Chair of UNF’s Department of Art and Design
Dr. Debra Murphy is the inaugural chair of UNF’s Department of Art and Design. She has won a number of outstanding undergraduate teaching, international leadership and service awards at UNF, and the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville recognized her as an Art Educator of the Year. Murphy serves on the board of MOCA Jacksonville and she is the immediate president of the Southeastern College Art Conference. She teaches and writes about Italian Renaissance art in addition to the arts of Northeast Florida.