Jessye McDowell

President

Assistant Professor of Digital Media & Animation, St. Mary's College of Maryland

Jim Jeffers

Treasurer, Finance Committee

Associate Professor of Graphic Design & Digital Media, Indian River State College

KT Duffy

Chair of Communications Committee

Assistant Professor of Art & Technology, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL

Liat Berdugo

Chair of Events & Exhibitions Committee

Assistant Professor, Art and Architecture, University of San Francisco

Johanna Gosse

Executive Editor, Media-N Journal

Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, University of Idaho

Meredith Drum

Secretary

Assistant Professor, School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech

Mat Rappaport

Immediate Past President 2017 - 2020

Associate Professor, Columbia College Chicago

Doreen Maloney

Founding President 2003 – 2006

Associate Professor, University of Kentucky, Lexington

Gwyan Rhabyt

President Emeritus 2006 – 2009

Professor, California State University, East Bay

Paul Catanese

President Emeritus 2009 - 2014

Professor, Columbia College Chicago

Paul Catanese is a hybrid media artist whose diverse range of works include installation, performance, printmaking, video, sculptural objects, handmade paper, artist books, code, net.art, and projections which have been exhibited internationally, notably at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, La Villette and the China Academy of Art; with screenings at the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Stuttgart Filmwinter, FILE, ANIMAC, ExUrban Screens, New Forms Festival, and ISEA2014 Dubai. He has received commissions from Rhizome and Turbulence, and was awarded a 2014 Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship. Catanese is Director of Graduate Study and Associate Professor of Art & Art History at Columbia College Chicago.

Vagner Mendonça-Whitehead

President Emeritus 2014 - 2017

Director, Penn State School of Visual Arts