Department of Art

Position Role:
Faculty

Office Location:
RO

Office Number:
201

Office Hours:

Please schedule appointments using our online scheduling tool in the Student Hub. Be aware that some of our faculty advisors are only conducting phone or virtual appointments. Be sure to check your university email for any follow up regarding the mode in which your appointment will be conducted. Please contact the Department of Art office at 303-615-0300 if you need any assistance making an appointment.

Campus Box Number:
59

Bio:

Leila Armstrong is Visiting Faculty in Art History, Theory and Criticism. She received her Masters from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she wrote a thesis titled The Spatialization of Jerusalem in the Early Muslim Period. She is currently working on an exhibition of contemporary African photography that will run at the Center for Visual Arts beginning February 2015.                  

Position Role:
Faculty

Office Location:
AR

Office Number:
187M

Office Hours:

Please schedule appointments using our online scheduling tool in the Student Hub. Be aware that some of our faculty advisors are only conducting phone or virtual appointments. Be sure to check your university email for any follow up regarding the mode in which your appointment will be conducted. Please contact the Department of Art office at 303-615-0300 if you need any assistance making an appointment.

Campus Box Number:
59

Bio:

Jill Mollenhauer is Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism in the Department of Art at Metropolitan State University of Denver. She completed her doctorate in Art History, Theory, and Criticism at UC, San Diego where she specialized in the arts and cultures of Mesoamerica with a secondary emphasis in Native American art. Her dissertation, Olmec Monuments as Agents of Social Memory, focuses on the stone monuments of the Olmec culture, specifically their role as agents in the production and erasure of social memory. Jill completed her BA in Art History at UCLA. Currently, she teaches the World Art 1 art history survey (ARTH 1600), as well as upper-division courses in the arts and cultures of Mesoamerica (ARTH 3401) and the pre-Columbian Andes (ARTH 3402), the art of the ancient Maya (ARTH 350D), and Latin America modern art (ARTH 3481), along with seminars in object agency (ARTH 490C) and art theory and criticism (ARTH 4480).                  

Position Role:
Faculty

Office Location:
AR

Office Number:
187Q

Office Hours:

Please schedule appointments using our online scheduling tool in the Student Hub. Be aware that some of our faculty advisors are only conducting phone or virtual appointments. Be sure to check your university email for any follow up regarding the mode in which your appointment will be conducted. Please contact the Department of Art office at 303-615-0300 if you need any assistance making an appointment.

Campus Box Number:
59

Bio:

Dr. Pytlinski is Associate Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism and Chair of the Department of Art at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her doctorate is from the Graduate Center of City University of New York where she wrote a dissertation entitled "Utopian Visions: Women and Early Video Art". She earned an M.S. in Theory, Criticism and History of Art, Design and Architecture from Pratt Institute and a B.A. in Art with a concentration in Art History from Colorado State University. Her essay, “San Francisco Video Collectives and the Counterculture” has appeared in the recent anthology, West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977, published by University of Minnesota Press. She recently curated an exhibition for the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art entitled "Craft Tech/Coded Media: Women, Art & Technology" which opened on October 3, 2013.

Position Role:
Faculty

Office Location:
AR

Office Number:
187N

Office Hours:

Please schedule appointments using our online scheduling tool in the Student Hub. Be aware that some of our faculty advisors are only conducting phone or virtual appointments. Be sure to check your university email for any follow up regarding the mode in which your appointment will be conducted. Please contact the Department of Art office at 303-615-0300 if you need any assistance making an appointment.

Campus Box Number:
59

Bio:

Summer Trentin is an art historian whose work focuses on Classical antiquity. Her current research examines the architectural, aesthetic, and thematic functions of the Roman domestic peristyle garden and the ways in which architecture reflected personal and cultural values. Her other areas of interest include Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and modern architecture.

She teaches upper level courses on the art and culture of ancient Rome, Greece, and Egypt as well as African Art, World Art I, Reading and Writing Visual Culture, and BA Senior Experience, and is also the faculty adviser for Art Guild. She considers it a privilege to share her love of art and antiquity with Metro students.                  

Position Role:
Faculty

Office Location:
AR

Office Number:
187K

Office Hours:

Please schedule appointments using our online scheduling tool in the Student Hub. Be aware that some of our faculty advisors are only conducting phone or virtual appointments. Be sure to check your university email for any follow up regarding the mode in which your appointment will be conducted. Please contact the Department of Art office at 303-615-0300 if you need any assistance making an appointment.

Campus Box Number:
59

Bio:

Jessica Weiss is Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at Metropolitan State University of Denver. She received her doctorate from the University of Texas, Austin, with specializations in Iberian and Northern European Early Modern art and a secondary emphasis in Medieval art. Her dissertation, entitled “Isabel of Castle, Flemish Aesthetics, and Identity Construction in the Works of Juan de Flandes,” analyzed the reception of Netherlandish painting in Spain and its importance to royal self-fashioning. She earned an M.A. at Southern Methodist University and two B.A.’s from the University of North Texas in Art History and French Language & Literature. Her essay “Inquisitive Objects: Material Culture and Conversos in Early Modern Ciudad Real” was published by The Research Paper Series of the Latin American and Iberian Institute of New Mexico in 2011. Her new research project explores the role of geography and foreign material culture in fifteenth-century Spanish devotion.