has a freelance illustration practice and worked for various clients domestically and internationally, such as the New York Times, Penguin Random House, Canon, Casio, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority NYC. His work has also appeared in prestigious trade publications such as the Society of Illustrators Annual, Communication Arts, and American Illustration. His intricate, detailed, and colorful illustration are his way of storytelling and challenging the boundaries of social and cultural norms. Japan-born Horishita crossed the ocean in 2005, moved to Jacksonville, Alabama alone, and later lived in Atlanta, Georgia. He again moved to New York City after receiving his MFA and now lives in Baltimore, MD. He hopes that this journey has made him a better Steel Magnolia and prepared him for a fresh start at MICA!

He joins the full-time faculty this year after serving as a digital art lecturer at P.I. Art Center (New York, NY) for six years.

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Hein KohMCMILLAN STEWART ENDOWED CHAIR IN PAINTING

Hein Koh received her MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale University and a dual BA in Studio Art and Psychology from Dartmouth College. Hein’s work, comprised of painting, sculpture, and drawing, centers on creating personal, universal, and collective narratives involving fantastical, anthropomorphic characters of food and flora. Her work has been reviewed or featured in publications including: Artforum; ArtNews; The Atlantic; The Brooklyn Rail; The Huffington Post; Hyperallergic; New York Magazine; The New York Times; Time Out New York; and The Wall Street Journal. She was also recently included in the book We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World, written by Jasmin Hernandez and published by Abrams Books. Hein has also taught or lectured at Columbia University, California College of the Arts, Tyler School of Art, Dartmouth College, Maryland Institute College of Art, New York University, and the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been exhibited widely and internationally, including venues such as Allouche Benias Gallery, Anton Kern Gallery, Jack Hanley Gallery, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Kasmin Gallery, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Rockefeller Center, Sargent’s Daughters, Semiose Galerie, and Western Exhibitions. She recently had solo shows at Anton Kern Gallery’s WINDOW space, Semiose Galerie in Paris, France and will be opening a solo show at Allouche Benias Gallery in Athens, Greece in October 2021. In addition, her first institutional solo show at the SCAD Museum of Art opened in August 2021. Hein is represented by Anton Kern Gallery.

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Priyanka KumarILLUSTRATION FACULTY

Priyanka Kumar received her MFA in Illustration Practice from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She also holds an MA in Art History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and studied literature and film for her undergraduate degree at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Priyanka is an illustrator and printmaker from Kolkata, India. She is a recipient of the Bromo Seltzer Studio Fellowship 2020-21, was recently appointed art director at the literary anthology South Asian Avant-Garde, and is creative head at Anchovy Press, a Baltimore-based UP/Start 2021 winning enterprise dedicated to illustrated books that center BIPOC children. Her personal work spans visual narrative, printmaking, and murals. Her graphic narratives can be found in Bystander: Stories, Observations and Witnessings from South Asia, First Hand: Graphic Non Fiction from India, and Drawing The Line.

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Joo Yun Lee earned her Ph.D. in Art History and Criticism and Graduate Certificate in Art and Philosophy from Stony Brook University, SUNY; her MA in Art History and Theory from Hongik University, South Korea; and her BA in English Literature and International Trade from Ajou University. Additionally, she was a participant in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in 2013-2014 (Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Studies Fellow). Joo Yun is pleased to join MICA’s Department of Art History as a full-time faculty member after having taught at New York University, Pratt Institute, and Hongik University. Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Joo Yun is an art historian, curator, and cultural producer working on the intersection of art, science, and computational media in contemporary art and visual culture. Her research focuses on the technological modes of production, distribution, and reception of technical images, intermedia performance and installation, sound art, and architecture from the 1960s to the present crossing regional boundaries. Her current research focuses on East Asian contemporary art and media practices that intersect with the global art under the strong influence of the global capitalism consolidated with information technology, networks, and datafied society. Joo Yun is a recipient of the Fulbright Graduate Study Award. Previous to starting her art history degree, she was a curator at the Seoul Museum of Art and was in charge of the Seoul Mediacity Biennale. She is a founding member and editor of AliceOn (aliceon.net), the first web magazine and networking channel on media art and culture in South Korea.

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Joo Yun LeeART HISTORY FACULTY

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Shiva NallaperumalGRAPHIC DESIGN MFA FACULTY

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Shiva Nallaperumal received his MFA in Graphic Design from The Maryland Institute College of Art and his UGCD (Communication Design) from DJ Academy of Design, Coimbatore.

