Drawn to the active artistic community at RISD are scores of accomplished, award-winning artists, designers and educators, including members of the college’s degree program faculty as well as distinguished visiting experts. They contribute to Summer Studies as instructors, lecturers and visiting critics, bringing with them a diverse spectrum of ideas, experiences and insights in the fields of art and design.

Alphabetical listing of Summer Studies faculty:

Rafael Attias: BFA, RISD. A native of Venezuela, Attias has been a graphic designer for firms in Providence and Boston. His interests include interactive media, creating, performing and recording music, merging visuals with sound, and multimedia installations. He is an adjunct professor in RISD's Illustration and Digital Media departments.

Jenn Brandt: MA, Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University. Brandt's work focuses on gender, the media, and popular entertainment. Her publications include articles on Sex and the City, Nip/Tuck, and The Da Vinci Code. A lecturer for RISD's Liberal Arts Department, she is currently a doctoral student in English.

Bolaji Campbell: BA, Fine Art, University of Ife, Nigeria; MFA, Painting, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife; PhD, Art History, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Campbell has previously taught studio and African art history courses at the Universities of Ife, Tennessee and Wisconsin, and at the College of Charleston. Presently, he teaches art history of Africa and the African Diaspora at RISD. He is the author of the book Painting for the Gods: Art & Aesthetics of Yoruba Religious Murals and the essay Of Story Telling and the Slippery Medium of Clay: Babette Wainwright's Image of the Woman at the Diasporic Crossroads. His artwork has been featured in the traveling exhibit Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and the African Diaspora.

Jiyoung Chung: BFA, Painting, RISD; MFA, Print/Media, Cranbrook Academy of Art. Chung's work has been exhibited in Korea, Finland and the US, and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Arts & Design, NY. She has been teaching Joomchi in various academic settings, including at the 2007 International Surface Design Conference.

Valerie Claff: BA, Painting and Drawing, Colby College; MFA, Painting and Printmaking, RISD. Claff is an abstract painter whose work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Providence, Boston, Chicago, Greece and Italy. She teaches at Clark University.

Suzi Cozzens: BFA, Graphic Design, RISD; AOS, Culinary Institute of America. Cozzens is a graphic designer, window designer and owner of Boxmaker, a book and box-making studio in Providence. She teaches papermaking, bookbinding and letterpress printing at RISD. Her assemblages have been exhibited in numerous galleries throughout New England. She is a RISD|CE Teacher of Excellence.

Elaine Craghead: has been teaching literature, film, and theory courses at RISD for the past 15 years, and has also taught at Brown University, Wheaton College and URI.

William DiBello: BFA, Painting, Tyler School of Art; MFA, Painting, RISD. DiBello currently teaches at Tyler School of Art and The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. In 2002 he was awarded a residency in Giverny, France through the Terra Foundation for American Art. He has exhibited his work in Los Angeles, Boston, Austin and Providence, and his work has been published in New American Paintings and New American Talent, volume 19.

Victor de la Rosa: BFA, Textiles, San Francisco State University; MFA, Textile Arts and Costume Design; University of California; MFA, Textile Design, RISD. De La Rosa's work includes freelance design, research into digitally delivered electronic textiles, apparel design and experimental documentary film. He teaches at RISD, Philadelphia University and UMass/Dartmouth.

Anne Emlein: MFA, Textiles, RISD; BFA, Textiles, California College of Arts and Crafts. Emlein teaches machine knitting, textiles for apparel, and fine arts textile courses in the Textile Department at RISD. She has exhibited her knitwear, apparel and fine arts work throughout the country.

Henry Ferreira: is an associate professor of printmaking and has taught in the RISD Printmaking Department since 1980. His work is included in the collections of the Silvermine Guild Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum in Miami and the University of North Dakota. He holds a BFA from UMass/Dartmouth and an MFA from RISD.

Elaine Froehlich: AA, Visual Communication, the Art Institute of Pittsburgh; BFA, Graphic Design, RISD. Froehlich has been teaching at RISD|CE since 1996, and for degree students at RISD and Clark University. She is an information designer for Active Surface Design, specializing in interface design. She has been a visiting professor of graphic design at Roger Williams University.

