Art - Faculty
Carolyn Kastner
Assistant Professor
B.A. University of Colorado
M.A. University of Colorado
M.A. Stanford University
Ph.D. Stanford University
Carolyn Kastner specializes in the diversity of American Art and Native American Art. She offers courses in Modern and Contemporary Art, the Art of Dissent, and Contemporary Art Theory.
She is also a curator, who has organized exhibitions that include: Fusing Traditions: Transformations in Glass by Native American Artists; Unwearable Art: Clothing in New Media; Contemporary Needlework: Tattoo!; Río Grande Traditions in Fiber and Clay; Death and Memory: Mexico’s Día de los Muertos; and most recently M. Lee Fatherree’s Photography: Evidence of Artists at Work 1978-2007.
Kastner has published exhibition catalogues, as well as essays and articles on Native American Art. Her current research is focused on the artwork of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.
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.
Linda Swanson
Professor of Art and Chair, Art Program
B.F.A., Indiana University
M.F.A., Goddard College
Linda Swanson teaches painting, drawing and feminist art history; her work reflects these interests. She has shown her work nationally; most recently at Dwight Hackett Projects. Her paintings are in the permanent collections of The Brooklyn Museum and The Newark Museum; articles have appeared in the national press, including ARTS Magazine
Her drawings are included in a collaborative project with Santa Fe Poet Laureate Valerie Martinez, And They Called It Horizon, to be released in January 2010.
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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