Kaz McCue will soon join the Interlochen faculty as the new Director of Visual Arts. McCue will be coming from Indiana State University, where he was the Director of the University Art Gallery and taught classes for the department of art.

For the past 13 years, he has shown his work in numerous museums and galleries in New York City, the northeast and around the United States, in addition to England and Sweden.

McCue will lead the department during one of the most significant changes in its history - the move to a new 40,000- square-foot facility, which will house all classroom, studio and exhibition space for the Visual Arts Department. The $7.5 million project was supported with a $3 million dollar gift from the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation. Construction is planned to begin in 2007. The project is within $1 million of its fund-raising goal.

McCue received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography from Parson’s School of Design in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts degree in mixed media from Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus in Brookville, New York. McCue has taught at C.W. Post, Nassau Community College and the University of Bridgeport.

In Bridgeport, Connecticut, McCue worked with a not-for-profit community based arts school that served at risk and special needs youth. More recently, McCue worked alongside city leaders in Terre Haute, Indiana, to establish an arts corridor and served as President and founding member of the Cultural Alliance of Terre Haute, an organization devoted to the development of a vibrant cultural community within the city.