Barry Sanders (professor)

[3][4][5][6] His book-art projects include a collaboration with printmaker Michael Woodcock, Fourteen Ninety Two or Three,[7] which won Honorable Mention in the Carl Hertzog Awards for Excellence in Book Design.

Sanders has had an extensive academic career and was the first to occupy the Gold Chair at Pitzer College, where he taught the history of ideas and medieval church iconography among other things.

Along with Anne-Marie Oliver, he founded and chaired the MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research Program at the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies, Pacific Northwest College of Art.

[8] Sanders joined the faculty at Southern Illinois University, and helped students start a radical newspaper to protest the war in Vietnam and organized a three-day teach-in.

A stint at Valley State College (CSUN) in California ended the same way, Sanders was fired in 1971 not long after being arrested at an anti-war protest along with 200 students.