Faculty Biographies

Jeffrey Gibson, MA, Royal College of Art, London, England

Jeffrey Gibson is a painter and sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and San Francisco, California. He was born in the United States but moved frequently and lived abroad as a child in Germany and Korea. He is also a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and half Cherokee. This unique combination of cultural perspectives and exposure are essential to understanding Gibson’s artworks that combine and transform seemingly disparate references drawn from both Western and non-Western sources. Gibson received his Master of Arts degree from The Royal College of Art (UK) in 1998 and moved to New York in 1999. His paintings and sculptures have been shown nationally and internationally at museums, galleries and art fairs. He received a visual arts grant from The Creative Capital Foundation in 2005 and The Eiteljorg Museum Fellowship in 2009. Selected exhibitions include No Reservations at The Aldrich Museum (2006), Off the Map at The National Museum of The American Indian (2007), SONOTUBE at The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (2007), Solution at Diverseworks (2009), and Totems at Sala Diaz (2009). His work has been featured and reviewed in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe, ArtNews and The Brooklyn Rail. He is currently the Viola Frey Distinguished Visiting Artist at The California College of Art in San Francisco and a guest lecturer at Cornell University during Fall 2010. Future exhibitions include Close Encounters at Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art in Winnipeg, Changing Hands at The Museum of Art and Design in New York City and Collision at The Rhode Island School of Art and Design Museum.

Rune Olsen, MA, Goldsmith College, London, England

Rune Olsen is a Norwegian artist living in New York. Since his first solo show in 1997 at UKS in Norway he has exhibited widely throughout USA and Europe, including The Bronx Museum in New York, the Drawing Biennial at Kunstnernes Hus in Norway and the 2005 Istanbul Biennial. His work has been reviewed in Art Forum, Sculpture Magazine, Boston Globe, Austin Chronicle, New York Times, and Star Ledger. Rune Olsen has won 11 awards from The Norwegian Government, including a distinguished Three-year work grant for young emerging artists. He has been awarded the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, a studio residency with Artist Alliance in New York, a place at the renowned Art Omi International Artists Residency, and an Artist in Residency with Headlands Center for the Arts. Rune Olsen’s sculptures are featured in the ground-breaking exhibition The Sex Lives of Animals on permanent display at Museum of Sex in New York. Rune Olsen is a 2009 fellow in sculpture from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Michael Hall, MFA, Mills College, Oakland CA, USA

Michael Hall teaches at Mills College in Oakland, California and at the Creative Growth Art Center, an internationally recognized non-profit serving adult artists with developmental and physical disabilities. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Southern Exposure, San Francisco; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley Art Museum and Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco. He received an MFA Fellowship from Headlands Center for the Arts and a Herringer Foundation MFA Award. Recently his work was selected for inclusion in New American Paintings, Pacific Coast Edition, curated by Lawrence Rinder. Michael Hall is represented by Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco, California, and presented a solo show there in September 2010.

Fabienne Le Gall, MA Art Contemporain

Fabienne Le Gall is a PhD candidate in art history and criticism at the University of Haute Bretagne of Rennes. She specializes in Central and Eastern European contemporary art and is currently working on Polish critical art from 1990s. She teaches the contemporary visual arts history in Lorient, at the European School of Art of Britanny where she organizes also an annual series of lectures / discussions with artists, art historians, critics, directors of art institutions, museums, art centers... She received her DNAP, Option Art, at the School of Art of Quimper. After living several years in Poland in the artistic community, she returned to Britanny where she lives near Pont-Aven.

Permanent Faculty

Carine Charof, MA

Ann Albritton, Ph.D

Graduate Center of the City University of New York [Modern and Contemporary Art History]. Fellow, Civic Education Project, Bucharest, Romania, 1993-1995.
Fellowships to Romania, 1998 and 2006. Curator of exhibition, "Traces: Romanian Contemporary Art," with venues at CIAC, Pont Aven; Else Gallery, Sacrament, CA; Selby Gallery, Sarasota, FL, and Gallery of the National University of Art, Bucharest. Research: Sonia Delaunay; Contemporary Art, Latin American Art, Art of the African Diaspora, and Women Artists. Faculty liaison for International Studies at Ringling College. PASCA Advisory Council. Numerous catalogue and journal essays and reviews.

