Staff &
Faculty
Welcome From the staff and faculty
Come meet the staff and faculty at the CBC Arts Center. We are composed of award winning directors, performers and artists who are well renowned in our region and state. Our faculty is highly educated in their fields of study and are talented clinicians who travel the nation working with artists, galleries and performing groups.
Art Center Staff
Visual Arts Faculty
Tracy Walker
Professor
Professor Tracy Walker began her career with Columbia Basin College in 2001 where she currently teaches painting, drawing, illustration, and the art history sequence and as well as Art Appreciation and 2D-Design in the past. Along with teaching, Tracy is a practicing artist whose paintings explores both social and cultural themes that touch on current events, historic perspectives, and personal experiences.
Rachel Smith
Associate Professor
Rachel Smith is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and curator whose artwork investigate the complexities of the individual and the collective as it relates to memory, processes, and materials. Her artwork uses ephemeral materials within mixed media, collage, performance and installation works.
She has curated exhibitions including: Construct at the Foundry Vineyards in
Marguerite Finch
Associate Professor
Marguerite Finch is a Fine Art Instructor and interdisciplinary sculpture/performance artist. The artwork she creates is an extension of her own experiences, family, and societal perceptions of agriculture. Marguerite has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships, most recently she co-created a sculpture for the Community Togetherness Project at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.
Kayleigh Lang
Adjunct Instructor
Kayleigh Lang (b. 1990) is an artist currently located in Walla Walla, Washington. They grew up in Cheyenne, WY, and graduated with a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Wyoming. In 2010, they spent a year studying Japanese art and language at Kobe College in Nishinomiya, Japan. In 2016, they graduated with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Washington State University. Their work has been shown throughout the west and the greater Pacific Northwest, including The Chase Gallery, Terrain Art Gallery, Witter Gallery, and several educational institutions. Lang currently works as a full-time artist and instructor at Columbia Basin College.
Music Faculty
Collin Wilson
Assistant Professor – Jazz Band
Collin Wilson, DMA, is the director of the Columbia Basin College Jazz Ensemble and Conductor of the CBC Concert Band. As an Associate Professor of Music at Columbia Basin College he also directs the jazz combos, teaches saxophone, jazz history and music theory. He has previously served on the faculties at Central Washington University, the University of Idaho, and Clark Community College.
Bruce Walker Jr.
Associate Professor – Orchestra
Bruce Walker is Associate Professor of Music at Columbia Basin College in Pasco, Washington, where he conducts the Columbia Basin College Orchestra, and Music Director of the Walla Walla Symphony Youth Orchestra. He currently serves on the national Conducting Committee of the American String Teachers Association and is a Past President of the Washington chapter of ASTA.
Mike Scott
Assistant Professor – Choir
Mike Scott was born at a very young age. He is a distinguished performer, adjudicator, and educator with over 35 years of experience in singing and music performance and is widely regarded as one of the leading music educators in the Pacific Northwest. A proud product of the community college system, Mike earned is Associates of Arts at Lane Community College in Eugene, OR, studying under Kimberly McConnell.
Theatre Faculty
Ronn Campbell
Senior Associate Professor
I design scenery, lighting and sound for many companies and universities across the county including Snowy Range Summer Theatre, Washington East Opera, Prinicipia College, Las Memorias Performance Project and Idaho Repertory Theatre.
Derik Radcliffe
Adjunct Instructor
Bryan McGlothin
Adjunct Instructor
Bryan McGlothin has been working on stage and screen for over twenty years and joined Screen ActorsGuild in 1999. He began teaching Acting For The Camera, at Columbia Basin College, in 2010. He studied with Broadway actor Chris Wilson and her son, Brandon Smith, in Houston, Texas.