Faculty and Staff

Pittari Michael Pittari, Chair and Associate Professor of Art.
B.F.A., University of Florida, 1989; M.F.A., University of Tennessee, 1995.

Pittari is an artist who works in painting and digital imaging. His emotive abstract paintings have been exhibited throughout the Eastern United States and are in several corporate collections. His recent series of landscape prints, based on American wilderness paintings of the 1800s, address issues of history and iconography within the broader field of landscape studies. Pittari is a former editor-in-chief of the journal Art Papers and has published exhibition reviews and interviews. He teaches studio courses in drawing, painting, and advanced art making, in addition to historical courses on color and culture and the interrelationship of painting and cinema.

Telephone: 717-867-6393
Address: Lynch 159
Email: pittari@lvc.edu
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Taylor Grant D. Taylor, Associate Professor of Art History.
B.F.A., Honors, University of Western Australia, 2000; Ph.D., 2005.

Taylor is an art historian who specializes in the history of early digital arts. His forthcoming essay, “The Soulless Usurper”, published in Mainframe Experimentalism, charts the uneasy relationship between 1960’s computer arts and the mainstream art world. Beyond his art historical research, Taylor has completed various art projects, including a documentary film and installations in the United States and Australia. Taylor teaches a global survey in art and architecture as well as specialty courses in modern and contemporary art. Taylor was awarded the Thomas Rhys Vickroy Award for Outstanding Teaching at LVC in 2010.

Telephone: 717-867-6716
Address: Lynch 166
Email: taylor@lvc.edu
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Massad Daniel Massad, Artist-In-Residence.
A.B., Princeton University, 1969; M.A., University of Chicago, 1977; M.F.A., University of Kansas, 1982.

Massad is a nationally recognized artist who works in pastel on paper. His intricate, symbolic still life drawings are in many public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. He has exhibited his work throughout the United States, and is represented by Forum Gallery in New York City. As Artist-In-Residence Massad is a valuable resource as a teacher and mentor to students within the art and art history program.

Telephone: 717-867-6715
Address: Lynch 164
Email: massad@lvc.edu
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Beall Karen R. Beall, Adjunct Instructor of Ceramics and Sculpture.
B.F.A., University of Florida, 1986; M.F.A., University of Tennessee, 1995

Beall is a nationally recognized sculptor and illustrator whose work is inspired by living forms in the natural world. She has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, and is represented by Solomon Projects in Atlanta. Her work has been featured in the journals Art in America, Art Papers, and Sculpture, and she was commissioned to create a permanent sculpture at Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport. Beall recently completed an artist’s residency at Tulane University in New Orleans, teaching and making art based on the unique ecosystem along the banks of the Mississippi River. She teaches ceramics, sculpture, and advanced art making.

Telephone: 717-867-6715
Address: Lynch 164
Email: beall@lvc.edu
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Michael Fink, Adjunct Instructor of Art.

Telephone: 717-867-6715
Address: Lynch 160
Email: mfink@lvc.edu


McNulty Barbara McNulty, Director of the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery.
B.S., Messiah College, 1975; M.A., Pennsylvania State University, 1998; Ph.D., Temple University, 2010.

McNulty is an art historian whose research focuses on Byzantine and Medieval portraiture on the island of Cyprus. She has presented papers at academic conferences throughout the United States, and has extensive teaching experience in visual studies and the history and aesthetics of photography. At LVC she has developed courses on the history and theory of portraiture, and on the body in the art and architecture of the Middle Ages. As Director of the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery she curates exhibitions that span a broad spectrum of art historical interests.

Telephone: 717-867-6016
Address: Lynch 161
Email: mcnulty@lvc.edu
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Nate Nixdorf, Adjunct Instructor of Ceramics.
B.S., James Madison University.

Nixdorf is an artist who creates both functional and non-functional ceramics. He has exhibited at the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts conference as well as in private galleries, and has taught at the Kenai Peninsula Art Institute in Alaska. Nixdorf teaches all levels of ceramics.

Telephone: 717-867-6715
Address: Lynch 160
Email: nixdorf@lvc.edu


Robin L. O'Bryan, Adjunct Instructor of Art & Art History.

Telephone: 717-867-6715
Address: Lynch 160
Email: obryan@lvc.edu


Stager Nicki Stager, Adjunct Instructor of Photography.
B.F.A, Kutztown University, 2001; B.S., Kutztown University, 2002; M.Ed., Kutztown University, 2007; M.F.A., Transart Institute, Danube University Krems, Austria, 2010.

Stager is an artist who has been working with and studying the photogram for ten years. She is represented by Like the Space Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, and has exhibited her work in various shows as locally as Reading and as far away as China. Her work has been included in several publications including Harper's magazine and The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography. She teaches darkroom and digital photography.

Telephone: 717-867-6715
Address: Lynch 160
Email: stager@lvc.edu


Williams Nancy Williams, Adjunct Instructor of Art & Art Education.
B.S., State University of New York at New Paltz, 1964; M.Ed., Millersville University, 1992.

Williams is an artist who works in drawing, painting, and printmaking. Her work has been exhibited around the region in various commercial and university galleries. She is a specialist in art education pedagogy, having taught at Warwick High School in Lititz, PA, for seventeen years. She has also studied at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania State University, and Goucher College in Baltimore. Williams’ courses at LVC include beginning drawing, figure drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and the teaching of art. She also works closely with students in the Art Education program, monitoring their academic progress as students and student-teachers.

Telephone: 717-867-6715
Address: Lynch 160
Email: nwilliam@lvc.edu
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Anderman Barbara Anderman, Associate Professor Emerita of Art & Art History.
B.A., M.A., University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 1971; M.A., Rutgers University, 1994; Ph.D., 2000.

Anderman taught art history at LVC from 2001 to 2010. Her research has focused on French genre painting and art theory in the Baroque and early modern period. As a freelance art editor for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and a contributing editor at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Anderman worked on catalogues including Van Dyck 350, Western Decorative Arts, and The Art of Gauguin. She is the author of publications on 18th-century art and theory, including "La Notion de peinture de genre à l'epoque de Watteau" for the exhibition Watteau et la fête galante, at the Musée des beaux-arts de Valenciennes (2004). For the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery on the LVC campus she curated Academic Allure: Art and Instruction in Nineteenth-Century Paris (2009).

Email: anderman@lvc.edu


Support Staff

Susan M. Snyder, Secretary of Mathematical Sciences, Psychology, and Art & Art History.

Telephone: 717-867-6080
Address: Lynch 283A
Email: ssnyder@lvc.edu