Art - Faculty
Christina Cogdell
Assistant Professor of Art
B.A., University of Texas
M.A., University of Notre Dame
Ph.D., University of Texas
Assistant Professor of Art History Christina Cogdell joined CSF in 2004. She specializes in the history of modern art, architecture and design, primarily North American and European, and she enjoys studying and teaching created works in relation to the history ideas - social, political, and scientific.
She is author of Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), and is co-editor of a forthcoming anthology Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s (Ohio University Press, 2006). She has published articles in the journals American Quarterly and Design Issues, and has received numerous fellowships, including awards from the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach, the Georgia O'Keeffe Center for the Study of American Modernism in Santa Fe, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, and the University of Texas at Austin. She has given papers and invited lectures regularly at the American Studies Association and College Art Association meetings, as well as at Princeton and Columbia Universities.
She is currently in the process of curating an exhibition on design and eugenics in the 1930s - both in the U.S. and Europe - for the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian Museum.
Allison Colborne
Associate Professor and Special Collections Librarian
B.F.A., University of Alberta
M.A., Concordia University
M.L.I.S., McGill University
Associate Professor and Art Librarian - Special Collections, Allison Colborne directs the Visual Arts Center's two libraries: The Chase Art History Library and the Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Library.
Colborne has extensive experience working in museums, archives and libraries and has specialized in art information and art libraries management since 1992. Prior to the College of Santa Fe, Allison held positions at the University of Michigan's Media Union Library, University of Manitoba's Architecture/Fine Arts Library, National Achives of Canada and the Canadian Center for Architecture.
Allison is a practicing artist and has exhibited her monotypes and handbuilt ceramic works in Santa Fe, Taos and Abiquiu galleries.
Robert Denison
Assistant Professor
A.B., Harvard College
M.B.A., Harvard Business School
Bob Denison teaches digital imaging. His work is photo based combining film, the digital darkroom, alternative processes and digital printing. He continues to serve as a trustee of PS1-MOMA in NY, The California Institute of the Arts in LA, and The Idyllwild Arts Academy in Idyllwild, CA. As the former President and Chairman of the Board of the Santa Fe Institute, Bob has been able to pursue his interests in the intersection of art and science. Having started the Andy Warhol Foundation with Warhol, Bob is committed to the support of the arts and young artists. He and his wife Tina, a painter and teacher as CSF, have started and supported the Teen College initiative at CSF which has brought hundreds of local high school students into the college to make art under the supervision of our college students.
James Enyeart
Professor Emeritus
B.F.A., Kansas City Art Institute
M.F.A., University of Kansas
Professor Emeritus James L. Enyeart served as Director of George Eastman House: International Museum of Photography and Moving Images in Rochester, New York from 1989 to 1995. Previously, he served as Director of the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona from 1977 to 1989. In the mid-1970s he was Director of the Friends of Photography and from 1968 to 1976 was Curator of Photography at the University of Kansas. He has also held professorships in conjunction with his university appointments.
Mr. Enyeart has received numerous international awards and honors including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, the Josef Sudek Medal from Czechoslovakia, the Photographic Society of Japan Achievement Award, and the Photokina Obelisk from Cologne.
He is the author of a number of books published by Knopf, Little Brown, Inc., Schermer/Mozel, Arena Editions, and a number of smaller presses. The only educator to be included in American Photo magazine's "Top 100 People in Photography, 1998," Mr. Enyeart is regarded as one of the nation's foremost figures in the field today. In addition to his teaching duties, Mr. Enyeart directs the National Millennium Project, a photography and writing project documenting the social and spiritual nature of America at the turn of the century. He is also a photographer with his work collected by the National Museum of American Arts, the George Eastman House, the Bibliothéque Nationale in Paris, the Sheldon Memorial Gallery, and other museums and private collections.
A photographer, scholar, and museum professional, Mr. Enyeart holds B.F.A. and M.F.A. Degrees.
Rick Fisher
Professor of Art
B.A., Trinity University
M.A.,University of New Mexico
M.F.A., School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Tufts University
Professor Rick Fisher is head of the Art Department's sculpture program and the Director of its annual Sculpture Project, which features installations on campus and in the CSF Fine Arts Gallery. He has received grants from the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities, has shown his work nationally in university, museum and commercial galleries, and has executed over twenty permanent, monumental-scale public sculptures.
Steve Fitch
Assistant Professor of Art
B.A., University of California
M.A., University of New Mexico
Associate Professor Steve Fitch has exhibited his photographs nationally and internationally and his work is included in over thirty public collections including the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of Art, and the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House.
