Deborah Leblang has two master's degrees from Columbia University: Master of Arts in Art History and Archaeology and Master of Science in Architectural History and Conservation. Prior to completing her master's degrees, Deborah was a research assistant at the Oakland Museum, the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the Museum of Modern ...more about Deborah Leblang
Austin Schuler is a woodworker from Arcata, California. He has worked in residential carpentry, timber framing, production cabinetry and furniture making for the last 10 years. He earned a certificate in 2023 in fine woodworking from the Krenov School of Fine Furniture where he spent two years. He integrates sculptural elements when designing furniture pieces ...more about Austin Schuler
Chad is the faculty head of Photography. A native to the west by birth and habit, Chad’s work reflects an exploration in the outdoors, searching for what is true of our ineffable interests and relationships with nature. As a method of working, he travels the blank and seemingly isotropic spaces found on maps; spaces often ...more about Chad White
A Professional Photographer, Image Retoucher, Educator, and Visual Media Specialist with over 10 years of industry experience in commercial, fine art and lifestyle photography. Technical expertise includes art direction, lighting, post-production color correction and digital image manipulation. Built a successful business operation as a professional photographer in fashion, landscape, and portraiture. Background also includes network ...more about Chris Arslain
Chris Oliver is a sculptor who has recently relocated to Seattle from Ithaca, New York. He received his BA/Sculpture from Marlboro College and his MFA/Sculpture from SUNY Albany. Working in a variety of media ranging from minute 3-D prints to large hand-built permanent outdoor installations that shape their environment over time, his work examines the ...more about Christopher Oliver
Iole Alessandrini is an Italian-American artist and architect based in Seattle. She holds aFine Art degree from Rome, Italy, and two Master’s degrees in Architecture—one from theUniversity La Sapienza in Rome and one from the University of Washington in Seattle.Her permanent public artworks include The Raven and the Light at Climate PledgeArena, Contour at Capitol ...more about Iole Alessandrini
Kapka was born and raised in Bulgaria. At age of 14, after an art competition, she was accepted to study at the special School of Arts in town of Troyan, where she graduated with an art diploma after 5 years of concentrated art education. Then she continued studying visual arts such as Ceramics, Painting, Drawing, ...more about Kapka Stoyanova
Melanie Enderle has been teaching art history at Bellevue College since 2016. Melanie also regularly teaches at University of Washington, Seattle Central College, and has taught at Cornish College of the Arts and at the University of Sichuan in Chengdu, China. Additionally, Melanie has worked as a Museum Educator at Seattle Art Museum, Dallas Museum ...more about Melanie Enderle
Molly Jae Vaughan is a Full Professor of Art in the Fine Art Department. She teaches Drawing I, Drawing II, Advanced Drawing, Painting I and Painting II, and Printmaking I and Printmaking II. Vaughan holds a BFA from the SVA in New York and an MFA from USF in Tampa. Her work has been exhibited ...more about Molly Vaughan
Sarah Jones (b. Utah) is an artist primarily working in installation, at the intersections of climate, gender, race and speculative futures. Her work examines loss, grief and what is hard to see. The work is elegiac, pointing to what has been or will be lost due to ecological collapse, while engaging in palliative and speculative ...more about Sarah Jones
Instructor of Art 110 Beginning Design, Art 120 Basic Drawing, Art 105 Art appreciation and Art 240 Oil Painting Victor Sandblom has lived in the Seattle area off and on for 25 years. He spent his formative years exploring northwest woods and waters. Between receiving his M.F.A. and B.F.A from the University of Oregon, he ...more about Victor Sandblom