Faculty of Art

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• MFA, NYSCC at Alfred University
• BFA, Cornish College of the Arts

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Jenny Hyde is a multi-disciplinary artist who has widely exhibited in regional, national and international exhibitions. Hyde is a recipient of the Artist Trust Fellowship Award.

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• MFA, Ohio State University
• BFA, Eastern Washington University

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Chris Tyllia primarily teaches courses in Ceramics and Foundational Design – teaching our students how to use traditional art tools along with the contemporary use of 3-D printing/scanning devices. His artwork and practice blends machine-made with handmade, often making ceramic objects that mimic natural materials, drawings, and prints that are drawn/printed/created with repetitive, machine-like quality; taking full advantage of the rhythmic precision and tireless lines a machine can produce. Machines are technically proficient but often associated with cold and almost cynical qualities, while the human touch is romantically imbued with inspiration, empathy, and warmth. This combination of hand and machine leaves the viewer questioning where the wires end and the veins begin. Chris Tyllia received an Artist Trust Grant for Artist Projects and currently serves as the President of Saranac Art Projects in downtown Spokane, WA.

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• MFA, University of Idaho
• BA, Eastern Washington University

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Nancy Hathaway is a studio artist whose practice focuses on conceptually driven works in drawing and sculpture. Her current body of work explores the intersection of rational inquiry and intuitive thought. She has exhibited her work in over seventy-five solo and group exhibitions throughout the US from Seattle to New York City.

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• MFA, University of Florida

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Josh Hobson is an interdisciplinary lens-based artist and educator. His work engages with photographic materiality, technological hybridity, creative destruction, and ecological issues. Josh regularly exhibits his work including exhibitions at the Center for Fine Art Photography, Candela Books, Colorado Center for Photographic Art, Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, Newspace Center for Photography, SOHO Photo, Wall Space Gallery, Carte Blanche Gallery, Contact Photo Festival, and the Brooklyn Waterfront Arts Coalition.

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Marc LaPointe (he/him) navigates the ephemerality of place through an art practice that responds to encounters with memory and material. His varied sculptural approach includes performance, casting, assemblage, and collaborative community engagement.

After receiving an MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2018, Marc was named a Jerome Fellow at Franconia Sculpture Park. Howard Oransky curated Marc’s work into the 2019 exhibition Queer Forms which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion. In 2021, Marc worked alongside artistic director Tamsie Ringler as the project coordinator of Winter is Alive! – an arts carnival in Madison, WI, designed to be a catalyst for contemplation and action to combat the global climate crisis. As part of the 2022 International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art in Berlin, Marc was a panelist on Iron Art: Protest, Identity, and Liberation and also generated social media content to highlight contemporary metal casting artists. Marc showcases his work in exhibitions including Metro-dimensional: Exploratory Sculptural Artworks (Arizona), Sowing Iron: Cast Iron Sculpture Exhibit at the Dubuque Area Arts Collective (Iowa), and The Body Is But A Vessel (England). Marc currently supports the Department of Fine and Performing Arts as a Lecturer.

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• MFA, University of Minnesota
• BFA, University of Idaho

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Houston Fryer is a Washington state based artist making work that examines systems of harm in a practice that spans drawing, painting, performance, and video. Since receiving his MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio, Houston has exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at Florida State University’s Museum of Fine Art in Tallahassee, FL; Buckham Gallery in Flint, MI; the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea; and the Luis Leu Gallery in Karlsruhe, Germany. Houston has served as a College Board Advanced Placement (AP) Reader Rater in Art since 2023. In 2025, Houston contributed writing for the 2025 AP Art Drawing Sample Portfolio and Scoring Information, material used for teaching scoring standards in AP Art classrooms.

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• MFA, University of Texas