Painting and Drawing

Major

BFA

Meet Our Faculty

Department Chair

Sharon Horvath
Professor of Painting and Drawing
- BFA, Cooper Union
- MFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
sharon.horvath@purchase.edu

Faculty

Tom Burckhardt

Lecturer, Painting and Drawing

BFA, State University of New York, Purchase College
Esteban Cabeza de Baca

Lecturer of Painting and Drawing (Part-time)

MFA, Columbia University

esteban.cabezadebaca@purchase.edu
Wells Chandler

Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing
- MFA, Yale University School of Art
wells.chandler@purchase.edu
Benjamin Degen

Lecturer of Painting and Drawing (Part-time)
- BFA, Cooper Union
benjamin.degen@purchase.edu
Travis Fairclough

Lecturer of Painting and Drawing (Part-time)
- BFA, Purchase College, SUNY
- MFA, Columbia University
travis.fairclough@purchase.edu
Elizabeth Flood

Lecturer, Painting and Drawing
- BA, University of Virginia
- MFA, Boston University
elizabeth.flood@purchase.edu
Vanessa Gully Santiago

Lecturer of Painting and Drawing (Part-time)
- MFA, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of Art
- BFA, Cooper Union
Julian Kreimer

(on leave: Fall 2023-Spring 2024)

Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing
- BA, Princeton University
- MA, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
- MFA, Rhode Island School of Design
julian.kreimer@purchase.edu
Cynthia Lin

Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing
- BA, University of California, Berkeley
- MA, MFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City
cynthia.lin@purchase.edu
Jesse Moy

Lecturer of Painting and Drawing (Part-time)
- BA Skidmore College
- MS Fordham University
- MFA SUNY Purchase College
Sarah Peters

Lecturer (Part-time)

MFA- Virginia Commonwealth University BFA- University of Pennsylvania

sarah.peters@purchase.edu
Naomi Safran-Hon

Lecturer of Painting and Drawing (Part-time)
- MFA, Yale
naomi.safranhon@purchase.edu
Chuck Webster

Lecturer of Painting and Drawing (Part-time)
Michelle Weinberg

Lecturer, Painting and Drawing (Part-time)
- BFA, School of Visual Arts
- MFA, Tyler School of Art
michelle.weinberg@purchase.edu

Contributing Faculty

Stephen Maine

Lecturer of Art and Design
- BFA, Indiana University
- MFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts

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