Welcome to our New Faculty Members

July 2, 2019

The School of Visual Art and Design is excited to announce and welcome three new professors who will join our faculty this August:

Brent Dedas is an associate professor in Studio Art - Illustration. His studio practice centers on non-traditional mark-making that results from processes of time and chemical transformation.Prof. Dedas will be teaching ARTS 230: Drawing and ARTS 266: Illustration II in the fall 2019 semester.

Byeongwon Ha is an assistant professor in Media Arts - Creative Coding. His research traces the significant transition from analogue media, including film, architecture, and video to new media art. Prof. Ha will be teaching MART 380: New Media Art and MART 581D: Video Game Design in the fall 2019 semester.

Meena Khalili is an assistant professor in Studio Art - Graphic Design. She is an artist who uses design as a strategy for creation, and a designer who brings artistic methods to her solutions. Prof. Khalili will be teaching ARTS 102: Visual Arts Computing and ARTS 246: Graphic Design II in the fall 2019 semester.

A warm welcome awaits you at the University of South Carolina!