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Liberal Arts Faculty

Title Assistant Professor | Chair of Liberal Arts
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7000

Degree
Ph.D. Creative Nonfiction Writing, Ohio University
MFA Creative Nonfiction Writing, University of Arizona
BA Studio Art and Art History, St. Olaf College

Sarah Minor is a writer and visual artist and the author of the books Bright Archive, forthcoming from Rescue Press in Fall 2020, Slim Confessions, forthcoming from Noemi Press in 2021, and a digital chapbook entitled The Persistence of the Bonyleg: Annotated from Essay Press (2016).

The recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Grant, the 2018 Barthelme Prize in Short Prose, and a Research Fellowship to Iceland from the American Scandinavian Foundation, Minor was also the 2018 Peter Taylor Fellow at the Kenyon Writer's Workshop. She currently teaches as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at CIA and serves as the Video Essays Editor at TriQuarterly Review and the Assistant Director of the Cleveland Drafts Literary Festival.

Specialty Areas:

Visual Essays
Text Installation
The Lyric Essay
Literary Video and Interactive Texts
Narrative Nonfiction
Experimental Forms
Image-Texts and Photography
Film Studies
Book Arts and History of the Book
Visual Rhetoric
Multimodal Composition

Courses:

LLC 102: First-Year Composition
LLC 203: Narrative Forms: Intro to Narrative Writing
LLC 215W: Intro to Creative Writing
LLC 273W: Art of the Personal Essay
LLC 306W: Hybrid Writing
LLC 315W: Creative Writing Topics: Text-as-Object
LLC 419: Graphic Narratives
LLC 424: Writing Gender
LLC 435: Creative Writing Concentration: Body of Work

Jonathan Rosati

Title Director of the Writing Center | Co-Chair of Liberal Arts
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.8018

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Courses Writing + Inquiry I: Basic Composition + Contemporary Ideas | Writing + Inquiry II: Research + Intellectual Traditions

David Hart

Title Associate Professor of Art History
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7302

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Courses An Introduction to African Art | Art + Design History I: Ancient-18th Century | Art + Design History II: 18th Century-1945 | Art + Design History III: 1945-Present | Media Arts + Visual Culture: Installation | Race and Representation in Contemporary Art + Culture | Visual Culture and the Manufacture of Meaning

Degree PhD, Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MA, Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BA, Political Science from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Dr. Hart is an Associate Professor of Art History in the Liberal Arts Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He taught African-American Art at UNC Chapel Hill as well as Wake Forest University before he came to the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Gary D. Sampson

Title Professor of Art + Design History
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7369

Courses Art + Design History I: Ancient-18th Century | Art + Design History II: 18th Century-1945 | Art + Design History III: 1945-Present | Design + Craft in Modern Culture | Issues in Design: Theory + Culture of Design | Media Arts & Visual Culture: Interactive Zones | Media Arts + Visual Culture: Installation | Visual Culture and the Manufacture of Meaning

Degree PhD, Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara
MA, Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara
BA, Art and Art History, California State University, Northridge

Gary Sampson teaches art and design history and theory. He is also adjunct in art history and occasional SAGES faculty at Case Western Reserve University. His areas of scholarship are in history of photography, urban design and representation, and media arts and visual culture. His publications include Imag(in)ing Race and Place in Colonialist Photography, with Eleanor Hight, Photographs at St. Lawrence University, with Catherine Tedford, and “Landscape and Fluid Imaging of the Emerging City," in Emerging Landscapes: Between Landscape and Representation. Sampson also engages in practice-based research in photography; one of his ongoing projects investigates city environments, infrastructure, and media.

Rita Goodman

Title Associate Professor
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7376

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Courses Advertising + Consumer Culture | Art + Design History II: 18th Century-1945 | Art + Design History III: 1945-Present | The Body: Tradition, Transformation, Transgression | Visual Culture and the Manufacture of Meaning

Degree PhD, Art History from the University of Michigan
MA, Art History from the University of Denver
BS, Speech Pathology and Audiology from State University of New York

Rita Goodman has received several awards and grants through the years including the Lucry Fellowship as well as grants from The Samuel H. Kress Foundation for their Travel Fellowship and Photographic Subvention Program among countless others.

Lane Cooper

Title Associate Professor | Chair of Painting
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7355

Degree MFA, Painting, University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa);
MA, Art History, University of Alabama at Birmingham
BS, University of North Alabama

Lane Cooper is an artist who works through painting, sound, video, text and, on occasion, performance. Her work has been presented in venues ranging from Birmingham, AL, 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, NJ, where she exhibited as part of the 2011-12 season.

She holds a master's degree in art history with an emphasis in contemporary art and an MFA in painting. She has been teaching since 1989, and since the spring of 2001 she has taught full-time at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Nancy McEntee

Title Professor
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7329

Degree MFA Photography, Bard College
BFA Photography, Cleveland Institute of Art

Nancy McEntee is a Professor of Photography at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from The Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College and her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography from the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Nancy is a recipient of a Creative Workforce Fellowship from the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture. She was awarded a residency at The Burren College of Art in Co. Clare, Ireland for summer 2010. She has also received a Virginia Center For the Creative Arts Fellowship Residency and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. Her photographs are exhibited nationally and can be found in many public and private collections.