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New Faces in Academic Affairs 2021–22 FACULT Y AND STAFF MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART 1
ruby onyinyechi amanze
MCMILL AN STEWART ENDOWED CHAIR IN PAINTING
ruby onyinyechi amanze received an MFA from
Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from Tyler
School of Art.
amanze’s practice consists of works on paper about
the vast and magical potential of space and the
balance between magnitude and weightlessness.
Incorporating a working vocabulary of just seven
elements, amanze plays with the possibilities of
spatial relationships between forms.
Her research is rooted in various three dimensional
expressions, including architecture, design, and
movement/dance languages such as Gaga.
Existing in all these practices is an intentional
construction of space and therefore, a recognition
of its malleability. Exploring dance further, amanze
recently co-founded the dance company, THE
DECK which debuted an original piece, tell me
a way you pretend to be strong at the Collezione
Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Italy in 2021.
amanze has exhibited her work globally in
photo credit: Sahar Coston-Hardy New York, Johannesburg, Miami, Paris, London
and Lagos, including in the California African
American Museum, the Drawing Center, and the
Studio Museum in Harlem. In 2016 amanze was
a finalist for the Prix Canson drawing prize and
in 2019, amanze was named the Deutsche Bank
Featured Artist at Frieze New York. Her work has
been collected by the Smithsonian, The Jewish
Museum, and the Studio Museum of Harlem.
She previously taught at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn
and Drexel University in Philadelphia. In 2012-13,
amanze was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship
in Drawing to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
amanze lives and works between Philadelphia
and New York.
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Melodie Davis-Bundrage
FIBER FACULT Y & CO-DIRECTOR OF THE RATCLIFFE CENTER
FOR CREATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Melodie Davis-Bundrage received her PhD in
International Fashion Merchandising from the University
of Georgia (UGA), MS in Management from University
of Maryland University College, and BBA in Accounting
from Howard University.
Melodie is an academic leader and creative entrepreneur
who works at the intersection of fashion and beauty
merchandising, sustainable entrepreneurship, and
racial justice. She formerly held the positions of Chair,
College of Business and Associate Professor at Johnson
& Wales University, North Miami Campus; Assistant
Professor and Department Chair, Fashion Marketing
and Management at Northwood University; and Ph.D.
Candidate/Instructor of Fashion Merchandising at the
University of Georgia. At Johnson & Wales, she ran
sixteen major programs including two Entrepreneurship
majors, and supervised the co-curricular programs
housed in the Entrepreneurship Lab and Fashion Lab.
During her time at UGA, she was named UGA Next Top
Entrepreneur for her skill in creating retail business
plans and pitching investors. Her beauty brand, which
was launched from the Now That’s Entertainment
competition, is currently sold through independent
retailers and international distribution channels. She has
also published articles and presented papers in the areas
of her research interests including: entrepreneurship
case studies, consumer behavior towards sustainable
fashion and beauty products, teaching and mentoring
fashion merchandising students, and history of health
impacts from products marketed to Black women.
Prior to her time in academia, she worked for 25
years in retail management including owning a
brick & mortar cosmetics boutique and 15 years
in corporate and non-profit leadership positions.
She has experience auditing retailers and managing
finances and human resources for non-profit
organizations that have retail divisions.
mdavisbundrage@mica.edu
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Mai Ly Degnan
ILLUSTRATION PRACTICE FACULT Y
Mai Ly Degnan earned her MFA in Illustration Practice
from the Maryland Institute College of Art and BFA in
Illustration at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Mai Ly is an award winning illustrator based in
Baltimore. She is passionate about visual arts
education and student creative development. Since
2016 she has been teaching illustration at both MICA
and Towson University, working with students in all age
groups from high school to graduate school. Along with
teaching, Mai Ly has a deep love for visual storytelling
and enjoys creating playful lifestyle illustrations using
strong female characters, busy patterns, and bright
colors. As an active freelance illustrator, Mai Ly works
in a variety of markets including editorial illustration,
licensing, greeting card design, and adult and children
book publishing.
Her work has been recognized by The Society of
Illustrators of NYC and LA, American Illustration,
and 3x3 Magazine. Selected clients include Harper
Collins, Chronicle Books, The Norman Rockwell
Museum, Quarto Kids, Time Magazine, Boston Globe,
Washington Post, VICE, PBS, and NPR.