Bob Alderette, MFA

Exhibitions: Brewery Project (Los Angeles), East Los Angeles College, Sakura Gallery (Nagoya, Japan), Amano Gallery (Osaka, Japan), Ryo Gallery (Kyoto, Japan), White Art Gallery (Tokyo, Japan).
Public Collections: Orange County Museum of Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Arco Collection.
Awards: National Endowment for the Arts, USC Zumberg Fellowship
As a university art-studio teacher he has been deeply involved in teaching and mentoring students in painting and drawing from beginning through advanced level courses. Bob has also served as studio chair and area head of the Painting/Drawing program at USC Roski Fine Arts. In conjunction with other tenured faculty in Painting and Drawing he has been very active in the curriculum development of studio courses. Philosophically, his approach to teaching is a commitment to providing a current stream of contemporary imagery and critical-visual commentary with an awareness/research of the history of painting and drawing and its nature, use and purpose in contemporary visual culture. While an art practice is often conceptual and based on ideas, it is also extremely important to learn and practice the processes and methods of painting, as well as an intense examination of the materials of painting and drawing. Bob has exhibited his paintings in both national and international venues, where he also ostudied, lived, exhibited, etc., in Italy, Switzerland, and Japan. Currently his website is in design and will be available by January 2008.

Olive Ayhens, MFA

OLIVE AYHENS is a painter whose work is heavily influenced by her environment. She has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Fundacion Valpaaiso, Spain; Ucross; Blue Mountain; Djerassi; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (studio space); Yaddo; Marie Walsh Sharpe Space program; and Virginia Center of the Creative Arts, among others. Her work is represented by Frederieke Taylor Gallery in NYC, and she is the recipient of numerous awards including a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, two Pollock-Krasner Grants, and an Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Individual Support Grant. Her work has been reviewed in Art News, Art In America, The New York Times, The New York Sun, the Village Voice, the New York Observer, and Art Week, among others. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and has taught at the University of California, Berkeley; American University; Brown University; Stanford University; Sarah Lawrence College; California College of the Arts; and the University of Texas at Austin, among others.

Caroline Boyle-Turner, PhD.

Dr. Caroline Boyle-Turner, Director Emeritus of PASCA, obtained her Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University. She has been a Fulbright Fellow in France and a professor of art history at the American University in Paris and the Rhode Island School of Design. She founded Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art in 1993 and was its director until 2008. Dr. Boyle-Turner has published numerous books and exhibition catalogues on Gauguin and his followers in Pont-Aven.

Susan Brearey, MFA

Susan Brearey is represented by Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico and has exhibited widely in the United States including; New York City, Florida, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, California, New England and Washington, DC. She was recently one of 50 American painters to be included in "Out West, The Great American Landscape" curated and organized by the Meridian International Center, Washington, DC and the National Art Museum of China, Beijing. The Meridian International Center arranged for Susan to travel to China for the opening ceremonies in April '07. The exhibit subsequently traveled to six major Chinese museums returning the USA in February '08. She has taught painting, drawing and printmaking and been a visiting artist at: RISD, Marlboro College, The Putney School, Keene State College, The Evergreen State College, Western Washington University and Bretton Hall College of The University of Leeds, England. Susan received her MFA in painting from RISD in 1994 and her B.A. in French literature and art from The Evergreen State College in 1988. As an undergraduate, Susan lived and studied in both Lyon and Paris, France. Brearey's work is in several collections including: The Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN, The Vermont Studio Center, Bank of Boston, Meditech Corp. and The Putney School. Her work is in several private collections in the US and Europe.

Hedwig Brouckaert, MFA

HEDWIG BROUCKAERT (1973 Chile) is a Belgian artist living in Ghent (Flanders) and NYC. She obtained an MFA from the University of California, Davis after completing a Master’s Degree in Sculpture and a Postgraduate Degree at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK) in Belgium. Over the years she received several Artist Grants from the Flemish Government in Belgium, and fellowships of Yaddo, Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, Anderson Ranch, Virginia Center for the Arts, Ragdale Foundation, R. M.MacNamara Foundation and Vermont Studio Center. Brouckaert shows regularly in Europe and the US and is represented by Gallery Jan Dhaese in Belgium and Radical Gallery in Switzerland. Her artistic practice consists of sculpture, installation, drawing and digital media (animated drawing and large scale prints).

