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Faculty

Margarita Cabrera, Visiting Assistant Professor

MFA, Combined Media, Hunter College, CUNY, NY
BFA, Hunter College, CUNY, NY

Margarita Cabrera was born in Monterey, Mexico, and lives and works in El Paso, Texas. Her sculpture has been included in various exhibitions, among them Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (Spring, 2008); Nexus Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX; Trabajo Mexicano/Mexican Work, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID and Domestic Odyssey, San Jose Museum of Art, CA. In 2008 she was a resident artist at ArtPace, San Antonio, TX and had her fourth solo exhibition at Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY. Cabrera is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant.

Paul Kittelson, Associate Professor & Area Coordinator

BA, University of California, Santa Barbara
MFA, University of Houston

Since 1983, Professor Kittelson has shown his work regionally and nationally in numerous one-person and group exhibitions. His work was selected for: "Contemporary Art Houston" at the Shanghai Museum of Fine Art, Shanghai China (2006), "Food Matters - Explorations in Contemporary Art" at the Katona Museum of Art in New York (2003) and The Altoids Curiously Strong Collection at the New Museum in New York (1999). He has received a Creative Artist Program Award (1997) from the Cultural Arts Council Houston, An NEA Arts-In-Education Grant (1996) and a Mid- America Arts Alliance Grant (1989).

Kittelson participates in both traditional exhibits and public projects that have ranged from early site-specific works using discarded materials- "Stegosaurus" (1986) and "Mindless Competition" (1988)- to numerous community based projects: "Travisaurus" (1992), "Douglass Elementary"(1996) and Cunningham Elementary (1995). His more recent accomplishments include large-scale commissions at prominent locations in downtown Houston: "Bayou Beacons" (2001) and "Heritage Lanterns" (2005). Kittelson's expressive use of materials and witty sense of subject matter have carried over into his recent gallery exhibitions: "Bending Venus" (2004) and "Elsewhere" (2007) at Barbara Davis Gallery. Both series dealt with domestic imagery (food and furniture) in an absurd and evocative fashion that is characteristically Kittelson.

Noelle Mason, Assistant Professor

MFA, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
BA, University of California, Irvine
AA, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA

Noelle Mason has exhibited nationally and international including shows at 1a space in Hong Kong, Track 16 in Santa Monica, and the National Mexican Museum of Art. Noelle was raised in southern California and completed her undergraduate work at the University of California, Irvine. In 2005 Noelle earned an MFA and a graduating fellowship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Noelle is a recipient of an Illinois Art Council International Artist Grant, 1a space artist grant, the Jerome fellowship from the Franconia Sculpture Park and was a 2004 resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has recently had solo exhibitions at the Antena Gallery in Chicago and at the University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign.

In addition to her individual practice, Noelle has been a member of i.e., an international collective of 7 artists since 2005. In her trans-disciplinary practice Noelle transforms appropriated images, objects, and contexts to expose the advantages gained through the persuasive power of vision and representation. She spends her spare time skydiving and debating the advantages of x-ray vision verses invisibility.

Cory Wagner, Assistant Professor

BA, Montana State University-Billings
MFA, Rinehart School of Sculpture
MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art

Cory Wagner has exhibited widely in the Northwest, Mid-Atlantic and East Coast regions of the country including a recent two-person exhibition at Kendall Buster's studio gallery, Flat International, in Richmond, VA. His sculptures have been included in many group shows including exhibitions at School 33 Art Center, Maryland Art Place, and Area 405 in Baltimore; Montpelier Cultural Art Center in Laurel, MD; the Target Gallery in the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, VA; Conner Contemporary in Washington DC; Artspace, Grafix, and Northcutt Steele Gallery in Billings, MT; Moore College of Art and Design and Icebox Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, and the Laverne Krauss Gallery and Wilkenson House Gallery in Eugene, OR. Wagner recently completed a private commission in Brooklyn, NY and a public commission for the city of Baltimore. In 2006, Wagner was included in a group exhibition titled Bearable Lightness... Likeness at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York. Projects for 2007 include an outdoor sculpture project at the Arlington Art Center in Arlington, VA curated by Twylene Moyer, the Managing Editor of Sculpture Magazine and participation in a group exhibition at Repetti Gallery in Long Island City, New York.

In 2007, Wagner was the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center and is a current fellow with the CFEVA in Philadelphia, PA. Currently, he is also the Assistant Director of the Mica in TriBeCa Summer Intensive, a studio program open to undergraduate and graduate students from across the country held each summer in New York City.

Wagner's work can take a variety of forms and often defies categorization but includes installation, sound, video, performance, drawing, and traditional object making.