Professor
CA 2034
910.962.7960
hudsonn@uncw.edu
Nick is a Classical Archaeologist who has worked at sites in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Cyprus, Turkey, and Greece. He is a specialist of Roman-period pottery in the eastern Mediterranean. His research concerns social change and the transformation of the Classical World (the civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome - ca 500 BC - AD 250) into the post-Classical World (ca AD 300-650). He is especially interested in the daily lives of the Roman Empire, in particular with relation to food culture. He is currently publishing archaeological pottery from Molyvoti in Thrace, the island of Samothrace, and the Athenian Agora.
Nick was awarded the Discere Aude Award from the UNCW Center for Teaching Excellence in 2015 and UNCW’s Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2017.
Assistant Professor
CAB 2038
910.962.2743
matyczyke@uncw.edu
Ewa Matyczyk is a historian of the long 20th century specializing in a global approach to Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture. Her research contributes to the broadening of art historical discourse by de-centering the discipline’s narratives and foregrounding underrepresented voices.
Ewa earned her PhD in the History of Art and Architecture from Boston University. Her research interests include issues of memory, public space, community-building, and the relationships between public art, the built environment, and their intersections with theories of everyday life. Her book project, Intervention, Memory, and Community: Public Art and Architecture in Warsaw Since 1970 examines a series of exhibitions, performative interventions, monuments, and public art initiatives. The book traces the political, social, and cultural transformations of the last five decades in Warsaw and considers how such changes are represented, omitted, and problematized in the urban landscape. In 2021-2022 this project was supported by the Humanities+Urbanism+Design Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania. Ewa is grateful to have also received research support from various other entities, including the Kościuszko Foundation and the Boston University Center for the Humanities.
As an educator, she is invested in a pedagogy of care that foregrounds the complementary and interwoven values of community, generosity, and gratitude. At UNCW, she is committed to teaching and developing interdisciplinary courses that provide students with active-learning opportunities both across campus and beyond.
Associate Professor
BEAR 109
910.962.3413
moorek@uncw.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. University of Washington, Art History
M.A. Arizona State University, Art History
B..A. Arizona State University
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
19th-Century British Lithography
Learning Communities
History of Prints and Photography
Assistant Professor
CAB 2036
910.962.4118
upshawa@uncw.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., The University of Maryland, College Park
MA, The Florida State University
BA, The University of Georgia
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Early Modern Visual and Material Culture
Ephemera
Theories of Spectacle
Leonardo da Vinci Studies
Gender Studies
Lecturer
Friday Annex 161
910.962.3401
bournes@uncw.edu
I am a practicing artist and educator whose career has led me to take on a variety of roles. While experimenting with and creating art in the mediums of printmaking, ceramics, and digital art, I also work as a graphic designer, prop-maker, and art director for the television and film industry. Bringing this practical work experience to the classroom is an important component of my teaching philosophy.
In addition to film work and teaching at UNCW, I also have the unique opportunity to organize and participate in UNCW’s Biennial Printfest Steamroller Woodblock festival. These varied areas of interest all end up coming together to have both exciting and surprising influences on each other.
Throughout my academic and artistic career, I have been awarded several scholarships, grants, and residencies, including a study abroad printmaking intensive in Corciano, Italy. I have participated in several group shows and solo exhibitions on local, national, and international levels. Most recently, my graphic design work and prop creation can be seen on the Warner Brothers film, “Zoey 101”, the Netflix series “Outer Banks (OBX)”, and the upcoming Amazon series, “The Runarounds”.
