Faculty & Staff

Deborah Leblang's profile

Deborah Leblang

Art Program Chair | Modern Architecture & Design Instructor

Biography:

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


Chad White's profile

Chad White

Photography

Biography:

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


Chris Arslain's profile

Chris Arslain

Photography

Biography:

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


Christopher Oliver's profile

Christopher Oliver

Gallery Space Director | Sculpture

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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's profile

Iole Alessandrini

Drawing, Design, and Color

Biography:

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


Jeffrey Glossip's profile

Jeffrey Glossip

Art Appreciation | Two Dimensional Design Instructor

Biography:

Jeffrey Glossip (b. 1977, Iowa) has exhibited his paintings, drawings, and conceptual work in Europe, England, and throughout the United States. He is most well known for his large scale nonobjective paintings. His work has been exhibited at Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California (2006); Gallery Gabrichidze, Brussels, Belgium (2007 and 2008): Revolution Gallery, Dallas, Texas ...more about Jeffrey Glossip


Kapka Stoyanova's profile

Kapka Stoyanova

Ceramics Instructor

Biography:

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's profile

 Melanie Enderle

History of Western Art Instructor

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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 Vaughan's profile

Molly Vaughan

Drawing & Printmaking

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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's profile

Sarah Jones

Biography:

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


Tahle Patton's profile

Tahle Patton

Hand and Power Tools Instructor

Biography:

I started woodworking at the age of 10, making small airplanes out of driftwood in my grandfather’s workshop on Orcas Island in Washington State. I have played guitar from an early age and have always admired the beauty and complex construction of the instrument. This appreciation led to a Luthiers apprenticeship in 1982 on Guemes ...more about Tahle Patton


Victor Sandblom's profile

Victor Sandblom

Design | Drawing | Oil Painting Instructor

Biography:

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