Massachusetts College of Art and Design is one of the leading schools of its kind in the . Founded in 1873, MassArt has a legacy of leadership as the only independent public college of art and design in the country and the nation’s first art school to grant a degree. The college offers a comprehensive range of baccalaureate and graduate degrees in art and design along with continuing education and youth programs, all taught by world-class faculty and designed to encourage individual creativity. Whether at home in or on the other side of the globe, the artists and designers of MassArt are dedicated to making a difference in their communities and around the world.

COVER ART: Zion by Clint Baclawski HONORARY DOCTORATE OF FINE ARTS

Each year, MassArt confers honorary Doctorates of Fine Arts in recognition of individuals’ outstanding contributions to the arts.

SAMUEL BAK

Samuel Bak was born in Vilnius, Lithuania (then organized a retrospective exhibition of his work, Poland) in 1933. His father and grandparents which later traveled to venues throughout Germany. perished in the Shoah, but he and his mother The Art Museum of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem survived the Holocaust. organized “An Arduous Road” in 2006, which represented 60 years of the artist’s work. At age 9 in the Vilna Ghetto, he received praise for his artistic ability and was encouraged to In 2002 the Indiana University Press published exhibit a large group of his drawings with other Mr. Bak’s memoir titled “Painted in Words,” Ghetto artists. Some of these drawings survived prefaced by Amos Oz. The memoir was translated the Holocaust and are on view today in the Jewish into German, Polish and Lithuanian. Several art Gaon Museum in Vilnius. After the war, Mr. Bak books dedicated to aspects of Mr. Bak’s paintings, settled in Israel, where he attended school, and, as well as several documentary films about his in 1956, he left for Paris to attend l’Ecole Nationale artistic journey, have also been produced. Mr. des Beaux Arts. Mr. Bak has lived around the Bak has received various awards from the Jewish world in France, Israel, Italy, and Switzerland. Theological Seminary and the YIVO Institute in In 1993, he settled in Weston, with . He has also been awarded the his wife, where they became American citizens. German Herkomer Preis and has received honorary doctorates from the University of New Hampshire Mr. Bak held his first professional exhibition in and Seton Hill University. 1959 at the Galleria Schneider, a renowned gallery in Rome, where he experienced great success. Since then, Mr. Bak has received international recognition for his paintings. He has had more than 250 solo exhibitions in museums, galleries, universities and cultural centers in the United States, Europe, and Israel. In 1978, the Germanisches National Museum in Nuremberg

ANITA KUNZ

Canadian by birth, Anita Kunz has lived in London, In 1987 Ms. Kunz showed a collection of her works New York, and and has been widely at Canada House in London. In 1997 she had a published in Canada, England, France, Germany, one-woman show at the Foreign Press office in New Holland, Japan, Korea, Norway, Portugal, South York City, in 1998 she had a solo exhibition at the Africa, Sweden, and Turkey. Best known for her Creation Gallery in Tokyo, and in 2000 the Society and cover art, her work has been of Illustrators Museum of American featured in The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, mounted a mid-career retrospective of her work. magazine, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Time In 2003 she was the first woman and the first magazine, , The New York Times, Canadian to have a solo exhibition at the Library Vanity Fair and in projects for and of Congress. Random House Publishing. She has also illustrated Ms. Kunz was named one of the “Fifty Most more than fifty book jacket covers. Influential Women in Canada” by theNational Ms. Kunz has been honored with many prestigious Post newspaper, and she was recently made an awards and medals, and her critically acclaimed Officer of the Order of Canada, that country’s paintings and sculptures have appeared in galleries highest civilian honor. worldwide including the Ms. Kunz graduated from the Ontario College Museum and the Teatrio Cultural Association in of Art and Design in 1978 and received an Rome. Her works are in the permanent collections Honorary Doctorate of Fine Art from the same at the , the Canadian Archives college in 2010. in Ottawa, the Musée Militaire de France in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, the McCord Museum in Montreal and a number of her Time magazine cover paintings are in the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. PRESIDENT’S LEADERSHIP AWARD

In accordance with its value of committing to rich engagement with our communities, MassArt honors distinguished friends of the College who share a long history with the institution and show an abiding commitment to engaging in the well-being of our students.

