Liberal Arts +
Art History Courses

Marcella Stockstill is Associate Professor and Co-Chair, Liberal Arts + Art History. Her research and teaching explore the interconnected histories of the visual arts and sciences from the 15 th to 17 th centuries. After completing her undergraduate studies at UC Irvine, Marcella earned her MA in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a thesis tracing 15 th -century exchanges in optics, color production, and alchemy between Netherlandish and Italian artists.

A fulltime lectureship in Art History at Chapman University inspired Marcella to pursue her doctorate at Claremont Graduate University, where she earned her PhD in History and Early Modern Studies. Her work restores a new class of natural philosophers to the historical recordfiremasters who practiced alchemy and handbook illustrationreestablishing their place at the intersections of art and science.

Marcellas research is supported by The Newberry Library in Chicago, The California Rare Book School at UCLA, and the Center for European Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. A $10,000 Transdisciplinary Dissertation Award in 2017, in addition to the Friedman Award, and the Ida Lloyd Crotty Endowed Scholarship at CGU proved essential to her research. Her publications include the Bodman Collection of Italian Renaissance Manuscripts (Libraries, Claremont Colleges), and book reviews for Routledge and Laurence King Publishers in the UK.

Currently, Marcella is engaged in reverse-engineering a 17^th -century pyrotechnic dragon from the illustrated handbook central to her dissertation. Most important, she is honored to teach at LCAD, whose students serve as a constant source of pride with their uncommon talent, insight, energy, humor, and inspiring turn-of-mind for processes of the natural world.

Laura Black is a curator, educator, and writer based in Long Beach, CA. Her practice is dedicated to developing culturally significant projects and supporting emerging and mid-career artists.

Black is the Founder and Executive Director of Universal Voice, a non-profit dedicated to providing exhibition, publication, and professional development opportunities for artists from historically under-recognized backgrounds. Additionally, Black serves as Chief Curator for Universal.

Voice’s ‘Gallery UV’ in Carson, CA and is the Gallery director and collection curator at Golden West College. Black has developed and led courses in Art History, Exhibition Design, and Writing for the Arts at several local colleges including Laguna College of Art and Design and California State University, Fullerton.

Black holds an MFA in Exhibition Design from California State University, Fullerton and is currently working towards a PhD in Cultural Studies at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA. Her scholarly interests focus on the history and theory of Minimal and Post-Minimal Art (late 1960s to present) and contemporary museological ethics.

Kimberly Bowcutt, MFA Creative Writing (Chapman University), is a writer, educator, and developmental editor with a distinguished background in creative writing, narrative nonfiction, and research. She has taught at several institutions, bringing her love of language and storytelling to each course. In the classroom, she cultivates an environment where students discover their authentic voices while venturing into new creative territories — a philosophy refined through diverse teaching experiences, including a formative period at a rural Montana one-room schoolhouse.

In her teaching practice, Kimberly balances academic standards with creative exploration, which resonates with students across varied educational settings and prepares them for scholarly and professional writing challenges. Her ongoing work as a developmental editor enriches her instruction with practical insights that students particularly value.

Kimberly’s inquisitive nature extends beyond the classroom. She performs with an ’80s rock band in Orange County and enjoys spending time with family and friends. Her connection to Northwestern Montana runs deep through the writers’ retreats and residence programs she creates to nurture creative communities. This preservationist spirit extends to her archival research tracing Danish women’s lives — uncovering narratives that might otherwise be lost to time.

Christina Brubaker was married with two small children when her husbands job relocated them to Brooklyn, NY. For him, a native Californian, the change was a bit of a shock, but since Christina was born in Queens and lived on Long Island until she was nine, the move felt more like going home. She decided the sudden change was a sign– an opportunity to finally pursue writing full time, something shed been planning since the fourth grade. Planning while simultaneously letting life get in the way, they spent a year in Brooklyn. In that time, she took three writing workshops at The Writers Studio. Once they were back in Orange County, she continued workshopping at UCLA Extension, but it was an acceptance into a community workshop at Chapman University that led to a fellowship which allowed her to pursue an MFA in creative writing, which led to a teaching position at Orange County School of the Arts. There, she discovered a knack for helping students learn how to unearth and cultivate their own unique creative voice. In the ten years since that move back east, she’s had several short stories published, as well as a non-fiction piece, and one really bad poem. Recently, she finished the first draft of a novel and while it took her a lot longer to get here, she likes to think her younger self would be pleased.

Dr. Lisa Caraway, Ed.D., offers a wealth of experience in bridging creative passion with business acumen. Her extensive managerial experience spans multiple sectors, including pivotal roles in education and community-focused projects. There, she effectively combined theoretical insights with practical application to drive success.

