Sculpture

Barry Underwood

Title Assistant Professor/Chair of Sculpture
Department Sculpture
Phone 216.421.7329

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Courses  BFA Production and Independent Research: Research and Production. | Fundamentals of Studio Lighting | Pho/VAT: Installation & The Constructed Object | Professional Practices | Visual Thinking in Contemporary Photography

Degree MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art; BA, Theater Arts, Indiana University Northwest; BA, Photography, Indiana University Northwest

Barry Underwood is an Assistant Professor and chair of the Sculpture Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Barry has received two Bachelor of Arts degrees from Indiana University Northwest in 1990 and 1992 for Theatre and Photography. He earned his Masters in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1995. His work has been exhibited internationally: Annual International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition, in Santa Monica, California, Photo Miami 2007 in Miami, Florida, and most recently Altered Landscape, a two person exhibition at Summit Gallery, in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Hi work is included in several corporate and private collections. Barry participated in a thematic residency Imaginary Places, at Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada in 2007. During the summer of 2008, Barry participated in an Artists` Enclave residency at I-Park in East Haddam, Connecticut. During the summer of 2009, he will be participating in a residency at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA. He will work alongside some 30 writers, musicians, dancers, choreographers and visual artists from all over the United States, as well as from Iceland, Italy, Poland, Portugal and the UK who are “working at the cutting edge of their disciplines,” according to the center. www.headlands.org.

Christina Cassara

Title Professor/Chair of Fiber + Material Studies
Department Sculpture
Phone 216.421.7381

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Courses  BFA Statement & Exhibition | Charette: Collaboration & Community | Fiber: Adv Studio: Topics in Contemp Art/Cult | Fiber: Sewing & Fabrication Processes | Fiber: Silkscreen | Freshmen Environmental Elective | Material Matters | The Extended Body

Degree MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art; BA, Barnard College, Columbia University

Tina Cassara received a BA in urban studies, emphasis in sociology from Barnard College, Columbia University. Following graduation, she moved to Viques, in the Juan region of Peru, and studied with Francisca Mayer from Black Mountain College, teaching natural dyes derived from indigenous plants to local weavers. Her travels continued through the Collao Altiplano region of Bolivia. While living in New York City, Cassara was co-editor of Sing Out! Magazine before attending Cranbrook Academy of Art, where she received an MFA from the fiber department. Cassara has since conducted extensive research into women’s labor in the American textile industry, issues of European migration and relocation, and more recently, the assigned value of labor in historically women-dominated textile industries in the South. In the late 1990s, Cassara began exploring the history of textile production. A strong advocate for organized labor, she began conducting interviews in LaGrange, GA and nearby mill towns, speaking with retired textile workers, factory owners, surviving union organizers, and members of textile heritage societies. In 2008–09, Cassara was awarded a sabbatical to further her research in the network of textile heritage societies, including travel to Cooleemee, NC, working with organizers of the Textile Heritage Initiative and members of the Troop County Historical Society. Cassara`s research also continues in Scranton, PA, where she is examining documents and photographs related to the growth of the mining and silk textile industries

Courses  Design I | Fiber: Digital Images, Patterns & Structures | Fiber: Silkscreen | Freshmen Environmental Elective | Image & Form I | String, Felt, & Thread | The Rhetorical Object: Conceptual Constructions | VAT: Aesthetics, Style,& Content | Weaving Patterns: Collective Activity

Sarah Paul

Title Assistant Professor/Chair of TIME-Digital Arts
Department Sculpture
Phone 216.421.7945

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Courses  Experimental Video | Experimental Video | Freshmen Environmental Elective | Introduction to Media Production and Integration

Sarah Paul is chair of the TIME-Digital Arts Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Kevin Kautenburger

Title Associate Professor
Department Sculpture
Phone 216.421.7931

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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  Intro to Sculpture: Basic Materials & Techniques

Kristen Baumliér-Faber

Title Associate Professor
Department Sculpture
Phone 216.421.7938

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Courses  BFA Thesis and Exhibition | Hybrid Approaches to Drg & Ptg: Digital Media | Moving Images in Space: Media Installation | String, Felt, & Thread | Video Basic Tools I

Degree MFA, California College of Arts and Crafts

Kristen Baumliér-Faber’s work spans the full spectrum of mixed media practice, often incorporating performance, video, installation, sculptural objects, and audio. Her work has shown throughout the U.S, in Serbia and in New Zealand. She was the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship in performance and interdisciplinary art in 2004, and an ArtsLink project grant in 2005.

Courses  Design I

Degree MFA Painting Boston University; BFA Studio Art New York University