Fay Jones School Welcomes Several Faculty and Staff Members This Fall

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas welcomes several faculty members and staff members this fall who bring a variety of skills and interests. These include Jessica Colangelo, Brian Holland and Emily Baker, all assistant professors of architecture; Charles Sharpless, project designer and lecturer of architecture; Trey Terral and Ethan Kaplan, both project designers; Michelle Pribbernow, career specialist; and Janet Foxman, special publications editor.

"The Fay Jones School continues to expand its ambitions, grow its programs and enhance students' success," said Dean Peter MacKeith. "Our faculty — already known for its passionate devotion to professional education — has added three new, talented colleagues last year and this year in architecture. We anticipate new appointments this coming year in landscape architecture and interior design.

"Similarly, our professional design staff at the U of A Community Design Center has been renewed by the appointment of three equally talented professional designers. With so many good stories to tell in the school, our school publications will benefit from the appointment of a special publications editor. Lastly, we will continue to focus on a near 100 percent employment placement for our graduates through the work of our new career specialist."

Following are brief bios of these Fay Jones School faculty and staff members:

• Jessica Colangelo, assistant professor of architecture
  Jessica Colangelo is a designer and co-founder of the architecture and research practice Somewhere Studio. Her current work explores the intersection of architecture, nature and culture through questioning current modes of architectural representation, urbanism and sustainability. She previously taught as an assistant professor at Texas Tech University and practiced architecture at firms in Los Angeles, Boston and Houston. She received a Master of Architecture from Princeton University, where she was awarded the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Thesis Prize, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University, where she received the American Institute of Architects School Medal.

• Brian Holland, assistant professor of architecture
  Brian Holland is an architect, researcher, and educator, and the founder of Open Set, a design studio working at the intersection of architecture, urbanism and ecology. From 2011-2018, he was assistant director of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, where he led research and design studios. He previously taught at the American University of Beirut, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Parsons School of Design, Sarah Lawrence College, University of Pennsylvania, and the Ohio State University, as a LeFevre Fellow. He received a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Architecture from California State Polytechnic University in Pomona.

• Emily Baker, assistant professor of architecture
  Emily Baker, who returns for her second year of teaching, is an architect and educator whose full-scale constructed experimentation informs her creative work and teaching. Experience on job sites in architectural practice catalyzed her search for novel structural and construction systems, and her work, employing both digital and analog design and fabrication techniques, seeks to discover new aesthetic territory embedded in the way architecture is conceived and constructed. She previously taught at Tulane University. She received a Master of Architecture from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a Bachelor of Architecture from University of Arkansas.

• Charles Sharpless, project designer and lecturer of architecture
  Charles Sharpless is a licensed architect, a project designer at the University of Arkansas Community Design Center and co-founder of the architecture and research practice Somewhere Studio. Prior to forming Somewhere Studio, he practiced at Michael Maltzan Architecture, Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects and Machado Silvetti. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University, where he was awarded the Rosemary Watkin Barrick Traveling Fellowship and the M.N. Davidson Fellowship, and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

• Trey Terral, project designer
  Trey Terral is a registered architect and project designer at the U of A Community Design Center. He previously practiced in Wyoming and Colorado, earning more than 10 years of professional experience in residential, educational, mixed-use and urban design projects. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Arkansas in 2007 and graduated with honors from the Master of Architecture II program at the University of Texas at Austin in 2018. His research is focused on the role of architectural and urban design in smart growth and multi-modal transit hubs.

• Ethan Kaplan, project designer
  Ethan Kaplan is a project designer at the U of A Community Design Center. He received a Master of Architecture and a Bachelor in Design Arts from Drury University, where he was awarded the Librarium Thesis Prize. He previously worked for Wheeler Kearns Architects, AIA Chicago's 2016 firm of the year.

• Michelle Pribbernow, career specialist
  Michelle Pribbernow has worked on the University of Arkansas campus since 2007, with previous roles including assistant director of Admissions, senior assistant director for in-state recruitment and, most recently, coordinator of undergraduate recruitment for the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences. As career specialist for the Fay Jones School, Pribbernow will provide career advising for students and alumni. She received a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology (classical civilizations minor) from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Arts in anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh; she is working on a Doctor of Philosophy in comparative literature and cultural studies at the University of Arkansas.

• Janet Foxman, special publications editor
  Janet Foxman is a poet and editor. Most recently, she worked as a senior production editor for Oxford University Press. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English and art history from Wellesley College and a Master of Arts in creative writing from Boston University. Her first collection of poems is "Disposable Camera," published by University of Chicago Press.