Mary A. Johnson has taught fine art in the U.S., Shanghai, and Beijing, and recently as the Head of Studio for the International Foundations Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Currently she is a lecturer at UNT's College of Visual Arts and Design
Meet Our Alumni
Taking on the World
Professors were really not that buttoned up, they danced with us. Harvey Breverman was extremely generous, even when he was the most challenging. Adele Henderson made printmaking young again. She once said, all that matters is your work, and that is all one can strive for. This has stayed with me forever.
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design-University of Illinois Urbana Champaign As an artist, his subject matter examines the African-American experience, more specifically the future. Making many African-American private conversations and concerns public.
LIZ BAYAN is a Toledo, Ohio based multimedia artist born in Salem, Oregon. Her practice in the fields of Digital Arts and New Media focuses on mediation, technogenesis, and digital vision. In 2010 she received her B.F.A. in Digital Arts from the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. After graduating, she worked as a professional letterpress printer for Oblation Papers & Press in Portland, Oregon before moving to Buffalo, New York for graduate school where she received her M.F.A. in Emerging Practices in 2015 from SUNY, University at Buffalo.
Although I learned many of the skills I use daily in my current position as the Curator at Buffalo Arts Studio, the most important thing I learned was visual culture literacy.
Augustina Droze is an artist based in Buffalo, NY. She works primarily as a public artist and muralist as well as a painter and art educator. Droze is familiar with large scale public art through her work in mural projects, mixed media installations and sculptures.
I had wonderful, life-changing experience at SUNY@Buffalo, now called UB. Followed by my undergraduate days at KCAI-Kansas City Art Institute, it was incredible to be there then, in the mid-1970s.
The best part of studying at the UB Department of Art was the opportunity to explore; UB gave me the space and time to experiment, investigate, and to seek new answers as both an art maker and as an individual.
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, Assistant Professor in graphic design Nekita Thomas is a designer, researcher, and educator with skill in participatory design and social practice.
In her own words: “I am thrilled to be joining the OCAD University team and injecting my own lived and Indigenous perspectives into the Material Art and Design program.”
Patrick Foran’s work is concerned with the visual culture of disasters and emergencies disseminated by news imagery and other highly mediated forms of representation. His drawings and paintings isolate, fragment, and reframe events within the context of our contemporary catastrophe.
She is the founder and director of the Guapamacátaro Center for Art and Ecology in Michoacán, Mexico (www.guapamacataro.org).
Our alumni have gone on to pursue active careers as artists, graphic designers, curators, art directors, professors, as well as a host of other opportunities in creative fields.
Our Graduate Alumni have significant placements in education including tenure track positions at University of Denver, Ontario College of Art And Design – Toronto, CAMD – Northeastern, Western Michigan University, Cleveland Institute of Art, Virginia Tech University, Herron School of Art – University of Indiana, Canisius College, Southeast Missouri State University, Oberlin College, New Jersey City University, Rowan University – New Jersey, and Louisiana State University.
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Updates From Our 2021 Alumni Reception
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our 2021 Alumni Reception, a part of the College Art Association’s Annual Conference. We were excited to hear from our alumni, spanning from1980 through this past Spring (2020).
For recap on the online event we have put together a booklet for you to download and enjoy.
