Faculty – Page 33 – Professional and Continuing Education

Cubby Golden in a footwear designer at New Balance-World headquarters, Boston. He previously designed football, baseball and running shoes at Nike World headquarters, Beaverton, OR. Cubby holds a BFA in Industrial design from California College of the Arts. He is an Adjunct professor at Massachusetts college of Art and Design, where he teaches Drawing for … Read more

Meg Young holds a BA in Art History from Emory University. She is Associate Director of Academic Computing at MassArt. Ms. Young has over 15 years of experience helping artists use technology to make art, and has exhibited at NorthEast SIGRAPH Annual Show, Fort Point Open Studios and CyberArts.

Andy Chan creates fashion designs and drawings that have been exhibited at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC, the Park Plaza and Copley Plaza in Boston, and the Sheraton Commander in Cambridge. His awards include Lord & Taylor’s “Dress for America” Top 5 Finalist and his work has been published in Boston Magazine’s annual “Faces to … Read more

Jennifer Varekamp is an associate professor of fashion design at MassArt. She is a freelance costume and apparel designer. She holds a BFA from MassArt and MEd from Harvard University and studied fashion design at the London College of Fashion and costume design in Florence, Italy . Varekamp has worked for several theaters and costume … Read more

Meg Hickey is a registered architect and professor of architectural design at MassArt. She holds a BArch and BS in mechanical engineering from MIT.

Paul Hajian has been teaching and practicing architecture for more than 25 years. He is president of and principal architect in Hajian Architects Incorporated, an architectural, engineering, and planning firm with responsibility for the design and execution of contracts for public, private, and institutional clients. He holds a BS (Art & Design) and an MA … Read more

Tanja Damljanović Conley is a visiting associate professor in the faculty of architecture and senior advisor at the State Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Belgrade, and the program director of Belgrade International Architecture Week. She is the author of the book Czech-Serbian Architectural Connections 1918-1941 (RZZSK, 2004), has contributed to several others, … Read more

Will Betsch is Principal of Quality Construction, in Cambridge MA. He has extensive carpentry, contracting, estimating and design-build experience inclusding finish casework and millwork, historic renovation, energy efficient renovation, restaurant interiors, retail spaces, and residential renovation and major rehabilitation. His work has been profiled in Boston Magazine, Professional Builders Magazine and Architectural Digest. Will holds … Read more

Gabi Schaffzin is an artist, educator, and researcher based in Southern California. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Art History, Art Practice Concentration at University of California, San Diego. He holds a BS in Business Administration from Babson College in Wellesley, a degree he readily admits provides a curious pairing with his MFA from … Read more

Ceren Paydas is an artist, researcher and educator based in Boston, MA. She earned her BFA in Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design from Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey. She recently received her MFA degree from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design’s Dynamic Media Institute, completing her thesis on online vulnerabilities and the surveillance … Read more