Fine Arts Faculty
“The success of the SNC art department is due, in large part, to the passion, talent and ambition of the instructors... Together they provide students the unique opportunity to participate in a contemporary art dialogue rarely available outside major cities.” - Chérie L. Turner, Tahoe Quarterly
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Professor, Fine Arts Department Chair, Visiting Artist Workshops Program Director Sheri studied with Betty Woodman, at CU, with Paul Soldner and David Furman at CGU. She has taught ceramics at the college level since 1988, at Aims Community College in Greeley, Colorado, and in 1997, Sheri joined the faculty at SNC. Currently she chairs the Fine Arts Department and directs the Summer Visiting Artist Workshops. Her work has been featured in Ceramics Monthly, Clay Times, and Black Pearl and Other Saturated Metallic Glazes, 2010, by John Conrad. It has also been included in national exhibitions including the “San Angelo National Ceramics Competition”, the “60th Annual Scripps Invitational”, and the “Clay Times Contributors 10th Anniversary” exhibition at NCECA. She conceived and coordinated “A New Decade of Clay: 2010” national ceramics exhibit, juried by Richard Shaw, and curated “The Soldner Society” at NCECA in Tampa, FL. Courses Taught: Beginning Ceramics, Intermediate Ceramics, Advanced Ceramics, Glaze Technology, Advanced Studio, Raku, Handbuilding, Art Apprectiation. |
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Associate Professor B.A., Allegheny College M.A., Music, University of Nevada, Reno Axton spent 14 years touring the world as a pianist in Hoyt Axton's Country Western, Boogie Woogie, Gospel, Rock and Roll Band. She played on 21 albums and co-produced two and appeared on dozens of television shows, including the Tonight Show. She has many writing, arranging and directing credits to her name and has directed, conducted and/or played for scores of local musical productions from community to professional levels. She is also known as a chamber music and solo piano performer. |
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Professor, Gallery Director A Nevada Fellowship of the Arts recipient, Dudley and his art are deeply informed by mountains, desert, rock-climbing, and being alone both in the land and in a more existential way. His photography, installation, sculpture, and video work has been exhibited in galleries, public collections, and alternative spaces, including Mindy Oh in Chicago, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the A.M. Project and Treehouse Galleries in Los Angeles, and the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno. Exhibiting at times under the name of his alter ego Jimmy Jewel, he is a member of the art collaborative, d3ms, and his ongoing photographic collaborations with performance artist Joanna Frueh have resulted in portfolios published by UC Berkley, University of Nevada, and Nevada Museum of Art presses. Courses: New Genres, Contemporary issues, Gallery Exhibition, Professional Practices, Photography, Sculpture. |
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Associate Professor Mary is currently interested in creating works on paper which includes combining collage, printmaking, drawing and painting. These works on paper are explorations of media, idea and repetition. Many of the images she uses are borrowed from familiar printed material such as science textbooks, children's books and parenting manuals. Mary has participated in numerous shows nationally and regionally, most recently a solo exhibition at the McKinley Arts Center in Reno, NV. Her prints are in the collection of Kent State University, Iowa State University, and Zygote Press among others. She is an associate professor at Sierra Nevada College teaching drawing, painting, printmaking and design. Courses: Printmaking, Drawing and Painting. |
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Assistant Professor Chris Lanier is an artist with a background in both traditional and digital media, and a demonstrated interest in hybrid forms, having worked in multimedia performance, digital animation, web production, and comics. His animation has screened at Sundance and won awards at several international festivals, including the Grand Prize for Internet Animation at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. His graphic novel “Combustion” was published by Fantagraphics Books, and his comics have appeared in a variety of venues, including the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Reader, Nickelodeon Magazine, and the Indiana Review. He is also an essayist and critic whose art criticism has appeared in a variety of online and print publications, including The Believer, HiLobrow.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon Magazine, the Bay Guardian, and the Comics Journal. Most recently, he curated the exhibit "The Art of Howl," featuring concept and animation art from the film "Howl," which featured James Franco as the beat poet Allen Ginsberg. He also did storyboarding for the film. He is currently the Assistant Professor of Digital Art at Sierra Nevada College. |
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Assistant Professor B.F.A., Stepen F. Austin State University M.F.A., Scultural Ceramics, University of Dallas Rick's artwork focuses on the effects of environmental pollutants on the body. He uses materials as metaphor to address the looming impact of a culture dependent on diminishing resources. Rick has served as Sculpture Program Coordinator at Anderson Ranch Arts Center and has taught at both the University of Dallas, and Colorado Mountain College. He has been a visiting artist at Colorado College, San Jose State University, University of Miami, and Arizona State University. His sculpture has been exhibited throughout the country and was featured in a solo show in the Charles and Dorothy Clark Gallery at the University of Texas - Pan America. In 2007 Rick's sculpture was the focus of an article in Sculpture magazine. He was recently published in the book Confrontational Ceramics: The Artist as Social Critic by Judith S. Schwartz and was featured in the documentary film "Questions of Art," by Zach Jankovic. |