Hedwig Brouckaert has taught beginning through advanced level courses of drawing and sculpture at numerous institutions, including Art Academies in Belgium (Tielt, Ghent), the University of California, Davis and Montana State University in Bozeman.

Carine Charof, MA

Carine Charof is the French teacher and Head of Student Activities at Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art. A specialist in teaching French and foreign languages to students and adults, Carine has taught at the Universite de Bretagne Occidentale and in French language programs in France and abroad, including Great Britain, Spain and Morocco. She received a Master degree de recherche en langues et civilisations europeennes from the Universite de Bretagne Occidentale (Brest) and holds a Licence de Francais Langue Etrangere. Carine is a resident of Quimper and is active in social and artistic activities in the area. She shares her love of Brittany and knowledge of the region with her students through excursions, songs, games and exploring local traditions.

E.G. Crichton, MFA

E.G. Crichton uses a range of art strategies and media to explore social issues, history, and site-specific subject matter. She often works within community settings and collaborates across disciplines with other visual artists, performers, writers, scientists and composers, to name a few. Her work has been exhibited in art institutions and as public installations in Europe, Japan, Australia and across the US. She is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of California Santa Cruz and the first Artist-in-Residence for the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society of Northern California.

Stuart Diamond

Governor Skowhegan School of Art 1974, 1975 YADD summer residency CAPS grant for Painting 1973. Solo exhibitions 1977, 79, 82, 84, 86, 92, David McKee Gallery. Dart Gallery, Chicago 1980 Group Exhibitions 2005 Enconter In The Middle Of The New Europe Light and Shadow Group of Cech, German, American artist work on permanent display for 50 years. American Artists in Rural Ireland 2006; The Ballinglen Experience 2006; Concord Art Association Concord MA, 2006. The Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art Kirkcudbright, Scotland Teaching Mass College of Art tenured Associate Professor.

David Eckard

David Eckard is an artist, performer and educator based in Portland, OR. His work has been exhibited internationally and has been written about and reviewed in The New York Times, Flash Art, Art in America, Artnews and Sculpture. Through objects, drawings, installations and performative interventions, Eckard investigates conditions of masculinity, endurance, authority and absurdity. He is an instructor at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and is chair of the sculpture department. Academic Director at PASCA from January 2008 to July 2009.

Dahlia Elsayed, MFA

DAHLIA ELSAYED combines text and imagery to create visually narrative paintings that document internal and external geographies. Her work, influenced by conceptual art, comics, and landscape painting, is informed by autobiography and environment, to create illustrated documents of places and memories. Her paintings, prints and artist books have been shown at galleries and art institutions throughout the United States and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Clementine Gallery and the Jersey City Museum. Her work is in the public collections of the US Department of State, Johnson & Johnson Corporation, The Jersey City Museum, The Newark Museum, Newark Public Library, New Jersey State Museum, amongst others. Dahlia has received awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Edward Albee Foundation, Visual Studies Workshop, Women's Studio Workshop, Headlands Center for the Arts, and The NJ State Council on the Arts. She received her MFA from Columbia University, and lives and works in New Jersey.

Dale Emmart

Dale Emmart was born in New York City, attended public schools in New Jersey, received a BFA from The Cooper Union, and an MFA from The Rhode Island School of Design. She has taught art in independent schools in Boston and New York and has held adjunct positions at Fordham University, Rhode Island School of Design, Parsons School of Design, New York Institute of Technology, and Brooklyn College. She currently teaches at the Parsons School of Design and The Brearley School in New York City. She has painted on site in Italy, France, Germany, Scotland and parts of rural Canada and the U.S. Her work has been reviewed by The Boston Globe, Art New England, The New Boston Review, and The New York Times. Emmart has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a Dieu Donne Papermill Artist's Grant, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Melissa Ferreira

Melissa Ferreira teaches studio courses for upper level as well as students new to the program. She believes strongly in encouraging an individual's vision along with awareness of and sensitivity to audience. Ferreira balances teaching and completing assignments as a freelance illustrator with her personal passion, the creation of her own work. Her pieces range from low-relief covered teapots and sculpted clay tiles to mixed media experiments with 3D assemblage and variations on the artist's journal.

