One of the Museum School’s strongest assets is its faculty of working artists and professional teachers who bring a wealth of experience and background to the classroom. Our teachers will encourage you to push yourself to your limits and engage with your work, while helping you develop an ongoing dialogue with materials, content, and process that will continue long after you have finished the Pre-College Summer Studio program. Below are the Teaching/Artist Faculty who will be participating in Summer Studio 2008.

Pre-College Summer Studio Faculty:

Candice Ivy (Sound Art) is a multi-disciplinary artist working primarily with installation involving sound, film, video, and drawing. A South Carolina native, Ivy’s work focuses on themes of cultural and personal history and memory, and explores the relationship between family, the Southern community, and landscape. In 2007 Ivy was invited to participate in a traveling video exhibition as part of the Sguardi Sonori 2007 Festival, which traveled to Venice, Benevento, and Frascati, Italy. Ivy also has constructed large multi-media installations in South Carolina and California, including “Murmur” in the Old City Jail in Charleston as a part of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival (’06). Her video work has been shown in such venues as Boston University’s 808 Gallery for the “CAA Exhibition” (’06); the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (’05); the Rhode Island International Film Festival, Providence, R.I. (’05); and The Berkeley Small Film Festival, Berkeley, Calif. (’05). Ivy received a BFA from Coker College (’99) and a MFA from SMFA/Tufts University (’06) and was awarded the Bartlett Award Fund from the SMFA (’05). Currently she is teaching at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Art Institute of Boston.

Judith Leemann (Artists in Action) is an artist, writer, and educator invested in creating objects and environments that interrupt habitual thought and perception. Frequently working in collaboration with others and with system-based methods of inquiry, she enjoys poaching structures from fields outside of the arts in order to create things that do not behave as proper art objects. Leemann received a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Virginia (’93), where she also completed a Fifth Year Fellowship (’94), and received a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (’04). She was assistant editor of The Object of Labor: Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production (School of the Art Institute of Chicago Press, 2007) and will co-chair a panel entitled “Gestures of Resistance: Craft, Performance, and the Politics of Slowness” at the 2008 College Art Association conference. Her recent studio projects include an outdoor video projection commissioned by the Somerville (Mass.) Arts Council and a site-responsive exhibition at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass.

Tom MacIntyre (Video) is an artist and educator focusing on photography and new media. He received a BFA from Metropolitan State College of Denver (’00) and a MFA from SMFA/Tufts University (’03). His recent exhibitions include BAG Gallery, SMFA; “Le Flaneur,” Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass.; and “Life Was Different Then,” Tufts University Gallery/Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Mass. MacIntyre received a graduate teaching fellowship from SMFA/Tufts University and served as a project leader at Boston Inspires Public Art, Boston, and Art Builds Communities, Denver Housing Authority, Denver, Colo. He is chair of the new media department at Littleton High School where he teaches digital photography, web design, TV studio, and digital video.

Daniela Rivera’s (Painting) paintings address issues of cultural identity and the body as a source of definition in relation to given spaces. She recently has worked on a series of installations exploring the relationship between spectator and painting. Rivera received a BFA from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile ('96) and a MFA from SMFA/Tufts University ('06). She spent the summer of 2006 as a Gund fellow at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her recent exhibitions include "Boston Young Contemporaries," 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston ('06); "CAA Exhibition," Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston ('06); "Negotiating Painting," Tufts University Gallery/Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Mass. ('05); "CUT OUT FOR," Artists Foundation, Boston ('05); and "Skin Matters," Spanish Cultural Center, Santiago, Chile ('02).

Gerald Rojek (Painting and Installation) is a Boston-based artist and educator who received a BA from the State University College of Buffalo (’99) and a MFA from SMFA/Tufts University (’06). His recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at Bentley College, Waltham, Mass., and a threeperson exhibition at the Krause Gallery at the Moses Brown School, Providence, R.I. Rojek’s other exhibitions include solo shows at the Joan Resnikoff Gallery, Roxbury Community College, Roxbury, Mass. ( ’07), and the Onyx Hotel, Boston (’06), and group shows at LynnArts, Lynn, Mass. (’07); the Khaki Gallery in Wellesley, Mass. (’07); the Comune di Laives and Deutsche Kulturhaus in Laives, Italy (’06); the 808 Gallery at Boston University, Boston (’06); Tufts University Gallery/Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Mass. (’06); SMFA (’05); the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (’04); and Samson Projects, Boston (’04). He has taught at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Newton Community Education, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Eliot School of Fine and Applied Art, Tufts University, and The Art Institute of Boston. Currently he is teaching at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Boston Architectural Center.

