Art Faculty

Linda C. Hults - Professor of Art
(330) 263-2150 / lhults@wooster.edu

B.A. Indiana University 1971; Ph.D. University of North Carolina 1978.

Linda C. Hults is a professor of art and coordinator of the women’s studies program at The College of Wooster, where she joined the faculty in 1987. A specialist in Renaissance and Baroque art, especially images of women and the history of prints, Hults also teaches American art and women’s studies.

Hults received her B.A. from Indiana University (1971) and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1978). She is the author of a college textbook on the history of prints, titled The Print in the Western World: An Introductory History (University of Wisconsin Press, 1996), and a book on witchcraft images, titled The Witch as Muse: Art, Gender, and Power in Early Modern Europe (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005). In addition, she has had several articles published, including studies of witchcraft images by Hans Balding Grien and “Dürer’s Lucretia: Speaking the Silence of Women,” in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

A former member of the Board of Directors of the College Art Association of America, Hults is active in several regional and national professional organizations.

Stephen Lucey - Associate Professor of Art
(330) 263-2151 / slucey@wooster.edu

B.A. Wesleyan University, 1989; Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1999

Stephen J. Lucey is an associate professor of art history and a faculty member at The College of Wooster since 2001. He teaches courses in ancient, medieval and non-western art history. His research focuses on the medieval Mediterranean with interests that include artistic exchange in multicultural societies and the intersection of art, architecture, and ritual.

Lucey earned his B.A. from Wesleyan University (1989) and his Ph.D. (1999) from Rutgers University. He was a Fulbright scholar (1997), a fellow of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. (1998), and a recent recipient of NEH funding (2004).

He has written several articles on the church of Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome, including “Palimpsest Reconsidered” in the volume Santa Maria Antiqua al Foro Romano cento anni dopo and “Art and Socio-Cultural Identity in Early Medieval Rome” for the forthcoming volume Roma Felix. Other ongoing projects include inquiry into royal artistic patronage in medieval Cyprus and the history of medieval archaeology in Italy.

Closer to home, Lucey curated an exhibition for The College of Wooster Art Museum, titled “Ancient Ohio / Ancient Egypt,” which featured the artistic cultures and archaeology of the Native American Woodland Midwest and Ptolemaic Egypt (2005).

Marina Mangubi - Associate Professor of Art
(330) 263-2425 / mmangubi@wooster.edu

A.B. University of California at Berkeley, 1988; M.F.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1993.

Marina Mangubi is a painter, printmaker, and installation artist who joined The College of Wooster faculty in 2000 as an assistant professor of art. She teaches painting, drawing, printmaking, and advanced studio art seminars.

Mangubi received an A.B. with a double major in art and psychology (neuroscience) from the University of California, Berkeley (1988), and an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Michigan School of Art and Design (1993).

Mangubi’s paintings, drawings, prints, and installations have been exhibited in galleries in the United States and internationally, Germany, Russia, Japan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, and Albania. She was interviewed and her projects were profiled on national television in France and Russia. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, the Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts at the Portland Art Museum in Oregon, and Kala Institute in Berkeley. In Spring 2004, she was the artist fellow at Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France.

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Bridget Milligan - Associate Professor of Art
(330) 263-2191 / bmilligan@wooster.edu

B.F.A. Miami University, 1997; M.F.A. Indiana University, 2001.

Bridget J. Milligan is an associate professor of art at The College of Wooster, where she joined the faculty in 2001. Her areas of expertise include photography, digital imaging, and painting. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries and museums in New York, Chicago, and Italy.

Milligan earned her B.F.A. in photography and painting at Miami University (1997) and her M.F.A. in photography from Indiana University (2001).
A recipient of such honors as the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education and the Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, Milligan is a member of the Society for Photographic Education and the College Art Association.

Milligan came to Wooster after spending two years at Indiana University as an associate instructor of photography. Prior to that, she taught beginning and intermediate photography in Cortona, Italy.

In addition to her artistic skills, Milligan is proficient in a variety of digital media, including the Adobe Creative Suite, Macromedia Flash 8, and Quark.

John Siewert - Associate Professor of Art
(330) 263-2546 / jsiewert@wooster.edu

B.A. University of Minnesota, 1985; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1987, 1995.

John Siewert is an associate professor of art history, on the faculty since 2000. A specialist in the history of modern and contemporary art, his research and publications have focused on aspects of modern British and French landscape painting. His current project examines the interaction of urbanism, gender, and the impact of American popular culture in postwar British painting.

After graduating summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota (1985), Siewert went on to earn his M.A (1987) as well as his Ph.D. (1995) from the University of Michigan.

A former Fulbright, Smithsonian, and Luce Foundation Fellow, Siewert held an appointment as Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, from 1996 to 2006. He also taught at Truman State University (Missouri) and the University of the South (Tennessee).

Siewert is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Midwest Art History Society, the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art, and the Fulbright Alumni Association. His extensive publications include a recent essay on James McNeill Whistler’s paintings of the urban landscape in Turner Whistler Monet, the catalogue accompanying a major exhibition shown in London, Paris, and Toronto.

Walter Zurko - Professor of Art
(330) 263-2423 / wzurko@wooster.edu

B.A. University of Wisconsin 1977; M.F.A. Southern Illinois University 1980.

Walter Zurko is a professor of art at The College of Wooster and a member of the faculty since 1981. He specializes in sculpture and ceramics.

A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (1977), Zurko received his M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (1980). He is a five-time recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and he was an artist-in-residence at The Artists’ Residence in Herzliya, Israel, in 1998, and the Foundation Svoboda in Prague, Czech Republic in 1996. He also was an artist-in-residence at the Fine Arts Work Center Ohio Arts Council Summer Residence Program in Provincetown, Mass., in 1994.

Zurko’s one-person exhibitions have been featured throughout the state, including the Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati (2008), the Olin Gallery at Kenyon College, Bobbitt Visual Arts Center Gallery at Albion College, Heistand Gallery at Miami University, and the Southern Ohio Museum in Portsmouth. Other exhibitions include “Change of Place” at the Riffe Gallery in Columbus, and “Into Wood,” at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art. His work has also been displayed at the New Art Forms Expo in Chicago.