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.
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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
Jennifer Pochinski is an American figurative painter whose work is characterized by the sensuousness of paint. Relationships, the male-female power dynamics and autobiographical elements are key themes in her work. She was raised in Hawaii and received her BFA from the University of Hawaii in Painting in 1991. Much of her young adulthood was spent traveling and … Read more
John Quirk is an artist and educator exploring absurdity, uncertainty and humor through frames of animation, film, and interactive art and media. John has embraced practical and theoretical education and collaboration, teaching within MassArt, Harvard University and Lesley University, while building a portfolio of freelance and personal projects. John has recently returned to Boston, having … Read more
Stacy Scibelli is a textile and clothing artist and designer interested in the transformative nature of cloth and costume. Her work looks to subvert industrial fashion practices by creating objects which challenge and alter consumer behavior. Scibelli holds an MFA in Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts in NYC and a BFA in … Read more
Ellen Adams is an object maker and woodworker based in Boston, MA. They create functional sculptures that celebrate beauty and utility. Adams is an alum of Massachusetts College of Art and Design and has since worked as a teaching assistant, technician, manager and teacher at various woodshops in the Greater Boston area.