William Kofmehl, III

William Kofmehl, III, a Pittsburgh, PA native and sculptor, graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a BFA preceding a fifth year scholarship to study civil engineering. Kofmehl then attended Yale University, obtaining a MFA. He is currently represented by Lombard-Freid Projects in New York City. Kofmehl has exhibited internationally, conducting performances at the Art Nova Sector of Art Basel Miami, the Imperial College, London, Temple of Apoll, Greece, and Monteverdi, Costa Rica. His complex installations built of wood, steel, and bronze act as a staging ground for multiple performers where occasionally, Kofmehl himself lives and dwells within the installation for the entire length of the exhibit. Kofmehl has held a variety of appointments at Carnegie Mellon, Robert Morris University, and PASCA, teaching photography, color theory, printmaking, and 3D media.

Horatio Hung-Yan Law, MFA

HORATIO HUNG-YAN LAW is an interdisciplinary artist who was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States at the age of 16. In studio work, public art and community residencies, Law deploys common cultural artifacts to explore issues of identity, memory and the loss and gain of cross-cultural struggle in the evolving global community. His work often tackles weighty subjects with ephemeral and unexpected materials, creating quiet, conflicting, meditative and evocative works. Currently an assistant professor in Intermedia and Photography at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregan, Law received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis.

Kathleen Loe

Kathleen Loe is a multi-media artist and independent writer, with studios in Boulder, Colorado and New Orleans, Louisiana. She has been a Visiting Critic at Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design and Louisiana State University and is the ongoing Curatorial Consultant for the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorad. Kathleen writes critical essays for artists' exhibitions and has taught both studio and art history on the faculties of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois Wesleyan University and Bloomfield College. Her paintings, drawings and prints have been nationally exhibited at galleries in New York, Chicago, Washington, DC, Aspen, and New Orleans as well as at the Jersey City Museum, the Aspen Museum, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and the Laguna Gloria Museum in Austin, Texas.

Amy Lovera, MFA

AMY LOVERA is a multimedia artist whose work explores the interplay between biography and fiction. In an effort to construct meaning out of our varied perceptions of reality, her narrative works translate personal histories through reenacting them as photographs, animations and drawings. Amy is also a founding member of the Clever Girls Collaborative, an animation studio which focuses on hand-made techniques and a spontaneous approach to stop-motion animation. Their current film was recently screened to accompany a live performance by the Bang on a Can All-Stars at their People’s Commissioning Fund concert in NYC. Amy has been awarded grants by LEF Foundation, the Rhode Island State Council of the Arts, the Massachusetts College Art and the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally, most notably in Luna Cornea, a photography journal published by the Centro de La Imagen and funded by the Mexican National Endowment of the Arts. Amy is currently a faculty member at the Massachusetts College of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design and Southern Connecticut State University. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Barbara McBane, PhD.

Barbara McBane has been the Head of Critical Studies at the Pont-Aven School of Art since 2009. Among other activities, Barbara creates each semester’s theme and designs the Critical Studies courses that form the conceptual foundation of PASCA’s programs. Before coming to Pont-Aven, Barbara taught visual culture studies, film studies, gender and sexuality studies or film post-production at the University of California, Davis; University of California, Santa Cruz; Ardmore Studios, Dublin, Ireland, and the UCLA Department of Film and Television. In addition to heading the Critical Studies program, she is a working artist and has many years of experience as a sound editor and designer on projects ranging from feature and experimental films to public and studio art projects. Barbara holds a PhD degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz in the History of Consciousness; her feature film credits include a number of Academy-Award winning projects in sound post-production.

