Donald T. Austin
Don earned his B.A. in Studio Art at the College of Wooster in 1980, and his M.A. in Graphic Design at Western Carolina University in 1986. He then began his career as a graphic designer in 1985 working for Eric Ericson and Associates, the largest advertising firm in Nashville, Tennessee. The three years following found Don in Fresno, California, working as Senior Art Director and Creative Director for Soto Associates and Theilen Associates.

He designed material for health care clients, financial institutions, radio stations, fruit growers and manufacturers of high-tech equipment. Don's brochures, billboards, annual reports and catalogs were recognized for their clean design and attractive presentation of information. His work won numerous awards for excellence.

In 1988, Don began his teaching career at Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina. During that same year, Don opened his own agency. With a partner, Jim Lemke, Austin-Lemke Associates was formed. Both Don and Jim managed full-time teaching positions at Coker while designing and marketing corporate identity and advertising campaigns for several clients in South Carolina for eleven years. Don and Jim continue to work on design commissions for clients in both the Columbus and South Carolina areas.

In 2002, Don began producing most of his professional work for clients on a donation basis. The Central Ohio area offers many opportunities to support organizations that have limited budgets for visual communication necessities.

Don has continued his professional study in design through programs at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Yale University Summer Graphic Design program in Brissago, Switzerland.

Don's appointment to Otterbein includes coordinating the Visual Communications program and teaching 2-D Design to all incoming Art Majors.

Jim Bowling
Jim Bowling received his B.S. degree from the Ohio State University and M.F.A. from Kent State University. He taught at Youngstown State University.

Queen Brooks
Queen Brooks is an artist, photographer, educator and former gallery owner. She received her B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the Ohio State University. In 1993 she won the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest International Artist Fellowship which allowed her to take a three-month residency in Ivory Coast, West Africa. Brooks was commissioned to do an art piece for an upcoming opera performance for Opera Columbus. Her artwork, a woodburned door titled This Way and That was purchased for the permanent collection of the Columbus Museum of Art. She also participated in a mural project with the Cultural Arts Center, a division of the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department.

Ms. Brooks has taught at the Ohio State University and the Ohio Dominican University, and has been an adjunct professor at Otterbein College for several years, teaching 2D Design, Visual Thinking and Painting. When not teaching classes, she works extensively with children throughout Ohio and the greater Columbus community.

Gretchen Stevens Cochran
Gretchen Stevens Cochran earned a BS degree from Cornell University, a MAT from Wesleyan University, and an MFA from the Ohio State University.

She has received Individual Artists Grants from the states of New Hampshire and Ohio, a Headlands Center for the Arts Fellowship, a Business First/Business Arts Partnership award and Ohio Arts Council Travel Fellowships to visit New Delhi, India, and the Czech Republic. Recently she has exhibited in group and solo shows in the Riffe Center, Werle Gallery at Ohio Dominican College, and Cimelice Castle in the Czech Republic.

Professor Cochran has taught art in public elementary, middle and high schools, the Radcliffe Pottery, Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Keene State University, New England College, Faculteit der Kunsten, Hogeschool in Tilberg, the Netherlands and the Wexner Center in Columbus. She currently teaches in the Art and Education departments at Otterbein College.

Nicholas Hill
Nicholas Hill is the Chairperson of the Department of Art at Otterbein College. He also teaches in the areas of drawing, printmaking, and painting. He received his B.F.A. from Michigan State University and his M.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the University of Iowa. Mr. Hill has taught at Otterbein for six years. His previous teaching positions include Union College in Schenectady, New York, the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, and chairperson of the Art Department at Bethany College in Kansas.

Mr. Hill has exhibited his work in over 150 national and international, juried and invitational exhibitions. Recent international venues include France, Germany, and Poland. He has been awarded two international residencies in Dresden, Germany by the Greater Columbus Arts Council and the Ohio Arts Council. He is also the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Project Grant, two New York State Council on the Arts Grants, grants from Artists Space/New York City, and a grant from the Kansas Arts Council. Additional residencies have been at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, the Ragdale Foundation in Illinois, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Mr. Hill has exhibited his work at Printworks Gallery in Chicago for twenty years. He recently had a solo exhibition of his prints at the gallery. Mr. Hill's art work has been acquired for such public collections as the United States Department of State, Washington, DC, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Grafikwerkstatt, Dresden, Germany, and The American Council on Education, Washington, DC.

