Anne Walke Cassidy teaches non-western and western art history, printmaking, and Heritage. A specialist in the arts of the Americas, her current research involves ritual calendar manuscripts of pre-Hispanic Mexico. Before coming to Carthage, she taught at Columbia University in New York, Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and Grossmont College in San Diego. Cassidy brings to her teaching a strong belief that works of art should be studied as primary sources whose interrogation allows the student to access fundamental concepts and questions.

A long and varied experience in the study and practice of art informs Cassidy's work as an art historian. After majoring in studio art as an undergraduate, she worked as a scenic artist in and around New York City, on sets for theater, film, and television. During this time, she was an artist member of the Center for Book Arts in New York, where she showed and sold her prints and book art.

After graduate study at Columbia University, Cassidy became deeply involved in the repatriation of American Indian art and ritual objects. On behalf of the American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation in New York, she worked closely with collectors and tribes throughout the United States, facilitating repatriations and advocating for tribes. This experience afforded an opportunity to learn about American Indian art and history from American Indians, but also offered a deeper understanding of the power and universality of aesthetic activity itself.

Cassidy has been studying and researching central Mexican manuscripts for the last thirteen years. Mesoamerican manuscript research has taken her to Mexico and a number of European libraries. She is currently working on a manuscript about the Borgia Group ritual calendars.

Kimberly Greene earned a B.A. in electrical engineering from Northwestern University in 1988, then worked for 11 years in computer-related fields before returning to school. She earned a bachelor of fine arts from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2002, and a master of fine arts from Louisiana State University in 2005. She was a ceramics instructor at Southeastern Louisiana University in 2005-06, and an art instructor at Baton Rouge Community College in the first part of 2006, teaching art appreciation courses. She was a visiting assistant professor of ceramics and foundations at Michigan State University for one year, before coming to Carthage in 2007.

A British subject, Professor Hudson was educated at the University of Leeds and Huddersfield College in England, where she earned the U.S. equivalents of B.A. and M.A. degrees in fine art and English literature, specializing in the early modern period. Before coming to Wisconsin she taught at York and Oxford Colleges of Further Education, and has taught at Carthage since 1981.

Hudson's lifelong commitment to the interdisciplinary learning experience and her arts-humanities background led to her crafting and piloting many of the cutting-edge interdisciplinary programs now at the core of the Carthage education experience. As well as teaching specialized classes in art history, Hudson teaches in the Western Heritage Studies Program, the Women's and Gender Studies Program, and the Carthage Symposium.

Hudson frequently collaborates with faculty from other departments to explore the arts from a multitude of perspectives, for example: The West and the World [Western Civ.]; The Philosophy of Art and Beauty [Art and Philosophy]; Women in the Visual and Performing Arts [Art, Music, Theater, Women and Gender]; Art, Music and Literature in Historical Context [Art, Music and English]; The Italian Experience: Art, Religion and Culture [Art and Classics]; Art and Literature in The American Century [Art and English]; Art and Psychology [Art and Psychology]. Her 2009 publication in the seventh annual International Journal for the Humanities reflects her commitment to the interdependent relationship between arts and culture: "Obama's Election and the End of Postmodernism."

Melanie Kehoss teaches Drawing, 2D-Design, and Exploring Studio Art at Carthage. Since earning her MFA in Studio Art from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007, Kehoss has also taught for the University of Wisconsin's Continuing Education and the Madison Metro School District. Her multimedia studio work, which combines pop and figurative elements, can be seen at www.angelfire.com/wi3/kehoss.

Kehoss has exhibited in Madison, at the Class of 1925 Gallery, Overture Center, and ArtSpace, and in Milwaukee at Hide House, White Whale Collective, and Water Street Gallery. As a public artist, she has received grants from In:Site Milwaukee and the Madison Arts Commission, and is currently a participant of the Percent for Art Mentorship program.

Diane Levesque has been exhibiting her work as a professional artist both regionally and nationally since 1980. She has received numerous awards and grants including a Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship Grant in 2000, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Grant in 1987, and the Gradiva Award for Best Art from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis in 1999.

She has had many solo exhibitions at various institutions and galleries including the Chicago Cultural Art Center, the Wisconsin Academy of Art Gallery in Madison, Peltz Gallery in Milwaukee and Artemisia Gallery in Chicago. Her work has been included in many group exhibitions at such venues as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Madison Art Center, the Rockford Art Museum in Illinois, the Evanston Art Center in Illinois, the Promega Gallery in Madison, the Heuser Art Center Gallery at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., and the University Art Gallery at Indiana State University.

Visit www.dianelevesque.net to see a selection of her paintings and works on paper. Her work is also featured online at the Portal Wisconsin website, www.portalwisconsin.org, and she is represented by Peltz Gallery in Milwaukee.

Professor Levesque served as visiting assistant professor of art at the University of Iowa in 1990, and as a visiting artist lecturer at Carthage in 2001 and 1997. She served as an executive member of the Greater Kenosha Area Foundation Arts Fund Committee from 2002 to 2007, and is currently on the developing committee for AHA! Kenosha (Arts and Humanities Alliance of Kenosha), Kenosha's first arts council involving many local arts organizations. She earned her B.A. from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh and her M.F.A. from the University of Chicago.

Ross Moreno graduated in 2005 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA in sculpture, also studying performance and video. He received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001, having also studied at the Edinburg College of Art and the Maine College of Art. Moreno has performed and exhibited in cities worldwide including Hong Kong, Berlin, Vancouver, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. His work has been reviewed in Time Out Chicago and New City. Moreno attended the summer residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2003 receiving an artist fellowship, and in 2009 attended the Vermont Studio Center with a full fellowship. Ross Moreno is the recipient of grants from the Visiting Artist Fellowship Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Illinois Arts Council.

Connie was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. She received an MFA in Printmaking from Ohio University in 2005 and a BA in Painting from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in 1996. She also has attended two study abroad programs, in Italy and in England, and has since traveled to Mexico and Ireland.

Since receiving her MFA, she has taught courses in Drawing, Computer Art, and Printmaking at Bloomsburg University, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Ohio University, and Anchor Graphics/Columbia College. Her work has been included in both juried and invitational exhibitions nationally and internationally and has won prizes in national printmaking competitions. Her work is featured in many permanent collections such as the Racine Art Museum, Derby Fine Arts, Ltd., the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, and the National Small Print Collection at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. She participated in a month-long residency at the Vermont Studio Center and serves as an elected officer for the Mid-America Print Council.