Undergraduate Viewbook

4 5 Calla Grace Fogarty Printmaking Ashley Smith Photography Becca Cahan Illustration Cady Fontana Fibers 7 Emily White Sculpture I am in love with my dogs. When you photograph someone, you are making a map of them in a way. Switch back to life and you see them in a new way. The map helps you know them, and you get more and more attached. William Wegman Alumnus Aristide Little-Lex Architectural Design 9 There is an edge to every creative domain where new things are unfolding. It’s sloppy, dynamic—and this is important—wide open for reworking and reinvention. That’s always where the action is. And it’s where you’ll find the best, smartest people at play. Brian Collins Dana DiPlacido Jewelry and Metalsmithing Alumnus Quinn Gorbutt Photography Mishal Kizilbash Fashion Rachel Harmon Fashion 10 11 William Vanaria Jewelry Metalsmithing Shane Maxwell Fashion Design Kira Maintanis Art Education Katharena Rentumis Glass Laura Podlovits Jaklitsch Jewelry and Metalsmithing Daniel J. Foster Photography Paige Peterson Studio for Interrelated Media 12 13 Erin Shaw Fibers The years I spent at Mass Art immersed in learning gave me the necessary tools I needed to become a confident designer and take risks to find my voice. Kelly Wearstler AlumnA Breanne Gustafson Painting 14 15 Ian Deleon Studio for Interrelated Media Andrew Meyer Ceramics Erik Michel Lund Graphic Design Cherry Au Illustration Molly Stone Illustration 16 17 We promise not to throw too many Instead, we’re going to tell you facts at you like square footage Not the of studio space. Let’s just say sugar-coated “It’s so wonderful to We promise not to use make art” version. But the “hands worn-out phrases like “personal caked in clay at 2 a.m. on a Tuesday attention, “caring faculty,” or morning as you frustratingly try “close-knit community.” to perfect a corner because you here. And we promise not ” version. And to to tell you, “We have something do that, we’ve called on the for everyone.” The truth is, we’re MassArt best—students, not for everybody. No college is. alumni, and faculty. We hope that But for students who do come letting them share their stories, in here, we offer an , will help you learn that’s unlike any other art and what you really want to know— design college in the country. Is for you? 19 eLLie http://stur.me/ellie dayanne go behind the scenes http://stur.me/dayanne with nine insiders DAVe and MATT andrew http://stur.me/andrew http://stur.me/cloudkid diego http://stur.me/diego pauL caiLigh http://stur.me/paul http://stur.me/cailigh soon-Mi http://stur.me/soon-mi 20 21 VISUAL bLog stur.MassArt.edu U continued on stur.Massart.edu 23 Q: is it For Me? 25 A lot of schools I vIsIted seeMed sterIle. But when I toured MAss Art, It wAs cleAr to Me thAt reAl Art wAs hAppenIng here. —CADy fOntAnA, stu DEnt Our students come in with a sense of There is no pretense here. They are extremely talented and focused. Everyone just works really hard. —fRED lIAnG, fACulty And I think because it’s a nurturing environment, not an intimidating one, students who have the potential to grow, grow immensely. —sOnDRA GRACE, f ACulty After 20 years at MassArt, it’s still a very compelling place to me, visually and intellectually. I never tire of it. —EllEn sHAPIRO, fACulty When you’re making your own art, it’s easy to get stuck in one mode. But when you have a diverse group of students around you who are doing things in ways you never imagined, you can always find inspiration and new ideas. — tylER HAywOOD, stuDEnt I fell in love with the community and the people and all the It wasn’t pretentious at all. I felt at home in that kind of atmosphere. —m AyA luz, AlumnA — RICk b rown, fACulty t he quality that distinguishes MassArt students is t hey are not afraid to ask anything, do anything. they have astounding creativity and great passion. —EllEn s hapiro, fACulty 28 29 I made friends with people who really wanted to make a difference— and wanted to work really hard. They challenged me to be better. —bRIAn CO llIns, ALUMNUS : // http Me/ stur.3 9UA Whenever I’m not in class, I’m in my —AImEE bElAnGER, AlumnA studio. I spend all my waking hours there. But it’s okay because I would be doing this at home anyway. —CADy fOntAnA, stu DEnt The longer I’ve stayed at MassArt, the more energetic, engaged, and impassioned I’ve become as an artist—and it’s mainly because I work with young artists. —DAVID nOLTA, fACulty 31 “MassArt’s a great environment for working in teams. Because it’s studio based, people say, ‘oh, I know how to do this. You know how to do that. let’s work together.’ so you pick up a lot of random skills along the way.” for cailigh, that teamwork’s also extended to off-campus projects, especially at handshouse studio, a nonprofit founded by MassArt professors rick and laura Brown (sculpture ’93), where cailigh volunteers re-creating historical objects. this summer, she’ll be working for handshouse in poland, helping to reconstruct a 17th-century wooden synagogue for a museum in warsaw. Before she started at MassArt and learned these things, cailigh admits she was a little scared. she wondered, “what can I do with a degree in art?” now she knows the answer — “Anything.” INDUSTRIAL DESIGN / SCULPTURE, 2012 cailigh Macdonald knows how to build a couch. By hand. from scratch. And not just something you’d throw on the front porch of a frat house. something you’d find in a store. A nice store. It’s not that cailigh has a passion for couches. or furniture, even. she just likes to build things. All types of things — especially using metals. And she gets to do a ton of that at MassArt. In fact, she has to do a ton of that at MassArt. It’s required for her majors — Industrial design and sculpture. “there’s a passion and motivation factor here. You get to go to work every day and do something you love to do. And there’s a big studio culture at MassArt, which is a huge benefit because it encourages you to do your best work.” the couch cailigh built was part of her yearlong senior project in Industrial design. she had to do everything from conceptual designs to consumer research to construction. so she learned about caiLlumber andigh joinery and recyclable materials and manufacturing costs — everything that goes into the actual production of a couch. And she learned it, like she’s learned a lot of things at MassArt, by interacting with lots of different people. MacdonaLd MassArt’s a great environment for working in teams. Because it’s studio based, people say, ‘Oh, I know how to do this. You know how to do that. Let’s work together.’ http:// stur.Me/ caiLigh U continued on stur.Massart.edu U continued on stur.Massart.edu 33 :// http Me/ stur. L pau proFessor oF architecturaL design PAUL paul hajian didn’t plan on teaching — at MassArt or anywhere. he’s an architect. he designs things. that’s what he does and who he is. his dad was an architect. It’s part of his dnA. But when a hacolleague,J who wasian teaching a class at MassArt in the evenings, asked hajian to fill in for him for a few weeks back in 1986, he accepted. It wasn’t like he didn’t enjoy teaching. he did. he even knew his way around a classroom, having taught at MIt, where he earned bachelor and master degrees in architecture. And teaching was also in his genes. his mom was a teacher. from that one-night-a-week gig, hajian was invited back. And back. eventually, he accepted an invitation to join the MassArt faculty full-time. now he says that he had a calling to go along with his career. More than 25 years later, hajian continues to teach and practice architecture. he and his brother, david, also an architect, have run a successful design firm in watertown, Massachusetts, for several years. hajian says being a practitioner of your discipline, like many of his MassArt colleagues, provides for that organic and invaluable two-way learning experience. I drag my students to job sites so they can see the framing directly and can see me interacting with my clients. I’ll also show them my work and get their critiques. It’s this exchange, passion, and desire to help each other that hajian says makes MassArt a rare place. And not just because it happens within departments. But because it happens across departments, across disciplines, and across campus. take his architectural students, for example. there was a small group interested in interior design that wanted to lend a hand with MassArt’s new residence hall. so hajian introduced them to the architectural firm doing the work. And the students conceptualized, designed, and successfully pitched their plan for the hall’s café to the firm, the president, and the review committee. “things happen at MassArt because the people here are committed to this community. It’s not just the faculty and the students, either. It’s everyone. we watch out for each other. the best stuff comes out of the entire community participating.” 35 Q: wiLL i be chaLLenged? 37 There are so many electives we can take that I’m thinking about coming back for a fifth year just so I can take advantage of all the electives we have.

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