Faculty

	Michelle Citron Department Chair, Professor PhD, Interdiscplinary Cognitive Psychology, University of Wisconsin/Madison Michelle Citron is an award-winning media artist whose work includes the films Daughter Rite and What You Take For Granted… and the interactive narratives As American As Apple Pie, Cocktails & Appetizers, and Mixed Greens. She’s received grants from the NEA, NEH and IAC. Her work’s shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, the Walker Art Center, the MCA/Chicago, as well as the New Directors, Berlin, London, Edinburgh, SeNef Seoul Net, VAD Festival Internacional de Video I Arts Digital, and Viper film/media festivals. She is the author of the award winning book, Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions. courses: Autobiographical Art, Connected Studio Practices, Visual Narrative office: 916 S. Wabash, Rm. 203 phone: (312) 369-7670 email: mcitron@colum.edu url: www.michellecitron.com
	Jeff Abell Associate Chair, Associate Professor Director of Interdisciplinary Arts MA program MM in Music Composition, Northern Illinois University Jeff Abell is an interdisciplinary artist, whose work encompasses music, sound art, performance, critical and creative writing, and photography. He has been a writer and editor for numerous publications, and active in the non-profit community. Much of Abell’s work explores issues of gender and identity. His work was included in the Museum of Contemporary Art's exhibition Art in Chicago, 1945–1995. In 2008 he premiered his lip-synch opera Confusion, completed with the help of an Artist Residency at the Experimental Sound Studio. Abell has been part of the Interdisciplinary Arts Department at Columbia College Chicago since 1981, and is currently the Associate Chair. courses: Sound: Theory & Practice, Art as Discourse, History of Interdisciplinary Art, Art as Practice, Connected Studio Practice, Multiples, Connected Images, Sound in Context, Documentation, Conceptual Strategies office: 916 S. Wabash #203B phone: (312) 369-7270 email: jabell@colum.edu
	Sherry Antonini Adjunct Faculty MFA Photography, University of Illinois at Chicago MFA Creative Writing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Sherry Antonini is a multimedia artist. Her work combines original text, voice, sound, new media, photographs, and mixed-media pieces to create performances and work for exhibition. She has performed live and her work has been exhibited extensively in Chicago and other parts of the United States in museums, galleries, theaters, and music/performance venues including The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Cultural Center of Chicago, and Monkey Town Performance Space, NYC. Her work has been featured in solo performance pieces and exhibitions and as part of larger collaborative projects with numerous professional artists, musicians, and choreographers. courses: Media Performance, Performance Aesthetics, Word: Theory and Practice, Text, Connected Images email: santonini@colum.edu
	Paul Catanese Assistant Professor MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Paul Catanese is a hybrid media artist, a full-time faculty member in the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts at Columbia College Chicago and the President of the New Media Caucus, a College Art Association Affiliate Society. His artwork has been exhibited widely including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, SFMOMA Artist's Gallery, La Villette-Numerique and Stuttgarter Filmwinter among others. Paul is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including commissions for the creation of new artwork from Turbulence.org as well as Rhizome.org. courses: History of New Media, Connected Studio Practices, Interactive Media, Sound as an Art Material, Thesis office: 916 S. Wabash, Suite 213E phone: (312) 369-8785 email: pcatanese@colum.edu url: www.paulcatanese.com
	Suzanne Cohan-Lange Founder and Emeritus Professor Suzanne Cohan-Lange, sculptor and curator, spent the past three decades as an arts administrator, museum designer and educator at Columbia College where she was founder and Chairperson of the Interdisciplinary Arts Department for twenty-five years. She is currently President of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Curatorial Committee of the Lubeznik Center for the Arts. As a sculptor, Suzanne has worked in steel, resin, cast paper and more recently, wood. Her current work combines sculpture with text, video and sound in large-scale multi-media installations. Her most recent exhibition, Little Black Dress, a sculpture, poetry and video installation created by Suzanne and long time collaborators: Sherry Antonini and Niki Nolin, was last exhibited at Indiana University Northwest in the Fall of 2008. Her sculpture continues to deal with the figure as a metaphor for the human condition. url: www.suzannecohanlange.com
	Joseph Fosco Adjunct Faculty Master of Music (MM), University of Miami Joseph Fosco is a sound designer and composer. Working primarily in theatre, Joseph has composed music and designed sound for over 200 productions, and is a member of the Artistic Ensemble of A Red Orchid Theatre. Additionally, Joseph works in film, multimedia, dance, and Internet based projects, and has performed his "monologues with sound" across the United States. He has been awarded and nominated for several awards including a New York Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Sound Design, and a Joseph Jefferson Award for Outstanding Original Music. Joseph also designs hardware and software systems for audio production and processing. courses: Sound: Theory and Practice, Connected Images url: www.josephfosco.com