Lecturer
Friday Annex 163
910.962.3456
creechm@uncw.edu
EDUCATION:
MFA Arizona State University
BFA University of Nebraska Lincoln
BS University of Nebraska Lincoln
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Intersections of textiles and technology
Craft and digital technology
Graphic design
Taxidermy
Roadkill
Collaboration
Website:
https://madisoncreech.com/
https://freshasfruit.com/
Madison Creech is a Lecturer of Art & Art History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She holds an MFA in fibers from Arizona State University and a BFA and BS in textile, merchandising, and fashion design from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has served as faculty associate at Arizona State University, instructing surface design and served as Visiting Assistant Professor and the Brown Visiting Teacher-Scholar at Stetson University teaching digital art and textile art courses. Creech was the 2018-19 Fountainhead Fellow in the Department of Craft and Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Creech has held residencies at Praxis Fiber Digital Weaving Lab in Cleveland, Ohio, Metro Community College Prototype Lab in Omaha, Nebraska, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in Texas, and Techshop in Chandler, Arizona. Her work has been widely exhibited across the country, and she has been the recipient of several distinguished awards, including the Juror's Award from the ARC Gallery’s Frayed exhibition in Chicago, IL, the Rudy Turk Award for History in American Craft from ASU, and the Mary Beason Bishop and Francis Sumner Merit Scholarship from the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. She co-founded Fresh As Fruit Gallery in DeLand, FL, and currently co-runs Fried Fruit Art Gallery in the Cargo District in Wilmington, NC.
Lecturer
Cultural Arts Building 2014B
910.962.2612
drewm@uncw.edu
EDUCATION:
BA Art and Art History, New College of Florida
MFA Painting, Indiana University Bloomington
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Plein air painting
Psychology of perception
Religious experience
Connections between sports and art
I make nature paintings – some outside, in response to an experience of being in a landscape at a particular moment; some in the studio, which become more elaborate meditations on the way the earth lives through memory and imagination. Like the swampy Floridian landscape where I grew up, my paintings are places where volatile organic systems crisscross with science, storytelling, and magical thinking. I also work in ceramics and maintain a near-constant drawing habit.
In the classroom, my students and I engage in a rigorous process of calibrating our vision to the world around us, like throwing darts at a moving target. In honing the craft of drawing, we’re learning to see and respond to the world in an ever truer, freer, more fully conscious and open-minded way.
Meris Drew’s work has been shown throughout the US, including in recent solo shows at Stellarhighway (New York) and Bottom Feeder Books (Pittsburgh). Recent group shows include those with Platform x David Zwirner (online), Visionary Projects x New Collectors Gallery (New York), Brew House Association (Pittsburgh) and The Lodge (Los Angeles). In 2020 she co-founded Racecar Factory, an exhibition space in Indianapolis. She is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Merisdrew.com
Assistant Professor
Friday Annex 162
910.962.0571
feliceg@uncw.edu
Gene A. Felice II bridges his creative practice across art, science, education and design, developing a sustainable network of innovation, living systems, and emerging technologies. His hybrid practice grows at the intersection of nature and technology, developing coactive systems as arts science research. His interactive work uses input sources from bio / eco sensors, cameras and touch screens, feeding output to motors, LED’s, video projectors and more. These interdependent systems of hardware and software translate research into interactive, multi-sensory puzzles. Video and animated imagery displayed via projection mapping transform surfaces into three-dimensional storytelling systems. Throughout his creative process, emerging technologies such as 3D printing, laser cutting & CNC milling hybridize with analog methods such as wood fabrication, lost wax bronze casting, ceramics, glass casting and more. While keeping site specific histories in mind, he blends these varied passions into a framework of creative collaboration.
Gene A. Felice II is an assistant professor in Digital / Studio Art within the department of Art & Art History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington where he is developing the Coaction Lab for interdisciplinary collaboration. His work has been featured nationally at the Cameron Art Museum, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, internationally at Sussex University in the UK, at ISEA Hong Kong and as a 2018 American Arts Incubator / State Dept. funded exchange artist based in Alexandria Egypt.
EDUCATION:
M.F.A. in Digital Art & New Media, The University of California Santa Cruz
B.F.A. in Art & Technology, The Ohio State University
portfolio website: www.genefelice.com
lab website: www.coactionlab.org
Current projects:
www.flowilm.com
www.algaesociety.org
Professor
CAB 2010
910.962.7962
furstd@uncw.edu
EDUCATION:
M.F.A. Printmaking, University of Iowa
M.A. Printmaking, University of Iowa
B.A. Studio Art, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Iowa
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Mezzotint
Digital Photopolymer Printmaking
Lithography
VITA:
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PORTFOLIO:
donaldfust.com
Associate Professor
CAB 2046
910.962.3416
irvinen@uncw.edu
EDUCATION:
M.P.D. Graphic Design, NC State University College of Design
B.F.A. Studio Art, UNC Chapel Hill
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Graphic Design History
Material Culture
Artist books
Ned Irvine is a graphic designer whose current practice assists artists and cultural clients with printed and digital communications. Prior to teaching, Irvine worked in corporate communications, web design and software development for financial, educational, and cultural clients. He has also served as visiting graphic design faculty at NC State's College of Design from 2000-03.
