Fine Arts Faculty
Jennifer Crupi, Professor (Jewelry/Metalwork)
Jennifer Crupi’s metalwork has been shown in over 100 national and international exhibitions—including exhibits at the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC; the Museum of Applied Art, Germany; The Jewelry Museum, Italy; Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco. Jennifer was the recipient of three New Jersey State Council of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships and her work has been featured in numerous print publications including Metalsmith Magazine, Vogue Italia, Taiwan Crafts, and the books: Craft for a Modern World, 40 Under 40: Craft Futures, Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective, among others. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Joseph Amorino, Ed.D., Professor (Art Education)
Dr. Amorino graduated from Columbia University Teachers College where he subsequently taught as a part-time assistant professor prior to arriving at Kean University. Dr. Amorino brings a specific philosophy to the Art Education Program which is rooted in developmental psychology and clinically identifies the origins of artistic intelligence in the growing individual. A published artist and researcher, he has received the prestigious Princeton University Award for Outstanding Educator in the State of New Jersey, while his teaching methods and studio work have been featured in many venues including national television's Channel One News and in The New York Times.
Julie Harris, Associate Professor (Printmaking and Drawing)
Julie Harris is an accomplished artist whose work has been featured in over two hundred regional, national, and international exhibitions. She was awarded a New Jersey Arts Council Fellowship in 2024, recognizing her contribution to the arts. Currently, she serves as the Head of Printmaking. Harris primarily works in intaglio printmaking, silkscreen, handmade paper, and the book arts. Her current creative practice explores the use of found ephemera and antique clothing to convey personal narratives around memory, connections, and the experience of loss, offering deep emotional resonance in her art.
Lewis Kachur, Professor (Modern and Contemporary Art History)
Lewis Kachur authored Displaying the Marvelous: Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dalí and Surrealist Exhibition Installations (MIT Press, 2001). Recently he published an essay on Kenny Scharf and the Surrealist forest (Totah Gallery, NY). His numerous publications include “Picasso et les musiques- populaires et folklorique- du cubisme,” in Les Musiques de Picasso, Paris, 2020, as well as “Austin, Barr, Cornell, l’abc du surréalisme à New York dans les années 1930” in Éric de Chassey, le surréalisme dans l’art américain, Musées de Marseille, France, 2021. Professor Kachur is writing a book on installation art in New York museums.
Carolyn Lambert, Assistant Professor (Digital Media)
Carolyn Lambert holds an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University and a BA from the University of New Hampshire. Her work engages with the vulnerability of living in a time of ecological fractures and mass extinction. Lambert has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the Drawing Center, Eyebeam, and SculptureCenter (New York) and La Mirage (Montreal). Her video work has screened at the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück (Germany), Bomb Factory (UK), and MUMOK (Vienna, AU). She joined the faculty at Kean in 2022, where she teaches and mentors students in Video, Photography and Digital Media.
Marguerite Mayhall, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Pre-Columbian, Latin American Art History)
Dr. Mayhall earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin, where she also studied molecular biology and worked as an art conservator at the Harry Ransom Center. At Kean, she has served as the Chair of the department of Fine Arts and Secretary of the University Senate. In 2016, she was awarded the Presidential Excellence Award for Teaching, and in 2023, the Outstanding Teaching Award for the College of Liberal Arts. Her areas of specialization are pre-Columbian and modern Latin American art history. Most recently she is investigating issues of embodiment, networks, and sacred space and place.
Anna Shukeylo, Lecturer (Painting, Foundations)
Her work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Kean University, NJ, Manchester University, IN, Philadelphia, PA, and in group shows at Auxier/Kline, Equity Gallery, Stay Home Gallery, amongst others. She has curated at The Clemente, Arts Council of Princeton, amongst others, and she curates a bi-annual invitational show for the Fine Arts Department at James Howe Gallery. Prof. Shukeylo is also a freelance art writer and a regular contributor to Art Spiel. She received her MFA from Pratt Institute and BFA/certificate from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Jacquelyn Tuerk-Stonberg, Associate Professor (Byzantine Art History)
Jacquelyn Tuerk-Stonberg completed her PhD at the University of Chicago in Medieval Greek Byzantine Art History and Culture, and her MA in Art History and Critical Theory at Stony Brook University. As an Associate Professor of Art History in the Fine Arts Department, she teaches Ancient Greek, Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque art. Currently, she has a Fulbright Specialist award with projects in Germany and Greece. Her research and publications focus on the ancient Greek and Byzantine history of magic, including medical uses and religious prohibitions. Currently she is completing a book, Medieval Magic: How to do Things with Words and Images in Byzantium, under review at Cambridge University Press, which examines engraved gems and metals that were worn around the neck to address everyday fears of demons and desires for health. Additionally, she writes about contemporary emerging artists, and curates art exhibitions on human rights issues.