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One of the Museum School's strongest assets is its faculty of professional artists and educators who bring a wealth of experience to the classroom. Our faculty will encourage you to push your limits and engage with your work on a different level, 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. Leaving with a life-long relationship to SMFA and the students, faculty and staff that you've engaged with is one of the most valuable attributes to the program.
2011 FACULTY
Georgie Friedman (photo) received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University ('08) and her BA from UC Santa Cruz ('96). Her current projects include photographic series and large-scale, sculptural video installations that examine personal and cultural relationships to uncontrollable natural forces. In 2008, Friedman was named a "Rising star" by The Boston Globe and in February 2010 The Boston Phoenix called her, "one of the most exciting new media artists in the region." Recent exhibitions include: The 2010 DeCordova Biennial, Lincoln, MA (10); The New Landscape, NY, NY (09); H20: Film on Water, Newport, NH (09); Geyser (solo), Boston CyberArts Festival, MA (09); Subtidal Goals, Oakland, CA (09). Excerpts of her various projects can be seen at www.georgiefriedman.com.
Juan Jose Barboza Gubo (sculpture) is a native of Lima, Peru, who grew up playing in his father's architecture studio. He studied with Miguel Angel Cuadros, and at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, widely recognized as the best art school in Peru and one of the best in South America. He received a MFA in Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Gubo has had numerous solo exhibitions, including shows at the Nielsen Gallery ('08), The Art Institute of Boston ('08), the Attleboro Museum ('08), and Arclinea Boston ('08). He has also been featured internationally at galleries and exhibitions in Tokyo, Athens, Peru, and Italy. He was a nominee for the Joan Mitchell MFA Grant ('08), among other grants and awards. Gubo currently teaches Visual Language I, II, and Drawing at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Kirk Amaral Snow (performance) is a practicing artist working towards a Masters of Fine Arts degree at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University (May 2011). His artistic research concentrates on interdisciplinary practice; exploring performance, installation, and photography. He holds BAs in Art History and Studio Art from the University of Rhode Island (2002, 2003) as well as a Post-Bac. certificate from SMFA. Amaral Snow has presented work at Perfolink (Concepíon, Chile), Infr'Action (Sete, France), Mobius (Boston, MA), AS220 (Providence, RI), Hera Gallery (Kingston, RI), Washington Street Art Center (Somerville, MA), Boston University (Boston, MA), and The New England Gallery of Latin American Art (Boston, MA). In 2009 he was an artist-in-residence at the Homestead AK, an emerging artist residency in Sunshine, Alaska. Amaral Snow is also a founding member of Lufthansa, an alternative art space located in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood.
Derek Hoffend (installation) is a full-time visiting faculty member at the Museum School. He is a visual and audio artist who creates sound-sculpture installations and electro-acoustic music. Installations examine intersections between sound, objects, body, and environment. Recent work has explored immersive audio, tactile interfaces, viewer participation, resonant objects and spaces, and architecture and site as instrument. Live performances involve composed and improvised pieces for computer, hand-made circuits, and modified electronic and acoustic instruments. Pieces have been performed or installed in Union Square, Somerville, MA; sQuareone Studio, Boston, MA; 90.3 WZBC, Boston, MA; Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT; Sonotheque, Chicago, IL; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Athenaeum Theater, Chicago, IL; and Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA. Derek has a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Art and Technology, a MA from New York University in Studio Art, and a BFA from SUNY Fredonia in Sculpture and Photography.
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 the Museum School/Tufts University ('03). His recent exhibitions include BAG Gallery, SMFA; "Le Flaneur" at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, and "Life Was Different Then" at Tufts University Gallery/Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, MA. MacIntyre received a graduate teaching fellowship from the Museum School/Tufts University and served as a project leader at Boston Inspires Public Art, Boston, MA and Art Builds Communities, Denver Housing Authority, Denver, CO. He is chair of the new media department at Littleton High School where he teaches digital photography, Web design, TV studio, and digital video.
Andrea Evans (painting) is a visual artist residing in Boston, MA, with a practice based in drawing, painting, performance, and sculpture. Her work uses the human body as a starting point from which to explore the diverse territory ranging between intimacy and isolation, longing and belonging, what is known and unknown. She received her BFA in painting from Arizona State University in 2004, and MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University in 2009. She recently attended the Homestead AK, an emerging artist residency in Alaska's Matanuska Susitna Valley. Select exhibitions include "Drawings That Work: 21st Drawing Show" at the BCA Mills Gallery (09), "There is No Place" at the Tufts University Art Gallery (09); "The Next Generation" at Emerson College's Huret and Spector Gallery (09); "Ablaze in the Northern Sky" at Florida Southern College, (08); "Boston Young Contemporaries," at Boston University's 808 Gallery (07); and "Pretty in Pink," at eye lounge artspace, Phoenix, AZ (06). Evans currently teaches at the Museum School and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
James O'Neill (printmaking) is an artist/printmaker currently working on a series of work based on his experiences as a soldier in the war in Iraq. He received his BFA in figure sculpture from University of Hartford, Hartford Art School, and his MFA from SMFA/Tufts. As a Springborn Fellow his work has been included in: The Next Generation Three (2009), Boston Young Contemporaries (2009), Odysseus Project , Boston MA (2009) Home From the Front, Brea, CA (2009), and a solo show, The Soldiers View, Wentworth Institute of Technology (2010). He was also a military adviser/ audio consultant for Krstof Wodiczko's The Veterans Project, Out of Here, ICA Boston (2009). He currently works as a facilitator for the Combat Paper Project.
