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Current and Retired Faculty
Linda Armstrong
William Brown
Ruth Dusseault
Sarah Emerson
Jason Francisco
Diane Kempler
Julia Kjelgaard
Nancy Marshall (retired)
Katherine Mitchell (retired)
Kerry Moore
Laura Noel
Linda Armstrong
Sculpture
Linda Armstrong is a sculptor who works in a wide variety of media. She holds a B. F. A. from the Atlanta College of Art, 1973,
and a M. F. A. from Georgia State University, 1978. In 1973 she also received a Summer Fellowship to attend the Yale University
School of Music and Art. Armstrong has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including the Virginia 
Center
for the Creative Arts, the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences and the Georgia Council for the Arts. She
was recipient of a grant from the Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts in 1992. She has had one-artist
exhibitions at the Institute of Ecology at the University of Georgia, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and the
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. She has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Transitions at the Museum
of Contemporary Art of Georgia in 2002. Armstrong describes herself as a “sculptor/backdoor environmentalist.”
larmstr@emory.edu , 404.712.4391
Images of Linda Armstrong's Work
William Brown
Film/Video/Photography
William A. Brown holds a B. A. from Emory University, 1969, and a M. F. A. from the University of Florida, 1975. He has
been producing experimental and arts related documentary films since 1976. He was one 
of the original founders of Atlanta’s
IMAGE Film and Video Center and Nexus Contemporary Arts Center (now known as the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center). He helped
initiate the Visual Arts Program at Emory University where he continues to teach courses. His documentary, “Apocalypse
Then” aired nationally on the A & E Network in 1987 and won a regional Emmy. Mr. Brown has shown at major film festivals,
including the Tokyo Video Festival, the United States Film Festival, The World Wide Video Festival (The Hague), and the Oberhausen
Film Festival. Mr. Brown also writes articles on emerging media technologies and is president of Atlanta Video, Inc.
bill@atlantavideo.com, 404.712.4393
Images of William Brown's Work
Ruth Dusseault
Photography
Ruth Dusseault is Artist-in-Residence at Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture. Her work is exhibited and collected internationally. She has received over a dozen 
artist grants and awards, including a 2009 Artist Award from New York’s Artadia Foundation, a 2006 Design award from the National Endowment for the Arts and the 2003 Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award. Her various projects examine utopian expressions in architecture. Her Atlantic Steel Redevelopment Project was part of a suite of solo exhibitions at the High Museum in 2006. She has written several features for Art Papers magazine. And she has curated touring exhibitions that combine ideas from art and architecture, including Terrain Vague: Photography and Architecture in the Post-Industrial Landscape at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and the Carnegie Museum of Art. Her work is in several collections including the High Museum of Art, the Greenville Museum, the Southeast Museum of Art, Tulane University Museum, the Beijing European Contemporary Art Center, Alston & Bird, Carson & Guest and the Images Photography Collection in Cincinnati.
ruth.dusseault@arch.gatech.edu
Images of Ruth Dusseault's Work
Sarah Emerson
Drawing & Painting
Sarah Emerson graduated from the Atlanta College of Art in 1997 and 
went on to complete her Master's Degree at Goldsmiths College in London, England. Over the last ten years she has exhibited her paintings in galleries throughout the United States and Europe, including at White Columns, New York, Cosmic Gallery, Paris, and Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT. She has since moved back to Atlanta, Georgia but over the years she has lived in Boston, London, and New York. Her work has recently been in shows at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, the Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott and Mason Murer Fine Art in Atlanta.
Images of Sarah Emerson's Work
Jason Francisco
Chair, Visual Arts Department
Photography, History of Photography, Visual Culture, Critical Studies
Jason Francisco is an acclaimed and widely exhibited photographer, book artist, writer on visual culture, and theorist of the photographic image. In his engagement with photographs as documents, and in particular the challenges of historical remembrance through pictures, his work extends one of photography’s most accessible and also most difficult traditions. In
addition to numerous articles, essays and limited edition artist’s books, he is the author of Far from Zion: Jews, Diaspora, Memory (Stanford University Press, 2006), and co-author with Anne McCauley of a volume on Alfred Stieglitz for the University of California Press series “Defining Moments in American Photography,” forthcoming in 2009.
He received a B.A. in philosophy from Columbia University and an M.F.A. in photography from Stanford University. Before arriving at Emory in 2008, he was Associate Professor at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, and for many years he has been a lecturer at Stanford University during the summer quarter. At Emory he is the chair of the Visual Arts Department and an affiliated faculty of the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies and the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts (ILA).
Images of Jason Francisco's Work
Diane Kempler
Ceramics
Diane Solomon Kempler was born in New York City and graduated with a degree in philosophy from Brandeis University. She
has studied with numerous ceramic artists and has received grants, awards and residencies. She has been active as an artist
and teacher for over twenty years. She
has won numerous awards, grants and residencies. She has had numerous one-woman exhibitions
in Georgia, New York, Charlotte, and Richmond, to mention only a few. She participates in national exhibitions, including
the touring exhibition “Body and Soul: Contemporary Southern Figures,” curated by the Columbus Museum. As a project
of the Corporation for Olympic Development in Atlanta (CODA), she created and installed a permanent bronze fountain sculpture
in downtown Atlanta in 1996. Her work deals with transformations and transitions as they exist in nature and human beings.