Lisa has led initiatives that required precise budgeting, financial forecasting, and resource
management. Her doctoral studies in Education from USC, and an MBA with concentrations in Management & Leadership and International Business from the University of La Verne further complement her expertise. Lisa’s dedication to merging creative and business principles ensures that students will gain the knowledge to make sound decisions, manage resources effectively, and sustain their artistic ventures in a competitive market.

Keith has a passion for mathematics and making it accessible for everyone–even those who have previously had bad experiences with it. He is also an advocate for the arts. Professionally, he has years of experience as a technology leader creating business plans, managing budgets and companies. He has taught in business settings and at the university level. He is excited to join LCAD to work with the next generation of creatives!

Chris Engel has been employed as a professional Industrial Designer for 25 years and counting. He is currently employed at Titleist Golf in Carlsbad, CA as an Advanced Senior Industrial Designer. His job at Titleist is to create design concept sketches and renderings that help sell his ideas. He holds a BFA degree from the College of Creative Studies in Detroit, MI, specializing in Transportation Design. After CCS, he went on to earn a Master of Science degree from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA – also specializing in Transportation Design. While he is relatively new to teaching, it is an area that he has been looking to explore for quite some time now, and he is very excited about the opportunity to be an adjunct professor at LCAD. He comes from a family of life-long educators (and designers), and he is sure he will be successful in helping LCAD students improve their overall design skills.

Ben Garceau has taught at multiple universities in the United States and abroad, including Indiana University, the University of Paris X Nanterre, and the University of California, Irvine. He has published research on Old English poetry, Seamus Heaney, and Jorge Luis Borges. As an academic, his research specializes in the cultures and contexts of late antique and early medieval translators, from Britain to Bactria and beyond. For the last decade he has played a small role with other scholars in the field to decolonize medieval studies, and to disrupt the myths about race and gender in the European middle ages that white supremacists and other reactionary forces have weaponized. In his free time, he applies this same skill set and political interest to creative writing and worldbuilding, collaborating with friends and fellow travelers on vibrant new imaginaries that are capable of reflecting the whole human family and its struggles. He loves tabletop role-playing games, record collecting, hiking, and eating delicious food, which is why he has chosen to call Southern California home.

Ashton Haugen is a voice talent, actor, teacher and coach from the greater Los Angeles area. She is currently a working voice actor and acting coach and is represented by Trailer Voice Artists.

Ashton has worked for the past 20+ years to expand her skills as an actor and voice talent by studying and taking class from many working voice actors and casting agents as well as obtaining private coaching and building her skills and resume. She has diverse experience in voicing projects for many different areas of the voiceover industry including commercials, animation, video games, trailers, podcasts, and over 200 audiobooks. Ashton has also been fortunate enough to act on stage as well including roles as “Sandy” in Grease (2007), “Mary Warren” in The Crucible (2005), and “Philia” in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (2006). She has loved working both on stage and in the booth. Both have taught her so much about the craft of acting as well as herself.

In addition, Ashton has teaching experience at all levels (pre-k, elementary, high school and adults) and education dating back to 2008. Ashton also currently teaches her own online course (Voiceover for Beginners) in cooperation with Tessa Livingston SLP and offers private acting and voiceover instruction.

Ashton also is a Podcast host and content creator for the upcoming “Good Talkers Podcast” with two other voice actors where they discuss the voiceover and acting industry, including personal experiences as working actors in the post pandemic world. She is so looking forward to working with the students of LCAD this year!

Sunkyung Kim (B.A., M.A., Seoul National University, Korea; Ph.D., Duke University) specializes in the history of religious art, focusing on Buddhist sculpture, ritual space, mortuary practices, and the visual culture of medieval China and Korea.

Before joining LCAD as faculty, she was an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow and taught at the University of Southern California, UC Riverside, and UCLA. She published journal articles on various topics including cave sanctuaries, steles, and sacred mountains, as well as their modern historiography. Her works have appeared in Asia Major, The Journal of Korean Studies, Acta Koreana, Journal of Basic Design and Art, Archives of Asian Art, Ars Orientalis, and A Companion to Korean Art (Wiley Blackwell Companion to Art History, 2020).

She was selected as a recipient of the Field Research Fellowship from the Korea Foundation in 2023, and will be working on her book, Stone, Mountain, and Light: The Art of Sculpting in Medieval Korea.

Nicole Lima-Hartshorn is an art historian and independent scholar of Roman art with a sub-specialization in Global Arts. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California and California State University Long Beach, and received additional art history training at California State University Fullerton. Nicole has over 16 years of University and College teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels. A nominee for Fullerton Colleges prestigious Teacher of the Year award, Nicole is heralded as one of Southern Californias leaders in education. She holds numerous certificates in the field of higher education, and lectures both locally and internationally. In 2016, Nicole was the closing speaker in Saddleback Colleges competitive Distinguished Guest Lecturer Series.

