Fibers & Material Studies Faculty

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Fibers & Material Studies Faculty

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    Associate Professor of Instruction and Program Head
    Fibers & Material Studies, Art Education

    Delaney DeMott

    • Email: delaney.demott@temple.edu
    • Website: www.delaneydemott.com

    • Delaney DeMott is an artist and educator whose work highlights the “hiccups” that contribute to one’s lived experience. In addition to actively exhibiting her work, she teaches community-driven workshops at the Banana Factory in Bethlehem, PA and Goggleworks in Reading, PA. She has received many awards, residencies, and acknowledgments for her work in both the arts and education. DeMott’s work and lecture series have toured institutions such as Kutztown University, American University, Concordia University, University of Chicago, Delta College, Indiana University, SUNY Buffalo State and...

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    Associate Professor
    Fibers & Material Studies

    Jesse Harrod

    • Email: jesseharrod@gmail.com
    • Phone: 773-306-5910
    • Office: Tyler 250
    • Website: www.jesseharrod.com

    • ON LEAVE, FALL 2024

      Jesse Harrod (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working between Philadelphia, PA, and New York, NY. Their visual art practice encompasses sculpture, painting, stop-motion animation, and other media to reimagine forms of gendered, sexual, and disabled embodiment.
       
      Harrod’s latest solo exhibition, Tough Nut, was presented by Fleisher/Ollman Gallery in 2023. In 2021, Harrod was commissioned by the John Michael Kohler Arts Center to create a work responding to the Eugene Von Bruenchenhein collection in the...

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  • Adjunct Professor
    Fibers & Material Studies

    Anna Bockrath

    • Email: anna.elizabeth.bockrath@temple.edu
    • Website: http://annabockrath.com

    • Anna Bockrath is an artist and educator based in Philadelphia. Her interdisciplinary studio practice incorporates weaving, silkscreen printing, and sculpture. Her work asks questions about loss, care, and time. Bockrath’s work has been exhibited nationally, and she has completed residencies at Tiger Strikes Asteroid and The Philadelphia Museum of Art.

      MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture

      BS, Tyler School of Art and Architecture

  • Adjunct Professor
    Fibers & Material Studies

    Timothy Belknap

    • Email: belknap@temple.edu
    • Website: www.iceboxprojectspace.com

    • Timothy Belknap is a Philadelphia-based artist, curator and director of Icebox Project Space—a large warehouse space that showcases performance, video and experimental sound. For over 20 years, Timothy's body of work has been grounded in technology and robotics and features tales of death, folklore and existential dread. 

      MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
      BFA, University of Illinois Chicago

  • Adjunct Professor
    Fibers & Material Studies

    Christina Roberts

    • Email: mary.roberts@temple.edu
    • Website: www.marafikiarts.org

    • Christina Roberts is a Master Printer and educator specializing in interdisciplinary collaborative practice with 30 years of experience at The Fabric Workshop and Museum. She is co-founder of Marafiki Arts, a 501(c)3 community project in rural Kenya working with women’s groups to intersect culture, commerce and collaboration to promote sustainability.

      BFA, Moore College of Art and Design