ELIZABETH KELNER POZEN

Elizabeth Kelner Pozen is an artist, psychotherapist, across the country, such as in the Bromfield Gallery philanthropist, and longtime supporter of MassArt. in Boston, the Cotuit Center for the Arts in Cotuit, As a member of the MassArt Board of Trustees MA, the Limner Gallery in Hudson, NY, the for over 11 years, she contributed to many areas of President’s Gallery at MassArt, the Trumbull the College, including student life, faculty tenure, Art Gallery in Warren, OH, the Washington community outreach, and campus planning. Years Project for the Arts in Washington, DC, and ago, when given a tour of North Hall and told the Women’s Museum in Dallas, TX. Ms. Pozen how under‐utilized the space was, Ms. Pozen recently expanded her artistic practice to include replied: "Well, then let's renovate it." Liz Pozen was poetry, having two of her poems published in an integral supporter of the renovation of North literary journals. Hall, converting it into what is now known as The Ms. Pozen received a BA from the University of Pozen Center, a studio space for the Studio for Pennsylvania, a BA/MA from Cambridge University, Interrelated Media program and a premier event and an MSW from Columbia University. She is also space on campus. In addition to her involvement a graduate of The Advanced Training Program of with MassArt, Ms. Pozen and her husband have the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. made significant impacts on other educational institutions in Boston, including the initiation Born in Philadelphia, PA, Elizabeth Kelner Pozen of the Pozen Prize for Charter Schools, announced has lived in the Boston area since 1987. She is by The Boston Foundation last year. married to Robert Pozen, and they both enjoy spending time with their two children and their For almost 20 years, Ms. Pozen maintained a spouses and two wonderful grandchildren. professional psychotherapy practice while also pursuing her career as an artist. She has been a painter for 35 years, and her work has been featured in exhibitions at museums and galleries

EXCELLENCE IN ART EDUCATION

In line with its mission to provide access to superior art education to the public, MassArt honors distinguished art educators from Massachusetts who have shown a lifetime achievement in serving the public. These individuals are pioneers or innovators in their practice of helping their students develop artistic minds, all the while promoting equity in access to art education.

DAVID PERKINS

David Perkins is the Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., He has participated in curriculum projects Research Professor of Teaching and Learning addressing thinking, understanding, and learning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, in a number of countries around the world. recently retired from the senior faculty. He has Mr. Perkins’ most recent book, published by conducted long-term programs of research and Jossey-Bass in Fall 2014, is Future Wise: Educating development in the areas of teaching and learning our Children for a Changing World. His Making for understanding, creativity, problem-solving Learning Whole (Jossey-Bass, 2008) shares and reasoning in the arts, sciences, and everyday an approach to organizing learning around life. He has also studied the role of educational full meaningful endeavors. He is the author technologies in teaching and learning, and of The Mind’s Best Work on creativity (Harvard has designed learning structures and strategies University Press, 1981), The Eureka Effect on in organizations to facilitate personal and creativity (Norton, 2001), Smart Schools on organizational understanding and intelligence. pedagogy and school development (The Free Press, Mr. Perkins received his Ph.D. in mathematics 1992), Outsmarting IQ on intelligence and its and artificial intelligence from the Massachusetts cultivation (The Free Press, 1995), Knowledge as Institute of Technology in 1970. As a graduate Design on teaching and learning for understanding student he also was a founding member of Harvard (Erlbaum, 1986), The Intelligent Eye on learning to Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of think through the arts (Getty, 1994), King Arthur’s Education. He co-directed Project Zero for nearly Round Table: How Collaborative Conversations 30 years and now serves as senior co-director Create Smart Organizations (Wiley, 2003), and on its steering committee. The project was initially has co-authored and co-edited several other books, concerned with the psychology and philosophy as well as publishing many articles. of education in the arts and later broadened to encompass cognitive development and cognitive skills in both humanistic and scientific domains. MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN

