Ann Bishop |
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Ann Bishop graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Georgia, earning a Bachelor of Science Degree in Art Education, with a concentration in Jewelry and Metalwork. She received her Masters Degree from Furman in Educational Leadership, Administration and Supervision and completed her Advanced Placement Art endorsement through the University of South Carolina. Ann was the first recipient of UGA's Betty Cabin Art Scholarship and was among the first group of art educators selected for the SC Governor's School for the Arts Intern Program. She helped draft Anderson District One's first District-wide curriculum for High School Art and has served on the SC State Department Standards Support Team. Ann currently teaches art at Wren High School and has been chosen Teacher of the Year three times in her career. Under her leadership, the WHS art program has received recognition for its infusion of Digital Assessment Portfolios, using industry standard software. Ann has applied for and received six grants, totaling over $35,000.00, to help keep the art program innovative. Ann's art work has won various local awards, has received national recognition, and has been featured in Scholastic Magazine. Her work with Llyn Strong, Jewelry Designer, enabled her to continue her desire to work with metal. In addition to drawing and painting, Ann currently enjoys exploring possibilities of marriage of metal and glass. COURSES: ART 384: Secondary Art Methods |
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Chris Bradley |
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Chris Bradley received a Bachelor of Arts with a Concentration in Graphic Design from Anderson University in 2007. He is currently the Art Director at Woodward & Zwolinski in Greenville, South Carolina. He thrives on learning and education - not only for his students, but for himself. This passion for learning has lead him to expand his skill set into video production and recently 3D modeling and animation. He understands that learning is a never-ending process and is excited to be one of many stepping stones in his students' search for knowledge and skill. His wife is also an educator with Greenville County Schools and has earned a Master's Degree in literacy. HIs dogs Jolene and Mavis are pretty smart too. COURSES: ART 120: Software Suite ART 222: Print Production ART 229: Photoshop |
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Clarissa Brandão |
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Clarissa Brandão, Assistant Professor of Art, has earned a BFA in Graphic Design from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she was born and raised, and received her MFA from Georgia State University. She is a curious mind and is passionate about Graphic Design and teaching, having worked as a professional in the field for both local and multinational companies in Brazil and in the US. As teacher and an artist, she is an active defender of Green and Sustainable Graphic Design practices and continues to research and implement new solutions to her work and her teaching. COURSES: ART 105: Foundations 1 ART 106: Foundations 2 ART 120: Software Suite ART 222: Print Production ART 229: Photoshop |
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Robbie Cobb |
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Robbie Cobb is a graphic designer, illustrator and art director with over 3 years experience. He has a passion for putting smart ideas into beautiful packages. He is currently the senior designer at Ferebee Lane + Co, a brand communication agency in Greenville, SC. He also runs a side hustle called Shed Labs, a small screen printed poster shop, with his 2 partners in crime. He is married to a wonderful gal named Kelly. They spend the majority of their time huddled on their couch or wandering around town with Charlie (their 170 pound newfoundland) and Winston (a contrasting 3 pound yorkie). COURSES: ART 324: Web Design 1 ART 325: Web Design 2 |
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Nathan Cox |
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Nathan Cox, Associate Professor of Art, teaches in and coordinates the Foundations Art Program at Anderson University. He also serves as Associate Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts. He received a BFA from Millikin University and earned his MFA from Bradley University, both in Illinois. Besides being a dedicated teacher, he is also a committed artist. He is both a 2-D and a 3-D artist, making mixed-media drawings, copper sculpture, pottery, and sculptural ceramics vessels. His work has been featured in Ceramics Monthly Magazine, the foremost periodical publication on ceramic art in the county, and in almost 80 solo, group, juried or invitational exhibitions, where it has won numerous awards. In 2007 he received a South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Excellence in Teaching Award, and was named a lifetime Fellow of the Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences, where he has twice been an artist in residence. COURSES: ART 105: Foundations 1 ART 106: Foundations 2 ART 262: Ceramics 1: Beginning Handbuilding ART 264: Ceramics 2: Beginning Wheelthrowing ART 362: Ceramics 3: Intermediate Wheelthrowing ART 469: Advanced Ceramics Studio |
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Jane Dorn |
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Jane Dorn first joined the AU Art Faculty on a part-time basis in 2000 while still working as a (more than) full-time professional graphic designer, earning the Adjunct Teacher of the Year Award in 2007. As the Founding Partner and Creative Director of Copia Design and Principal of Jane A. Dorn, Inc., Jane's design work has received many awards at local, regional, national and international levels including:
Jane returned home to AU and full-time teaching in 2009, bringing with her a rich professional career and a desire to challenge and inspire a new generation of graphic designers. In addition to her design work, she maintains an active exhibition record as a fine art photographer. Jane received her BFA in Graphic Design from Louisiana State University, and is currently pursuing an MA in Graphic Design from the Savannah College of Art and Design. COURSES: ART 221: Graphic Design 1 ART 323: Graphic Design 2 ART 493: Senior Seminar in Graphic Design ART 495: Graphic Design Internship |