Evelyn Rydz (Drawing and Installation) is a Boston-based artist, curator, and art educator. Her large pen-and-ink landscape drawings and installations are replete with intricate scenery that she refers to as “micro-habitats.” Rydz has curated exhibitions at GASP Gallery, Brookline, Mass., and the RHYS Gallery, Boston. She was the 2006 Community Arts Initiative Visiting Artist at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she designed and led the Blueprint Voyage Project. Rydz teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Tufts University, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She is currently represented by the RHYS Gallery and recently was named one of “10 Artists to Watch” by the Boston Globe Magazine. Rydz has exhibited at Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Mass.; the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Mass.; Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston; eo art lab, Chester, Conn.; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Tufts University Art Gallery/Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Mass.; the Lillian Immig Gallery, Boston; The Artist Foundation, Boston; the Mills Gallery, Boston; and Kracer Art Gallery, Miami, Fla. Rydz received a BFA from Florida State University (’01) and a MFA from SMFA/Tufts University (’05).

Jonathan Santos (Drawing and Installation) creates site-responsive mixed-media work that explores geographic identity and history. He works in painting, sculpture, installation, and design. Santos was recently awarded a Public Art, Architecture, and Design Grant from the LEF Foundation and an EdCo Research Grant from the Boston Architectural Center. He was an artist-in residence at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, N.H., and the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vt., and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture with a fellowship from the William and Marguerite Zorach Foundation. Recent exhibitions include: “Interruptions: Art as Social Practice,” University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Calif. (’08); “Stencils: Public Space and Social Intervention,” New England School of Art and Design, Suffolk University, Boston (’07); “Don’t Know Much About History,” artSPACE, New Haven, Conn. (’06); “Peekskill Project” Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, N.Y. (’06); “Social History of Objects,” Triple Candie, Harlem, N.Y. (2006); “Thread Counts Project,” GASP Gallery, Brookline, Mass. (’06); and “Skowhegan at 60” Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine (’06). He received a BFA from The Art Institute of Boston (’94) and an MFA from SMFA/Tufts University (’04).

Peter Scott (Printmaking) has been teaching at the SMFA for thirty years. He recently returned from South Africa where he was guest artist and lecturer in printmaking at the Durban Institute of Technology, Durban, and at Artist Proof Studio, Johannesburg. His recent work has explored the play between the language of the camera and the sketchbook, with combinations of digital media and traditional print techniques. In 2008 he received a grant for a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vt., and had a solo exhibition at Gallery NAGA in Boston. Scott has participated in residencies at the Franz Masereel Centrum, Belgium; was a guest lecturer at the Machida Museum, Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, and at Seika University, Kyoto, Japan; and was artist-in-residence and curator at Johannesburg Biennale in South Africa. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Boston Public Library; the Boston Athenaeum; the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; the New York Public Library; and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium. He received a BA from Haverford College, a BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University, and a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Benjamin Sloat (Digital Photography) is a photographer working with both film and digital means to create portrait narratives that often blend fiction with his subjects’ personal histories. He is interested in how photographic portraits reflect not only a person within the society and politics of their time, but also reveal an insight into the photographer. As someone with a mixed-race background, he finds issues of perceiving and presenting identity of great importance. Sloat, who is originally from New York City, received a BA from the University of California, Berkeley (’99), a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from SMFA (’02), and a MFA from SMFA/Tufts University (’05). His recent exhibitions include solo shows at the Front Gallery, Oakland, Calif. (’07), and ST Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y. (’06), as well as group shows in Boston at OHandT Gallery (’07), GASP (’06), Clifford-Smith Gallery (’05), Bernard Toale Gallery (’05), and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (’05). His photographic work has been reviewed in The New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the Boston Herald. Recent lectures include those at Tufts University, Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, Coker College, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Society for Photographic Education National Conference. He was the recipient of SMFA’s 2003 Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography and is represented by OHandT Gallery in Boston.

