Elizabeth Mix - Associate Professor of Art
History
emix@butler.edu
Office:JCX113
ph: (317) 940-6457
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, 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).
Recent publications include "Art and New Media," (Choice,
2010), "Japonisme and Cultural Appropriation" (Mississippi
Museum of Art, 2011) and "Postmodernism in Art" (Lincoln
Library of Essential Information, 2012). Her bibliographic
essays on the pseudonymous graffiti artist Banksy and Ethiopian
American artist Julie Mehretu, and a thematic essay on "Television
and Art," appeared in Grove Art Online in 2011. Dr. Mix
gives papers regularly at national and international professional
meetings and has been a reviewer for Choice since 1997. In her
spare (very spare) time, she likes to watch television with her
husband Kelly 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
grao@butler.edu
Office:JCX111A
ph: (317) 940-5985
Gautam Rao is an
artist and Associate Professor of Art at Butler University. He
earned his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 and his
BFA from Boston University in 1999. He has served 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.
Steve Nyktas- Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
snyktas@butler.edu
Office:JCX111B
ph: (317) 940-3054
Steve Nyktas, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, is an artist
whose work begins conceptually and culminates in a wide range of
media including photography, sculpture, installation and video.
Preoccupied with opportunities to better understand the everyday
world, his art shows places that were never meant to be seen and
encourages viewers to see things in new ways. Nyktas earned his MFA
from Northwestern University in 2007, an MA from Purdue University
in 2004, and his BFA from Albion College in 2002. His work has been
exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries, museums, and
alternative spaces including Dorsky Gallery (New York, NY), Gallery
Four (Baltimore, MD), Rowland Contemporary Gallery (Chicago, IL),
FLAT (Chicago, IL) and The 22nd International Festival Sarajevo
(Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina). Distinctions include the Phillip C.
Curtis Visiting Artist Award and the Morton Mickenberg / Martin
Sosin Graduate Student Fellowship. He is also a proud member of the
Danny Think Tank artist collective in Chicago.