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Ron Porter
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Susan DeMay (Eckerd, Peabody, Appalachian Center for Crafts) is a ceramic artist who has developed a national reputation for her glazes. Widely exhibited, her work has been shown at the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Nashville and the Evansville Museum of Arts and Science in Evansville, Indiana. Her work can be found in numerous galleries around the country including St. John's Uihlein Peters Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Don Evans (Tennessee, North Carolina) is a multimedia artist whose often collaborative works have involved video, film, and slide projection; electronic music; fireworks; computer graphics; and more traditional media. His works have been performed or installed in such diverse places as the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Guatemala, and the Tennessee State Prison.

Leonard Folgarait (UCLA), chair of the department, is a specialist in the art of Latin America and in European and American modernism. He is the author of So Far From Heaven: David Alfaro Siqueiros' The March of Humanity and Mexican Revolutionary Politics, and Mural Painting and Social Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940: Art of the New Order. His articles have been published in Arts Magazine, Oxford Art Journal, and Art History.

Vivien Green Fryd (Ohio State, Wisconsin) teaches American art, nineteenth century European art, methods, contemporary art, and American Studies. She is the author of  Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe: Art and the Crisis of Marriage and Art and Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the U. S. Capitol, 1815-1860 and numerous articles published in American Art, The American Art Journal, The Winterthur Portfolio, and other periodicals. Her current research is on sexual violence and rape in American art and culture..

Annabeth Headrick (Colorado College, Texas) specializes in the cultures of Mesoamerica, including the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec.  Her articles include, "The Street of the Dead...It Really Was: Mortuary Bundles at Teotihuacan," appearing in Ancient Mesoamerica, and "Merging Myth and Politics: The Three Temple Complex at Teotihuacan, " in a book entitled, Landscape and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica which she co-edited.  She is currently working on a book concerning the socio-poloitical structure of Teotihuacan.  She has served as the lab director on several archaeological projects in Belize, including excavations organized by Boston University, the University of Texas, and Pacific Lutheran University.

David Hinton (Drake, Iowa, Vanderbilt) teaches the History of Film and also holds a position as Dean of Academic Affairs at the Watkins Institute College of Art and Design. His books include Celluloid Ivy: Higher Education in the Movies, 1960-1990 and The Films of Leni Riefenstahl.

Mark Hosford (University of Kansas, University of Tennessee) specializes in Printmaking, Drawing and Digital Arts. His work uses narrative imagery to reveal societal wonders and blunders as well as personal investigations. He was the founding member of the American Society of Paid Thinkers and serves as the gallery director of the International Dog Food Museum.

Amy H. Kirschke (Loyola [Louisiana], Tulane) specializes in African American art, African art, and nineteenth century European art. Her recent publications include her book, Aaron Douglas: Art, Race and the Harlem Renaissance, and articles that have appeared in The International Journal of African American Art, The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, and The Southern Quarterly. She is currently working on a book on African American political cartoonists.

Tracy Miller (Arizona State, Pennsylvania) specializes in the cultures of Asia, including China, Japan, and India.  Her research addresses the influences of popular religion and local politics on temple architecture in northern China.  Her articles include Northern Song Architecture in Southern Shanxi Province appearing in The Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies.  She is currently working on style in Song dynasty architecture and the representation of goddesses in Chinese Art.

Robert Mode (Rochester, Michigan) specializes in Italian Renaissance and British art; he is working on the Raphaelites, a study of the "Raphael paradigm" in early modern art theory and practice. His publications appear in Art Bulletin and Burlington Magazine. He also pursues public art issues as a senior fellow at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies.

Marilyn Murphy (Oklahoma State, Oklahoma) is an artist whose oil paintings, drawings, and prints create curious situations from what appears to be everyday life, giving the impression of film noir. Her work has been shown in more than 200 exhibitions in such places as the National Academy of Design, The Drawing Center in New York, and the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery in Australia. A recipient of numerous awards, she has curated more than 30 exhibitions and her work is included in many public and private collections.

Ljubica D. Popovich (University of Belgrade, Bryn Mawr) is a specialist in Byzantine, Slavic, Early Christian, and Western Mediaeval art. Her research interest is focused on the images of prophets and their textual messages represented in the drums of Byzantine churches. Her many articles have been included in Zograf, Cyrillomethodianum, Serbian Studies, Recueil de Chilandar, and other publications. She recently presented her research on prophets in Bulgaria at the 21st World Byzantine Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her current interest is directed toward American political cartoons dealing with the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and especially the Bosnian War.

Ron Porter (M.T.S.U., Ohio) is an artist whose oil paintings reflect ordered interiors with an occasional visual pun. He has received many awards for his work including two individual Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council in 1990 and 1993. Porter's paintings have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions from the Huntington Museum of Art in Ohio and the Contemporary Art Workshop in Chicago to the University of Shanghai in China. Porter's work was published in the 1995 and 1997 issues of New American Painting. The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and Franklin University are among the many public collections that include his work.

Barbara Tsakirgis (Yale, Princeton) is a classical archaeologist currently working on the American excavations in ancient Athens. Her research involves ancient Greek architecture and culture, especially domestic architecture and issues regarding social life. Her books include The Nashville Athena and Morgantina Studies, which is a result of her long-term work at the American excavations at Morgantina, Sicily.

Carlton Wilkinson (Washington University, UCLA) is a photographer whose dramatic black and white images reflect contemporary life and its relationship to the African American experience. His work has won the Tennessee Arts Commission Fellowship and a number of art competition awards as well as being included in major collections such as the Schomburg Center in New York, Gaylord Entertainment, and BellSouth. He is the founder and past-president of the Nashville African American Arts Association and owner of In The Gallery, a contemporary art space.

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