RSA LEADERSHIP AND FACULTY
DR. MARTI STEUSSY, RSA Co-Director and Religious Studies Faculty
Marti Steussy is the MacAllister-Petticrew Professor Emerita of Biblical Interpretation at Christian Theological Seminary, and an ordained Disciples of Christ minister. Her work focuses on literary and oral dynamics of biblical texts; she has performed biblical stories in Canada and the UK as well as the United States.
KAREN BALDNER, RSA Co-Director and Fine Arts Faculty
Karen Baldner teaches Book Arts, Letterpress, and Papermaking in the Printmaking Department at Herron School of Art and Design. Her award-winning work has been shown internationally and has been supported by several Indiana Arts Commission grants, the Indianapolis Arts Council Creative Renewal grant, a Fulbright Travel grant, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant.
GREG HULL, Dean of Indiana University Indianapolis Herron School of Art and Design
Dean Hull is the Valerie Eickmeier Professor in Sculpture and has been a member of Herron’s sculpture faculty since 1999. Pedagogically, he works to integrate traditional and emerging materials and technologies and embraces community-and socially-engaged practices. Hull has been Dean of Herron School of Art and Design since 2021. He also serves on the Indiana Arts Commission.
FRANKLIN OLIVER, Poetry Faculty
Franklin Oliver is a poet from Indianapolis. His work tends to be personal and intimate yet not autobiographical. He’s written three books of poetry: MOSAIC, Myths, and Dreams and Premonitions.
DANIEL CUETO, Music Faculty
Daniel’s work is reflective of his broad cultural experiences within European, North American and South American music. His compositions have been described as “cleverly melding rich traditional Peruvian melodic and rhythmic elements with a contemporary flair, creating a personal style that is both pleasing and accessible to the listener and performer.” To date, his works have been performed in eighteen countries, including Germany, France, Spain, the UK, Malta, Argentina, Brazil and the USA.
DR. ANDREW FINDLEY, RSA Program Manager and Art History Faculty
Dr. Findley is an art and architectural historian with a teaching and research background in Classical Archaeology, public art, and arts administration. He is a research fellow for the Indianapolis Arts and Humanities Institute. He is a lecturer of Classical Studies in the Department of History and a Lecturer of Art History at Herron School of Art and Design at IU Indianapolis.