Join current students, faculty, and alumnae/i of the M.A. in Digital Arts and M.F.A. in Art & Technology programs for a conversation about the curriculum and student experience at Goucher.
Program Director Andrew Bernstein, Kris Raser M.A. ’14, and current student Robin Smith M.F.A. ’19 will discuss the strengths of the program and how it has prepared them for success in their fields.
Kris Raser M.A. ’14
Kris Raser is a designer, producer and educator whose work intersects at various points where design, user experience, video production and digital instruction overlap.
Raser graduated with a B.A. in Art from Millersville University in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1997. After taking time off from higher education to work in leadership and managerial roles in youth ministry (Young Life) and environmental education (NorthBay Education), he completed his M.A. in Digital Arts in the summer of 2014 at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland. The M.A. in Digital Arts helped prepare Kris for his current full-time position as Digital Content Specialist in the Reference and Instruction department of University of Delaware's Morris Library.
In addition to his full-time work, Kris teaches Interaction Design at the University of Delaware, and introductory online digital art courses at Southern New Hampshire University & University of Maryland University College.
Robin Smith M.F.A. ’19
Robin Janel Smith is an interdisciplinary digital artist, currently based in Virginia Beach, using media to tell stories that allow people to learn about worldviews and lifestyles that they would not normally be exposed to in their own daily lives. She currently runs RJ Smith Creative, a firm that works with small businesses and nonprofits to help them with their digital media needs, including web development, graphic design, and video and audio production. She also teaches digital media seminars at Hampton University and through her social enterprise Surge Academy.
