art faculty

Dr. Sutters was a K-12 art educator in an urban school district for seven years and also taught for two years in São Paulo, Brazil. He completed his undergraduate and masters degree from Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, attained his doctorate degree from the Ohio State University receiving national recognition for his dissertation.

Originally from Detroit, Michigan, Patrick Sargent joined the military at age 17 to become a U.S. Air Force security policeman. In 2002, after twenty years of service, he prepared to retire from the military, and while completing his degree in political science an entry-level printmaking class changed his trajectory.

Elizabeth Hall is an artist, herbalist, and educator who lives with her family in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. Elizabeth holds a BA (Painting and Drawing) from Meredith Collage and an MFA (Painting) from East Carolina University.

School of Art Director of Graphic Design Don Starr earned his Master of Fine Arts in Integrated Design from the University of Baltimore and a Bachelor of Science in Advertising Design from the University of Maryland, College Park.

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.

Yoder was born in Cleveland, Ohio and studied at Dartmouth, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. His work is in numerous public and private collections, and exhibitions include shows at the Brooklyn Museum of Art...

Don Russell has been an active contemporary art curator and arts administrator since 1979. His research focuses on the exploration and development of new social contexts for art.

As an editorial designer my goal is to create pages that engage the reader and make the essence of an article visible. I have been a designer for nearly 20 years, the last 12 as the design principal at a publication.

At the age of 27, Pete Petrine saw a nine-foot self-portrait by Chuck Close which changed his life. In his senior semester, as a conflict resolution major at George Mason University, Pete took a drawing class elective and immediately changed his major to fine art.

Ryan McCoy is an artist based in the Washington DC area and a resident artist at Arlington Arts Center. He works in various media but his primary body of work, developed over the last 15 years, includes paintings...