Shiva is a graphic designer, type designer, and art director from Chennai India and co-founder (with Juhi Vishnani) of the plural design practice November. He has worked with a wide variety of clients from the Fashion, film, news, art, and tech industries on identity systems, printed matter, editorial design, exhibitions, interactive media, and typefaces. As a type designer he has worked with Typotheque, Bold Monday, Sharp Type, Commercial Type, and Lost Type Co-op. In 2017 he became the first graphic designer to be included in Forbes India 30 under 30. In 2019 he was inducted into the prestigious Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) as a member.

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Karl WilliamsonPRODUCT DESIGN FACULTY

Karl Williamson earned his BFA in Industrial Design from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD) and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in the Design for Emerging Technologies MFA program.

Karl has worked in design related higher education for nine years, beginning at the Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala where he founded the Product Design program and ran the Fabrication Lab. He returned to the United States to open the Grainger Engineering Design + Innovation Lab at the University of Wisconsin - Madison (UW) which focuses on hands-on learning, digital fabrication, and interdisciplinary design in the College of Engineering. While at UW he helped craft the Masters of Design + Innovation program and developed PPE for the UW hospital system during the pandemic.

In addition to teaching, Karl has a collaborative art practice with his partner Hellen Ascoli. Their work looks at affordances and materiality to question the spaces between art, craft and technology. Together they have exhibited at Sol Del Rio (Guatemala); Frieze (London); ARCO (Madrid); and at the Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati).

In his studio practice Karl often builds custom digital tools that take an experimental approach to product design; exploring how technology mediates skill, manifestes materiality, and enacts its own agency.

Karl has worked with a range of project partners including; Samsung, IBM, Pollo Campero, Rossana Orlandi Gallery, The Goodman Theater, Taller KEN, and most memorably The Addams Family Musical, when he worked on a 30 foot squid puppet.

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Dolores ZinnyPROGRAM DIRECTOR, RINEHART SCHOOL OF SCULPTURE

Dolores Zinny received her six-year degree as Licentiate in Fine Arts at the Universidad Nacional Rosario Argentina and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (ISP) in New York in 1995-96, where she lived for 8 years before moving to Berlin in 2002.

Dolores is part of the artist duo Zinny Maidagan, who are well known for their large-scale works for the public space. Those include: Forgetting Curve, 2013, 1rst Prize Public Art Competition Fulda University of Applied Sciences; Hippocampus, 2017, 1rst Prize Public Art Competition Hessen Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt; and Word for Word, 2017, a large-scale intervention for LACMA’s façade as part of Getty Foundation Pacific Standard Time LA/LA. Architectural interventions include works for Graz City Hall, the Royal Library of Belgium Brussels, and Fundación PROA esplanade. Her work has been recognized and exhibited widely internationally, with special projects at The New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, MIT, and Artist Space New York. Notable solo shows have been at Fundación PROA Buenos Aires, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Museo Tamayo Mexico City, DAAD Galerie Berlin, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, MGK Siegen, Lund Konsthall, The Showroom London, and Sala Rekalde Bilbao.

She has participated in the 1st Cartagena Biennial, 2014; the 8th Gwangju Biennial, 2011; the 5th Berlin Biennale, 2008; the 2nd Seville Biennial, 2007 and the 50th Venice Biennale, 2003.

Her legacy has been captured in numerous books, among them Compartment/Das Abteil published by the MMK Frankfurt with an essay by Ranjit Hoskote and Such a Good Cover published by DAAD with an essay by Lynne Cooke.

Dolores is looking forward to moving from Berlin to Baltimore this fall, where in her new role she will be Program Director for the Rinehart School of Sculpture.

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Mina Cheon ASSOCIATE DEAN OF FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE AND FACULTY

Mina Cheon received her PhD in Philosophy of Media and Communications from the European Graduate School, European University for Interdisciplinary Studies, Switzerland; MFA in Imaging Digital Arts from UMBC: An Honors University in Maryland; MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting, MICA; and BFA from Ewha Womans University.

Mina is a Korean new media artist , scholar, and educator who exhibits her political pop art known as “Polipop” internationally. Being a part of the Korean diaspora, Cheon’s art results from a life-time of working with a postcolonial and comparative cultural lens and making contemporary art that is in historic alignment to appropriation art and global activism art, while focusing on North Korean awareness, Korean unification, and global peace projects. Recent projects include working with the Asia Society Museum in New York with participation in the Asia Society Triennial and her solo show at The Korea Society in New York. Cheon had solo exhibitions at the Ethan Cohen Gallery (2014, 2017, 2020) and Lance Fung Gallery (2012) in New York; Trunk Gallery (2014), Sungkok Art Museum (2012), and Insa Art Space (2004-5) in Seoul, Korea; and Maryland Art Place (2012) and C.Grimaldis Gallery (2008) in Baltimore. She has participated in the 2018 Busan Biennale and has exhibited her work and/or is in the collection at the Seoul Museum of Art, Noyes Museum of Art, Seoul Olympic Museum, American University Museum, Smith College Museum of Art, and Baltimore Museum of Art.

