Meet Our Faculty
Department Chair
Sharon Horvath
Professor of Painting and Drawingsharon.horvath@purchase.edu- BFA, Cooper Union
- MFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Faculty
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Tony Bluestone
Lecturer of Painting and Drawing (Part-time)- MFA, Hunter College
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Matthew Bollinger
Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing- BFA, Kansas City Art Institute
- MFA, Rhode Island School of Design
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Esteban Cabeza de Baca
Lecturer of Painting and Drawing (Part-time)MFA, Columbia University
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Wells Chandler
Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing- MFA, Yale University School of Art
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Benjamin Degen
Lecturer of Painting and Drawing (Part-time)- BFA, Cooper Union
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Travis Fairclough
Lecturer of Painting and Drawing (Part-time)BFA, Purchase College, SUNY
MFA, Columbia University -
Julian Kreimer
Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing- BA, Princeton University
- MA, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
- MFA, Rhode Island School of Design
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Cynthia Lin
Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing- BA, University of California, Berkeley
- MA, MFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City
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Sarah Peters
Lecturer (Part-time)MFA- Virginia Commonwealth University BFA- University of Pennsylvania
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Naomi Safran-Hon
Lecturer of Painting and Drawing (Part-time)- MFA, Yale
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Tova Snyder
Lecturer of Painting and Drawing (Part-time)MFA, Yale University
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Sarah Walker
Lecturer of Painting and Drawing (Part-time)- BFA, California College of the Arts
- MFA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Michelle Weinberg
Lecturer, Painting and Drawing (Part-time)- BFA, School of Visual Arts
- MFA, Tyler School of Art
Contributing Faculty
Faculty Emeriti
Judith Bernstein
Associate Professor Emerita of Art+Design- BS, MS, Pennsylvania State University
- BFA, MFA, Yale University
Nancy Davidson
Professor Emerita of Art+Design- BEd, Northeastern Illinois University
- BFA, University of Illinois at Chicago
- MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Leonard Stokes
Professor Emeritus of Art+Design- BA, BFA, MFA, Yale University
- Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
Michael Torlen
Associate Professor Emeritus of Art+Design- BFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art
- MFA, Ohio State University
- Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching