Faculty
Our faculty consists of world-class, working artists who bring real-world experience from their studio and professional practices into the classroom. As a student, you will get the chance to work directly with our 5 Guggenheim Fellows, 3 Scholars of the College, 2 CLA Engaged Scholars, 2 Whitney Biennial artists, and the many McKnight, Bush, and Jerome Fellows who serve as instructors here.
Regular Faculty
![Smiling woman with curly blond hair](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2024-03/cbaeumlermattern2_copy_2%20%281%29.jpeg?h=84875f25&itok=xKf0noNq)
Christine Baeumler
Specialties
Painting; Drawing; Environmental and community based art
![portrait image showing the face of Chotsani Elaine Dean a Black woman in sepia tone](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2024-04/%20Dean%2CChotsani_Headshot.jpg?h=6e754b88&itok=MNP93Ufy)
![A Hmong woman in black tshirt](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2024-04/PAOH8154.jpeg?h=6df41549&itok=lAZcdzsI)
![Chris Larson outside on a bench](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2024-04/christ-larson_submitted-daniel-del-castillo_870x580.jpg?h=81e3dfcb&itok=kqGRqVbM)
![portrait photo of woman in red turtleneck sweater with grey hair and glasses.](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2024-02/headshot2024sm%20copy.jpg?h=37702503&itok=xOTBewBw)
![Caucaisan woman in her 60's, short blond hair, brown eyes, smiling, wearing a black shirt and black earings.](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2024-04/Lukkas_Lynn.jpg?h=2c6c2a46&itok=zaCSbmtt)
Lynn Lukkas
Specialties
Filmmaking; Interdisciplinary Media Art; Photography
![Photo of Monica M Moses Haller. Picture of a person with dark hair smiling at the camera.](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2024-04/_Monica_Haller.jpg?h=888dc13a&itok=7Jf7yMuV)
![Lamar and Bea in his art studio.](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2024-04/Lamar%20studio%20%232.jpg?itok=10UFkLpq)
Lamar Peterson
Specialties
Painting; Drawing
![A short-haired, middle-aged white person is smiling.](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2024-04/schmid%20head%20shot.jpg?h=16b04183&itok=vO0WLwxY)
Christina Schmid
Specialties
Writing on the arts, creative nonfiction writing; Contemporary art; Visual culture; Art and Visual/Material Culture of the United States; Aesthetic theory; Visual arts and art theory
![Jenny Schmid in printmaking studio](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2024-04/jennyschmid-portrait.jpg?h=b5bd5d23&itok=v3MWY8Hd)
Jenny Schmid
Specialties
Combined print media; Digital applications; Photolithography; Mezzotinting; 2D animation; Public art; Experimental video
![portrait](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2022-02/Shambroom_Photo-Dennehy_Dan.jpg?h=e85ed99b&itok=-vVR3qJy)
Paul Shambroom
Specialties
Photography; Nuclear weapons; Democracy, electoral politics
![Tamir's Profile Photo](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2022-05/Rotem_Tamir_for-web.jpg?h=fbf7a813&itok=aj04SBjd)
![Diane Willow](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2022-04/Diane_Willow-04272022LM-6894-square.jpg?h=fbf7a813&itok=Ii6-eN0U)
Diane Willow
Specialties
Participatory culture; Creative inquiry and artistic expression with emerging media; Poetic interplay of nature, technology and community; interactive art; Interdisciplinary collaborations; Sound art; Community collaboration; Public art; Responsive environments; Playful explorations :: new modes, new materials, new media; Interactive, socially engaged, contemplative environments
![Tetsuya Yamada](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2024-04/Tetsuya%20-%20b%26w-1%20copy.jpeg?h=2640664c&itok=-ujgvDxK)
![photo of Mathew Zefeldt](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2024-04/25C76A74-640F-4081-AFEF-2E172E730746.jpeg?h=4c3df5cb&itok=IkzEHM0_)
Mathew Zefeldt
Specialties
Installation; Drawing; Painting; Dimensional painting
Affiliate Faculty
![Brenda J. Child](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2022-02/_58A6396_1.jpg?h=dafeb545&itok=EqdO5kDd)
Brenda Child
Specialties
American Indian history; Public History and Museums; Ojibwe People of the Great Lakes; American Indian Women and Labor; The History of American Indian Education
Visiting Faculty
Lecturers
![Portrait](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2024-04/wings_0.jpeg?h=cd927ee8&itok=tN-UVmvM)
![Photo portrait of Isa Gagarin](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2022-05/IsaGagarin_Headshot2021.jpg?h=48a3af01&itok=sKtIapI-)
![Black/African American male, black shirt, shaved head, standing in front of a gray brick wall](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2024-04/Chris_2020_color%20600x600px%20copy.jpeg?h=247a7aa3&itok=6ppP9HR2)
![Caroline Houdek Solomon holding a camera and smiling.](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2022-05/22_CarolineWeb_1.jpg?h=71151cf0&itok=B5uewfJb)
![Kim Roth smiling in front of gray background](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2022-09/roth_kimberlee_portrait_headshot.png?h=04d92ac6&itok=rCi1oYZu)
