Archives: Faculty

Austin Kemp grew up in rural Tennessee with an avid love of comics and superheroes. A few panels later, their passion for the medium directed their academic pursuits. Austin’s field of research focuses on both the comics form and the transmedial superheroes borne from it. Austin takes any excuse to integrate comics into the classroom … Read more

Zhidong Zhang holds an MFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a B.Sc in Applied Mathematics from Central South University, Changsha, China. He also studies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME. Awards include a Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Photography and Robert Guard Grant (Finalist), The Robert … Read more

Conor Davies is an industrial designer at Aqua-Leisure Recreation involved in the product development cycle of soft goods and hard goods including market research, ideation, price analysis, production development, item QA, and testing. He received a BFA from MassArt in Industrial Design.

Cynthia Atwood has spent the last 33 years in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. She holds B.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of Kansas and M.F.A. in Visual Arts/Sculpture from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Cynthia is an artist/teacher for the MFA programs at NHIA in Manchester, NH and Vermont College of Fine Arts, … 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

Alex Rheault lives in Southern Maine. Rheault combines drawing, writing, book arts, collage, and objects in intuitive ways to explore memento mori, found objects, odd pairings, the domestic, things with wheels, incongruities, contradictions, and nonsense. Rheault teaches 2D, collage, and Forensics of Fashion at the University of New England. She recently presented half of sixty … Read more

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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

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