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FACULTY + STAFF DIRECTORY
MFA LOW RESIDENCY PROGRAM
GRADUATE PROGRAMS TEAM
- MARIAH DOREN | Dean of Graduate, Professional, and Continuing Education |
- CAMELLIA SOUSA | Associate Dean of Graduate, Professional, and Continuing Education | csousa1978@massart.edu
- NADIA SAVAGE | Graduate Academic Programs Manager | nsavage@massart.edu
- FELICIA D SCOTT FLINT | Director of Graduate Program Exhibitions | fdscott@massart.edu
- DHANSHREE PATIL | Graduate Programs Administrator | dbpatil@massart.edu
FALL 2025 CORE FACULTY
- JENNIFER HALL | Visual and Critical Studies III | jhall@massart.edu
- KIM ZUMPFE | Visual and Critical Studies I | kzumpfe@massart.edu
MFA Fine Arts low-residency Faculty
Jennifer Hall
Visual and Critical Studies Faculty
Jennifer Hall is a pioneer is the field of new media and has been a widely respected member of the art technology community for over a quarter of a century. An educator, curator, researcher, and artist philosopher, her curiosity in the intersectionality of art and the sciences has led her to make significant contributions to the field of embodied cognition in contemporary aesthetics.
Dr Hall received her Doctorate degree (PhD) from the Institute of Visual Studies (IDSVA) in 2015, her Master of Science in Visual Studies (MSViS.) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1985, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) at the Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) in 1980, Ms. Hall is the Founding Director of Do While Studio, the first Boston-based, not-for-profit organization dedicated to the fusion of art, technology, and culture. She has taught at the Visible Language Workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, the Institute de Arte de Frederico Brandt, Caracas, Venezuela, and is Professor Emerita at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston where she currently teaches in the MFA Lo-Res program. She is a Doctoral Dissertation Advisor at the Institute of Visual Studies.
In 2000, Dr Hall received the first Rappaport Prize, administered through the Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park. In both 1984 and 1985, she received the first IBM Home Computing Award administrated by the Media Lab at MIT. for developing gesture driven interfaces. In 1995 she received Woman of the Year from the National Epilepsy Association for her work with Art and Epilepsy, and in 1998 was awarded the first Anne Jackson Award for Teaching from the Massachusetts College of Art. Dr Hall has installed work at numerous international locations such as the Contemporary Museum of Sydney, Australia; the Museum de Belle Arts, Caracas, Venezuela; and St. Johns Island, Newfoundland.
Dr Hall has written numerous articles, papers, books chapters and treaties on embodied philosophy. She deploys an enactive approach to cognition as a method for understanding why we make and how we experience art. Her current work is focused on the implications of pain in aesthetics.
YoAhn Han
Studio Faculty
Yo Ahn Han is a visual artist from the Republic of Korea. He has received his BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MFA from MassArt. Han is teaching at MassArt as an assistant Professor and RISD as a visiting Lecturer. His work is a visual dialogue between suppression and desire, a duality which speaks to both his experience of cerebral arteriovenous malformation and to his bifurcated cultural identity. His work has been shown internationally in the United States, South Korea, and the Netherlands. Recent solo shows include “My Princess, Bari”(2015) at ART MORA Gallery in New York, “Botanical Rhapsody”(2019), “Seeking Serenade”(2021) at Chase Young Gallery and “Soils of Tinctured Embodiment”(2020) at Berry Group Office in Boston. Yo Ahn Han has recently been appointed as a juror for Beacon Gallery “totem” group exhibition (2020) and biannual painting& Drawing fellowship for Massachusetts Cultural council (2020) Additionally, Han has been featured in Boston – Art Review Issue 01, Eagle Tribune (2018), New England Home, Boston Globe, Tupelo Quarterly, and Arte Realizzata (2021)
In recent years (2021 – 2022), Han has shown in greater Boston area, including solo exhibitions as “Seeking Serenade” at Chase Young Gallery, ““In Search of Floral Bodies” at Fitchburg Art Museum alongside several group shows as “Triple Oscillation” at MassArt x SOWA Gallery, “Quotidian Queer” University hall gallery at UMass Boston, and “Line (선)/Seon( Line), Fort Point Art Community Gallery. He is also a participant of 32nd MassArt Benefit LIVE auction. Han has just shown at exhibitions are two persons show at Studio Artego, “Hyperphantasia”, New York (September, 2022) and there will be a forthcoming Solo show at Chase Young Gallery (March 2023)
Ian Hatcher
Visual and Critical Studies Faculty
Most of my work focuses on how people relate to machines and how power is derived from technological narratives.