Amy Johnson
PhD., University of Delaware, Department of Art History
M.A., Tufts University, Department of Art and Art History
B.A., State University of New York – Geneseo, Department of Art and Art History

Amy Johnson is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Art Department. Dr. Johnson’s areas of study include Modern European and American Art and Architecture, Gender Studies, Visual Culture Studies, and Historic Preservation. Her dissertation examined the housing reform work of the Boston Cooperative Building Company, one of the first tenement house reform agencies in the United States, and the first to require the presence of women on their Board of Directors. Many of this organization’s directors were also practising artists, architects, and important collectors with ties to Boston’s Society of Arts and Crafts. Dr. Johnson’s research continues to focus on these links between the artist and society, and the larger role art plays in our community.

Amy taught at the University of Wisconsin – LaCrosse, the University of Delaware, and Harford Community College in Harford County, Maryland, before coming to Otterbein College. She has also worked in historic preservation through the Center for Historic Architecture and Design in Newark, Delaware; the Preservation Alliance of LaCrosse, Wisconsin; and the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities in Boston, Massachusetts.

Fredrik Marsh
Fredrik attended The Ohio State University, earning his B.F.A. in Photography in 1980 and M.F.A. in Printmaking in 1984. His work has been included in numerous solo, competitive, and invitational exhibitions across the United States since 1978. Marsh received an Arts Midwest/Regional National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Visual Arts in Photography in 1985, Individual Artist Fellowship in Photography (1991) and Artist Project Grant (2002-03) from the Ohio Arts Council. In 2000 he was awarded a Dresden/Saxony Artist in Residency through the Greater Columbus Arts Council and the Saxony State Ministry of Arts and Sciences, Dresden, Germany, completed during the summer of 2002. Currently Senior Lecturer of Art at Otterbein College in Ohio, he has been teaching photography since 1985. Prior to his appointment at Otterbein College, Marsh taught photography at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (1985), University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota (1986-87), and James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia (1988-89). Website.

Paula Nees
Paula Nees received her M.F.A. in 1977 from the University of California, Davis, after completing her B.S. in Art at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her work has been included in juried and invitational exhibitions including the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial Exhibition, the Chicago Art Institute, the Madison Art Center in Wisconsin, and the Butler Art Institute in Ohio. Nees' paintings and drawings are part of corporate collections including Sentry Insurance, Pillsbury Company, Security Pacific Bank of California, the City of Madison and State of Wisconsin.

After moving to Columbus, Ohio in 1992, Paula has been active in the art community, serving on exhibition committees for the Ohio Art League and exhibiting her work throughout the region. She began teaching at Otterbein College in 1993, and currently is an instructor for drawing, painting and art history.

In 2002, Nees attended workshops in New York City and Florence, Italy on fresco painting techniques. This study in fresco combined both an interest in historic methods as well as a love for working with pure pigments. Her studio work is devoted to manipulating imagery based on a study of the Italian Renaissance with attention to the physical nature of oil and fresco.

David Stichweh
David Stichweh received a B.A. from Otterbein College in 1967, a Master of Divinity degree from United Theological Seminary in 1970, and studied for an MFA in Photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Mr. Stichweh began teaching Photography courses at Otterbein in 1979.

Mr. Stichweh's photographs are regularly displayed in a variety of regional one person and group exhibitions. His work was recently included in an exhibition that toured internationally.

As a black and white photographer, Mr. Stichweh is interested in a simple and direct approach to making photographs. He currently uses a pinhole camera, printing these negatives on watercolor paper hand coated with a liquid photographic emulsion. "My photographs are a visual exploration of shape, texture and light. An aspect of quiet and inner stillness is important in my work."

Joanne Stichweh
Joanne Stichweh is a Professor in the Department of Art at Otterbein College where she has been teaching studio courses and art history for more than twenty years. A graduate of Otterbein College, she holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from The Ohio State University. Her primary teaching responsibilities in the Art Department include art history survey courses and painting classes. A particular area of interest is a course which she developed for the curriculum, "Women Artists in History."

Joanne Stichweh is a frequent local and regional exhibitor whose work has received many awards. Selected exhibits include "Art for Life," Liturgical Art Guild, several exhibitions at The Lanning Gallery, Fifth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Ohio State Fair Professional Fine Arts Exhibit, Ohio Art League, Women Artists' Expo, OSU Mansfield, Ohio University Lancaster, Mount Union College, Ohio Dominican College, Franklin University, Clark State Community College, as well as colleges in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and New York. She has painted scenery for productions by CATCO; several of her paintings are reproduced on the covers of a Women's Studies series of textbooks distributed nationally by publisher Simon & Schuster. Her paintings, ceramics works, and mixed-media sculpture are included in numerous public, private, and corporate collections.