Rebecca Vaughan

Interim Chair of Fine Arts
Head of Sculpture

• MFA, Carnegie Mellon University
• BFA, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Bernardinus College, Netherlands
• Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada

Ms. Vaughan has exhibited sculptural installations, mixed media conceptual projects and installations in:

• Colorado
• New York
• Los Angeles
• Mexico
• Canada

She has been published in the Chicago Art Journal and KnitKnit. Ms. Vaughan also received state grants from the Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities and the Ohio Arts Council.

Visit rebeccavaughan.com

Clark Richert

Head of Painting

• MFA, University of Colorado
• BFA, University of Kansas

Mr. Richert's group and solo gallery exhibitions span the last 25 years. In addition to public and corporate commissions, his work can be found in the following collections:

• Nelson-Atkins Museum
• Wichita Art Museum
• Denver Art Museum
• Amoco
• Container Corporation of America
• and many others.

Mr. Richert's work is currently represented in the following galleries:

• Rule Modern and Contemporary Gallery in Denver
• Cornell DeWitt Gallery in New York
• Linda Fairchild Gallery in San Francisco

Clark and his work was recently featured in the Denver Post:
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_7020492

Gary Emrich

Head of Photography + Video Art

• MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• BA, political science from the University of Colorado at Boulder

Gary has his own successful video production company and has been a photography instructor with Metropolitan State College and University of Colorado at Denver. He's an exhibiting multi-media artist and a recipient of many scholarships and grants. His work is represented in numerous public collections, including:

• Art Institute of Chicago
• Denver Art Museum

Martha Russo

• MFA, University of Colorado at Boulder
• BA, Psychology and Developmental Biology, Princeton University

Ms. Russo taught at Princeton University, Massachusetts College of Art, and MIT. She is also a recipient of the Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award.

Ms. Russo has received numerous grants, including a Colorado Council for the Arts Artist Fellowship Grant. She actively exhibits her work nationally and internationally.

Her work was recently reviewed in an article at artnet.com

Randy Brown

Randy’s career as an artist spans 25 years, and his works can be found within the collections of the Denver Art Museum and over forty major corporations and individuals. He has shown nationally and internationally in more than 60 museum and gallery exhibitions, and has consistently received widespread acclaim for his studies of iconic references of being human.

He has received residency fellowships and grants from the MacDowell Colony for the Arts, the Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, and the Museum of Outdoor Arts. He has curated exhibitions for The Invisible Museum and has served as editor of Eye-Level Magazine, an arts publication distributed nationally and internationally.

Irene McCray

Irene teaches in both the Fine Arts and Foundations departments.

• MFA, Vermont College of Norwich University
• BFA, Painting, Colorado State University

Irene has exhibited extensively throughout Colorado and the Western United States over the last 30+ years. A few of her many exhibitions include:

• 2009 Figure Matters, Four Person Exhibit
  Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
• 2008 Milash Representational Painting Award
  Boulder County Arts Alliance
• 2007 – Looking Back to Now, Solo Exhibit
  Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver, CO
• 2007 – Bravery of Being, two person exhibit
  Canyon Galleries, Boulder, CO
• 2005 - Irene Delka McCray, solo exhibit
  Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO
• 2004 - Telling Fantasies, solo exhbit
  Pirate, a Contemporary Art Oasis, Denver, CO
• Permanent Collection of the Denver Art Museum