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Lindsay CubbageASSISTANT DIRECTOR, BRAND MARKETING FOR OPEN STUDIES

Lindsay Cubbage earned a BS in Hospitality Management and Administration from the University of South Carolina (USC), followed by graphic design studies at Santa Monica College.

While completing her undergraduate work, she was a Historian for Gamma Phi Beta, Zeta Sigma Chapter at USC. She also volunteered with Girls on the Run and the Stop Hunger Now Project, all while continuing her fine art ceramics practice on the side.

Prior to joining MICA in January 2020, Lindsay was a marketing coordinator at Ticketmaster and an Executive Project Manager at Popchips. She first found her love for design and working within the fine arts as a Career Services Advisor at the Art Institute of Washington. She has a dedicated passion for brand design, creative services, and working with other artistic individuals. As the new Assistant Director of Marketing and Recruitment for the Open Studies team, she aims to uplift its core programs through inspiring design, optimal creative project management, and marketing strategy. She genuinely enjoys the creative process and will always find a way to create.

Aside from balancing her full-time role at MICA, Lindsay loves to travel and aims to travel to all seven continents, volunteer with other fine art organizations such as the Getty, continue her ceramics practice, long distance run, Cross Train (Crossfit), and work with other creative clients through her business space, Cubbage Creative.

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Tiffany HolmesINTERIM VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AND PROVOST

Tiffany Holmes received her PhD from the University of Plymouth in the UK, a MFA from MICA, a MFA in Digital Arts from UMBC, and a BA in Art History from Williams College. In her new role at MICA, Tiffany serves as the chief academic officer, responsible for all aspects of the development and delivery of educational programs, including curricula; faculty; facilities and budget; and ensuring and supporting the achievement and fulfillment of academic excellence across all disciplines of the College.

A 1997 MICA alumna, Tiffany returned to Baltimore in 2018 to serve as the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies. In this position, she collaboratively developed two new First-Year Fellows programs; four new minors; a new interdisciplinary major in Ecosystems, Society, and Justice; as well as the new Center for Creative Entrepreneurship with a major gift from the Ratcliffe Foundation.

Tiffany is also a practicing digital media artist. Her studio practice explores the potential of art and design to promote environmental awareness and sensitivity to shifting ecologies on the planet. Projects include a commission for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications where sequences of experimental animations visualize real time energy loads. Her paper detailing this work, “Eco-visualization: Combining art and technology to reduce energy consumption,” earned a Best Paper award at Creativity and Cognition 2007. She has lectured and exhibited worldwide: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; 01SJ Biennial, Siggraph; Interaction in Japan, ISEA Nagoya; and Microwave Festival, Hong Kong. A recipient of the Michigan Society of Fellows research fellowship in 1998, Holmes has earned the Illinois Arts Council individual grant, an Artists-in-Labs residency award in Switzerland, 2010 Rhizome Commission, and a 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award from UMBC.

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Ashley LabodaDIRECTOR, CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT FOR

OPEN STUDIES

Ashley LaBoda earned a PhD and MA in Spanish Linguistics, both from the University at Albany, SUNY in Albany, NY and a BA in Spanish and French from Houghton College.

After completing her graduate studies, Ashley worked at Franklin and Marshall College and George Washington University, where, in addition to teaching, she coordinated the Spanish curriculum and directed an assessment of student achievement of learning goals and outcomes—thus sparking her interest in the administrative side of academia. She then joined Verto Education as the founding Course Director of the Spanish language program where she developed the curriculum and trained faculty to deliver courses abroad.

Ashley joined MICA full time in the department of Open Studies in December 2020 as the Director of Curriculum Design and Development. Her role entails providing faculty training and support, with a focus on promoting best practices in teaching and learning; ensuring quality and accessibility of course design and delivery; and aligning institutional and program goals with course objectives and learning outcomes.

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Brian MurryDIRECTOR, BUDGET AND FACULTY CONTRACTS

Brian Murry received his MBA from Rice University and MS in Microbiology and BSc in Biology from Louisiana State University.

