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Meet the faculty + staff

We are seven full-time, tenure and tenure-track faculty, each a highly skilled design and creative professional, with knack and know-how spanning to every corner of the industry—from visual design, typography, branding, and illustration, to UX, motion, EGD, and packaging. Beyond our professional chops, we are tireless in our students’ pursuit of a prestigious, challenging, and engaging educational experience. We ground our instruction in the iterative process and basics of strong design principles and solid typography, and then push our students to be more experimental, more daring in their work.

Our ranks also boast another dozen adjunct instructors, hand-picked and curated to fit the vision we have for our program. They partner with us to supplement and enhance the department, and each bring their own expertise to an already robust roster. While the faculty put in a lot of face time with design students, behind the scenes, the program is kept humming like a well-oiled machine by a team of rock stars.

Full-time Faculty

Paula Airth
Paula Airth
Associate Professor
John Gialanella
John Gialanella
Associate Professor/Chair
Austin Shaw
Austin Shaw
Associate Professor
Cristina de Almeida
Cristina de Almeida
Professor
Kacey Morrow
Kacey Morrow
Professor
Alex Egner
Alex Egner
Associate Professor
Brittany Schade
Brittany Schade
Associate Professor
Brittany Schade and Kacey Morrow
faculty
John Gialanella, Brittany Schade, and Paula Airth
Alex Egner bitmapped head graphic
faculty and 2024 BFA
John Gialanella and letterpress
Adjunct Faculty

Jes Bonin
Tempestt Carreon
Andrea Heimer
Cameron Jennings
Paul Kearsley
Bradley Lockhart
Jonny McConnell
Phoebe Wahl
Amy Wisegarver

Work with us

Staff

John Gialanella / Chair

Carrie Cooper / Administrative Services Manager

Sheila Pennell / Program Coordinator

Andrea Heimer / Illustration Coordinator

Abe Olson / Instructional Technician