Fine Arts & Dance Faculty Mentors

Jim Condron 
Teminal Degree: MFA in Painting | Leroy E. Hofffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art
MFA Artist in Residence
Practice Area: Painting, Sculpture, Installations
MFA Teaching Areas 2024-2025: Studio Practice IV & Praxis: Visual Arts
 
Bio: Jim Condron earned his MFA at the Leroy E. Hofffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art (2004) and a BA in Art and English from Colby College (1992). He also studied at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture (1993-'95). Since 1993, Condron has studied with Rohini Ralby, the artist's mentor. His work appears nationally and internationally in galleries and museums as well as in corporate, university, public and private collections. Condron has been awarded artist residencies at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Edward F. Albee Foundation, and the Heliker Lahotan Foundation. He is a 2017 recipient of a Pollock Krasner Foundation grant, an Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation grant and a Maryland State Arts Council grant for sculpture.

Jen Graham
Terminal Degree: MFA, Dance Performance & Choreography | University of Maryland
Certification: Certified Movement Analyst | Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies
Director of MFA and Assistant Professor of Dance | email: jen.graham@wilson.edu | tel.: 717-264-2672
Practice Areas: Dance Technique, Choreography, and Somatic Practice
MFA Teaching Areas 2024-2025: Somatic Practice I & Studio Practice II

Bio: Jen Graham, MFA CMA RSME/T is a multidisciplinary movement educator and artist, grounded in somatic practice and process. She creates inclusive and exploratory spaces to instigate shifts in awareness, perspective, and pattern through embodied experiences. Using innovative and unconventional approaches, she promotes curiosity, investigation, and connection to manifest understanding and growth. Jen holds both a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts Degree in Dance Choreography and Performance from the University of Maryland. She also holds her Certification as a Movement Analyst from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies and is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist through the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association. Jen has worked in higher education in various roles since 2012, serving as guest artist, choreographer, lecturer, and adjunct faculty in programs ranging from Associates to Fine Arts Conservatories for both Dance and Theatre. She is currently the Assistant Director of the Interdisciplinary Master of Fine Arts Program and Assistant Professor of Dance at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Previously, she was a lecturer in the BFA Dance Program at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, where she also served as a contributor and producer of several interdisciplinary initiatives at the intersection of performing arts and health. She has also taught in the undergraduate Dance Program at the University of Maryland, where she concurrently co-created and co-directed the DeLeComm embodied leadership and communication program for PhD students as an interdisciplinary partnership with the Neuro and Cognitive Science Program. Jen has contributed to developing related curriculum for The Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies.

Joshua Legg 
Terminal Degree: MFA, Dance Performance & Choreography | Shenandoah Conservatory
Dean of the School of Professional & Graduate Studies | email: joshua.legg@wilson.edu | tel.: 717.264.2781
Practice Areas: Choreography & Improvisation, Performance Writing, Dancetheatre, Dance History, Painting
MFA Teaching Areas 2024-2025: Contemporary Arts Practice I (Public Memory/Public Arts & Visual Rhetoric), Contemporary Arts Practice II (Aesthetics), Site-Sensitive Artmaking I&II (Curation and Dramaturgy), Higher Ed Seminar II, Praxis: Movement Arts (Anthropology & Dancetheatre), Thesis I & II

Bio: Recognized for his diverse range, Joshua Legg is a choreographer, theatre director, painter, poet, and curator of gallery exhibitions and live arts events. His choreography has been called “stunning, intense…an exciting interpretation of modern ballet.” The 109 dances he has choreographed/directed span site-specific works, concert and dancetheatre, film, musical theatre, opera, and performance art. He has served as a master teacher and guest lecturer/speaker for ACDA conferences, ADF’s Paul Taylor Project, the Dance Teacher Summit, and various universities, pre-professional and private studios, community arts programs, and high schools—and has adjudicated for festival’s such as Baltimore’s AKIMBO site-sensitive dance festival. Joshua's recent curatorial projects include a shared exhibition for printmakers Eric Avery and Adam DelMarcelle, and collaborations with other curators that featured the works of photographer Therese Frare, and the Indonesian artist collective Taring Padi. His book, Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques, is available in English, French, and Italian; and his artwork and poetry appear in creative journals as well. Joshua is an associate member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society. 

Philip Lindsey 
Terminal Degree: MFA in Painting & Drawing | Mount Royal School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art
Professor | email: plindsey@wilson.edu | 717.264.2783
Practice Area: Painting
MFA Teaching Areas 2024-2025: Studio Practice III & Higher Ed Seminar I

Bio: Philip Lindsey is a tenured, Professor of Fine Arts. He teaches painting, drawing, graphic design, and chairs the Division of Arts & Letters. Lindsey began painting in the 1980s, and currently explores abstraction as well as portraiture, allegory and metaphor. Professor Lindsey has received a number of awards for his work, both abstract and representational in national and international juried competitions and exhibitions. He is a recipient of the Donald F. Bletz Award for Outstanding Devotion to the Art of Teaching, the Paul Swain Havens Research Scholars Award, a Summer Research Stipend, Sabbatical Leave for research and scholarship, and the Drusilla Stevens Mazur Research Professorship.

Matthew McBride
Terminal Degrees: MFA in Poetry | Bowling Green State University, PhD in English & Comparative Literature | University of Cincinnati 
Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Practice | email: matthew.mcbride@wilson.edu | 717.264.6220
Practice Area: Poetry, Creative Writing
MFA Teaching Areas 2024-2025: Praxis: Creative Writing, Interdisciplinary Collaboration I & II

Matt McBride holds a BA in English from Capital University, an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University, and a PhD in English & Comparative Literature from the University of Cincinnati. He is the recipient of a Divine Poetry Fellowship and a George Elliston Poetry Fellowship as well as an Ohio Arts Council Grant. His work has previously appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Court Green, Cream City Review, Columbia Poetry Review, FENCE, Mississippi Review, Ninth Letter, [PANK], Packingtown Review, and Tupelo Quarterly amongst others. His first book, City of Incandescent Light, was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2018.

Anne Reeder Bertram
Terminal Degree: MFA, Acting | UC Davis
Certification: Certified Movement Analyst | Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies
MFA Artist in Residence 
Practice Areas: Theatre and Somatic Practice
MFA Teaching Areas 2024-2025: Somatic Practice II

Bio: Anne Reeder Bertram began her career as a professional dance and actress. She received her undergraduate degrees in Theatre Studies and Dance from Emerson College and her MFA in Acting from the University of California, Davis. She worked in Los Angeles as a professional actress and had taught Acting and Theatre courses in higher education. Anne went on to study at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS) in NY, NY to become a Certified Movement Analyst (CMA) specializing in Movement Training for Actors, and Bartenieff Training for Dancers. She expanded her work in 2008 and also works with individual clients in private practice. Combining her years of experience as an actor and dancer with her focused study of nutrition and movement, she founded her own Holistic Health and Movement Coaching practice, When Nourished. Anne is a member of the American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP) and The International Somatic Movement Educators and Therapists Association (ISMETA).