Assistant Professors

Susanna Caviglia

Assistant Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies

Visual Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century, Early Modern European Drawing, Cross-cultural Relationships in the Early Modern Mediterranean World

Mark Olson

The Cordelia and William Laverack Family Assistant Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies

Media; medicine & visual culture; material culture of art history, architecture & archaeology with new modes of representation & visualization

Raquel Salvatella De Prada

Assistant Professor of the Practice of the Art, Art History and Visual Studies

3D modeling & animation, motion graphics, graphic design, digital imaging, typography, video design in performance, visualizing historic materials, new media

Faculty News

Hida-Takayama Contemporary Woodblock-Prints Triennale

Monday, June 26, 2017

Entangled Encryptions 2, a unique multi-color woodblock print by Merrill Shatzman, professor of the practice of visual arts, has been selected for inclusion in the Hida-Takayama Contemporary Woodblock-Prints Triennale 2017 Japan. Shatzman is one of two American printmakers represented in... read more »

The Paper Hat Game

Monday, June 26, 2017

The Paper Hat Game, a collaboration between Raquel Salvatella de Prada, assistant professor of the practice of visual arts, and Torry Bend, associate professor of the practice of theater studies, has been nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience. The nomination was... read more »

Southern Cultures

Monday, June 26, 2017

Tom Rankin, Churchill Downs, Louisville, KY, 2011. Tom Rankin, professor of the practice of art and documentary studies, published “First Saturday in May” in the online journal Southern Cultures. Published before the 143rd Kentucky Derby on Saturday, May 6, 2017, Rankin shared... read more »

Assistant Professors