My work has been presented at Pioneer Works, The Kitchen, Artists Space, the Poetry Project, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fondation Louis Vuitton, the Goethe-Institut, Runokuu Festival, in public libraries in Denmark and Norway, and live on Russian TV.
I’m the author of Prosthesis, a book of print/sound poetry, and co-author of Abra, a conjoined physical artists’ book and generative poetry app. I’m a member of the performance collective Lucky Pierre and the band SLZY MYLFS.
I’ve taught at Brown University, NYU, NJIT, Rutgers, as a 2018 Digital Studies Fellow, and the University of Bergen, as a 2021-22 Fulbright Scholar to Norway. I currently teach in the low-res MFA program at MassArt and am a doctoral candidate at CU Boulder, where my research focuses on claims, confidence, comedy, and corporatism.
Loretta Park
Studio Faculty
Loretta Park (she/her) is an artist and educator and holds an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) and a BA from Bowdoin College. Her work has been exhibited at Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA (2024), Room 220, Denver, CO (2024), The MassArt Art Museum, Boston, MA (2023-24); The Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons University, Boston, MA (2023); Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA (2023); Brandeis Kniznick Gallery, Waltham, MA (2023); Praise Shadows Art Gallery, Boston, MA (2022); Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL (2021-22); The Umbrella Arts Center, Concord, MA (2021); New System Exhibitions, Portland, ME (2019); Ray Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2018) and Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME (2017). Reviews of exhibitions including the artist have appeared in Boston Art Review, Artscope, Art New England, The Boston Globe, and Korean Daily. Loretta currently lives and works in Boston.
Gina Siepel
Visual and Critical Studies Faculty
Gina Siepel (she/they) is an interdisciplinary sculptor, designer, and woodworker. Their artistic practice reflects an engagement with place, history, queer experience, and ecology, and their work integrates conceptual concerns and craftsmanship with a focus on wood as a natural and a cultural material. Gina’s works have been shown in museums and galleries nationally, including the Museum for Art in Wood, the Colby Museum, the DeCordova Museum, Vox Populi Gallery, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, the ICA at Maine College of Art, the Langlais Art Preserve, and Amherst College. Gina has been an artist-in-residence at Skowhegan, the Winterthur Museum, the Vermont Studio Center, Sculpture Space, Surf Point, Hewnoaks, and Mildred’s Lane. She was a 2023 recipient of a Teaching Artist Cohort Grant from the Center for Craft, and was awarded grants by the Puffin Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Northampton Arts Council. Gina holds a BFA from the School of Art + Design at SUNY Purchase and an MFA from the Maine College of Art, and has taught at Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, and Hampshire College. Gina is currently a MacLeish Field Station Artist-in-Residence and research affiliate in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at Smith College.
Kim Zumpfe
Visual and Critical Studies Faculty
Kim Zumpfe (they/she) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles that works with installation, sculpture, performance, video, photography, sound, experimental writing, and collaborative processes. This work explores how the body experiences the social and political imaginaries of working-class America through architectures and infrastructures, where economic, gender-based, and racialized hierarchies of power are embedded in experiences of land and location. These phenomenologies of place and placement are approached as territories that extend beyond specific locations and inform relationships to the material and digital world as public, private, mediated, transient, and ecstatic. Alternate understandings of how space might function are proposed to consider how expansive interiors and outer social bodies might transcend perceived and actual limits.
Kim studied architecture at the University of Colorado, Boulder before completing a BFA in 4D/Sculpture from California State University Long Beach, and has an MFA with a critical theory emphasis from University of California, Irvine. Kim has taught at several institutions including University of Southern California, Chapman University, University of California Irvine, and Santa Ana College. Exhibitions include Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Gallery TPW (Toronto), MOCA Geffen, Bangkok Biennial’s MAHA Pavilion, DiverseWorks (Houston), MexiCali Biennial, 4Ground Midwest Land Art Biennial, Audain Gallery at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver), CSUF Grand Central Art Center (Santa Ana), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Hammer Museum, Human Resources Los Angeles, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), UCR Culver Center for the Arts (Riverside), UCI Contemporary Arts Center, and several public and online sites. Kim also co-produces VOIDWAVE, a radio program that features interviews and experimental sound works from femme, queer, a non-binary artists. Recognitions include CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts best in international feminist art and scholarship, Artforum’s Critics’ Pick, and a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant.
PAST SUMMER WORKSHOP FACULTY
Andrew J. Stearns is a Boston based printmaker. He holds a BFA in Printmaking and History of Art from Massachusetts College of Art. His work explores the continuously shifting narratives of time and space through the investigation of historical moments. He has a particular interest in how history is recorded, remembered, or how it simply fades.