Jane Hesser: MFA, RISD; MSW, Simmons College Graduate School of Social Work; Certificate in Collegiate Teaching, Sheridan Center at Brown University. Hesser teaches Two-Dimensional Design in the Division of Foundation Studies at RISD and has taught photography and digital photography at Brown University, Montserrat College of Art and Roger Williams University. Her work has been exhibited in a number of group and solo shows, including shows at Boston Center for the Arts, the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, The Proposition in New York and Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo. Hesser is also a psychotherapist practicing in Providence.

Jeff Hesser: BA, Humanities, University of Chicago; MFA, Sculpture, University at Buffalo; MFA, Figurative Studies, New York Academy of Art. Hesser is an instructor at RISD and has also taught at various art museums. Awards include the Walter Hancock Prize at the National Sculpture Contest and the Tallix Foundry Prize at the National Sculpture Society Annual Exhibition.

Stephen Ianiere: BA, English, Rhode Island College, A.A.S., Apparel Design, Fashion Institute of Technology. Ianiere has worked as a fashion designer in the apparel industry for the past 11 years.

Chunghie Lee: is a fiber artist, lecturer and freelance writer. She holds BFA and MFA degrees from Hongik University, Seoul, Korea, where she also taught part-time. She was a recipient of a Fulbright Exchange Scholarship in 1994. Her work has been exhibited in ten solo shows among others in Asia, the US, Canada and Europe and is included in the collections of Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Jack Lenor Larsen Foundation.

Amy Leidtke: BFA, Columbus College of Art and Design; MID, RISD. For 20 years, Leidtke has designed toys, activities and interactive play and learning environments for families and children. She specializes in facilitating community-based design workshops, leading participatory group brainstorming sessions, master and strategic planning, and idea visualization. In addition to RISD|CE, she is also a faculty member for the RISD graduate and undergraduate programs.

Zeke Leonard: BFA, Set Design, North Carolina School of the Arts; MFA, Furniture Design, RISD. Following a career as a theatrical set designer, Leonard shifted his focus to furniture objects. He makes one-of-a-kind furniture pieces, often out of found or reclaimed material, in his shop in Fall River, MA. He has taught at New York University and at RISD.

Gloria-Jean Masciarotte: PhD, Modern Media and Literature, Brown. Masciarotte is a cultural studies critic and scholar. She lectures and writes about film, television, and popular political culture. Currently at RISD, Masciarotte has taught at The Art Institute of Chicago and The University of Notre Dame; she has also written award-winning screenplays for documentary film.

Sharon McKain: BFA, Photography, RISD; MA, Printmaking, Rhode Island College. McKain has been designing and constructing quilts and quilted items for over 25 years. She has written The Great Noank Quilt Factory and How to Make Quilts & Quilted Things, and has shown her work extensively in the US.

Carlotta Danzante Miller: BFA, West Chester University; MFA, Visual Design/Textiles, UMass Dartmouth. Miller has been teaching for nearly 20 years at schools throughout the Northeast. She has worked for 6 years as a colorist for the textile industry and is currently working as a pattern designer (for space/flight suits) at David Clark Co., Inc. Her quilts, constructed of hand printed fabrics, and hand woven wall hangings have been exhibited throughout the country.

Cheryl Kirk Noll: BS, Education, Lebanon Valley College; BFA, Illustration, RISD. Noll is an award-winning children's book illustrator who has illustrated more than 20 books for clients including Scholastic and Harcourt. Her work focuses on historic and multicultural stories. She is the Advisor for the RISD|CE Children's Book Illustration Certificate Program, and a RISD|CE Teacher of Excellence.

Thomas Ockerse: MFA, Yale; BFA, Ohio State University. A professor of graphic design at RISD, Ockerse was head of RISD's Graduate Program in Graphic Design until 2004, department head from 1973 to 1993, and Dean of the Design Division from 1978 to 1988. He is a design consultant and a partner with The Humanity Initiative. A frequent lecturer on his work and design education at many institutions in the US, Europe, Asia and the Americas, he is known for his explorations with theories in semiotics, systems and concretism applied to design practice and education. His work has won many design awards and is represented in numerous expositions, anthologies and publications.

