Our department is small (three full time faculty for studio, one full time art historian, and an office coordinator) but we are active exhibitors and researchers. We have a few additional instructors who teach classes for our department, such as documentary video and art history classes that are cross-listed with classics—to give us acceptable/good coverage. The full-time professors take their turn as Chair of the department, rotating every three years. In addition to our normal full-time staff, we currently have one temporary full-time professor, Joseph Madrigal, but only for the remainder of this year. There are three additional people who teach courses for us—one who is retired, one from another department, and one from college staff.
Thomas Rice, Professor Drawing, Painting, Advanced Studio, Printmaking
Billie Fischer, Associate Professor, Emerita Art History Billie Fischer (Ph.D., The University of Michigan) taught art history from 1972 until retirement in 2008 and still teaches one course a year in Renaissance or Baroque, her primary areas of interest. She taught surveys and period courses from prehistoric through modern (most in 14th-19th c. European), as well as a first-year writing seminar every year. In every course, students read a variety of scholarly articles and book excerpts, write several papers, and take several exams, on which students are asked to write comparative essays on the art and to recognize unknown slides. Professor Fischer has served as both Department and Fine Arts Division chair and has chaired many college committees. She received the Lucasse Award for outstanding teaching and the Kalamazoo Community Medal of Arts, has been a board member of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, and frequently gives lectures in the area. Richard Koenig, Associate Professor, Department Chair Photography, History of Photography, Introduction to Visual Fundamentals, Digital Art, Advanced Studio
Sarah Lindley, Associate Professor Department Chair Ceramics, Sculpture
Christine Hahn, Assistant Professor Art History Christine Hahn specializes in 20th century art, examining how the circulation of art via expatriate artists; traveling exhibitions; and the museum space creates multilayered meanings for global audiences. She is currently at work on a book project that examines the history of 20th century Korean painting and its relationship to Western modernism, Japanese colonialism, and the aftermath of the Korean War. Dr. Hahn received both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has had the opportunity to share her work with local, national, and international audiences. She was the recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship in 2002, spending the year in Seoul, South Korea. Dr. Hahn has developed several new courses for the Art History curriculum at K, including Art and Gender, a course on the history of the modern art museum, and a methodological course on important theoretical texts in 20th century art. Joe Madrigal, Visiting Assistant Professor Ceramics, Sculpture
Jessica Santone, Visiting Assistant Professor Art History Jessica Santone is a specialist in contemporary art from 1960 to the present. Her research examines the intersections of performance art and documentary media (including photography, artists’ books, private journals, and art criticism), with a focus on the period 1965-1975 when live performance and conceptual art frequently intertwined. As part of her dissertation research, she received a Getty Library Research Grant to study Fluxus materials in Los Angeles; she plans to develop this work into an eventual book project on the archival practices of the Fluxus group. Dr. Santone received her BA in History with minors in Women’s Studies and French at the University of Maryland, her MA in Humanities at the University of Chicago, and her PhD in Art History at McGill University. At McGill, she served as a graduate student member of two multi-year team research projects, Documentation and Conservation of Media Arts Heritage and Augmented Reality in Contemporary Art. Dr. Santone is interdisciplinary in her teaching and research, bringing critical media studies and feminist methodologies to the study of contemporary art and visual culture. Dhera Strauss, Media Producer/Instructor Documentary Video, Advanced Documentary Video, Television Production Dhera Strauss has been employed as Media Producer/Instructor at Kalamazoo College since 1988 where she creates video and web media for administrative offices as well as teaching documentary film and TV studio production. She has been an independent producer/director of seven documentaries (several have been accepted into film festivals and awarded prizes) and has collaborated frequently with WGVU-TV. Dhera’s most recent film Kitchen Conversations portrays women preparing family recipes while reflecting on their lives. Other documentaries include: Donut Day: 24 Hours at Sweetwater and Los Bandits: More than a Tex-Mex Band. Dhera also does video art installations. “Bottle-cap Checkers” won the Signature Artists Award at the West Michigan Area Show, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. She is a graduate of Earlham College with a B.A. in English Literature. She serves on the board of Fair Food Matters and recently retired from the board of Wellspring/Cori Terry & Dancers.
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