Since coming to UNCW, Irvine has worked with UNCW faculty by designing the inaugural issues of the journal Studies in American Naturalism, as well as book covers and catalogs for colleagues. He also works extensively with the Cameron Art Museum, assisting with graphic identity, special projects and numerous publications. He has curated exhibitions including an exhibition for CAM entitled "Art from Flour: Barrel to Bag", which won the SECAC Award for Outstanding Exhibition and Catalogue of Historical Materials in 2017.
At UNCW, he has served as founding coordinator for the digital arts program and teaches courses in graphic design and artist bookmaking. His artistic practice investigates personal and contemporary cultural issues through artist bookmaking.
Associate Professor
CAB 2008
910.962.7958
johnsoncej@uncw.edu
Courtney Johnson
Associate Professor
Courtney Johnson specializes in alternative process and experimental photography and is one of the leading scholars on the photographic cliché-verre technique. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions in New York, Miami, San Francisco, Richmond, Colombia, and Germany and is in numerous permanent collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; University of Central Florida; Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale; and FOTOMUSEO, Bogotá. Johnson earned her BFA from New York University and her MFA from the University of Miami. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
www.courtneyjohnson.net
Associate Professor
CAB 2006
910.962.3444
lindberga@uncw.edu
EDUCATION:
M.F.A., Washington University, St. Louis, MO
M.A., Art Education, University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana, IL
B..F.A., Painting, University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana, IL.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Painting
Drawing
Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Anne Lindberg is a painter, primarily working with oils, who also works in drawing, gouache, and installation. Generally working within a traditional painting structure, Anne is interested in the language of figuration and her subject matter often resides within the art historical genre of still life. She is interested in the exuberant physicality and expressive potential of painting, its past, and its enduring place in contemporary visual art.
Anne has exhibited throughout the Midwest including at the University of Iowa's Museum of Natural History and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in St. Louis. Other recent exhibitions include the Des Lee Gallery in St. Louis, MO, Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, OH, and the McNamee Gallery at Saint Louis University, MO. Lindberg received a B.F.A. degree in painting and an M.A. in art education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She then went on to receive an M.F.A. in visual art from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Previously, she was an adjunct instructor at Saint Louis University and St. Louis Community College Meramec.
Professor
CAB 1008
910.962.3700
steeles@uncw.edu
EDUCATION:
M.F.A. Sculpture, University of Georgia
Core Fellow, Penland School of Craft
B.F.A. Studio Art, University of South Carolina
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Site-specific Installation
Blacksmithing/Metal Fabrication
Papermaking
Fiber Construction
Andi Steele’s work explores the idea of space, personal and shared, through site-specific installations and interactive experiences. Her newest research is focused on creating wearable sculpture that physically connects multiple people; bringing people together is a world full of divisiveness. She also continues to explore individual spatial and environmental perceptions through large scale monofilament installations.
Steele exhibits her work nationally. Her recent work, Radiare, is on exhibit at the Nashville International Airport through January 2022. Selected solo exhibitions include Ignorance Is Bliss, Under Pressure: The Performance Exhibition, Visual Art Exchange (NC), Amalgamation, Eleanor D. Wilson Museum (VA), Emanate, Brossman Gallery (PA), and Interspace, City Gallery, Chastain Arts Center (GA). Selected group shows include Space Invaders, Stedman Gallery (NJ), Artship Olympia (PA), Some Abstraction Required, Spartanburg Art Museum (SC), ARTFields (SC), and ArtPrize (MI).
