Visual Arts: Related Content
![Jackson Moore](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Moore_Jackson_320x230.jpg?itok=khV9_3fD)
Composer, woodwind player, and teacher who is dedicated to social practice, musical collaboration, and the digital arts
![Melissa Thorne](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Thorne_Melissa_320x230.jpg?itok=wed48Flc)
Informed by the language of abstraction, Melissa Thorne makes portable and site-specific paintings that use pattern to reference notions of class, feminine subjectivity and social progress. She has exhibited her work internationally.
![man dressed in black looks at five rectangular art pieces](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/RoneShaver_InPlaceOfNow_0.png?itok=DMVOo5Ld)
In this section we feature work that came to fruition as an offshoot of primary work or intended work. An actor who turns to legal performance coaching, an installation artist turned furniture maker, a publisher putting out trading cards are among the examples of work that was made in the act of improvisation and curiosity.
![Image of Annette Lawrence](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Lawrence%2C%20Annette_320x230px_2.jpg?itok=kMCSjguF)
Annette Lawrence’s art transforms raw data into drawings, objects, and installations. Her work is grounded in examining what counts, how it is counted, and who is counting.
![Image of John Diebboll](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Diebboll_John_640x460.jpg?itok=opj45yiZ)
Principal designer for renowned architectural firm Michael Graves & Associates whose whimsical designs for fantasy pianos were published as a book, The Art of the Piano, in 2000
Artist whose work in sculpture and moving image argues for an ethics of taste
![Image of Maj Anya DeBear](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/DeBear_Maj_640x460.jpg?itok=af8KAtSL)
Textile designer and artist who is assistant designer at Mara Hoffman, who has developed textiles for Pierre Frey, Liberty of London, and other brands
![Image of Cora Cohen](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Cohen_Cora_640x460.jpg?itok=9ITIioxi)
Artist whose paintings, drawings, and altered x-rays engage with American and European abstraction
Photograph © Paula Gillen
![Image of Anne Thompson](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Thompson_Anne_320x230px_v2.jpg?itok=6MWWpLe3)
Anne Thompson is an artist whose curatorial practice focuses on political critique, site specificity and activities that move beyond institutional spaces.
![Image of Patricia Johanson](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Johanson_Patricia_640x460.jpg?itok=QjC9dL4p)
Environmental artist and Guggenheim winner whose work combines art, ecology, landscaping, and infrastructure
![Image of Cathy Weis](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Weis_Cathy_640x460.jpg?itok=h7_oDraS)
Bessie and Guggenheim award-winning dancer, choreographer, and videographer, and the artistic director of Cathy Weis Projects
Photograph © Richard Termine
![Image of Beatriz Santiago Muñoz](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Santiago%20Mu%C3%B1oz%2C%20Beatriz_320x230px%20.jpg?itok=z1vkyNL5)
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz is an artist whose expanded moving image work is entangled with Boalian theater, expanded cinema and feminist practices. She tends to work with non-actors, and incorporates improvisation into her process. Her recent work is on the sensorial unconscious of anti-colonial movements and feminist experiments with language and narrative.