Through her artwork, Sandra Eula Lee explores links between urban and rural development and the effects it has on residents. Lee, an Assistant Professor of Art at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., incorporates industrial materials collected from the demolition and combines them with traditional handmade processes from domestic life, such as gardening, weaving, and cooking. An example is her work Seeds in a wild garden, made in Seoul, South Korea, where she collected construction rubble and painted them in the colors of the local gardens. Lee's work has been exhibited internationally, including a 10-year survey at The Hilliard Museum in Lafayette, LA; Art Space Pool in Seoul, South Korea; the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, Inside-Out Museum in Beijing; DadaPost in Berlin; Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University; Smack Mellon in Brooklyn; Goucher College in Baltimore; and recently at the Delaware Contemporary and Ethan Cohen KuBe in NY. Lee's work has been discussed in The New York Times, Time Out New York, ArtNet Magazine, Boston Globe, Harper's Bazaar Seoul, and World Journal. Her work has been supported by the Asian Cultural Council, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Elizabeth Foundation (all NYC), the Mellon Foundation, and recently NJSCA / Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. Residencies include Seoul Museum of Art, the American Academy in Rome, the Chinese-European Art Center, National Museum of Contemporary Art in South Korea, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Vermont Studio Center, and Aljira Center for Contemporary Art in Newark.
Lindsay Marino is the Director of the Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and M.A. in Anthropology with concentration in Museum Studies from The George Washington University. Her employment includes Assistant Archivist at National Records and Archives Administrations and at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. She worked on the Collections team at the Newseum during its reopening on Pennsylvania Ave., and was Curatorial Assistant of the Glassell Collection and Registrar for Incoming Loans at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. During Marino's current position as Director and Collections Manager, she has overseen the full inventory of the permanent collection, restructured the core documents for the museum, participated in 8-12 exhibitions a year, and created curriculum-driven experiences for the campus and greater Lancaster community.
Janie Kreines is Curator of Academic Affairs and Community Engagement at the Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. She joined the Phillips team in January 2019. She has an M.A. in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. in Secondary Social Studies Education from Miami University (Ohio). Janie was a high school history teacher in Frederick County, VA before entering the museum field. She was the Registrar/Collections Manager at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, VA, the Collections Manager at the York County History Center in York, PA, and the Exhibits & Artifacts Curator at the Nabb Research Center, part of the Libraries at Salisbury University, before accepting the position at Franklin & Marshall College.
Sally is a freelance graphic artist commissioned by Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. She began my professional career in the art department of an inner city large printing company. In 1972, she moved to Lancaster and became established as a graphic designer and illustrator. She has experience in an advertising agency as the art director, as an adjunct professor at a Lancaster art college, and a graphic artist.
Karen Patterson joined the Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) as their inaugural curator in July 2019. Prior to this appointment she was the Senior Curator at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) in 2012. Her focus at JMKAC was also geared towards the curation of the Arts Center's premier collection of folk art, self-taught art, and artist environments, work that culminated in an multi-tiered collaborative 2017 collections-based exhibitions series, The Road Less Traveled, which received praise by Hyperallergic as the year's top exhibition. She completed her BA in folklore studies at Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada, and her Masters of Art Administration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Christopher Bennett, Ph.D., FAAR '06, is a writer and teacher of Art History and Assistant Professor at UL Lafayette. His studies principally focus on European, American, and Global art since 1945 including, especially, the artists associated with Italian "Arte Povera" group and postwar Italy; new research and teaching looks into trajectories in American art over the last six- to seven decades including art and the Civil Rights Movement, Minimalism and its legacy and later retentions/transformations, the situation of women in the arts, recent art in China, and critical deployments of new media. He holds a MA and Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Michigan and B.A. in Art History/Art from the University of Georgia.
