Rachael Benson is a video artist who merges the impersonal experience of watching art through a screen and the intimacy of live performance. Manipulating devices like symbolism and metaphor, her work interacts with an audience like friends sharing secrets in confidence. By exploiting the inherent emotionality of sound as well as being playful with the […]
Zane Murray brings a robust blend of 12+ years of facilities management experience, combined with a background in design, to help ensure the facilities at Cornish provide the best possible educational experience for students, staff and faculty.
I’m your friendly neighborhood SysAdmin! My prerogative in my career is to find niche roles that best serve my community. I believe technology should be a unifying thread across all people, empowering the best in us. My approach is to ensure that our tools enable our ethics and values to create a society and culture […]
I’m an accounting professional with a wide variety of experience and expertise. I have a strong passion for working in a team, and believe that successful accountants are just as skilled in communication as they are in technical accounting. I enjoy everything that has to do with sports, and love to ski and climb mountains […]
Pinky Estell is a stage manager and production manager with over fifteen years of experience. He has worked as theater director for ACT San Francisco, San Francisco Opera Company Merola Opera, The National Black Theater Festival, Intiman Theatre, and the Cornish Playhouse, among others. Estell currently serves as the vice president on the UpTown Arts […]
I am a social scientist, writer and researcher who teaches first-year seminars and upper-division classes focused on topics such as contemporary politics, liminality, and social science and literature. My publications include White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation (University of North Carolina Press, 2008) and peer-reviewed […]
Chris Cook joined Cornish College of the Arts in the summer of 2019 as Assistant Registrar & Academic Course Scheduler. Originally hailing from Milwaukee, WI, he migrated to Seattle in 2012 and has never felt more at home, despite missing the snow. Though his background is in programming, his passion has always been supporting artists; […]
Tory Franklin’s approach to site specific work is heavily informed by printmaking and fabrication techniques used daily in her employment in the Signage and Commercial Screen Print industries from 2000-2009. After returning from the East Coast after receiving her MFA Tory focused on building out a fabrication studio to create installation components in-house for herself […]
Rob Lutz began working as an Arts Technician while working towards his art degree at the University of Washington in the early 90’s. After graduation he decided to make being a tech his career. He loves maintaining a well run studio and working with artists to fill their process toolboxes. His own art practice involves […]
Kristin Swenson-Lintault, a painter whose works examine origins/connections, textile structures and natural forms integrates drawing/painting/printing using encaustic/mixed media. Her MFA 96′ in Fiber/Textiles and BA 93′ Studio Art at S. Illinois University, included residency in Scotland, Japan and S. Korea to study natural dyes, textile printing, washi, and anagama wood-fired ceramics. Her work has been […]