Ann McCoy

Ann McCoy, a New York based sculptor and painter as well as a curator and published writer who has been involved in studies of comparative religion, Jungian psychology, alchemy, and Native American culture for thirty years. She taught in the Art History Department at Barnard College from 1980 through 2000. Her Barnard class appears in the 2000 documentary: "Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale".
In 2003, McCoy received two grants from the Trust for Mutual Understanding to curate an exhibition of four American photographers for a sixteenth century tower in Poland, on the subject of "the ethers". In 2006 she received a grant from the Asian Cultural Council to create an exhibition in New Delhi entitled: 'The Death and Transformation of the Monkey King.' She is a winner of a Prix de Rome and the Berliner D.A.A.D. Kunstler award. Her 2008 Berlin exhibition PFAUENINSEL was reviewed in the Berliner Zeitung. Her work is included in the collections of many American museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshorn, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney.
She is primarily known for her large format drawings, light projections, installations, and sculpture. Most of her work comes from a study of depth psychology and alchemy. She has a background in Jungian psychology, comparative religion, and mythology. She worked with Prof. C.A. Meier, Jung's heir apparent for twenty- five years in Zurich.
While teaching Native American art, McCoy began to examine an intellectual colonialism where non-European approaches were ignored. Growing up in New Mexico with Native Americans, and team teaching with members of different Native American nations, made her realize that European theoretical systems do not always apply to tribal and some contemporary art. In the academic world discussions of art and spirituality are often dismissed and relegated tthe past. McCoy tries to combine critical theory with Oriental and other nonwestern approaches, and her background in comparative religion and anthropology.

David Oates, PhD

David Oates' books, articles, and poetry about nature and urban life are widely published -- most recently in a feature article for Orion (May/June issue) and poetry in ISLE (forthcoming). His book of essays, What We Love Will Save Us was published by Kelson Books in 2009; City Limits: Walking Portland's Boundary was published by Oregon State University Press in 2006; and Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature appeared in 2003. A professor of English at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, David also teaches workshops in writing and creativity around the Northwest and elsewhere in the US, and conducts the ongoing Wild Writers Seminars in Portland. He received his PhD from Emory University.

Paul Paiement, MFA

Paul Paiement has lectured extensively both in the United States and Europe and has shown widely over the past ten years in solo and group shows in New York, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Canada, London, Chicago, and extensively in California. His work was most recently featured at Heather Marx Gallery in San Francisco, California; "Tools as Art: Work from the Hechinger Collection," traveled to museums throughout the United States in 2006-07; Natural Blunders at the de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California, and the critically acclaimed solexhibition Hybrids 1.0-3.5 at the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, California.
Paiement's work has been featured in several publications including Art in America, Artscene, Modern Painters, Artforum, ARTnews, Los Angeles, Artweek, Step Inside Design, Interior Design, The Orange County Register, The Los Angeles Times, and Statement. His book Hybrids 1.0-3.5, recently received a book design award from Communication Arts magazine. In 2008, he was awarded a grant from the Hoff Foundation for his Evergreen Park installation. He is currently a full-time tenured professor in the Art Department at Cypress College, in Orange County, California.

Sejal Patel

Sejal Patel is a performance based photography and video artist whose work primarily focuses on self and identity as a second generation Indian American women living in America. She was born in Gujarat, India and raised in Lowell, MA. She acquired her BFA in Art Education with a concentration in photography from Massachusetts College of Art and MFA in Photography from Syracuse University. Sejal currently lives in Cambridge, MA and is an Assistant Professor of Photography at the New England Institute of Art in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her current project titled The Memsahib and her “sister" attempts to imagine her unlived history as a first generation Indian American, where she deliberately constructs and fabricates pieces of evidence that place her in the history of British occupation in India. She experiments with the artificial nature of the “document,” while evaluating the role of the British women during British Raj.

Bryan Panks

After completing a BA hons degree in Fine Art Printmaking in 1984, Bryan’s career started in a Cheltenham graphic design company before forming a fashion garment screen-print and design company. During business trips to Japan, it was suggested that his character drawings would be ideal for a Japanese comic strip, which appeared in Tokyo in 1995. This lead naturally to animation and the character Max Bear, co-developed with his wife Helena, was first broadcast on UK Channel 4 in 1998. Bryan began teaching animation and motion graphics in 2004, designing modules for industry and education while continuing to develop animated projects with his company Max Bear Productions Ltd. Bryan is currently a Course Leader & Senior Lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire – “Animation & Interactive Media Course”

Sally Pettibon

Sally Pettibon is a nationally exhibited photographic artist with numerous exhibitions and awards. Collections include John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and Center for Fine Art Photography. Private collections in New York, California, Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia and Florida. Former staff photographer for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and freelance editorial photographer in New York and Florida. Client list includes New York Times, New York Law Journal, Newsweek, Washington Post, Washingtonian, Associated Press, Agence France Press and Silver Image Agency. Member: Society for Photographic Education. Sally Pettibon's work is concerned with the human experience, the desire to feel connected to something or someone, the emotional difficulty of relationships, and the sometimes tragic events that shape our lives. Pettibon uses the found image for its anonymity and lack of emotional attachment and sentimentality.

