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LSU MFA Alumna Raina Wirta is determined to use her artistic abilities for more than a form of expression. Through her talents, she wants to offer the community means to experience art. From her co-founded endeavor Elevator Projects to her contributions as a BR Walls muralist, Wirta is using her creativity both inside and outside of the classroom.

Kristin Malin grew up in New Orleans and received her BFA in painting from Louisiana State University, graduating magna cum laude in 1979. She attended the New York Studio School and received her MFA in painting from Columbia University. In New York, she exhibited in Lower East Side galleries, received an Artist’s Space grant, and worked at the NY Council for the Humanities and the Environmental Defense Fund. Malin moved to the coast of Maine, where she has exhibited at the O’Farrell Gallery, the LC Bates Museum, the legislative galleries of the Maine Arts Commission, the New York Studio School Gallery, and in national exhibitions. She executed exhibition murals for the Maine Maritime Museum and was a visiting artist in local schools and libraries. Her work was included in the Art of Maine in Winter by Carl Little, and in the Juried Biennial Exhibit at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport, Maine. She participated in an artist residency on Governors Island in New York, and in 2009, she was nominated for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. Recently, she returned from an artist residency in the Platte Clove Reserve, maintained by the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development. She currently exhibits her work at the Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland, Maine. View more of Kristin’s work at kristinmalin.net.

Kristin’s Portfolio

Adam Hess completed his MFA in photography at the LSU School of Art in the fall of 2008 and taught as an adjunct instructor for the School of Art through the summer of 2011. During that time, Hess also worked as a research associate for the Department of Oceanography & Coastal Studies; as a digital imaging specialist with Hill Memorial Library Special Collections; and as a cataloger and assistant librarian in the government documents department at Middleton Library. In the fall of 2010, Hess earned a Master of Library & Information Science from LSU and was named a Samuel H. Kress Fellow in Art Librarianship at Yale University in 2011. In 2012 Hess went on to New York City to become the Digital Asset Manager at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York, where he curated the foundations’ digital media collections until 2014.

Currently Hess is an Assistant Professor & Digital Resources Librarian at Arcadia University (Glenside, PA). His major initiative has been to grow the university’s institutional repository, ScholarWorks@Arcadia, as well as launching a Center for Scholarly Communication, which will serve the Arcadia community in all its research and writing efforts. Hess also liaisons to the departments of Art & Design, Theatre Arts, and Media & Communication, as well as teaches First Year Seminars, University Seminars, and Studio Arts courses.

Anna recently retired from over 40 years of teaching in Higher Education.

She was recently awarded the Excellence in Teaching honor from the National Council on education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). In my thanks, I mention Professor Joe Bova in being instrumental in my career success.

As a designer and front end developer at STUN Design, Isral Duke creates and extends the visuals which the users engage with as they qualify for safety practices. A mix of HTML5, LESS and CSS3, icon design, and UI/UX considerations make his day to day contributions rewarding.

He is also the owner of a freelance graphic design and visual communications agency, Duke Branding. Always interested in the newest technology and scientific advancements, isral has been drawing such things since childhood, beginning with robots and spaceships.