Meet Our
Visual Studies Faculty
Associate Professor of Instruction and Program Head, Visual Studies
Sculpture, Visual Studies
Andrea Ray, PhD
- Email: andrea.ray0002@temple.edu
- Website: http://www.andrearay.net
Andrea Ray has an interdisciplinary practice that often include sculpture, sound installations, writing, and digital objects. Ray's practice approaches the subjects of kinship, attachment, and care, attempting to repair an alienated subjectivity through what Ray terms expanded affinities. By focusing on the possibility of creating folds in time through affective contact between history and people, Ray conceives of cross-temporal conversations that create new bonds and...
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Associate Professor and Program Head of Printmaking
Printmaking, Visual Studies
Amze J. Emmons
- Email: amze.emmons@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-777-9126
- Office: Tyler 260C
- Website: www.amzeemmons.com
ON LEAVE, FALL 2023
Amze Emmons is a multi-disciplinary artist with a background in printmaking and drawing. His research results in prints, drawings and paintings that explore systems of local experience, architecture, vernacular design and print culture. He also produces temporary collaborative projects that investigate the potential of the multiple.
He has held solo exhibitions in Austin, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco, among other locations. His work has been included in group exhibitions in innovative commercial...- Read More
Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Foundations, Visual Studies
Nichola Kinch
- Email: nmkinch@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-896-4197
- Office: Tyler 210R
- Website: www.nicholakinch.com
ON LEAVE, SPRING 2024
Nichola Kinch is an artist whose creative production is propelled by technical investigations that span pre-photographic practices to computer aided design and manufacturing. Her practice centers on the creation of objects and installations that explore image production as a metaphor for a variety of fictional constructs.
Kinch’s commitment to learning new processes is uniquely aligned with her interest in innovative curriculum development in the areas of foundation studies and interdisciplinary practice. She...- Read More
Associate Professor of Visual Studies
Visual Studies, Art History
Leah Modigliani, PhD
- Email: lmodigliani@temple.edu
- Office: Tyler 201B
- Website: www.leahmodigliani.net
Leah Modigliani is Associate Professor of Visual Studies at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She is an artist and scholar with transdisciplinary engagements informed by fine arts, art history, critical geography, urban studies, and politics. Modigliani’s work represents the liberatory potential (right to the city) and neoliberal revanchism (displacement, punitive laws) of urban experience. In artwork she has dwelled upon eviction ("How long can we tolerate this? An incomplete record from 1933-1999," 2016-2017); cities destroyed by war ("The City in Her...
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Assistant Professor
Photography, Visual Studies
Alex Strada
- Email: alexandra.strada@temple.edu
- Website: www.alexstrada.com
Alex Strada is a multimedia visual artist, filmmaker, and educator. Through film/video, installation, sound and orality, and social practice, her work explores questions of collectivity, critical legal studies, and political transformation. Her projects are often produced collaboratively and center transdisciplinary engagement with scholars, activists, organizations, and students.
She has shown her work widely, including at the Queens Museum, NY; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Times Square Arts, NY; The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,...- Read More
Adjunct Professor
Painting, Visual Studies
Jazmyn Crosby
- Email: jazmynmay@gmail.com
- Website: www.jazmyncrosby.com
Jazmyn Crosby works in a wide range of media. Her work explores distances mediated by technology. She engages with the possibilities waiting to be gleaned from everyday discarded objects asking, what can be generated from waste? In addition to making art, she is an organizer, a musician and a founding member of the GRAFT gallery/collective.
MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
BFA, The University of New Mexico