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Faculty of Foundations

The Foundations Drawing Coordinator and Foundations Design Coordinator work together to provide complementary classrooms in their respective areas. These courses are usually taught by Teaching Assistants under the supervision of either the Foundation's Drawing Coordinator or the Foundation's Design Coordinator.

Hitselberger

BRIAN HITSELBERGER

Foundations Design Coordinator 

Lecturer in Art and Design

Brian Hitselberger is an artist and writer working in multiple media as well as an educator who has taught in a variety of contexts. He teaches Design I, Computers in Art, and Art Appreciation. Hitselberger received his BFA from Tulane University and his MFA from the University of Georgia. His installations, paintings, and works on paper explore a variety of themes that shift between subjects and perspectives alternately intimate and immense – occasionally within the same piece. Working in series, his modestly-scaled paintings and drawings employ detailed mark-making, dense layering and unexpected relationships between form, content and material, yielding works that position speculation over resolution and strive for optimism without simplicity. Recent subjects include sleep and dreaming, hate speech, drag queens as spiritual healers, queer magic and social distancing. His artist books and publications bring together research interests and imagery alongside his critical and personal writing. For more information on his work visit his website. www.brianhitselberger.com

 

Wuenschel

CHRISTINE WUENCHEL

Foundations Drawing Coordinator

Associate Professor of Drawing //  2D Extended Media

Christine Wuenschel is an Associate Professor of Fine Arts in the Department of Art and Design in the Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts at Purdue University. She teaches life drawing, painting, and serves as the department’s Director of Graduate Studies. Wuenschel received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Akron in 2004 and her MFA in Drawing and Painting from Arizona State University in 2008. She is a figurative artist whose work explores the gestural expressive nature of drawing media usually on a larger than life-size scale. Wuenschel is most recognized for her large drawings dealing with nudity, identity, and body image. Her work has won several exhibition awards and continues to appear in both national and international group and solo exhibitions including Drawing Discourse: 7th Annual International Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing at S. Tucker Cooke Gallery at University of North Carolina-Asheville; The Derwent Art Prize at The Mall Galleries in London, England; and Kink: The Seduction of Art at Koplin Del Rio Gallery in Culver City, California. More information on Wuenschel’s work can be found on her website at  www.christinewuenschel.com.