About ACAD

Faculty

Art school provides an opportunity to embrace possibilities - to take a plunge and dive into new ideas, techniques and ways of thinking. It could all be a bit overwhelming without the support of professional practicing artists and designers to act as your guide - to help you make sense of how your current interests and developing skills relate to the many directions and opportunities ahead. Experts in their respective fields, ACAD faculty are also extraordinarily dedicated teachers.

With a strong investment in visual culture and a solid commitment to their own professional practices, ACAD faculty offer a wealth of knowledge and experience that is invaluable to students. Our 1:13 faculty to student ratio is impressive, and it means that ACAD students receive individual, hands on attention from internationally recognized faculty, who each bring academic theory and real-world practical knowledge into our studios and classrooms. For each of our ACAD students, our faculty members are ACAD faculty will be your champions, your critics, and your best resources.

ACAD's faculty members are some of the best artists, designers and critical thinkers in Canada and the creation of original works of art, design and scholarship is only one way in which they continue to contribute to the creative academic community — as artists and designers they are also active  and involved community members, reaching out into our city and across the world with their practice and their involvement in collaborative exhibitions.

Jesse Sherburne Jesse SherburneFirst Year Studies
Natali Rodrigues Natali RodriguesGlass
Mackenzie Frère Mackenzie FrèreFibre
Heather Huston Heather HustonPrint Media, Drawing, Fibre
Nancy Nisbet Nancy NisbetPhotography and MADT
Who are the artists and designers who make up ACAD's faculty? Find out more about them here.

A

  1. Averns, Dick
    Sculpture

B

  1. Bagley, Jackie
    Visual Communications Design
  2. Bartlett, Ashleigh
    Painting
  3. Batista, Brian
    Visual Communications Design
  4. Beecher, Carol
    Visual Communications Design
  5. Bell, Charles
    Visual Communications Design
  6. Bell, Leslie
    Painting
  7. Besant, Derek
    Drawing
  8. Blevins, Todd
    Visual Communications Design
  9. Bote, Tivadar
    Visual Communications Design
  10. Boyle, Therese
    First Year Studies
  11. Brown, Richard
    Head, Drawing
  12. Bruce, Jane
    Glass
  13. Budgen, Dennis
    Head, Visual Communications Design

C

  1. Cairns, Richard
    Visual Communications Design
  2. Calvelli, John
    Liberal Studies
  3. Carnat, Sarabeth
    Jewellery + Metals
  4. Casey, Dave
    First Year Studies
  5. Chagaoutdinova, Olga
    Photography
  6. Chaytor, Katrina
    Head, Ceramics
  7. Chiu, Caesar
    Jewellery + Metals
  8. Cran, Chris
    Painting

D

  1. Dewar, Ken
    Visual Communications Design
  2. Dobson, Dwayne
    Visual Communications Design
  3. Dragan, Miruna
    Drawing
  4. Dunning, Alan
    Media Arts + Digital Technologies

E

  1. Edwards, Richard
    Painting

F

  1. Fagan, Roisin
    Fibre
  2. Ferguson, Gord
    Head, Sculpture
  3. Fitzgerald, Ian
    Visual Communications Design
  4. Flynn, Brian
    First Year Studies
  5. Fontans, Dee
    Jewellery + Metals
  6. Frere, Mackenzie
    Fibre
  7. Frey, Christopher
    Liberal Studies
  8. Fullalove, Benedict
    Head, Liberal Studies

G

  1. Geist, Karl
    Visual Communications Design
  2. Gerla, Greg
    Photography
  3. Geyer, Robert
    Glass
  4. Giles, W. Mark
    Liberal Studies
  5. Giroux, Michael
    Visual Communications Design
  6. Gohill, Maya
    Visual Communications Design
  7. Gorenko, Richard
    Drawing

H

  1. Huston, Heather
    Print Media
  2. Hutchinson, M. N.
    Liberal Studies

I

  1. Irvin, Joan
    Jewellery + Metals

J

  1. Johannesson, Laurel
    Drawing

K

  1. Kalberg, Holger
    Photography
  2. Kamachi, Mark
    Visual Communications Design
  3. Kaufman, Marty
    Glass
  4. Kaufman, Silas
    Visual Communications Design
  5. Kern, Mitch
    Photography
  6. Kerr, Mike
    Visual Communications Design
  7. Kippen, Lorelee
    Liberal Studies
  8. Kisil, Gerry
    Liberal Studies
  9. Kottmann, Don
    Drawing
  10. Kurytnik, Kevin
    Visual Communications Design
  11. Kwan, Theresa
    Visual Communications Design

