Art + Design

Rachelle

Hill

Instructor, Printmaking

Art + Design

College of Arts and Sciences

r-hill4@neiu.edu

Courses Taught

Printmaking I

Research Interests

Rachelle Hill is Chicago-based artist with a background in printmaking and textiles. Her current work explores mapping as a way to investigate land and identity, creating a dialogue through the use of abstraction to contemplate how home and landscape condition the way we approach the world utilizing both print and installation.

Education

Master of Fine Arts, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois

Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, 91Porn, Chicago, Illinois

Selected Exhibitions

30 artists - 30 years Exhibition, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL Four

Rivers Print Biennial, Carbondale Community Arts, Carbondale, IL

3rd Midwest Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

The Lure of the Local, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL

In Residence, Lillstreet Art Center Gallery, Chicago, IL

Locality and Change, Bancroft Street Market Gallery, Omaha, NE Trace (Mapping Space),

University of North Texas, Denton, TX En Route: Natasha Kohli and Rachelle Hill

Exhibition, North Park University, Carlson Tower Gallery, Chicago, IL

MAPC Member Exhibition, University of Wyoming, Visual Arts Building Gallery, Laramie, Wyoming

Chicago Printers Guild Publishers Fair, Constellation, Chicago, IL

nitty-gritty (MFA group show), ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL

Paean to Place (MFA Thesis Exhibition), Annette and Jerry Johns Student Gallery, DeKalb, IL

9th International Printmaking Biennial, Miguel Torga Cultural Space, Douro, Portugal Exposed Strata, Bronze Grand Salon, Bally’s Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV

Existential Credit, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL

Four Rivers Print Biennial, Gallery 304, Carbondale, IL

r-hill4@neiu.edu

Office Hours

11:30 a.m.-noon Tuesday and Thursday

Main Campus

Sal

Moreno

Instructor, Art + Tech

Art + Design

College of Arts and Sciences

s-moreno5@neiu.edu

Expertise

Sal (he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist and performer experimenting with emerging technologies through new media, sound, creative coding, and extended reality (virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality).

Courses Taught

Art + Tech I

Interactive Arts: Web I

Interactive Arts: Web II

Research Interests

My practice focuses on engaging with the performative body in various extended reality (XR) spaces. My works are about the way that different aspects of the body can be utilized, modified, and extended to engage with our evolving relationship with technology. Motion-capture has become a core anchor that weaves together elements of performance, sound, and computer-generated visuals. By integrating motion-capture into live performance, I am able to play and interact with visuals and sounds generated by the body in real-time, creating an exchange that further bridges the physical and the digital realms.

Education

Master of Fine Arts in Art and Technology Studies - School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts - University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA.

Selected Exhibitions

BOLT Preview Show, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL.

Midway Art Fair, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL.

Relay Freedom, Co Prosperity, Chicago, IL.

FILE: Electronic Language International Festival, São Paulo, Brazil.

A New Digital Deal, Ars Electronica, Chicago, IL.

Additional Information

BOLT Artist-in-Residence, Chicago Artist Coalition.

Individual Artist Program Grantee, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, City of Chicago.

The Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award, New Media Caucus.

Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship Nominee

s-moreno5@neiu.edu

Office Hours

By appointment.

Main Campus

D Josh

Cook

Instructor, Graphic Design

Art + Design

College of Arts and Sciences

djcook6@neiu.edu

Courses Taught

Typography 1

Research Interests

Josh's research is based in design inquiry and exploration with an eye towards craft, ephemerality, distortion, chance operation, and the interplay of analog and digital modes of production. Recently Josh's research has been aimed at design pedagogy and the ways in which design education can extend beyond the classroom into liminal spaces wherein unforeseen opportunities for teaching and learning can take place. He hopes that through this research spaces, created through inquiry and community outreach, can be made wherein formal experiments can create unknown publics, all voices and designed works can be seen as valid, and a more authentic sense of communication can come into focus.

Education

Master of Design, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

djcook6@neiu.edu

Office Hours

By appointment

Main Campus

Leslie

Brown

Instructor

Art + Design

College of Arts and Sciences

l-brown26@neiu.edu

Expertise

History of Photography, 19th-Century Art, American Art, Modern and Contemporary Art, and Visual and
Material Culture, Landscape Studies

Courses Taught

History of Photography

Research Interests

Visual and material culture surrounding landscape experiences, how we are taught to see and photograph the landscape, corporate and vernacular photography, locative media and the landscape, text and image interactions, spiritualist and scientific allusions in art, history of exhibitions, curatorial work and museum education.

Education

Ph.D., History of Art & Architecture, Boston University, Boston, MA

M.A., Art History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

B.A., Art History major, Philosophy minor, Honors Program, SUNY College at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY

Selected Publications

Dissertation: "The Kodak Picture Spot Sign: American Photographic Viewing and Twentieth-Century Corporate Visual Culture."