Mai Ly joins the Illustration Practice MFA program this
year, as full-time faculty filling in for Kimberly Hall who
is on leave.
mdegnan@mica.edu
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Pickett Slater Harrington
SOCIAL DESIGN FACULT Y
Pickett Slater Harrington received his Master in
Social Work, with a concentration in organizations and
communities, from the University of South Carolina.
Pickett has spent his career igniting social change.
He is the founder and managing principal at Joltage, a
social change design firm that champions innovative
solutions to social challenges. He has experience
connecting and working with communities and
institutions to address complex, systemic social
issues. He has served in various roles in national
nonprofit organizations including the Children’s
Defense Fund, the Urban League, and Public Allies.
In addition, he has served as manager of leadership
development at Independent Sector, a national
leadership network of nonprofits and foundations,
where he focused on moving a new generation of
social change leaders from next to now. Pickett has
also served in various leadership roles in community
based groups and organizations. His background
also includes serving as an adjunct professor and
senior consultant with the Community Building
Institute at Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH.
His work in Baltimore includes partnering with Seawall,
a Baltimore based community developer that believes
in using real estate to empower communities.
This partnership, in conjunction with residents of
Baltimore, led to the development of a community
vision for the transformation of Lexington Market. He is
also working with the United Way of Central Maryland
as they launch Neighbors United, an initiative to build
the capacity of neighborhood residents to identify
and work on systemic challenges that impact their
community.
Pickett lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and
two kids, and enjoys woodworking, sailing, and sci-fi.
pslaterharrington@mica.edu
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Yohey Horishita
ILLUSTRATION FACULT Y
Yohey Horishita (he/him/his) holds a Master of Fine Art
and a Bachelor of Fine Art in Illustration from Savannah
College of Art and Design (Atlanta, GA).
Horishita has a freelance illustration practice and worked
for various clients domestically and internationally, such
as the New York Times, Penguin Random House, Canon,
Casio, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
NYC. His work has also appeared in prestigious trade
publications such as the Society of Illustrators Annual,
Communication Arts, and American Illustration. His
intricate, detailed, and colorful illustration are his way of
storytelling and challenging the boundaries of social and
cultural norms.
Japan-born Horishita crossed the ocean in 2005,
moved to Jacksonville, Alabama alone, and later lived
in Atlanta, Georgia. He again moved to New York City
after receiving his MFA and now lives in Baltimore, MD.
He hopes that this journey has made him a better Steel
Magnolia and prepared him for a fresh start at MICA!
He joins the full-time faculty this year after serving as a
digital art lecturer at P.I. Art Center (New York, NY) for
six years.
yhorishita@mica.edu
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Hein Koh
MCMILL AN STEWART ENDOWED CHAIR IN PAINTING
Hein Koh received her MFA in Painting/Printmaking from
Yale University and a dual BA in Studio Art and Psychology
from Dartmouth College.
Hein’s work, comprised of painting, sculpture, and
drawing, centers on creating personal, universal,
and collective narratives involving fantastical,
anthropomorphic characters of food and flora. Her work
has been reviewed or featured in publications including:
Artforum; ArtNews; The Atlantic; The Brooklyn Rail; The
Huffington Post; Hyperallergic; New York Magazine; The
New York Times; Time Out New York; and The Wall Street
Journal. She was also recently included in the book
We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art
World, written by Jasmin Hernandez and published by
Abrams Books.
Hein has also taught or lectured at Columbia University,
California College of the Arts, Tyler School of Art,
Dartmouth College, Maryland Institute College of
Art, New York University, and the School of Visual Arts.
Her work has been exhibited widely and internationally,
including venues such as Allouche Benias Gallery, Anton
Kern Gallery, Jack Hanley Gallery, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery,
Kasmin Gallery, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Rockefeller
Center, Sargent’s Daughters, Semiose Galerie, and
Western Exhibitions. She recently had solo shows at Anton
Kern Gallery’s WINDOW space, Semiose Galerie in Paris,
France and will be opening a solo show at Allouche Benias
Gallery in Athens, Greece in October 2021. In addition,
her first institutional solo show at the SCAD Museum of
Art opened in August 2021. Hein is represented by Anton
Kern Gallery.
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Priyanka Kumar
ILLUSTRATION FACULT Y
Priyanka Kumar received her MFA in Illustration
Practice from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She
also holds an MA in Art History from Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi, and studied literature and film
for her undergraduate degree at Jadavpur University,
Kolkata.
