Art (B.A. / B.F.A.)
Faculty
James Shrosbree
Associate Professor of Art
Chair of the Department of Art
B.F.A., Boise State University
M.F.A., University of Montana
James Shrosbree has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States. He has been a visiting artist and lectured at numerous colleges and universities. His work has been published and reviewed in American Ceramics, Ceramics, Art and Perception and New Art Examiner magazines.
Gurdon Leete
Associate Professor of Art
B.F.A., M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute
Professor Leete has worked as a freelance artist in both Web design and 3-D animation. He is also an award-winning graphics software engineer, and is a co-author of the Multitile plug-in for generating complex symmetric imagery in the free GNU image manipulation program, the GIMP.
Prof. Leete is the co-author of eight books on the popular Web animation software package Adobe Flash, and he has published 19 essays about the frontiers of computing. Professor Leete has also been a pioneer in using GNU/Linux applications in undergraduate art and design classes, and he edits a blog on free software for art, music and personal creativity.
Matthew Beaufort
Assistant Professor of Art
Associate Chair of the Department of Art
B.A., Yale University, magna cum laude
M.A., M.A., Maharishi International University
Matthew Beaufort did two years of graduate work in the History of Consciousness Ph.D. program at UC-Santa Cruz, specializing in art history. For more than two decades, he has explored relationships between art and consciousness
Dale Divoky
Assistant Professor of Art
B.F.A., Alfred University
Prof. Divoky received his B.F.A. in sculpture at Alfred University. Subsequently he studied at the Cooper School of Art and privately with the renowned sculptor John Clague. He has had public commissions in the New York State Capitol building, the International Mario Lanza Society Museum in Philadelphia and in the Meredith Building in Des Moines, Iowa. He has created several large architectural ornaments that adorn buildings throughout the world, based on Maharishi Sthapatya-VedaSM design. He also has experience in the ceramics field, from industrial to architectural ornamentation.
Ceyrena Kay
Assistant Professor of Art
B.F.A., Maharishi University of Management
M.L.A., Rhode Island School of Design
Ceyrena Kay received a Master of Landscape Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design. Prior to that she completed a B.F.A. with a concentration in photography from MUM. After working a couple of years in her field she returned to MUM to help with the planning and design of her beloved undergraduate campus. Ceyrena designed the gardens around the Argiro Student Center and managed the project through construction. She is currently teaching full-time in MUM’s Department of Art, as well organizing art shows as Director of Unity Gallery. She also keeps up a private practice doing residential landscape design.
Gillian Brown
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art
B.A., Brown University
M.A.E., Rhode Island School of Design
M.F.A., University of California at Los Angeles
Gillian Brown received her M.F.A. in photography from the University of California. She was a Bunting Fellow in Visual Arts at Radcliffe College, Harvard University. Other awards include State Arts Council Grants from Iowa and Maryland, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship ($20,000). Her work has been featured at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Maryland; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; and the Santa Fe Museum of Art.