2011-2012 FACULTY

Patrick C. Cunningham
Patrick C. Cunningham fits into a single mold about as well as a thunderstorm into a thumbnail. Hailing from the plains of Oklahoma, he currently resides in the Chicago tundra where he tackles a variety of arts and technology endeavors. As a partner in the multimedia "geek boutique" production firm Binary Artists, he handles projects for clients which include Fortune 500 companies, museums, startups and everything in between. Solutions include  interactive touch screens, High Definition video production, multi-channel marketing, architectural technology design, web-based development and more. For the past two years, Patrick has served as technical consultant to Landon Bone Baker Architects developing prototype micro-controller air quality sensors as well as teaching high school students the nerd-tastic joys of soldering and electronics. Curatorial arts partners are Abryant and LiveBox galleries where Patrick has opportunities to exhibit exceptional emerging and established artists. He is also the founder of the BioArt Research Network (B.A.R.N. for short), a group of artists dedicated to exploring biotechnology within cultural contexts. His passion for the field led to the first ever BioArt Studio class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he currently leads curriculum and laboratory development. Additionally, he is an artist regularly exhibiting and performing in a variety of capacities. Recent exhibitions of Patrick's work include projects at the Sullivan Galleries Chicago, Living Arts Center of Oklahoma, Boston CyberArts Festival and the International Upgrade Conference among others. Lastly, he is an actor, producer, director and occasional stand-up comedian. Notable roles have included the world's greatest tango dancer, a Serbian army officer in love, vigorous serial killer and hilarious linguistic Jiu-Jitsu-ist among others. There is a reason bears don't hunt sharks and in all seriousness, have a pleasant diurnal wake cycle.

Chesney Floyd
Chesney Floyd is an architectural designer, landscape urbanist and artist. Since 2005, Chesney has worked as a project manager and associate for William Duff Architects in San Francisco, where he managed the firm's residential architecture studio from 2007 to 2010. In 2011, he completed an exhibit for the Center for Land Use Interpretation entitled Acequia Space: Water Democracy in the Middle Rio Grande, documenting the history of New Mexico's historic irrigation communities. He has received awards and recognition for design competition proposals, including a re-design of the urban edge between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez on the U.S.-mexico international boundary, the adaptive re-use of post-industrial Detroit, and an urban farm/produce market in San Francisco. Chesney received his Bachelor degree from the University of Virginia and his Master of Architecture from University of California, Berkeley. As a designer and thinker, Chesney draws on a background in fine art and a belief in the importance of craft. His commissions and works have included ink landscape drawings, graphite renderings, wall-size murals in hand-mixed acrylic, oil paintings, intaglio etchings, silkscreens and woodcuts, as well as graphic art for publications. Chesney has also worked as a builder on private residences and as a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity. These various activities ground his design approach in material properties, techniques and traditions. Chesney is an avid backpacker, and enjoys making field recordings of both "natural" and urban settings.

Jane Sloss
Jane is a Chicago-based architect and watercolor painter. From 2007 to 2011, Jane worked as an associate with Chicago Associates Planners and Architects on education, housing, and mixed-use projects, as well as architecture and planning at Tryon Farm, a conservation community, in Michigan City, Indiana. Previously, Jane was an Outreach Fellow at Auburn University's Rural Studio, working on the $20,000 House project. She has worked with community-based groups on projects aimed to improve neighborhood livability and sustainability through involvement with Architecture for Humanity, the South Bend Downtown Design Center and The Village Cooperative and Neighborhood Design Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Jane is an avid watercolor painter. As an architecture student, she spent many hours sketching and painting in the piazza of Rome and other Italian cities and towns. She appreciates the pure pleasure and meditative qualities of painting, as well as the opportunity it offers to chart our course through life, our interests, our evolving abilities. She has taught watercolor painting at Rumble Arts Center and is a 2011 CAAP Grant recipient for her currently in-progress Western Avenue Series. Jane is an alumnus of the University of Notre Dame, a registered architect and a LEED Accredited Professional.

Ryan M. Wilson
Ryan is a landscape architect, urban designer, storyteller, and community catalyst. Since 2005, Ryan has worked in Chicago as a consultant to Architects, Corporations, Municipal Agencies, and Community Organizations on issues of sustainable land-use, green infrastructure, and site design. His projects with the TGDA & CDF include designs for playgrounds, parks, rooftops, neighborhoods, campuses, corridors, and watersheds. Having worked across a wide-range of project scales, Ryan has adapted his methods of collaboration & design to address the complex needs of site, users, clients, and process. He brings to each project a perennial concern for beauty, craft, energy and stewardship. This is Ryan's second year as a facilitator with Archeworks, a role he values for it's challenge to mix experiential learning with alternative design thinking. He is also a partner in Converge:Exchange, a platform for the open exchange of community-knowledge & design-innovation. Ryan is an alumnus of the University of Georgia's College of Environment & Design and Archeworks. He grew-up on a old farmstead in Northeast Georgia, and has developed an origin myth about that piece of land and his fascination with food, play, light and the many cultures of landscape.

