Teaching with Digital Collections - Amy Hauber

Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Amy Hauber teaches sculpture and ceramics as well as classes on digital media and digital/popular culture; she’s interested in how popular and digital cultures affect humanity and perception. Last semester, Hauber collaborated with Catherine Tedford, director of Brush Art Gallery, and Christopher Watts, director of arts technology, to teach an inter-media, postmodern course called All Your Art Are Belong to Us, which culminated in a public exhibition called Obsessive Consumption last May.

Hauber calls herself a tactical media artist and finds gratification in connecting with her students through art. “St. Lawrence’s educational mission enables a real collaboration between students and teachers. That collaboration, when it happens, is the best,” she says. 

Although Hauber has worked in different media, she likes to call herself a “tactical media artist” or “an artist whose work, materials and methods change to fit a particular intention or idea.” Last fall, she had an exhibition at the Brush Art Gallery which was later shown in Chicago. The exhibition which included sculptural installation, performance, sculptural objects and video projections, got positive and extensive feedback.

Hauber enjoyed her trips to Thailand and Singapore with 10 colleagues through the Freeman Foundation’s Asian Studies Initiative last May. “Visually and culturally, it was so different from the U.S. or Europe. It will affect my life and teaching for some time,” she says.

Her hobbies include cooking, learning about digital culture and spending time with her dog Penny.

Hauber earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh and her M.F.A. from University of Wisconsin-Madison.