Faculty and Staff
Our team of working artists is here to help you succeed. At DCAD, our faculty and staff demonstrate a tangible passion for art in both their personal lives and their work. Our faculty are working artists who exhibit their work across the globe and constantly seek out the best teaching methods for their students. When you join DCAD, you will benefit from lifelong relationships with established artists and art lovers.
Kristen Blanchard
Academics
Ron Brignac
Photography
John Brown
Liberal Arts
Heather Castro
Liberal Arts
David Czarnecki
Academics
Jamila Davey
Liberal Arts
Lise Dubé-Scherr
Continuing Education
Throughout her career, Lise has been a champion of the arts and has sought to innovatively engage diverse communities with art in meaningful ways. A native of Canada, Lise started her career developing and teaching art classes and workshops at community centers and museums including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery of Canada. As the director of education at the Allentown Art Museum in Pennsylvania and through subsequent positions as the executive director of the Driehaus Museum, a decorative arts museum in Chicago, and more recently, through her leadership of International Arts & Artists, an arts service organization based in Washington, DC, Lise has remained committed to fostering the personal and professional growth and goals of students, adults, and emerging and seasoned creative professionals.
Ellen Durkan
Fine Arts
Melissa Fitzgerald
Illustration
Kathleen Ellis-Foultz
Financial Aid
Penni Gioffre
Liberal Arts
Daejah Henry
Admissions
Joshua Hollingsworth
Gallery
Meegs Johnson
Library
Delaina Jolley
Admissions
Angel Kawash
Animation
Connor Kealey
Admissions
Rebecca Klug
Marketing/Communications
Josh Kopin
Liberal Arts
Pamela A. Mann
Development
Muriel Mhloyi
Financial Aid
Diana Milburn
Marketing/Communications
Jason Olney
Graphic Design
Katelyn Parag
Academics, Admissions, Continuing Education, Marketing/Communications
Paul Rider
Photography
Elizabeth Saldan
Student Services
Tad Sare
Animation
Rich Savona
Sydney Schaeffer
Animation
Jalen Shaw
Animation
Casey Smith
Liberal Arts
Chris St. Cyr
Graphic Design
Holly Storlie
Fine Arts
Denise Tanyol
Liberal Arts
Aki Torii
Fine Arts
Aki Torii is a multidisciplinary artist whose artwork revolves around the theme of “home” as an endlessly transformative idea and entity. Her deep investigation of this idea manifests itself through various media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and video.
Torii has received her MFA degree from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (2008), and her BFA Painting degree from Indiana University – Bloomington (2005). She has participated in the Reel Venus Film Festival (New York, 2008), group shows such as “Instance, Instants and Distance” at Skybox Gallery (Philadelphia, 2008) and Solitary Pleasure at Slought Foundation (Philadelphia, 2010).
Newly promoted to Fine Arts Program Chair, Torii teaches foundation classes at DCAD. Instructing traditional and digital practices. In addition, she is a teaching artist at The Print Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts School and Museum in Philadelphia. She was selected as one of the “10 Philadelphia female artists you need to know” by online magazine PhillyVoice in April 2015.Bryn Ziegler
Fine Arts
Žaneta Zubkova
Fine Arts