Art & Art History Faculty and Staff
Department chair: Susannah Biondo-Gemmell | Contact info
Faculty & Staff
Susannah Biondo-Gemmell
Professor of Studio Art
Teaches courses in 3D studio basics, ceramics, sculpture, and casting. Her studio interests include ceramic material experimentation and investigation of the historial ceramic form through a contemporary lens. Recent exhibitions include shows at the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Northern Clay Center, Archie Bray Foundation, the San Diego Museum of the Living Artist, and the Lux Center for the Arts. M.F.A., ceramic art, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.
Brooks Cashbaugh
Gallery Coordinator and Lecturer
Brooks is completing an M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing at the University of Iowa, holds a M.A. in Painting & Drawing from the University of Iowa, a B.F.A. with High Distinction in Studio Art from Indiana University, and earned a B.A. with High Distinction in Political Science from Indiana University.
Alex McKenzie
Associate Professor of Art
Alex McKenzie is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who teaches courses in digital art, photography, and the moving image. His creative practice draws on media archaeology and synesthetic approaches to explore relationships between sound, image, and technology. Working across print, performance, lens-based media, and installation, his current research revisits and builds upon 20th-century innovations, including optical sound and the ANS synthesizer. McKenzie’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues like the Mint Museum of Art, The Wassaic Project, and SGCI, and has appeared in publications such as New American Paintings and Emergency Index. He has received fellowships and grants from the Vermont Studio Center and the Iowa Arts Council. McKenzie holds an M.F.A. in time-based art from the University of Tennessee and a B.F.A. in painting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Stevie Haley Delgado
Lecturer in Studio Art
Stevie Haley Delgado teaches various studio courses in 2D and 3D as well as courses in the Digital Lab. They graduated from the University of Iowa with a Masters of Art in 2022, and a Masters in Fine Art in 2024. Delgado has taught at the University of Iowa as an Instructor of Record for Elements of Sculpture and Undergraduate Sculpture 1, as well as the Belin-Blank Center for Graphic Design. They have worked as an educational assistant at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and are a recipient of the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio Summer Fellowship from the University of Iowa. They have studied woodcarving at the Geisler-Moroder Woodcarving School in Elbigenalp, Austria, as a part of the L.A. “Tadd” Jensen Sculpture Study Scholarship. Their primary research is in sculpture and intermedia where they incorporate large scale installation and interactive elements to create an atmosphere of immersive shadow-play for their audience to experience.
Michael Feinberg
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History
Dr. Michael H. Feinberg teaches courses in art history that concentrate on themes of media, diaspora, and cross-cultural exchange. His research explores the circulation of print across the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe. Tentatively titled Tides of Revolution: Landscape and the Establishment of Haiti, Feinberg’s first book project examines the role landscape imagery played in illustrated books that were written, printed, or edited as British forces attempted to seize Saint-Domingue (1793-1798). His articles have appeared in publications such as The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Oxford University Press’s Encyclopedia on Religion and the Arts, and AmLit—American Literatures. This work has been supported by fellowships such as The Huntington Library, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the John Carter Brown Library, and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA. Before arriving at Cornell College, Feinberg taught at Hamilton College (2023-2025). He holds a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Wisconsin—Madison.
Emerti Faculty
Christina Penn-Goetsch
Emerita Professor of Art History
Teaches courses in art history and is committed to teaching the love of art through the examination of material culture from various peoples and periods. Her classroom teaching is supplemented by formal papers presented nationally and internationally, as well as curated exhibitions. Much of her research focuses on gender studies and the art and architecture of early modern Europe, as well as questions of identity in contemporary art. She regularly leads trips to Rome and was a study leader for Smithsonian Journey tours to Sicily and Southern Italy in 2013-14. Ph.D., art history, University of Iowa.
Douglas Hanson
Professorof Art and Art History Emeritus
M.F.A. and M.A., University of Iowa; B.S. and B.A., Moorhead State University.
Vivian Heywood
Professorof Art Emerita
B.S. and M.S., Drexel Institute of Technology
Hugh Lifson
Professor of Art and Art History Emeritus
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.F.A., Pratt Institute.
Tony Plaut
Professor of Studio Art Emeritus
M.F.A., University of Chicago.