Both individual and group meetings are available. At your advising session, you and a member of the advising team will discuss program requirements, course selection at the Museum School and Tufts, your educational interests or concerns, difficulty with courses or course load, and your short- and long-term goals. You can also obtain pre-approval of potential academic transfer work at other colleges and universities.

The current Undergraduate Program Advisors are:

Mara Metcalf received an MFA from the Museum School/Tufts (’88) and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (’80). Apart from exhibiting extensively, her work is in numerous private collections and the collection of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI. She has taught at the Museum School since 1991 and has worked as an auxiliary advisor for several years.

Mari Novotny-Jones has taught in the Performance area at the Museum School for 10 years. She is an internationally recognized performance artist and a member of Boston’s Mobius Artists Group. She holds an MA in Independent Studies at Lesley University, where her thesis considers the nature of transformation in both ritual and performance practices.

Laurel Sparks is a Boston-based painter who received her MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of Art at Bard College (’04) and BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University (’95). Her recent painting awards include an SMFA Alumni Traveling Scholarship, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, an Elaine de Kooning Fellowship and a Boston Cultural Council Grant. She is represented by Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include the DeCordova, Museum, Lincoln MA; Hessel Museum at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. She has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Massachusetts College of Art, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA; and the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.

Michelle Widmer-Schultz received a Diploma from the Museum School (’01) and a BA in Communications from Loyola University Chicago (’90). She works as an independent artist in digital and large format photography at her studio in Somerville, MA, and is fluent in Spanish.

Edythe F. Wright received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the Museum School/Tufts. She has been teaching in the Sculpture and Crosscurrents areas at the Museum School for several years and has also taught design, color theory, and drawing at various Boston-area schools. Wright works with mixed-media installation as sole proprietor of the Institute of Domestic Archaeology, a fictional social sciences research institute.