Christopher Harrington is Acting Dean of SESA.  Previously, Mr. Harrington was the Chair of the Department of Fine Arts for ten years, where he has been a faculty member since 1997.  He received his Psychology undergraduate degree from Binghamton University, an MA and an Ed.M. in Art Education from Columbia University’s Teachers College, and an M.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art’s Hoffberger School of Painting. Mr. Harrington’s work has been exhibited at the Hunter Museum of American Art, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the Contemporary Artists Center, in North Adams, Massachusetts, and the traveling show “Roadmap” organized by the Maryland Art Place. He received the highest honors for his work at the Period Gallery in Omaha, Nebraska. Since 2002 Harrington has had five one-man exhibitions in New York City. In 2022 his work won the award for best “Contemporary Art” at the Annual Member Exhibition, Academy Art Museum, Easton MD. .