Art Faculty and Staff

  • Erwin Thamm work

    Technical Assistant Manager, CVPA

    Erwin (Elmo) is an artist, printmaker, photographer, and video editor. He traveled extensively with his military family before settling in the Washington, D.C. area.
  • Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Kathleen Thompson is an adjunct faculty member at CVPA School of Art at George Mason University.
  • Luis Vasquez La Roche

    Assistant Professor, School of Art, CVPA

    Luis Vasquez La Roche is an artist and educator that resides between Trinidad and Tobago and Virginia. They hold an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Their practice is interested in aspects of the transatlantic slave trade that repeat themselves in varying ways in the present.
  • Paloma Vianey Martinez Acosta

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Paloma Vianey Martinez Acosta is an interdisciplinary artist from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico who currently lives and works in Washington D.C. Her work explores the vulnerabilities and violence of her community and narrates her experience crossing the U.S.-Mexico border daily, questioning the political corruptness of this division.
  • John von Bergen

    Assistant Professor of Sculpture and Expanded Fields, School of Art, CVPA

    John von Bergen was born in Connecticut. He earned his B.F.A. Degree with Honors from School of Visual Arts in New York City. After relocating to Berlin, Germany in 2003 his work has been exhibited in various international museums, galleries and institutions, including Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf, Pera Museum in Istanbul, and Smack Mellon in New York.
  • Brandon Wallace

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Brandon Wallace’s artistic passion lies in telling stories through drawing and painting. Wallace holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from The Maryland Institute College of Art and a Master of Fine Arts in Illustration from Syracuse University. 
  • Gail Scott White

    Full Professor, School of Art, CVPA

    Gail Scott White is a new media scenographer and animator who collaboratively makes “Live Movies,” a hybrid art form that interactively synthesizes animation and cinematic art, and theatrical and musical elements with built environments and live performance.
  • Cristian Wicha

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    An award-winning industrial designer, woodworker, photographer, and sculptor from the D.C. area Cristian Wicha has been designing furniture for production for the past 25 years.
  • Peter Winant

    Associate Professor, School of Art, CVPA - RETIRED

    Peter works on individual projects and in collaboration with other artists. For twenty years, as a founding member of the collaborative group, Workingman Collective, and as a core member of the group, Art Attack, he has engaged in making pieces that question...
  • Sue Wrbican

    Full Professor, School of Art, CVPA

    Professor Wrbican has an MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh. Her studio is located in the Monroe Street Market Arts Walk in Washington, D.C.