 Emily Scott Beck
Adjunct Faculty, Studio Art
Joined Meredith in 2010
MFA UNC-Chapel Hill
BA Meredith College
Areas of interest and expertise – drawing, 2D design, and sound & video installation
Emily Beck is a sound and video installation artist whose work approaches and dissects human communication. By manipulating and re-contextualizing recorded sound and/or video, she reveals aspects of our identity that are often limited by the impossibilities of language and calls attention to the similarities of our experiences and the complexities that come with self awareness.
Emily graduated from Meredith College in 2001 and taught high school art in Durham and Wake County schools before pursuing her MFA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her videos are currently being exhibited regionally and nationally.
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 James C. Boyles
Adjunct Faculty, Art History
At Meredith since 2003
Ph.D. in art history, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A. in art history, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.S. in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A. in History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
James Boyles teaches ancient, medieval and modern art history (eighteenth-century to the present) as well as courses in such diverse fields as photography, architecture and American Indian art. The primary focus of his research is nineteenth-century American art and he has published and given papers on a number of American artists, including George Catlin, George Caleb Bingham and John Rogers.
In 2008, his essay on the training and teaching of American painter George de Forest Brush was published in the catalog for the National Gallery of Art exhibition, George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings. He is currently investigating how contemporary artists, such as Roxanne Swentzell, Diego Romero and Jasper Johns, express through their painting and sculpture their concerns about the role of art in modern society.
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 Holly
Fischer
Adjunct Faculty, Studio Art
At Meredith since 2008
MFA University of Texas at Austin
BA Meredith College
Website: www.hollyfischer.com
Areas of interest and expertise – sculpture, ceramics, installation, life
drawing, 2D design, 3D design, interdisciplinary studies, women’s
studies
Holly
Fischer was born in Missoula, Montana, the first child of creative and resourceful
parents cultivating their personal forms of artistic expression as part
of the back-to-the-land movement of the 70s. Growing up with a skilled woodworker
as a father and a professionally successful fiber artist as a mother provided
Holly with the tools to foster her own creativity at a very young age.
Art for Holly
is a second language; it has been her means for processing and conveying her
internal struggle to balance being an intellectually strong and an emotionally
vulnerable woman learning to
be comfortable in her own skin. Her work explores
duality and the spaces in-between perception and reality. She intends for
her work to challenge the traditional roles of the observer and the observed
with the hope that viewers will contemplate the fears and desires evoked
through the act of looking.
Holly Fischer
exhibits her work regionally and nationally and has received numerous awards
and accolades, including commissioned sculptures for the campuses of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Meredith College. Holly
has taught at the Savannah College of Art and Design and the School of the
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She welcomes the opportunity to return to
Meredith College to teach the subjects for which she is so passionate and
cultivate in others a love for art making and the empowerment of expressing
a visual voice.
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 Dana
Ezzell Gay
Associate Professor of Graphic Design, Graphic Design Program Director
Faculty Advisor, AIGA Meredith College Student Group; Faculty Design Advisor, The Colton Review; Creative Director, Circus Design Studio at Meredith College
At Meredith since 2007
MFA Graphic Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
BFA Graphic Design, East Carolina University
Website: www.danagay.com
Areas of interest and expertise – typography, graphic design, visual poetry,
altered books, interactive media
Dana
Ezzell Gay has over 16 years of experience as a professional graphic designer
with specific areas of interest in typography, visual poetry, critical reading
and writing, motion graphics, and print design. Her professional practice
centers around web and print projects for various clients, while her creative
research focuses on discovering the potential that words have to communicate
on a deeper level than merely speaking, reading, or writing them. She engages
them as living matter and uses them as typographic landscapes to stimulate
imagination.
Before joining the Meredith faculty, Gay worked as a graphic
design professor at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. Her forte and
passion is type design, and she takes pride in both the creative process
and the creative potential held within a printed design or interactive work.
