The faculty members in the Department of Art, active scholars and practicing artists, are experienced teachers committed to the study of art in a liberal arts setting.
Gant entered the University of Texas at Austin as a traditional photographer and graduated with a specialization in the non-traditional area of performative installation work. In 1988 she became the first student to receive her M.F.A. from U.T. Austin under the mentorship of internationally respected film installation artist, William Lundberg, as he was launching the art department's groundbreaking Transmedia program. Gant joined the Hamilton faculty in 1991 and continues to explore intersections among established traditions and contemporary practices in the arts and education. She is a 2011 named Fellow in Digital/Electronic Arts from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, The Museum of Modern Art/Franklin Furnace/Artist Book Collection and Texas Folklife Resources. Gant's work has been shown at national and international venues including Exit Art, New York City; the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Calif.; Great Hall, Washington, D.C.; and in Berlin, London, Melbourne, Los Angeles and San Francisco International film festivals.
Robert Knight received an M.F.A. in photography from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and a bachelor’s degree in architecture and economics from Yale University. He previously taught at the Mass College of Art, Emerson College and MIT. Knight utilizes photography, audio, video and installation to explore his research on the relationship of contemporary culture to the domestic. His work has been exhibited in the Boston area at Gallery Kayafas, Alpha Gallery, The Bernard Toale Gallery, the Danforth Museum of Art, the Photographic Resource Center and MPG Contemporary, as well as nationally at Jen Bekman Gallery in New York, and the Houston Center for Photography. Knight is represented by Gallery Kayafas, Boston, and his work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and numerous private collections.
Katherine Kuharic completed her BFA in painting and drawing at Carnegie Mellon University, then studied Robert Storr and Louise Bourgeois at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work has been exhibited in numerous group shows in the U.S. and abroad. Kuharic has had 15 solo exhibitions, including seven at P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York, which represents her work. Her upcoming exhibition there is "Pound of Flesh," Oct. 13- Nov. 1, with full color catalogue and an essay by Terry Meyers. Kuharic has had museum exhibitions at the St. Louis Art Museum, The Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, the South Bend Regional Art Museum, the Contemporary Art Museum (St. Louis), Shore Institute and Portsmouth Museum of Art. Kuharic was the Sally and Milton Avery Fellow at the McDowell Colony, a Rockefeller Fellow at the Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy, and the distinguished artist in residence at the Yale University, Yale Norfolk Program in Norfolk, Conn. She has also taught at the School of Visual Arts, Parsons and the New School, Washington University (St. Louis), and has lectured extensively on her work, including lectures at Columbia University, Otis, University of Notre Dame, Indiana University and UCLA. The recipient of the Class of 1963 Teaching Award at Hamilton, Kuharic is the author of numerous catalogue essays and an upcoming article on the color yellow for Hand/Eye Magazine issue 6.
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Bruce Muirhead, professor of art, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rhode Island School of Design and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Boston University School of Fine Arts. He was subsequently awarded a fellowship from the Yaddo Foundation. Muirhead is a member of The Copley Society of Art, The Society of American Graphic Artists and The Boston Printmakers. He was a 2002 recipient of the John Singleton Copley Award. A member of the faculty since 1972, he teaches both painting and printmaking. Muirhead’s work has been exhibited at The New York Society of Etchers, National Academy of Design, The Boston Printmakers, The Society of American Graphic Artists, The Copley Society of Art, the Arnot Art Museum and the Central New York Council of the Arts. His work is in the permanent collections of the New York City Public Library, Middlebury College, Munson Williams Proctor Institute and numerous private collections. The Amity Art Foundation Inc. owns a complete collection of Bruce’s etchings and will be publishing a catalogue raisonne of his etchings.
