Painting

Lane Cooper

Title Associate Professor/Chair of Painting
Department Painting
Phone 216.421.7357

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Courses  Art & Design History I: Ancient - 18th C. | BFA Statement & Exhibition | Intro to Painting: Painting History (1828-2010) | Role of the Artist as Producer

Degree BS, University of North Alabama; MA, Art History from The University of Alabama at Birmingham; MFA, Painting from The University of 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  100 Drawings | BFA Production and Independent Research: Production, Conveyance and Presentation. | Collage & Assemblage | Drawing I | Drawing II | DRG: Intro to Adv Observ, Illusionism, Concept | Painted Bodies: The Contemporary Figure | Painting: Constructing Narratives

Degree MFA., Kent State University; BFA., Pratt Institute

Royden is a Visiting Instructor in Painting, Foundation, and Drawing at The Cleveland Institute of Art. He has tought at Kent State, Oberlin Colledge, and Case Westerjn Reserve University. Royden's work has shown in galleries in Ohio, Utah, and Germany.

Daniel Tranberg

Title Adjunct Faculty
Department Painting
Phone 216.421.7000

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Courses  Painting Seminar: Contemp Issues in Ptg

Degree MA in Studio Art from Purdue University. Also studied Criticism and Theory in the Graduate School of the University of Illinois, Chicago

Dan Tranberg has published more than 750 articles on art and has exhibited his paintings in more that 40 exhibitions. His writing has appeared in national and international publications, including Art in America, NY Arts, artUS, BOMB, Glass Magazine, and Art on Paper. He was awarded an Ohio Excellence in Journalism award in 2004 and received Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships in 2002 and 2007.

Tommy White

Title Assistant Professor
Department Painting
Phone 216.421.7000

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Courses  Design I | Drawing II | Freshmen Environmental Elective | Image & Form I | Material Color | Painting Beyond Observation | Role of the Artist as Producer | VAT: Aesthetics, Style,& Content

Degree MFA from Clemson University in the discipline of painting and a BA from Michigan State University in ceramics.

Tommy White, born in Detroit, received his M.F.A. from Clemson University in the discipline of painting and a B.A. from Michigan State University in ceramics. His work is included in many private collections as well as the permanent collections of the Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama, Binney and Smith, Inc. (former manufacturer of Liquitex products), and the Capital One Corporation. He has exhibited in nineteen states, the District of Columbia, Melbourne, Australia, and Seoul, South Korea. Prior to becoming Assistant Professor of Painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art, he spent three years teaching painting and drawing at the University of Oklahoma and nine years with Virginia Commonwealth University as an educator and administrator. He maintains a professional working studio in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.