Archives: Faculty

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

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.