Creative U Faculty, 2026

Meet your Creative U instructors!

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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

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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.
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Marina Earley

M.F.A., 2028, Studio Art: Metalsmithing & Jewelry, UNT
B.S., 2018, Environmental Science, UNT

Marina is a metalsmith and enamelist based in Denton, Texas. In her studio practice, she explores the sensory and spiritual facets of encounter with the natural world. Her enamel work has been featured in the Denizli Glass Biennial fashion show and North Texas exhibitions. She has been teaching workshops since 2022.

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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 is 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.

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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.

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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.

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Robyn Rozelle

M.F.A., 2026, Studio Art, UNT
B.F.A., 2020, Studio Art, University of New Mexico

Instagram: Robyn Rozelle

Robyn is a Dallas-based interdisciplinary artist primarily working with fibers, printmaking, and sculpting.

Her practice is rooted in craft traditions and the skills passed down through her lineage, with a particular focus on quilting. Her work explores femininity, care, and the resilience of women-led spaces.

Robyn's work has been exhibited widely across Texas and New Mexico.

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Wei Sun

Teaching Fellow, CVAD Interior Design
M.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.

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