Art Adjunct Faculty

Geoff Hamel received his M.F.A in Drawing and Painting from Ohio University. Geoff has exhibited regionally. His interests are to work with a variety of media; such as colored pencil, dry pastels, oil paint, and oil pastels. He has been an Adjunct Instructor at Florida Gulf Coast University since 2006. Geoff has taught Drawing I, Drawing II, Figure Drawing and Painting. He also teaches at Florida Southwestern College, at the Labelle Campus Instructing Drawing and Art Appreciation. Geoff taught at Edison Community College from 2000 until 2009, teaching drawing, Figure Drawing and Painting. He also taught Art Appreciation at Barry University from 2008 until 2013. He works as a Non-Emergency Transporter.

Before joining FGCU in 2010, Cori Montoya was on faculty with Bowling Green State University and Colorado State University (Senior Instructor Art History), where she was awarded Teacher of the Year in 1998.

Ongoing areas of research include the natural world as depicted in art, concepts of the divine feminine, Upper-Paleolithic art and culture in Europe, and petroglyphs/petrographs of U.S. Southwest

Montoya is also an amateur naturalist and avid traveler. 

Education 

Master of Arts, Art History 1991 University of Oregon Specializing in Ancient Greece and Bronze Age Aegean. Thesis “The Offering Table from Thera and Problem of the Marine Style.” Secondary areas of emphasis include Northern Renaissance, European Baroque and 20^th Century

Bachelor of Arts, Humanities  1987, Magna Cum Laude,  Mesa State University

Study Abroad: Cambridge University UK, Christ’s College 1982.   British History and Literature

Recent Courses

Greek and Roman Art, 20^th Century Art, History of the Visual Arts I and II, Art Appreciation

Conferences/Presentations/Invited Lectures

2009: Session Moderator for Third Annual BGSU Art History Symposium: New Perspectives in Visual Culture.  April 18^th 2009

2008: Session Moderator, “Beholding Violence: A Conference of Medieval and Early Modern Culture” BGSU February 2008

2000: “Art Travel in France” Stanley G. Wold Faculty Lecture Series, CSU

1998: “Thera, Plato’s Lost Atlantis?”  President’s Distinguished Donors Foundation, CSU

1993:  Organizer, Front Range Art History Symposium, hosted by Colorado State University

Additional Course Development (selection)

2014- present: Development Contributor ARH 2000, pioneering Art Appreciation e-learning course.

2006-2010: Art and Culture of Japan

1999-2005: Freshman Seminar -Enigmas of Antiquity: The Mystery and Relevance of Ancient Mediterranean Cultures

1992-present: Survey of World Art, Global Perspective I and II, Prehistory to 20^th century

1996-present: History of Modern Art and Culture

Service (selection)

2011-present: Senior Show Critique Participant, Art Major Senior Project, FGCU

2007-2009: Curriculum Development and Revision Project, Art History Area, BGSU

2003-2005: Development Committee, Senior Examination, CSU Art Department

1997-2001: Faculty Advisor, Student Organization for the Visual Arts, CSU Art Department

1991-1992: Research Historian, Denver Art Museum, Ancient Collection