Continuing Education + Community Outreach

Gary D Sampson

Title Professor of Art+Design History
Department Continuing Education + Community Outreach
Phone 216.421.7369

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Courses  Art & Design History I: Ancient - 18th C. | Critical Issues Art & Des Hist: 18th C - 1945 | Critical Issues Art & Des Hist: 1945-Present | Issues in Design: Theory & Culture of Design | Media Arts & Visual Culture: Installation | Visual Culture and the Manufacture of Meaning

Gary Sampson teaches art and design history and theory at the Institute. He is also adjunct in art history and occasional SAGES faculty at Case Western Reserve University. His areas of scholarship are in history of photography, urban design and representation, and media arts and visual culture. His publications include Imag(in)ing Race and Place in Colonialist Photography, with Eleanor Hight, Photographs at St. Lawrence University, with Catherine Tedford, and “Landscape and Fluid Imaging of the Emerging City," in Emerging Landscapes: Between Landscape and Representation (forthcoming from Ashgate Press). Prof Sampson also engages in practice-based research in photography and video; one of his ongoing projects investigates city environments, infrastructure, and media.

Degree PhD, Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara; MA, Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara; BA, Art and Art History, California State University, Northridge