Graduate Programs
MFA Faculty Advisors
Stamps is a tight-knit creative community with highly engaged faculty members who act as mentors and advisors to Stamps MFA students.
Throughout the two-year program, our faculty of artists and scholars work closely with students to shape an intellectually-rigorous program of study, individually suited to each candidate’s areas of interest and expertise.
With six NEA recipients, two Fulbright Scholars, two Guggenheim Fellows, and a Pulitzer Prize winner as just a small sampling of the faculty accomplishments at Stamps, MFA students are able to make powerful, life-long connections to prominent culture-makers of our time.
Stamps MFA Applicants are asked to identify faculty mentors and advisors from the list below. Clicking on each faculty’s name directs you to a profile page. For questions/concerns, please contact us.
Osman Khan
MFA Program Director, Associate Professor
- Investigates identity, communication, and public space
- Interactive installations
- Site-specific interventions
- Technology as tools for social criticism and aesthetic expression
Irina Aristarkhova
Associate Professor
- Investigates cyber-feminism, new technologies, post-coloniality, and globalization
- Author, editor, researcher
- Scholar of comparative feminist theory and contemporary aesthetics
David Chung
Professor
- Investigates issues of identity, human rights, immigrant communities
- Multi-media installations
- Prints and Drawings
- Documentary Film and Video
- Public art
Jim Cogswell
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
- Investigates the construction of content from perceptual experience and the relation of language to visual perception
- Painting, drawing, and printmaking
- Vinyl window installations and public art
- Interdisciplinary collaborations
Susan Crowell
Professor
- Investigates the incorporation of the moral and the literary with the material and the temporal
- Ceramics
- Text as aesthetic
- Ephemeral explorations: wind and sound
Phoebe Gloeckner
Associate Professor
- Investigates female identity, coming of age, and familial evolutions
- Graphic novelist
- Multi-media and text
- Narrative
- Medical illustration
Roland Graf
Assistant Professor
- Investigates solar power and sustainable design
- Object and building design
- Public space interventions
- Human interface
Holly Hughes
Professor
- Investigates feminism, queer identities, and contemporary society/politics
- Performance art
- Author, editor, researcher
Carol Jacobsen
Professor
- Investigates feminist art, law, politics; women’s criminalization, human rights, censorship
- Social Documentary film/video installations
- Photography
- Writer
Heidi Kumao
Professor
- Investigates and reframes ordinary gestures to explore their psychological underside
- Film
- Sculpture
- Theater
- Technology
Louis Marinaro
Professor
- Investigates perception, visualization, context, and capturing the complexity of life experiences.
- Sculpture
- Public works
- Drawing
Rebekah Modrak
Associate Professor
- Investigates consumer culture and critical commerce.
- Culture Jamming
- Social critique
- Photographic theory and practice
- Appropriation
Anne Mondro
Associate Professor
- Investigates the intersection of memory loss, healthcare, and creative expression.
- Metalsmithing
- Sculpture
- Design
Cynthia Pachikara
Associate Professor
- Investigates social contingency of an individual’s gaze and the notion of body-as-screen.
- Video Installation
- Sculpture
- Public space interventions
Robert Platt
Assistant Professor
- Investigates boundaries and interrelationships between nature and optics.
- Painting
- Installation
- Public space interventions
- Sound collaboration
Marianetta Porter
Professor
- Investigates African American history, culture, and representation.
- Sculpture
- Printmaking
- Multi-media works
- Product design
Endi Poskovic
Professor
- Investigates shifting cultural identities, environmental transformation, personal and social histories, displacement and alienation
- Printmaking: lithography, color relief, intaglio, use of laser technologies in plate-making, collaborative print publishing
- Drawing
- Use of text in visual representation in/via printmedia
Michael Rodemer
Professor
- Investigates the written word and in the "word-become-material."
- Kinetic and interactive sculpture
- Sculptural media
- Playwright and theatrical designer
Stephanie Rowden
Associate Professor
- Investigates the expressive dimension of sound and its relation to human experience.
- Sound design
- Audio narrative
- Documentary radio and podcast
- Installation
Sherri Smith
Catherine B. Heller Collegiate Professor
- Current series investigates astronomy.
- Fibers and textiles
- Interiors
Nick Tobier
Professor
- Investigates the power of social dynamism and the fundamental role of the artist/designer as catalyst and conduit in this relationship.
- Author and editor
- Landscape architecture and urban space
- Public and community-focused projects and actions
Joseph Trumpey
Associate Professor
- Investigates biodiversity, modern agriculture, and ecological sustainability.
- Medical illustration and drawing
- Ecologically sustainable building methods
- Architecture and design
David Turnley
Associate Professor
- Investigates the human condition in some 75 countries around the world.
- Documentary photography
- Documentary video producer and director
Elona Van Gent
Associate Dean of Academic Programs and Professor
- Investigates themes encountered at the intersection of art, science and technology.
- Sculpture
- Three-dimensional digital technologies