![Portrait of a woman with blue eyes, long wavy gray hair, and a black sweater. Green plants fill the background.](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2024-04/sarah_sampedroSQ.jpg?h=f7dc05b8&itok=BAn3xIuy)
![young woman with purple buzz cut hair](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2024-04/IMG_3598_0.jpeg?h=9fd8b8ce&itok=36Yrj-0r)
![Woman in multicolored tank top & sunglasses stands in front of colorful striped wall](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2022-08/robinschwartzman.jpg?h=96a96008&itok=qhNhssQ1)
Emeriti Faculty
![A pattern containing multiple University Block-Ms](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/default_images/user_profile-photo_default-image_500x500.png?itok=OLIf3RjD)
Guy Baldwin
Specialties
iron, bronze art; kinetic sculpture; sculpture; sound emitting works; welding and forging techniques
![A pattern containing multiple University Block-Ms](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/default_images/user_profile-photo_default-image_500x500.png?itok=OLIf3RjD)
Jan Estep
Specialties
somatic and contemplative approaches to art (art and yoga, art and mindfulness); text works, artist books, and independent publishing; interdisciplinary approaches to art (art and philosophy, art and cognitive neuroscience); writing on the arts, creative nonfiction writing
![A pattern containing multiple University Block-Ms](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/default_images/user_profile-photo_default-image_500x500.png?itok=OLIf3RjD)
David Feinberg
Specialties
the integration of baseball,i.e. Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella; painted sculpture; drawing/painting; color as a counterpoint to shape, words, and visual images; the tragedy of the Edmund Fitzgerald Nov. 10, 1975; WWII; the fatal airplane crash of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper on Feb. 3, 1959; "Voice To Vision", Artwork concerning Genocide; The Great Hinckley Fire of 1894
![A pattern containing multiple University Block-Ms](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/default_images/user_profile-photo_default-image_500x500.png?itok=OLIf3RjD)
![A pattern containing multiple University Block-Ms](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/default_images/user_profile-photo_default-image_500x500.png?itok=OLIf3RjD)
Gary Hallman
Specialties
electronic imaging; photography; photography as code and symbol; synthetic and narrative imagery
![A pattern containing multiple University Block-Ms](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/default_images/user_profile-photo_default-image_500x500.png?itok=OLIf3RjD)
![A pattern containing multiple University Block-Ms](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/default_images/user_profile-photo_default-image_500x500.png?itok=OLIf3RjD)
Curtis Hoard
Specialties
ceramics; figure as symbol for emotion, time, and place; low-fired and single-fired sculptural and large hand built vessels; surface treatment embellshment with engobe painting and drawing
![A pattern containing multiple University Block-Ms](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/default_images/user_profile-photo_default-image_500x500.png?itok=OLIf3RjD)
Diane Katsiaficas
Specialties
contemporary theory; Drawing, Painting and Mixed Media work; digital drawing; installations; site works; developing visual narratives; Greek culture and art
![A pattern containing multiple University Block-Ms](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/default_images/user_profile-photo_default-image_500x500.png?itok=OLIf3RjD)
Jerald Krepps
Specialties
lithography: traditional stone and metal plate, photomechanical applications (positive plate and negative wipe-on); monoprints; relief print applications: traditional and experimental; intaglio printmaking:traditional and photomechanical applications; handmade paper: Tamezuke, Nagashizuki & sculptural applications
![A pattern containing multiple University Block-Ms](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/default_images/user_profile-photo_default-image_500x500.png?itok=OLIf3RjD)
![A pattern containing multiple University Block-Ms](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/default_images/user_profile-photo_default-image_500x500.png?itok=OLIf3RjD)
Clarence Morgan
Specialties
Individual Studio Research; The relationship between thinking, making and writing; theoretical possibilities within contemporary painting; paradoxical relationship between abstract painting and meaning; studio critique and the speculative nature of art; critical discussions
![A pattern containing multiple University Block-Ms](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/default_images/user_profile-photo_default-image_500x500.png?itok=OLIf3RjD)
![Wayne E. Potratz Fuji Pofrtrait](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2024-07/IMG_9469.jpg?h=41f8cf6d&itok=ZqwB1L-K)
Wayne E. Potratz
Specialties
ancient metal casting techniques; metal casting of bronze, iron, and alumninum; sculpture; Steelmaking using the Japanese Tatara; Steelmaking using the Wootz Process
![A pattern containing multiple University Block-Ms](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/default_images/user_profile-photo_default-image_500x500.png?itok=OLIf3RjD)