FACULTY

Jackson Boelts (Professor) has been a creative director and designer for over 25 years and currently a President and Chief Creative Director with Boelts Design, Inc. He has won numerous international, national and regional awards for his art direction, design, and illustration. His work has been in Graphis, CA, Print, How and Novum magazines. His work can be viewed at www.boeltsdesign.com. He is also exploring large scale watercolor and digital landscapes.

 

 

 

 

David Christiana (Professor) has illustrated 18 books (four of which he wrote) and his illustration has been chosen for The Society of Illustrators Exhibition and publication (New York), American Illustration Annual and Applied Arts Magazine Annual. He exhibits his painting and drawing internationally and is currently working on a project in an interactive digital format.

 

 

 

 

Mike Holcomb has been a media/communications designer for more than 30 years. Before coming to the University of Arizona, he established the award-winning New Media Center at the University of Oregon Riverfront Research Park. He is an artist, art director, animator, and digital designer with experience in fixed and networked multimedia, television, film and media events. He's served as a design and media consultant to Fortune 500 companies and his work has been published by Prentice Hall, Addison-Wesley, Print Magazine, International Design Magazine and SIGGRAPH. His Internet work has been shown at the National Center for Design/Smithsonian, the Wired Worlds Gallery, British National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, and the New York Expo of Short Film and Video.

 

 

 

 

Kelly Leslie (Associate Professor) works in both print and digital media. She is interested in design as an agent of change as well as the development of sustainable practices in design. Her current work deals with cultural, social and personal perspectives on aging, gender, and domestic ritual. She is the the faculty advisor of "Studio A", an in-house design studio serving clients of the School of Art and College of Fine Arts as well as the Faculty Advisor to the UA student chapter of AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts).She is also the current Division Chair of Visual Communications.

 

 

 

 

Ellen McMahon (Associate Professor) explores the social and psychological aspects of design and the cultural impact of representational practices. She is currently working on a series of books and videos about the politics of intimacy in the mother-child relationship. She received the 2002 College of Fine Arts.

 

 

 

 

Karen Zimmermann (Associate Professor) has specialized in the digital arts since the mid 1980s She has worked in animation, design, and art using predominantly digital process. She has published and lectured extensively about the combination of art and technology and new media. She has recently developed a seminar in New Media theory. She is actively involved with the College Art Association, serving on the Student Emerging Professional Committee. She is also on the Board of Advisors for the Phoenix Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.

 

 

 

 

Philip Zimmermann (Assistant Professor) whose primary concerns involve visual narrative and the time-based use of text and image. He has been creating artists’ books for more than 30 years. He says: “In addition to being a great vehicle for communicating directly to an audience, artists’ books have the wonderful advantage of being time-based like video, animation and film. Static pictures on a wall seem an impoverished way of making an artistic statement after one works with sequence, rhythm, movement, translucency, and the narrative arc.” He has shown extensively nationally and internationally, and among other awards, has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships.