CHAIR
Katherine Spitzhoff
Associate Professor, Graphic Design
Fine Arts Ctr 306
Tel: (607) 436-2316
Katherine.Spitzhoff@oneonta.edu
Katherine Spitzhoff received an MS in Information Design and Technology from SUNY Polytechnic Institute, an MFA from Brooklyn College and a BFA from Saint John’s University. She worked in various areas of the Graphic Design field in New York City before joining the faculty at SUNY Oneonta.
Her design work includes event promotion, exhibition graphics, information design, corporate identity, and packaging. For 12 years she worked in the Design Department of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Most of Katherine's current clients are cultural organizations and non-profits. Her design studio is in Cherry Valley, NY.
STAFF
Lorraine Bissell
Administrative Assistant
Fine Arts Ctr 222
Tel: (607) 436-3717
David Kenny
Instructional Support Technician
Fine Arts Ctr 223A
Tel: (607) 436-3515
Sven Anderson
Associate Professor, Digital Art
Fine Arts Ctr 309
Tel: (607) 437-1758
Sven.Anderson@oneonta.edu
Sven Anderson received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1985 and his BFA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1983.
He studied printmaking with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris France.
Sven Anderson is from Long Beach, California. His interests include printmaking, woodworking, and digital art. His work can be found in many collections in the United States and Europe.
He has been teaching Digital Art at SUNY Oneonta since 1997 and has sponsored numerous faculty/student grants and independent studies.
David Kenny
Adjunct Instructor, and Instructional Support Technician
Serigraphy
Fine Arts Ctr 223A
Tel: (607) 436-3515
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David Kenny is a digital artist with extensive experience in cinematography, and in the community teaching all aspects of digital art. He has particular expertise in 3D Printing, Vector Graphics, Design, Photography, and Videography. He received his BA from SUNY Oneonta.
Wesley Bernard
Assistant Professor, Photography
Fine Arts Ctr 223
Tel: (607) 436-3718
Wesley.Bernard@oneonta.edu
Wesley Bernard holds a B.S. in Anthropology and an M.F.A in Photography.
Bernard, a Northern Arizona native, is a photographer who embraces the process of the story-telling, offering the viewer a visual narrative of cultures and their stories.
His photographs have been exhibited in Switzerland, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
A select list of Bernard's clientele includes America West Magazine; Range Magazine; American Cowboy; Lockwood Publications; Fly Fisherman; W.L. Gore; U.S. Park Service and the Arizona Republic. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Body+Soul. ABC and Fodor's Africa Guide, and The United Nations, among others.
Jian Cui
Associate Professor, 3D Animation, Video, Foundations
Fine Arts Ctr 303
Tel: (607) 436-2987
Jian.Cui@oneonta.edu
Jian Cui received his MFA in New Media from the Pennsylvania State University, PA, and his MA in Computer Art from Savannah College of Art and Design, GA. He received a BFA in Sculpture from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. China.
Jian Cui's monumental sculptures are seen as landmarks in China, and his drawings, watercolor paintings, and Chinese paintings have been published in several books. His recently published 3D modeling and animation works have been widely used as instructional examples by schools throughout the United States.
Jian Cui's works are dealing with the internal and external conflicts between an individual and the environment. He is interested in integrating traditional 2D and 3D arts with contemporary digital media. He sees “new” media as a smooth continuation of traditional media.
Rhea Nowak
Professor, Foundations & Printmaking
SUNY Oneonta 2020 Scholar of the Year
Fine Arts Ctr 310
Tel: (607) 436-2827
rhea.nowak@oneonta.edu
Rhea Nowak received her MFA from the University of Connecticut in Printmaking and Drawing, and a Master Printer Certificate from Il Bisonte an international school of printmaking in Florence Italy. She received her BA from Bennington College in Printmaking and Painting. Her prints, drawings, and unique books have been exhibited in juried and solo shows in both the U.S. and Europe including Italy, Germany, and Bulgaria.
Her work involves ideas of continuity, chance, and change, and draws from such sources as Buddhist philosophy, musical composition, and current scientific theories.
"Science tells us we are not made of particles at all, but patterns of probabilities of interconnections."
Thomás Sakoulas
Professor, Sculpture & Digital Art
Fine Arts Ctr 305
Tel: (607) 436-2687
thomas.sakoulas@oneonta.edu
Thomás Sakoulas received his MFA, from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Rinehart School of Sculpture in 1994, and his BFA with Honors from Florida International University in 1992.
Thomás Sakoulas is a Minimalist artist deeply influenced by the art of his native Greece. His artwork embraces physical and virtual space in a variety of media, ranging from stone carving and metal fabrication to digital media, 3D modeling, CAD/CAM, video, and web/UI design.
