Nancy Bowen is a mixed media artist known for her eclectic mixtures of imagery and materials in both two and three dimensions. Her sculpture and drawing exists in an in -between zone of form and idea, of abstraction and representation. Her work offers a poetic commentary on our quickly changing material culture. Like an artistic archeologist in this age of globalization and post-industrialization, she salvages (often disappearing) ornament and craft traditions and incorporates them into sculpture and drawings.

Bowen has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe, and has been included in group exhibitions in various museums. Her work has been reviewed and written about widely. She maintains a studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. 

She incorporates her experience and skill base into the classes that she teaches at Purchase College. 

Bowen loves to travel and explore the arts of other cultures. She has also taught in the Purchase programs in Italy and India. 

Warren Lehrer is a writer, artist, and performer known as a pioneer of visual literature and design authorship. Acclaimed for capturing the shape of thought and reuniting the oral and pictorial traditions of storytelling with the printed page, Lehrer has received numerous awards for his books and multimedia projects, including the Brendan Gill Prize, the Innovative Use of Archives Award, three AIGA Book Awards, a Media That Matters Award, and grants and fellowships from the NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, Rockefeller, Ford, and Greenwall Foundations. His work is in numerous collections, including MoMA, the Getty Museum, Georges Pompidou Centre, and Tate Gallery. He is a 2016 Honoree of the Center for Book Arts (NYC) for his "pioneering work" and for "extending the field of book arts to the broader worlds of contemporary art and literature." 

With Judith Sloan, Lehrer co-founded EarSay, an arts organization in Queens, N.Y., dedicated to uncovering and portraying the lives of the uncelebrated in print, on stage, on the radio, in exhibitions, concert halls, electronic media, and through educational programs. Lehrer is also a playwright, performer, and frequent lecturer and keynote speaker. His recent illuminated novel, A LIFE IN BOOKS: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley, has received nine awards, including the International Book Award for Best New Fiction, the IPPY Outstanding Book of the Year Award, and a Print Magazine Design Award.

Faye Hirsch is an editor and critic who has published widely on contemporary art, most frequently in Art in America, where she has been a senior editor since 2003.

Before that, she was editor-in-chief at Art on Paper and senior editor at Print Collector's Newsletter, with expertise in the history of contemporary printmaking. She received her PhD in the history of art from Yale University in 1987, and has taught at the University of Oregon at Eugene, University of Arizona at Tucson, School of Visual Art, and Rhode Island School of Design.

Hirsch is the MFA program coordinator in the School of Art+Design and first joined the faculty in the fall of 2012 as a part-time associate professor.