Fibers & Material Studies Faculty

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Fibers & Material Studies Faculty

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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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    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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  • Adjunct Professor
    Fibers & Material Studies

    Rachel M. Barnes

    • Email: rachel.barnes0003@temple.edu
    • Website: www.rachelmbarnes.com

    • Rachel M. Barnes is a fiber and multimedia artist based in Philadelphia. Her practice uses repeat patterns to illustrate time’s translation of personal and social ideas, which connotes how culture and ideas are constantly changing while also repeating.

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

  • Adjunct Professor
    Fibers & Material Studies

    Frances Beaver

    • Email: francesbeaver@temple.edu
    • Website: www.vimeo.com/jfbeaver

    • Frances Beaver is a Queer Philadelphia-based video artist who uses universe construction and storytelling to develop elaborate mythologies for contemporary Pennsylvania life. She was a founding member of New Boone Artist Collective & Gallery.

      MFA, University of Pennsylvania
      BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University

  • Adjunct Professor
    Fibers & Material Studies

    Poppy DeltaDawn

    • Email: daindeltadawn@temple.edu
    • Website: www.daindeltadawn.com

    • Poppy DeltaDawn is an interdisciplinary artist making work about the queer landscape and how to connect to it through disseminating information like the instructional video and the diagram. They are the Associate Director of Geary, a Manhattan gallery that exhibits emerging and mid-career artists.

      MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art
      BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art

  • Adjunct Professor
    Fibers & Material Studies

    Paige Fetchen

    • Email: paige.fetchen@temple.edu
    • Website: www.paigefetchen.com

    • Paige Fetchen works across a wide array of media, from sculpture to traditional textile methods. She is currently a curator at High Tide Gallery, focusing on a critical dialogue between artists and our local communities through workshops, performances and exhibitions.

      BFA, University of the Arts

  • Adjunct Professor
    Fibers & Material Studies

    Joshua Graupera

    • Website: www.joshgraupera.com

    • Josh Graupera is a Philadelphia-based artist and activist. His practice explores the relationship between visual art and community organizing, using painting, screen printing and socially-engaged processes.

      Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
      BFA, Millersville University

  • 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