2D Design
Elliott Earls received his M.F.A. in Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. His experimentation with non-linear digital video, spoken word poetry, music composition, and design led him to form the Apollo Program, whose clients include Elektra Entertainment, Nonesuch Records, The Cartoon Network (U.K.), and Janus Films. As a typographer, his original type design is distributed worldwide by Emigre Inc. Earls's posters are part of the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. As a performance artist, Earls was awarded an Emerging Artist grant by Manhattan's prestigious Wooster Group. Earls spent 2000-2001 as a designer-in-residence at Fabrica, Benetton's studio/research center in Treviso, Italy. Earls has given workshops on design, culture, and new media in Europe, Mexico and America.
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3D Design
Scott Klinker received his M.F.A. in Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art and his B.F.A. from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His diverse professional experience includes product design at Ericsson Communications, design consulting with IDEO Product Development, and design education at the Kanazawa International Design Institute (KIDI) in Japan. He is now the principal of Scott Klinker Product Design. In 2004, Scott’s Spaceframe Builder’s Kit for Offi & Co. was selected by Fortune Magazine as one of the top 25 products of the year. In addition to teaching, lecturing and a busy studio practice, Scott has organized and curated design exhibitions in Kanazawa, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Milan.
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Artist in Residence Biographies 2008
Architecture
William E. Massie received his Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University and his B.F.A. in Architectural Studies from Parsons School of Design. He worked for Robertson + McAnulty Architects and James Stewart Polshek and Partners in New York. In 1993, he began his own company while simultaneously teaching at the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University. He has been an invited lecturer at over fifty national and international institutions. Massie was selected as the winner of the Museum of Modern Art’s Young Architects Program Competition in 2002. His work has been exhibited at MoMA/Qns, the Shanghai Biennale, The National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., and KW – Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.
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Ceramics
Tony Hepburn was educated at the Camberwell College of Art and London University. Before coming to Cranbrook, Hepburn was Professor of Ceramics and Head of the Division of Art and Design at the New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He has received many awards for his work including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two New York Council on the Arts Fellowships, and the Gold Medal at the Faenza Ceramics Biennale in Italy. His work is in many private and public collections worldwide, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, and the European Ceramics Work Centre. Hepburn has lectured around the world.
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Fiber
Mark Newport received his M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1991. Prior to his appointment at Cranbrook, Newport was an Associate Professor at Arizona State University. He is a recipient of grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the Herberger College of Arts at Arizona State University. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, and can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Microsoft Corporation, Progressive Insurance Corporation and numerous private collections. The Greg Kucera Gallery of Seattle, LyonsWier Ortt Gallery of New York, and the Bentley Gallery of Phoenix all represent his work.
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Metalsmithing
Iris Eichenberg studied jewelry design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in the Netherlands. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards including: the Gerrit Rietveld Prize; the Herbert Hoffmann Prize; the Artist Stimulation Award; and the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kuns, which has helped to cement her status as a leader in the field of jewelry art/design. She has been guest lecturer at institutions in Sweden, Italy, Japan, China, South Africa, and the United States. Eichenberg has participated in group and one-person shows at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Crafts Council Gallery in London, among many others. She has been recognized in numerous publications including magazines, books and exhibition catalogues.
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Painting
Beverly Fishman received her M.F.A. in Painting from Yale University. She taught at the Graduate Art School of the College of New Rochelle, New York, and the Maryland Institute College of Art before her appointment at Cranbrook in 1992. Fishman has participated in over a dozen one-person exhibitions in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Chicago, and Los Angeles. She has received numerous grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship Award, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant. Her professional activities include lectures, panel discussions, and participation as visiting artist at many museums and institutions across the country. Her work may be found in more than a dozen museums, as well as in private and corporate collections.
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Photography
David Hilliard received his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1994 and his B.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1992 . For many years, he was an assistant professor at Yale University, where he also directed the undergraduate photo department. He has also taught at Harvard University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. His photographs are exhibited both nationally and internationally and he has won numerous awards including a Fulbright Fellowship and Guggenheim Fellowship. His photographs can be found in many important collections including: the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 2005, a collection of his photographs was published in a monograph by Aperture Press.
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Print Media
Randy Bolton received his M.F.A. from Ohio State University and his B.F.A. from the University of North Texas. He was Printmaking Area Coordinator at the University of Delaware prior to his appointment at Cranbrook in 2001. Bolton's work has been the subject of recent one-person exhibitions at Cranbrook Art Museum, Schmidt/Dean Gallery in Philadelphia, Evergreen House in Baltimore, and the Littlejohn Contemporary gallery in New York. Bolton has completed artist residencies at the Evergreen House in Baltimore, the MacDowell Art Colony, and the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. Hehas received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, an Art Matters Fellowship (New York), and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Bolton’s prints may be found in many corporate, private and museum collections.
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Sculpture
Heather McGill received her M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1984. Prior to her appointment at Cranbrook, McGill taught at the University of California at Berkeley and at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council, and in 1999 received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. She has lectured at many universities and conferences in the United States. McGill has participated in numerous group and one-person shows, including: the Albright-Knox Gallery; the Detroit Institute of Arts; Espace Lyonnais d’Art Contemporain,France; the Serpentine Gallery, London; and the Seville Museum, Spain.
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