Faculty & Staff

Department Chair

Chris Barnard

Associate Professor of Art, Chair of the Art Department

Painting • Drawing • Two-dimensional art • Art history • U.S. militarization and imperialism • Critical discourse in contemporary art

cbarnard@conncoll.edu

Faculty

Nadav Assor

Associate Professor of Art, Judith Ammerman '60 Director, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology

New Media art • Interactive programming and prototyping as art-making methods • Sound and video production and presentation, with a focus on experimental methods • Experimental 3D methods: motion capture, 3D scanning, 3D printing • Media installation; Media performance; Critical perspectives on art and technology • Cultural aspects of military-industrial technologies, with a concentration on imaging technologies and drone (UAV) technologies, their histories and implications • DIY drone construction and control (hacking drones) • Mapping-related and site-specific art

nassor@conncoll.edu

Gregory A. Bailey

Associate Professor of Art

Sculpture • Mold making and casting • Ceramic shell foundry process • Welding and fabrication • Wood construction • Installation art • Conceptual art

gabai@conncoll.edu

Timothy McDowell

Lucretia L. Allyn Professor of Art

Lithography • Woodcut • Monotype • Etching • Engraving and collograph • Cyanotype and photomechanical image making in relation to an experimental drawing course

tjmcd@conncoll.edu

Denise Pelletier

Roman and Tatiana Weller Professor of Art

Ceramics • Sculpture • Site-specific art

dpelleti@conncoll.edu

Amanda Russhell Wallace

Assistant Professor of Art

digital photography • analog photography • lens-based media • time-based media • video art

awallace1@conncoll.edu

Andrea Wollensak

Professor of Art

Social design and collaborative community ventures • Mapping and visualizing data • Digital poetics • Site-specific installation works • Digital Fabrication • Design History and Graphic Design • Book Arts and Typography

ajwol@conncoll.edu