Otis College Illustration faculty are accomplished artists and industry professionals whose studio practice is active in the illustration field. They bring their rich expertise to students and work closely with them to teach the skills and theory required to enter the professional world of illustration.
Department Administration
- Michele Jaquis
- Acting Department Chair
- Professor
- mjaquis@otis.edu
Interdisciplinary artist, educator, and academic administrator who has been teaching in various departments at Otis since Fall 2000. Trained in the expanded field of sculpture (installation, video, performance art), Jaquis combines strategies of conceptual art, documentary, and social practice to examine the complexities within personal and social relationships, identity, language, and communication across a wide range of media. Her work has been presented at conferences, film and video festivals, galleries, museums, and alternative spaces primarily throughout Southern California, but also across the U.S. and in Australia, Canada, Ireland, England, New Zealand, and South Korea. With over twenty years of teaching at the college level, she has also taught art to adjudicated and at-risk youth and adults with developmental disabilities and was a therapist of Applied Behavior Analysis for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
- Hazel Mandujano
- Assistant Department Chair
- hmandujano@otis.edu
Hazel Mandujano is a Los Angeles artist and designer. She received from Otis College both a BFA in Fine Arts and an MFA in Graphic Design, graduating as a member of the first MFA Graphic Design cohort at Otis. In 2015, she co-founded mandujano/cell with her partner, the artist Juan Capistran. At mandujano/cell, Hazel and Juan published artist books and catalogs and curated 16 exhibitions both nationally and internationally, with a focus on exhibitions by BIPOC artists. Hazel has led publicly accessible workshops for Big City Forum, Talleres Publicos, Cal State Dominguez Hills Praxis Program, Museum of Latin American Art, Orange County Museum of Art, and Slanguage, and has taught design courses and workshops at Otis, Cal State L.A., and Cal Arts.
BFA in Illustration Faculty
- Aisha Alkinaey
- Lecturer
- aalkinaey@gmail.com
- Allen Brewer
- Lecturer
- abrewer@otis.edu
- Bob Dob
- Senior Lecturer
- rdobbie@otis.edu
- Renée Fox
- Lecturer
- rfox@otis.edu
- Owen Freeman
- Senior Lecturer
- ofreeman@otis.edu
- Zeal Harris
- Lecturer
- zharris@otis.edu
- Steve Kim
- Lecturer
- skim3@otis.edu
- Roman Jaster
- Senior Lecturer
- roman@romanjaster.com
- Maggie Lomeli
- Lecturer
- mlomeli@otis.edu
- Moon Wang
- AICAD Teaching Fellow
- mwang@otis.edu
- Tucker Neel
- Associate Professor
- tneel@otis.edu
- Mollie Ong
- Lecturer
- mong@otis.edu
- David Russell
- Senior Lecturer
- drussell@otis.edu
- Jamie Russom
- Lecturer
- drussell@otis.edu
- Stephanie Sabo
- Lecturer
- ssabo@otis.edu
- Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia
- Assistant Professor
- lhurtado@otis.edu
- J.T. Steiny
- Senior Lecturer
- jsteiny@otis.edu
- Edwin Ushiro
- Lecturer
- eushiro@otis.edu