Natalia Onufrieva: MS, Applied Mathematics and Biophysics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Her multimedia experience ranges from animation and computer 3D modeling to programming and usability studies. Clients include Fidelity Investments, Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics, and Northern Light, Inc. Onufrieva has also taught web technology for the International Certificate Program for New Media, and is the webmaster for Brown University's Medical School.

David Paolino: BSET, Wentworth Institute of Technology; BFA, Illustration, and MA, Art Education, RISD. Paolino has practiced architectural, interior, electronic and mechanical design since 1967, has taught at Wentworth Institute for 20 years, and is the Advisor for RISD|CE's Interior Design Certificate Program.

James Pelto: BFA, Sculpture, University of the Arts; further studies in Industrial Design at RISD. In addition to working as a senior designer for Hasbro, Pelto owned an engineering/manufacturing firm, and for twenty-plus years developed prototypes and production components for global companies including Honda, Uvex, New Balance and Mattel. He later worked as a project manager defining product design criteria for high-performance integrated molding systems used by Bausch & Lomb and Georgia-Pacific. He is an active design consultant and teaches in the Industrial Design Department at RISD.

Anthony Piermarini: BArch, Cornell University; MArchII, Harvard University. Piermarini is a founding principal of Studio Luz Architects in Boston, a forward-thinking practice that strives to link social responsibility and sustainable construction practices with built material expression. He and his partner Hansy Better have received the Architectural Record Design Vanguard Award, the 2004 Young Architect's Award from the Architectural League of New York, and were recently nominated for the American Institute of Architects Young Architect's Award.

Sharon Pollock: BFA, Ceramics, University of Minnesota; BS, Art Education, SUNY/Buffalo; MFA, Ceramics, Swain School of Design at Boston University. Pollock has taught at area colleges, served as Director of the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, and lectured for the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. She is also an exhibiting studio artist.

Zenon Raabe: BA, English, Reed College; MFA, Fiction, Columbia University. Raabe has taught literature, writing, and English as a Second Language at RISD, Brown, and Roger Williams University, among other area schools. He's followed the music of Bob Dylan since an early encounter with "Nashville Skyline" and been a believer ever since.

Nora Rachel Rabins: BA, Smith College; MFA, Furniture Design, RISD; Collegiate Teaching Certificate, Brown University. Rabins' work has been exhibited in Milan, London, Northampton, Providence and Baltimore. She teaches at the Steel Yard and has assisted instructors at RISD and at Peter's Valley Craft Center. She received an Award of Excellence from RISD in 2008.

Douglass Scott: is the design director of print and video at WGBH, public television and radio in Boston, and teaches at RISD and Yale University. He has given over 140 lectures on the history of design and printing at various schools, universities, and symposia. Mr. Scott holds a BArch from University of Nebraska, an MFA from Yale University, and has studied design history with Louis Danziger at Harvard University.

Joseph Segal: BFA, Painting and Art History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; MFA, Textile Design, RISD. Segal has designed knitwear with Gary Graham and Norah Gaughan as well as developed his own collection of knits and prints. He received the Chancellors Award each year while attending UMass. Segal has taught machine knitting and has been a teacher's assistant for various courses at RISD.

Susan Sklarek: BA, French and Philosophy, University of California at Santa Barbara; MA, Textile Design, California State University; MFA, Sculpture, RISD. Sklarek's work includes freelance design for industry, woven illustrations for advertising, and sculptural fiber pieces for exhibition. She teaches in the Textile Design Department at RISD.

Donald Tarallo: BA, Studio Arts, Clark University; MFA, Graphic Design, RISD; studies at the Basel School of Design, Switzerland. Tarallo has been a graphic designer and photographer in Europe, Asia and the United States. Since 1998, he has maintained a practice focusing on identity design, web design and photography, and has developed new identity systems for Sotheby's, Icograda and the Hong Kong Design Institute. He has taught graphic design at Clark University, RISD, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Fraunhofer Institute's Digital Media, and the Samsung Art and Design Institute. His work has been awarded by the AIGA and has been published and exhibited internationally. Tarallo is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Bridgewater State College.

