Retired & Emeritus Faculty
With thirty years of experience in photography, mixed media sculpture and installations, Blakely has worked with students on content-based and conceptual ideas. He has shown in over 300 exhibitions in almost every state in the country and has been a professor of Art at FSU since 1978.
He has worked with students on both on an individual and group basis and also have invited them to participate in the structured courses that he had taught which included professional development and self promotion.
Education
- Tyler School of Art
Research & Teaching Areas of Interests & Expertise
- Photography
- Installation
- Public Art
- Service Learning
Ray Burggraf
Emeritus Professor, Department of Art
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A lifetime of travel and study gives Ray Burggraf’s work a rich, universal perspective. He was born in Ohio in 1938, a time when powerful changes were transforming rural America. Burggraf grew up on an Ohio farm and then attended the Cleveland Institute of Art where he worked with painters influenced by the German Bauhaus movement of the 30’s and Op Art of the 60’s that helped shape his artistic style. He received the BFA degree in 1968.
From Cleveland, Ray went to California and UC Berkeley where he developed his interest in Bauhaus style color theory and gradations of color, encouraged by the unique California sunlight. He received both the MA and MFA degrees from Berkeley in 1970.
Arriving in Florida, Ray taught painting and color theory at Florida State University. After 37 years, he retired to Professor Emeritus status in 2007. He continues to paint and exhibit his work and maintains a studio in the popular Railroad Square Art Park. His work continues to reflect a farmer’s affinity for the land, a Californian’s appreciation of light and color, and a Floridian’s experience of atmospheric and oceanic moods.
Education
- University of California, Berkeley
- Cleveland Institute of Art
Areas of Expertise
- Painting
- Drawing
Holly Hanessian
Emeritus Professor, Department of Art
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I use my internal compass for making art that is tied to connecting people together and community building. Past projects ranged from hurricane mitigation, designing sustainable water systems, to investigating agricultural justice issues. These artworks addressed historical and structural problems that require us to change the ways we think about water scarcity in the environment or who grows our food.
I am now redirecting my gaze to making art that holds locally grown food and is placed in handmade vessels to celebrate the collaborative power of food and community. My background in education, leadership, mutual aid, and ceramics will support communities, gather neighbors, and celebrate each other.
My past achievements include Professor of Art at Florida State University, Past President, and Fellow of the Council for the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. I am an active member of the International Academy of Ceramics, Artaxis.org., Access.Ceramics.org, and was part of the Socially Engaged Craft Collective.
Current & Past Positions / Active Art Associations
- Professor of Art, Florida State University, 2006 – 2025
- President of Board, National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts, 2017-2021
- Member of Socially Engaged Craft Collective, 2017-2022
- International Academy of Ceramics, 2019-Present ArtAxis.org Artist, 2007-present
- EcoArtSpace Member, a dedicated network of environmentally active artists, 2023-present
Selected Exhibitions, Fellowships, Grants, Honors & Residencies
2025
- Master Artist Fellowship, Residency at Craigardan & Applebarn Series Lecture, Elizabethtown, NY
- Currents of Water, Group Exhibition, Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, FL
2024
- Honorary Fellow of the Board, National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts
- Soil Institute SWALE House, Artists Residency, Governors Island, NY
- Azuelos, Wall Installation Tile Collaboration, Caldas de Rainhas, Portugal
- Solo Exhibition at Pompano Beach Cultural Art Center, Pompano, FL
2023
- Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Edgecomb, ME, (AIA Residency)
- Food Justice Exhibition, Food Justice: Growing a Healthier Community through Art, Contemporary Craft, Contemporary Craft, Fuller Crafts Museum, Brockton, MA
2022
- Video Premiere, Eye on the Future, Little Sun.Org, Berlin, Germany
- $25,000 State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Individual Artists Grant
- Food Justice Exhibition, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus OH
- Food Justice Exhibition, Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH
2021
- Call & Response: Craft as a Tool for Activism, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
- Food Justice Exhibition, Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA (invitational group exhibition with catalogue)
- ArtFields, Lake City, SC
- New Histories, Gadsden Farm Project, Gadsden Art Center, Quincy, FL (Project solo exhibition)
- Making and Wellbeing, Session Lapland/Posio Congress, International Academy of Ceramics
2020
- Social Justice Symposium, Athens, GA (Exhibition and Presenter)
- Food Justice Exhibition, Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA (invitational group exhibition with catalogue)
- New Histories, Gadsden Farm Project, Gadsden Art Center, Quincy, FL (Project solo exhibition)
- American Craft Council, Self-Care and Craft moderated by Hraig Vartanian of Hyperallergic
2019
- Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Science, Residency, GA
- Red Walls Residency, Brooklyn, NY
- Ferment, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
- OIKO System, Drake Gallery, St. Paul Academy, St. Paul, MN
Janice Hartwell
Emeritus Professor, Department of Art
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Janice Hartwell, Professor Emerita, taught printmaking, as well as, classes in most two-dimensional art media and women’s issues in art, at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida from 1969–2007. She received a BFA degree from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1967, majored in Painting and minored in Illustration. Her MFA degree was from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts in 1969, majoring in Printmaking with a minor in Sculpture.
