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Wallace is an internationally recognized authority on Michelangelo and his contemporaries. In addition to more than forty articles (as well as two works of fiction), he is the author and editor of four books on Michelangelo: Michelangelo at San Lorenzo: The Genius as Entrepreneur (Cambridge 1994); Michelangelo: Selected Scholarship in English (Garland, 1996), Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, and Architecture (Hugh Lauter Levin, 1998), and most recently, Michelangelo: Selected Scholarship in English (Garland 1999). He is currently writing a new biography of Michelangelo.

Dr. Barbara Larson, professor of modern European art history, teaches 19th and 20th-century courses, including art and science in the 19th century, 19th-century European art, women and art, and modern art. 

Larson is a world-renowned scholar of science and 19th-century visual culture, with a focus on evolutionism, medicine, history of the brain and mind, and the art movement Symbolism. 

She is the author of The Dark Side of Nature: Science, Society, and the Fantastic in the Work of Odilon Redon, a book that delves into the scientific interests of Redon, a French artist.  She is lead editor of The Art of Evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms, and Visual Culture and Darwin and Theories of Aesthetics and Cultural History.  Larson has contributed a number of catalogue essays to international exhibitions and authored many articles on issues in art and science.  She is a series editor of Art and Science since 1750 for Routledge Press, inclusive of volumes that explore how the arts are informed by emerging scientific theories and technologies. 

Larson has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the University of Melbourne. 

Jim Jipson teaches photography, mixed-media and conceptually based art courses.

Jipson is a multimedia artist who has inspired students to recognize beauty in the ordinary. Working in 2D and 3D mediums, he creates photographs and sculptures that poetically reinterpret natural forms into mysterious abstractions.

In 2010, he developed 鈥淢y Endless Quest for the Chthonic,鈥� a project that uses photography, 3D media and projections to convey chance, the interrelationship between all things and space. He invented a three-foot projector that transforms images of everyday items, such as twigs or cloves of garlic, into otherworldly images by creating movement in repetitive and nonrepetitive ways. In 2015, he exhibited his work at the University of Toledo. The next step is to create a life-size projector that will allow people and animals to participate.

He has exhibited his work at national galleries and museums, including the Florida Museum of Art, the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Polaroid International Collection in Germany, the Ruttenberg Collection in Chicago, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Schneider Gallery in Chicago and the State of Florida Art in Public Places Collection.

Jipson, who has taught art for 40 years, served as chair of UWF鈥檚 art department and was the first director for the Center of Fine and Performing Arts. He received a visual arts fellowship at the National Museum of American Art in 2001, a fellowship in photography with the Southern Arts Federation National Endowment for the Arts in 1993 and the Polaroid Artist Support Grant in 1986.

John Markowitz, lecturer, teaches painting and art history.

For more than 25 years, Markowitz has taught at the university level and worked as a professional artist with an active exhibition record. He has participated in invitational group exhibitions, such as the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, Alabama; The Susquehanna Art Museum in Pennsylvania; The Doshi Art Gallery in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; The Kipp Gallery at Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Cava Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; The Demuth Museum in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania; and The Institute of Contemporary Art of Philadelphia.

He has also had solo exhibitions at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, Millersville University of Pennsylvania and the Morris Street Gallery in Charleston, South Carolina.

Markowitz is a frequent guest lecturer at various institutions on topics ranging from Albert Pinkham Ryder: An American Visionary; Art Historical Survey of the Development of Abstraction in the Twentieth Century; The Buried Narrative in Abstract Painting; and The Celebration of Visibility. He also has curated exhibitions and published catalogs for the Millersville University of Pennsylvania, and the University of West Florida.

Before he came to UWF in 2000, he taught at Millersville University, Lebanon Valley College, and Franklin & Marshall College.