Brad Spavin (Sculpture Foundation) creates large-scale two- and three-dimensional mixed-media works and assemblages. Themes in his work include opposites such as beauty and grotesque, sacred and profane, and high and low art. He received a BFA from SMFA/Tufts University (’98), a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from SMFA (’99), and a MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design (’01). He recently has exhibited at Curry College, Milton, Mass.; Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; The Boston Printmakers, Boston; and New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University in Boston. Spavin teaches at Curry College and SMFA, where he also acts as a sculpture technical advisor.

Pre-College Summer Studio 2008 Visiting Artists:

Brian Burkhardt creates mixed-media installations and sculptures that explore fantastical intersections between nature and contemporary culture. By fabricating objects that closely resemble specimens found in nature, he blurs the line that separates the natural world from the artificial. His alarmingly realistic, though synthetically fabricated, creatures don recognizable elements from our culture: butterflies bear designer logos on their wings; colonies of wasps carry typewriter keys on their backs; dragonflies assume helicopter wings with camouflage; and office plants plug into phone jacks and electrical outlets. Burkhardt is a recent recipient of a LEF Foundation Grant for his work to promote Boston artists through a photographic collaboration with Tanit Sakakini. He also is actively involved as a curator most notably through his Word of Mouth project, which began at the RHYS Gallery, Boston, in 2005 and will continue at The Bridge Art Fair in Miami Beach, Fla., during this year’s Art Basel. This year he has shown in both solo and group shows at Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston; Bernice Stein Baum Gallery, Miami, Fla.; and Freight + Volume and Kathleen Cullen Arts in New York, N.Y. Burkhardt received both a Diploma (’03) and a Fifth Year Certificate (’04) from SMFA, and an Associates Degree of Fine Arts from the Suffolk County Community College in New York. Burkhardt was named one of “10 Artist’s to Watch” in 2006 by the Boston Globe Magazine.

Raul Gonzalez creates graphic narratives that document many different worlds. In one, he follows a little boy known only as “Balloonhead” who bravely faces an environment that threatens to pop his head. His pen drawings come to life in a style combining numerous inking techniques and early twentieth-century cartooning. In 2006 Laura Donaldson, curator of the Mills Art Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, chose pages from Balloonhead for display at the Bernard Toale Gallery in Boston. Along with his superhero art collective, The Miracle Five, Gonzalez has developed community workshops and created public artworks and performances. The group’s work has appeared in galleries such as the RHYS Gallery, Boston; Beland Gallery, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, Mass.; and the Tufts University Art Gallery/Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Mass. Gonzalez has designed posters for bands such as the Blow, Mates of State, the Savoir Faire, and Heloise, as well as for Simian Records and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He was co-creator of the cult-classic comic book for lawyers, Attorney Man, and has recently illustrated Philosophical Tales by Martin Cohen (Blackwell Publishing, 2008). Gonzalez also teaches comic book and drawing classes at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Boston Architectural College.

Carla Herrera-Prats’ work comments on the cultural and economic transactions that flow, often invisibly, in the context of a transnational world. Her projects juxtapose photography and material from different sources to create questions about the documentary value of both images and text. She was co-director of the gallery Acceso A in Mexico City, Mexico, and currently is part of the collaborative CAMEL. Herrera-Prats has shown her individual work in Canada, Colombia, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and the United States in venues such as Centro de la Imagen, Museo Dolores Olmedo, Centre Vu, Artists Space, and The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, among others. She received a BFA at La Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda” at the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City, Mexico, and a MFA in Photography at CalArts, Los Angeles, Calif., as well as the Jóvenes Creadores scholarship and support for studies abroad from the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. She received an Interdisciplinary Grant from CalArts, a Van Lier Foundation Fellowship, and a Jumex Collection Support, and recently was a participant at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Herrera-Prats has taught in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University and currently is a visiting lecturer at SMFA.

Joyce McDaniel has worked as a sculptor in the Boston area for the last twenty years. In addition to eighteen solo exhibitions, her work was included in “10 Artists, 10 Visions,”DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Mass. (’97); “Chesterwood Contemporary Sculpture,” Chesterwood Estate and Museum, Stockbridge, Mass. (’98, ’93, ’92); and “Boston (in dialogue) Now,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (’94). Her work is in a number of collections including the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., and the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass. She was the recipient of a Sculpture Fellowship from the New England Foundation for the Arts, a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and she is included in Contemporary American Woman Sculptors (Oryx Press, 1986). McDaniel received a BA in Fine Arts, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Boston College (’73); a MA in Art History from Wellesley College (’76); and a MFA in Sculpture from SMFA/Tufts University (’82).

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