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. FACULTY Ria Brodell (drawing) attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, received a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle ('02) and an MFA from the Museum School/Tufts University ('06). She recently had a solo exhibition at Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles, CA ('10) and Judi Rotenberg, Boston ('09). She received the Emerging Artist Award from the St. Botolph Club Foundation ('08) and was selected to participate in the "Annual Exhibition" at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA ('07). She has had various solo and group exhibitions throughout the U.S. including: the Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA ('09); Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA ('08); Cerasoli Gallery, Los Angeles, CA ('08); Aqua Art, Miami, FL ('08); Judi Rotenberg, Boston ('07); 808 Gallery, Boston ('06); Rhys Gallery, Boston ('06); the Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, Vt. ('05); and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ('05). Brodell also teaches at Tufts University and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Adam Parker Smith is a New York based sculpture and installation artist. He received his BA from the University of California at Santa Cruz and his MFA from Tyler School of Art. Smith has attended The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Sculpture Space, Bemis, Djerassi, Jentel, and Atlantic Center for the Arts. His work has been shown widely in the USA as well as internationally at Urbis, Manchester, England, Nordine Zidoun, Luxembourg, Priska Juschka, New York, The Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Berkshire Museum, Massachusetts, The Soap Factory Minneapolis, Painted Bride, Philadelphia, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, and TSST Gallery in Hong Kong. Smith's work has been written about in New York Times, Art in America, Beautiful Decay, The Village Voice, Fiber Arts, ArtForum.com, Art World and The New York Post. Georgie Friedman (installation) is a video installation artist who creates sculptural and experiential installations. She has lived, worked and exhibited throughout the U.S. In 2008, she was named as a "Rising star" by The Boston Globe. She has her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University and her BA in Fine Arts from UC Santa Cruz. Her newest video installation project can be seen as apart of The 2010 DeCordova Biennial Exhibition at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA, Jan-April, 2010. Excerpts of her various projects can be seen at www.georgiefriedman.com. Juan Jose Barboza Gubo (drawing) 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, Derek Hoffend (sound) 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. Darren Miller combines photography and performance in contemporary explorations of traditional social roles. His work uses humor to provoke anxiety, fear and contemplation. He earned his MFA from the Museum School/Tufts University ('07) and his BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University ('95). He has taught classes at the Museum School/Tufts University as a Graduate Teaching Fellow and Post Graduate Teaching Fellow from 2006–2008 while also teaching at Boston Architectural College ('07) and the Art Institute of Boston/Lesley University ('07–'08). Currently he is the gallery director and an assistant professor of art at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. He has completed residencies at New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred, NY ( '95–'02,'10), Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL ('09), The Homestead AK, Matansuska-Susitna Valley, AK ('08), and the Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY ('06). He has shown work widely in the Boston area, including at the Birmingham-Southern College and the Art Institute of Boston, and will soon present a solo show, "The Mirrored Stage," at the Cohen Center Gallery at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. 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. Ben Sloat (photo) received a BA from the University of California, Berkeley ('99) and a MFA from the Museum School/Tufts University ('05). In 2009 he underwent a 7 month Fulbright Scholar's Award for photographic projects in Taiwan. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at the Front Gallery in Oakland, CA, ACC in Taipei, Taiwan, OH+T Gallery in Boston, and Safe-T Gallery in Brooklyn NY - group shows at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Gallery 1600 in Atlanta, GA. His photographic work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Oakland Tribune, and the Boston Globe, and he has guest lectured at UC Berkeley, RISD, UC Santa Cruz, UMass Boston, Boston University, and SCAD. 