MFA Faculty

Alisha B Wormsley is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer. Her work is about collective memory and the synchronicity of time, specifically through the stories of women of color. Wormsley’s work has been honored and supported with a number of awards and grants to support projects: The People Are The Light, afronaut(a) film and performance series, Homewood Artist Residency (recipient of the mayor’s public art award), the Children of NAN video art and archival project, There Are Black People in the Future body of work.

Shikeith (b. 1989; Philadelphia, PA) is a multidisciplinary artist whose complex practice interrogates sociopolitical structures that oppress marginalized communities, drawing on hauntology and African diasporic spiritual traditions to create magical realist photographs that challenge gender norms and engage viewers with invisible forces shaping perception. He earned a BA in Integrative Arts from Pennsylvania State University and an MFA from Yale School of Art, with work held in permanent collections including the Carnegie Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, and Baltimore Museum of Art, among others.

Lenka Clayton is an interdisciplinary artist whose work considers, exaggerates, and alters the accepted rules of everyday life. Clayton is also the founder of An Artist Residency in Motherhood, a self-directed, open-source artist residency program that takes place inside the homes and lives of artists who are also parents.

Jon Rubin is an interdisciplinary artist who creates interventions into public life that reimagine individual, group, and institutional behavior. Projects include Conflict Kitchen (2010-17), The Last Billboard (2010-18), The Royal Danish Protesters (2011), and The Independent School of Art (2004-06). He has exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Mercosul Biennial, Brazil; the Shanghai Biennial; the Carnegie International, The Lyon Biennale; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden; Sazmanab Center for Contemporary Art, Tehran; as well as in backyards, in living rooms, and on street corners. Rubin has received awards from the Art Matters Foundation, the Creative Work Fund, Americans for the Arts, the Creative Capital Award and was a finalist for the International Award for Participatory Art.

Elizabeth Chodos is the founder and director of the Institute of Contemporary Art Pittsburgh, assistant professor of Curatorial Studies in the School of Art, and the public art curator for Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to that, she served as executive and creative director at Ox-Bow, school of art and artists’ residency. She is the curator of Dara Birnbaum: Journey in 2022; Spirits Roaming on the Earth, the first major monographic survey on Jacolby Satterwhite in 2021; the survey, Andrea Zittel: An Institute of Investigative Living in 2019; and the thematic exhibition Paradox: The Body in the Age of AI in 2018.

Dr. Andrew Thomas Dunn received his Ph.D. in English from the CUNY Graduate Center. His research broadly explores the intersections of media, technology, and aesthetics, and his dissertation, Post-Truth and the Poetics of Attitude, took an ecological approach to the study of contemporary media that earned him The Calder Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship. He holds an M.A. in English from CUNY Brooklyn College, an MLIS from Rutgers University, and a BA from Bowdoin College. Most recently, he is the author of “Inside the Swarms: Personalization, Gamification, and the Networked Public Sphere,” published in Platforms, Protests, and the Challenge of Networked Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan 2020).