Priyanka is an illustrator and printmaker from Kolkata,
India. She is a recipient of the Bromo Seltzer Studio
Fellowship 2020-21, was recently appointed art director
at the literary anthology South Asian Avant-Garde, and is
creative head at Anchovy Press, a Baltimore-based UP/
Start 2021 winning enterprise dedicated to illustrated
books that center BIPOC children. Her personal work
spans visual narrative, printmaking, and murals. Her
graphic narratives can be found in Bystander: Stories,
Observations and Witnessings from South Asia, First
Hand: Graphic Non Fiction from India, and Drawing The
Line.
pkumar@mica.edu
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Joo Yun Lee
ART HISTORY FACULT Y
Joo Yun Lee earned her Ph.D. in Art History and Criticism
and Graduate Certificate in Art and Philosophy from
Stony Brook University, SUNY; her MA in Art History and
Theory from Hongik University, South Korea; and her
BA in English Literature and International Trade from
Ajou University. Additionally, she was a participant in the
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study
Program in 2013-2014 (Helena Rubinstein Curatorial
Studies Fellow).
Joo Yun is pleased to join MICA’s Department of
Art History as a full-time faculty member after
having taught at New York University, Pratt Institute,
and Hongik University. Originally from Seoul, South
Korea, Joo Yun is an art historian, curator, and
cultural producer working on the intersection of art,
science, and computational media in contemporary
art and visual culture. Her research focuses on the
technological modes of production, distribution, and
reception of technical images, intermedia performance
and installation, sound art, and architecture from the
1960s to the present crossing regional boundaries. Her
current research focuses on East Asian contemporary
art and media practices that intersect with the global
art under the strong influence of the global capitalism
consolidated with information technology, networks,
and datafied society.
Joo Yun is a recipient of the Fulbright Graduate Study
Award. Previous to starting her art history degree, she
was a curator at the Seoul Museum of Art and was
in charge of the Seoul Mediacity Biennale. She is a
founding member and editor of AliceOn (aliceon.net),
the first web magazine and networking channel on
media art and culture in South Korea.
jlee36@mica.edu
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Shiva Nallaperumal
GRAPHIC DESIGN MFA FACULT Y
Shiva Nallaperumal received his MFA in Graphic
Design from The Maryland Institute College of Art and
his UGCD (Communication Design) from DJ Academy
of Design, Coimbatore.
Shiva is a graphic designer, type designer, and art
director from Chennai India and co-founder (with Juhi
Vishnani) of the plural design practice November. He
has worked with a wide variety of clients from the
Fashion, film, news, art, and tech industries on identity
systems, printed matter, editorial design, exhibitions,
interactive media, and typefaces. As a type designer
he has worked with Typotheque, Bold Monday, Sharp
Type, Commercial Type, and Lost Type Co-op. In 2017
he became the first graphic designer to be included in
Forbes India 30 under 30. In 2019 he was inducted
into the prestigious Alliance Graphique Internationale
(AGI) as a member.
snallaperumal@mica.edu
MARYLAND
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OF ART 10Karl Williamson
PRODUCT DESIGN FACULT Y
Karl Williamson earned his BFA in Industrial Design
from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD)
and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
(SAIC) in the Design for Emerging Technologies MFA
program.
Karl has worked in design related higher education for
nine years, beginning at the Universidad Francisco
Marroquin in Guatemala where he founded the Product
Design program and ran the Fabrication Lab. He
returned to the United States to open the Grainger
Engineering Design + Innovation Lab at the University
of Wisconsin - Madison (UW) which focuses on hands-on
learning, digital fabrication, and interdisciplinary design
in the College of Engineering. While at UW he helped
craft the Masters of Design + Innovation program and
developed PPE for the UW hospital system during the
pandemic.
In addition to teaching, Karl has a collaborative art
practice with his partner Hellen Ascoli. Their work looks
at affordances and materiality to question the spaces
between art, craft and technology. Together they have
exhibited at Sol Del Rio (Guatemala); Frieze (London);
ARCO (Madrid); and at the Contemporary Arts Center
(Cincinnati).
In his studio practice Karl often builds custom digital
tools that take an experimental approach to product
design; exploring how technology mediates skill,
manifestes materiality, and enacts its own agency.