Click link to see the installation of Radiare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DD14sUUnrY
Associate Professor
CAB 1010
910.962.3967
tollp@uncw.edu
EDUCATION:
M.F.A. East Carolina University
B..A. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Painting, Drawing and Collage
Co-founder, Acme Art Studio
Co-founder, No Boundaries Art Colony
Pamela Wallace Toll graduated with a degree in English and Art from the University of NC at Chapel Hill. She earned an MFA in Painting from East Carolina University.
In 1991 Toll co-founded Acme Art Studios, a workplace for artists, which also hosts art events and exhibitions.
After a profound painting experience at a painting colony in former monastery, St. Joakim Osogovoski, Macedonia, Ms Toll and two partners established the No Boundaries International Art Colony whose mission is to lay aside national boundaries in favor of cross-cultural exchange. Since 1998, hundreds of artists from every continent in the world except Antarctica have made art on Bald Head Island. No Boundaries sponsors educational outreach, and widely exhibits paintings made during the project. UNCW art students have been interning for the program since 2002. In 2021 Toll curated Points in Common, an exhibition of works by 35 international artists from No Boundaries International Art Colony and new works by 35 North American alumni.
Toll led two Study Abroad trips; to Art Pointe Gumno, Macedonia and Burren College of Art, Ireland. She also led students in painting a mural at the Good Shepherd Center in Wilmington in 2017.
Her work is represented in various collections including Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples, Italy, Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul,Turkey, Art Pointe Gumno, St. Joakim Osgovoski and Osten Biennial of Drawing in Macedonia, Simposio Internacional de Artistas en Noja, Spain, Bijarica Art in Montenegro, Cromarty Art and Science Residency, Cromarty, Scotland, Cameron Art Museum, and Bald Head Island Corporation in NC. in 2019 Toll advised the remodeling of the B’Nai Temple sanctuary and was asked to design stained glass doors for the Ark to transition between 10 stained glass windows designed in 2014.
Recent exhibitions include solo exhibition, Landscape and Memory 2019 at Wilma Daniels Gallery in Wilmington and group exhibitions, Acting Out, Women’s Caucus Juried Exhibition, Wilma Daniels Gallery 2022, Nature and Art, Art Point Gumno International Art Colony Exhibition, Sloeshtica, Macedonia 2022, Water; Acme Art Studios 2022, 5th Edition of Survival Art Symposium and exhibition at Cassoria Art Museum, Naples, Italy 2021 and Pepper, Group Invitational, Macedonian and US artists, Gallery MC, NY, NY 2019
Chair & Professor
CAB 1048
910.962.2922
wilcoxa@uncw.edu
EDUCATION:
M.F.A. Cranbrook Academy of Art
M.A. University of North Carolina Greensboro
B.A. University of North Carolina Greensboro
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Direct Response criticism and the art of use
Gauging value outside the market
Studio pedagogy
Fundamentally, Aaron Wilcox is more interested in becoming than being. Actions are ripe with promise. Where can this lead? What questions does this raise? This approach applies to studio practice and pedagogy equally. In his own studio, the work is residue; what is left after active practice. In the classroom studio, that same practice creates potential. As students work with clay for the first time, that energy and frustration is a foundation. It generates momentum towards seemingly limitless possibilities. Along these lines, Mr. Wilcox spends significant time considering the space between idea and product. In translation, something magical happens, something unexpected. And it is here that all studio practice begins anew.
Art & Art History Department Administrator
CAB 1048
910.962.3440
akandem@uncw.edu
Gallery Director
CA 1065A
910.962.3031
mckoykm@uncw.edu
EDUCATION:
B.A., Studio Art, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Keltsey McKoy is the Gallery Director in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She operates the CAB Art Gallery, along with the Mezzanine Gallery on UNCW’s campus. She is also Secretary of the No Boundaries International Art Colony Board of Directors.
McKoy has worked in various art gallery settings around North Carolina and New York City, ranging from galleries specializing in contemporary and modern artworks to photojournalism and fashion photography. She received her B.A. in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2014. Her work history also includes working for Cape Fear Community College’s Wilma W. Daniel’s Art Gallery and non-profit organizations.