Gary Bolding, M.F.A., Brooklyn College. Department Chair, Professor

Professor Bolding teaches painting and drawing. His work typically combines meticulous craftmanship with quirky and ironic subject matter. Often darkly humorous, Bolding's work mixes a closely observed realism with healthy doses of the postmodern, the Southern Gothic, and the surreal. His work has been featured in over 20 solo exhibitions and nearly 100 group shows internationally including shows in New York City, Miami, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, England, and Mexico. Bolding has won numerous awards in national and regional juried exhibitions, has received 2 Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, and has been awarded 2 Hand awards, Stetson's highest award for research or creative work. Receiving his B.A. from Hendrix College, Professor Bolding went on to study at the Art Student's League of New York and the New York Academy of Art before competing his M.F.A. at Brooklyn College. He has taught at Stetson since 1989. View a sampling of Professor Bolding's work in the Faculty Gallery.

Dan Gunderson, Professor

Professor Gunderson teaches ceramics, sculpture, and design. The cities in which he has held solo exhibitions include New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and Berkeley. His work is in many public collections, including the Ringling Museum, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, the Orlando City Hall Collection, and the Erie Art Museum. In 1994 he completed a major commission for a sixteen-foot tall painted steel sculpture for the VOTRAN Bus Terminal in Daytona Beach. Professor Gunderson has won numerous awards, and he has been awarded a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. His work has been published in books and magazines internationally. Professor Gunderson received his B.F.A. from the University of South Dakota and M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has taught at Stetson since 1976.View a sampling of Professor Gunderson's work in the

Roberta Smith Favis, Professor of Art History

Dr. Favis teaches a varied menu of Art History classes and serves as curator of the Vera Bluemner Kouba Collection. She has lectured and published in a variety of areas of historical and contemporary art, with particular emphasis on women in art and American landscape painting. She is author of Martin Johnson Heade in Florida (University Press of Florida, 2003) and Oscar Bluemner: A Daughter's Legacy (2004), as well as articles for publications including American Art and American Art Review, and numerous catalogs on contemporary artists. Dr. Favis received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught at Stetson since 1985.

Matt Roberts, Associate Professor

Matthew (Matt) Roberts is a new media artist specializing in real-time performance and new media applications.  His work has been featured interntionally and nationally, including shows in Brazil, Canada, Argentina, Mexico, Italy, and the United States.  He was awarded the Transitio Award during the Transitiomx_02: International Festival of Electronic Art and Video 2007, and his work has been featured in several large circulation news media such as New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Wired.  He is the founder of MPG: Mobile Performance Group (http://www.mobileperformancegroup.com), and an Associate Professor of Art and Digital arts at Stetson University (http://digart.stetson.edu).  He received his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and lives in Florida, USA.

Derek Larson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Digital Arts/Art

Derek Larson is a video and installation artist teaching digital art classes in video and animation for motion graphics and multimedia projects.  His work has been exhibited in San Francisco, Seattle, Miami, Detroit, New York, and Toronto.  A 2007 graduate of the MFA program at the Yale School of Art in Sculpture, Larson has taught at colleges in New Hampshire and Vermont.  He was recently nominated for the 2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in New York.  Examples of his work can be viewed at http://www.dereklarson.net/.

James Murphy, Adjunct Professor, Art History

Dr. Murphy teaches classes in Art History and History of Photography. He has taught at Florida State University (where he also served as chairman of the Art Department), the University of Alabama, Valencia Community College, and Daytona State College.  In addition to teaching, Dr. Murphy was executive director of the Society for Photographic Education and Mount Dora Center for the Arts, and program director of Atlantic Center for the Arts, an interdisciplinary artists' community.  He has worked as an independent curator and consultant to arts organizations, and is the author of reviews, articles, and catalogue essays.  Dr. Murphy received his B.A. from Saint Peters College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Florida State University.

 
LiHung Catron, Adjunct Professor

LiHung Catron teaches ceramics and design.  She was born and raised in the Republic of China, Taiwan.  Her interest in ceramic arts started early due to her Chinese culture, and when the opportunity and time permitted she began to devote herself to her love of ceramics arts. She received her MFA from the University of South Florida.  LiHung's work has been shown in  museums and galleries and has appeared in Ceramics Monthly and Clay Times.