In addition to teaching, Nicole has worked as an educational consultant locally and abroad, and is published in the field of Roman Art, and its intrinsic narrative, commemorative and propagandistic qualities. Nicole has extensive gallery curating experience, consulting and writing for galleries since 1999, in both the private and collegiate sectors. She has exhibited emerging and established artists including world-renowned fine and contemporary artists, and graffiti artists of the infamous CBS crew. Nicole is an active member of the College Art Association, The Western Museum Association, and the American Alliance of Museums. She has taught art history and liberal arts courses at LCAD since 2008, and loves being in the classroom sharing her passion for art history and the worlds cultures. When Nicole is not attending seminars, teaching, or researching she spends time with her family and travels internationally.

Luis Emilio Morales is an adjunct lecturer and researcher with more than six years worth of combined research and teaching experience at the secondary and university level. He holds two advanced degrees, one in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (MA), and the other in qualitative sociological research (MPhil).

While a student at the University of Winchester (UK), Luis undertook a research program which mostly explored the nature of evolving gendered behaviors among ethnically diverse young male athletes in liberalizing US and UK contexts. More than a dozen of his projects have been published in peer-reviewed academic journals and books, including the Journal of Gender Studies, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and Debates in Mathematics Education, among others. As a fellow with the Sport Collision Injury Collective, he is committed to activism and pedagogy that promotes human health and well-being.

Professionally, Luis been invited to present at more than ten forums and international conferencesincluding the British and American Sociological Associationson topics as diverse as gender, sexualities, and education. A fellow of the Higher Education Academy, he is dedicated to helping students develop the skills and knowledge necessary to live free and positively affect change through critical thinking in tandem with the use of their natural ingenuity and creativity.

Linnea Motts is a Senior UI/UX Designer at The Walt Disney Company. She designs immersive and intuitive user experiences for games and interactive experiences across a wide array of platforms including PC, console, mobile, wearables, augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MX). Notably, she designed the user experience and illustrated the iconography used in the navigation setup for Star Wars: Jedi Challenges, a smartphone powered augmented reality experience. She has designed logos, packaging, app icons, and marketing assets for Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars. Linnea led the design development for Disney’s Neo Smart Watch for children and has collaborated with Verizon, Samsung, Vodafone, and Lenovo to bring the magic of Disney storytelling to fans and families around the world. Her professional history includes Oakley, Volcom, Etnies, and Chase Design Group. She began her career path as a premed student at UCLA before attending LCAD. She holds a BFA with honors in Illustration with an emphasis in Graphic Design and a Minor in Drawing and Painting. Linnea is a capable illustrator, painter, and lettering artist. As faculty, she brings her passion for critical thinking and creative process to the typography and design courses she teaches.

Max Murphey is a teacher and researcher working in philosophy, mathematics, logic, and other related areas. He holds a bachelors degree in philosophy and mathematics from Columbia University and a doctorates degree in Philosophy from University of California, Riverside (UCR). Since 2015, Max has been teaching middle-school and high-school math classes at ACI Institute in Rowland Heights. Since 2017, he has been working as an adjunct philosophy instructor at Pomona College, UCR, and Norco College. In 2018, Max began teaching mathematics at LCAD. Outside of work, he enjoys reading philosophy, watching videos of physics lectures, biking, hiking, spending time with his fiancee, two young sons, and two dogs, and thinking about how to make the world a better place.

Gwendolyn Oxenham is a writer, teacher, and producer. Her new audio docuseries, HUSTLE RULE, hosted by Ted Lasso’s Hannah Waddingham, features the untold stories of women’s soccer players, and is based on her book Under the Lights and in the Dark. She also wrote Finding the Game: Three Years, Twenty-Five Countries and the Search for Pickup Soccer and contributes to Sports Illustrated, ESPN, and The New York Times. She directed Pelada, an award-winning documentary about pickup games across the world. A former Duke soccer player, she played for Brazils Santos FC. She has taught writing courses at LCAD for nearly a decade.

