Art Faculty
Full Time Faculty
Jason Robinson
Department Chair, Professor of Digital Art
Ashe Laughlin
Professor of Painting and Drawing
L. Ashe Laughlin is Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Mary Washington, where they teach painting, drawing, senior thesis and foundations courses. Ashe has an established career as an artist-educator, teaching studio art across institutions while maintaining an active practice in non-objective abstraction that explores color, line, and materiality through oil, acrylic, and mixed media. Laughlin earned an M.F.A. in Studio Art from the School of Visual Arts and a B.A. in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin, and their research focuses on contemporary abstraction and material-based approaches to painting pedagogy.
Coorain Devin
Professor of Printmaking and Photography
Coorain Devin teaches photography and printmaking. Besides using cameras and printing presses to mechanically reproduce images, Prof. Devin loves to quilt and create wacky performances. They are inspired by everyday life, mass media, food, pop art, and consumerism.
BA in Philosophy, Tufts University, BFA, School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MFA, Georgia State University.
Contact:
cdevin@umw.edu
540-654-1575
coorain.com
Sidney Mullis
Professor of Sculpture
Sidney Mullis is a professor of sculpture. Mullis uses materials associated with childhood, such as playground sand, kids’ construction paper, and secondhand toys, to transform and preserve what is typically expected to disappear. Mullis has an ongoing interest in developmental thresholds and how bodies are taught to move, behave, and remember themselves.
Mullis received a B.A. in Art at the University of Mary Washington and her MFA in sculpture from Pennsylvania State University.
Contact:
smullis@umw.edu
sidneymullis.com
Adjunct Faculty
Larry Hinkle
Professor of Woodworking
Larry Hinkle has been a self-employed artist, furniture and cabinet maker in Fredericksburg, VA since 1995. He enrolled at Mary Washington College in 1996, earning a BLS degree in Historic Preservation, graduating with the Class of 2000. In 2001, Larry went on to attend College of the Redwoods with a year of intense study in the Fine Woodworking Program directed by master cabinetmaker James Krenov. Since 2011, he has been making ukuleles under the brand name Hinkle Ukulele and often plays musical gigs to show off his instruments. Larry returned to UMW in 2016 to teach a workshop on furniture making, becoming an Adjunct Professor and Studio Technician for the Art Department.
Amanda Patterson
Professor of Animation
Amanda Patterson is an Adjunct Professor of Animation. She received her BFA in Kinetic Imaging from VCU and her MSc in Documentary Film from The University of Edinburgh. Her area of expertise is in advertising, using motion graphics and video editing for broadcast and social media. She teaches students about the long history of animation, as well as the ins and outs of After Effects.
Contact:
apatter3@umw.edu
www.pattyamanderson.com
Margaret Meehan
Professor of Design Principles
Margaret Meehan is an artist living and working in Richmond, VA. Her work is a research-based, multidisciplinary exploration that pulls from film, music, popular culture, folklore, and traditional crafts. She considers the origins of outcasts through their representation – in particular, the tendency for women and societal “others” to be seen as monsters. Meehan’s research includes teratology and medicine, ornithology, the esthetics of cuteness, materiality in high and low culture as well as modes of feminist protest. This all stems from her curiosity about the lines that separate what is protected from what is feared and how gendering plays into these expectations.
Michael Dean
Chad Mundie
Sarah White
Rice Evans