Faculty

The Department of Art, Art History, and Design faculty represent a wide variety of disciplines and talents present in the world today.

Full Time Faculty

Lynn Sondag MFA    Interim Chair MFA, California College of Arts and Crafts E-mail Lynn Sondag

Dr. Leslie Ross

Professor and Chair of Art History
Department of Art, Art History & Design
Dominican University of California
50 Acacia Ave.
San Rafael, CA 94901
leslie.ross@dominican.edu
415.485.3261

Part Time Faculty

Livia Stein MA    MA, San Francisco State University

Michael Leonard

Adjunct Associate Professor, Art History
Tel: 4154822453
michael.leonard@dominican.edu
Location: Library 205

Dr. Michael Leonard has taught art history at Dominican University for over 10 years. He has also taught art history, aesthetics, and graduate seminars in aesthetics and art history at several other Bay Area colleges and universities. Michael holds a Doctor of Education Degree (Ed.D) from the University of San Francisco, a Master of Arts Degree (MA) in Art History from San Francisco State University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in History from Queens College. Michael has written professionally as an art critic for Artweek for six years and as an art historian for various publications including Art of California Magazine, The California Art Historical Courier, and the San Francisco Review of Books. He is also a practicing artist and has been a member of the College Art Association, the National Art Education Association, and the American Educational Research Association.

Teaching areas: Art History (specializing in Modern and Contemporary Art)

Selected research/publications/presentations/exhibitions: Teaching Critical Thinking in a

Community-College Art-History Learning Environment (Doctoral Dissertation)

Lise Stampfli Torme MA BA, MA, University of California, Berkeley www.tormedesign.com

Rod Laursen MFA    BA, MFA, San Francisco State University

Heidi Chretien

Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Art History, History/Women and Gender Studies and Graduate Humanities

    ▪    B.A. State University College, Buffalo

    ▪    M.A., Ph.D. State University of New York, Buffalo

Academic Interest

 After living and teaching in Florence for many years, I am interested in directing and leading academic study trips abroad.  I led groups to Florence in 2005, 2007 and 2008. I taught in the Fanjeaux program in 2006.  I am also very active in the Osher Life Long Living Program and usually teach a course every year.

Courses and Areas of Interest

Art History                             

    ▪    Art and Society (FYF)             

    ▪    Classical Art                            

    ▪    Italian Renaissance Art            

    ▪    Northern Renaissance Art        

    ▪    Baroque  Art                             

    ▪    Art in Focus: A Stitch  in Time 

    ▪    Art in Focus: Prints&Drawing  

    ▪    Art in Focus: Color                   

    ▪    Art in Focus: Framing the Image

    ▪    Survey of Art: Renaissance to Modern

History/Women and Gender Studies:

    ▪    Women in the Ancient World

    ▪    Women in Early Modern Europe

    ▪    Western Civilization

    ▪    Human Cultures (FYF)

    ▪    History as Biography: Elizabeth I

    ▪    History as Biography: Cleopatra

    ▪    History as Biography: Marie Antoinette

    ▪    History as Biography: Empress Theodora

    ▪    History as Biography: Warrior Women

Colloquium:                                                               

    ▪    Magic of the Renaissance: Leonardo and His World

    ▪    Maidens, Matrons and Muses: Imaging Women in Antiquity

    ▪    Women/Narrative of the Other: History and Personal Narrative

    ▪    The Gendered Body: Imaging the Gendered Body

    ▪    The World Of Islam: Contemporary Islamic Art

Graduate Humanities:

    ▪    Florence: City as Text                     

    ▪    Venice: City as Text                        

    ▪    Civic Imagery in Western Art

Robin McCloskey MFA    MFA, Pennsylvania State University

Karrie Hovey MFA MFA, Fine Art Department San Francisco Sate University, San Francisco, CA www.karriehovey.com

Patsy Krebs MFA MFA, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont California. www.patsykrebs.com

NEAL WOLFE, M.A.

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Art History
Department of Art, Art History and Design
Dominican University of California
50 Acacia Ave.
San Rafael, CA  94901
Phone: 415 482-2453
 neal.wolfe@dominican.edu

Neal Wolfe received his M.A. in Humanities degree from Dominican University of California, and his B.A. in English degree from Pennsylvania State University. He joined the faculty at Dominican in 2003, and currently serves on the Faculty Affairs Committee. Mr. Wolfe has offered numerous courses in Art History on the undergraduate level, and the course Foundations in Adult Learning for adults returning to higher education in the Pathways program.

Teaching areas:

Art and Society (First Year Foundations program); History of Stained Glass; Bay Area Buddhist Art; Labyrinths; Environmental Art; Glass Art History; The Art of Movement; Foundations in Adult Learning (Social and Cultural Studies).

Selected presentations:

Conceptualizing God in a Post-Copernican Universe. Graduate Liberal Studies Symposium, Stanford University, 2009.

Accessing the Unknown: The Common Quest of Science and Religion. Dominican University of California and Stanford University Joint Student and Alumni Symposium, Dominican University, 2007.

Oh Holy Light! Medieval Illumination Symposium, Dominican University, 2006.