Art Faculty
Art faculty members are professionals in each of their specialty areas. They are artists who teach the very media they practice, including painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography and design.
- Faculty members exhibit their work nationally and internationally from New York and Boston to St. Petersburg, Russia and Florence, Italy.
- Their works reside in many national and international collections.
- Each is a member of Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA) and the College is a member of the College Art Association (CAA).
Bruce Herman
Professor of Art
Lothlórien Distinguished Chair in the Fine Arts
Director, Gallery at Barrington Center for the Arts
Bruce Herman joined the faculty in 1984 and became the first chair of the Art Department in 1988. His primary focus as a teacher and artist is figurative painting. He received the Junior Distinguished Faculty Award in 1992 and was awarded the first fully-endowed Distinguished Chair at Gordon in 2006. His art has been exhibited internationally and is housed in museums such as the Vatican Museum in Rome, the Armand Hammer Collection in Los Angeles, ... more ➔
David West
Chair, Department of Art
Associate Professor of Art
Originally from Mississippi, J David West is an artist and educator who currently lives and works in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He is an associate professor of art at Gordon College.
Abby Ytzen-Handel
Teaching Professor of Art
Abby is a midwest raised, New England based designer and educator. She is a teaching professor of art and heads the design concentration at Gordon College. In addition to her work as a graphic designer, she is a permaculture designer, specializing in creating landscape designs that are ecological, regenerative and food productive.
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