FACULTY PROFILES
laurence a. hinz
Linda Swanson
DEBRA TERVALA
HORACE ALEXANDER YOUNG
LAURENCE A. HINZ
LINDA SWANSON
President
Dean, School of Visual and Communication Arts
MBA in Finance and Policy, University of Chicago;
BS in Finance, BS in Computer Science, Northern
Illinois University
MFA, Goddard College; BFA, Indiana University
Laurence A. Hinz was named president in August 2011 with the
unanimous support of the university’s board of directors. The
appointment followed three years during which he was a guiding
force at the university and in the local community through his
roles as interim president and board member.
Prior to his appointment as president, Hinz held several
senior management positions with Laureate Education. He
managed Laureate’s University of Liverpool Online operation
in Amsterdam, led Walden University’s international expansion
efforts, and served as Laureate’s corporate treasurer and
divisional CFO for the United States. Prior to joining Laureate,
Hinz held senior financial and operating positions at Tachyon
Networks, Diveo Broadband Networks, and SkyTel Latin
America. He was also a vice president corporate banker for
First Chicago’s communications and media group. Hinz
previously served on the Board of Directors of NewSchool
of Architecture and Design, and he has been active in raising
money for cancer-related causes. DEBRA TERVALA
Interim Provost
MA Ed, University of Maryland, College Park;
JD, University of Maryland School of Law
Debra Tervala is the Interim Provost at Santa Fe University of Art
and Design. Prior to coming to Santa Fe, Tervala was the Vice
President of Richard W. Riley School of Education and Leadership in
Walden University. She joined Walden in 2012 and then later
assumed responsibility for the College of Undergraduate Studies.
During her career, she has developed expertise in teaching, academic
and program leadership, academic program development,
curriculum development and review, workforce development
initiatives, enrollment management, marketing and outreach, and
practice in the field of law. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in
French language and literature, a master of education in educational
administration from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a
law degree from the University of Maryland, School of Law,
Baltimore.
Linda Swanson serves as Dean of the School of Visual and
Communication Arts and teaches courses that address issues in
painting and drawing. Her own work, which she shows
nationally, reflects these interests. Her paintings are in the
permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the
Newark Museum. Her drawings appear in And They Called It
Horizon: Santa Fe Poems (2010), a collaborative project with
former Santa Fe Poet Laureate Valerie Martinez. In September
2010, Swanson curated an exhibition and presented a lecture on
the work of Gerry Snyder in Sofia, Bulgaria.
HORACE ALEXANDER YOUNG
Chair, Contemporary Music Department
MA, Washington State University;
Bachelor of Music; Texas Southern University
Horace Alexander Young is one of a select group of triple threat”
recording and touring artists who is equally gifted as an multiinstrumentalist (woodwinds, keyboards and percussion), vocal
musician and as a highly skilled composer/arranger. Acoustic
Contemporary Jazz, Young’s first solo album, was released on the
Pacific Coast Jazz label in 2008 to positive reviews. Over the course
of his career, Young has performed in 19 countries and across five
of the seven continents. He has also recorded and toured with a
wide range of artists. In the blues arena, he has worked with artists
such as Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins and B.B. King; in the R&B world,
with Gerald Alston, Anita Baker, Regina Belle, Johnny Kemp and
The Spinners. He has also worked with urban/rap artists Scarface
and Mista Madd and with the jazz musicians Jonathan Butler, Betty
Carter, McCoy Tyner and Nancy Wilson.
In 1993, Young was invited to conduct the National
Symphony of South Africa for a televised concert to honor the
South African–born Abdullah Ibrahim (formerly known as “Dollar
Brand”). In so doing, Young became the first African American to
conduct an orchestra in that country. Young holds a Bachelor of
Music degree from Texas Southern University and an MA from
Washington State University. In addition to performing and
recording with artists all over the world, he authored the book
Improvising Jazz Flute (1990, G. Schirmer Publishers) and has
bylined articles in journals such as Flute Talk, American Music
Teacher, Flute Focus and Gig Magazine.
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FACULTY PROFILES (CONT.)
