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Jennifer D. Anderson, (Homepage) assistant professor of art B.F.A., East Tennessee State University; M.F.A., The University of Georgia Jennifer D. Anderson is interested in dualities and they are always easy to find in her art. How she will use such a un-artlike material as shrinky dinks to make a piece that deals with our contemporary body image. How she pairs digital images with ancient printing processes. And even how she will share almost anything, but don’t touch her scissors. Jennifer’s artwork has been included in a wealth of exhibitions here in the United States, Russia, and South Korea, and was recently chosen for inclusion in the book Printmakers Today. She has made presentations at the College Art Association Conference, SGC International Conference, and is writing an essay for the Norton Simon Museum. |
 "Sensate: headway," drypoint with digital chine colle, plate 4.5 x 3.5," paper 15 x 11," 2009 |
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Christine Carr, (Homepage) assistant professor of art, photography Christine Carr teaches color, digital, and black and white photography. Her work explores the mood derived from spatial, light, and color relationships in non-descript suburban environments. She has exhibited in various locations in the United States in addition to Germany as part of the Society Imaginaire. One of her images was included in the most recent edition of Exploring Color Photography by Robert Hirsch. She is also the co-founder of the Oculus Photographic Arts Group.
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"Helicopter," C-print, 24 x 30," 2004 |
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Nancy Dahlstrom, (Homepage) professor, printmaking and drawing Artist, teacher, traveler, gardener, Nancy Dahlstrom has exhibited her work throughout the southeastern United States and in Norway, France, and Australia. Don't be surprised if she speaks to you in Swahili, French, Japanese, or Norwegian, or takes you out to her garden in historic Fincastle, Virginia, for a drawing session. Nancy always has a sketchbook with her. You might even find yourself one of her subjects. Nancy teaches drawing and printmaking.
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"Midnight Dance," etching, 48.5 x 48," 2011 |
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Ed Dolinger, lecturer in art, sculpture A self-proclaimed "studio rat" of several decades, Ed has also developed several non-profit art galleries and studio complexes around the country. He received the Mayor's Artist of the Year Award in Salt Lake City (1997), a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Visiting Artist Fellowship (1993), and has several "Artist-in-Residence" experiences in schools and communities around the country to his credit. His two and three dimensional work is found in the collections of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Weinstock's of Sacramento, as well as public art commissions in several Utah and Virginia locations.
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Welded steel sculpture designed and fabricated for Amazement Square Children's Museum, Lynchburg, VA, 12 x 17' |
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Johanna Ruth Epstein, assistant professor of art Ruth’s courses address a broad range of topics from Modern and Contemporary art and art theory to the history of art in China. Her scholarship includes nineteenth-century French art, Female Cross-Dressers, twentieth-century women artists, and the impact of seventeenth-century Dutch art on nineteenth-century Dutch art on nineteenth-century French painting. Her exhibition reviews appear regularly in ARTnews. In class, she is driven by a passion for discovering how students see the world. In her spare time, she enjoys swimming with sea lions, ruminating on her currently favorite music, or considering her collection of carpets. |
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Alison C. Hall, (Homepage) visiting assistant professor of art Alison currently divides her time between Roanoke, Virginia and Todi, Italy. She has taught drawing and painting at Hollins for seven years. During that time she has taken art students to Italy every summer. While there they paint in a landscape whose light has fascinated artists for centuries, they hike mountains in search of Etruscan history, and travel to see some of the greatest works in the history of art. Alison’s training as an artist comes from a solid foundation of drawing and painting. Her interest in the history of painting and the constant influence of Italy informs her work that is made in the studio. Her teachers' teachers were taught by the ultimate drawers: Mondrian, Giacometti, Helion, and Hofmann to name a few. She believes their spirits persist through her teaching. In 2011 Hall received the prestigious VMFA Fellowship in drawing and the Bethesda Painting Award. Exhibition records include shows in NYC, Washington, D.C., Italy, and Amsterdam. Her work is represented by the Smith Center Art Advisory in Washington, D.C. |
 "Diving Board with Cannonball for Icarus," graphite, oil, and venetian plaster on panel 4 x 8,' 2010 |
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Richard Hensley, (Homepage) lecturer in art, ceramics Rick has lived in Floyd, Virginia with his wife, Donna Polseno, where they have worked as studio artists for over thirty years. He received an individual NEA artist grant in 1987 and has been widely known for his highly decorated porcelain ceramics. He has taught and led workshops all over America and was an artist-in-residence at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana. Locally, he and Donna are among the founding members of the 16 Hands craft group. Richard was an invited participant to the International Clay Symposium in Izmir, Turkey in 2002 and most recently was a visiting artist in Jingdezhen, China at the Jingdezhen Institute of Ceramic Art.
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Jar with Kousa Berry |
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Kathleen Nolan, professor, medieval art history and women's history Kathleen thinks that teaching at Hollins is one of the best jobs in America. She teaches medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque art history. Her scholarly interests include the history of women in the Middle Ages, and the works of art commissioned by women to tell their stories. Her recent book, Queens in Stone and Silver: The Creation of a Visual Identity of Queenship in Capetian France (Palgrave 2009), looked at queens’ personal seals and effigy tombs. Her articles and essays have appeared in The Art Bulletin, the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Studies in Iconography, and Gesta. |
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Donna Polseno, (Homepage) lecturer in art, ceramics Donna lives and works as a studio artist in Floyd, Virginia. She has been known for a variety of work over the years including raku vessels, porcelain pottery, and figurative sculpture. She has taught workshops and summer sessions in numerous places including the University of Michigan, Oregon School of Crafts, Alfred University, Arrowmont, and the Long Beach Art Foundation. Donna was an artist-in-residence at the Archie Bray Foundation. She is included in many collections such as the St. Louis Museum, the Silber Collection, and the Mint Museum of Contemporary Crafts. Donna was an invited participant to the International Clay Symposium in Turkey in 2002 organized by the University of Izmir. She was a visiting artist in September 2004, at the Jingdezhen Institute of Ceramic Art in China, working with students in an exchange program for the University of West Virginia.
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Tang Di Platter |
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Christina Salowey, associate professor, classical studies and gender and women's studies Tina is a ditch digger of classical objects. She spends all her free time bicycling around Greece studying various sites. Recently Tina and Chris Richter, assistant professor, communication studies, took a group of Hollins students to Greece for our January Short Term. They traveled to Arcadia, Delphi. Tina specializes in Greek archaeology and religion and her research combines art, history, religion, numismatics, epigraphy, architecture, and literature. "I like to study the ancient world as a whole complex organism--you can't look at Mycenaean wall paintings without reading Homer or late Hellenistic art without understanding Alexander the Great," she says. Her book on the Cults of Herakles will soon be published by the University of Michigan Press. Tina teaches ancient art and classical studies. |
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Bob Sulkin, (Homepage) professor of art, photography One must enter Bob's studio with some care. He has recently embarked on a series of still life images that examine life and death, beauty and horror. Stacked on the floor and filling every shelf are artifacts from the old biology lab at Hollins -- such as stuffed birds, snakes, tools of the trade, and then there is a mannequin, hundreds of bottles, and even fake grapes. His photographs have been exhibited in more than 100 solo and group shows in the mid-Atlantic region including the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. A solo exhibit of his work is currently circulating through the Virginia Museum's statewide exhibition program. Bob teaches photography and photo history.
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"Lamb," gelatin silver print, 8 x 10" |
