Art & Art History

Heather D. Freeman is Professor of Digital Media in the Department of Art & Art History. She holds a BA in Fine Art and German Studies from Oberlin College (1997), an MFA in Studio Art from Rutgers University (2000), and has taught at UNC Charlotte since 2006. Previously, Freeman worked as an art director, graphic designer, […]

Currently Associate Professor Art Education at UNC Charlotte; previously an Assistant professor at the Gwen Frostic School of Art, Western Michigan University, and at Cleveland State University. He also coordinated Barbados Community College’s BFA fine art program. A Fulbright scholarship allowed Dr. Gall to earn his Ph.D. from Penn State University in 1996, whose Art […]

Maja Godlewska is a Professor and the Area Coordinator for Painting in the Department of Art & Art History. Godlewska earned her Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Academy of Fine and Design Arts, Wroclaw, Poland, and received a Postgraduate Scholarship at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland. Her recent research interests […]

Clay Harper is a video artist and media scholar. He received an MFA in Art, Technology, and Emerging Communication from The University of Texas at Dallas in 2018 and BA in English from Principia College in 2014. Alongside teaching digital media courses at UNC Charlotte, he is also completing a PhD in Virginia Commonwealth University’s […]

Aspen Hochhalter received her Master of Fine Arts in Photo-Based Media at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, and her BFA in Photography from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. She is an Associate Professor of Art and the Photography Area Coordinator in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of North […]

Lisa Homann is an associate professor of art history at UNC Charlotte. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Specializing in West African masquerade practices from the late 19th century to the present, her research concentrates on creative innovation, ethical methodologies, patronage, performance, and Muslim identities. Most recently […]

Adam N. Justice came to UNC Charlotte from the Mint Museum in Charlotte, where he was Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art.  A Virginia native, he holds degrees in art history from Radford University (Radford, VA) and Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond), where his master’s thesis addressed the evolving effects of sign theory in mid-century […]