DAVID ANDREE / ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ART / HEAD OF DRAWING
David Andree is an artist whose work explores land as a subject of flux through painting, drawing, sculpture, and sound. A Minnesota native, David maintains tribal affiliation with the Red Lake Nation of Ojibwe. David holds a Master of Fine Arts from the State University of New York (SUNY), received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), and currently holds the position of Assistant Professor at the School of Art in Fayetteville, AR where he resides in the Ozarks.
He has had work exhibited at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Gallery MC and BWAC Gallery in New York City, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Hallwalls, the Big Orbit Gallery, Exhibit-A and the Burchfield Nature and Art Center in upstate New York, The Masur Museum of Art (Monroe, LA), Plains Art Museum (Fargo, ND), Manifest Creative Research Gallery (Cincinnati, OH) in addition to numerous venues around Minneapolis, Minnesota including the Anderson Center, SooVac and the Rochester Art Center. His work has been included in publications from Friend of the Artist, Manifest Creative Research Gallery (USA), with published works from Sunshine LTD (USA), Dauw (Belgium), Eilean Rec. (France), Herhalen (Scotland) and Touched Music (UK).
David has been invited as Artist in Residence at the studios at MASSMoCA, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (North Adams, MA), Hambidge Center (Rabun Gap, GA), UCross Foundation (Ucross, WY), Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), Works on Water / Underwater New York (New York, NY), Grand Marais Art Colony (Grand Marais, MN), Anderson Center (Red Wing, MN), amongst others.
He is the recipient of a 2014 Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, a Creative Climate Award from the Human Impacts Institute, a Juror Award from Ylinka Barotto, Assistant Curator, Guggenheim Museum, and his work is collected by Target Corporation, including private collections throughout Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, and the United Kingdom.
KARA ANDREE / TEACHING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Kara Andree is an artist and educator engaged in exploring various forms of drawing and painting from the origin point of visually observed phenomena. Kara received her MFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo), her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), and currently teaches as an Instructor in foundations, drawing and painting at the School of Art in Fayetteville, AR. Her work has been exhibited at the Kathering E. Nash Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), Burnet Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), Hallwall’s Contemporary (Buffalo, NY), amongst others. She has presented her work and practice through various institutions including the Minnesota State High School League 4A Visual Arts Festival, Wisconsin Art Education Association Fall Conference, Minnesota Art Educators Conference, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR).
MARYAMSADAT AMIRVAGHEFI / INSTRUCTOR OF ART/ ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF EXHIBITIONS
Maryam Amirvaghefi was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1989. Amiravghefi’s works are the mixed media medium of painting, video art, and sculpture pieces. She graduated from the University of Arkansas School of Art with an MFA. She completed her BFA at the Sooreh Art University, Tehran, Iran, in 2013. She is currently working at the University of Arkansas School of Art as an Assistant Director of Exhibitions and Instructor. She has had group shows in Tehran, South Korea, United Kingdom, and the USA. Her works have been published in Dovetail Magazine, Foundwork ,Reset ,Al-Tiba Magazine, New Media Art 2019, CICA Museum, WOTISART Art Magazine, Studio Visit magazine, and Average Art Magazine. In addition to her studio practice, Amirveghefi has curated two shows from Iranian and American young artists in Tehran. Iran and Fayetteville. USA and co-curated exhibitions that feature artists such as Laleh khorramian, Barb Smith, Tauba Auerbach, Corin Hewitt, Trudy Benson, Tara Donovan, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Nikole Cherubini, Jenny Holzer, and many others.
Carris Adams / VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN DRAWING & PAINTING
Carris Adams is an artist, educator, administrator, and book lover. Her work explores the signs/signifiers that mark our landscapes. Through the materiality of painting and drawing, Adams attempts to embody the sense, shape, and experience of these markers. Her work describes the appearance of subjects found during her day-to-day travels, while also reflecting the various social, cultural, political, and economic circumstances under which we labor. Adams received her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin and her MFA from the University of Chicago. Adams's work has been exhibited at The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Logan Center Exhibitions at The University of Chicago, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery- Chicago, SCOTTY (Germany), and The Engine Room (New Zealand).
Neil Callander / ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART / HEAD OF PAINTING
Born in Louisville KY, Neil earned a BFA from Indiana University (2003) and an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University (2006). In 2005 he received a full fellowship to be a resident at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. After graduate school Neil worked as a painter for the artist Jeff Koons in his New York studio.
In 2007 Neil and family left New York City to pursue careers as artists and academics. This decision has offered a tour of the South with time spent in Louisville KY, Starkville MS and Tuscaloosa AL. Neil and his wife Adrienne are currently Assistant Professors of Art at the University of Arkansas and live in a household of makers and dogs on three acres in Fayetteville AR.