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. Peter Scott (printmaking) is a printmaker and senior full-time faculty member at the Museum School. He also teaches History and Critical Studies of Print Media. Recent exhibits include solo shows at Gallery NAGA, Boston ('09 & 07), Greenfield Community College ('09), the Boston Athenaeum, Boston Printmakers 2005 Print Biennial, the Boston Public Library, St. Botolph Club, Rutgers Univ., Centrum voor Grafiek Frans Masereel, Kasterlee Belgium. In 2008 Scott was the recipient of an Artist's Fellowship and Faculty Enrichment Grant for a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. He has been guest artist and lecturer at Artist Proof Studio, Johannesburg, and at the Durban Institute of Technology, Durban (05). He has also participated in residencies at the Franz Masereel Centrum, Belgium (98), guest lecturer at the Machida Museum, Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, and at Seika University, Kyoto (96), and artist-in-residence and curator, Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa (95). Scott received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, a BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University, and a BA from Haverford College. VISITING ARTISTS Cole Caswell investigates landscape, place, environment and geography, through strata of observation, technology, subjectivity and his surroundings. He uses traditional and digital photographic mediums: GPS, environmental data sets, augmented sampling procedures, clothing design and classification to investigate the present state of things. Cole received an interdisciplinary MFA from the Maine College of Art, and has been working and living on Peaks Island, ME. Cole co-founded The Geographic Observatory and WEAREX [WAx] with his partner and fellow artist, Jessica George. In addition, he has worked with the arts collective "spurse" and the non-profit art organization the Creative Material Group [CMG]. Recently he has lectured at The Maine College of Art, The University of Maine in Orono and Syracuse University's School of Architecture. www.geographicobservatory.com  www.colecaswell.com Jesseca Ferguson, MFA, Tufts University; BFA, Massachusetts College of Art; AB (magna cum laude), Harvard University. Currently works with pinhole cameras, 19th century photographic processes, and collage. Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions in the US, Poland, France, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, the Czech Republic, and England. Collections holding her pinhole photographs include Bibliotheque nationale de France; Museet fur Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark; Muzeum Historii Fotografii, Krakw, Poland; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, among others. Her work (and art-related travel) has been supported by grants from Art Matters; the Engelhard Foundation; the Goethe Institute; TransCultural Exchange and the Trust for Mutual Understanding, among others. She has been invited to participate in artist residencies in the West Indies, Greece, Hungary, and the US at venues such as the MacDowell Colony and the International Colony of Artists, Debrecen, Hungary. Images of her pinhole photographs and "photo objects" have been published in books, magazines, and catalogues in the US and Europe. Ferguson's home and studio are located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She has taught at various Boston-area art schools for many years, as well as lecturing and giving workshops in the US and Europe. She has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston since the late 1980s. Joel Frenzer has worked as both a professional animator and independent artist. Through the Olive Jar Animation Studio and The Animation Cowboys, he's been involved with several Cartoon Network projects as animator and voice-actor. His independent films have been featured in festivals, workshops, galleries, and on the web. He has assisted and taught animation classes at Harvard University, CRCAP, the Cambridgeport School, and WGBH, and has been a full-time animation instructor at the SMFA for the past 3 years. He is a two-time recipient of a LEF Foundation Grant, and is currently working on a new animated short about an overly-dramatic safari hunter. William Flynn (drawing) teaches a variety of drawing courses as a full-time faculty member at the Museum School. He received a Diploma from the Museum School ('64), where he also took graduate courses. He has exhibited in Boston and New York. He recently had a solo show at Phillips Andover Academy, Andover, MA, and Chapel Gallery, Boston, and was part of a recent exhibition at Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston. Flynn's 2007 exhibition Armed Chair: From Observation to Metaphor at the Gelb Gallery, Boston, reflected his thinking about the war in Iraq through a series of 160 drawings of an armchair. Raul Gonzalez is a founding member of The Miracle Five Artist Collective. He has exhibited at Carroll and Sons Gallery, the Bernard Toale Gallery, Rhys Gallery, New England Gallery for Latin American Art, Space 242, and the Aidekman Arts Center at Tufts University. In 2009 Raul was awarded an Artadia and Boston Art Award. He lives with his wife Elaine Bay in Somerville; together they design posters for movies and musical groups under the pseudonym DIEraul. http://www.iheartcerebot.com/