Brian joins MICA as the Director of Budget and Faculty Contracts where he oversees and coordinates the faculty contracts process and acts as the general budget administrator for the Academic Affairs division. Prior to joining MICA, Brian worked as a budget and contracts program manager with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. He has a broad range of healthcare experience, from benchwork to clinical trial management to healthcare administration. He comes to MICA as someone with a long-standing interest in supporting faculty and operations within academic institutions.

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Victoria HunteINSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGIST FOR OPEN STUDIES

Victoria Hunte received her MS in Instructional Technology from Towson University and holds a BS in Elementary Education.

Prior to starting employment at MICA, Victoria was a fourth and fifth grade teacher for Baltimore County Public Schools. While teaching, she ran extracurricular activities that involved broadcasting and multimedia production. She also served as the Technology Liaison for her school, often providing professional development opportunities for her colleagues. Prior to teaching, Victoria served as a Corporate Trainer for a local mortgage company. It is there that she found her knack for instructional design.

Victoria joined MICA in February 2021 as an Instructional Technologist for Open Studies. Her work primarily consists of maintaining Canvas, Zoom, and other technology tools; creating print and interactive training materials for faculty and students; and working closely with the Director of Curriculum Design and Development to support the instructional design and integrity of courses.

Victoria’s love for technology goes beyond the workplace. In her free time, she enjoys learning about graphic design and front-end software development. Other hobbies include cooking, reading, traveling, and performing spoken word poetry.

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Zvezdana StojmirovicASSOCIATE DEAN OF DESIGN AND MEDIA AND FACULTY

Zvezdana Stojmirović [z–VEZ–dah–nah stoy–ME–roe–vitch] (she/her) received her MFA in Graphic Design from MICA and BFA in Fine Art from The Cooper Union. She is also a 1994 graduate of the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (ISP).

Joining MICA’s Graphic Design faculty in 2005, Zvezdana has taught across the curriculum, and has collaborated widely with other departments, including Illustration, Fiber, Film & Video, and Environmental Design (the predecessor of today’s Architectural Design). She has led teaching partnerships with Etsy, Under Armour, and the Walters Art Museum. Her book, co-authored with Helen Armstrong, Participate: Designing with User-Generated Content, was published in 2011 by Princeton Architectural Press.

Zvezdana has exhibited extensively stateside and abroad, including KC Grad in Belgrade, Serbia, and Momenta Art and The Most Gallery in NYC. In 2013, she created a typographic commission for BOPA (Baltimore Office for Promotion and the Arts) at the Top of the World observation deck in Baltimore.

Last year, Zvezdana helped launch the First-Year Fellows in Creative Entrepreneurship as Lead Faculty and Faculty Coordinator. In this role, she fused an innovative curriculum that integrates financial literacy and “real world” applications with core lessons in 2d and 3d fundamentals.

Prior to her MICA epoch, Zvezdana designed countless interactive exhibitions for the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, and graphics for art world clients with the design studio, Bureau. In the evening, with the studio partners, she volunteered her time on WAC, the Women’s Action Coalition, and Gran Fury, the graphic arm of ACT UP. She was part of many other art groups, such as Parasite, a conceptual art organization, and Prosopon, a Byzantine iconography studio, both on the Lower East Side.

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Colette Veasey-CullorsINTERIM VICE PROVOST FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

Colette Veasey-Cullors received her MFA in Photography from Maryland Institute College of Art and her BFA in Photography from the University of Houston. Colette is a photographer whose work investigates themes pertaining to socio-economics, race, class, education, and identity with a particular interest in social and creative engagement with individuals and communities historically underinvested in and underrepresented. She has worked with a number of community-based organizations including: Communities in Schools; Project Row Houses; Art on Purpose; 901 Arts; Baltimore Youth Film Arts; and Art Source South Africa.

Her photography is included in the permanent collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) and the Photographic History Collection of the National Museum of American History (NMAH), both of the Smithsonian Institution. Her work has been widely exhibited, including: The California African American Museum, The African American Museum in Philadelphia, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston/Glassell School of Art, and The Chattanooga African American Museum. Veasey-Cullors’ work is included in the publications MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora (2017, Barrayn/Fawundu), an anthology featuring the work of more than 100 women photographers of African descent from around the world, and BLACK: A Celebration of a Culture (2004, Willis). In 2021, she was appointed to the board of trustees at Aperture Foundation, NYC.

In the winter of 2021 Colette founded the Center for Organizing, Representation and Empowerment (CORE) at MICA and since the start of summer has entered into the role of Interim Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies.

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