Faculty for Graphic Design & Visual Communication BFA Degree

Emily Andrews

Biography

Emily Andrews is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Vermont. Her educational journey led her to Syracuse University, where she earned a BFA in Illustration, and later to Champlain College for an MFA in the Emergent Media program.

Emily’s work is deeply rooted in both digital and traditional media, with a particular affinity for the texture and tactility of traditional printmaking. Her creative sensibilities lean towards comics and visual storytelling, and her portfolio spans a diverse array of projects including logos, branding assets, and a graphic novels.

In her freelance capacity, Emily has brought her unique visual language to a variety of local publications and authors, among others. Her commitment to her craft and adaptability across various media have enabled her to consistently deliver compelling visual narratives that resonate with her clients and audience.

Publications & Abstracts

Seven Days

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Mallory Breiner

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Mallory Breiner makes painting, sculpture and installation that collage visual language from art history, film, found internet images and personal photographs to investigate ideas about gender, motherhood, labor, emotions and art-making. She received her MFA from Hunter College (New York, NY) in combined media in 2014 and her BA in Fine Arts and English Literature from Saint Michael’s College in Vermont in 2007. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Art at Champlain College and Saint Michael’s College in Burlington, Vermont.

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Richard Doubleday

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Dr. Richard Doubleday joined Champlain College as a Professor in fall 2024, coming from Louisiana State University College of Art & Design, where he serves as professor emeritus. He previously held the position of Assistant Professor of Art at Boston University College of Fine Arts. A specialist in graphic design history and theory, his doctoral thesis investigated contemporary Chinese graphic design and its historical antecedents. Doubleday’s doctoral research has been supported by notable fellowships, including a 2022-2023 China-U.S. Scholars Fellowship (CUSP) and a 2017-2018 Fulbright Fellowship as a senior research scholar at the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

His scholarly focus has evolved from examining graphic design in the post-Mao era to encompass the cultural production in other Sinophone communities outside of China. Currently, Dr. Doubleday is working on a research project examining the intersection of cultural theory and the history of graphic design. His extensive publication record includes books as author and co-author, along with regular contributions to leading national and international publications, earning widespread recognition for its contribution to design discourse.

Dr. Doubleday maintains an active international presence as a global educator, having led workshops in China, Ecuador, Mexico, Vietnam, and Peru, and directing study abroad programs in China, London, and the Netherlands. His poster designs have been exhibited at prominent venues worldwide, including the Golden Bee Moscow Biennial of Graphic Design, Ecuador Poster Biennial, and the International Poster Triennial in Toyama, Japan.

Dr. Doubleday’s academic foundation rests on more than two decades of professional design practice with esteemed firms and institutions, notably including Lincoln Laboratory at MIT, a Department of Defense research center focused on national security applications. His design industry experience has served as a platform for his academic career. Dr. Doubleday’s teaching practice encompasses the history of graphic design and theory, color theory, motion graphics, and fundamental and advanced principles of graphic design and typography.

Distinctions & Awards

• Professor Emeritus, Louisiana State University, 2024
• China-U.S. Scholars Program (CUSP) Exchange Fellowship, 2021
• Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship, 2017-18
• Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Grant, 2014
• Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship, 2004

Publications & Abstracts

• Ornament and Initial: Beauty of Graphic Design, 17-20th Century
• Jan Tschichold – Master Typographer
• Book (Practical) Art Hideki Nakajima Letter and Design TYPO-GRAPHICS
• Graphic: 500 Designs that Matter
• The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design
• Bloomsbury Design Library

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Professional & Scholastic Affiliations

• Fulbright Alumni Association
• Phi Kappa Phi, Honor Society
• Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC)
• Graphic Artists Guild
• Society of Printers
• Professional Association for Design (AIGA)

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Ryan Dunleavy

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Ryan is a freelance artist specializing in motion graphics, animation, editing, and video production. He has 18 years of experience including 11 at a creative agency in Seattle, WA. After leaving his job there, he traveled around the world and eventually ended up in Colchester, VT, where he has 2 dogs, 3 goats, and 8 chickens.

Recommended Reading, Listening & Viewing

• Watch all movies by Edgar Wright
• Read the Dune Series (and new movie)
• Watch the Arcane animated series

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Favorite Quote

“Self realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates who said, ‘I drank what?'”

—Val Kilmer, Real Genius (1985)

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Andrew Frost

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Andrew Frost is a photographer, printer, bookmaker, and educator with over a decade of professional book and print experience.

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Jess Gobble

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Professor Jess Gobble (she/they) is a researcher, educator, and interdisciplinary designer from Kansas City, Kansas. Gobble holds a Bachelor of Science in International Business and Marketing and a Master of Design in Communication Design from the University of Arkansas. They joined the Creative Studio Department at Champlain College in Fall 2025 as an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design & Visual Communication. Previously, Gobble served as a Teaching Assistant and Instructor of Record at the University of Arkansas, where they guided students in developing rigorous design research practices and crafting complex visual narratives.

A specialist in interaction design and narrative, Gobble’s thesis explored how designed interactive narratives can foster autonomy among young women with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS). Beyond their thesis work, Gobble was named a Story & Material Fellow (2024) and has presented research at AIGA’s Design Educators Community Conference and UCDA. Committed to cultivating a community of curiosity, care, and reflection both inside and outside the classroom, Gobble is excited to begin this new chapter at Champlain College.

