Summer Faculty

Guy Gallo received an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. His produced screenplays include: an adaptation of Malcolm Lowry's novel Under the Volcano, directed by John Huston; a version of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (PBS); and an episode for Tales from the Darkside based on John Cheever's short story "The Enormous Radio." In addition, there are a handful of unproduced originals and several adaptations languishing in Hollywood purgatory (turnaround). His original, Lady in Glass, was a finalist for the F.O.C.U.S. award in 1982. He also writes plays, including Failing, Rain in Lent, and Antigone in Desire. His fiction and poetry have appeared in BOMB and the Mississippi Review.

Josh Glick is a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University in the departments of Film Studies and American Studies. His areas of specialization include documentary film, television, and web-based cinema; urban cultural history; and Hollywood as an evolving mode of industrial and artistic production. He designed and taught the popular Yale course, “Film, Video, and American History” and frequently gives talks on topics ranging from government propaganda during the Great Depression to contemporary reality TV. His writing has appeared in such journals as Film History and The Moving Image. In addition to completing his dissertation on documentary media in Los Angeles in the 1960s-1970s, Josh enjoys working in the public humanities. He is currently collaborating with the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT to plan the traveling exhibition, “Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008.”

Van Hanos (b. 1979) is a New York-based painter. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2001 and MFA from Columbia University in 2010. His debut solo show at West Street Gallery opened in 2011. Recent group exhibitions include “Conversazione,” a three-person show with Alex Hubbard and Ryan Kitson at Pianissimo in Milan, Italy, and “It’s All American,” the inaugural exhibition at New Jersey’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Van has been a guest critic at RISD and NYU and has taught painting at Columbia since 2011.

Allison Katz graduated in 2008 from Columbia's MFA program and has taught various classes at Columbia since then, including the Summer Painting Intensives in Paris and New York, and has been an adjunct professor at The Cooper Union since 2010.  Additionally, Professor Katz has lectured widely at schools and other art venues in the United States and Europe.

Kurt Kemp is currently a Professor of Art at Sonoma State University in California. Born in Mason City, Iowa in1957, he graduated with honors from the University of Iowa with a Masters of Fine Art in Printmaking. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally. He is in private and public collection throughout the United States, including Harvard’s Fogg Museum of Art in Boston, the Palace of The Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the Houston Fine Arts Museum in Houston, and the Chicago Art Institute in Chicago.

Originally from northern California, Jennifer Sturgill received her M.F.A. in printmaking from the University of Iowa in 1997. For several years following graduate school, she worked as the master printer at Aurobora Press, an invitational fine art press in San Francisco, California. She currently heads the visual art and art history program at the Jewish Community High School of the Bay in San Francisco, California. Jennifer lives with her husband in Cotati, California.

Tomas Vu-Daniel received a B.F.A. from the University of Texas at El Paso and an M.F.A. from Yale University. His work has recently been exhibited in "Orpheus Selection: In Search of Darkness" at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York; "Boston High Tea: Master Print Series" at the Sunshine Museum in Songzhuang, China; and "Organische Abstraction" at the Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany, Black Ice in New York, Flatlands I and Flatlands II in Milan and Rome, and Opium Dreams at the Museum Haus Kasuya in Yokuska, Japan. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship award in 2001. He is currently the director of printmaking and artistic director of the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University School of the Arts.

Craig Zammiello s a Master Printer with over 30 years of experience in all areas of printmaking.  He is author of a studio manual on photogravure, and of the book Conversations from the Print Studio published by Yale University Press. He worked 25 years at Universal Limited Art Editions, where he collaborated with numerous artists, notably Jasper Johns, Elizabeth Murray, James Rosenquist, Kiki Smith and Robert Rauschenberg.  Currently, he is Master Printer at Two Palms working with Chuck Close, Carroll Dunham, Ellen Gallagher, Elizabeth Peyton, Chris Ofili, Mel Bochner and Matthew Ritchie. He received his M.F.A. from SUNY Stony Brook in 1995. He has taught numerous workshops and classes at New York University, Yale University, The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio and the Flemish Center for the Graphic Arts in Belgium. Zammiello has exhibited his own work in the US and abroad.  His prints can be found in the collections of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Hoesch Museum in Düren, Germany.

Cris Beam is the author of four books, both fiction and nonfiction. Her latest is To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care, which will be released by Houghton Mifflin-Harcourt in August 2013. Her first book, Transparent, received a Lambda Literary award and a Stonewall Honor, and her second, a young adult novel, was a Junior Library Guild Selection and named a Best Books for Teens by both the American Library Association and Kirkus. Cris’ work has also appeared on This American Life and in the Huffington Post, The Awl, Marie Claire and Out, among others. In addition to Columbia, Cris also teaches at Bayview Women’s Correctional Facility and at NYU’s Gallatin School, where she was recently named Professor of the Year.

Julia Cooke is a travel and culture writer based in New York City. She’s written about her experiences buying gourmet food on Havana’s black market, exploring Mexico City's raucous La Lagunilla flea market, and visiting the Mexican lagoon where the 1985 Rambo sequel was shot in search of one of the country's most famous mud masks. These stories, and others, have appeared in such magazines as Conde Nast Traveller, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, the Christian Science Monitor, Monocle, and Guernica. She has also written for The Village Voice, Metropolis, and The Atlantic. Julia teaches with the Sackett Street Writer's Workshop and at Columbia University, and she holds an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction writing from Columbia's School of the Arts.

Born in Nantucket, MA, in 1979, Michael Gaillard has lived and worked in New York and Brooklyn since 2004. In 2011, he had his first solo exhibition, entitled Contingencies, at Scaramouche Gallery in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. In 2010, he received an MFA from Columbia University in Visual Arts. Gaillard received his BA from Stanford University (’03) where he was awarded the Leo Holub Award for Excellence in Photography. In March of 2011, Gaillard’s work was included in the Humble Arts Foundation’s The Collectors Guide to New Art Photography, Volume II. Gaillard has also served as an adjunct professor of photography at Columbia University. In addition, Gaillard has been a guest lecturer at Virginia Commonwealth University, and a guest critic at the Cooper Union School of Art and the School at the International Center for Photography.