Rebecca Strzelec is coordinator of Visual Art Studies and an assistant professor of Visual Arts at Penn State Altoona. She received her BFA and MFA in Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM from Tyler School of Art, Temple University (2000 and 2002). Her work consists of wearable objects that are created via CAD and Rapid Prototyping. Her latest exhibitions include "Alternatives: Materials/Means, Contemporary Studio Jewelry" at Rhode Island College's Bannister Gallery and "Virtual/Tangible" at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She was the 2005 recipient of the Nancy Graves Fellowship at The Millay Colony for the Arts. Strzelec's work can be seen in the recent Lark Books publication "500 Brooches Inspiring Adornments for the Body," "Metalsmith Magazine" (Fall 2005 and Spring 2006), "American Craft Magazine" (Dec.2005/Jan. 2006), and the fall 2007 book "Body of Art."

Michael Lucas, associate professor of visual arts, received his MFA from Penn State in 1981. His pen and ink drawings have been included in numerous national shows over the past several years, winning several awards such as a purchase award at the Larsen Drawing Bi-annual Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee. His most recent work, a wall-size limestone carving, "The Byzantine Altarpiece," was exhibited in the Sheetz Gallery in the fall of 2005.

A. Bill Miller, assistant professor of visual arts, earned his MFA at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Before joining Penn State Altoona, Bill served as an associate lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and as an instructor at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. His nationally and internationally exhibited works include his acclaimed Gridworks Project, which comprises abstract ASCII drawings, ink drawings, animated GIFs, and video elements.

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Eleanor Hart (Noel) Feeley is the Theatre and Gallery Manager at Penn State Altoona and facilitates the administration and programming for a 400-seat theatre, galleries, dance studio, scene shop and conference spaces. She serves on the Board of the Pennsylvania Rural Arts Alliance, the Altoona Community Theatre and the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art. In the past, Noel has worked as a lighting designer, a grants program specialist for the National Endowment for the Arts, and as a theater and museum non-profit arts administrator.