Faculty

David B. Brodeur has been a faculty member at UNC Charlotte since July 2000. While he primarily teaches Graphic Design, he has also taught classes in Printmaking, Illustration, and Foundations. After receiving a BS in Art from Southern Connecticut State University in 1993, he worked commercially for six years as a Senior Designer and Art […]

Blaine Brownell is Professor and Director of the David R. Ravin School of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and an architect and researcher of emergent materials and applications. He earned a B.A. in Architecture with a Certificate in East Asian Studies at Princeton University in 1992, and a Master in Architecture from […]

Chelsea Brtis is an Assistant Professor of Digital Illustration at University of North Carolina at Charlotte.  They received a Bachelor of Architecture from Iowa State University and an MFA in Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication from the University of Texas at Dallas.  Prior to their position at UNC Charlotte, they taught digital 3D illustration and […]

Lecturer Kuniko Bufford is an instructor and architectural practitioner in Charlotte, NC. She holds a Master of Architecture from UNC Charlotte and a Bachelor of Science in Interior Architecture from UNC Greensboro. As an instructor, Kuniko has taught Architectural Design and Building Information Modeling (BIM) at Central Piedmont Community College starting in 2020. She is […]

Tom Burch is the Associate Professor of Scenic Design. Before joining UNC Charlotte in the fall of 2014, he taught at Ithaca College (NY) and for several years in the Theatre and Performance Studies Program at the University of Chicago, as well as working as a freelance scenic designer based in Chicago. He holds a BFA […]

Jessica Burke (J.B)  earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is an Associate Professor of Art and Foundations Coordinator at UNC Charlotte. She is invested in foundations/first-year pedagogy and has served multiple terms as an elected member on the national board of Foundations in Art: Theory and […]

Alex Cabral serves as the Director of Fabrication for the School of Architecture at UNC Charlotte, overseeing five distinct laboratory spaces in two campus locations.  Prior to arriving at UNC Charlotte, Alex led the Fabrication Lab at Wentworth Institute of Technology (Boston, MA).  Under his leadership, from 2011 to early 2015, Alex doubled the size […]

Bobby Campbell is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. At UNC Charlotte, Bobby teaches Graphic Design courses, such as UX/UI Design Strategies, Communications Design, Senior Projects, and Senior Seminar. He also occasionally teaches Illustration courses, such as The Figure in Illustration and Special Topics – Digital Illustration. Bobby graduated with a […]

Originally from North Carolina, Will Campbell is the Director of Jazz Studies and Professor of Saxophone at UNC Charlotte. Prior to this position, he was the Director of Jazz Studies at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts in Saxophone Performance and Literature degree from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign […]

Kelly Carlson-Reddig is an Associate Professor of Architecture. She completed her undergraduate Bachelor of Architecture at Texas Tech University in 1986 and her graduate Master of Environmental Design at Yale University in 1992. Her scholarship focuses primarily on the conceptual dimensions of architecture’s materiality, tectonics, and architectural “marks,” and has been articulated in papers such as […]