Karl has worked with a range of project partners
including; Samsung, IBM, Pollo Campero, Rossana
Orlandi Gallery, The Goodman Theater, Taller KEN, and
most memorably The Addams Family Musical, when he
worked on a 30 foot squid puppet.
kwilliamson@mica.edu
MARYLAND
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OF ART 11Dolores Zinny
PROGRAM DIRECTOR, RINEHART SCHOOL OF SCULPTURE
Dolores Zinny received her six-year degree as Licentiate
in Fine Arts at the Universidad Nacional Rosario Argentina
and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study
Program (ISP) in New York in 1995-96, where she lived
for 8 years before moving to Berlin in 2002.
Dolores is part of the artist duo Zinny Maidagan, who
are well known for their large-scale works for the
public space. Those include: Forgetting Curve, 2013,
1rst Prize Public Art Competition Fulda University of
Applied Sciences; Hippocampus, 2017, 1rst Prize
Public Art Competition Hessen Goethe-Universität,
Frankfurt; and Word for Word, 2017, a large-scale
intervention for LACMA’s façade as part of Getty
Foundation Pacific Standard Time LA/LA. Architectural
interventions include works for Graz City Hall, the Royal
Library of Belgium Brussels, and Fundación PROA
esplanade.
Her work has been recognized and exhibited widely
internationally, with special projects at The New Museum
of Contemporary Art New York, MIT, and Artist Space
New York. Notable solo shows have been at Fundación
PROA Buenos Aires, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Museo
Tamayo Mexico City, DAAD Galerie Berlin, Museum für
Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, MGK Siegen, Lund Konsthall,
The Showroom London, and Sala Rekalde Bilbao.
She has participated in the 1st Cartagena Biennial,
2014; the 8th Gwangju Biennial, 2011; the 5th Berlin
Biennale, 2008; the 2nd Seville Biennial, 2007 and the
50th Venice Biennale, 2003.
Her legacy has been captured in numerous books,
among them Compartment/Das Abteil published by
the MMK Frankfurt with an essay by Ranjit Hoskote
and Such a Good Cover published by DAAD with an
essay by Lynne Cooke.
Dolores is looking forward to moving from Berlin to
Baltimore this fall, where in her new role she will be
Program Director for the Rinehart School of Sculpture.
MARYLAND
dzinny@mica.edu
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OF ART 12Mina Cheon
A SSOCIATE DEAN OF FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE AND FACULT Y
Mina Cheon received her PhD in Philosophy of Media
and Communications from the European Graduate
School, European University for Interdisciplinary
Studies, Switzerland; MFA in Imaging Digital Arts from
UMBC: An Honors University in Maryland; MFA from
the Hoffberger School of Painting, MICA; and BFA
from Ewha Womans University.
Mina is a Korean new media ar tist, scholar, and
educator who exhibits her political pop art known as
“Polipop” internationally. Being a part of the Korean
diaspora, Cheon’s art results from a life-time of
working with a postcolonial and comparative cultural
lens and making contemporary art that is in historic
alignment to appropriation art and global activism art,
while focusing on North Korean awareness, Korean
unification, and global peace projects. Recent projects
include working with the Asia Society Museum in New
York with participation in the Asia Society Triennial
and her solo show at The Korea Society in New York.
Cheon had solo exhibitions at the Ethan Cohen Gallery
(2014, 2017, 2020) and Lance Fung Gallery (2012) in
New York; Trunk Gallery (2014), Sungkok Art Museum
(2012), and Insa Art Space (2004-5) in Seoul, Korea;
and Maryland Art Place (2012) and C.Grimaldis Gallery
(2008) in Baltimore. She has participated in the 2018
Busan Biennale and has exhibited her work and/or is
in the collection at the Seoul Museum of Art, Noyes
Museum of Art, Seoul Olympic Museum, American
University Museum, Smith College Museum of Art,
and Baltimore Museum of Art.
mcheon@mica.edu
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1Lindsay Cubbage
A SSISTANT DIRECTOR, BRAND MARKETING FOR OPEN STUDIES
Lindsay Cubbage earned a BS in Hospitality
Management and Administration from the University
of South Carolina (USC), followed by graphic design
studies at Santa Monica College.
While completing her undergraduate work, she was a
Historian for Gamma Phi Beta, Zeta Sigma Chapter at
USC. She also volunteered with Girls on the Run and
the Stop Hunger Now Project, all while continuing her
fine art ceramics practice on the side.
Prior to joining MICA in January 2020, Lindsay was a
marketing coordinator at Ticketmaster and an Executive
Project Manager at Popchips. She first found her love
for design and working within the fine arts as a Career
Services Advisor at the Art Institute of Washington. She
has a dedicated passion for brand design, creative
services, and working with other artistic individuals. As
the new Assistant Director of Marketing and Recruitment
for the Open Studies team, she aims to uplift its core
programs through inspiring design, optimal creative
project management, and marketing strategy. She
genuinely enjoys the creative process and will always
find a way to create.
