Art Faculty and Staff

  • Miriam Ahmed

    Assistant Professor, School of Art, CVPA

    Dr. Miriam Ahmed is an Assistant Professor of graphic design at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. She delivered the Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture for the St Bride Foundation in 2020, presented at ATypI 2020 and TypeCon 2019, and was an AIGA DC SHINE 2019-20 mentor.
  • Changwoo Ahn

    Professor, EcoScience and Policy, School of Art Affiliate Faculty, CVPA

    Research Interests: Long-term study of functional development and design elements for creating mitigation wetlands, which includes biogeochemistry, ecological modeling, constructed wetlands, urban green infrastructure, soil carbon and nitrogen, denitrification and water quality, plant, and microbial communities, and system ecology
  • Benjamin Ashworth

    Sculpture and Foundations Supervisor and Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Ben curates and builds ongoing community-sourced public art projects that combine skateboarding, education, construction, music, media, and visual art as a socially engaged platform.
  • Daniel T. Barney, PhD

    Interim Associate Director, School of Art and Associate Professor, Art Education and Program Director, MAT II, School of Art, CVPA

     

    The notion that art could be a practice of living inquiry led Dr. Barney to seek and obtain a PhD in Curriculum Studies with an emphasis on Art Education from the University of British Columbia, where he taught communications, classroom methods, principles of teaching, and supervised student teachers. Barney has won many regional and national awards for his teaching and scholarship over his career.
  • Brian Barr

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Brian Barr is an artist and independent curator from Detroit, MI, currently based in Richmond, VA. His work explores the space between function, meaning and aesthetics.
  • Rebecca Basch

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Bekí Basch is an interdisciplinary artist who creates objects and experiential installations in the context of field research and ruminations on psychospirituality. Using a vocabulary associated with simulated environments and curated experiences (museums, aquariums, ice rinks, dioramas, artifacts), she draws together personally resonant and ostensibly disparate elements to express a new narrative of interconnectivity and possibility.
  • Stephanie Benassi

    Assistant Professor, School of Art, CVPA

    Stephanie Benassi is a conceptual artist working primarily with photography. She uses photographic images and processes to conceptually engage the contradictions, limitations, and material conditions inherent to the photographic medium.
  •  Eamonn Bourke

    Adjunct Professor, School of Art, CVPA

    Eamonn is a multidisciplinary award-winning designer with a professional concentration on user experience and interface visual design. Eamonn has worked throughout his career in a variety of roles as a designer, art director, and creative director for national and international brands including the U.S. Army, Gannett, USA Today, The Detroit Free Press, WUSA9, PayPal, and Capital One.
  • Pierre Bowins

    Assistant Professor, School of Art, CVPA

    My experience in the field of design has provided me with a broad view to prepare students for the future of emerging trends in Art and Design’s contemporary practice.
  • Kelvin Burzon

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Kelvin Burzon is a Filipino-American artist whose work explores intersections of sexuality, race, gender and religion. His most recent work investigates religion’s role in culture and familial relationships and highlights religion’s traditions, imagery, theatricality, and psychological vestige.