Stanley L. Rosenthal, Professor of Printmaking, WSU

Stanley Rosenthal was born in Chicago in 1942 and grew up in Cleveland Ohio. He holds a B.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.F.A. from Wayne State University. He has taught Printmaking at Wayne for over forty years, also serving several terms as Graduate Officer for the Department of Art and Art History.

Rosenthal has won numerous national and regional awards both as a printmaker and a painter. These include the top award in Watercolor USA (twice), State of the Art National Watercolor Invitational (twice) and the top award in numerous Michigan Water Color Society annual exhibitions. His works are in many public and private collections.

He has served as a juror and speaker at many venues. He has previously served as Chair of the Michigan Water Color Society, President of the Michigan Association of Printmakers and Artist/Advisor to the Graphic Arts Council of the Detroit Institute of Arts. He was honored by Wayne State with the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Adrian Hatfield, Assistant Professor of Painting, WSU

Adrian Hatfield received his M.F.A. from Ohio University in 2003 and has been Assistant Professor of Painting at Wayne since 2005. He makes multi-media work dealing with issues of beauty and the sublime, as well as the role science plays in dealing with these issues. He has been showing his work both nationally and internationally for over 10 years. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Altered States at Jack the Pelican Presents in Brooklyn, NY, Recent Work at ARC Gallery in Chicago, IL and Suitable Illusions at the Northern Arizona University Art Museum.

The James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History is a division of Wayne State's College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts, educating the next generation of visual artists and art historians. Wayne State University, located in the heart of Detroit's midtown cultural center, is a premier urban research university offering more than 350 academic programs through 13 schools and colleges to more than 31,000 students.