dgsk@mindspring.com , 404.712.4394
Images of Diane Kempler's Work
Julia Kjelgaard
Drawing & Painting
Julia Kjelgaard holds a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara, (1977), studied printmaking at the University of Alberta, Canada, and holds an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan (1987). Her prints and paintings have been included in numerous national and international exhibitions including England, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Poland, Taiwan, 
and Yugoslavia, as well as in numerous catalogues and anthologies. Her grants and fellowships include Emory University’s highly competitive URC (2001 and 2006) and ICIS (2004) grants, an Individual Artist Grant from the Alabama Council for the Arts (2002), a Hambidge Fellowship (1998), and a Kala Fellowship (1993). Kjelgaard’s work is included in collections at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Huntsville Museum of Art, the Butler Museum of Art, the Kala Institute, the Moscow Studio, and the University of Wyoming Art Museum, as well as in many corporate and private collections. In 2007 she had a solo exhibition of The India Dream Works at Emory University’s Visual Arts Gallery, and that series was also included as part of a joint exhibition at Pyramid Atlantic in Maryland. Most recently she had solo exhibitions of Indo Indicia at Auburn University’s Biggin Gallery and the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Much of her current work resulted from research in India as a Fulbright Scholar in 2007. Click here to view a PDF of Julia Kjelgaard's complete CV.
jkjelgaard@msn.com , 404.712.4396
Images of Julia Kjelgaard's Work
Julia Kjelgaard's Indo Indicia at the Atlanta Airport: February 1 - March 19, 2008
Nancy Marshall (retired)
Photography
Nancy Marshall received her M.F.A. in photography in 1996. From 1998-2005, she was Emory University Visual Arts Senior Lecturer in photography. Her work has been widely exhibited and can be found in many permanent collections including the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.
Visit the Southern Spaces website to view a photo essay by Nancy Marshall entitled Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
Abstract from Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm:
Nancy Marshall took these photographs in spring and summer of 2007 and winter of 2008 at Andalusia, the farm near Milledgeville, Georgia, where Flannery O’Connor (1925 -1964) spent the last thirteen years of her life. The photographs, which show interior views of the house and exterior views of the surrounding landscape, document the context in which O’Connor wrote some of her most acclaimed works, including A Good Man is Hard to Find and The Violent Bear it Away. These photographs were exhibited at Emory University in conjunction with "The Prophet's Country: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Flannery O'Connor" in 2007 and will be exhibited at Georgia State College and University Museum in Milledgeville, Georgia in 2009. They were taken in collaboration with the Flannery-O'Connor-Andalusia Foundation, Inc.
nancy.marshall@emory.edu
Images of Nancy Marshall's Work
Katherine Mitchell (retired)
Drawing & Painting
Katherine Mitchell holds a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art, 1968, did post-graduate work at Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy, and holds an MFA from Georgia State University, 1977. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions including The American Academy & Institute
of Arts & Letters in New York (1979), The National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, DC (1996), and has had solo exhibitions at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (2005), the Factory, Kunsthalle, Krems, Austria, (2006), and Atlanta’s City Gallery East, where she was the 2007 “master” artist. She has work in numerous private and public collections, including those of the High Museum of Art, the J. B. Speed Museum of Art in Louisville, KY, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta, and the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, Agnes Scott College, and the Carlos Museum. She has received numerous awards and grants including a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation grant in 1992. In 2000, she completed a major permanent ceramic tile mural installation in a Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority station. She exhibits widely and is represented by Sandler Hudson Gallery in Atlanta.
Read the Art Papers review of:
Katherine Mitchell:
A Retrospective 1974-2006
Presented by the Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs
City Gallery East, Atlanta
January 19 - March 16, 2007
In October 2006, Katherine Mitchell and Rosemary Magee, Vice President & Secretary of Emory University, talked about art, life, and chance encounters. Click here to read the full interview.
Kerry Moore
Drawing & Painting, Sculpture
Kerry Moore received a M.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona in 1988, and a B.F.A. in Sculpture from the College of the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio in 1974. He currently teaches in the Visual Arts Department at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and was formerly an instructor at The Atlanta College of Art and Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Recent exhibitions include "In Exile from the Land of Reason" at Eyedrum Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia and "KM Squared = Kerry Moore + Katherine Mitchell" at the Emory Visual Arts Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia. Previous exhibitions include The Museum of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Georgia, The Emory Chairs
Project in Atlanta, Georgia, the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina, the King Plow Sculpture Show (Invitational) in Atlanta, Georgia, the Spruill Center Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia, and the Orlando Museum of Art in Orlando, Florida. He has completed numerous commissions, including "Bird in the Hand" for the City of Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport, "Windsong" for Delta Air Lines in Atlanta, Georgia, and "Metamorphosis" for the University of Arizona Committee on Dance in Tucson, Arizona. His grants and awards include a Fulton County Individual Artist Grant in Atlanta, Georgia and a Georgia Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grant.
Laura Noel
Photography
Laura Noel is an award-winning fine art photographer. She is currently the education coordinator, research associate, and gallery registrar for Lumière Gallery in Atlanta. Her teaching experience includes photography at the University of Georgia Study Abroad Program (Ecuador and Cuba) and documentary photography at The Showcase School in Atlanta. She has worked as a staff and freelance photographer covering the Southeast United States for various media organizations such as Corbis and Sygma Photo Agencies, Time, Newsweek, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She has had solo exhibitions at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, and Southern Light Gallery in Amarillo, Texas, among others, and she has been included in numerous group exhibitions. Laura holds a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the University of Georgia and a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy Studies from Duke University.
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