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Center for the Arts

The Center for the Arts is thrilled to welcome 9 core faculty, 17 affiliates and seven Ph.D. students to our community! Under faculty director Dani Snyder-Young, these affiliates were selected through an open application process. Our affiliates are experienced in visual arts, theatre, music and more; the core thread tying us all together is our interest in interdisciplinary creative practice research and the arts.

Please help us give them all a warm welcome!

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Core Faculty

  • Clareese Hill

    Assistant Professor

    Clareese Hill is a practice-based art researcher. She explores the validity of the word "identity" through her perspective as an Afro-Caribbean American woman and her societal role projected on her to perform as a Black feminist academic. She has given performance lectures at Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, University of Sussex, CUNY Graduate Center, The Chicago Art Department, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn.

  • Sarah Hirschman

    Associate Teaching Professor

    Sarah Hirschman is a partner in the California-based architecture practice Object Projects. She has taught design studios at UC Berkeley, The Ohio State University, the Boston Architectural College, and MIT, where she received her M.Arch. She holds an M.A. in Modern Culture and Media and a B.A. in Semiotics from Brown University.

  • Hubert Ho

    Teaching Professor

  • Psyche Loui

    Associate Dean for Research, Associate Professor

    Psyche Loui is Associate Dean for Research, Associate Professor in the Department of Music and the director of the MIND (Music, Imaging, and Neural Dynamics) lab at Northeastern.

  • Andrew Mall

    Associate Professor

    Andrew Mall is an active scholar of the music industry, arts administrator, musician, and teacher.

  • Sylke Rene Meyer

    Professor of Creative Practice Research

    Sylke Meyer is a writer, director, media artist, performer, educator, and co-founder of the artist group Studio206 that operates from Berlin, Los Angeles and Providence.

  • Bill Stout

    Teaching Professor

    Bill Stout enjoys a peripatetic career of adventures and artistic excellence. Highlights include working on the popular character McGruff the Crime Dog and Rocket in Disney’s Little Einsteins. He eventually focused on teaching and became the Chair of the Animation Department at the New York Film Academy. He now brings his animation skills to Northeastern University.

  • Gloria Sutton

    Associate Professor

    Gloria Sutton is a contemporary art historian examining how art, technology, and feminism intersect to shape contemporary visual culture.

  • Ilya Vidrin

    Assistant Professor

    Dr. Ilya Vidrin is a performer, educator, and researcher at the intersection of performing arts, philosophy, and interactive media.

Affiliates

  • Christine Blanco
  • Samantha Boehm
  • Jonathan Carr
  • Briar Hardy
  • Stephanie Hanor
  • Sarah Kanouse
  • Cliff Lee
  • Jiabao Li
  • Deirde Loughridge
  • Celia Pearce
  • Yulia Pinkusevich
  • Molly Rapp
  • Suzanne Schmidt
  • Casondra Sobieralski
  • Sam Stowe
  • Johannes Valvur

Ph.D. Students

  • Alayt Issak (Alayt Ablam – artist name)
  • Sutanuka Jashu
  • Ximena Lainfiesta
  • Sydney Purdue
  • Jessica Roseman
  • Josephine Ross
  • Monica Storss