Nov.-Dec. 2011 - Maryland Institute College of Art

44 INNOVATION
(top to bottom) Aaron McIntosh; Mark Sanders;
Shadra Strickland; and Eva Wiley, Embedded
Threads, silkscreen on the wall, installation at
Gallery Joe, 2010.
New Faculty Faces
as ProGramminG exPands aCross CamPus, so has the number of full-time faculty
members who have joined the College’s roster of instructors during the 2011-12 school year.
Coming from world-renowned, wide-ranging, successful careers as artists, designers, and
educators, the new freshman class of faculty includes:
Curatorial Practice
Jeffry Cudlin has worked as an artist, critic, educator, and curator. He often uses performance, cross-disciplinary
collaboration, and parody to create opportunities for awkward encounters. In his most recent project, By Request
at Washington, DC’s Flashpoint Gallery, Cudlin used polling data to create what he claimed was the ideal art
exhibition—featuring only images of himself. Cudlin also served as director of exhibitions for the Arlington Arts
Center for the past five years and is a freelance art critic for The Washington Post and Washington City Paper.
Foundation
Stephen Hendee produces ambitious sculpture and installation works for art museums and public commissions
inspired by architecture and speculative fiction literature. Hendee’s work has been shown at SculptureCenter, the New
Museum for Contemporary Art, and The Museum of Modern Art’s PS1 in New York.
Ulric Joseph, Jr. ’99 ’00 studied computer science at the University of the West Indies and left the Caribbean
to receive a BA in painting and an MFA in Digital Art from MICA on a scholarship. He has exhibited extensively
in America, the Caribbean, and the United Kingdom. Joseph combines diverse elements to create highly evocative
pieces that speak to the human condition in the digital age.
Aaron McIntosh grew up in the Appalachian mountains of East Tennessee, where his family’s economic challenges
and domestic activities such as quilt making have figured largely in his visual vocabulary. His work explores the
intersections of material culture, family tradition, and identity-shaping. His teaching experience includes positions as
adjunct faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University and as the fiber area head at James Madison University.
Graphic Design
Sandra Maxa is a graphic designer and educator with an extensive background in typography and systems design.
Maxa worked on corporate branding projects in Minneapolis and with publishing clients in New York before forming
the multidisciplinary studio, Q Collective. Maxa has taught visual studies, typography, and publication design at Rutgers
University, Parsons The New School for Design, and Pratt Institute.
Mark Sanders worked as a project designer and manager of large-scale hotel projects in Atlanta before choosing
to earn an MFA in Visual Communication from Virginia Commonwealth University. Sanders has taught identity,
systems, and publication design at Rutgers University, experimental typography at Parsons The New School of
Design, and typography, design, and technology at Pratt Institute.
Illustration
Shadra Strickland has worked as a teacher, book designer, and artist’s assistant along her artistic path. She won
the Ezra Jack Keats Award and Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent in 2009 for her first
picture book, Bird, written by Zetta Elliott, and co-illustrated Our Children Can Soar, winner of a 2010 NAACP
Image Award. She also illustrated A Place Where Hurricanes Happen, a story of four children in New Orleans at
the time of Hurricane Katrina written by Renee Watson, as well as White Water, which tackles the subject of
segregation in the Jim Crow South.
Deanna Staffo ’03 is a Philadelphia-based illustrator whose work has been recognized by American Illustration, the
Society of Illustrators West and The Altpick Awards (2nd place in Series Illustration). Her work has been published
in the Communication Arts Fresh List (August 2005) and Taschen’s Illustration Now!. She received her BFA in
illustration with honors from MICA, where she later taught sophomore and junior illustration students. She also
teaches junior illustration majors at The University of the Arts.
Printmaking
Eva Wylie’s work juxtaposes organic imagery with images that intimate how humanity and its detritus merge into the
natural world. She was a resident at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007 and is a 2006 Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts grant recipient. Wylie was a member of Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia for six years and has
upcoming exhibitions at the Philadelphia Art Alliance and Space 1026.