Laura Hartford, MFA
Associate Dean, Bellarmine College of Arts & Sciences
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Laura Hartford teaches photography and digital art and serves as an Associate Dean of the Bellarmine College of Arts and Sciences. She has a background in both fine art and commercial media production, including credits as an Associate Producer of video programs for Donna Lawrence Productions. She holds an M.F.A. from Indiana University, Bloomington and is the recipient of grants for art and teaching from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, the Society for Photographic Education, and the Kentucky Center for the Arts. Her work is included in both private and institutional collections including the University of Louisville Photographic Archives, the Kinsey Institute, the Preus Museum of Photography in Horten Norway, and the William Henry Fox Talbot Museum in Lacock, England where she served as an artist in residence.
Fong Choo, MFA
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Fong Choo is a Bellarmine Artist-in-Residence. His ceramic work is internationally known and is included in many of the nation's most prestigious collections. Choo participates annually in notable art exhibits and expositions, including the Smithsonian Craft Show, the Philadelphia Craft Show and the American Craft Exposition. He has recieved a wide range of awards, including eight straight Awards of Excellence at the St. Louis Art Fair, among many others. His work has been featured in many books and articles on ceramics, including a cover story for Ceramics Art and Perception.
Caren Cunningham, MFA
Professor Emeritus
This international artist and educator has work in numerous private collections on five continents. She has held 33 solo exhibitions in the U.S., China, Finland, Kenya, and Peru, as well as over 80 group exhibitions in the U.S., Tanzania, and Germany. Articles have been written about her work in English, Finnish, Hebrew, Mandarin, Spanish, German, and Swahili. She has over twenty-five years of teaching experience from three different continents. She has served on the boards of the Louisville Visual Art Association, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and Exceptional Equitation.
Robert Lockhart, MFA
Professor Emeritus
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Professor Emeritus Robert Lockhart is the founder of the Bellarmine Art program and an internationally recognized sculptor. He continues to teach Social Justice courses for the University and has headed an annual service trip to Guatemala for over a decade. He exhibits internationally, and his work can be seen in institutional collections throughout the region, including the Louisville Zoo and the Church of the Epiphany. Bellarmine's campus is home to his bronze portraits of Robert Bellarmine, Thomas Merton, Angela Merici and the Bellarmine Knight, the largest bronze sculpture in Kentucky.