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• MFA, Louisiana State University
• BFA, New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University

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Lisa Nappa is a ceramic sculptor and mixed media artist from Washington State. Her work varies in scale, from intimate hand-held objects to large wall and window installations. For the last decade, her work has been inspired by the beauty and underlying politics of water. She exhibits her work nationally and internationally as well as participates in residencies throughout the world. Though she will never completely shed her New York City upbringing, she loves her current life surrounded by the mountains, skies, and scablands of the Inland Northwest.

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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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• PhD in History of Art, University of California at Berkeley
• MA in History of Art, California State University
• BA in Education and Studio Art, Calvin College

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Sonnema has served as the dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Colorado State University-Pueblo for the eight years and was the chair of the Art Department and professor of art history for six years.

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• MFA, Alfred University
• BFA, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design

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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 including Electronic Arts Festival in New York, NY, sound art invitational in Sydney, Australia, and venues in Cuba, London, Spain, and Paris. Hyde is a recent recipient of the Artist Trust Fellowship Award.

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• MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Goddard College
• MA in Painting, Central Michigan University
• BS in Political Science, Central Michigan University

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Since 1989, Patterson has been exhibiting her artwork across the globe including 100+ gallery and museum contributions in major and minor cities such as Detroit, Paris (part of COP21 traveling exhibit), Budapest and London (Tate Modern). Jodi is a widely published author with articles in academic journals, textbooks, and magazines; co-editor of the first three issues of a peer-review academic journal titled Artizein; is interested in neuroscience, psychogeography, and Southeast Asian art. Jodi spends her free time photographing UNESCO World Heritage Sites and has visited over 30 countries. She once traveled around the world in eight days.

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• PhD, Harvard University
• MA in Art History, Université de Montréal
• BA in Art History, University de Montréal

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Girard specializes in eighteenth-century visual culture, with a focus on French art, animals, the body, sexuality, violence, and otherness. Her book manuscript, Rococo Massacres, is a critical examination of paintings with hunting subjects made in France at the end of the Ancien Régime. Her next project attends to cross-cultural exchanges in the Atlantic world during the eighteenth century, with special attention to Native North American art. She was a Kress institutional fellow at INHA, a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Williams College. She received Canada’s Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal.

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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 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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• MFA, University of South Florida
• BFA, Washington University in St. Louis
• Philosophic Studies Chisholme Institute

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As a practicing artist engaged in printmaking, drawing, and sculpture, Margot Casstevens has firmly established herself as a regional artist by regularly exhibiting at the Saranac Art Projects in downtown Spokane.  Her work has also been featured in solo exhibitions at Eastern Washington University, Western Washington University, and Colombia Basin College; and in selected group shows in Washington DC, Chicago, and New York (Flux Factory). One of her favorite international exhibition experiences includes an award ceremony in Tokyo, Japan.

“I have made art all of my remembered life. Art making has been a way to understand, appreciate, and respond to the world around me.”

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• MFA in Sculpture, University of Montana
• Post-Baccalaureate, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• BA, University of Puget Sound

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Lenora J. Lopez Schindler is an artist who works in multiple materials, both 2D and 3D. She chooses materials based on the tactile and visual properties of each. Her work focuses on a type of metamorphosis wherein the sensations and conditions of the body meets and moves into the realm of myth and illusion. Her recent work is on paper and explores the change in how people have historically understood their own body-and-mind connection, and how that understanding gets communicated through religion, social systems, story, and material culture. Her work has been exhibited regionally and nationally.

Besides teaching studio courses and art history courses at EWU since 2000, she currently teaches at Gonzaga University and the Community Colleges of Spokane.