Liberal Arts

Nancy McEntee

Title Professor/Chair of Photography & Video
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7329

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Courses  History of Photography Survey | Intro Photo I: Mechanics of Digital & Film Photography | Photo: BFA Thesis & Research | Publication Photography | The Contemporary Portrait | The Fine Art Silver Print

Degree MFA Photography, Bard College; BFA Photography, Cleveland Institute of Art

Nancy McEntee is a Professor of Photography and Chair of the Photography & Video department at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from The Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College and her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography from the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Nancy is a recipient of a Creative Workforce Fellowship from the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture. She was awarded a residency at The Burren College of Art in Co. Clare, Ireland for summer 2010. She has also received a Virginia Center For the Creative Arts Fellowship Residency and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. Her photographs are exhibited nationally and can be found in many public and private collections.

Courses  From the Front Row: Cinema & an Approach to Critical Writing

Degree MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BA of Science from Kutztown University.

As curator for Reinberger Galleries for more than 20 years, Checefsky has been responsible for developing distinct exhibitions for CIA. He oversees the cultivation of new and unique shows for the Galleries’ fall and spring shows, and oversees the coordination of annual shows including the Faculty Exhibition, Student Independent Exhibition and the Student Summer Show. He has curated over eighty national and international exhibitions of contemporary art, film and design as well as published articles, reviews and essays on contemporary photography and film. He is adjunct professor in Liberal Arts teaching course in film and museum studies.

Joyce Kessler

Title Associate Professor of Literature/Chair of Liberal Arts
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7371

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Courses  Hybrid Writing | Writing and Inquiry I: Basic Composition and Contemporary Ideas | Writing and Inquiry II: Research and Intellectual Traditions | Writing and Inquiry III: Narrative Forms | Writing for the Art/Design Career

Degree PhD, American Literature from Case Western Reserve University; MA, Cleveland State University; BA, English Literature from Cleveland State University

Dr. Joyce Kessler is Associate Professor of Literature at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She earned her Ph.D. in American Literature from Case Western Reserve University.

She is the current Chair of Liberal Arts and served as Interim Dean of Faculty from 2005 to 2007. Dr. Kessler teaches courses in women's literature, comparative literature, narrative studies, literature and social history, basic composition, hybrid writing, and advanced expository writing. She has written on the topics of women's studies and stylistics, but her scholarship is focused primarily on the fiction of Willa Cather.

Lane Cooper

Title Associate Professor/Chair of Painting
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7357

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Courses  Art & Design History I: Ancient - 18th C. | BFA Statement & Exhibition | Critical Issues Art & Des Hist: 18th C - 1945 | Intro to Painting: Painting History (1828-Present) | Role of the Artist as Producer | Systems Drawing

Degree MFA, Painting, University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa); MA, Art History, University of Alabama at Birmingham; BS, University of North Alabama

Lane Cooper is an artist working through painting, sound, video, text and on occasion performance. Her work has been presented in venues ranging from Birmingham, Alabama to Madrid, Spain. In 2009 she participated in a Residency at The Banff Centre located in Alberta, Canada and in the fall of 2010 she was an Artist-in-Residence at Gallery Aferro in Newark, New Jersey. Where she will be exhibiting as part of the 2011/2012 season. She holds a Masters in Art History with an emphasis in Contemporary Art and an MFA in Painting. She has been teaching since 1989. Since the spring of 2001 she has taught full-time at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Ms. Cooper currently serves as the Head of Painting.

Courses  John Cage: His Life, Work, & Influence | Sound Art & New Media

Degree BA, Ithaca College; MFA, Cleveland Institute of Music

Christopher is an adjunct faculty member in Liberal Arts at The Cleveland Institute of Art. He received his Bachelor of Music in 1992 from Ithaca College. In 1995 he earned his Masters degree from The Cleveland Institute of Music in Composition. He was been a Music mentor with the Cleveland Opera and lecturer at The University of Akron and Cleveland State University. Christopher was the co-founder of Composers in the Shape of a Pear and the co-director of the Modern Arts Coalition of Cleveland.

Courses  American Crafts History | Writing and Inquiry I: Basic Composition and Contemporary Ideas | Writing and Inquiry II: Research and Intellectual Traditions

Degree PhD and MA, University of Missouri–Columbia; BA, University of Alabama--Huntsville

Courses  Creative Writing | Fiction Writing | Screenwriting

Degree PhD, English, Case Western Reserve University. Dissertation: The Brief and Crowded Hour: Studies in Narrative Suspense. M.A., English, Cleveland State University. B.A., English, Douglass College (Rutgers University).

Shelley is a writer of crime fiction whose work has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Crimewave (UK), The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Blood on Their Hands, and The Georgia Review. In 2004 she was nominated for a coveted Edgar® Award by Mystery Writers of America. Her book, The Everything Guide to Edgar Allan Poe, was published in 2007, and her academic areas of expertise are nineteenth century American literature and literary modernism.

Courses  Charette: Self & Other Voices | Digital Synthesis | Writing and Inquiry III: Narrative Forms