Her design work has been recognized in several publications, such as Print
Magazine’s Regional Design Annual, the Applied Arts Awards Annual,
American Corporate Identity, the Big Book of Logos 4, portfolios.com, and
the CASE Circle of Excellence Awards Program for Communication Programs.
Gay received a Collegiate Teaching Certificate from the Harriet W. Sheridan
Center for Teaching and Learning at Brown University, and she has a Master
of Fine Arts in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design.
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 Woody Holliman
Associate Professor
of Graphic Design
Principal & Creative Director,
Flywheel Design
At Meredith since 2011
MFA Graphic Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison
MA Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison
BA, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT
Website: www.flywheeldesign.com
Areas of interest and expertise – Creative Strategy, Corporate Identity & Branding, Print Collateral, Web Design, Marketing, Advertising
Woody has professional experience as a studio owner, art director, creative director, art critic, and illustrator. His work at Flywheel Design has been recognized by AIGA, PRINT, GRAPHIS, HOW, NOVUM, Creativity Annual, American Advertising Federation (ADDY® Awards), Logo Lounge, Rockport Publishers, and American Design Awards.
Woody’s other interests include bike racing, rock climbing and Thai cooking. He’s convinced that in his next life he’s going to win the Tour de France and climb the world’s first 5.16.
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Emily Soldin Howard
Adjunct Faculty, Studio Art
Joined Meredith in 2011
MFA East Carolina University
BA Meredith College
Further Study at Arrowmont School of Crafts
Website: www.emilysoldinhoward.com
Areas of interest and expertise – fibers/surface design/textiles, 2D and 3D design, color theory, and installation
Emily Howard is a fiber artist and textile advocate. She often uses the theme of memory in her work, and is fascinated by the memory of fibers themselves. Howard loves all aspects of fiber art especially the traditional role of textiles in cultures from around the world. She uses a variety of media in her work such as fabric, paper, clay, plaster, and found objects, and enjoys creating 2-dimensional, 3-dimesional and installation art. She exhibits her work both locally and nationally.
After graduating from Meredith, Howard was awarded an internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection In Venice, and then went on to educate others in the field of Fiber Art at Artspace and Pullen Art Center, both in Raleigh. During her graduate program at East Carolina University, Howard had a unique opportunity to study abroad in Thailand, focusing on Ikat weaving techniques. Since completion of her Master’s in Textile Design, she has been teaching at the Art Institute of Raleigh-Durham in the Graphic Design, Interior Design and Fashion Marketing departments. Excited to be back at her alma mater, Howard is currently leading courses in Fibers and 2- Dimensional Design.
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 Warner
Hyde
Assistant Professor in Ceramics
At Meredith since 2007
MFA Clemson University
BA Brevard College
Website: www.hydearts.com
Areas of interest and expertise – ceramics & sculpture
In
between his undergraduate and graduate degrees, Warner Hyde was resident
artist at Odyssey Center for Ceramic Arts, Highwater Clays in Asheville
and worked with local potters in the area. During and after graduate
school he was a faculty member at Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville,
SC. Then Hyde was on the faculty at Brevard College in Ceramics and
Art History while his wife, Raiford, worked on her K–12 art certificate.
Hyde continues to lead many firings in South Carolina's only anagama
wood-fire kiln. Summers he anagama fires in Herbster, Wisconsin with
reknowned artist Mike Weber. Hyde has exhibited nationally at NCECA
and at juried national and regional venues and has works in many private
collections.
Hyde loves teaching all aspects of working with clay
and all firing processes. He finds personal satisfaction and excitement
with student interaction while helping students find their voice in
the creative arts.
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 Cameron
Johnson
Assistant Professor of Art
At Meredith since 2007
BFA and MFA, Painting and Drawing, East Carolina University, Greenville
Areas of interest and expertise – painting, drawing, and printmaking
As an artist,
Johnson is constantly in a state of evaluating what means the most to
him. Whether it is family, money, religion, or friends, he tries to
prioritize the people and things according to the value he feels they
have. His work aims to examine the systems used to establish value within
art and our own lives. Most of his paintings have areas of emphasis,
which are highly detailed and also areas that are subdued, or distorted.