He has also received many awards including three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and the Eliot Porter Fellowship.
Fitch works frequently in neon, makes small drawings with pen and ink and concentrates his photography on American vernacular subjects, primarily in the western United States. Currently, he has a traveling exhibition of his photographs organized in conjunction with the publication of his last book, Gone: Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains. Three previous books of his photographs include Diesels and Dinosaurs: Photographs from the American Highway, Marks in Place: Contemporary Photographs of Rock Art, and Vintage Neon.
Chris Nail
Adjunct Professor / Technician
B.F.A., College of Santa Fe
Chris has over eight years experience as a museum educator, having developed programs for institutions such as SITE Santa Fe and the Art Museum of Western Virginia.
He has also works as an independent educational consultant for arts organizations. His current bodies of work focus on formal examinations of utilitarian structures and portraits of small agricultural communities in south central and south eastern Kansas.
Ana Nieves
Assistant Professor of Art History
B.A., Lynchburg College
M.A., Virginia Commonwealth University
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Assistant Professor Ana Nieves was born and raised in Lima, Peru, and has been with the Art Department at CSF since 2003. She specializes in art of the ancient Andes and offers courses in Pre-Columbian art as well as in modern and contemporary art of Latin America.
She has received many awards and fellowships including the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, the M.K. Hage Endowed Fellowship in Fine Arts and the University of Texas Continuing Fellowship. She has presented her research on Nasca ceramic iconography and on the rock art and geoglyphs (Nasca Lines) of the south coast of Peru at national and international conferences.
Most recently, she has published an article based on her dissertation research on the petroglyphs of the Nasca Valley in Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology (co-published by the University of Calgary Press and the University of New Mexico Press, 2006).
Ron Picco
Professor of Art
B.A. Theology, St. Mary's Seminary, Techny, IL
B.F.A., Minneapolis College of Art and Design
M.F.A., Rochester Institute of Technology
Post graduate studies: Art History, University of Denver
Professor of Art Ron Picco has exhibited his work internationally and is included in several museum collections. Picco is a frequent lecturer on symbology and mythology in the arts.
He works in painting, drawing and printmaking inspired by nature, space and spirituality.
Kim Russo
Chair of the Art Department
B.F.A. Tyler School of Art
M.F.A. Indiana University
Kim Russo served as Associate Professor and Chair of the Art and Art History department at Whittier College near Los Angeles for 12 years before accepting the position of Chair of the Art Department at the College of Santa Fe in July, 2005.
While in Los Angeles, Kim was also the Director and Curator of Greenleaf Gallery, Whittier College's fine arts exhibition space, and served for five years as a public orientation educator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
Kim's recent work includes a multi-media, collaborative installation project with incarcerated teenage girls (The Seventh Daughter) and delicate watercolor paintings of a woman and her companion blow-up doll (The Companion Series). Her work has been exhibited nationally. She has received a regional artist grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and an artist residency fellowship from Americans for the Arts in collaboration with the Irish Arts Council.
Daniel Reeves
Professor, Marion Endowed Chair
B.S., A.S. Ithaca College
Born in Washington D.C., Daniel Reeves lives in the U.S. and France. From 1970 onwards, he has worked in sculpture, poetry, film and video. His works are included in numerous international collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Stedelijk, Amsterdam; and, the San Francisco Museum of Art.
He has received national and international prizes including three Emmy Awards for Smothering Dreams (1981), a film which deals with the myths and realities of war and his own personal experiences in Viet Nam. Reeves was in the Marine Corps from 1965 until 1969 and was awarded the Silver Star Medal for gallantry in action and the Purple Heart Medal for wounds suffered during the Tet Offensive of 1968. His video work Obsessive Becoming, a visionary meditation on the secrets of family history and the psychic legacy of the 20th century, has won many awards including the second prize at the Locarno Film Festival.
In 1982 Reeves began working on the development of video poetics exploring personal, political and metaphysical themes. One of these works, Sabda (1985) won the blue ribbon at the American Film Festival in New York and was included in the Whitney Biennial and Documenta 7 in Kassel. Since 1988 he has concentrated on multi-media sculpture, digital prints and video installations. The mixed media work, Eingang, premiered at the High Museum, Atlanta in 1990 and was selected for inclusion in the Tate Gallery's "New North" touring exhibition that same year.
Reeves' most ambitious installation project, The Well of Patience was first installed at the Capp Street Project in San Francisco and received enthusiastic reviews from local and international critics both there and again when it was reinstalled during Glasgow's "European City of Culture" year.