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Barbara Ervin |
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Barbara Mickelsen Ervin has lived in the Belton–Honea Path area for the past 25 or more years. A native of Greenville, South Carolina, she is an art educator and professional printmaker. Her work has won numerous awards and has been displayed throughout the Southeast in various exhibitions and is also a part of many private and public collections across the United States. Although primarily a printmaker she also uses pencil, watercolor, handmade paper and marbleized paper to create a variety of art pieces. Her work draws strongly on nature and mirrors its beauty, harmony and rhythms. She has taught art extensively at all levels from Pre-K- to college to adult classes and has been an adjunct teacher at Anderson University for many years teaching various arts and education classes. Through the play of light, land and atmosphere my landscapes reflect both dreams and reality. The images I create, while using a variety of printmaking processes, draw strongly on nature showing its beauty, harmony and natural rhythms. -B. Ervin COURSES: ART 243: Printmaking 1 ART 382: Elementary Art Methods/Field Experience IIA |
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Polly Gaillard |
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Polly Gaillard has exhibited her photographs nationally. She has received both national and regional grants to pursue various photographic series. Her photographs comment on topics like motherhood, family, adolescent girls, and other current women's issues. She holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Vermont College of Fine Art. Polly was invited to participate in the Santa Fe Review in June of 2009 in Santa Fe, NM. Recently she won first place from juror Jamie Lee Curtis for the international exhibition "Childhood" sponsored by the Texas Photographic Society. COURSES: ART 271: Photography 1 ART 371: Photography 2 ART 479: Advanced Photography Studio ART 491: Senior Seminar in Studio Art |
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Peter Kaniaris |
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Peter Kaniaris, Professor of Art, received his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and his MFA from the University of Houston. While at Houston, he studied under George Bunker and Gael Stack. Professor Kaniaris has taught painting and drawing for 30 years. His paintings have been displayed in over 100 regional and national exhibitions. These include exhibitions sponsored by The Butler Institute of American Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Detroit Institute of Art, The Greenville County Museum of Art, and The South Carolina State Museum. His work is held in numerous private and public collections, most notably the Museum of Fine Art in Houston. Professor Kaniaris was awarded a Mellon Foundation Grant, The President's Award for Service, The Dean's Award for Service, and commendation from the House of Representatives of South Carolina for his work in the visual arts. He has chaired the Department of Art, continues to teach painting, and serves as the Director of the Center for Learning and Teaching Excellence. COURSES: ART 241: Painting 1 ART 341: Painting 2 ART 441: Painting 3 ART 449: Advanced Drawing Studio |
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Hanna Koslowski-Slone |
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Hanna Kozlowski-Slone received her BA in Art (concentration in painting and drawing) from Anderson University and her MFA (emphasis in painting) from Clemson University. While at Anderson University, she participated in the Honors Service Project and was a recipient of numerous scholarships and awards, including the Art Department Award of Distinction, the Painting and Drawing Outstanding Student Award, the LaVern Raines Hunt Scholarship, and the Denmark Honors Award. While attending Clemson University, Hanna assisted in both painting and art history classes, taught Beginning Painting, served as a senator in the Clemson University graduate student government, and was also awarded the George R. MacDonald Fellowship. Her paintings, drawings, prints, and paper-cuts have been exhibited regionally and nationally. She is a recent member of the Art Bomb Studios located in Greenville, SC, and she currently teaches Foundations of Art, as well as painting and drawing classes, at Anderson University. COURSES: ART 105: Foundations 1 ART 106: Foundations 2 ART 242: Drawing 1 ART 341: Painting 2 |
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Michael Marks |
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Michael Marks received his BA (emphasis painting; minor printmaking) from Georgia College & State University and MFA (visual art; emphasis painting) from Clemson University. Complementing diverse studio, research and collaborative interests, he is a cofounder of the ThreeCitiesGroup artist collective and the recipient of awards in the fields of studio art and art history. Utilizing both traditional techniques and contemporary conceptual flexibility, his work investigates the intersections of the past and present, the scientific and poetic, and the reproduced and handmade. His paintings, drawings, sculpture, animation, prints, and curatorial efforts have been exhibited nationally and internationally. He currently lives, works and teaches in upstate South Carolina. COURSES: ART 105: Foundations 1 ART 106: Foundations 2 ART 242: Drawing 1 |
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Jo Carol Mitchell-Rogers |
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Jo Carol Mitchell-Rogers is a Professor of Art and Chair of the Art Department. She earned a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Georgia and the MFA, also in Painting and Drawing, from Clemson University. Like many teachers, Jo Carol Is a perpetual student, later earning a Ph.D. in Art Education from the University of Georgia. She has been recognized on campus and in the state for her teaching excellence as the recipient of the Boles Award for Excellence in Teaching and as the SC Art Education Association Higher Education Art Educator of the Year. A member of the Artbomb Studios in Greenville, SC, Jo Carol maintains an active exhibition record as a painter and photographer, and has work included in numerous private collections. COURSES: ART 105: Foundations 1 ART 106: Foundations 2 ART 242: Drawing 1 ART 281: Foundations of Art Education ART 342: Drawing 2 ART 439: Advanced Drawing Studio ART 481: Senior Seminar/Pre-Clinical Experience in Art Education EDU 490: Clinical Experience |
