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FACULTY + STAFF DIRECTORY

MFA LOW RESIDENCY PROGRAM DIRECTOR

KELLY KNIGHT | Program Director | <kaknight@massart.edu>

GRADUATE PROGRAMS TEAM

LUCINDA BLISS | Associate Provost & Dean of Graduate, Professional, and Continuing Education | <lbliss@massart.edu>
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/ MxS co-Director | fdscott@massart.edu
REBECCA MORRISON | Director of Graduate Programming / MxS co-Director | <ramorrison@massart.edu>
JUSTIN GUERTIN FLINT | Graduate Programs Exhibitions and Support Staff | <jaguertin@massart.edu>
YUXIAO MU | Graduate Programs Administrator | <ymu@massart.edu>

SUMMER 2024 CORE FACULTY

KEITH WASHINGTON | Studio I | <kwashington@massart.edu>
JONATHAN VANDYKE | Seminar I | <jjvandyke@massart.edu>
YO-AHN HAN | Studio IV | <yhan@massart.edu>
GINA SIEPEL| Seminar II | <gsiepel@massart.edu>
LORETTA PARK | Studio VI: Thesis II | <lkpark@massart.edu>
ANDREW YANG | Thesis Defense

SUMMER 2024 WORKSHOP FACULTY

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.

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.

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.

PAST WORKSHOP FACULTY

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.

MassArt MFA Low Residency Faculty 2023 / Andrew Eckhardt

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.

MassArt MFA Low Residency Faculty 2023 / Erin Sweeney

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.

Francisco-Fernando Granados was born in Guatemala and lives in Toronto. Since 2005, his practice has traced his movement from convention refugee to critical citizen, using abstraction performatively, site-specifically, and relationally to create projects that challenge the stability of practices of recognition. His work has developed from the intersection of formal painterly training, working in performance through artist-run spaces, studies in queer and feminist theory, and early activism as a peer support worker with immigrant and refugee communities. This layering of experiences has trained his intuitions to seek site-responsive approaches, alternative forms of distribution, and the weaving of lyrical and critical propositions.

Erika b Hess is a painter, curator, teacher, and host of the art podcast I Like Your Work. Hess’s work includes paintings and drawings about gender, motherhood, and the environment. She is represented by Contemporary Art Matters in Columbus, OH. Hess’s work has been exhibited nationally including NYC, Brooklyn, Detroit, L.A., Boston, and Philadelphia.

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.

A native of the Boston area, Stephen Sheffield received his BFA from Cornell University and his MFA from California College of the Arts. Influenced by film noir, crime novels, and projected memories of past eras, Sheffield constructs iconic moments of mystery, ambiguity, and male insecurity in his large format black and white photographs. Sheffield has exhibited nationally and is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship recipient. He is also a Critical Mass Finalist and is represented by the Panopticon Gallery in Boston.

Courtney Stock (b. 1987) lives and works in Boston. Trained as a painter, weaver, and sculptor, Stock dances freely between mediums, and creates works which often defy categorization. Stock earned an MFA from MassArt, a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from San Francisco Art Institute, and a BA from Bowdoin College. She is the founder and co-director of BOSSCRITT, a critique and curatorial club for emerging artists, which was awarded the 2021 Collective Futures Fund Ongoing Platforms Grant from Tufts University and the Andy Warhol Foundation.