Contributor: "FotoFika's All Stars," 2020allstars.org, MFA and undergraduate photography students, presented as homage to Mike Mandel’s iconic 1975 Baseball Photographic Trading Cards.

Essay in book: "Of Mind and Matter: John Chervinsky’s Photographic Still Lifes," in John Chervinsky: An Experiment in Perspective, self-published with support from Lightwork/Syracuse University.

Exhibition catalog: "'Siting the Specific': Greg Heins, Timothy O’Sullivan, Carrie Mae Weems, and Abelardo Morell," A Generous Medium: Photography at Wellesley, edited by Lisa Fischman, Lucy Flint, and Hannah Townsend, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

Essay in monograph: "Lingering in the In-Between," In Between Planting and Picking, photographs by Sandi Haber Fifield, Milano, Italy.

Essay and interview: "Witness: A Psychic Collaboration, Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman," Exposure: Journal of the Society for Photographic Education.

Selected Exhibitions

Curated exhibitions:

Cultivated: New Photography from New England, co-curated with Michelle Lamunière, Flash Forward Festival by Magenta Foundation, Boston, MA

Traces: Daniel Ranalli, Cape Work 1987-2007, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

Out of the Box: Photography Portfolios from the Permanent Collection, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA

Various exhibitions at the Photographic Resource Center: Syntax, Keeping Time, New England Survey (traveled to Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA), AD|AGENCY, Picture Show (AICA award), DOCUMENT, Group Portrait, Land/Mark: Locative

l-brown26@neiu.edu

Office Hours

By appointment

Main Campus

Nancy Lu

Rosenheim

Instructor, Graphic Design and Foundations

Art + Design

College of Arts and Sciences

n-rosenheim@neiu.edu

Expertise

Rosenheim facilitated public art projects in social justice for 12 years. She has been a college art professor for 16 years, with expertise in painting, drawing, sculpture, design and illustration.

Courses Taught

Image

Research Interests

Rosenheim fashions beasts out of features borrowed from animal, human and mythological creatures to embody environmental peril and the psyche. She explores the feminist assertion that the personal is political, proposing aging as both intimate experience and social stereotype. Rosenheim’s practice is steeped in material exploration. She uses labor-intensive practices to build form and embellish surfaces. Her mediums range from 14 karat gold to papier mâché, traditional paints and raw pigments as she responds to the expressive demands.

Education

Master of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

Selected Exhibitions

Swallow City, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

Driftless: Can’t See the Forest for the Trees, Fine Arts Center Gallery, 91Porn, Chicago, IL

Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

Vivarium, Slow Gallery, Chicago, IL

Do Ostriches Really Bury their Heads in the Sand?, Dickson Window Art Project Space, Sugar Grove, IL

The Art of Being Dangerous, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

Painting at Night Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY

Sculpture Invasion, Koehnline Museum, Des Plaines, IL

Collectively Shifting, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL

Additional Information

Artist Residency, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL

Center Program, Hyde park Art Center, Chicago, IL

Artist Residency: Atelier Neo Medici, Monflaquin, France

Director/Curator, The Bike Room Gallery, Chicago, IL

n-rosenheim@neiu.edu

91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

Office Hours

By appointment.

Main Campus

Todd

Irwin

Assistant Professor, Art + Technology

Art + Design

College of Arts and Sciences

t-irwin@neiu.edu

Expertise

Todd Irwin is a multidisciplinary artist with a strong background in fine art and commercial printmaking. His research is centered around printmaking as social practice.

Courses Taught

Digital Foundations

Art + Tech I

Form + Motion

Research Interests

Irwin’s projects range from object based inquiries, installation and performance based works, to publishing imprints, and long term collaborations. His practice is rooted in his experience working as a commercial printer for almost 20 years. Over time, Irwin has developed an art practice that utilizes printmaking as a method for artistic inquiry, with an interest in cultural anthropology and the role of artistic production in the service economy. Irwin has printed alongside notable artists in Chicago and New York as well as spent time working in community printshops such as Bushwick Print Lab (Brooklyn) and Chicago Printmakers Collaborative. Currently Irwin engages in both personal and client based projects though his studio Bitmap Press.

Education

Master of Fine Arts, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, 91Porn, Chicago, Illinois

Selected Exhibitions

International Print Center, New York, NY

Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL

Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH

Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA

Amy Li Projects, New York, NY

Deconstrukt, Brooklyn, NY

Library Exhibitions, Fayetteville, AR

Robert Blackburn 20/20 Gallery, New York, NY

Additional Information

Resident Designer, Chicago Printers Guild, Chicago, IL

How To Print Lunch, Southern Graphics Council International, Dallas, TX

Installation, The Other Art Fair, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL

An Ode to Cottage Cheese, 4th Annual Sandwich Summit, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY

Chicago Artist Coalition Guest Panel, Sonnenzimmer + Bitmap Press, Chicago, IL

t-irwin@neiu.edu

Office Hours

By appointment.