2011 VISITING ARTISTS
Peter Madden has taught book arts and alternative photography processes for almost two decades at SMFA and Massachusetts College of Art. He has lectured and conducted workshops for the Guild of Bookworkers, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Decordova Museum, the Center for Book Arts in New York and San Francisco, Brigham Young University, Brandeis University, Wellesley College and Harvard University. His one-of-a-kind books have received numerous awards and are included in dozens of books on bookmaking including the Penland Book of Handmade Books, Keith Smith's Structure of the Visual Book and Non-Adhesive Binding, Lark Publications' 500 Handmade Books, Shereen LaPlantz's The Art and Craft of Handmade Books and Laura Blacklow's New Dimensions in Photo Imaging. His work has been shown and collected by Harvard University, Bowdoin College, the New York Center for Book Arts, Fidelity Investments, the Addison Gallery of American Art and Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art. Born and raised in Greenwich Village, he is now restoring an 1850's Italianate mansion in Portland, Maine with one partner, two miniature Dachshunds and six cats.
Judith Leemann is an artist, writer, and educator invested in creating objects, texts, and environments that interrupt habitual thinking. She frequently works in collaboration with others and with system-based methods of inquiry, poaching structures from outside of the arts in order to create things that don't behave as proper art objects. Leemann holds an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from the University of Virginia. She is assistant professor in studio foundation at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston and serves as artist-in-residence at the Design Studio for Social Intervention, a creativity lab for the social justice sector. She was assistant editor of the anthology The Object of Labor: Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production (School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MIT Press, 2007) and has recently published work in the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy; Frakcija performing art journal; Textile: A Journal of Cloth and Culture; and LTTR. Recent projects include "flockstep," a commissioned public video projection and "discontinuous, not unrelated," a research-based exhibition at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. With Shannon Stratton she co-curated "Gestures of Resistance" at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon (January–June, 2010) and co-chaired "Gestures of Resistance: Craft, Performance, and the Politics of Slowness," a 2008 College Art Association conference panel. She is a frequent guest lecturer, recently at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Mildred's Lane; the University of Virginia; Harvard University Department of Visual and Environmental Studies and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Peter Madden has taught book arts and alternative photography processes for almost two decades at SMFA and Massachusetts College of Art. He has lectured and conducted workshops for the Guild of Bookworkers, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Decordova Museum, the Center for Book Arts in New York and San Francisco, Brigham Young University, Brandeis University, Wellesley College and Harvard University. His one-of-a-kind books have received numerous awards and are included in dozens of books on bookmaking including the Penland Book of Handmade Books, Keith Smith's Structure of the Visual Book and Non-Adhesive Binding, Lark Publications' 500 Handmade Books, Shereen LaPlantz's The Art and Craft of Handmade Books and Laura Blacklow's New Dimensions in Photo Imaging. His work has been shown and collected by Harvard University, Bowdoin College, the New York Center for Book Arts, Fidelity Investments, the Addison Gallery of American Art and Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art. Born and raised in Greenwich Village, he is now restoring an 1850's Italianate mansion in Portland, Maine with one partner, two miniature Dachshunds and six cats.
Paul Stopforth is originally from South Africa where he studied at the Johannesburg School of Art, and was awarded a British Council Scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art in London. He is known in South Africa for work that comments on the harshness and injustices of life under apartheid. His art , comprising sculpture, drawing, painting, and printmaking, is not, however, narrowly political but instead occupies a space between the material and the spiritual, imaging finitude and mortality.' Under intense pressure because of his political affiliations, Stopforth left South Africa in the 1980s. He had helped to stage groundbreaking and exhibitions at the Market Theatre Gallery (where he was director from 1977 to 1984) and ran into trouble with the apartheid government over his powerful series of works based on the forensic photographs of Steve Biko's badly battered body. Stopforth settled in the US, but over the years he has maintained ties with the country of his birth, returning for short periods to do work that engages intensely with the physical and psychological landscapes of home. In 2004, during a residency on Robben Island he created a series of poignant paintings reflecting on the intense memories contained in such objects as old blanket pins, bowls, and bars of soap used by the prisoners incarcerated on the Island before 1994. The series stands as a watershed in his oeuvre, connecting past to present not only in its subject matter but in Stopforth's own trajectory as an artist. Stopforth has exhibited his work since 1971 in galleries and museums in South Africa, the United States and Europe. He has served as curator and juror for a number of institutions and competitions and in 2004 he delivered the Ruth First Memorial Lecture at Brandeis University. He taught in the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard University for 10 years and is currently full time visiting faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
TRIIIBE is an evolving collaboration between artists/craftsmen that bridges age, gender, media, peanut butter and jelly. Founded by performance craftsmen Alicia, Kelly, Sara Casilio and photographer Cary Wolinsky, TRIIIBE has grown to include graphic designers, make-up artists, printers, wood workers, framers, gallery owners, lighting designers, costume designers, musicians, dancers, a filmmaker, a photo retoucher, a theatre director, a bookmaker, a collector, a Web designer and a CEO. After a busy year of shows in Boston and New York, most of TRIIIBE's work is now in storage.
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