Aside from balancing her full-time role at MICA, Lindsay
loves to travel and aims to travel to all seven continents,
volunteer with other fine art organizations such as the
Getty, continue her ceramics practice, long distance
run, Cross Train (Crossfit), and work with other creative
clients through her business space, Cubbage Creative.
lcubbage@mica.edu
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OF ART 14Tiffany Holmes
INTERIM VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AND PROVOST
Tiffany Holmes received her PhD from the University
of Plymouth in the UK, a MFA from MICA, a MFA in
Digital Arts from UMBC, and a BA in Art History from
Williams College.
In her new role at MICA, Tiffany serves as the chief
academic officer, responsible for all aspects of the
development and delivery of educational programs,
including curricula; faculty; facilities and budget;
and ensuring and supporting the achievement
and fulfillment of academic excellence across all
disciplines of the College.
A 1997 MICA alumna, Tiffany returned to Baltimore in
2018 to serve as the Vice Provost for Undergraduate
Studies. In this position, she collaboratively developed
two new First-Year Fellows programs; four new minors;
a new interdisciplinary major in Ecosystems, Society,
and Justice; as well as the new Center for Creative
Entrepreneurship with a major gift from the Ratcliffe
Foundation.
Tiffany is also a practicing digital media artist. Her
studio practice explores the potential of art and
design to promote environmental awareness and
sensitivity to shifting ecologies on the planet. Projects
include a commission for the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications where sequences
of experimental animations visualize real time
energy loads. Her paper detailing this work, “Eco-
visualization: Combining art and technology to reduce
energy consumption,” earned a Best Paper award at
Creativity and Cognition 2007. She has lectured and
exhibited worldwide: Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago; J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; 01SJ
Biennial, Siggraph; Interaction in Japan, ISEA Nagoya;
and Microwave Festival, Hong Kong. A recipient of
the Michigan Society of Fellows research fellowship
in 1998, Holmes has earned the Illinois Arts Council
individual grant, an Artists-in-Labs residency award in
Switzerland, 2010 Rhizome Commission, and a 2016
Distinguished Alumni Award from UMBC.
MARYLAND
tholmes@mica.edu
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OF ART 15Ashley Laboda
DIRECTOR, CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT FOR
OPEN STUDIES
Ashley LaBoda earned a PhD and MA in Spanish
Linguistics, both from the University at Albany, SUNY
in Albany, NY and a BA in Spanish and French from
Houghton College.
After completing her graduate studies, Ashley
worked at Franklin and Marshall College and George
Washington University, where, in addition to teaching,
she coordinated the Spanish curriculum and directed
an assessment of student achievement of learning
goals and outcomes—thus sparking her interest in
the administrative side of academia. She then joined
Verto Education as the founding Course Director of
the Spanish language program where she developed
the curriculum and trained faculty to deliver courses
abroad.
Ashley joined MICA full time in the department of
Open Studies in December 2020 as the Director of
Curriculum Design and Development. Her role entails
providing faculty training and support, with a focus
on promoting best practices in teaching and learning;
ensuring quality and accessibility of course design
and delivery; and aligning institutional and program
goals with course objectives and learning outcomes.
alaboda@mica.edu
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OF ART 16Brian Murry
DIRECTOR, BUDGET AND FACULT Y CONTRACTS
Brian Murry received his MBA from Rice University and
MS in Microbiology and BSc in Biology from Louisiana
State University.
Brian joins MICA as the Director of Budget and Faculty
Contracts where he oversees and coordinates the
faculty contracts process and acts as the general
budget administrator for the Academic Affairs division.
Prior to joining MICA, Brian worked as a budget
and contracts program manager with Children’s
Hospital Los Angeles. He has a broad range of
healthcare experience, from benchwork to clinical trial
management to healthcare administration. He comes
to MICA as someone with a long-standing interest in
supporting faculty and operations within academic
institutions.
bmurry@mica.edu
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OF ART 17Victoria Hunte
INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGIST FOR OPEN STUDIES
Victoria Hunte received her MS in Instructional
Technology from Towson University and holds a BS in
Elementary Education.
