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Current and Retired Faculty
Lisa Alembik
Linda Armstrong
William Brown
Ruth Dusseault
Sarah Emerson
Jason Francisco
Angus Galloway
Diane Kempler
Julia Kjelgaard
Nancy Marshall (retired)
Katherine Mitchell
Kerry Moore
Lisa Alembik
Drawing & Painting
Lisa Alembik is an artist, educator and curator. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA GA), the Huntsville Museum, Alabama and Eyedrum Art Gallery. She is the director of the Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott College. Her work as a curator and artist tends to focus on cultural ideas of landscape, home and identity that are influenced by the migrations of modern history. Alembik has taught Art Foundations at Agnes Scott and North Georgia College. She previously served on the Artists Resource Council of MOCA GA and the board of Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery. She received her MFA from Georgia State University in 2002.
Lisa Alembik's exhibition, SOLACE, will be on view at Spruill Gallery in Atlanta from July 25 - September 6, 2008, with an opening reception on Thursday, July 24, 2008, 6-9 p.m.
Linda Armstrong
Director, Visual Arts Program
Sculpture
Armstrong is a sculptor who works in a wide variety of media. She holds a B. F. A. from the Atlanta College of Art, 1973, and a M. F. A. from Georgia State University, 1978. In 1973 she also received a Summer Fellowship to attend the Yale University School of Music and Art. Armstrong has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences and the Georgia Council for the Arts. She was recipient of a grant from the Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts in 1992. She has had one-artist exhibitions at the Institute of Ecology at the University of Georgia, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. She has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Transitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in 2002. Armstrong describes herself as a “sculptor/backdoor environmentalist.”
larmstr@emory.edu , 404.712.4391
Images of Linda Armstrong's Work
William Brown
Film/Video/Photography
William A. Brown holds a B. A. from Emory University, 1969, and a M. F. A. from the University of Florida, 1975. He has been producing experimental and arts related documentary films since 1976. He was one of the original founders of Atlanta’s IMAGE Film and Video Center and Nexus Contemporary Arts Center (now known as the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center). He helped initiate the Visual Arts Program at Emory University where he continues to teach courses. His documentary, “Apocalypse Then” aired nationally on the A & E Network in 1987 and won a regional Emmy. Mr. Brown has shown at major film festivals, including the Tokyo Video Festival, the United States Film Festival, The World Wide Video Festival (The Hague), and the Oberhausen Film Festival. Mr. Brown also writes articles on emerging media technologies and is president of Atlanta Video, Inc.
wbrow02@emory.edu , 404.712.4393
Images of William Brown's Work
Ruth Dusseault 
Photography
Ruth Dusseault is Artist-in-Residence at Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture, where she recently received the Outstanding Education and Practice Award. She earned an MFA from Florida State University, and she works in a variety of photographic formats. Her photographs are exhibited and collected internationally. She has received over a dozen artist grants and awards from various organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts and the Forward Arts Foundation. Her long-term project documenting the transformation of Atlantic Station was exhibited at the High Museum in 2006. Her new work, which examines utopian interpretations of nature and war, will be exhibited in 2009. She has also served as guest curator for exhibitions merging art and architecture for the DC Arts Center, the Contemporary and the Carnegie Museum of Art.
ruth.dusseault@arch.gatech.edu
Images of Ruth Dusseault's Work
Sarah Emerson
Drawing & Painting
Sarah Emerson graduated from the Atlanta College of Art in 1997 and went on to complete her Master's Degree at Goldsmiths College in London, England. Over the last ten years she has exhibited her paintings in galleries throughout the United States and Europe, including at White Columns, New York, Cosmic Gallery, Paris, and Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT. She has since moved back to Atlanta, Georgia but over the years she has lived in Boston, London, and New York. Her work has recently been in shows at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, the Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott and Mason Murer Fine Art in Atlanta. For more information about Sarah Emerson, visit http://www.sarahemerson.com/.
Images of Sarah Emerson's Work
Jason Francisco
Photography
Jason Francisco is an acclaimed photographer, writer, and book artist. He received his BA in Philosophy from Columbia University, his MA in South Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and his MFA in Photography from Stanford University. His most recent book, Far From Zion: Jews, Diaspora, Memory, was published in 2006 by Stanford University Press. He comes to Emory College from the Visual Arts Department at Rutgers University, where he was an associate professor. Since 2003 he has also been a visiting professor during the summer quarter at Stanford University.
Images of Jason Francisco's Work
Welcome Reception for Visual Arts Associate Professor Jason Francisco:
Thursday, October 16, 2008, 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Visual Arts Building
Please join the Emory Visual Arts Program to celebrate the 2008 appointment of Jason Francisco as Associate Professor of Visual Arts (Photography). The reception will feature wine, hors d'oeuvres, and an opportunity to meet Francisco and hear some brief remarks about his background and work. A selection of Francisco's photographs will be on view in the Emory Visual Arts Building Reception Lobby from October 16 - December 18, 2008. The Welcome Reception is being held in conjunction with [ACP 10], Atlanta Celebrates Photography's annual month-long, city-wide photography festival.
Angus Galloway
Drawing & Painting
For more information about Angus Galloway, visit http://www.angusgalloway.com/.
Angus Galloway is currently participating in A (new) Genre Landscape, temporary artworks throughout metro Atlanta parks. His work is on view at the Lake
Claire Park, 430 Lakeshore Drive, Atlanta.
