- Frank Boyer
- Aaron Knochel
- Susan Miiller
- Jessica Poser
- Karen Sickles
- Nina Tantillo Elton
- Beth Thomas
- Alice Wexler
- Nicole Wistreich
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Frank Boyer |
Office Hours: Thursday 3:15 - 6:00pm by appointment. |
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Aaron Knochel |
Office Hours: by appointment |
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Susan Miiller |
Office Hours: Virtual Office hours: Friday 12:00 -2:00pm |
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Jessica Poser |
Office Hours: and by appointment |
Jessica Poser received her Ed.D (2007) and MEd (2005) from Harvard University, her MFA (1997) from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and her BA (1992) from The University of Chicago. Her scholarly interests include community-based arts and contemporary art curriculum. She has presented research in a range of venues including The Education and Social Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK); Goldsmith’s College (UK); The Pacific Sociological Association (CA); ARTS (Arts Research, Theses, and Scholarship) at The Harvard Graduate School of Education (MA); and Eyebeam Atelier (NY). She is currently developing a Teen Arts Lab with Habitat for Artists at Kingston Library (NY).
Her artwork explores themes of place, memory and absence; her images and objects are made in a variety of media and are constructed through processes traditionally associated with craft. Her work has been exhibited in venues including: DuBois Fort Gallery (New Paltz, NY); Roos Gallery (Rosendale, NY); Womanmade Gallery (Chicago), The Mount Desert Symposium in the Arts (Maine); New York University (NY); Harvard University (Cambridge, MA); The Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies (NY); Bernard Toale Gallery in (Boston); artSPACE@16 (MA); The Tata Institute for Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India; Soprafina Gallery (MA); Zeitgeist Gallery (MA); Mobius Gallery (MA); El Instituto Cultural Guadalupano (IL); and Gallery 312 (IL). She has curated shows of children’s photography at both Harvard University (MA) and Lesley University (MA). Her publications include: Contemporary Craft: The Look of Labor in Art Education, the Journal of the National Art Education Association and Youthscapes: The Global, The National, The Popular, in The Journal of Visual Studies, Taylor and Francis)
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Karen Sickles |
Office Hours: lunch usually between 12:00 and 1:00 |
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Nina Tantillo Elton |
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Beth Thomas |
Office Hours: and by appointment |
Professor Beth Thomas has 14 years experience teaching in K-12 public schools. After completing her doctoral work at The Ohio State University, Dr. Thomas worked at the Maryland Institute College of Art as a faculty member in and Interim Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching program.
Dr. Thomas’s research interests center on a questioning of the relationship between theory, philosophy and teaching practice. Of particular interest are: the role of arts learning in the education of at-risk student populations; the role of psychoanalytic theory in art teaching and learning; relationships between technology, place, artmaking and education; and the ethics of education. She has presented regionally and nationally on metaphor, creativity, technology in higher education, distance learning, art teaching as reflexive practice, and collaborative practices.
Professor Thomas’ recent publications include “The Thames is a Teacher: Lacanian Metaphor and Meaning in Writing about Art” in Visual Arts Research, and “Surpassing Knowing: Metaphor and Category Reconceptualization in the Artwork of Mark Dion,” in L. Della Pietra (Ed.), Perspectives on Creativity. published by Cambridge Scholars, London. Dr. Thomas teaches Introduction to Art Education in the B.S. in Art Education program, and Graduate Thesis courses in the M.S.Ed. in Visual Arts program for SUNY New Paltz.
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Alice Wexler |
Office Hours: and by appointment |
Professor Wexler teaches courses in studio methods and artistic development, instructional resources in art education, and art for exceptional children and adults. Her research focuses on the art making practices of exceptional children and adults, and on the integration of text and image in art works made by children and adolescents. Professor Wexler's writing in these areas has been published in Studies in Art Education and Art Education. She is currently at work on a book based on children with special needs in alternative settings.
Professor Wexler has presented on her research nationally and has received awards in support of her work, including a Faculty Development Award to support her research on the art of exceptional adults at the G.R.A.C.E. facility in Vermont (2001). Professor Wexler, a painter, has exhibited extensively. She received an award for her painting from the National Arts Club (1995).
Professor Wexler received a B.F.A. from Boston University, an M.F.A. from the Royal College of Art, and an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Nicole Wistreich |
Office Hours: and by appointment |
