Faculty Information
Dr. Carmen Ripollés: Dr. Ripollés is an assistant professor of art history, theory and criticism at Metro State where she teaches classes in European and Spanish Colonial Baroque art, as well as survey courses in world art history and seminars in more focused topics of art theory and criticism. She has a PhD in art history, theory, and criticism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she specialized in the arts of the Iberian Peninsula and its dominions, both in Europe and the Americas. A native from Spain, she is very familiar with the artistic and cultural Spanish heritage of Mexico, which, known as New Spain during the colonial period, constituted the most important Spanish viceroyalty in the Americas.
Contact Information- Email: cripolle@mscd.edu
Phone: 303-556-3096
Office: ART 187P
Dr. Jill Mollenhauer: Dr. Mollenhauer is an assistant professor of art history, theory and criticism at Metro State where she teaches classes in the Pre-Colombian and modern art of Latin American, as well as survey courses in world art history and seminars in art theory and criticism. She has a PhD in art history, theory, and criticism from the University of California, San Diego where she specialized in the Pre-Colombian art of Mesoamerica. Jill has traveled extensively in Mexico, including 8 months spent living in Xalapa, Veracruz while conducting research for her dissertation on Olmec stone monuments. She also spent a month in the state of Yucatan while participating in the Duke-UNC, Chapel Hill Yucatec Maya program in 2005. Since 2005 she has returned to Mexico numerous times to visit and conduct research at various archaeological sites and museums throughout the country. Her current research focuses on the art of the ancient Olmec culture, as well as issues of social memory, landscape, and object agency.
Contact Information- Email: jmollenh@mscd.edu
Phone: (303-352-7232)
Office: ART 187M
