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Department Chair

  • Hugh Manon

    Associate Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Department Chair, Visual and Performing Arts

    Professor Hugh Manon is a film scholar and cultural theorist whose work focuses on the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan.  His research extends concepts such as anxiety, disavowal, and jouissance into the study of analog, digital, and hybrid forms of […]

Program Faculty

  • John Aylward

    Associate Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    'Brilliant energetic rhythmic figures…imaginative sonorities and harmonies that always move, always inflect'. -- American Academy of Arts and Letters. Composer and pianist John Aylward grew up in the Sonoran Desert, on the border of Arizona and Mexico, a child of an […]

  • Jessie Darrell-Jarbadan

    Associate Professor of Practice, Visual and Performing Arts

  • Gino DiIorio

    Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Director of Theatre, Visual and Performing Arts

    Professor DiIorio received a B.A. from Clark University and an M.F.A. from City University of New York in 1987. He has been at Clark since 1989 and is currently program director for Theater.   Gino is a New York City based […]

  • Stephen DiRado

    Professor of Practice, Visual and Performing Arts

    Gallery Director, Visual and Performing Arts

    Stephen DiRado is a professor in the Visual and Performing Arts Department, Clark University. He is a photographer and filmmaker whose art is primarily inspired by his captivation and admiration for the people in his community. His scrupulously skilled photographs […]

  • Sherry Freyermuth

    Associate Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Sherry Freyermuth is a published, award-winning graphic designer with experience working for large corporate brands and non-profit initiatives. She currently is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Clark University in Worcester, MA. Sherry has been teaching hand lettering and typography […]

  • John Garton

    Associate Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Dr. Garton received a B.A. in Philosophy from Trinity University (San Antonio, TX) and Ph.D. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He joined the Clark faculty in the autumn of 2008. Dr. Garton's interests include […]

  • Benjamin Korstvedt

    Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Professor Benjamin M. Korstvedt is an active researcher and scholar, a committed and enthusiastic teacher, a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, and a productive author and editor. He graduated summa cum laude from Clark University in 1987 with […]

  • Matt Malsky

    Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Tina Sweeney, M.A. '49, Endowed Chair in Music

    Director of MCA, Visual and Performing Arts

    Director of Higgins School for the Humanities

    Matt Malsky has been at Clark University full time since 1994. He has served as Associate Provost and Dean of the College, and chair of the Department of Visual & Performing Arts, director of the Music Program as well as […]

  • Cailin Manson

    Associate Professor of Practice, Visual and Performing Arts

    Director of Music, Visual and Performing Arts

    At Clark, Professor Manson directs and manages the Music Performance concentration for all music majors and minors, specifically guiding the private lesson instruction program, performance workshops, departmental juries and capstone performance projects and recitals. Professor Manson leads the Clark University Concert […]

  • Kevin McGerigle

    Associate Professor of Practice, Visual and Performing Arts

  • Raymond Munro

    Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Professor Munro received a B.A. from Columbia College in 1973 and an M.A.H. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1977. He has been at Clark since 1979. Professor Munro was an original member of the Chicago […]

  • Rox Samer

    Assistant Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Rox Samer is a feminist, queer, and trans media and cultural studies scholar; remix artist; and documentary filmmaker. They joined the Department of Visual & Performing Arts in Fall 2018. They teach courses in both the Screen Studies and MCA […]

  • Gohar Siddiqui

    Assistant Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Professor Siddiqui joined the Department of Visual & Performing Arts in Fall 2017. She received a B.A. in English from University of Delhi, India; M.A. degrees in English from University of Delhi and from Bridgewater State in Massachusetts, and a […]

  • Toby Sisson

    Associate Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Director of Studio Art, Visual and Performing Arts

    Toby Sisson earned her B.F.A, Magna Cum Laude, from the College of Visual Arts in Saint Paul, Minnesota and her M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her areas of specialization include drawing, painting and printmaking, as well as […]

  • Soren Sorensen

    Associate Teaching Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Director of Screen Studies, Visual and Performing Arts

    Soren Sorensen joined the Department of Visual and Performing Arts in Fall 2019. He holds an M.F.A. in Film from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Sorensen teaches the bulk of the Screen Studies program’s production offerings including advanced courses in […]

  • Kristina Wilson

    Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Director of Art History, Visual and Performing Arts

    Kristina Wilson is an art historian specializing in modern design, modern art, and the history of museums in the United States. She studies how race and gender influence the practice of designers and artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. […]

Sarah Buie, M.F.A.
Professor Emerita and Research Scholar, Department of Visual and Performing Arts
Email: sbuie@clarku.edu

Marcia Butzel, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita of Screen Studies
Email: mbutzel@clarku.edu

Gerald Castonguay, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Music

Elli Crocker, M.F.A
Professor Emerita of Studio Art
Email: ecrocker@clarku.edu

Hartmut Kaiser, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Music

Rhys Townsend, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Art History
Email: rtownsend@clarku.edu

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Contact Information

Visual and Performing Arts

Office Location
  • Traina Center for the Arts
    92 Downing Street
    Worcester, MA 01610

  • 1-508-793-7113
  • vpa[at]clarku[dot]edu
  • 1-508-793-8844 (fax)