2011-2012 Archeworks Fellows

Fereshteh Toosi
Fereshteh Toosi is a multidisciplinary artist who collects and recombines sounds, words, images, and actions. She grows vegetables in the empty lot behind her house, counts macroinvertebrates in the Chicago River, and volunteers as a beekeeper at Garfield Park Conservatory.

Fereshteh’s socially engaged creative practice ranges from community-driven oral histories to guerrilla interventions in public places. Her creative research focuses on social geography, sensory ethnography, sustainability, and migration issues. Fereshteh's pieces have been shown at the Freies Museum in Berlin, Morono Kiang Gallery in Los Angeles, Transformer Gallery in Washington DC, Art in General in New York, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, La Centrale Galerie in Montréal, Hallwalls in Buffalo, and the Boston Center for the Arts. Fereshteh's work has been supported by grants and residencies from the Illinois Humanities Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Experimental Sound Studio, the Experimental Television Center, Virginia Center for the Arts, the Berwick Research Institute, the Flaherty Film Seminar and the Society for Contemporary Craft. She has participated in Toronto’s Subtle Technologies Festival, the Performance Studies International Conference, and the International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation in Gabrovo, Bulgaria.

Fereshteh received a BA from Oberlin College and worked in Japan for two years as a Shansi Memorial Association Fellow before completing her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Art. She held teaching positions in media art and theory at Saint Mary’s College of Maryland and Frostburg State University, and was the Faculty Fellow in Arts and Civic Engagement at Syracuse University before joining the full-time faculty at Columbia College Chicago. Fereshteh is a 2011 Archeworks alumna and directs GARLIC & GREENS: accessible soul food stories as an Archeworks Fellow. You may find samples of her work at http://fereshteh.net

PAST FACULTY MEMBERS
Steve Dillon, Architect, 2010 - 2011
Catherine Muller, Architect, 2011, (Archeworks Fellow 2010)
Mason Pritchett, Architect, 2008 - 2011
Andrew Vesselinovitch, Urban Designer & Planner, 2008 - 2011
Giles A. Jacknain, Business Consultant, 2003 - 2010
Kees Lokman, Landscape Architect, Designer 2008 - 2010
Jesse Vogler, Architect, Designer 2008 - 2010
Cornelia Ann Bailey, Web Director, Designer 2007 - 2008
Mark Buchalter, Industrial Designer 2007 -2008
Monica Bueno, Creative Director 2007 - 2008
Samar Hechaime, Designer, Project Manager 2005 - 2008
Nance Klehm, Ecological Designer 2007-2008
Elva Rubio, Architect, Designer 2007 - 2008
David Woodhouse, Architect 2006 - 2008
Lee Bey, Architecture Critic, BA 2006 - 2007
Sarah Dunn, Architect, M Arch 2006 - 2007
Martin Felsen, AIA Architect, M Arch 2006 - 2007
César Nuñez, Community Organizer 2006 - 2007
Ellen Grimes, MBA, M Arch 2005 - 2006
Edward Keegan, B Arch 2005 -2006
Randy Kober, Architect, M Arch 2004 - 2007
Pat Saldana Natke, Architect, M Arch 2003 – 2006
Daniel Towler Weese, M Arch 2005-2006
Lisa Kulisek, Architect, M Arch 2004 - 2005
Clare Lyster, Architect, M Arch 2003 - 2004
Ammar Eloueini, Architect, M Arch 2000 - 2004
Kerl LaJeune, Architect, B Arch 2002 - 2004
Jeanne Gang, Architect, M Arch 2002 - 2004
Jason Pickleman, Graphic Designer, 2002 - 2005
Brad Lynch, Architect, B Arch 2002 - 2005
Douglas Garofalo, Architect, M Arch 1994 - 2002
Michael Newman, Architect, M Arch 1995 - 2002
Ben Nicholson, Architect, M Arch 1995 - 1996, 2001 - 2002
Charles Smith, Architect, B Arch 2001 - 2002
Anna Kania, Architect, B Arch 2001 - 2002
Maura Crisham, Architect, M Arch 2000 - 2001
Monica Chadha, Architect, B Arch 1999 - 2001
Kent Lawson, Architect, BA 1999 - 2000
Richard Walthers, Architect, MA 1999 - 2000
Frances Whitehead, Artist, MFA 1999 - 2000
Dian Love, Architect, MFA, M Arch 1995 - 1997
Sue Ryder, Industrial Designer, BFA 1996 - 1999
Eileen Jones, Interior Designer, BFA 1998 - 1999
Andrea (Arsenault) Reynders, Artist, BFA 1996 - 1998
Lily Zand, Architect, B Arch 1994 - 1995
Robert Somol, Educator, JD, PhD 1994 - 1997