A graduate of cinema studies and anthropology from Ithaca College in New York, Reeves has been a Guggenheim Fellow in Video Art, and in 1995 he was awarded the John D. Rockefeller Intercultural Fellowship in Media Arts. He has received four fellowship awards from the National Endowment for the Arts including the US-Japan fellowship in 1991. Along with his work at the Marion Center, he has been a Research Fellow in the department of Visual Communications at Edinburgh College of Art since 1999. He is currently working on a new series of digital paintings and working to complete End-to-End, a cutting edge time-based digital painting in triptych format.
David Scheinbaum
Professor Emeritus
B.A., City University of New York
David Scheinbaum has worked with the preeminent photo historian Beaumont Newhall from 1978 until Newhall's death in 1993 and continues as the executor of his estate. David served as black-and-white printer for both Beaumont Newhall and Eliot Porter.
Scheinbaum's photographs of New Mexico's Bisti Badlands, can be found in his book Bisti, published by the University of New Mexico Press, 1987. In 1990 Florida International University Press published Miami Beach: Photographs of an American Dreams. Recently, he has collaborated with Janet Russek on two projects: Ghost Ranch: Land of Light, Photographs by David Scheinbaum and Janet Russek, Balcony Press, 1997, and Images in the Heavens, Patterns on the Earth: The I Ching, The Museum of New Mexico Press, 2005.
His recent projects include his six-year long project on stone as related to culture entitled, Stone: A Substantial Witness, which will be published in the Spring of 2006 by the Museum of New Mexico Press. His current photographic work concentrates on documenting Hip Hop music and culture that is exhibited under the working title, Hip-Hop: Portraits of an Urban Hymn.
Scheinbaum has exhibited internationally, and is represented in may museum collections including The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, The Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, The Bibliotecque National, Paris, France, the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, and the Center of Creative Photography, Tucson, and the collection at the University of Texas at Austin.
With his wife, Janet Russek, he operates Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd., private fine art photography dealers and consultants in Santa Fe.
Gerry Snyder
Professor of Art
B.F.A., University of Oregon
M.A., New York University
Gerry Snyder is an exhibiting artist who has shown his work nationally and internationally, including the 2002 Whitney Biennial, the 2004 Serbian Biennial, the Center for Contemporary Art, among many others.
He has curated shows with Michael St. John and Franky Kong that have included such diverse artist as Paul Pfeiffer, Lynne Yamamoto, David Humphrey, Carol Bovie, Matvey Levenstein, Keith Boadwee, and Suzanne McClelland.
Robert Sorrell
Professor of Art
B.F.A., M.F.A., University of Arizona
Professor of Art Robert Sorrell works in painting, printmaking, sculpture and jewelry. He received College of Santa Fe's Fairfax Award for Excellence in Teaching and was named the New Mexico Professor of the year in 1994. He is the recipient of several grants and awards.
Nancy Sutor
Assistant Professor of Art
B.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Assistant Professor and Assistant Chair of the Art Department Nancy Sutor has shown her work nationally in galleries and museums.
Her photo-based work on paper is in public and private collections including Deutsche Bank, Houston.
She was a founding partner of Eidolon an artist's space in Santa Fe. Nancy teaches nonsilver photographic processes and other photo classes as well as drawing and inter-media oriented seminars.
Linda Swanson
Associate Professor of Art
B.F.A., Indiana University
M.F.A., Goddard College
Associate Professor of Art Linda Swanson teaches painting, drawing and feminist art history; her work reflects these interests. A recent drawing project juxtaposes large drawings of her mother's hair with a graphic journal of her interaction with her teenage daughter.
Linda Swanson's paintings are in the collections of The Brooklyn Museum and The Newark Museum and in private collections. Articles on her work have appeared in national press including ARTS Magazine. She is the recipient of numerous grants.
Jeremy Thomas
Adjunct Professor of Metalworking
B.F.A., College of Santa Fe
Jeremy has over 10 years experience as a printmaker in various studies pulling editions of intaglio prints. He has worked as a preparatory for various exhibition spaces and private collections. Currently he operates a custom wrought iron business, and exhibits his work locally and internationally.
Khristaan Villela
Associate Professor of Art, Director / Thaw Art History Center
B.A., Yale University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas
Khristaan Villela Specializes in Precolumbian Art. He offers courses in Maya art and architecture, Native American art and Modern Latin American art and architecture.
Susan York
Assistant Professor of Art
M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art
B.F.A., University of New Mexico
Susan York teaches TAP Sculpture, Ceramics Sculpture and Professional Practices. An artist who exhibits internationally, York's work is in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum in the Netherlands and has been reviewed in Art in America. She is represented by galleries in the US and Germany.
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