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Rebecca Murtaugh earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and a bachelor's degree from the Pennsylvania State University. Her work has been exhibited nationally in solo and group exhibitions in New York City, Philadelphia, District of Columbia, Cleveland, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Richmond, Nashville, Seattle, and San Francisco. Murtaugh's work has been written about in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Artweek, Stone Canoe, and Shamenet Magazine. Murtaugh's areas of specialization are sculpture, ceramics and installation art. She was the recipient of the John R. Hatch Excellence in Teaching Award in 2009. For more about Rebecca Murtaugh visit her website.
Jessica Bryce Holland ’94, returns to the Hill as a visiting lecturer in art. She graduated from Hamilton with a major in art and a minor in mathematics, then continued on as a ceramics intern--running the ceramics studio while building her portfolio. Holland received her MFA from the University of New Mexico. While there, she studied Mexican and Native American Pueblo pottery and traditional Japanese wheel throwing techniques. She has taught art, in various capacities, to children and adults for the last 16 years. Most recently, Holland served as an adjunct professor at Cazenovia College. Her experience ranges from creating large-scale ceramic sculptures to wheel thrown vessels. She has worked in a variety of media including clay, paper, wood, found materials and video.
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Each year senior art concentrators visit New York City to meet with accomplished artists in their working studios. In 2008-2009, these artists included: Kurt Kauper, Polly Apfelbaum, Julie Heffernan, Carolee Schneemann, Lane Twitchell, Deborah Kass, Nicole Eisenman, Patricia Cronin, An-My Le and Nina Katchadourian.
Creative experience is a part of life, not just for artists but for everyone. Art courses allow you to explore complex structures and to experience how the mind synthesizes so many elements — intuition, imagination, learning, culture, emotion and finely honed skills — in order to create such structures.
Hamilton's art program offers courses in an unusually wide range of media: ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and video. Each medium is taught at both the introductory and the intermediate or workshop level. Classes are small, and students and instructors interact on a personal and individual level.
Faculty members are experienced, committed teachers as well as accomplished artists of national and international stature. Their work has been exhibited at such places as the Museum of Modern Art and the National Academy of Design in New York City; the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Musee de Design in Lausanne, France; the Exposition de Escultura in Mexico City; the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Arts in Sapporo, Japan; and the Berlin, London, Melbourne, Los Angeles and San Francisco International film festivals.
Art study at Hamilton can be training for countless careers and professions. Art majors have gone on after graduation to become not only working artists and sculptors, but attorneys, architects, designers, filmmakers, educators at levels from elementary school to college — one even went on to become an All-Star NHL goalie!
Each year senior art concentrators visit New York City to meet with accomplished artists in their working studios. In 2008-2009, these artists included: Kurt Kauper, Polly Apfelbaum, Julie Heffernan, Carolee Schneemann, Lane Twitchell, Deborah Kass, Nicole Eisenman, Patricia Cronin, An-My Le and Nina Katchadourian.
Creative experience is a part of life, not just for artists but for everyone. Art courses allow you to explore complex structures and to experience how the mind synthesizes so many elements — intuition, imagination, learning, culture, emotion and finely honed skills — in order to create such structures.
Hamilton's art program offers courses in an unusually wide range of media: ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and video. Each medium is taught at both the introductory and the intermediate or workshop level. Classes are small, and students and instructors interact on a personal and individual level.
Faculty members are experienced, committed teachers as well as accomplished artists of national and international stature. Their work has been exhibited at such places as the Museum of Modern Art and the National Academy of Design in New York City; the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Musee de Design in Lausanne, France; the Exposition de Escultura in Mexico City; the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Arts in Sapporo, Japan; and the Berlin, London, Melbourne, Los Angeles and San Francisco International film festivals.
Art study at Hamilton can be training for countless careers and professions. Art majors have gone on after graduation to become not only working artists and sculptors, but attorneys, architects, designers, filmmakers, educators at levels from elementary school to college — one even went on to become an All-Star NHL goalie!
Each year senior art concentrators visit New York City to meet with accomplished artists in their working studios. In 2008-2009, these artists included: Kurt Kauper, Polly Apfelbaum, Julie Heffernan, Carolee Schneemann, Lane Twitchell, Deborah Kass, Nicole Eisenman, Patricia Cronin, An-My Le and Nina Katchadourian.
