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Visual Communications BFA Degree Program Curriculum |
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Full-Time: Tricia Treacy |
The Visual Communications faculty are professors within the Art department who teach Visual Communications major courses or VC Electives. For a list of all department faculty, visit the department website. David Brinley A graduate with distinction from Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, David is an industry award winning painter and illustrator represented by NYC agency Gerald & Cullen Rapp. An artist member of the Society of Illustrators, his characteristic work has been showcased by many leading national publishers including: Rolling Stone, GQ, SPIN, VIBE, New York Times magazine, Los Angeles Times magazine, Newsweek, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, and many other leading national and international publications. Recent illustrations have been published in juried annual competitions including: American Illustration, Communication Arts, Society of Illustrators (New York and Los Angeles), and the Society of Publication Designers. Gallery works include group and solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and New York. Recent works were exhibited at the Society of Illustrators and La Luz de Jesus and Mendenhall Sobieski galleries in Los Angeles. William
Deering [top] Co-Director of Raven
Press / Director of London
Study Abroad program William Deering currently teaches photographic design in the Department of Art at the University of Delaware, directs Raven Press (Letter Press facility), the study abroad program to London, England, The Black Maria Film Festival and the Internship program for Visual Communications. His photography project’s have taken him throughout the United States, Europe and the Far East, an his clients have included: Philadelphia Style Magazine, Lowe / Lintas Advertising, British Airways, Ritz Carlton Hotels, Gyro Advertising Worldwide and Running Press, for which he has just completed the Black Forest Cook Book. His many awards over the years have included: the American Institute of Graphic Arts, The Art Directors Club of New York, Communication Arts; Print, The One Club, and the Society of Publication Designers. Bill is represented worldwide by Juniper Pictures and Getty Images International, in New York, Settle, London and Paris and is currently working on a photographic project on “Terrorism” to be installed in the Eckersley Gallery at the University of the Arts in London in January. Bill is the past director of the Cape May Center for Photography, Cape May, NJ, and a past Chairman of the education committee, AIGA / Philadelphia, and lives and maintains a studio home in Wilmington, Delaware. Colette Gaiter [top] Colette Gaiter has worked with computers since 1982 and in interactive multimedia since 1990. She has a BFA in graphic design from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh and an MA from Hamline University in St. Paul, MN. She has exhibited her work internationally at the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), SIGGRAPH, and in numerous galleries, museums, and public institutions in the United States. To support her multimedia work, she has received several grants and awards. After working as a graphic designer in Pittsburgh, Washington, DC, and New York City, Gaiter began teaching at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1986. Since then she has taught at Columbia College in Chicago, and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Robyn Phillips-Pendleton [top] Robyn Phillips-Pendleton was born and raised in Hampton, Virginia. Following an innate passion for the visual arts, she pursued her Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree in Illustration and Graphic Design from Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond Virginia. While attending VCU, she was a graphic artist intern with USA TODAY newspaper, in the summer of 1988. This had a great impact on her career. After receiving her degree in 1989, she became a news graphic artist and illustrator for The Prince George’s Journal newspaper, in Prince George’s County, Maryland, and shortly after, the Daily Press Newspaper, in Newport News Virginia. In 1992, she decided to pursue a career path as that of a freelance illustrator, and a professor in higher education. She was accepted into the Master’s of Fine Arts in Illustration Program at Syracuse University. While a graduate student in the program, she taught several Freshman Foundations, and Illustration courses at the University, as well as being a full time junior graphic designer in the University Publications Department. Robyn received her MFA in Illustration in 1995, was a Master Teacher at the New York Summer School of the Arts in the summer of 1995, and in 1996 began teaching as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art, at the University of Delaware. She has created illustrations for colleges and universities, children’s CD covers, editorial magazines, and publishing companies. Her work has been featured in national and international juried shows such as the Society of Illustrators Annual 41, American Illustration Annual 18, American Illustration Online “Chosen” exhibition, and Aphrodosia, an annual publication celebrating the female form. Currently, Robyn is an Associate Professor of Art, and area coordinator of Illustration, in the Visual Communications Program, in the Department. She resides in Newark, Delaware with her husband and son. Ashley John Pigford [top] Ashley John Pigford (b.02.74 in Wilmington, DE) is a designer and educator who works across a wide range of media including micro-electronics, letterpress, video, sculpture, installation and performance. His current employment as Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Visual Communications Degree program in the Department of Art at the University of Delaware is paired with a studio practice that explores the language of experience in various forms of hybrid-media. Ashley received his Masters Degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006 after a successful career as a proprietor of graphic design in Los Angeles, CA. Ashley’s current research, pedagogy and studio practice are focused on the discovery of new forms of communication media through active awareness of design and creative experience. Ashley’s career in commercial graphic design, as creative director of a design company he co-founded called “Meat and Potatoes”, included work with Universal Music Group, Fox, Mattel, MCA Records, Sammy Hagar, Princess Cruises, Liberty Media Group, Bonfire Snowboarding Company and Drug Policy Alliance. He currently maintains a select set of freelance clients including Artists Space Gallery in New York City, Zoic Studios in Los Angeles and the University of Delaware Art Department. Ashley’s work has been published in Creativity Magazine, Print Magazine, HOW Magazine, “Webworks Typography” by Rockport Publishing, and he worked on a video that was nominated for 2 MTV Music Video Awards. Ashley’s current work in hybrid-media has been exhibited at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Sound Experimental Film Festival, University of Delaware Museum Gallery, and he has performed at the Production Workshop at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design (various venues). Tricia Treacy [top] Martha Carothers [top] Ann Lemon [top] Ann Lemon Design
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