art faculty

Jessica Kallista is an artist working in collage, video, sound, and performance. She is also an educator, curator, and gallerist. She received her MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration in poetry from George Mason University in 2002.

Paloma Vianey Martinez Acosta is an interdisciplinary artist from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico who currently lives and works in Washington D.C. Her work explores the vulnerabilities and violence of her community and narrates her experience crossing the U.S.-Mexico border daily, questioning the political corruptness of this division.

Sue Slagle (stage name SUE-C) is a video artist and engineer bringing ideas to life at the intersection of creative coding and live performance. For the past 20 years she has created handmade videos and live media performances, traveling extensively in the U.S. and around the world.

Drawing on indigenous and self-created rituals, MJ Neuberger’s photographs, installations, sculptural work and social practice explore reconnection with bodies abandoned in intergenerational trauma and colonialism.

Mary Mailler is an art theorist and historian whose area of expertise pertains to pre-Columbian cultures of Central and North America, spatial perceptions, critical cartography, rhizomes, nomadism, and cultural landscapes.

Kay Hwang is a multidisciplinary artist who works and lives in Great Falls, VA with her family and a rescued dog, Mr.Kite. Past several year, she has been working mostly on Schematic Drawing series on sheets of Denril exploring the idea of building meditative visual unit through very much ordered & calculated profusion of geometric forms.

Luis Vasquez La Roche is an artist and educator that resides between Trinidad and Tobago and Virginia. They hold an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Their practice is interested in aspects of the transatlantic slave trade that repeat themselves in varying ways in the present.

An award-winning industrial designer, woodworker, photographer, and sculptor from the D.C. area Cristian Wicha has been designing furniture for production for the past 25 years.

Jeremy Kunkel

Erik Thor Sandberg (b. 1975, Quantico, VA) lives and works in Washington, D.C. Sandberg is known for his masterful oil paintings of the human figure and landscape. Creating inventive imagery ranging from panoramic to intimate, Sandberg pushes the skillful illusionism of master painting to the contemporary edge of Magic Realism.