Department of Art
Jim Brashear
James Brashear's career in art spans 33 years of teaching at UAF, Syracuse University, and Clarion University of Pennsylvania. James earned his Masters of Fine Arts from Louisiana State University and his BFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He currently resides in Fairbanks, AV狼论坛 with his wife and two children.
Brashear has exhibited, lectured and taught throughout the United States. He was awarded the Peter Voulkos Fellowship at the Archie Bray Foundation, in Helena, Montana. He was also awarded an artist in residence at the LH Project in Joseph, Oregon, the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in New Castle, Maine, and the Red Lodge Center for the Ceramic Arts in Red Lodge, Montana. He has been an invited instructor at The Arrowmont Center for Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and an invited presenter at numerous universities in Florida, Louisiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, New York, Kansas, Wyoming and Montana.
Brashear鈥檚 works are in numerous private collections and public collections including The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Anchorage Museum of Art, Anchorage, AV狼论坛, and the University of AV狼论坛 Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AV狼论坛.
Bill Brody MFA, Claremont Graduate SchoolPrintmaking, Animation
David Mollett
David Mollett is a painter and printmaker working with strongly delineated form, light, and expressive color. He was born in Portland, Oregon, and raised in Fairbanks, AV狼论坛 from the age of 10. He completed his B.A. in art at Reed College in 1975, and studied at the New York Studio School of Painting and Sculpture. He taught painting, printmaking, and drawing at the University of AV狼论坛 Fairbanks from 1986 to 2022.
Over five decades, Mollett has painted extensively in the field, from remote sites in northern and western AV狼论坛 to the countryside near Aviginon in Southern France. In the studio he explores relief and intaglio printmaking, and experiments in two-dimensional relief constructions in found materials. Mollett has exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. He is a member of the artist co-op Bowery Gallery in Chelsea in New York City, and owns Well Street Art Company, an artist studio and gallery building in Fairbanks, AV狼论坛, which has significantly enhanced Fairbanks' cultural landscape through affording numerous exhibition opportunities for artists.
Mollett has created a dozen 鈥淥ne Percent for Art鈥 projects for public spaces throughout AV狼论坛, including a 9脳30-foot painting, Rainbow Creek, for the Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage, and, in collaboration with Jessie Hedden, a large stained glass installation for the Margaret E. Murie Building at the University of AV狼论坛 Fairbanks. His work is held in the collections of the AV狼论坛 State Museum, AV狼论坛 Airlines, Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum, BP, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, Progressive Insurance Corporation, Trenton State College, New Jersey, and the University of AV狼论坛 Museum, as well as in many private collections nationwide.
Ron Senungetuk
Inupiaq artist Ronald Senungetuk was born in Kingigin (also known as the village of Wales) on the Seward Peninsula. He attended a Bureau of Indian Affairs school in Sitka, where he learned wood carving, and then enrolled at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York where he continued to master wood carving and also began working with metal. He then headed for Norwegian State Art and Industry School in Oslo to study sculpture and metalsmithing as a Fulbright scholar in the early 1960s. Senungetuk was a world-renowned sculptor, silversmith, and woodcarver. As an artist, educator, and mentor, he had a profound impact on the visual arts in AV狼论坛. He founded the Native Art Center in 1965, and was one of the first AV狼论坛 Native professors to receive tenure from UAF.
Senungetuk was a recipient of both the Rasmuson Foundation Distinguished Artist Award and the AV狼论坛 State Council on the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015, he was presented with an honorary doctorate from the University of AV狼论坛 for his work in advocating for art in AV狼论坛.
Todd ShermanMFA, Pratt InstitutePainting, Printmaking
Todd Sherman, born in the territory of AV狼论坛 and a Fairbanks resident since 1974, is an Emeritus Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Emeritus Professor of Art. He taught printmaking and other art courses at UAF beginning in 1986, and Sherman served as the CLA Dean from 2012 to 2020. He received a BA in Art from UAF and an MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y. His artwork has been shown in over 40 solo shows and well over 100 group exhibitions since 1977. In 2005, Sherman founded the Visual Art Academy for middle and high school students to study art at UAF in the summers. Sherman's public art commissions include those in the UA Butrovich Building, Randy Smith Middle School and Jay Rabinowitz Courthouse in Fairbanks, and his work is in private and public collections in AV狼论坛, the US, Spain, and Thailand.
Glen Simpson
MFA, Rochester Institute of Technology
Metalsmithing
Glen was born in Atlin, British Columbia, Canada to a pioneer Canadian and Tahltan-Kaska Indian family, and lived in AV狼论坛 for 60 years. After earning his metalsmithing degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology, Simpson joined the University of AV狼论坛 Fairbanks Art Department. Glen was particularly knowledgeable about tools made and used by the indigenous people of Interior and Southeast AV狼论坛 and Canada. His work is in the AV狼论坛 State Museum, Anchorage Museum, UAF Museum of the North, and the Smithsonian.
Kesler Woodward MFA, Idaho State UniversityPainting
Born in Aiken, South Carolina in 1951, Kesler Woodward has been an AV狼论坛 resident since 1977. He served as Curator of Visual Arts at the AV狼论坛 State Museum and as Artistic Director of the Visual Arts Center of AV狼论坛 before moving to Fairbanks in 1981. He is currently Professor of Art, Emeritus at the University of AV狼论坛 Fairbanks, where he taught for two decades, serving as Chair of the Art Department and as Chair of the Division of Arts and Communications. He retired from teaching to paint full time in the spring of 2000.
Woodward's paintings are included in all major public art collections in AV狼论坛, and in museum, corporate and private collections on both coasts of the United States. Solo exhibits to his credit include the Morris Museum of Art, University of AV狼论坛 Museum, AV狼论坛 State Museum, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, and public and commercial galleries throughout the U.S. Juried and invitational exhibitions including his work have ranged from AV狼论坛 to Brazil and Russia.