Sakoulas' use of stone, metal, drawing, and digital media reflects his interest and investigation of elemental geometry, ancient Greek Art, and the transformation of visual signs as they become fragmented and detached from their original context.
His artwork has been exhibited nationally and is featured in collections in Florida, Maryland, and New York. He is the author of Ancient Greece.
Ruben Salinas
Assistant Professor, Illustration
Fine Arts Ctr 308
Tel: (607) 436-2305
Ruben.Salinas@oneonta.edu
Ruben Salinas received his MFA from Stephen F Austin State University, and his BA in Communications from Universidad Regiomontana in Monterrey, Mexico.
Ruben’s work includes book and poster illustrations, editorial illustration, storyboards for TV commercials, and fashion illustration. Clients include: McCann Erickson Advertising, Ogilvy and Mather, Rives Carlberg Advertising, and Ultra magazine, among others.
Ruben is the author of the book The Spirit of Gesture–a practical drawing guide for animation, illustration, and concept design students and enthusiasts. His paintings have been exhibited in the USA and Japan. His work with digital prints explore the vast possibilities of black and white image making through regular and large format Giclee printing.
Yolanda Sharpe
Professor, Painting & Drawing
Fine Arts Ctr 307
Tel: (607) 436-3327
Yolanda.Sharpe@oneonta.edu
Yolanda Sharpe received her Master in Fine Arts from Wayne State University, and her BFA in Painting and Printmaking, as well as BA in Art History from Michigan State. Her art has been exhibited internationally. Ms. Sharpe is a Fulbright Scholar for 2010-2011, and taught and exhibited in Russia’s Siberian city, Krasnoyarsk. She has received the Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence.
Her work examines the relationships between the physicality of paint, wood constructions, and color structures of space. Each painting represents a massive and substantial permanence that is both solid and diaphanous. Surfaces appear to crumble within long passages of time. Some of the encaustic paintings capture Detroit’s beauty, decay, and re-ruralization.
Alissa Walls
Assistant Professor
Art History
Fine Arts Ctr 304
Tel: (607) 436-2714
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Alissa Walls is a multidisciplinary artist and art historian whose creative and scholarly work engages the natural and physical sciences, critical social issues, and the market society in which she lives.
Conceptually, drawing lies at the heart of her work, but Walls has historically employed a range of media—collage, ceramics, sculpture, textiles, lithography, encaustic, multimedia installation, projection, video, and photography. Her practice is research-dense and process-oriented and relies heavily on repetition and accumulation. Physical practices—from walking and running to yoga, meditation, and breathwork—comprise a critical component of her work.
Walls has published in exhibition catalogues and such peer-reviewed journals as American Art. She has curated the exhibition Mark Dion: Process and Inquiry at the University of Arkansas and given numerous talks at private and public venues, including The Explorer’s Club. She has presented her research at the annual meetings of the College Art Association, the Southeastern College Art Conference, the American Studies Association, the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, and the American Society for Environmental History.
Walls holds an MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Time-Based Art from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (2021), a PhD in Art History from The Pennsylvania State University (2009), an MA in American Studies from Penn State Harrisburg (2002), and a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology from Washington and Lee University (1997).
Andy Deck
Assistant Professor
UX/UI Design and Emerging Technologies
Fine Arts
Tel: (607) 436-2344
Andy.Deck@oneonta.edu
Andy Deck received his MFA in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1993, and, in 1996, a Certificat d’Études Specialisée du Troisième Degré, from the École National Supériure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris with specialization in Conception et Réalization d’Images par L’Informatique.
Deck is an artist specializing in Net Art, interactive media, and related prints and installations. His software and digital media offer critical and ironic perspectives on contemporary media and technoculture. He has exhibited internationally and has received various commissions. His work is held in several collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, and has appeared in numerous art historical surveys.
He has produced printed calendars annually for four decades and is a co-founder of the environmental arts collective Transnational Temps, which advances Earth Art for the 21st Century.TM
Mark Hodge
Lecturer
Art History
Mark Hodge received his Ph.D. in Art History with a certificate in Curatorial Studies from the University of Florida in 2021. His research interests include the art of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages in Europe and the perception and reception of that art in later periods.
His dissertation is entitled “Dialectical Semblance: Blank Portraiture on Third- And Fourth-Century Roman Sarcophagi.” It examines the widespread utilization of sarcophagi featuring blank portraits (sometimes called “unfinished portraits”) within the later Roman empire. It aligns the emergence of these blank portraits with the culmination of trends in both material production and funerary representation that developed in Roman society up to the third century.