Fine Arts Faculty

As a Fine Arts major, you’ll learn directly from working artists, art educators and curators who run galleries, create public art installations and who have exhibited in venues ranging from Philadelphia Museum of Art to the International Museum of Ceramics in Italy, and far beyond.

Asuka Goto, Chair of Fine Arts, Associate Professor of Fine Arts

FULL-TIME FACULTY | Fine Arts program head and associate professor who has received awards such as the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, NYFA Artists Fellowship and Joan Mitchell MFA Grant. Her 2018 solo show at Tiger Strikes Asteroid NY, lost in translation, was named one of the “Top 15 Brooklyn Art Shows” of the year by Hyperallergic.

Robert Goodman, Associate Professor

FULL-TIME FACULTY | Associate professor of Fine Arts and nationally exhibited painter who explores the relationships and tensions between spaces, bodies and materials in painting as well as public works and installations, and whose and work was recently acquired by the Woodmere Art Museum.

Alice Oh, Professor, Fine Arts/ Foundation

FULL-TIME FACULTY | Fine Arts professor whose work is included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leeway Foundation, Temple University and Yale University. Greatly influenced by nature and biology, her artistic method focuses on developing paintings as a “dialogue” between artist and artwork.

Maria Albornoz, Adjunct

Hammam Aldouri, Adjunct

Recipient of a Helena Rubinstein Fellowship in Critical Studies from the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, and whose writings on philosophy, politics and art have appeared in various journals.

Timothy Belknap, Adjunct

Co-director of Philadelphia’s Icebox Project Space, an avant-garde gallery focusing on experimental sound, video and movement, whose curated exhibitions have garnered attention from the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and ArtNews.

Elaine Erne, Adjunct

Co-founder and co-director of Star Wheel Printers, a Philadelphia-based printmaking collaborative, and recipient of multiple artist fellowships for her works on paper and works in glass.

Heidi Ratanavanich, Adjunct

Visual artist, carpenter and educator whose work uses a range of media—particularly sculpture, printed matter and gatherings—to address the politics of place and space, especially the intersection of food sovereignty, Thai diaspora, ecology and economy.