During her teaching career, Professor Hartwell received two Individual Artist fellowships from the State of Florida, as well as, three COFRS faculty research grants. She also received two Teaching Incentive Awards in 1994 and 1997. She received three Full Sabbatacles from Florida State University for research projects in 1978, 1989 and 2000. Her work spans a wide variety of media from artist’s books to interactive art installations. The 8’x12’ acrylic painting, “Love of Conflict / The Economics Lesson,” is included in the book Painting as Language, by Jean Robertson and Craig Mc Daniel, Harcourt Brace Publishers, 2000.
Professor Hartwell was invited to participate in national and regional art conferences over many years including:
- The Printed Word, panel presentation: Women Artists in the New Millennium: Taming Postmodernism and the Printed Word, College Art Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 2005.
- Interactive Art, panel presentation: Women Artists as Interpreters of Socio-Political Issues of the Twenty-first Century, College Art Association, Seattle, Washington, 2004.
- Gender Difference in Visualization: Collaborative Projects, Re-Visioning the Process of Art Education for the Future Millennium, College Art Association, 1997 Annual Conference, New York City, 1997.
- Gender Difference in Visualization, Panel at South Eastern College Art Association Meeting,Washington, D.C., 1995.
- Collaborations Panel, (Collaborative Teaching and Projects), chairperson and presenter at Society of Photographic Educators, Southeast Region Conference, Morehead City, North Carolina, 1992.
- Decisions and Gender Issues, A Balancing Act, Panel at Southeastern College Art Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 1990.
Professor Hartwell’s art works have been exhibited in most of the 50 United States and are included in many permanent collections including the following: the Berkeley Art Center Association, Berkeley, California, the Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York, the Ganser Library Art Gallery, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania, the Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, LaGrange, Georgia, the University of Mississippi Art Museum, Oxford Mississippi, the Amity Art Foundation, Print Museum, Woodbridge, Connecticut, the Florida International University Art Museum, Miami, Florida, the Art Museum of the College of the Sisikyous, Weed, California, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, Alabama, the Gallery of Contemporary Art, Southeastern Art Association, Winston-Salem, North Carolina and the Olivet College Art Museum, Olivet, Michigan
Education
- Massachusetts College of Art
- University of Massachusetts
Areas of Expertise
- Printmaking
- 2D
- Women’s Issues in Art
Carolyn Henne is a sculptor. Henne’s sculpture is largely informed by anatomical studies and her interest in low-tech interactive works. Her work ranges from large, complex interactive installations to more straightforward, discrete objects. “Suspended Self Portrait”, is in the permanent collection at the National Museum of Health and Medicine and was featured in the NIH’s exhibition, Dream Anatomy. Henne is the Co-Director of Comma and served as the Department Chair and Head of the Sculpture Area in FSU’s Department of Art.
Henne’s work has long contended with personal versus public states of being. Science connections are always there – starting with the use of anatomy to reflect on internal versus external evidence of lived experience (illness, pain, shame).
She is rerouting her path to focus on external issues, some quite evident and many veiled. (This is Madness, Sea Stars, and future project plans involving aquaculture). In her lifetime, an oligarchy has strategically undermined those striving for climatic, health, economic, racial and democratic justice. The pandemic crystallized how capitalist supremacy requires sacrifice from the most vulnerable. Means of survival will emerge when local, national and global communities work together. Artists can work with scientists to make tools for the future to grow, build and coexist with nature. Sea Stars and future aquaculture projects challenge the methods currently used in aquaculture, shoreline protection, and resource enhancement by using material designed as an environmentally positive alternative.
Making art via aquaculture allows Henne to address a broad swath of toxicities in our environment(s) and deliver a call to action in cheeky disguise. Simultaneously, the sculptures yield to the oysters for positive environmental and economic impact. They are to be designed for the shallow waters, low in profile but broad in scope to maximize visual and structural impact. Oyster reefs stabilize shorelines, filter polluted water, create habitats for sea life and boost the supply of oysters. Coastal economies benefit from healthy, clean waters and protected shorelines.