Kimberly is an inquisitive and driven Physical Therapist in the outpatient orthopedic setting with an emphasis on manual therapy treatment. She is a Physical Therapist and an adjunct professor for LCAD, teaching Scientific Anatomy. She has always been fascinated by the human body and all of its unique, dynamic intricacies, and she finds great pleasure in guiding patients and friends to restore function and decrease their limitations while increasing their body awareness and overall health. She has worked in the outpatient orthopedic setting since her graduation, and throughout these 17 years, she has continued to deepen her knowledge base through continuing education. She is a Fellow of Applied Functional Science through the Gray Institute, where she completed a 40-week fellowship in 2015 which deepened her knowledge in the principles, strategies, and techniques that improve human movement, limit pain, and improve daily function. She has also completed a series of Functional Soft Tissue Transformation courses to strengthen her manual therapy skills and knowledge of the human body. With this background, she has found highly effective tools to decrease soft tissue dysfunctions and provide faster, longer-lasting results for patients. Kim holds a Masters and Doctorate in physical therapy from the University of the Pacific. She loves swimming, paddle boarding, all things water, and her kids and family.

Ariana Rizo is an art historian with over 7 years of combined museum and teaching experience. She specializes in Modern and Contemporary Art, with a focus on Latin American and Latinx art production.She currently works as a Curatorial Research Assistant at the Getty Research Institute.

When I was nine, the things I liked best in the world were writing rambling stories, tennis lessons on Toronto’s weather-cracked courts, and playing “school” with the kids across the street. In high school and college, I didn’t write as much, played less, and studied more boring things. In 2005, I got an MSc in Social and Public Communication from the London School of Economics, where I learned about rhetoric and got excited about words (and school!) again. After a decade-long career in communications, I returned to school for an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. I moved to SoCal in 2013, and although I do miss Canada, this has been the perfect place to reunite with all my childhood loves: writing, tennis (year-round!), and, of course, being a teacher. My first novel, Catch My Drift, will be published by Goose Lane Editions in Spring 2018. I have published short stories in North America and the UK, and my short films have screened at festivals worldwide. In my free time, I volunteer with WriteGirl, a creative writing and mentoring organization for underserved teen girls in LA.

Josh Steadman is joining LCAD for his first year teaching the course Sketching for Entertainment Design. Previous to joining LCAD, Josh has spent nearly 23 years as a Set Designer, Concept Designer, Show Designer, Illustrator, Production Designer, and Creative Director, working in T.V., Theater, and Theme Park Design and Build.

He has worked with numerous clients and on fun projects including Shanghai Disneyland, MARVEL Avengers; S.T.A.T.I.O.N. in Las Vegas and Singapore, Cartoon Networks The Wave Cruise Ship, Evermore Park as Director of Show Design and Production, Genting Skyworlds as Art Director and Creative Director, and recently as a Show Designer/Experience Designer for Loveland Living Planet Aquarium.

While working at Walt Disney Imagineering he conceptualized The Enchanted Storybook Castle Walkthrough for the Enchanted Storybook Castle, as well as designed, storyboarded and oversaw implementation of several items in three lands of this future park.

He holds a MFA in Set Design for Theatre from the University of California – Davis (2010).

Professor Uglow has a law degree from Western State University College of Law and a degree in Business Administration from Cal State San Bernardino. He has written employee handbooks and developed policies concerning sexual harassment for Fortune 500 companies, and has also been hired by organizations to develop policies and strategies designed to reduce premises liability in hotel and restaurant environments. He is also a court-certified expert on intellectual property and sports brand valuation. He has been hired to work with global entertainment companies, including the National Football League, Professional Bull Riders and many others. Professor Uglow loves being in the classroom and one of his greatest joys is helping students prepare for their chosen careers.

Noelle Volkmann graduated from California State University, Fullerton in 2016 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Animation and Entertainment Art. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Art in Art Education from California State University, Long Beach with an emphasis in creativity and play. Noelle brings her passion for and understanding of playful curriculum to her classes to help students retain content and expand creative processes.

Lisbeth began her LCAD teaching career in 1987, but after taking a full-time high school teaching job and having a family, she stepped away from LCAD, returning in 2016 to an utterly reimagined campus and college. Lisbeth regularly teaches Language Arts 104 and 111. She earned a bachelors degree in Creative Writing and Magazine Journalism from Long Beach State and a Masters degree in American Literature from Chapman. Lisbeth has worked as a high school Creative Writing and English teacher for 33 years; she has been the Saddleback Valley Unified District teacher of the year twice and an Orange County nominee for Teacher of the Year in both 2001 and 2011. From 2016 through 2020, Lisbeth stepped out of the high school classroom to serve her district as an instructional coach and mentor and to work as a curriculum specialist, but in Fall of 2020 she returned to the classroom full time to open the new SVUSD Virtual High School. She has published a childrens novel, and many education related articles and is also a regular presenter at educational conferences, speaking abou collaboration, curriculum design, and using technology to shift teaching and learning towards 21st century practices. She enjoys traveling, and she lives in Trabuco Canyon with her dogs, Zeke and Honey.