Archives: Faculty

Erin Davis is a designer, printmaker, and educator based in Boston. She earned her BFA in graphic design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and completed an artist residency at Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Two Rivers, WI.  She teaches Letterpress I and II at MassArt. Her work has been displayed at … Read more

Kate Martin Mytty is actively invested in reconnecting with our ecosystem and its roots through growing and sharing food, learning to harvest seeds, recycling different materials, open water swimming, public history, and deejaying and art. This intention shows up in how Kate works, whether growing or making food, repairing/remixing clothing and textiles, and making furniture. … Read more

Jeff Mentuck is the studio manager of the Glass Department at MassArt. He’s been kicking around one glass studio or another trying to wrestle liquid fire into cool decorative stuff since the early 90’s.  For the last 16 years, Jeff has been a studio manager and instructor and during that time has shaped thousands of … Read more

Brett X. Gamache holds an MFA in Painting from the University of New Hampshire along with a BFA from MassArt in Art Education & Painting. He is a recipient of a Fulbright Grant (Italy) and was recently awarded a Blanche E. Colman Award and the John Anson Kittridge Grant. He has received artist residency fellowships … Read more

Chuck Holtzman is an artist and teacher living and working in Boston, He trained as a sculptor and graduated from The School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, eventually putting sculpture aside he turned his focus exclusively to works on paper. His career in teaching began at The Visual and Environmental Studies Department at … Read more

Divya Menon is a scholar of global literature, literary theory, and aesthetic philosophy. She received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from Stony Brook University in December of 2019. Her current book project studies nineteenth-century aesthetic melancholy. She is a Visiting Lecturer at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Oliver Strand is a woodworker, writer and educator. He teaches in the Sculpture and Foundations Departments at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and builds wooden chairs by hand in Gloucester, MA. His work has been exhibited at 10b Projects, Various Small Fires, Adams and Ollman, Soloway Gallery and the ICA Boston.

Rachel Prentki is a furniture maker and member of the Charlestown Furniture Makers collective. She has a BS in Communications from Boston University and completed the Cabinet and Furniture program at North Bennet Street School.