University of North Texas 
Creative U Faculty, 2026
Meet your Creative U teachers!
Jordan Black
Adjunct Faculty, CVAD Studio Art: Drawing and Painting
M.F.A., Studio Art: Drawing and Painting, UNT
Art Museum Education Graduate Academic Certificate
B.F.A., Studio Art: Drawing and Painting, UNT
JordanBlackArt.com
Jordan has been teaching in CVAD since 2017, in both the Foundations and the Studio
Art: Drawing and Painting programs. Jordan also enjoys working with museums to develop
museum education programs. Most recently, in Summer 2025, Jordan was a visiting artist
for the Kimbell Art Museum’s Teen Summer Studios, where students created artist books
with a focus on narrative and world-building.
Drawing is fundamental to Black's personhood. In their free time, they can be found
making slice-of-life comics and illustrating Dungeons and Dragons campaigns. More
extensively, their studio practice exhibits an introspective investigation into identity,
humanity, and the vastness of nature through a fusion of supernatural landscapes and
creature design.
Kate Arrows Enoire
Adjunct Faculty, CVAD Foundations
Alum: M.F.A., Studio Art: Photography, UNT CVAD
B.A., Art, The University of Texas at Austin
B.S., Design, The University of Texas at Austin
Instagram: kate.arrows.enoire | Website: www.katearrows.com
Kate is an interdisciplinary artist from Northwest Indiana and currently living in
Dallas, Texas. She explores the spaces where ecological tensions and ideas of girlhood-survival
converge by imagining speculative and collaborative gestures with animals. Through
these experiments, she seeks to challenge ideas of animal kinship by exploring how
hybrid animal forms reframe resilience beyond the bounds of human-centered perspectives.
Clarissa Gonzalez
Visual Arts Technician, CVAD Studio Art: Printmaking & Adjunct FacultyM.F.A., Printmaking, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
B.F.A., Studio Art, University of Texas at Austin
Instagram: C_Gone331 | Website: Clarissa Gonzalez
Clarissa's studio practice considers the social influences of traditionally printed media, such as maps, geography, and shifting global culture.
The Creative U Printmaking in Public Spaces workshop will explore how printmaking, as an art medium, assimilates information and art in the public sphere. Students will learn how printmaking and art are used to share information. Projects include printing broadsides and creating linocut prints for a collaged mural.
Whitney Holden-Rush
Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Communication Design Program
Lecturer, CVAD Communication Design: Graphic Design
B.F.A., Studio Art, University of Texas at Arlington
Instagram: Studio-Holden | Website: Whitney Holden and Studio Holden
Whitney is an award-winning graphic designer, creative director, design mentor, artist,
and entrepreneur. She has created brands, designed publications, and won national
awards for small local agencies and global entities such as Funimation, Flower Mound,
Texas, and Mary Kay, Dallas. Whitney has served in creative leadership positions as
the design studio supervisor at Mary Kay and recently as the creative director at
Dodd Creative, Dallas. She has previous teaching experience as an adjunct faculty
member at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her leadership and teaching style
come from a place of empathy, lifelong learning and continual self-improvement.
Sarah Loch-Test
Visual Arts Technician, CVAD Studio Art: Metalsmithing and Jewelry
M.F.A., Metal Design, East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina
B.F.A., Studio Art, Kent State, Kent, Ohio
Instagram: Sarah Loch-Test | Website: Sarah Loch-Test
Sarah became the first studio apprentice at Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
formerly known as the Society of Contemporary Craft of Pittsburgh. Her experience
living in Pittsburgh, a resilient post-industrial city, profoundly influenced her
metalwork. Her current work reflects her response to the impact of various industries
on the environment and landscapes.
An avid trail runner, Sarah finds inspiration while running the trails in Texas, a state known for its oil and wind energy. Her work has been featured in the biennial exhibitions of the Enamelist Society in Norcross, Georgia, and is part of the permanent collection of the Enamel Foundation in Los Angeles.
Max Raign
Visual Arts Technician, CVAD Foundations
Alum: M.F.A., B.F.A., Studio Art: Drawing and Painting, UNT
Instagram: @maxothelioma | Website: Max Raign
Max is an intermedia artist with a background in painting. He uses humor and a gentle
touch to explore themes of self-examination, our relationship to the spaces we inhabit,
and suburban sublimation. By playfully challenging cultural and artistic norms, Max
questions the very purpose of art and highlights the small moments of joy and intimacy
that shape everyday life.
An active presence in the Dallas-Fort Worth art scene, Max has exhibited in venues including the MAC Gallery, Ro2 Gallery, and the Appleton-Patterson Arts Center at the Greater Denton Arts Council. His work is currently featured at the UNT CoLab in Denton, Texas, where his all-occasion greeting cards extend his art practice and showcase his soft style and sharp wit.
Marcela Reyes
Adjunct Faculty, CVAD Foundations
M.F.A., Intermedia Studio, The University of Texas at Arlington
B.A., Visual and Performance Art, The University of Texas at Dallas
Website: Marcela Reyes
Marcela is an intermedia artist and educator whose work explores personal memories
of place to understand how different environments shape identity and language. Working
across textiles, text, painting, and sculpture, her practice becomes a process of
translation between cultures, memories, and forms. She has exhibited her work throughout
the U.S., received a Nasher Sculpture Center Artist Microgrant for her project "Intercambio,"
and has collaborated with the Dallas Museum of Art as a community artist.
Wei Sun
Adjunct Faculty, CVAD Interior DesignM.F.A. in Design: Interior Design, UNT
B.F.A. in Art & Design, Yancheng Institute of Technology, China
Wei is an interior designer with more than 10 years of professional experience in commercial and residential projects.
Her research examines how the built environment — space planning, lighting, materials, and color schemes— shapes people’s attention, mood and well-being. Her teaching is grounded in learner-centered and constructivist perspectives and positions students as active designers and problem-solvers rather than passive recipients of information.