Faculty of Foundations
The Foundations Drawing Coordinator and Foundations Design Coordinator work together to provide complementary classrooms in their respective areas. These courses are usually taught by Teaching Assistants under the supervision of either the Foundation's Drawing Coordinator or the Foundation's Design Coordinator.
Brian Hitselberger
Senior Lecturer // 2D Extended Media
Brian Hitselberger is a Senior Lecturer of Art in the Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Design, Art, and Performance. He holds an MFA in Painting from the University of Georgia, and a BFA in Printmaking from Tulane University. His interdisciplinary research explores models of communication and correspondence, intimacy over great distances, and problems of time. He employs a call-and-response practice across media, using works on paper, installation, print process and text to create layered artworks that invite multiple readings. He publishes artist books and collaborations under the imprint Two Steps Press, and is founder of The Weather Station, an artist-run gallery and studio space in Lafayette, IN. Hitselberger has exhibited his work nationally, with recent solo exhibitions at Antenna Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana, {Poem88} Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, and the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. His artist books are in the special collections of the New York Public Library, Yale University and the University of the South, among others. [read more] More information on Hitselberger's work can be found on his website www.brianhitselberger.com.
Jong-Un Choi
Lecturer // 2D Extended Media
Jong-un Choi is the foundations drawing coordinator in the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Purdue University. Choi received her BFA and MFA in Korean Painting from Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea in 2004 and 2007 respectively, where she learned traditional Korean methods and experienced a variety of conventional materials. Making a specialty in Korean painting has been one of the best parts of her work because it has given her a strong identity while she was finding her own formative language. Choi earned another MFA in Studio Art from Purdue University in 2014, which allowed her to expand the advancements in the field. Choi has developed her professional teaching methods at Purdue University, having been teaching Basic Drawing, Drawing II, and Painting I. Her experiences of many practical approaches from Korea to the States lead her work to a high degree of conceptual and technical skills.
She made a positive and powerful impact on her career by exploring her artistic practice and continuing to build upon exhibitions and achievements. She has done 9 solo exhibitions including the latest solo exhibition, Dialogue with Light at TAF in 2024. She has participated in many group exhibitions over the past 20 years nationally and internationally and has won several exhibition awards.
Choi’s recent paintings seek to experience ordinary life by using a variety of colors. In this creative process, she desires to present the symbiotic relationship with multifarious expressions that occupy one’s complex emotional space. More information on Choi’s work can be found on her website www.jongunchoi.com.