Jason Bagatta is an artist-educator, living and working in Manchester, NH. His work, as it continues to evolve into abstract narratives, is figurative, sometimes socio-political, and sits within the spiritual and absurd. He makes paintings, drawings, and small sculptures, writes, and sometimes creates interactive works. He has taught college-level classes for over 20 years and … Read more
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LJ Baptiste is an art educator and cartoonist from Boston. He has collaborated with media giants such as Google, Hasbro, and PBS to produce essential works of art. He is best known for his ongoing comic book series, COMIXSCAPE, which features the adventures of a bright-eyed, perpetually preteen boy and his raccoon sidekick. In addition, he works … Read more
Heide Solbrig is a cartoonist and media scholar (MFA, Ph.D.) who teaches, writes, and draws memoir and journalistic comics. Her comics about growing up in the divorce generation of the 1970s have been written about in Filmmaker Magazine as well as appearing in literary journals, anthologies, and her own publications. Founder of the Boston ComicsWorkspace run out … Read more
Dr. Hossein Alizadeh holds a PhD in physics. He has taught courses on cosmology, physics of music and physics in art at MassArt.
Armando Plata is an architect, structural engineer, and educator. He received a BS in Science and Architectural Engineering from California Polytechnic State University and Master of Architecture from UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. He has extensive teaching experience at Roger Williams University, RI, Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston and MassArt.
Jussi Silliman received a BA from Tufts University, studied sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and California College of Art and Design. He recently studies Art, Culture and Technology at MIT and will receive an M.Arch at MassArt in May 2023. His interests include regenerative farming, whole-ecosystem design, traditional and … Read more
Carlos Villamil is a multidisciplinary designer with experience in product, graphic, and fashion design, and design education. Highly adaptable and inspiring through active learning/creation. His personal research is oriented toward sustainable design and zero-waste garments. He is an associate professor of Industrial Design at Wentworth Institute of Technology.
Hampton Smith is a doctoral candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Their research focuses on the art, material culture, and architecture of the Black transatlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They are working on a dissertation titled, “Making under Slavery in the Black Atlantic … Read more
Jennie-Rebecca Falcetta Professor of Liberal Arts most enjoys teaching at the intersection of words and images. In such courses as Modernism in Word and Image, Literature and Culture of the First World War, and I Hear America Singing, she relishes exploring visual and textual culture with MassArt’s inventive and curious student-artists.
Sanika Phawde is an illustrator, cartoonist and reportage artist working between New York City and Mumbai. Her work attempts to process and document human relationships, instances of emotional connection between strangers, and the associations we form with food. Her clients include: Spotify, D&AD, Acrylicize, Uber India, Ole and Steen, Clos du Bois, The New Yorker … Read more