Art

About the Department

The Hunter College art department offers two distinguished master’s programs, an MA in art history and an MFA in creative art. The department boasts world renowned faculty in art history and studio art.

Hunter is situated within walking distance of a range of resources unsurpassed anywhere for the study of art history: outstanding museums, galleries and specialized research libraries. The Art History - MA , granted by Hunter College since 1952, is a comprehensive program of study intended to give the student a broad background in the history of art as well as an in-depth concentration in a particular area. It leads to enrollment in PhD programs throughout the country and serves as a terminal degree for professional work in museums, galleries, arts organizations and art publishing.

In New York, as nowhere else, the Creative Art - MFA student has access to the changing ideas and forms of contemporary art. This is crucial to the achievement of the goal of the MFA program: to develop professional artists capable of continued growth once they leave the relatively structured university environment. The program is designed to offer broad training for the artist in the development of critical and analytical visual thinking as it relates to their work. Students are encouraged to develop their own art through constant peer contact in the studios, individual work with faculty tutors, critical seminars focusing on student work, and classes in the theory and history of art. Electives in a range of studio practices broaden student experience and are also required. In addition, many artists, curators, critics and historians are invited to meet with students.

Facilities

The department functions in two main Manhattan locations, the main campus at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue and the MFA Studio Building at 450 West 41st Street. The main campus at 68th Street houses the administration, the Leubsdorf Art Gallery, and the new Zabar Art Library with extensive databases including Artstor, a digital source of over one million images in the arts and humanities. It also houses fully equipped workshops on the 11th floor in photography, graphics (printmaking), metal, wood and plaster, as well as a computer lab and painting and drawing studios. The basement of Thomas Hunter Hall, the adjacent building, houses the clay workshop.

The MFA Building is a large, unique facility that plays a significant role in the life of the college and, indeed, the city as a whole. It includes approximately 140 studios, averaging 300 square feet in size, and the 11,000 square foot Time Square Gallery. The building houses a number of workshops and labs including photography, wood, metal, printmaking and ceramics studios, as well as digital labs.

Galleries

The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, located at the main campus, houses professionally organized exhibits that support the educational programs of the Art Department of Hunter College.

The Times Square Gallery at 450 West 41st Street is a 11,000-sq. ft. space renovated by graduate students and faculty.

Students in both programs have opportunities to make curatorial and research contributions to shows mounted at the Hunter College Galleries.

Programs and Courses

Programs and Courses in Art

Administration and Faculty

Department Office:

11054 North
(212) 772-4995
email: art@hunter.cuny.edu
Website: www.hunter.cuny.edu/art/

Chair:

Thomas Weaver
11054 North
(212) 772-5051
hweaver@hunter.cuny.edu

Graduate Advisers:

Joel Carreiro, Studio Art
11022 North
(212) 772-5052/5053
joelcarreiro@gmail.com

Cynthia Hahn, Art History
11092 North
(212) 772-5052/5053
gradarthistory@hunter.cuny.edu

Faculty

Studio

Andrea Blum, Professor; MFA, Art Institute of Chicago

Joel Carreiro, Professor and MFA Program Director; MFA, Hunter

Susan Crile, Professor; BA, Bennington

Lisa Corinne Davis, Associate Professor; MFA, Hunter

Constance De Jong, Distinguished Lecturer; MFA, Ohio State

Gabriele Evertz, Associate Professor; MFA, Hunter

Valerie Jaudon, Professor; St. Martins School of Art, London

Reiner Leist, Associate Professor; MFA, School of Visual Arts

Jeffrey Mongrain, Professor; MFA, Southern Illinois

Anthony Panzera, Professor; MFA, Southern Illinois

Paul Ramirez Jonas, Assistant Professor; MFA, Rhode Island School of Design

Juan Sánchez, Professor; MFA, Rutgers

Robert Swain, Professor; BA, American

Nari Ward, Professor; MFA, Brooklyn

Thomas Weaver, Professor and Department Chair, Executive Director, Hunter Galleries; MFA, Hunter

Brian Wood, Associate Professor; MA, Hunter

Sanford Wurmfeld, Phyllis and Joseph Caroff Professor of Art; BA, Dartmouth

History and Criticism

William Agee, Kossak Distinguished Professor; MA, Yale; 20th-century American Art, Theory and Criticism

Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor and Art History Deputy Chair; PhD, NYU; 20th-century Art

Hendrik W. Dey, Assistant Professor; PhD, Michigan, Ancient Art, Architecture, and Archaeology

Cynthia Hahn, Professor; Medieval Art, PhD, Johns Hopkins

Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Associate Professor; PhD, New Mexico, History of Photography

Joachim Pissarro, Bershad Professor of Art History & Director of Hunter Galleries; PhD, Texas, 19^th Century to Contemporary Art, Museum Studies

Elinor Richter, Associate Professor; PhD, Columbia; Renaissance Art

Katy Siegel, Associate Professor; PhD, Texas (Austin); Contemporary Art History and Criticism

Richard Stapleford, Professor; PhD, NYU; History of Architecture; Late Antique-Early Medieval Art; Renaissance Art

Tara Zanardi, Assistant Professor; PhD, Virginia; 18^th and 19^th Century Art, Spanish and Colonial Art