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Trevor Dunn studied sculpture and ceramics at the University of South Florida. After graduating he moved to Durango, Colorado to set up a studio where he built a small anagama kiln and pursued his interest in wood-fired ceramics. In 1999 Trevor joined the faculty at San Juan College to teach ceramics and sculpture until 2006. In 2009 he earned his MFA degree in ceramics from Utah State University.

Trevor has lectured internationally and led workshops around the country in wood firing, salt/soda firing, and kiln building.  His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions and is held in public and private collections. In 2009 he received the NCECA Graduate Student Fellowship Award for research and film project in Jianxi, China. He is currently an associate professor of ceramics at the ����AV��Ƶ.

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Isabella Arrazola is a graphic designer, researcher, and educator based in Jacksonville, Florida. Her areas of design and research interest intersect human-centered design, data visualization, and exploring the juxtapositions of design and culture through visual essays. She has over a decade of professional experience in brand identity, advertising, social media strategy, packaging, and textile design. 

Arrazola holds an M.F.A. in Design and Visual Communications from the University of Florida. At UF, she collaborated with researchers at the International Center and Center for African Studies to develop infographics and motion graphics to showcase research outcomes. At ����AV��Ƶ, she teaches at the junior and senior levels, using a hands-on, experiential approach to guide students toward sustainable, research-oriented design solutions.

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Dave Begley is a seasoned designer and Associate Professor of Graphic Design, currently serving as the Program Coordinator for the Limited Access Graphic Design program. With over 20 years of teaching experience, he brings a wealth of knowledge to the classroom while also maintaining an active design practice. Begley works with national clients across various industries, staying at the forefront of design trends and practice. His courses emphasize key areas of expertise, including Brand Development, Typography, Poster Design, and Layout, ensuring that students gain practical, real-world skills in the ever-evolving design landscape.

Beyond his teaching, Begley is deeply involved in the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), where he serves as an expert reviewer, evaluating accreditation materials for other institutions. His expertise extends into research, with a particular focus on the design, marketing, and advertising of the craft beer industry. He regularly presents his findings at national conferences, contributing to the growing body of knowledge in this niche sector of design.

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 Shailja Patel is a graphic design educator with a diverse background spanning advertising, marketing, UX design, UX research, and business strategy. She has contributed to projects for renowned brands such as Google Pay, the Google Privacy Team, Deloitte, Royal Caribbean, Asian Paints, and Reliance. Passionate about collaboration, she thrives on creating guidelines, frameworks, and systems that serve as strong foundations for developing impactful products and services.

As an educator, Shailja brings this same passion into her teaching, guiding students in their early stages to build a strong foundation by refining their thought processes and approaching design beyond aesthetics through critical analysis of its functionality. She fosters an engaging and interactive classroom environment, encouraging open discussions that help students explore and justify their design decisions.

Shailja holds degrees in Graphic Design from MAAER’S MIT, Pune, and Design Management from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She is currently advancing her thesis work to publish a UX data privacy framework that helps teams integrate privacy practices into the UX design process.

Claudia Scaff is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design. She holds an M.F.A. in Graphic Design from Iowa State University and a B.A. in Industrial Design from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado in São Paulo, Brazil. Claudia has worked as a designer for multinational corporations, while also maintaining a creative practice that serves local clients and nonprofit organizations. Both her classes and her study abroad programs to her native Brazil feature collaborations with nonprofits, integrating their design needs into the classroom by creating branding, advertising, and promotional campaigns.

These partnerships have provided students with valuable professional development opportunities, allowing them to showcase their work and build professional relationships. Claudia’s research has been published in international journals and presented at both national and international conferences. Her areas of research and creative interests include graphic design practice and education, sustainability, package design, and Brazilian design.

Born in 1980 in Detroit, Michigan, Jason John grew up in Northeastern Pennsylvania. He received a BFA in painting from Kutztown University and an MFA in painting and drawing from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He also studied at The Waichulis Studio (now called Ani Art Academies). 