Prior to starting employment at MICA, Victoria was a
fourth and fifth grade teacher for Baltimore County
Public Schools. While teaching, she ran extracurricular
activities that involved broadcasting and multimedia
production. She also served as the Technology
Liaison for her school, often providing professional
development opportunities for her colleagues. Prior to
teaching, Victoria served as a Corporate Trainer for a
local mortgage company. It is there that she found her
knack for instructional design.
Victoria joined MICA in February 2021 as an
Instructional Technologist for Open Studies. Her work
primarily consists of maintaining Canvas, Zoom, and
other technology tools; creating print and interactive
training materials for faculty and students; and
working closely with the Director of Curriculum Design
and Development to support the instructional design
and integrity of courses.
Victoria’s love for technology goes beyond the
workplace. In her free time, she enjoys learning about
graphic design and front-end software development.
Other hobbies include cooking, reading, traveling, and
performing spoken word poetry.
vhunte@mica.edu
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OF ART 18Zvezdana Stojmirovic
A SSOCIATE DEAN OF DESIGN AND MEDIA AND FACULT Y
Zvezdana Stojmirović [z–VEZ–dah–nah stoy–ME–
roe–vitch] (she/her) received her MFA in Graphic Design
from MICA and BFA in Fine Art from The Cooper Union.
She is also a 1994 graduate of the Whitney Museum
of American Art Independent Study Program (ISP).
Joining MICA’s Graphic Design faculty in 2005,
Zvezdana has taught across the curriculum, and has
collaborated widely with other departments, including
Illustration, Fiber, Film & Video, and Environmental
Design (the predecessor of today’s Architectural
Design). She has led teaching partnerships with Etsy,
Under Armour, and the Walters Art Museum. Her
book, co-authored with Helen Armstrong, Participate:
Designing with User-Generated Content, was published
in 2011 by Princeton Architectural Press.
Zvezdana has exhibited extensively stateside and abroad,
including KC Grad in Belgrade, Serbia, and Momenta
Art and The Most Gallery in NYC. In 2013, she created
a typographic commission for BOPA (Baltimore Office
for Promotion and the Arts) at the Top of the World
observation deck in Baltimore.
Last year, Zvezdana helped launch the First-Year
Fellows in Creative Entrepreneurship as Lead Faculty
and Faculty Coordinator. In this role, she fused an
innovative curriculum that integrates financial literacy
and “real world” applications with core lessons in 2d
and 3d fundamentals.
Prior to her MICA epoch, Zvezdana designed countless
interactive exhibitions for the Brooklyn Children’s
Museum, and graphics for art world clients with the
design studio, Bureau. In the evening, with the studio
partners, she volunteered her time on WAC, the Women’s
Action Coalition, and Gran Fury, the graphic arm of ACT
UP. She was part of many other art groups, such as
Parasite, a conceptual art organization, and Prosopon,
a Byzantine iconography studio, both on the Lower East
Side.
zvezdana@mica.edu
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OF ART 19Colette Veasey-Cullors
INTERIM VICE PROVOST FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
Colette Veasey-Cullors received her MFA in
Photography from Maryland Institute College of Art
and her BFA in Photography from the University of
Houston.
Colette is a photographer whose work investigates
themes pertaining to socio-economics, race, class,
education, and identity with a particular interest in
social and creative engagement with individuals
and communities historically underinvested in and
underrepresented. She has worked with a number
of community-based organizations including:
Communities in Schools; Project Row Houses; Art on
Purpose; 901 Arts; Baltimore Youth Film Arts; and Art
Source South Africa.
Her photography is included in the permanent collection
of the National Museum of African American History
and Culture (NMAAHC) and the Photographic History
Collection of the National Museum of American History
(NMAH), both of the Smithsonian Institution. Her work
has been widely exhibited, including: The California
African American Museum, The African American
Museum in Philadelphia, The Museum of Fine Arts
Houston/Glassell School of Art, and The Chattanooga
African American Museum. Veasey-Cullors’ work
is included in the publications MFON: Women
Photographers of the African Diaspora (2017, Barrayn/
Fawundu), an anthology featuring the work of more
than 100 women photographers of African descent
from around the world, and BLACK: A Celebration of
a Culture (2004, Willis). In 2021, she was appointed
to the board of trustees at Aperture Foundation, NYC.
In the winter of 2021 Colette founded the Center
for Organizing, Representation and Empowerment
(CORE) at MICA and since the start of summer has
entered into the role of Interim Vice Provost for
Undergraduate Studies.
cveaseycullors@mica.edu
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