Caterina (Trina) Urrata Weintraub began working with glass in 2004. She is the co-owner of Fiamma Glass Studio in Waltham, MA with her husband and fellow glass artist David Weintraub. She received her BFA in 2012 from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she has been an adjunct professor since 2015. Trina utilizes many different methods of working glass to create her work, including flameworking, glass blowing, kiln casting, slumped/fused glass and cold working.
Erica Hood graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2014 with a BFA in ceramics. She is a working artist who creates functional ceramics, sculpture, and mixed media installations. She has been teaching ceramics throughout the New England area since graduating from MassArt. Currently she manages Chases Garage Artist Studios in York, ME. Erica resides in Attleboro Massachusetts with her husband Owen Roberts.
Hadis Karami is a textile artist currently based in New Bedford, MA. Hadis followed her passion for the arts after earning an M.Sc. in chemical engineering. Incorporating traditional embroidery and weaving techniques, her work often questions political, socio-cultural, and gender norms through the lens of her personal traumas and experiences. Hadis’ work has been exhibited throughout the United States. In 2022, she was awarded the Jill Slosburg-Ackerman Scholarship by the MassArt Foundation.
Clint Baclawski (b. 1981) is a contemporary artist working with photography, technology, light, and space. In 2022, Baclawski had residencies in both Venice, Italy, and Wassaic, NY. He was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship Grant in Photography in 2019. He was also awarded a St. Botolph Emerging Artists Award, and a Santo Foundation Solo Exhibition Honorarium. He has been featured in Boston Art Review, FRAME (Amsterdam), Boston Home Magazine, Designboom, and The Boston Globe, among other publications. Clint is represented by the Abigail Ogilvy Gallery and his studio is located in Boston’s South End.
Andrew Eckhardt is an artist and collaborative printer based in New England whose work explores platonic intimacy between queer people in the form of traditional portraiture. He studied printmaking at Massachusetts College of Art and Design before attending Tamarind Institute’s lithographic printer training program. He is currently an MFA candidate in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. Andrew has exhibited nationally and has work in collections including the collection at the Boston Public Library.
Dennis Svoronos is a Boston-based sculptor and educator whose work has been shown at venues nationally and internationally. Svoronos’ work is inspired by the modern world in motion. He uses his sculpture to reflect this environment charged with electricity, signals, spectacle and information. He uses our common language of the 21st century, electronics, robotics and interactive kinetics, to build connections between the viewers and the work. In a society fractured by technology, Dennis Svoronos tries to use it to bring us together.
Erin Sweeney lives and works in southern New Hampshire. She received her MFA in Book Arts and Printmaking from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she was awarded the Elizabeth C. Roberts Prize for Graduate Book Arts. Sweeney exhibits her work nationally, and is an educator, teaching book arts workshops at her Lovely in the Home Press and at other locales. In July of 2019, Sweeney was awarded a Ruth and James Ewing Award for Excellence in the Arts, and is the 2021 recipient of the NH Arts Educators’ Association’s Outstanding Service Award.
Sarah E. Jenkins (she/they) is a queer Appalachian artist working primarily in experimental animation. Their work has been exhibited and screened at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, ICA Boston, Wheaton College, The Lesbian and Gay Association in Germany, Torrance Art Museum, and GRRL HAUS Cinema. Jenkins’ residencies include MacDowell, the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, and Marble House project. She is currently creating site-responsive animation on the grounds of an old marble quarry.
Jonathan VanDyke is a New York City based artist working at the intersection of painting and performance. Solo exhibitions, performances, and commissions have been presented at venues internationally. He has led workshops recently at University of Alaska Fairbanks, The Museum of the North, The Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum, and The Fashion Institute of Technology. He was the 2022 Visual Artist-in-Residence for the Chelsea Music Festival in NYC and was recently appointed Artist in Residence at Bard College.
Born in Lisbon, Portugal, Catarina Coelho lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts. She received an MFA in Printmaking from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she currently teaches and manages the print studio. Exhibitions include: Childs Gallery; the Danforth Art Museum, Massachusetts; Venice International Art Fair; European Contemporary Print Triennial, Toulouse; Global Print, Douro. Catarina is the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant, an Artist’s Resource Trust Fund grant and a 2023 Brother Thomas Fellowship. Her work is in several collections including the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston.
Rebecca Morrison is a multimedia artist whose practice incorporates photography, video, and installation. She currently teaches courses in photography, video production, digital media, and web design for MassArt’s Photography and Film/Video departments, and is Program Director of MassArt’s Digital Media Certificate Program in Lens-based Media and Experience Design. Her photographs and video work have been exhibited and screened nationally and internationally. She holds a BFA in Photography and Art History and an MFA in Film/Video from Massachusetts College of Art and Design.