College of Art Announces New Faculty for 2024-25 Academic Year

The Sam Fox School’s College & Graduate School of Art has appointed new faculty members to begin teaching in the fall 2024 semester.

The College and Graduate School of Art welcomes Tiffany Calvert, Bei Hu, and Megan Irwin to its faculty. The inaugural Kavita and Krishna Bharat Professor — a new, AI-focused position — will be announced later this summer.

“We are excited to welcome Tiffany, Bei, and Megan to our community,” said Amy Hauft, director of the College & Graduate School of Art. “Their distinction and breadth of expertise is exactly what our college and the Sam Fox School are all about. I can’t wait to see the cascading effect these artists and designers make, and what, from there, becomes possible.”

Tiffany Calvert comes to WashU from the University of Louisville and will chair the school’s MFA in Visual Art program following the completion of Professor Lisa Bulawsky’s four-year-term in the role. Her painting practice incorporates a wide range of technologies, from luscious painting techniques, to fresco, to 3D modeling, to data manipulation. In addition to Calvert’s art practice, she is an active curator and frequent guest lecturer. She earned her MFA at Rutgers University.

Bei Hu is a multi-disciplinary designer, specializing in user experience, 3D design, graphic design, and illustration. She works at the intersection of design, technology, and storytelling. Hu’s most recent roles include visiting assistant professor at the Kansas City Art Institute and design lab staff at New York University, where she also earned her master’s degree in interactive telecommunications.

Megan Irwin, a graphic designer who has been commissioned by The New York Times and The New Yorker, centers her studio practice on archival research, material exploration, and typographic experimentation. She works with the interplay of analog and digital methodologies in order to resist the uniformity of digital media and highlight the humanity behind the designed object. Irwin previously taught at East Carolina University and was an adjunct lecturer at WashU. She earned her BFA at Truman State University, her MFA at Maryland Institute College of Art.