SXU Visual Arts CenterFaculty Profiles
Alison Fraunhar
PhD, Associate Professor
Dr. Fraunhar teaches courses in Modern and Contemporary, Latin American and Women's Art and Film Studies. She has published numerous articles on Cuban visual culture and is presently at work on a book manuscript examining the intersection of race and gender in Cuban national identity.
Monte Gerlach
MS, Department Head, Associate Professor
Monte Gerlach teaches courses in photography and digital imagery. In his free time he is a professional photographer with local and national clients. His latest photographic projects are infrared landscapes and a series he calls Salvation and Destruction. Monte is the author of several books: The Ballet of Violence, The Flash of Recognition, and Street Portraits. Additionally, he has published photographs in numerous journals and magazines. Currently, Monte is working on a third book titled On Display, Observations by Monte Gerlach.
Jayne Hileman
Associate Professor
Jayne Hileman teaches courses in design, sculpture, and collage and assemblage. She acts as Art Education Coordinator for Art and Design, and also teaches Art Education Methods. Her studio practice includes three-dimensional constructions, working on a graphic novel, and contributing both visual mapping and written commentary to Notes for a Peoples Atlas, published by AREA Chicago.
Nathan Peck
MFA, Associate Professor
Nathan Peck is a digital art professor at Saint Xavier University and maintains a relentless exhibition schedule in a wide range of art media. After graduating from the inter-media program at the University of Iowa, he has since employed the philosophy of cross-media-hybridization, especially in terms of site-specific and process-based approaches to art making. Nathan has been an active member of many collaborative and performance art groups in the last 8 years in Chicago and is a co-founder of the Chicago Art Department.
Most recent work can be found at:
Rook TV
Past work:
Nathan Peck
Rook Room
Cathie Ruggie Saunders
MFA, MA, Associate Professor, Gallery Director
Cathie Ruggie Saunders teaches courses in Printmaking, Drawing, Artists Books, and the capstone Art and Design thesis course Senior Seminar. She is the Director of the SXU Gallery and the VAC Student Gallery. Her own artistic practice focuses upon the production of hand printed, illustrated and bound limited edition artists' books under the imprint of The Hosanna Press. She is currently working on a letterpress text to be published by A&C Black of London.
Brent Wall
MFA, Associate Professor
Professor Wall teaches courses in painting and drawing. His interests are rooted in the work of the French colorists of the School of Paris in the late 19th century, mixed with a healthy enthusiasm for the home grown Chicago notion about making art from the stuff of life.
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