L

  1. Landin, Aurora
    Drawing
  2. LeBlanc, Craig
    First Year Studies
  3. Lee, Darlene
    Media Arts + Digital Technologies
  4. Lennard, Jeff
    Visual Communications Design
  5. Lesick, Kurtis
    Media Arts + Digital Technologies
  6. Lewton-Brain, Charles
    Head, Jewellery + Metals
  7. Link, Alex
    Liberal Studies
  8. Liwska, Renata
    Visual Communications Design

M

  1. MacIntyre, Alan
    Visual Communications Design
  2. Mafe, Majena
    Photography
  3. Masuda, Naoka
    Visual Communications Design
  4. May, Walter
    Sculpture
  5. McKeough, Rita
    Sculpture
  6. McQuitty, Jane
    Liberal Studies
  7. Menzies, Susan
    Painting
  8. Merio, Jennifer
    Visual Communications Design
  9. Meszaros, Sondra
    First Year Studies
  10. Milne, Barbara
    First Year Studies
  11. Miyauchi, Alison
    Visual Communications Design
  12. Monaghan, Fraser
    Visual Communications Design
  13. Moody, Robyn
    Media Arts + Digital Technologies
  14. Morris, Jamie
    Visual Communications Design
  15. Morton, Bill
    Fibre
  16. Mullin, Mark
    First Year Studies
  17. Murray, Lisa
    First Year Studies

N

  1. Nisbet, Nancy
    Photography
  2. Nokes, Tim
    Visual Communications Design
  3. Norton, Jim
    Glass

O

  1. Ohe, Katie
    Sculpture
  2. Olson, Gary
    Print Media
  3. Ouellet, Shelley
    Sculpture

P

  1. Parsons, Guy
    Visual Communications Design
  2. Payce, Greg
    Ceramics
  3. Perron, Mireille
    Liberal Studies
  4. Petrunia, Neil
    Visual Communications Design
  5. Pollock, Keli
    Visual Communications Design

Q

  1. Qualle, Carolyn
    Fibre

R

  1. Rea, Kirstie
    Glass
  2. Riedl, Larry
    Visual Communications Design
  3. Robert, Paul
    First Year Studies
  4. Rock, Tyler
    Glass
  5. Rodrigues, Natali
    Head, Glass
  6. Rusnak, Tanya
    Drawing

S

  1. Salahub, Jennifer
    Liberal Studies
  2. Sasges, Rita
    Visual Communications Design
  3. Scott, Mary
    Media Arts + Digital Technologies
  4. Seeley, Steve
    Visual Communications Design
  5. Seiferling, Dena
    Visual Communications Design
  6. Senini, Blake
    Sculpture
  7. Sherburne, Jesse
    First Year Studies
  8. Sherlock, Diana
    Liberal Studies
  9. Simone, Cathy
    Photography
  10. Somer, Christine
    Liberal Studies
  11. Stang, Jason
    Photography
  12. Sterner, Judy
    Liberal Studies
  13. Sutherland, Barbara
    Fibre

T

  1. Thoreson, Kristine
    Photography
  2. Tindale, Adam
    Head, Media Arts + Digital Technologies
  3. Tipton, Barbara
    Ceramics
  4. Turner, Lisa
    Visual Communications Design

U

  1. Ulrich, Jim
    Painting

V

  1. Veteikis, Richard
    Visual Communications Design
  2. Vickerson, Laura
    Head, Fibre

W

  1. Waddell, Justin
    Head, First Year Studies
  2. Webb, Ken
    Head, Print Media
  3. Webber, George
    Photography
  4. Willard, Christopher
    Head, Painting
  5. Wisniewska, Bozenna
    Liberal Studies

X Y Z

  1. Yeo, Brad
    Visual Communications Design
  2. Zak, Rik
    Head, Visual Communications Design
  3. Zuck, Tim
    First Year Studies

Profiling excellence

ACAD Faculty members are experts in their fields, contributors to critical discourse and research, and dedicated teachers and mentors for our students. Find out more about some members of this passionate group of artists and designers here.

ACAD Lecturers Emeriti

1987 | Henry George Glyde, Illingworth Kerr, Stanford Perrott

1991 | Walter Drohan, George Mihalcheon, Keith Thomson, George Wood

1995 | Royston T. Evans, Verna M. Reid

1997 | Ken Samuelson

1998 | Gilbert Flodberg

1999 | Albert Borch

2003 | Richard Stuart Halliday

2004 | Dr. Pauline Butling, Alexandra Haeseker

2006 | Ronald Duncan Ponech

2008 | Norman Faulkner, William MacDonnell

2010 | Katharine Jane Dickerson, Wendy Toogood

2011 | Elaine Prodor