Millee Tibbs: BA, Hispanic Studies and Studio Art, Vassar College; MFA, RISD. Tibbs was the recipient of Vassar's Weitzal-Barber Art Travel prize, which enabled her to travel to the Hispanic Caribbean, where she was an active member of the Dominican artistic community. A recipient of the RISD Award of Excellence, her work has been featured in exhibitions locally and internationally. She currently teaches at RISD and CCRI.

Jason Travers: BFA, Painting, The Art Institute of Boston; MFA, Painting, American University. Travers teaches at Rhode Island College and Bridgewater State College and is represented by Lenore Gray Gallery in Providence. His work has recently been exhibited at the Lascano Gallery in Great Barrington, MA and the Wheeler Gallery in Providence. He had recent one-man exhibitions at Kimbal Jenkins Gallery in Concord, NH and Lenore Gray Gallery. In 2006, Travers was the recipient of a painting fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

Johan Van Aswegen: holds a degree from the Akademie der Bildenden Kunst in Munich. He has lectured at Durban Technicon, Durban, South Africa, and has taught enameling and jewelry courses at RISD. His work has been exhibited in Germany, South Africa, Austria, Spain, Luxembourg and the US.

Blue Wade: BA, Practice of Art and Interdisciplinary Studies, University of California/Berkeley; Studies in Maori Art and Culture, Massey University; MFA, Digital Media, RISD. Wade has taught art in primary and secondary schools and art centers for more than ten years. She has also taught rapid prototyping in the RISD degree programs. Her work has been exhibited in New York, California, Rhode Island and New Zealand.

Lauren Was: BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; MFA, RISD. Was began teaching at the University of Tennessee in the fall of 2004. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Chicago, Boston, Portland (OR), South Bend and Providence. She has received grants and commissions from The J. Stahl-Webber Fund, The Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship, The Dussket, Campbell, Yeats - Shaping the Future Award, and received an Award of Excellence from RISD in 2004.

Thomas Wedell: Adjunct Faculty, Department of Graphic Design, RISD. Wedell, along with his wife Nancy Skolos, are principals in Skolos + Wedell, an interdisciplinary design and photography studio. They have produced posters, corporate identities, books, exhibits, web sites, and videos for many high-technology clients. Skolos + Wedell's posters are included in the graphic design collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Library of Congress, the Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland, and Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Among Wedell's broadly recognized works is his co-design of the digital age postage stamp for the US Postal Service. He is the co-author of Type, Image, Message.

Franz Werner: Swiss Federal Diploma, Typography, and Postgraduate Degree, Graphic Design, University of Art and Design, Basel, Switzerland. Werner was a designer at Birkhauser AG, Schwabe & Co., and worked for the New Zealand Government Printer/Publisher. He started teaching at RISD in 1981 while maintaining a freelance practice in design, with such clients as International Paper and Intel. He has lectured and taught at the Osaka University of the Arts; Sozosha College of Design; University of Canterbury, New Zealand; University of Art and Design Basel/Switzerland, Fraunhofer Institute, University of Darmstadt, Germany; and he is the recipient of the PDN/Nikon award and the Faculty Development Grant, research in iconography.

Damian White, a sociologist who was born in London of Irish parents, has spent a great deal of time and money traveling the globe, exploring cities. He now lives in Providence and is an assistant professor in the Department of History, Philosophy and Social Science at RISD. He is the author of Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal and the co-editor of Technonatures. In his spare time, when he's not exploring cities, he reads graphic novels.

Robin Wiseman: BFA, Architecture, and BAR, RISD; MFA, Drawing, UMass/Dartmouth. Wiseman has taught at RISD, RIC and Brandeis University. Besides RISD|CE, he currently teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art. He has received a Church Award in teaching and the RISD|CE Teacher of Excellence Award, and his work has appeared in galleries and shows throughout New England.