ANIMATION/ILLUSTRATION Full-time Faculty:
Professor Alice A. Carter is an illustrator and author. Her illustration clients have included LucasFilm Ltd., Rolling Stone magazine, the New York Times, and ABC Television. She has won Best of Show Honors from the AR Show USA: 100 Best Annual Reports, the Hatch Awards of the Boston Ad Club, Simpson Printed Paper, and the Western Art Directors West Coast Show. Her work has been exhibited at a numerous galleries and museums including the New York Society of Illustrators' Museum of American Illustration, The Norman Rockwell Museum, the New Britain Museum, and the Delaware Art Museum. In 1997 Professor Carter was selected the outstanding Professor at San Jose State University. She was awarded a Fulbright fellowship in 2000 and traveled to Cairo where she lectured at Helwan University. In 2004, she was elected as a trustee at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge Massachusetts. Her recent publications include, The Art of National Geographic: One Hundred Years of Illustration, (National Geographic, 1999), The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love, (Abrams, 2000 and 2002), The Essential Thomas Eakins, Abrams, 2001), and Cecilia Beaux: A Modern Painter in The Gilded Age, (Rizzoli, 2005) which was awarded the 2006 Umhoefer Award for achievement in the Humanities.
Professor Courtney Granner received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Western Kentucky University, studied two years at The Art Institute of Boston, and received his Master of Arts degree from Syracuse University. His list of clients includes the Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times, The Washington Post, Business Week, United Airlines, American Airlines, Reader’s Digest, and the New Yorker. His illustrations have garnered recognition from the Communications Arts Art Annual, the Print Regional Design Annual, the New York Society of Illustrators, the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators, and the San Francisco Society of Illustrators. He has been represented in shows around the country including exhibitions at the Museum of American Illustration in New York, The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge Massachusetts, and the Delaware Museum of Art. His current list of self-generated projects includes the use of animated images and digital photo manipulations.
Assistant Professor John Clapp graduated from Art Center College of Design and earned his masters degree at Syracuse University. He is a freelance illustrator, who has worked for a variety of advertising, editorial, medical, and corporate clients and for every major American publisher. His work has been included in several annuals of the Society of Illustrators. Since 1998, he has worked almost exclusively writing and illustrating children's books. He has illustrated books written by Bruce Coville, Liz Rosenberg, Julius Lester, and Newberry Award Winner, Robin McKinley. His second book, Right Here on This Spot, from Houghton Mifflin Co. was called, "[A]...lyrical homage to humankind's relationship to the land" by Publishers Weekly, and "[An] impressive picture book" by Kirkus. Mr. Clapp’s latest book, Shining, was published in 2004.
Assistant Professor David Chai is an independent animation director. He has worked on a variety of projects ranging from educational software, animation