Announcing VCFA’s 2025 Winter-Spring Faculty Roster
In anticipation of our winter 2025 residency—taking place on the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) campus in Valencia, CA from January 3-11, 2025—our six MFA programs would like to share and celebrate their faculty rosters for the 2025 winter-spring semester.
The 2025 VCFA winter-spring semester will host new and returning faculty across programs. Our VCFA faculty are entrepreneurs, business owners, activists, Lambda Award winners, National Book Award nominees, Critics Choice Award nominees, working and touring artists, and more. The 2025 winter-spring faculty, except for residency-only faculty, will be paired with current students at residency and will mentor their advising cohort for the next six months.
Click the links below to learn more about our celebrated faculty, and keep up with VCFA’s social media January 3-11 for highlights of our upcoming 2025 winter residency.
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Marya Cohn | Tomás Gómez Bustillo
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James Chae (Faculty Chair)
Heather Snyder Quinn
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Yoon Soo Lee
Amy Fortunato Ramón Tejada (Visiting Faculty)
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Rick Baitz | Lisa Mezzacappa
Trudy Chan (Residency Faculty) Rob Frankenberry (Residency Faculty) Frank J. Oteri (Residency Faculty) |
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Michael Minelli
Eshrat Erfanian (Faculty Co-Chair) Mario Ontiveros (Visiting Faculty) |
Humberto Ramirez
Marie Shurkus (Visiting Faculty)
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Miciah Bay Gault
Fernando Flores (Available for post-graduate students only) Richard Jackson (Available for post-graduate students only) Barbara Hurd (Available for post-graduate students only) |
Clint McCown
Betsy Sholl (Available for post-graduate students only) Nance Van Winckel (Available for post-graduate students only) |
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Loree Griffin Burns
Louise Hawes (Katherine Paterson Chair) |
Erica S. Perl
Linda Urban (Faculty Chair)
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