Jason has been affiliated with Principle Gallery in Alexandria, VA and Arcadia Gallery in New York and Los Angeles.  He is currently represented by 33 Contemporary Gallery in Miami, FL. Jason’s work has been on the front covers of Blue Canvas Magazine, Art Calendar, Poets and Artists Magazine, Visual Arts Overture Magazine, and Weave Magazine.  Jason’s work has been featured in American Arts Quarterly, American Art Collector Magazine, Manifest Gallery’s International Painting books 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, Studio Visit Magazine, Creative Quarterly Magazine, Create Magazine, and Aesthetica Magazine.  Jason participated in the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville’s exhibition ‘Get Real’, curated by Ben Thompson and was included in the Huntsville Museum of Art’s exhibition, Red Clay Survey. In 2024, Jason won first prize in the Alexandria Museum of Art’s Annual Juried Competition. Jason has participated in 100 exhibitions throughout the world in the last 10 years.  Jason is now Associate Professor at ����AV��Ƶ.

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Jacob Z. Wan is a contemporary bookbinder who creates mixed-media conceptual books to celebrate the importance of oneself. He was a finalist for the 2022 MCBA Prize and his books have been collected by many universities and museum collections. He holds an MFA from the University of Central Florida, and he has exhibited at the Florida Biennial, Art Fields, International Art of the Book show, and internationally. Wan moved to the USA from China in 2014, and currently, he teaches at the ����AV��Ƶ.

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David Fenner – Professor of Philosophy and Art - joined ����AV��Ƶ as a visiting assistant professor in 1992. In 1995-96 he was moved to a tenure track line but spent that year as Visiting Fellow of Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. In 2001 he earned tenure; in 2008 he was promoted to professor; in 2010 he was elected Distinguished Professor by the faculty. He served as interim chair of the Philosophy Department, dean of the Graduate School, associate dean of Arts & Sciences, and president of the Faculty Association.

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Ethics in Education (New York, NY: Garland, 1999).  Paperback edition:  New York, NY: Routledge, 2017.
Ethics and the Arts (New York, NY: Garland, 1995).  Paperback edition:  New York, NY: Routledge, 2014.

Alexander Diaz is an Associate Professor of Photography at the ����AV��Ƶ. Diaz’s artwork is a marriage of documentary photography and conceptual art. He utilizes photography to express his concerns and to comment on environmental issues, consumerism, religion, and the particulars of place. His work has been exhibited at many institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art/Jacksonville, Norton Museum of Art, and Mobile Museum of Art.

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Christopher W. Trice is an Assistant Professor of Photography in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design; he joined the ����AV��Ƶ faculty in 2010. Raised in northwest Alabama, Trice earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, followed by a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has over twenty years of experience teaching photography and digital imaging, and was a recipient of the ����AV��Ƶ Faculty Association Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award  in 2023. His research interests include intersections of personal and cultural histories, American popular culture, Italian cinema, and historic photographic processes.

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Sheila Goloborotko has sustained a restless, relentless auto-ethnographic multidisciplinary practice that allows singular ideas to emerge in the guise of numerous artistic actions. The resulting works transgress the boundaries of mediums and employ symbols of transience, impermanence, and stasis—the Life and Death of natural systems—founding documents, language, and democracy. She weaves these subject matters—an amalgamation of our human connection and collective history—to create single pieces that often develop into groupings—changeable, shifting, active, unsettled. The work demands a mixture of unconscious and highly personal resonances from the viewer: it is cathartic, honest, self-searching; complex, and yet easily accessible, direct. It invites us to find meaning and to engage in important questions about our relationship with nature, information, and one another.

Recent presentations of her work have been held at Florida Prize for Contemporary Art at the Orlando Museum (2024); Florida Biennial at the Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL (2022); International Print Center of New York, New York, NY (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL (2020); Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA (2020); Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY (2020); Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond, VA (2019); Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ (2018); Museu da Diversidade, São Paulo, Brazil (2017); Centro Cultural Atarazanas, Veracruz, Mexico (2016); Museus Castro Maia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2006); and Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (2004).

 Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art (ZMA) at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA; Florean Museum, Baia Mare,  Romania; Mashida Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Museo del Grabado, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museu Douro, Peso da Régua, Portugal; Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY; Port Authority of New York, New York, NY; San Francisco Modern Art Museum, San Francisco, LA; Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; The New York Public Library, New York, NY; University of Sharjah Collection, Sarjah, United Arab Emirates; Yale Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, New Haven, CT, among several permanent collections in museums in Brazil.