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Kara Renfro |
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Kara Renfro received her BA in art with an emphasis in sculpture from Georgetown College in Kentucky and her MFA, also with an emphasis in sculpture, from Clemson University in South Carolina. As an object maker, installation artist, performer, and documentarian she works with a variety of materials and mediums. She has recently held shows at galleries in Georgia, Kentucky, and New York. She has worked collaboratively with health care architects and landscape architects. In 2011 she was awarded The John Acorn Award for outstanding achievement in studio arts from Clemson University. She has a passion for teaching and hopes to continue educating and learning about the unique and exciting world of art. COURSES: ART 105: Foundations 1 ART 261: Sculpture 1 |
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Tim Speaker |
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Tim Speaker, Assistant Professor of Art, was born and raised in the magnificent post-industrial city of Saginaw, MI. Tim received a Bachelor of Science degree in English Literature (with a focus in French Symbolist Poetry and Irish History) from Central Michigan University and also attended the University of Cambridge in the UK. Later he received Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison his studies consisted of Graphic Design, Digital Art, and Painting. Tim has taught at nearly every level, including Secondary Education and University appointments, teaching a wide variety of courses from Publication Design to Typography. His main professional area of focus has been print design, and is a passionate advocate of Digital Art within the fine art community. Sprung from DIY/Gig Poster culture, Tim most enjoys working within the music and theater communities to create promotional materials that feature a contemporary style tied to the masters of the past. A very active studio artist, Tim has been included in over 50 juried, solo, or group exhibitions. Tim is a member of The Artbomb Studios, a non-profit organization that seeks to promote visual art in the South Carolina upstate area. COURSES: ART 195/295/395: Art Practicum (Ivy Leaves Publication) ART 321: Typography ART 328: History of Graphic Design ART 421: Graphic Design 3 |
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Candace Weddle |
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Candace Weddle has a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Southern California, an M.A. in Art History from Tulane University, and a B.A. in Classics from Baylor University in her home state of Texas. She is an archaeologist and has joined teams at several sites including Classe (the Roman Imperial fleet harbor outside of Ravenna), a Neolithic site in the Transylvanian region of Romania, and Princeton University’s Euchaita/Avkat project in north-central Turkey. In 2009, she was a member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute’s team excavating the “Temple of Domitian” in the well-known city of Ephesus in Turkey. The recipient of a Fulbright and a residential fellowship from the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, she spent a year in Istanbul conducting research and falling in love with that spectacular city. Candace has traveled widely in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East and has spoken on a variety of ancient and medieval topics at academic conferences and as an invited lecturer at universities in the U.S., U.K., Turkey, and Indonesia. When time permits, she serves as a Smithsonian Speaker on Celebrity Cruise lines, and as a Guest Lecturer for the specialized cruise company Voyages To Antiquity, giving on-board enrichment talks on the art and archaeology of Europe. It’s a hard life, but she’s willing to make sacrifices in the interest of education. Candace’s current research explores the sensory experience of ancient life, particularly the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and other sensations experienced by worshipers during ancient Roman and Early Christian religious ceremonies. Publications of her most recent work are forthcoming in the edited volumes Making Senses of the Past: Toward a Sensory Archaeology (ed. J. Day, Center for Archaeological Investigations) and Archaeology and Anthropology: Past, Present and Future (co-authored with R. Irvine and N. Hanks; ed. D. Shankland, Berg), and in the Springer Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. COURSES: ART 231: Art History Survey 1 ART 232: Art History Survey 2 ART 331: Modern Art History ART 333: Contemporary Art History ART 335: Special Topics in Art History |
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Susan Wooten |
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Professor of Art and Vice Provost, Susan Wooten has been a member of the academic community at Anderson University for 36 years. A native of Oklahoma, she graduated with honors in Art from Oklahoma Baptist University. Following two years as a graphic designer in Oklahoma City, Professor Wooten completed the MFA in Painting and Drawing at Clemson University. She was the driving force in developing the graphic design concentration at the university in the 1980s, and she served as the chair of the at department for 13 years before entering full-time academic administration. Her teaching has run the gamut of graphic design, painting, drawing, art appreciation, and she is a current member of the teaching team in the art foundations sequence. Still active as a studio artist, Susan's work has dealt with landscape images throughout her career. She has been affiliated with galleries in Hilton Head, SC and San Francisco, CA, and her work has been widely exhibited in juried and solo exhibitions and is in numerous public and private collections. Her penchant for an abstract vision for landscape has recently shifted towards intimate and detailed views of natural forms in the landscape. COURSES: ART 105: Foundations 1 ART 106: Foundations 2 |
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