Creative experience is a part of life, not just for artists but for everyone. Art courses allow you to explore complex structures and to experience how the mind synthesizes so many elements — intuition, imagination, learning, culture, emotion and finely honed skills — in order to create such structures.
Hamilton's art program offers courses in an unusually wide range of media: ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and video. Each medium is taught at both the introductory and the intermediate or workshop level. Classes are small, and students and instructors interact on a personal and individual level.
Faculty members are experienced, committed teachers as well as accomplished artists of national and international stature. Their work has been exhibited at such places as the Museum of Modern Art and the National Academy of Design in New York City; the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Musee de Design in Lausanne, France; the Exposition de Escultura in Mexico City; the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Arts in Sapporo, Japan; and the Berlin, London, Melbourne, Los Angeles and San Francisco International film festivals.
Art study at Hamilton can be training for countless careers and professions. Art majors have gone on after graduation to become not only working artists and sculptors, but attorneys, architects, designers, filmmakers, educators at levels from elementary school to college — one even went on to become an All-Star NHL goalie!
Each year senior art concentrators visit New York City to meet with accomplished artists in their working studios. In 2008-2009, these artists included: Kurt Kauper, Polly Apfelbaum, Julie Heffernan, Carolee Schneemann, Lane Twitchell, Deborah Kass, Nicole Eisenman, Patricia Cronin, An-My Le and Nina Katchadourian.
Creative experience is a part of life, not just for artists but for everyone. Art courses allow you to explore complex structures and to experience how the mind synthesizes so many elements — intuition, imagination, learning, culture, emotion and finely honed skills — in order to create such structures.
Hamilton's art program offers courses in an unusually wide range of media: ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and video. Each medium is taught at both the introductory and the intermediate or workshop level. Classes are small, and students and instructors interact on a personal and individual level.
Faculty members are experienced, committed teachers as well as accomplished artists of national and international stature. Their work has been exhibited at such places as the Museum of Modern Art and the National Academy of Design in New York City; the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Musee de Design in Lausanne, France; the Exposition de Escultura in Mexico City; the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Arts in Sapporo, Japan; and the Berlin, London, Melbourne, Los Angeles and San Francisco International film festivals.
Art study at Hamilton can be training for countless careers and professions. Art majors have gone on after graduation to become not only working artists and sculptors, but attorneys, architects, designers, filmmakers, educators at levels from elementary school to college — one even went on to become an All-Star NHL goalie!
Each year senior art concentrators visit New York City to meet with accomplished artists in their working studios. In 2008-2009, these artists included: Kurt Kauper, Polly Apfelbaum, Julie Heffernan, Carolee Schneemann, Lane Twitchell, Deborah Kass, Nicole Eisenman, Patricia Cronin, An-My Le and Nina Katchadourian.
Creative experience is a part of life, not just for artists but for everyone. Art courses allow you to explore complex structures and to experience how the mind synthesizes so many elements — intuition, imagination, learning, culture, emotion and finely honed skills — in order to create such structures.
Hamilton's art program offers courses in an unusually wide range of media: ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and video. Each medium is taught at both the introductory and the intermediate or workshop level. Classes are small, and students and instructors interact on a personal and individual level.
Faculty members are experienced, committed teachers as well as accomplished artists of national and international stature. Their work has been exhibited at such places as the Museum of Modern Art and the National Academy of Design in New York City; the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Musee de Design in Lausanne, France; the Exposition de Escultura in Mexico City; the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Arts in Sapporo, Japan; and the Berlin, London, Melbourne, Los Angeles and San Francisco International film festivals.
Art study at Hamilton can be training for countless careers and professions. Art majors have gone on after graduation to become not only working artists and sculptors, but attorneys, architects, designers, filmmakers, educators at levels from elementary school to college — one even went on to become an All-Star NHL goalie!