Goloborotko was a recipient of an Art Ventures Community Foundation Grant (2022), International Fine Art Print Dealers Association Grant (2021), and the New Yok Foundations for the Arts (2012). She was an artist-in-residence at the Moving the Margins in Jacksonville (2021), and at the Tamarind Institute (2015). She was nominated for a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship (2023). She earned an MFA from Brooklyn College in 1985.

 Andrew Kozlowski is an artist and educator based in Jacksonville FL.  His work expands printmaking encompassing prints, workshops, mail art, comics, zines,  community engagement, and publishing.

He has been a faculty member at the ����AV��Ƶ since 2017.  His work has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions including solo shows at ArtSpace in Raleigh NC, 1708 Gallery in Richmond VA, and Yellow House Gallery in Jacksonville.  His work has been part of publications including Swing Literary Journal, Saw Palm Literary Journal, and the Hand Magazine.  In 2023 he was awarded a Art Ventures Individual Artist grant by the Community Foundation of North East Florida.  He also helps organize the Duval Comics and Zines fest- an annual showcase of local, regional, and national talent focused on self publishing that regularly attracts thousands of guests.

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Jenny K. Hager is Chair of the Department of Art, Art History, and Design and a Professor of Sculpture at the ����AV��Ƶ. Inspired by dreams and curiosities, Hager’s work emphasizes collaboration and community. Her art has been shown internationally, with exhibitions in Germany, Poland, Wales, Latvia, and Italy, as well as large-scale projects across the U.S., including a 20-foot giraffe for the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens.

Since moving to Jacksonville in 2006, Hager, collaboratively with Lance Vickery,  has installed over 90 sculptures in the city. In 2014, she founded Sculpture Walk Jax, a nonprofit bringing outdoor sculpture to public spaces. She also directs the ����AV��Ƶ Seaside Sculpture Park, showcasing student work annually.

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Aisling Millar was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1982 and immigrated to the Vero Beach, FL in August 1994. She moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 2000 to attend the ����AV��Ƶ. In 2005 she graduated with Bachelors of Arts in Education and in 2011 she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics and Sculpture. She received her MFA in Sculpture from East Carolina University in 2014. Aisling was the Instructor of Record at East Carolina University while working towards her MFA. She is currently a Visiting Instructor in Sculpture at the ����AV��Ƶ. She has worked for many arts organizations within the Jacksonville community including: Duval County Public Schools, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Cathedral Arts Project, the Ponte Vedra Cultural Center, Art with a Heart at Wolfon Children’s Hospital, and the Foundation Academy. 

Aisling has completed public sculpture commissions locally for the City of Amelia Island, the City of Atlantic Beach, the Jax Chamber, Community Hospice Alice and T. O'Neal Douglas Center for Caring at Baptist Medical Center downtown, the Jacksonville Jaguars Miller Electric Performance Center, along with many private businesses.  In 2020, Aisling was the recipient of an Art Ventures Grant from the Community Foundation and in 2024 she received an Individual Artist Grant from the City of Jacksonville and the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville.  Her work is also in public collections in Greenville, NC, and Macon, GA.  She creates outdoor steel sculpture that are exhibited throughout the eastern United States. Along with sculpture, Aisling also creates cast iron wall hangings, ceramic sculptures and mosaics for both public and private commissions.

Lance Vickery is an Associate Professor of Sculpture at the ����AV��Ƶ and practicing sculptor. Lance uses his digital fabrication knowledge balanced by his traditional fabrication experience to create distinctive sculptures tailored to intent and attuned to space. He has designed, built, and installed numerous large-scale public sculptures around the country, including Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi. These works range in materials and concepts, from wood to stainless steel and from nonrepresentational to figurative.

Lance has a collaborative studio practice (Havic Studios) with his partner in all things, Jenny K. Hager. Team Havic ethos is a synergistic creative practice. Jenny and Lance inform each other in design and execution, playing off each other's strengths and passions. This has produced a diverse aesthetic and skillset that is greater than the sum of its parts.

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