Anne-Julie Raccoursier, MFA

Anne-Julie Raccoursier has a diploma of the Geneva School of Fine Arts (Ecole Superieure des Arts Visuels) and obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California (2003). She was during 3 years (2003-2006) assistant coordinator of the postgraduate study programme -critical curatorial cybermedia- in the Ecole superieure des beaux-arts in Geneva, where she took actively part in the elaboration and coordination of the programme, taught a reading group and worked on several researches. One of them is a publication of 12 conversations in cultural studies tbe published soon. She has an artistic practice in video and photography and is preparing two personal exhibitions in Geneva and Lausanne.

Jay Stuckey, MFA

Jay exhibits regularly in L.A. and is represented by Abel Neue Kunst in Berlin, Germany. Recent exhibitions include group shows at ACME and Andrew Shire in Los Angeles, and an upcoming exhibition at Andrew Shire in the Spring of 2009. His work is in numerous private and institutional collections throughout the country including Sprint Telecommunications and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Jay has been a frequent Visiting Lecturer at Brown University and faculty at the Brentwood Art Center.

Elizabeth Whalley, MFA

ELIZABETH WHALLEY is a Canadian artist based in Québec (Canada) and NYC. She uses painting, drawing, and printmaking as tools to gather and study phenomena from the natural world. Experimental projects that result, influenced by science-based imagery, performance, or narrative, evolve in response to site, materials, and technologies. She received an MFA, as well as an Advanced Certificate in Performance and Interactive Media Arts, from Brooklyn College, City University of New York after studies in fine arts at Concordia University in Montreal. Her grants and fellowships include a FIPSE faculty grant from Pratt Institute, a McNair Scholar’s research fellowship, and a Canada Council Travel Grant as well as artist’s residencies in Pouch Cove, Newfoundland and at the Etay studio in Montreal. She shows regularly in the New York and Montreal areas and is represented in many private collections. She has participated in numerous collaborative and interactive events including the Conflux Festival and the Science Fair at Flux Factory in NYC. Elizabeth Whalley has taught beginning through advanced-level courses of drawing, painting, and printmaking at Haverford College (Haverford, PA), Pratt Institute (NYC), Brooklyn College(NYC), and Adelphi University (Garden City, NY).

Barry Whittaker, MFA

As a multi-media artist, designer, and musician, Barry Whittaker investigates the absurdities of daily life through digital media, performance, and collaboration. Whittaker explores the social dynamics of food, knowledge, animals, mythology, and household objects. Seen through a humorous lens, these issues serve as a strategy to convey information and further dissolve barriers between audience and artwork.

Susan Working, MFA

Susan Working was the Academic Director of Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art from 2009 through 2011. She was the director of the Furniture Design and Sculpture Programs and the Visiting Artist Program at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village Colorado from 2002- 2009. Her current work as both artist and arts administrator at PASCA has focused on the combining of wood with other media such as painting and digital media and on the collaborative process. Her hybrid sculptures combining studio furniture, drawings, paintings and prints have been exhibited at the Salone Internazionale de Mobile, Milan, Italy, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York and in galleries across the U.S. Susan received her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She has taught at California College of the Arts, Rhode Island School of Design and Anderson Ranch Arts Center.

Miriam Zegrer

Miriam Zegrer studied fine arts in Avignon, France from 1991-1996. In 2001 she created a printmaking studio in Berlin with Eva Pietzcker to research, practice and teach different printmaking techniques like intaglio, woodblock and screenprint. Her favorite technique for her personal artwork is Japanese woodblock - she likes the slowness and the sculptural aspect of woodblock. Since 2003 she has been a visiting teacher for printmaking in several art schools.