CAA Conversations

Chris is an associate professor of art during the school year, and art appreciation instructor during the summer at Tarleton State University in Texas. When Chris was in grad school, he and Charles were often thought to be brothers due to our doppeganger looks, so much so that their department head never could get our names straight.

Charles Siegfried is an adjunct professor at Clackamas Community College & Portland State University where he teaches Art Appreciation online, Basic Design and all levels of Drawing Courses. Fun fact: When he graduated with his MFA, he saved/took the garbage from his grad studio and made some artwork out of it.

Joe Lupo received his BFA from Bradley University and MFA from the University of Georgia. He's now an Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator at West Virginia University. Carmon was the Director of the Lamar Dod School of Art at the University of Georgia when he was a graduate student.

Carmon Colangelo is Canadian and he started his career in the same printmaking position as Joe at WVU in 1984. He is currently the dean of the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University at St. Louis.

Jason Bernagozzi is an Assistant Professor of Art in Electronic Arts at Colorado State University starting this fall. He is also the co-founder of the experimental media arts residency program Signal Culture.

Victoria Bradbury is a new media artist, a researcher @CRUMB and Assistant Professor of New Media at University of North Carolina Asheville.

Sophia Brueckner is an assistant professor the University of Michigan at the Stamps School of Art & Design where her ongoing goal is to combine design and engineering with the perspective of an artist to create new technologies in the service of mental well-being.

Byron Rich was born in Calgary Alberta, and currently serves as assistant professor of Art at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania.

Elliott King is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Washington and Lee University, where he teaches modern and contemporary American and European art. His research focuses on Salvador Dali's work after the Second World War.

Abigail Susik is an Associate Professor of Art History at Willamette University in Oregon, where she teaches Modern and Contemporary Art History in Europe and America. She has a radio show called "Studio Visit" on KFFP-LP 90.3 FM Freeform Portland, and local artists join her in the station for every episode.

Valerie Powell is an Assistant Professor of Art & the Foundations Coordinator at Sam Houston State University, she serves as the President of FATE [Foundations in art theory and education] & also likes to make art using Shrinky Dinks.

Jeffie Brewer is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Stephen F. Austin State University, and he loves cheese but is lactose intolerant.