Image: Roneld Lores, MFA ’22

STUDIO VISITS + CRITIQUES

GUEST CRITICS

During each intensive summer residency, we host innovative thinkers, gallerists, curators and artists to the MFA Low-Residency studios to interact with our students. These one-on-one critiques throughout the summer introduce a diverse range of voices, out of which our students can think about their work newly, in the context of contemporary practice and discourse. Studio visits are scheduled by the graduate programs office, please reach out to gradprogram@massart.edu with questions.

SUMMER 2023 VISITING CRITICS AND PARTICIPATING FACULTY

MassArt Summer Lecture Series 2023 / Cicely Carew

L.A.-born artist Cicely Carew’s multimedia works comprise a self-sustaining ecosystem of possibility. With rebellious mark-making, vibrant color, and sweeping gestures, Carew captures the momentary magic of her process of building enduring spaces of radical joy and liberation. Carew earned her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art + Design in Boston (2005) and her MFA from Lesley Art + Design in Cambridge, MA (2020). Carew has mounted solo exhibitions, two-person and group exhibitions across the northeast in MA, NY and RI. Carew’s work has also been featured in The Boston Globe, The New York Times, NPR Boston, WBUR’s The Artery, and Boston Art Review No.6 issue. Carew was recently awarded the ICA Boston’s James and Audrey Foster Prize, which will include a three-person exhibition opening in August 2023. Carew lives and works in Cambridge, MA. Read more about Cicely Carew HERE. STUDIO VISITS JULY 6

Roz Crews is an artist who uses curatorial strategies to produce public programs, events, and performances. Recent projects have explored the complexity of trauma at the dinner table, the oppressive structures of public schools and academic institutions, and the roles of authorship and labor in the arts. This layered work has emerged from a variety of positions including: artist in residence in several universities and non-profits, manager of community engagement programs at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA, co-curator and public programs manager at the King School Museum of Contemporary Art in Portland, OR, adjunct instructor at Portland State University, and full-time art teacher at the School Board of Alachua County in Gainesville, FL. She has an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University and a BA in Anthropology from New College of Florida. She is currently the Associate Curator of Programs at Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, MA. STUDIO VISITS JULY 13

MassArt | Art, Craft + Identity January Colloquium 2023 | Keynote Speaker Janet Echelman

Artist Janet Echelman defies categorization. She creates billowing sculpture engineered to the scale of buildings, choreographed by wind and light, that shifts from being an object you look at, to a living environment you can get lost in. Echelman’s TED talk “Taking Imagination Seriously” has been translated into 35 languages and viewed by millions. Recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award, Harvard Loeb Fellowship, and Fulbright Lectureship, Echelman was named an Architectural Digest Innovator for “changing the very essence of urban spaces.” Oprah ranked Echelman’s work #1 on her “List of 50 Things That Make You Say Wow!” STUDIO VISITS JULY 18

MassArt Summer Lecture Series 2023 / Andrew Yang

Andrew S. Yang works across the visual arts, natural sciences, and expanded research to explore our earthly and urgent entanglements. His projects have been exhibited from Oklahoma to Yokohama, including the 14th Istanbul Biennial, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Spencer Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, with recent curatorial projects Earthly Observatory at SAIC Galleries and Making Kin – Worlds Becoming for the Center for Humans and Nature. His essays appear in Leonardo, Biological Theory, Art Journal and recently in the Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies as well as the new series Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations. Yang is Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and starting in the fall of 2023 the Jonathan Lash Chair in Environmental Education & Sustainability at Hampshire College. STUDIO VISITS JULY 20

LaiSun Keane has been involved in the Boston art scene since 2015, at first volunteering and working from junior level for non-profits and art galleries. She then became a co-owner of a gallery for two years before starting her own in April 2020. Her eponymous gallery located in South End’s SoWa Art District focuses on showcasing non-mainstream voices and are thematic and narrative based. Besides in person and online exhibitions, her gallery has participated in Art Fairs in New York, Los Angeles and Miami. LaiSun received her Bachelor of Art Theory from University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. STUDIO VISITS JULY 21 (*Thesis Students only, MassArt x SoWa Gallery)

MassArt Summer Lecture Series 2023 / Cathy Della Lucia

Cathy Della Lucia (b. 1989 South Korea) is a Boston based artist working predominantly in sculpture, ceramics and installation. She received a BA in studio art at Xavier University and MFA in sculpture from Boston University. Her work considers the role of objects, the body, and raw material as systems and vessels that carry, conceal, conduct, and connect. She uses modularity as a medium to explore ideas of unbelonging, identity construction, and the fetishization of human labor. Her practice is deeply focused on touch and material sensibility as a way of connecting with Korean traditions of craft and collaborating with familiar materials that are collected from the excess waste of local craftsmen, furniture builders, and home construction. Cathy Della Lucia has exhibited work in the US, Korea and Denmark. She is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Boston College.

STUDIO VISITS JULY 27

Landon Newton is an artist and gardener whose research-driven practice explores the participatory relationship between plants and people. Newton is known for her project, The Abortion Herb Garden. Her work has been included in Frieze New York with A.I.R. Gallery, WIENWOCHE 2021 (Vienna, Austria), CICA Museum (South Korea), EcoFutures: Deep Trash (London, UK), and Open Engagement at the Queens Museum (Queens, NY). Recent awards include an Emergency Artist Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts and On Our Radar 2021, Creative Capital. She has a BA in History from Smith College and an MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She works and gardens in Brooklyn, NY. STUDIO VISITS JULY 31

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. STUDIO VISITS JULY 31

2023 END-OF-RESIDENCY REVIEWERS

Erin Genia (she/her), an enrolled member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and community organizer specializing in Native American and Indigenous arts and culture. Genia’s artistic practice merges Dakota cultural imperatives, pure expression, and exploration of materiality with the conceptual. She holds an M.S. in Art, Culture and Technology from MIT, an M.P.A. in Tribal Governance from the Evergreen State College and studied at Institute of American Indian Arts. GUEST CRITICS AUGUST 7

Todd Bartel received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1985 concluding his studies at RISD’s European Honors Program in Rome, and earned an MFA in Painting from Carnegie Mellon University in 1993. Bartel’s work assumes the forms of painting, drawing, and sculpture in a collage and assemblage format. His work investigates the interconnected histories of collage and landscape and the roles of nature and natural resources in Western culture. Bartel has taught drawing, painting, and sculpture at Brown University, Manhattanville College and Carnegie Mellon University, Vermont College MFA in Visual Art, New Hampshire Art Institute MFA in Visual Art among others. His work has been exhibited nationally in multiple venues. A seasoned teacher since 1986, Bartel currently teaches drawing, painting, collage, assemblage, conceptual art, and installation art at The Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA. GUEST CRITICS AUGUST 9

MassArt MFA Low residency Visiting Critics 2023 / Loretta Park

Loretta Park holds an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a BA from Bowdoin College. Her work has been exhibited at Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL (2021); Shelter In Place Gallery, Boston, MA (2020); New System Exhibitions, Portland, ME (2019); Ray Gallery, Brooklyn (2018); and Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME (2017). Loretta currently teaches as a Visiting Assistant Professor at MassArt. GUEST CRITICS AUGUST 10