LAURA FINE HAWKES
chris eyre
TONY O'BRIEN
matt donovan
LAURA FINE HAWKES
TONY O'BRIEN
MFA, University of California, Los Angeles;
BFA, College of Santa Fe (now SFUAD)
BA, College of Santa Fe (now SFUAD)
Laura Fine Hawkes’ work broadly encompasses scenic design for
theatre, opera, and musical theatre, as well as art direction for live
shows, themed visitor experiences, museum exhibits, events, and
television programming. Fine Hawkes designed the Air Force One
Discovery Center, which won a Thea Award from the Themed
Entertainment Association and is located in the Air Force One
Pavilion of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in
Simi Valley, California.
From 2010 until the present, Tony has held the position of full time
faculty at Santa Fe University of Art and Design. From 1999
through 2010, he held the positions of Assistant Chair of the
Photography Department, Director of the Documentary Studies
Program (2002 – 2009), and Adjunct Professor, Department of
Photography (1999 – 2001) at the College of Santa Fe . Tony’s
published work includes: Afghan Dreams: Young Voices of
Afghanistan - Bloomsbury Press, 2008 and Light in the Desert:
Photographs from the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, Museum
of New Mexico Press, 2011.
In 1990, he was the recipient of the Eliot Porter Foundation
Grant for his work in Afghanistan. Among his many collaborations
with national and international organizations are the New York
Times, Life magazine, Newsweek, National Geographic, the
Washington Post and the LA Times.
Chair, Performing Arts Department
As a guest designer and guest faculty in scenic design, Fine
Hawkes frequently works with academic institutions and young
artist training programs. In addition to a previous contributing
faculty role at SFUAD, she has worked for the Shepherd School of
Music at Rice University, the Opera Institute at Cal State University
Long Beach, San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program, UCLA
Opera, and Cal State Los Angeles.
CHRIS EYRE
Chair, The Film School at SFUAD
MFA, New York University; BFA, University of Arizona
Chris Eyre is a nationally recognized film and television director
and producer who has received many awards, including both
a Peabody and an Emmy. Eyre’s directorial debut, the highly
acclaimed Smoke Signals (1998), won the coveted Sundance
Audience Award and the Sundance Filmmakers Trophy. After
graduating from New York University’s graduate film school,
Eyre participated as a fellow in the acclaimed Sundance
Institute’s Directors Lab under the mentorship of Robert
Redford. His film Edge of America (2004) was selected to
show as the Opening Night Film at the 2004 Sundance Film
Festival, and it garnered Eyre the highly prestigious award for
Outstanding Directorial Achievement from the Directors
Guild of America. His latest film, Hide Away (2012), starred Josh
Lucas and James Cromwell.
Some of Eyre’s other directing credits include work for
television such as three episodes of the PBS miniseries We Shall
Remain (2009)—“After the Mayflower,” “Tecumseh’s Vision,”
and “Trail of Tears.” He has also directed episodes of primetime television for NBC on the critically acclaimed shows
Friday Night Lights (2009, 2011) and Law and Order: Special
Victims Unit (2008). Eyre has received a Rockefeller Foundation
Intercultural Film Fellowship, an NHK/Sundance Cinema
100 Award, the Martin Scorsese Post-Production Award, a
Humanitas Prize, multiple First Americans in the Arts awards,
multiple Best Film awards at the American Indian Film Festival,
the Warner Brothers Post-Production Award, a United States
Artists fellowship, an Independent Spirit Award, and the Taos
Land Grant Award.
Program Director, Photography Department
MATT DONOVAN
Co-Chair, Creative Writing and Literature Department
MFA, New York University; MA, Lancaster University;
BA, Vassar College
Donovan’s poems have been published in numerous journals,
including The American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Gettysburg
Review, Harvard Review, The Threepenny Review, and Virginia
Quarterly Review. His nonfiction work has appeared in AGNI,
Blackbird, Kenyon Review, Pen America, and Poetry
International.
Donovan is the recipient of a Rome Prize in Literature, a
Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Literature Fellowship from the
National Endowment for the Arts, a Breadloaf Fellowship in poetry,
and a Lannan Writing Residency Fellowship.
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