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Petra Soesemann

Title Professor / Chair of the Foundation Environment
Department Foundation
Phone 216.421.7930

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Courses  Charette: Self & Other Voices | Design I | Design II

Degree MFA, Sculpture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago BFA, Sculpture, Cleveland Institute of Art Graduate work in Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois; summer study in Landscape Architecture at Harvard University; summer study at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

Petra Soesemann is a Professor and Chair of the Foundation Environment. In 2009 she was granted a year-long sabbatical leave to focus on her creative practice at the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program. Selected awards include Artist-in-Residence at the Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain; Fulbright Fellowship to study Incan architecture in Peru; exhibition Grant to Sao Paulo, Brazil; travel grants to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala to research Mayan art and architecture; and travel grants to Turkey to study Islamic art and architecture as well as contemporary art. She has also taken CIA students to Mexico, Germany and Italy on team-taught foreign study trips. Soesemann’s recent work explores the conventional relationships between seeing and representing; her fabric constructions often manipulate light and color to bring perception into conflict with uncertainty, engaging the basic mechanisms of “mind seeking meaning” as a process of consciousness.

Sarah Kabot

Title Assistant Professor/Chair of Drawing
Department Foundation
Phone 216.421.7931

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Courses  100 Drawings | BFA Statement & Exhibition | Drawing I | DRG: Intro to Adv Observ, Illusionism, Concept

Degree MFA, Fiber, Cranbrook Academy of Art; BFA, The University of Michigan.

Sarah`s work has been exhibited in galleries such as Vermont Studio Center; the Cultural Center of Polecni, Pieksamaki, Finland; Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland Institute of Art; and SPACES gallery, Cleveland, among others. Her awards have included a CAA Tuition Grant (2000-2002); a Merit Scholarship and Grant to the Vermont Studio Center (1999); and a Merit Scholarship for the University of Michigan (1998).

Lane Cooper

Title Associate Professor/Chair of Painting
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Phone 216.421.7357

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Courses  Art & Design History I: Ancient - 18th C. | BFA Statement & Exhibition

Degree BS, University of North Alabama; MA, Art History from The University of Alabama at Birmingham; MFA, Painting from The University of Alabama

Lane Cooper is an artist working through painting, sound, video, text and on occasion performance. Her work has been presented in venues ranging from Birmingham, Alabama to Madrid, Spain. In 2009 she participated in a Residency at The Banff Centre located in Alberta, Canada and in the fall of 2010 she was an Artist-in-Residence at Gallery Aferro in Newark, New Jersey. Where she will be exhibiting as part of the 2011/2012 season. She holds a Masters in Art History with an emphasis in Contemporary Art and an MFA in Painting. She has been teaching since 1989. Since the spring of 2001 she has taught full-time at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Ms. Cooper currently serves as the Head of Painting.

Courses  100 Drawings | BFA Production and Independent Research: Production, Conveyance and Presentation. | Collage & Assemblage | Drawing I | Drawing II | DRG: Intro to Adv Observ, Illusionism, Concept | Painted Bodies: The Contemporary Figure | Painting: Constructing Narratives

Degree MFA., Kent State University; BFA., Pratt Institute

Royden is a Visiting Instructor in Painting, Foundation, and Drawing at The Cleveland Institute of Art. He has tought at Kent State, Oberlin Colledge, and Case Westerjn Reserve University. Royden's work has shown in galleries in Ohio, Utah, and Germany.

Courses  Drawing I

Courses  Design I | Design Lab | Drawing I | Intro Printmkg: Image Construct'n II: Color/Form

Kevin Kautenburger

Title Associate Professor
Department Foundation
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Courses  Charette: Collaboration & Community | Design I | Design II | Mapping & Memory: Spacial Constructions

Degree MFA, Ceramics from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University; BFA, Studio Art from Kent State

Kevin Kautenburger has been teaching at the Cleveland Institute of Art since 2001. He also taught for ten years in Philadelphia. Among his awards are a Pew Fellowship and the Robert Mann Award in Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art May Show. He has exhibited widely in the Midwest and at the Delaware Biennial. Additionally, he won the Nathan Margolis Award for Ceramics while pursuing his masters.

Courses  Drawing I | Drawing II | Figure Drawing