James Shrosbree

Associate Professor of Art
Chair of the Department of Art and Design
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. More

Matthew Beaufort

Assistant Professor of Art
Associate Chair of the Department of Art and Design
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. More

Geoffrey Baker

Professor Emeritus of Art
N.D.D., A.T.D., Cardiff College of Art (Wales)

Geoffrey Baker teaches painting and appreciation for the arts. Educated in Edinburgh, Wales and Paris, he has exhibited and lectured widely. Before coming to Maharishi University of Management, he taught painting in London, England. His interest in artistic expression has stimulated him to extensive travels; he especially enjoyed absorbing the cultures of Scandinavia, Africa, Mexico and the Mediterranean countries and islands. More

Gurdon Leete

Assistant 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 six 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. More

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-Veda^SM design. He also has experience in the ceramics field, from industrial to architectural ornamentation. More

Ceyrena Kay

Assistant Professor of Art
B.F.A., Maharishi University of Management
M.L.A., Rhode Island School of 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. More