Douglas Barkey
Adjunct Assistant Professor

MFA in Photography, MA in Sculpture, The University of Iowa, BA in Fine Arts, Bethel University. Mr. Barkey has been involved in digital photography and higher education for artists and designers for over 20 years. His areas of expertise include photography, both digital and silver-based, as well as interactive digital media. In addition to teaching fine arts, he has been the Director of the Altos de Chavón School of Design in the Dominican Republic, affiliated with Parsons School of Design of New York. At Altos de Chavón he administered programs in Fashion Design, Environmental Design, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, and supervised the Altos de Chavón Gallery, the Visiting Artist program, and hosted short visits by internationally prominent artists and designers such as Philip Pearlstein, Ivan Chermayeff, Henry Wolf, and Nicole Miller, among many others. He also taught at College of the Atlantic (COA) in Bar Harbor, Maine for nine years where he established the Digital Design Studio. At COA he offered a series of interdisciplinary courses in digital media, including The Eye and the Poet, Digital Image Studio, Biology Through the Lens, Graphic Design for Activists, Advanced Photography Studio, and Understanding Culture Through Photography. Mr. Barkey grew up in Argentina and has been active in international studies, including helping to pioneer COA’s International Studies program in Yucatan, Mexico. His exhibit record includes a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art of Santo Domingo, FotoNoviembre in Merida, Mexico, and Artspace, in Richmond, Virginia.

Thomas J. Condon
Adjunct Assistant Professor

MFA in Photography and Film, Virginia Commonwealth University, BFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Painting, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Mr. Condon’s areas of specialization are theory and discourse. Before attending VCU, he practiced as a painter, attending the Chautauqua School of Art. He has been awarded an Artists Fellowship from the Vermont Studio School as well as a Professional Fellowship in Printmaking from the Virginia Museum of Fine Art Foundation. Mr. Condon is a Co-Editor of The Artdisk: a dvd magazine, www.theartdisk.com. He has displayed his work in multiple international art fairs including Scope; New York, ARTdc; Washington D.C. and DiVA; Miami, Florida. Currently his work is represented and shown by ADA Gallery in Richmond, Virginia.

Dan Currier
Adjunct Assistant Professor

MFA, Photography and Film, Virginia Commonwealth University. BFA Louisiana Tech University in. Dan’s personal work is in documentary still photography and video. His images have been internationally exhibited in England and Italy and his image “Screen Door” is part of the permanent collection of the Masur Museum of Art in Monroe Louisiana. In addition, his documentary videos have been screened in multiple venues and his video “Labeled” was awarded “Best Short Documentary Film” at the Anchorage International Film Festival.

http://www.dancurrierphotographer.com/

Bryant Dameron
Adjunct Assistant Professor

MFA in Photography and Film, Virginia Commonwealth University, BA in Communication Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Mr. Dameron’s areas of specialization are film production and video art. His films have been screened in festivals across the US, on the nationally syndicated television program “America’s Best Student Shorts” and have won several awards. His work explores the role of simulation in experience and place.

Michael K. Lease
Adjunct Assistant Professor

MFA in Photography and Film, Virginia Commonwealth University, BFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Painting and Photography, Frostburg State University. Whether singularly, or collaboratively produced the chief concern of Lease's work is the navigation of daily life and the dynamic between the need for a private form of art making and the public responsibility of the artist. Lease's current collaboration SAMETIME 7:15 can be viewed at www.sametime715.com. Most recently he has exhibited his work at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, DC.

www.michaellease.com

Todd Raviotta
Adjunct Assistant Professor

MFA in Filmmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University, BFA in Filmmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University. Mr. Raviotta is a director with experience in all genres of filmmaking and video production. His films have been screened at art galleries and festivals internationally. Raviotta's films mix satire and dark comedy as commentary on human nature and how it is affected by modern media and the influence of corporations on the individual's psyche. As a professional editor Raviotta's work has been showcased on the website for Universal Picture's The Bourne Ultimatum and other websites designed by ProjectC.net Los Angeles. As a producer Raviotta has had a hand in hundreds of short films and several feature films created in Virginia.

Heide Trepanier
Distinguished Adjunct Graduate Professor

MFA in Painting, Virginia Commonwealth University, BFA Marchutz School of Art, Aix, France and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ms. Trepanier’s paintings have been shown in numerous solo and group shows, including shows at Stux Gallery and The American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, and La Pilar Parra Galleria in Madrid. In her work Heide exploits the fluidity of paint to give form to situations that are bewildering and often violent. Her highly stylized pictures offer a deliberately slick take on the pyrotechnics of 1950s Action Painting. According to Trepanier, the parts within her compositions: “Misbehave, throw up on each other, have orgies, rip each other apart, become divas, destroy small towns, and produce other worlds.” www.htrepanier.com