	David Jude Greene Adjunct Faculty MFA, Columbia College Chicago David Jude Greene is a visual & performing artists in Chicago Illinois. David Jude Greene’s work, in studio art, magazines, performance & exhibitions, is marked by his refusal to separate popular culture and his mostly autobiographical images. Born in Rice Lake , Wisconsin, David Jude has lived and worked in Duluth MN, New York NY, London UK, Minneapolis MN, Grand Haven Michigan and for 7 years in Chicago, Il. Solo exhibitions include "Your'er the viewer" Performance, Hyde Park Art Center Chicago Illinois in 2008 and "30 DAYS" video showcase, The Standard Hotel DTWN, Los Angeles California in 2009. He was included in the important video survey "BUTT in ASS" at the Asia Song Society, New York NY in summer of 2009. David Jude was the recipient of the Beedcroft Travel Grant from the United States Fulbright Program in 2001 to install work at the TATE Modern in London UK. He has also installed numerous shows at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. David Jude is the Chicago Artistic Coordinator for Harry Winston. courses: Space & Place office: 600 S. Michigan Ave. 7th Floor phone: (312) 369-7836 email: dgreene@colum.edu url: www.davidjudegreene.com
	Mary Kennedy Adjunct Faculty MA University of Wisconsin
	Jenny Magnus Adjunct Faculty BA, Eastern Illinois University Jenny Magnus, writer, performer, musician and teacher, is founding co-Artistic Director of the Curious Theater Branch. Her work has been produced at Steppenwolf Theater, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and venues throughout Chicago and the US and Europe. She has released 9 albums, with the band Maestro Subgum and the Whole, and as a solo artist. In 1998, she was named among the Artists of the Year by the Chicago Tribune, and from 1998 to the present, she was included among the 50 most influential people in Chicago Theater by NewCity Chicago. She has been teaching for 12 years. courses: Drama: Theory and Practice, Media Performance, Connected Images, Connected Studio Practices, Performance Aesthetics email: jmagnus@colum.edu url: www.curioustheatrebranch.com
	Clifton Meador Director, MFA Interdisciplinary Book & Paper Associate Professor MFA, Art of the Book, Purchase College Clifton Meador is an artist whose recent work combines photography, writing, printmaking, and design to explore history, narrative, and place. He has been the recipient of many grants and fellowships, most notably as the two-times recipient of a NYFA fellowship and as a Fulbright Scholar to the Republic of Georgia. His work is in many collections of book art, including the Library of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Bibliotheque National in Paris, and the Yale Art of the Book collection. Before coming to Columbia College Chicago in 2005, he was an associate professor of design at SUNY New Paltz. courses: Thinking Through Making, Reading the Artist's Book, Advanced Print, Connected Studio Practices, Thesis, Photomechanical Monster, History of Typography office: 916 S Wabash Suite 213F phone: (312) 369-6633 email: cmeador@colum.edu url: www.cliftonmeador.com
	Jeanine Mellinger Director, MFA Interdisciplinary Arts & Media Associate Professor MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Jeanine Mellinger came to Columbia College Chicago in 1994. Prior to creating the Interdisciplinary Arts and Media MFA program, she taught in the Television Department. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art; The Kitchen; MIT; Anthology Film Archive; Image Union, WTTW; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Walker Art Center; Artists Space, New York; Kunst Video, Norway; Boston Film Video Foundation; Festival Des Files Des Vues, Quebec; Galleri 33, Norway; Women's Video Festival, Montreal; Video Biennale; World Wide Video Festival, Holland; Women in the Director Chair. She has been awarded recognition from Provost Humanities and Arts Grant and Faculty Development Grant, Columbia College Chicago; AFI/NEA Regional Fellowship; Jerome Foundation, Film in the Cities; Videowall Project, Intermedia Arts/Dayton Foundation; Illinois Arts Council, Artist Fellowship; Neighborhood Arts Project, and the Chicago Council on Fine Art. courses: Screen Media, Space & Place, Advanced Screen Media, Media Performance, Thesis Practicum office: 916 S. Wabash, Rm. 213D phone: (312) 369-7199 email: jmellinger@colum.edu
	Greg Petersen Adjunct Faculty MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL email: gpetersen@colum.edu
	Melissa Potter Assistant Professor MFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University Melissa Potter is a multi-media artist whose work investigates womens’ rites of passage, from marriage, to motherhood. Her work is expressed in paper, print, sculpture, and video animation. She exhibited at venues including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and White Columns, where she was featured in the exhibition “Regarding Gloria”, one of the first survey precursors to the 2007 “year of feminism”. She is founder of the NY-based feminist art collective, Art364B. Ms. Potter is a two-time Fulbright recipient. In her first award, she founded a hand papermaking program at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Belgrade, Serbia. courses: Experiential Papermaking, Dimensional Papermaking, Thinking Through Making, Art as Practice, Connected Studio Practices office: 916 S. Wabash, Suite 213C phone: (312) 369-6788 email: mpotter@colum.edu url: www.melissapotter.com
	Brian Saner Adjunct Faculty BA, Bethel College Bryan Saner is a performance artist, teacher and sculptor. Since 1995 he has been collaborating as a performer with the Goat Island Performance Group. International venue and performance credits with Goat Island include the Venice Biennale Theater Festival, the Belluard Bollwerk International Festival Switzerland and the New Territories International Festival of Live Arts in Glasgow. He is an instructor in the annual Goat Island Summer School at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and teaches with Goat Island's annual European Summer and Winter schools. Publications include the collaboratively written book: Small Acts of Repair. Performance, Ecology and Goat Island, edited by Stephen Bottoms and Matthew Goulish. courses: Movement: Theory & Practice, The Body email: bsaner@colum.edu URL: Goat Island Performance Group
