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
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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.
Andrew Fish is a painter and printmaker who studied at School of Visual Arts in NYC and has attended multiple artist residencies including the VT Studio Center, Manship Artists Residency + Studio in Gloucester, MA, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China, and Mass MoCA’s Assets for Artists Residency in North Adams, MA. He is the recipient of a Mass Cultural … Read more
Shannon Lee is an independent animator, visual artist, and educator. Her work is infused with science fiction, magical realism, and experimental narrative and animation techniques. Shannon received her MFA in Experimental Animation at the California Institute of the Arts in 2017 and her films have been shown in festivals and art spaces including the Ann … Read more
Brett S. Poza is a multimedia artist who for many years has used pyrography and other forms of burning to depict images on wood, paper and bone. Observations of nature as well as the manipulation of medical images are a large part of her current practice which is grounded in observation, drawing and the development … Read more