Education
- 1990 M.F.A. Sculpture, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
- 1985 Study Abroad, Lacoste School of the Arts, Lacoste, France
- 1983 B.A. Fine Arts/Economics, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Areas of Expertise
- Sculpture
- Co-Director of Comma
Notable Accomplishments
- 2021 (contracted) Installation of prototype sculpture reef, ‘Sea Stars’, Newport River estuary, Beaufort, NC.
- 2020 Installation of small test prototype, ‘Star’, Newport River, Beaufort, NC.
- 2019 ‘This is Madness: A Proof’, Unrequited Leisure Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee. [SOLO]
- 2014 Curator, Making Now: Open for Exchange
- Suspended Self Portrait in the National Museum of Health and Medicine
- 2020 ‘Luminous’, 2nd Annual Installation Show, C3: Contemporary Curators Collective, West Palm Beach, Florida.
- 2006 Anatomy Lessons and Ugly Facts, Carole Garmon and Carolyn Henne, KunstOffice Gallery, Berlin, Germany
- 2005 Ugly Facts, Hunt Gallery, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia
- 2004 New Works, ADA Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
- 2004 Rahal, VCU School of the Arts – Qatar, Doha, Qatar
- 2002 There’s Here, site specific installation, Artspace, Richmond, Virginia
- 2000 I Could’ve Gone Dancing After Dinner, Project Room, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, New York
- 2021 Planning Grant, FSU Council on Research and Creativity (CRC), $16,000.
- 2013 Arts & Humanities Program Enhancement Award, FSU Council on Research and Creativity (CRC), $16,000.
- 2008 Award of Fellow, International Council of Fine Arts Deans (ICFAD), Leadership Institute 2008, Rising Leadership.
- 2004 Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University, University Leadership Program.
- 2003 Award of Sculpture Fellow, Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA), Richmond, Virginia.
- 2003 Artist Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Mt. San Angelo, Virginia.
A window into an alternating North Florida environment
“Whether a real or an imaginary vision, the aim of my work is to reflect the beauty and vulnerability of the landscape and wildlife in the area.”
Mark received a Joan Mitchell Award in 2006.
Education
- Indiana University
Areas of Expertise
- Painting
- Drawing
1. The time invested in making the work conveys to those willing to invest the time seeing the work
2. Repetitive honing by hand may imbue an artwork with more humanity than a large painterly gesture
3. Small works are underrated
4. You can build something big from small parts (or cover large distances with small steps)
5. Painting is a long process of getting into and out of trouble
6. Allowing a work to lean into instability is an affirmation of life
7. I am inspired by the prospect of mutual generosity between the artist and viewer
Rushin-Knopf’s work has been included in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions nationally and resides in museum and book art collections including University of Kentucky Art Museum, Florida State University Museum of Fine Art, Wofford College Museum of Fine Art, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Frick Fine Arts Library, Harvard Fine Arts Library, and the Kohler Art Library. She is represented by Ivy Brown Gallery in New York. Rushin-Knopf is also a collaborator with Carolyn Henne on the Comma project, which produces boxed editions of small sculptural objects.
Area of research
- Cross-media
Incorporating low and high tech consumer appliances, motors with rotating plastic food, computer prints with thick paint dripping from them, fans cooling motors that overheat, cassette players with continuous sounds of television commercials and soap operas, toys that frown, smile or talk, to reveal the connection to a living work of blood and tissue.
“The primary focus for me is to connect the technology to our lives, to eliminate the barriers between flesh and silicon.”
Education
- University of Illinois
Areas of Expertise
- Drawing
- Digital Imaging
- Installation
- Mixed Media
Professor Emerita Mary Stewart’s artwork has been included in over ninety-five exhibitions, nationally and internationally. She is a co-founder of Integrative Teaching International and the founding editor of its primary publication, Future Forward. She is also the author of Launching the Imagination: A Comprehensive Guide to Basic Design, one of the best-selling design textbooks in North America. She also completed two Fulbright Fellowships in Canada. The first was (2013-4) was at Seneca College, near Toronto. The second included residencies at University of New Brunswick and University of Waterloo. After retiring, she completed Creative Inquiry: From Ideation to Implementation, which was published by SUNY Press in 2021. Her current book, Being, Thinking and Doing, will be published by Florida State University Open Publishing in 2026.
Education
• BFA, University of New Mexico
• MFA, Indiana University – Bloomington
Areas of Expertise
• Foundations Courses (2D, 3D, and Time Design)
• Drawing
• Printmaking
• Bookarts
• Textbook Writing
• Curriculum Design and Development