A specialist of modern European art and art historical theory and methods, Sarah Betzer's teaching, research, and graduate supervision is shaped by an orientation to the intersections of art theoretical debates and artistic process; the enduring power of the classical past; and the dynamics of gendered and sexed bodies in representation.
William Wylie works in a variety of media with a focus in photography and video. He completed his MFA at The University of Michigan and came to UVA in 2000. He received a Mead Honored Faculty Award at UVA in 2003. He has been the director of the Study Abroad Program in Italy since 2007 and teaches the photography courses there in conjunction with an art history course most summers.
Elizabeth Schoyer, born in Pittsburgh Pa., received her B.F.A. at the Philadelphia College of Art, and her M.F.A. from Indiana University in Bloomington. She teaches introductory and advanced drawing. Her methods of teaching focus on drawing as a language in which line, marks, space, shape etc. are used to create individual ways of seeing. Drawing provides the student with a myriad of possibilities for constructing images with a personal vision.
George Sampson has administered arts organizations, presented arts events, curated art exhibitions and managed artists' careers since 1967. He has worked in the for-profit and non-profit sectors as a student, a paid professional, and as a volunteer leader on various Boards and committees. From 1986 to 1994 he led or co-led professional companies in New Mexico in the fields of ballet & modern dance, symphonic & chamber music, and jazz presentation.
Akemi Ohira received her B.F.A. from Cornell University, and her M.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University. She joined the faculty of the McIntire Department of Art in the fall of 1993, and has since regularly taught introductory, intermediate and advanced printmaking, as well as directed projects for the Distinguished Majors Program. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout the U.S., as well as in Japan.
Lydia Moyer is a visual artist and media maker who works with image, sound and text. Prior to graduate study, she worked in both commercial and non-profit media production. Her work is shown regularly in experimental film and video festivals in the US and Europe. She is part of several collectives of artists who show together in gallery exhibitions and often works collaboratively with writers and other artists to produce books and moving images.
Megan Marlatt is an artist with an extensive background in painting whose work has expanded over the last three years into mask making and performance. This expansion is largely due to her work as founder and director of the artist collective “The Big Head Brigade”. The Brigade has its own separate website at www.bigheadbrigade.com, and can also be found under the “Links” section of this website.
