The School of Visual Art’s full-time graduate faculty are supported by a diverse group of part-time, sessional and emeritus faculty who are available to provide studio visits, sit on thesis committees, and serve as professional, artistic, and community resources.
Additionally, our Masters candidates are encouraged to seek input and support from members of the University at large. Past years have seen fruitful collaborations between our students and members of faculties including–but not limited to–Communications Studies, Architecture, Creative Writing, Music, Labour Studies, Philosophy, Sociology and Anthropology, Political Science and Women’s Studies.
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Lisa Baggio
Lisa Baggio received her Masters in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University and completed her undergraduate studies at Parsons School of Design, New York and the University of Victoria, B.C. She has exhibited in the United States and Canada and has executed many site specific pieces in Windsor.
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Iain Baxter&
Iain Baxter& (the artist recently added the ampersand to his name) is recognized as Canada’s pioneering conceptual artist. For over forty years, Baxter& has continually produced works that question the role of art as commodity and as a medium for cultural commentary. Among his many innovations, Baxter& was the first artist to adopt a corporate persona: in 1966, he formed the N.E. Thing Company. NETCO’s output ranged from conceptual, satirical, vacuum-formed still lifes to post-modern appropriations of famous artworks. His recent work includes neon signs, ‘animal preserves’, a grocery cart of ‘GMO’s’ (genetically modified organisms) and installations using obsolete technology. The Art Gallery of Windsor recenty curated the exhibtion Passing Through of Baxter&’s photographs taken between 1959 and 1983. He has received numerous awards including a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2004 and was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2003.
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Susan Blight
Susan Blight is a photographer and video artist currently creating works with an emphasis on autobiographical narratives with fictional nuance. Susan has a particular interest in all visual aspects of cinematic history, celebrity and fan culture, and the ethos of professional sports. She received an M.F.A. from the University of Windsor (2007), a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography (2004) and a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies (1999) from the University of Manitoba. She has exhibited in Canada and the U.S. Susan is a member of Couchiching First Nation in Northwestern Ontario and spent ten cold years as a Winnipeg resident.
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Adèle Duck
Adèle Duck is an internationally known artist who maintains a rigorous studio practice. She graduated with a BFA from the University of Windsor followed by her MFA from Florida State University. Galleries in Illinois, Michigan, Alberta, and throughout Ontario represent her. Her large-scale drawings and paintings belong in numerous Public Art Gallery permanent collections as well as corporate and private collections. She has exhibited widely from Whitehorse in the Yukon Territories to Germany and she has received numerous awards and grants to facilitate her painting and printmaking.
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Ken Giles
Ken received his B.A.A in Photography from Ryerson University in 1990 and completed an MFA from the University of Michigan in 1992. In 1992/93 was artist-in-residence at the Staatliche Academie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe, Germany. In 1993 relocated to Canterbury, England and spent 10 years teaching at several UK Universities (University of Kent at Canterbury; University of Sunderland; Brunel University, London) and exhibiting his photographic work. Ken received his Doctorate in the History of Theory of 19th and 20thC Photography from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1997. Having numerous teaching and guest lecturing appointments in North America, Ken has recently taught at the University of Alberta, School of Art and Design and has just returned from a Banff Centre art residency in Alberta.
Seeing art as a language my work is continually exploring how the photograph, as the in-media res (the middle) point of a narrative, can be seen as an isolated moment of a larger unfolding dialogue. This fascinating idea of visualizing a narrative in still photographs has been central in my artwork and writing. By reviving and utilizing old photographic processes such as pinhole, chrono-photography and slit photography, these processes offer-up imagery that speaks to the perceptual narrative phenomenon embedded in the still photograph. They also offer an aesthetic, which slows the viewer’s eye into seeing beneath the clichéd surface of “the photograph” as simple recorded moment in history. I create work to ask the viewer to enter into the dialogue of what the photograph records and how its own unique visual expression, its perceptual narrative, is a key fragment of larger unfolding story which reaches simultaneously outside and inside the framed content.
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Noel Harding
Noel Harding is an international Canadian artist and urban innovator recognized for his monumental scale public art projects and environmental sculptures that address the role and plight of nature in the midst of twenty-first century urbanization. He is well known for his sculpture The Elevated Wetlands where vegetation lives in recycled plastic soil while cleaning polluted water. In general, his work is an engagement in public urban realities: planning, envisioning, and mapping toward the future, suggesting that much more is possible. Noel Harding is an Adjunct Professor currently working on the Green Corridor Project.
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Lucy Howe
Lucy Howe is interested in subverting the everyday and exploring the physical and metaphorical structures of common spaces, objects and activities. Her interventions, installations and objects shift the purpose, being and function/behavior of ‘reliable objects’, while bringing into question that which is known and familiar. Here, sculpture is being utilized to escape the physical form and create an internal space of balance, between belief and distrust.
Lucy has a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, in Halifax and an MFA from York University, in Toronto
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Zeke Moores
Zeke Moores is interested in the cultural significance and hierarchical systems of value that exist within the objects that surround us. Heavily influenced by his background in industrial processes, Zeke re-proposes and re-fabricates everyday objects, earnestly exploring social and cultural economies.
Originally from Newfoundland, Zeke Moores has been living and working in Ontario for the past 5 years. He has an extensive background in fabrication, blacksmithing and foundry; has worked at one of the largest art cast foundries in North America, Johnson Atelier Foundry & Fabrication, and has been a free-lance fabricator for the past ten years. Zeke has a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA from the University of Windsor, Ontario. Currently, Zeke is showing nationally and internationally, while teaching as a Sculpture Professor at the University of Windsor.
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Julie Sando
In her 2005 solo exhibition Shopping For Pleasure at the Oakland University Art Gallery, Sando exhibited a series of photographs titled Best Sensuous Hands of the facades of Detroit/Windsor massage parlours. One of these images is currently touring with Orientalism & Ephemera (an exhibition curated by Jamelie Hassan). A current work in progress, titled Tapping Jack, has Sando retyping each page of Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road with the intent of creating a simulated scroll which highlights the author’s cultural romanticization of lost boys, bop musicians and migrant farmers.
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José Seoane
José Seoane, born in 1956 in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, is a painter and installation artist, investigating ideas around transculturation and identity within the post modern condition. His work extends from the gallery into site-specific spaces that include interactive interventions and large-scale murals. José Seoane’s most recent series of paintings investigate the idea of the wall within the intersections of art and architecture. His earlier works focused on questions he had about the meaning of cultural themes in their development, symbolism associated with his being a medium/transporter of meaning.