	Miram Schaer Visiting Lecturer BFA, Philadelphia College of Art (UArts) Miriam Schaer is a multimedia book artist. She has exhibited steadily and extensively in solo and group exhibitions, and her work has been mentioned in a long list of articles and reviews. She is a recipient of a NYFA Artists Fellowship and her work has been included in the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series at Douglass Library, the oldest and longest-running exhibition series dedicated to showcasing women artists in the United States. Her work can be seen in many public collections including Arts of the Book at Yale University, The Mata & Arthur Jaffe Collection: Book as Aesthetic Object at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, The Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University in Durham NC. Her work is also on-line in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for the Feminist Art Base at the Brooklyn Museum, and www.miriamschaer.com courses: Thinking Thru Making (books), Visual Environments, Advanced Print Media office: 916 S. Wabash, Rm. 213B phone: (312) 369-6635 email: mschaer@colum.edu url: www.miriamschaer.com
	Eric Scholl Associate Professor (Television) MFA Film & Video, Northwestern University Eric Scholl is an educator and independent documentary filmmaker who is on the faculty of the Columbia College Television Department. His videos have been seen on local and national television, and in festivals internationally. His documentary, The End of the Nightstick: Confronting Police Violence in Chicago, aired nationally on PBS’s acclaimed independent showcase “P.O.V.” His latest work, It's In the Blood: Leo Abshire & the Cajun Tradition, looks at the musical heritage of western Louisiana. courses: Fictional Documentary workshop office: 600 S. Michigan, Rm. 1403A phone: (312) 369-7959 email: escholl@colum.edu url: www.amalgamatedmediaworks.com
	Nana Shineflug Associate Professor (Theater) MA, Columbia College Chicago Graduate Certificate Laban Movement Analysis, Columbia CollegE CHICAGO Nana Shineflug is the founder (1972) and Artistic Director of the Chicago Moving Company (CMC). CMC has performed throughout the U.S., as well as in Berlin, Germany; in Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Sao Luis, Brazil; Jerusalem, Israel; Jaipur, India; Tianjin, China. Nana has received Four Choreographic Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, is the recipient of a Chicago Dance Coalition's Ruth Page Award for Lifetime Service to the Field and a Columbia College Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a Fulbright Senior Specialist. She is also a photographer with exhibits in Chicago and Jaipur, India courses: Movement Theory and Practice, Connected Images office: Mezzanine Office A - Theater Building phone: 312-369-6172 email: nshineflug@colum.edu url: www.chicagomovingcompany.org
	Doug Stapleton Adjunct Faculty MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Doug Stapleton is an artist and curator. He is an Assistant Curator of Art with the Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery and an Artistic Associate of The Seldoms, a Chicago based contemporary dance company. His past collaborative and solo performance work has been presented in Chicago and elsewhere for the past fifteen years. Doug’s studio practice consists of making a collages and assemblages that address his interest in anthropology, art history, gender construction and religion. courses: Thesis I, Thesis Practicum, Art as a Spiritual Practice email: dstapleton@colum.edu url: www.dougstapleton.blogspot.com
	Mirella Tanta Adjunct Faculty Mirela Tanta is a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, writing her dissertation “Portraits of Utopia: Socialist Realism inside Ceausescu’s Palace.” Originally from Romania, where she thought philosophy and directed theater, she came to America as an ArtsLink program fellow in poetry and as a guest of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Fall of 2002, she won curator’s choice for Chicago’s Around the Coyote Arts Festival. Her recent publications include: Watchword, Another Chicago Magazine, and Milk Magazine. Her conference presentations include: The Art Institute of Chicago, Indiana University, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. courses: Art as Discourse email:mtanta@colum.edu
	Nancy VanKanegan Adjunct Faculty Nancy VanKanegan’s art works address personal and social enigmas and narratives derived from myth, legend and ritual as they weave into contemporary life. Her installations and performance works, strongly influenced by her lifelong yoga practice and the work and play of daily life, are fed by, and seek to generate beauty, humor and delight. In 2008 she used digitally collaged images to explore the link between Yoga and animism in a multi-media academic presentation for the Humanities Education and Research Association. She is currently working on a presentation about the Latina legend La Llorona with CCC colleagues RoseAnna Mueller and Jesus-Macarena Avila as part of the Intersections Program at the Chicago Cultural Center. A recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, she has been exhibiting and performing since the 1980’s. courses: Visual Theory and Practice email:nvankanegan@hotmail.com

DEPARTMENTAL CONTACT INFORMATION
Department Chair: Michelle Citron
Graduate Contact: Kris Johnson
Office Information: 916 S. Wabash Bldg. Suite 203
Phone: 312-369-7669
Email: kjohnson@colum.edu