Neil has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at Goose Barnacle (Brooklyn NY), Bowling Green State University (OH), MANIFEST Gallery and Drawing Center (Cincinnati OH), Elon University (NC) and The Kentucky School of Art (Louisville). Group exhibitions include MANIFEST Gallery and Drawing Center (Cincinnati OH), The Huntsville Museum of Art (AL), The Mississippi Museum of Art (Jackson), and The New Gallery of Modern Art (Charlotte NC), First Street Gallery (NYC), Washington Art Association (CT) among many others. He has presented on his work and practice at institutes of higher learning including Boston University, UMass Dartmouth, Arkansas State University and the University of Mississippi. He is a member of ZEUXIS (an association of still life painters based in NYC).
Upcoming creative endeavors include participation in Art Week (July 2022) at the fabled family home of painter Fairfield Porter on Great Spruce Head Island in Maine.
Marc Mitchell / ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART / CURATOR & DIR. OF EXHBITIONS
Marc Mitchell is an artist/curator that received a M.F.A from Boston University. His work has been featured in solo/two-person exhibitions throughout the United States at institutions such as the University of Wisconsin, Madison; University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; Tops Gallery, Memphis; GRIN Gallery, Providence; and Laconia Gallery, Boston. His work has been reviewed in the Boston Globe, as well as featured in New American Paintings in 2014, 2017, 2018, and 2021. Mitchell has been a visiting artist/curator at numerous universities, and he's been selected as a visiting resident at residencies such as the Banff Center for Arts & Creativity, Vermont Studio Center, Tides Institute/StudioWorks, and the Hambidge Center for the Arts. He was an Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome in Summer 2021.
In addition to his studio practice, Mitchell has curated exhibitions that feature artists such as Josef Albers, Mel Bochner, Louise Bourgeois, Mark Bradford, Sara Greenberger-Rafferty, Daniel Gordon, Philip Guston, Josephine Halvorson, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Jenny Holzer, Rashid Johnson, Mary Reid Kelley, Allan McCollum, Richard Misrach, Thomas Nozkowski, Kay Rosen, Erin Shirreff, Jessica Stockholder, Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Lawrence Weiner, Wendy White, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, and many others.
Sam King / ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART / PROGRAM DIRECTOR OF FOUNDATIONS
Sam King works at the intersection of painting’s material thresholds and the viewer’s instinct for interpretation to produce visually and sometimes physically disrupted continuities. He has exhibited at The Painting Center, NYC; Unrequited Leisure, Nashville; The Provincial, Kaleva, MI; MANIFEST Gallery, Cincinnati; DRAWL Southern Contemporary Art, Little Rock; Laconia Gallery, Boston, among others, as well as university galleries, including University of North Carolina Greensboro, Western Connecticut State University, Lower Columbia College, and University of Arkansas Fort Smith. King has collaborated with other artists and musicians on a number of occasions, most recently with Brooklyn-based experimental rock quartet JOBS, for the audio-visual release Similar Canvas (Ramp Local #47). In 2020, he was a resident at the Hambidge Center, supported by the Lee and Margaret Echols Fellowship for musicians. In 2019, he curated Shelters, Monuments, featuring the work of artists Whiting Tennis and Sarah Norsworthy, for The Provincial. He was a 2007 recipient of the Arkansas Arts Council’s Individual Artist Fellowship. With Christopher Lowrance, he co-founded MW Capacity, a website devoted primarily to painting in the Midwest. With Stephanie Pierce, he co-founded Lalaland, a DIY community projects space in Fayetteville, AR, active 2011-2019. His work is held in a number of public and private collections. He attended the University of Tulsa (BFA, 2003) and Indiana University (MFA, 2005). King resides in Fayetteville, AR, where he is Program Director of Studio Art for the University of Arkansas School of Art.
Kristin Musgnug - Professor Emeritus
Kristin Musgnug was born in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in New Jersey. Her work explores the domesticated American landscape through a re-examination of the Romantic tradition of landscape painting.
Musgnug received a BA in Art History from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts and a MFA in painting from Indiana University, Bloomington. Following graduate school, she joined the Core Residency Program at the Houston Museum of Art’s Glassell School. Since 1991 she has been on the faculty of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. During 1994-95 she was Artist in Residence at Lucy Cavendish College of Cambridge University, England. She's made painting trips to England, Macedonia, Nova Scotia and numerous parts of the United States, including residencies at the Norton Island Artists Colony, the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Dorland Mountain Colony. In 2002 she received an Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Painting. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Kansas State University, Inman Gallery in Houston, and the Galveston Arts Center. Her work is in the collection of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and was included in the book, Texas: 150 works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Musgnug’s work is represented by Inman Gallery in Houston, Texas.
