Leah Gauthier - Assistant Professor of
Art
lgauthie@butler.edu
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Leah Gauthier was born in Chicago,
and lives and works in Bloomington, Indiana. She received an MFA
from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Tufts
University and a BFA from the School of the Art Institite of
Chicago. Her work straddles sculpture, relational art and
performance art. Using natural, handmade, and repurposed materials,
as well as live plants and food, she explores ideas of
sustainability, self-sufficiency and community building. Her work
has been exhibited nationally and internationally in museums,
galleries and alternative spaces. Leah has been an
Artist-in-Residence at the MacDowell Colony, Burren College of Art
(Ireland) and Eyebeam (New York City), and the recipient of grants
and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Efroymson
Contemporary Arts Fellowship, Berkshire Taconic Community
Foundation and The Puffin Foundation. She eats all of her
vegetables.
Elizabeth Mix - Associate Professor of Art
History
emix@butler.edu
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Elizabeth K. Mix (formerly Menon),
Associate Professor of Art History, is the author of Evil by Design: The Creation and Marketing of
the Femme-Fatale in 19th-century France (University of
Illinois Press, 2006) and The Complex
Mayeux: Use and Abuse of a French Icon (Peter Lang,1997) and
co-author of Art Nouveau: A Research
Guide for Design Reform in France, Belgium, England and the United
States (Garland, 1998). Her many journal articles and
essays include "Art and New Media" for Choice (2010) and the forthcoming
"Japonisme and Cultural Appropriation" (Mississippi Museum of Art,
2011). Also forthcoming in 2011 are bibliographic essays for Grove Art Online on the pseudonymous
graffiti artist Bansky and Ethiopian American artist Julie Mehretu,
as well as a thematic essay on "Television and Art." Dr. Mix gives
papers regularly at national and international professional
meetings and is a member of several art history, art education,
design, and museum organizations. In her spare (very spare) time,
she likes to watch television with her husband and her cat, Briscoe
(named after the Jerry Orbach character on Law and Order, who died the day before
the cat formerly known as "Garfield" was adopted from the Humane
Society).
Gautam Rao - Associate Professor of
Art
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Gautam Rao, Associate
Professor of Art, serves as Director of the Art Program.
He earned his MFA from the University of
Pennsylvania in 2002 and his BFA from Boston University in 1999. He
is on the Board of the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art and
was a Founding Board Member of Herron High School in Indianapolis.
His artwork is widely exhibited both nationally and
internationally. Distinctions include a Susan Coslett Cromwell
Traveling Fellowship, and awards from the Marie Walsh Sharpe
Foundation and the National Foundation for Advancement in the
Arts.