
Garrick Imatani
Chair of MFA Visual Studies
Garrick Imatani is an artist who uses performance, functional objects, or implied physical interaction to think through positionality and the interconnected relations between community, state projects, and family. Working across sculpture, photography, video, drawing, and installation, many of his projects combine absurd, nuanced, and speculative approaches to encountered research, experience, and imagination.
Faculty and Mentors
Mentorship
One-on-One Mentorship
Every semester, each student is thoughtfully paired with an experienced professional artist who will regularly meet with each student and act as a mentor. This one-on-one relationship fosters a highly customized and individualized educational experience. The mentor-based experience encourages self-disciplined and boldly experimental creative practice, while supporting the individual student’s needs.
Select Mentors
YAELLE AMIR
PAT BOAS
JODIE CAVALIER
TERESA CHRISTENSEN
NAN CURTIS
JODI DARBY
JOVENCIO DE LA PAZ
CARL DIEHL
DRU DONOVAN
ERIN BOBERG DOUGHTON
DAVID ECKARD
JOEL FISCHER
MELANIE FLOOD
DEREK FRANKLIN
MARIO GALLUCI
KEYON GASKIN
PATRICIA VÁZQUEZ GÓMEZ
MK GUTH
LAURA HEIT
LAURA HUGHES
ARIANA JACOB
LINDA K JOHNSON
JALEESA JOHNSTON
LINDA KLIEWER
MICHAEL LAZARUS
ELIZABETH MALASKA
BRENDA MALLORY
MAXIMILIANO MARTINEZ
JESS PERLITZ
RYAN PIERCE
JAY PONTERI
RALPH PUGAY
ZACHARY RAU
WENDY RED STAR
MICHELLE ROSS
CRYSTAL SCHENCK
STEPHEN SLAPPE
ARVIE SMITH
MELANIE STEVENS
GARIMA THAKUR
ROY TOMLINSON
SAMANTHA WALL
RACHEL WOLF
LINDA WYSONG
Get in touch
Reach out to Garrick Imatani, Chair of Visual Studies, to schedule a time to talk.
gimatani@willamette.edu