These emphasized areas reflect what is important in the composition
as well as the values he feels are important. Painting and drawing has
helped him to develop and express his ideas and values. He believes
an artist can not only fascinate people with their use of color and
line but also inspire and motivate people to think and see life differently.
Art, like literature, can have great influence and Johnson wants his
work to reinforce a need for connection through positive relationships.
Born
and raised in Charlotte, Johnson attended East Carolina University,
where he received his Bachelors and Masters of Fine Arts in Painting
and Drawing. During his time at East Carolina, he taught drawing and
design classes. Johnson has received several awards and recognitions,
including, “Best in Show” and “First Place Painting”
at the Illumina Art Exhibition in Greenville. Recently he completed
a mural, along with two other artists, for Princeville’s Heritage
Park, which commemorates the history of Princeville. He also has work
on display in downtown Charlotte, Raleigh, and Greenville.
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 Shannon
Johnstone
Associate Professor of Art
At Meredith since 2001
MFA Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
BFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Course work
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Website: www.shannonjohnstone.com
Areas of interest and expertise – photography and digital imaging
Mary Shannon Johnstone is the recipient of numerous awards including "Pause, To Begin" artist, Critical Mass Top 50 (2009, 2010), and Honorable Mentions in Lens Culture’s 2010 International Exposure Awards and International Photography Awards (2009, 2010) . Born in Milwaukee, WI, Mary Shannon Johnstone holds an MFA in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). As an undergraduate student, in a nationwide photography competition, the famed J. Walter Thompson selected Ms. Johnstone to test Eastman Kodak Company’s new Advanced Photo System Products. Her work from this competition was presented in American Photo, Peterson’s PhotoGraphics, Popular Photography, and Outdoor Photograph. After graduation Johnstone became an artist for ArtLink where her work was exhibited and sold at Sotheby’s in both Tel Aviv and Chicago. In 2005 Algonquin Books selected one of her photographs as the cover image for a novel by Michael Parker. Johnstone has had solo exhibitions in Chicago, Rochester, Durham, and Raleigh. Her current artwork visualizes the implications of animal overpopulation within our community.
As an avid marathoner and ultra-marathoner, Johnstone also photographs while she races and her photographs have been featured in numerous running blogs as well as TrailRunner Magazine, Ultrarunning Magazine, and Runner's World Online. She hopes to complete her first 100-mile race in March 2012, which, of course, will be throughly documented. Johnstone is a tenured Associate Professor at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC.
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 Beth
A. Mulvaney
Art Historian, Professor of Art
Head, Art Department
Director of Honors Program
At Meredith since 1995
PhD Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dissertation:
“Duccio’s Maestà Narrative Cycles:
A Study of Meaning”
under the direction of Dr. Mary Pardo.
MA Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Thesis: “Giotto’s Arena Chapel Crucifixion: Iconography
and Form.”
BA Art History, State University of New York at Buffalo. New College of the University of South Florida, Sarasota.
Areas of interest and expertise – Teaches all periods of art history, ranging from antiquity to contemporary, as well as art history theory and methods; Specialist in Italian late Medieval and early Renaissance art; Current scholarly work focused on: Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Venice and its miracle-working image, Trecento art and drama, Duccio, Giotto, cycles of St Francis, particularly those at San Francesco, Assisi.
Although
a specialist in Italian late Medieval and early Renaissance art, Mulvaney
is fond of nearly all periods of art, including modern and contemporary.
In fact, her first paying job in the art field was as a researcher for
the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY. One of Professor Mulvaney’s
greatest joys is introducing students to the world of research and writing
about art. In her time at Meredith she has supervised student research
that has been published, as well as presented at various regional, national
and international conferences. During the summer of 2003 Mulvaney and
Katherine Weaver, a senior Honors student majoring in art with concentrations
in art history and graphic design, were awarded a summer research grant
for their project, “Art and the Viewer as Beholder,” which
resulted in a spectacular virtual reconstruction of Duccio’s 1311
Maestà.