Main Campus

Damian

Loma

Instructor, Graphic Design

Art + Design

College of Arts and Sciences

d-loma@neiu.edu

Expertise

Damian Loma has taught Graphic Design at UIC and NEIU. He works on community driven design projects with institutions. He has worked with museums, schools, non-profits, and neighborhood organizations.

Courses Taught

Graphic Design I

Graphic Design Survey

Research Interests

Damian is a graphic designer who explores community focused design, primarily by studying gentrification of neighborhoods in Chicago and abroad. After witnessing changes in his neighborhood of Andersonville he began an ongoing exploration of what builds community and the socio-economic forces that drive gentrification. This has resulted in the publication of books, pamphlets, exhibits and other experimental design projects. He is continuing to explore this topic through game design, video/sound montage, and human-centered research.

Education

Master of Design, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art (Graphic Design), 91Porn, Chicago, IL

d-loma@neiu.edu

Office Hours

By appointment.

Main Campus

Lauren

Meranda

Associate Professor, Graphic Design

Art + Design

College of Arts and Sciences

l-meranda@neiu.edu

Expertise

Lauren Meranda is a multi-disciplinary designer specializing in work for cultural institutions, social activism, civic engagement, and public memory through experimental media, collaborative storytelling, and interactive design for physical spaces.

Courses Taught

Graphic Design 1

Typography 1

Interactive Design: Web 1

Contemporary Design

Special Topics in Graphic Design

Print Production

Senior Exhibition in Graphic Design

Design in Nature

Research Interests

As a designer and producer of visual culture, Lauren Meranda strives to find means by which to let public memory emerge from the stories of the people it is bound to define. The projects and exhibits she works on seek to empower the individual to participate in the storytelling process and expand public memory to include previously unheard voices. Her exhibits utilize site for the interpretation and continuation of historical narratives by linking research, education, and social engagement into an interactive designed experience. Lauren currently runs Studio Brazen and collaborates with the National Public Housing Museum.

Education

MDes, Graphic Design, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Bachelor of Fine Art, Visual Communication, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois

Selected Publications

/ Columbia College Career Center ⁄ April 2018

/ Featured Interview ⁄ April 2017

Selected Exhibitions

Chicago Design Through the Decades, Art on theMart, Chicago, Illinois

At Home: Ephemeral Monuments to Public Housing Residents, National Public Housing Museum, Chicago, Illinois

Looking Back: Chicago Design Milestones, Chicago Design Archive, Chicago, Illinois

History Lessons: Everyday Objects from Chicago, Public Housing National Public Housing Museum, Chicago, Illinois

Housing as a Human Right: Social Construction, National Public Housing Museum, Chicago, Illinois

Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Poster Exhibition, National Public Housing Museum, Chicago, Illinois

Public School: A Stockyard Institute Exhibition, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, Illinois

Back to the Sandbox: Art and Radical Pedagogy, Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland

Unfinished Business: 21st Century Home Economics, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Chicago, Illinois

Report to the Public: An Untold Story of the Conservative Vice Lords, Art In These Times, Chicago, Illinois

Unfinished Business: Art Education, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Chicago, Illinois

Redefining Democracy: Jane Addams and the Hull-House Settlement, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Chicago, Illinois

l-meranda@neiu.edu

Room FA 252B
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

Office Hours

Main Campus

Juan

Pablo

Ruiz

Instructor, Drawing and Painting

Art + Design

College of Arts and Sciences

jp-altamirano@neiu.edu

Expertise

Juan Pablo Ruiz is a draftsman and painter born in Guadalajara, Mexico and raised in Chicago. He has an almost obsessive interest in the materials and techniques in traditional representational drawing and painting.

Courses Taught

Studio Experiences: Painting

Drawing II

Research Interests

Juan Pablo’s paintings are informed by his interest in narrative archetypes; the portrayal of violence and politics in the visual arts; Ancient history and philosophy; Renaissance and Enlightenment political thought; and the Uncanny & Absurd in contemporary society.

Education

Master of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Bachelor of Art, 91Porn, Chicago, IL

Bachelor of History, 91Porn, Chicago, IL

Selected Exhibitions

City on Fire: Chicago 1871, permanent exhibition, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL

Bridgeport Art Center’s 9th Annual Juried Art Competition, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL

The Journey, solo exhibition, The Gallery @ A+C Architects, Skokie, IL

Bridgeport Art Center’s Sixth Annual Juried Art Competition, Chicago, IL

2018 National Wet Paint MFA Biennial, Zhao B Art Center, Chicago, IL

The Persistence of Memory, group show, 33 Orchard Gallery, New York, NY

Additional Information

The Burning City, painting commissioned by the Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL

Fine Arts Venture Fund Grant, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Justine Cretella Memorial Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Grad Grant Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

International Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

MFA Merit Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

jp-altamirano@neiu.edu

Room FA 252
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

Office Hours

By appointment.

Main Campus

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