Hood’s current research exists in the luminous space between day and night, where imagination is unquestioned and empowered to construct new a worldview.

melissa m button, Assistant Dean in HIDA and Associate Director in the School of Art, is an artist and educator whose practice spans painting, drawing, printmaking, and mixed media focused on inclusive, innovative pedagogy.

Maxwell teaches classes in printmaking and hybrid printmaking methods such as installation.

Jesse Ortiz serves as an academic advisor to undergraduate students within the Department of English.

Heather Green's research examines more-than-human encounters in the intertidal and ecological narratives of abundance and loss on a small headland in the Gulf of California in Sonora, Mexico.