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Lisa
Pearce
Associate Professor of Art, Director of Art Education Program
At Meredith since 1995
MFA University of North Carolina at Greensboro
BA Meredith College
Graduate Level Teaching Certificate
Areas of interest and expertise – three-dimensional
design, sculpture, and art education
Lisa
F. Pearce was born in 1967 in Nuremberg, West Germany. Her life as an
“army brat” exposed her to people of many backgrounds and
cultures, which created an understanding and connection to people from
all walks of life. The continuous, inevitable moves shaped her understanding
of time and the fragility of connections. Her imagination was her constant.
Pearce’s
background in the arts was family based. Her grandmother was a self-taught
artist and musician and both her parents encouraged her creativity at
an early age. She recalls as young as the age of four building sculptural
forms of earth and rock in the barren Texas landscape and making mixed
media collages from found objects and dinnertime scraps of bone and
paper. Rather than seeing these objects as a mere pastime they were
treated with regard and encouragement.
The
desire to teach and share this sense of appreciation for one’s
own creative mark stemmed from the nurturing she received of her own
creative spirit. She is a member of the National Art Education Association and the NC Art Education Association. She exhibits her work regularly as an affiliate artist at Artspace in downtown Raleigh.
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 Ann
Roth, Gallery Director
Adjunct Faculty, Studio Art
At Meredith since 2001
MFA University of Kansas
BFA University of Michigan
Further study at Arrowmont School of Crafts, Haystack School of Crafts
Areas of interest and expertise – color theory and weaving
Ann Roth is gallery director and teaches color theory at Meredith College. She has held curatorial and administrative positions in universities, non-profit arts organizations and commercial galleries since 1976. Ann is also a weaver. Her hand dyed and woven ikat wall textiles have been exhibited at the NC State Craft Center, American Craft Council Southeastern Regional Exhibition and in Meredith College art faculty shows. Durham Art Guild Juried Exhibition after Meredith College faculty shows. Her work is represented by Tyndall Galleries in Chapel Hill, NC. Ann received her MFA in textile design from the University of Kansas and her BFA from the University of Michigan.
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 Jane Terry
Professor of Art
At Meredith since 1993
BFA University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
MFA Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Website: www.janeterry.com
Areas of interest and expertise – photography, video, digital imaging
Jane Terry is a native of Raleigh, North Carolina. She lived in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1980s and first studied photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. Lawson Galleries in San Francisco later represented her. In 1989, Terry taught photography as an assistant to renowned photographer Denis Brihat at Lacoste School of Art in France.
Shortly thereafter, she taught photography at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, where she was awarded a Graduate School Fellowship and a Teaching Assistantship. Terry has exhibited her work in regional and national venues, including the San Francisco Art Institute, CA; Louis K. Meisel Gallery, NY; Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, FL; North Carolina Museum of Art; and Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery. She was awarded First Place, Fine Art Photography in the fourth Merry Moor Winnett Triennial at Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art in Greensboro. Her intimate portrait series, A Matter of Time, was featured as a solo exhibition at Points of View Photography Gallery in Raleigh in 2008. Terry’s video work has been screened at two annual international Dallas Video Festivals at the Angelika Film Center in Dallas, TX. Her video work was recently selected for Memory, Myth and Meaning, a fall 2011 curated exhibition at Artspace in Raleigh.
Terry has received numerous awards and honors, including a prestigious grant from the Peter and Madeleine Martin Foundation for the Creative Arts, two United Arts Council of Raleigh Regional Artist Project Grants, and an artist residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO. She was first alternate for the 2010-2011 North Carolina Arts Council Film and Video Artist Fellowship. Terry’s work has appeared or been reviewed in publications such as Popular Photography and Imaging, American Photographer and Kennedy Promotions Best of book series. She is represented in prominent private collections in San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Greensboro.
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