Faculty & Staff

Our dedicated faculty are extraordinary teachers in the classroom and recognized professional, practicing artists/designers exhibiting and working in their fields. Learn a little more about them now, and meet them in person when you visit during any of our events, tours, or portfolio review appointment.

    Profiles

  • Bill Thomson

    Professor

    Bill Thomson has created artwork for advertising, book, and editorial clients across the United States. Thomson’s recent work has focused primarily on children’s books, illustrating Karate Hour, Building With Dad, Baseball Hour, and Chalk for Cavendish Children's Books.
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  • Dennis Nolan

    Professor

    Noted illustrator and author, Dennis Nolan's freelance advertising clients include Activision, Atari, Columbia Records, DAW Books, Imagic, Lucasfilms, Pacific Telephone, and TOR Books. Also an illustrator and author/illustrator of picture books, Nolan's publishers include Dial, Disney, ...

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  • Doug Andersen

    Assistant Professor

    After graduating from San Jose State University with a major in fine arts painting, I spent a few years in the gallery market. Finding the gallery market too commercial, I moved into the illustration market. I worked for five years in Lockheed’s Space Systems Division as an illustrator.

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  • Jon Sideriadis

    Adjunct Faculty

    sideriadi@hartford.edu

    Jon Sideriadis has been an active freelance illustrator, writer, and ...

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  • Murray Tinkelman

    Director, Low-Residency MFA in Illustration

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