Program Coordinator
Peter Precourt
Title: Professor of Art
Email: peter.precourt@maine.edu
Address: 3rd Floor, Handley Hall
Amy Rahn
Assistant Professor of Art History and Charles Danforth Gallery Director
Amy Rahn is a teacher, curator, and scholar of American modern and contemporary art with a focus on postwar painting and women artists. Her dissertation on New York School painter Joan Mitchell reconsidered the artist’s years in Paris from 1955 to 1965 as a condensing, transnational moment in her career when she bridged her painting … Read More
Peter R. Precourt
Professor of Art, DVR Program Coordinator, SSC Program Coordinator
“My personal interests are in the graphic novel, painting, drawing, and contemporary art practice and theory. I believe that the keys to an arts education are a synthesis of: individual facility, knowledge of contemporary studio practice and art history, making work of personal resonance, and a commitment to both craft and community. The artist needs … Read More
Robert I. Katz
Part-Time Professor of Art
Robert Katz joined the UMA art faculty in 1981 and since then he has been teaching classes in sculpture, 3 D design and drawing. As an artist, his sculptures are often fabricated in welded steel as well as mixed media constructions. His art has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the country and he … Read More
Luc Demers
Assistant Professor of Art
Luc Demers is an artist living in Southern Maine. In the early nineties he studied art at USM, completing the BFA program with a concentration in photography. In 1994, while continuing to pursue his personal work, he began working as a commercial photographer as well as shooting editorial work for The Casco Bay Weekly and … Read More