Program Faculty - Digital Design

Amanda Garcia bio
Program Director & Professor of Practice
Specializations: Graphic Design, Typography, Design for Social Change
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• Rebecca Carr bio
  Adjunct Professor, M.F.A. SCAD
  Specializations: Graphic Design, Typography

  Rebecca Carr has been a member of the adjunct faculty at the Tulane School of Professional Development where she has taught Graphic Design since 2007. She is currently serving as a Faculty Fellow. Rebecca received her MFA in Graphic Design from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2005. She worked for Tom Varisco Designs in New Orleans for 3 years before starting Rebecca Carr Design in 2008. More recently, she started Toggle Design Collective with a longtime design colleague. Rebecca has done design work for a variety of businesses and non-profit organizations with a focus on schools and other education related groups.

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• Robert Gassiot bio
  Adjunct Professor, M.F.A. Tulane University
  Specializations: Graphic Design

  Robert Gassiot currently serves as the Creative Director of LCMC Health; prior to this role, Gassiot served as the Director of Printing/Graphic Services for Children’s Hospital in New Orleans for over 20 years. A strong advocate of design, Gassiot has been teaching graphic design since 2006 for the School of Professional Advancement. A graduate of Tulane University School of Architecture, Gassiot holds a Master of Preservation Studies, a Bachelor of Art with honors from Tulane University College, and an Associate of Business Studies from Delgado. Gassiot has received numerous design awards for both print and web design, has served as a Faculty Fellow, and most recently in 2016 was honored with the Distinguished Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award. Honed with technical and design skills, Gassiot admires the creative trades within the design field.

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• Jessica Peterson bio
  Adjunct Professor, M.F.A. University of Alabama
  Specializations: Book Arts, Typography & Letterpress

  Jessica Peterson is a letterpress printer and book artist. She operates The Southern Letterpress out of the Paper Machine in the lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans. She holds a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1999) and a MFA from the Book Arts Program at University of Alabama (2009). She has taught book arts, typography and graphic design at several colleges including the University of Alabama, Mississippi University for Women, Purchase College and The University of Bridgeport. She has created collaborative artists’ book project with Small Craft Advisory Press at University of Florida, Short Twig Press at Longwood University, and the book arts center at Ringling College of Art. Her artists’ books are collected in private and public libraries around the country.

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