Images of Angus Galloway's Work
Diane Kempler
Ceramics
Diane Solomon Kempler was born in New York City and graduated with a degree in philosophy from Brandeis University. She has studied with numerous ceramic artists and has received grants, awards and residencies. She has been active as an artist and teacher for over twenty years. She has won numerous awards, grants and residencies. She has had numerous one-woman exhibitions in Georgia, New York, Charlotte, and Richmond, to mention only a few. She participates in national exhibitions, including the touring exhibition “Body and Soul: Contemporary Southern Figures,” curated by the Columbus Museum. As a project of the Corporation for Olympic Development in Atlanta (CODA), she created and installed a permanent bronze fountain sculpture in downtown Atlanta in 1996. Her work deals with transformations and transitions as they exist in nature and human beings.
dgsk@mindspring.com , 404.712.4394
Images of Diane Kempler's Work
Julia Kjelgaard
Drawing & Painting
Julia Kjelgaard holds a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara, (1977), studied printmaking at the University of Alberta, Canada, and holds an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan (1987). Her prints and paintings have been included in numerous national and international exhibitions including England, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Poland, Taiwan, and Yugoslavia, as well as in numerous catalogues and anthologies. Her grants and fellowships include Emory University’s highly competitive URC (2001 and 2006) and ICIS (2004) grants, an Individual Artist Grant from the Alabama Council for the Arts (2002), a Hambidge Fellowship (1998), and a Kala Fellowship (1993). Kjelgaard’s work is included in collections at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Huntsville Museum of Art, the Butler Museum of Art, the Kala Institute, the Moscow Studio, and the University of Wyoming Art Museum, as well as in many corporate and private collections. In 2007 she had a solo exhibition of The India Dream Works at Emory University’s Visual Arts Gallery, and that series was also included as part of a joint exhibition at Pyramid Atlantic in Maryland. Most recently she had solo exhibitions of Indo Indicia at Auburn University’s Biggin Gallery and the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Much of her current work resulted from research in India as a Fulbright Scholar in 2007. Click here to view a PDF of Julia Kjelgaard's complete CV.
jkjelgaard@msn.com , 404.712.4396
Images of Julia Kjelgaard's Work
Julia Kjelgaard's Indo Indicia at the Atlanta Airport: February 1 - March 19, 2008
Nancy Marshall (retired)
Photography
Nancy Marshall received her M.F.A. in photography in 1996. From 1998-2005, she was Emory University Visual Arts Senior Lecturer in photography. Her work has been widely exhibited and can be found in many permanent collections including the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.
Visit the Southern Spaces website to view a photo essay by Nancy Marshall entitled Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
Abstract from Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm:
Nancy Marshall took these photographs in spring and summer of 2007 and winter of 2008 at Andalusia, the farm near Milledgeville, Georgia, where Flannery O’Connor (1925 -1964) spent the last thirteen years of her life. The photographs, which show interior views of the house and exterior views of the surrounding landscape, document the context in which O’Connor wrote some of her most acclaimed works, including A Good Man is Hard to Find and The Violent Bear it Away. These photographs were exhibited at Emory University in conjunction with "The Prophet's Country: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Flannery O'Connor" in 2007 and will be exhibited at Georgia State College and University Museum in Milledgeville, Georgia in 2009. They were taken in collaboration with the Flannery-O'Connor-Andalusia Foundation, Inc.
nancy.marshall@emory.edu
Images of Nancy Marshall's Work
Katherine Mitchell
Drawing & Painting
Mitchell holds a B. F. A. from the Atlanta College of Art, 1968, did post-graduate work in Rome, Italy, and has a M. V.
A. from Georgia State University, 1977. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including The American Academy
of Arts & Letters in New York, the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, D. C., and has works in numerous
private and public collections, including the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the J. B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY, the Museum
of Contemporary Art of Georgia, in Atlanta, and the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, AR. Mitchell has received numerous
awards and grants, including a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation grant in painting in 1992. In 2000,
she completed a 5-year project of 15,000 sq. ft. of ceramic tile murals for a Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
station in Atlanta. She exhibits her drawings and paintings on a frequent basis.
Read the Art Papers review of:
Katherine Mitchell:
A Retrospective 1974-2006
Presented by the Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs
City Gallery East, Atlanta
January 19 - March 16, 2007
In October 2006, Katherine Mitchell and Rosemary Magee, Vice President & Secretary of Emory University, talked about art, life, and chance encounters. Click here to read the full interview.
mitchellmk@bellsouth.net , 404.712.4397
Images of Katherine Mitchell's Work
Kerry Moore
Drawing & Painting / Sculpture
Kerry Moore received a M.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona in 1988, and a B.F.A. in Sculpture from the College of the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio in 1974. He currently teaches in the Visual Arts Program at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and was formerly an instructor at The Atlanta College of Art and Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Recent exhibitions include "In Exile from the Land of Reason" at Eyedrum Gallery in Atlanta ,Georgia and "KM Squared = Kerry Moore + Katherine Mitchell" at the Emory Visual Arts Gallery in Atlanta Georgia. Previous exhibitions include The Museum of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Georgia, The Emory Chairs
Project in Atlanta, Georgia, the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina, the King Plow Sculpture Show (Invitational) in Atlanta, Georgia, the Spruill Center Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia, and the Orlando Museum of Art in Orlando, Florida. He has completed numerous commissions, including "Bird in the Hand" for the City of Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport, "Windsong" for Delta Air Lines in Atlanta, Georgia, and "Metamorphosis" for the University of Arizona Committee on Dance in Tucson, Arizona. His grants and awards include a Fulton County Individual Artist Grant in Atlanta, Georgia and a Georgia Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grant.
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