Christine Hahn specializes in 20th century art, examining how the circulation of art via expatriate artists; traveling exhibitions; and the museum space creates multilayered meanings for global audiences. She is currently at work on a book project that examines the history of 20th century Korean painting and its relationship to Western modernism, Japanese colonialism, and the aftermath of the Korean War.

Dr. Hahn received both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has had the opportunity to share her work with local, national, and international audiences. She was the recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship in 2002, spending the year in Seoul, South Korea. Dr. Hahn has developed several new courses for the Art History curriculum at K, including Art and Gender, a course on the history of the modern art museum, and a methodological course on important theoretical texts in 20th century art.

Sarah Lindley’s studio practice spans multiple disciplines, including sculpture, installations, and ceramics. Her creative work has transitioned from objects that frame vacant interior spaces (reflections on public and private space) to renditions of Dutch Cabinet Houses (museums of domestic space, housed within the space itself). Most recently, Sarah’s work has moved beyond the walls of the interior to the domestic landscape (industry, small communities, and environmental trauma).

Lindley’s creative work has been recognized by numerous grants and exhibitions, including biennales in France, Korea, and Taiwan. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Washington. Sarah was a resident artist at the European Ceramic Work Center in the Netherlands and has thrice been an Arts-Industry Resident in Kohler, Wisconsin. She was one of two inaugural Faculty Fellows in the Arcus Center of for Social Justice Leadership.

Tom received a BFA from the Tyler School of Art and a MFA from the University of Georgia. Mr. Rice has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Ragdale Foundation. His honors include the Lucasse Fellowship for Excellence in Creative Work awarded by Kalamazoo College.

Among his commissioned works are pieces for the Xerox Corporation and the Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial. His work has been exhibited at the South Bend Regional Museum of Art, the Evansville Museum, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, the Kalamazoo Institute of Art, the Lansing Art Gallery, the Arkansas Arts Center, the Art Academy of Cincinnati, the Urban Institute of Art and the Kresge Art Museum.

B.A., Scripps College, 2006; M.A., NYU 2009; Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo, 2019

Anne Marie Butler (she/her) specializes in contemporary Tunisian art within contexts of global contemporary art, contemporary global surrealism studies, Southwest Asia North Africa studies, gender and sexuality studies, and queer theory. Within these areas, she considers how issues of gender, sexuality, and queerness coincide with parameters of the nation-state, and the imbrication of state authority within social constructs.

At K, she teaches at the intersection of visual culture and gender studies, instructing courses such as Art, Power, and Society, Queer Aesthetics, Performance art and core WGS classes. 

She is open to serving as an external committee member for PhD dissertations relevant to her fields of study.

Recent publications:

Butler, Anne Marie E. “Surrealism and Power in Contemporary Tunisian Art: Sculpture by Aïcha Filali and Houda Ghorbel,” ASAP/Journal 7 no. 3 (2022): 499-521. 

Butler, Anne Marie E. and Christine Hahn, “Decolonize this Art History: Imagining a Decolonial Art History Program at Kalamazoo College, London Review of Education 19 no. 1 (2021): 1-15. 

Butler, Anne Marie E. “‘Art is Intrinsically Revolutionary:’ Post-Revolution Performance Art in Tunisia,” Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 16 no. 3 (2020): 1-20.

Juan (he/his/him) is a Colombian-born Art Historian with a background in Philosophy and Engineering and specializes in Global Contemporary Art. His research and teaching interests include video, photography, performance, gender, politics, experimental cinema, collective memory, and decoloniality. He has published in venues such as TDR The Drama Review, Photographies, and  Cinergie Il Cinema e le altre Arti. Three book chapters are forthcoming in the edited books ‘Pop Cinema’ (Edinburgh University Press), Fallen Monuments, Contested Memorials, and Dislodged Pasts (Routledge), and Walking with the Enemy: The Art of Subversive Mimicry in the Post-Truth Era (Manchester University Press). And his book on pioneer female video makers in 1980s Colombia will be published in Spanish by Universidad de Los Andes.

Danny Kim has worked in video production for over 30 years: writing, filming and editing in many different formats, including documentary-style, electronic-news gathering (ENG), single-camera narrative, multi-camera productions and live events. He has traveled to over 50 countries, showcasing the work of NGOs and other organizations on topics such as Hurricane Katrina disaster relief, women’s literacy in India and El Salvador, water well-building in Thailand and Guatemala, mother/child health in South Africa, and more. He received a Gold Camera Award for Editing at the U.S. Industrial Film & Video Festival (1992) for “Clean Water: Cambodia”.

Danny’s films have screened at many festivals, including Reading FilmFEST, East Lansing Film Festival, and Made-in-Michigan Film Festival.  His feature-length documentary “The Stories They Tell” was awarded Best Local Film at the North by Midwest Film Festival in 2016 and Best Documentary at the Soo Film Festival in 2021.  For fun, Danny and his colleagues enjoy taking part in local 48-hour film competitions.