Distinctions & Awards

2025
Mapping Mindfulness
Poster Design Graduate
Winner (Silver)
UCDA

2024
Story & Material Fellowship
The University of Arkansas

Publications & Abstracts

AIGA Design Conference Design Educators Community (DEC) Track 2024

Designing for Autonomy: Enhancing the Autonomy of Young Women with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) through Interactive Narrative

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Michelle Hobbs

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Michelle Hobbs has over 25 years of experience creating design that inspires engagement and impact for corporations and brands in a variety of sectors. Through her career she has managed her own design studio, built national brands, and managed creative teams. Michelle has taught design off and on over the past 10 years including Champlain College, the University of Vermont and the Community College of Vermont.

Currently she is a partner at ReFrame Lab, a strategy and consulting firm in Burlington, Vermont, where she is working to meet organizations and businesses in times of transition and help them recognize and visualize opportunities for greater alignment, creativity, and impact. She does this through design-centric workshop facilitation, strategic planning, and product design workshops.

Professional & Scholastic Affiliations

• AIGA
• Vermont Business for Social Responsibility

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Ken Howell

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Ken Howell is an Associate Professor in the Division of Communication & Creative Media, where he teaches in multiple programs. He started teaching at Champlain as an adjunct in 2006, having previously taught at the New York University Steinhardt School and New Jersey City University.

Ken has been working with Champlain’s Emergent Media Center (EMC) since 2008. He has worked on an array of projects, including the UNFPA Game to Prevent Violence Against Women and IBM Virtual Worlds project. Along with support from the EMC, Ken recently served as Faculty Advisor for the Sandbox team, a group of students exploring new and novel forms of human-computer interaction. Work from that team has been exhibited at the Chicago Design Museum, the Game Developers conference, and many other venues internationally. He also works with a group of artists called the Illumination Collective, exploring digitally controlled lighting as a means of art making.

In addition to teaching, Ken has been an independent Interaction Designer and Developer for over twenty years, and has worked on such broad-ranging brands as Urban Outfitters, Rossignol, Pantene, and Skittles. He is also active in the Maker Movement, and is a founding board member of Generator Makerspace

When he is not working or teaching, Ken enjoys drawing, painting, tinkering in his laboratory, taking care of his Bonsai trees, and all things outdoors.

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Vance Kiviranna

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Having taught at Champlain from 2010-2012, Vance returns to Champlain college with 25 years experience in branding, advertising and design. Having worked in various advertising agencies, promotional agencies, small firms, client-side and freelance, he brings a wealth of knowledge in various disciplines of design across a multitude of industries.

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Katie Loesel

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Katie Loesel grew up on Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking from The Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio and a Certificate in Museum Studies from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. She is a snowboarder, sailor, crafter, gardener, environmentalist, cyclist, and lover of local food and drink. After living in Thailand and Boston, Katie moved to Vermont to focus on her art. She tends to make prints, drawings, installations, and sometimes books. She has participated in artist residency programs at Vermont Studio Center and Zea Mays Print Studio. Her work has been exhibited nationally, with frequent shows throughout Vermont. Katie is the recipient of a 2016 Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant. Katie has taught printmaking at Burlington City Arts and Champlain College.

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Robin Perlah

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Robin Perlah currently serves as Dean of the Core Division, Creative Studio and School of Social Innovation at Champlain College, where she is also an Associate Professor. In this role, she provides academic leadership across the humanities, social sciences, and creative arts and design disciplines.

During her time at Champlain, Perlah has held several leadership positions, including Chair of the Creative Studio, Program Director for several programs including Graphic Design (BFA), Interaction Design (BS) and Emergent Media (MFA and MS), Academic Director for the Emergent Media Center, and Assistant Dean for the Division of Communications and Creative Media. She has taught a range of courses in the areas of photography, graphic design, design history, image-making, visual design, interaction design, and media theory, serving both undergraduate and graduate students.

Perlah’s art practice is based on a persistent interest in the photographic image, both still and moving, as it is transformed by digitality. Her work deals with the ambiguity of memory, the intersection between image capture (both analog and digital) and the methods of processing and presenting images, and how generative art and data mutations can reveal layers of complexity.

Before working at Champlain College, Robin taught and ran programs in art, design and creative media in K-12 education, and developed several community art programs to support young people through art-mentoring relationships and other activities. She also served as co-director for the Technology & Design Institute at Governor’s Institutes of Vermont. Prior to her work in education, she had a long career as a professional photographer and photo editor, specializing in commercial, portrait, and event photography as well as fine-art printing.

Robin is a site evaluator for the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), is part of the volunteer board for PechaKucha Night (PKN) Burlington, and currently serves as Vice Chair of the Vermont Arts Council board of trustees, which she rejoined in fall 2024. Robin earned a master of fine arts in emergent media from Champlain College, a bachelor of science in art education from the University of Vermont, and studied commercial and fine art photography at the New England School of Photography.

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Michael Sealy

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Mike is the Creative Director of his own graphic design business in Burlington, Vermont. Following the completion of his Studio Art degree at the University of Vermont, Mike has been working in the local design community. Working in small design companies as well as medium sized agencies, he has more than 25 years of experience fulfilling clients’ needs. Mike is a versatile art director and graphic designer, making sure every detail is scrutinized from project conception through completion, constantly striving to deliver better solutions for his clients.

Mike loves the creative energy inherent in education; he enjoys staying involved, having taught graphic design and web design as an adjunct professor since 2014.

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