2015 COMMENCEMENT F R I DAY, M AY 22 ORDER OF EVENTS

CONVENER

Ken Strickland, MFA Provost/Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

REMARKS

Kurt T. Steinberg, MPA Acting President

James Mason Associate Professor, Fashion Design and Incoming Chapter President, Faculty and Librarian Association

Rosa Ji Yoon Hyun BFA ’15 Representative, Undergraduate Students

Joanna Sokolowska, MFA ’15 Representative, Graduate Students

CONFERRING THE PRESIDENT’S LEADERSHIP AWARD presentation of elizabeth kelner pozen Kurt T. Steinberg, MPA, Acting President

CONFERRING OF HONORARY DOCTOR OF FINE ARTS DEGREE

Richard Marshall, MD Chair, Board of Trustees

presentation of samuel bak Carol Dines, MS, Adjunct Professor, Liberal Arts

Samuel Bak will address the class of 2015

presentation of anita kunz Linda Bourke, MFA, Chair, Illustration

Anita Kunz will address the class of 2015

RECOGNITION OF EXCELLENCE IN ART EDUCATION presentation of david perkins Lois Hetland, EdD, Chair, Art Education

CONFERRING OF DEGREES

Richard Marshall, MD Chair, Board of Trustees

CHARGE TO NEW ALUMNI

Nicole Chesney, MA BFA ’97

CLOSING REMARKS

Ken Strickland, MFA Provost/Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE Monica Mitchell ART EDUCATION Shadi Afsharnezhad Brack I. Morrow Art Teacher Education Jeffrey A. Eichert Jessica Sperandio Natalya Elise Bernstein Elizabeth C. Hidalgo Andrea Nicole Zampitella Carly Ann Blais u Hazel Ryerson Master of Fine Arts Low- Meghan Elizabeth Decatur Michael G. Sack Residency in Provincetown Marissa Rita Deluca Zachary J. Shedlock Jessica Laura Khamarji Lucille White Snyder Jessica W. Cofrin Amanda Marie Ledin Laura Sue Tittle Joseph Vincent Diggs Anamary Jeanne Levasseur Christina Tully Katherine Dorsey Donnelly Kayla McKenna Melisa L. Keyes Henry Louis Novak MASTER OF ARTS Tom H. Lewis IN TEACHING / Darien Jade Stankowski Michelle Podgorski ART EDUCATION Anna Elisabeth Swanson Kimberly Carey Putnam Molly Anne Atryzek Taylor Nicole Tierney Michael David Walden Sean Patrick Doherty Taina Vargas Nicole M. Gsell BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS Nicole Monique Veilleux Paul Allen Hackett ANIMATION Community Education Samantha Kate Kasle u Rachael Ann Kulik Nicole Maria King Nicole M. Amidon Sydney Vinet Schofield u Laurent Lejeune Vanessa Iris Barreto Krista Elizabeth Lima Rachel Elizabeth Braun Studio Education in Painting Chanel T. Thervil Sean Paul Cleary Marissa Rachel London ★ Nora Macdowell Coon Andrea Lee Manning MASTER OF FINE ARTS Zakiyah Gathers

Zachary S. Allen Julia Rebecca Glassman HISTORY OF ART Carlos Mario Alvarez Luke Henry Hollyer ★ Elaine Bezold Joseph Edward Hurley Christina Lee Fossa Christy Wing Shuen Chow Nicole Rose B. Kaveny Andrea Ingram ★ Juan Escobedo Wathit Scott Keosung u Katarzyna A. Maciak ★ Sean Foulkes Danielle Maria Lauretano Celia Sanchez ★ u Tien-Yun Huang Manning Liu Arielle Rose Urbach Pieterse Amy H. Jorgensen Francesco Marchetti ★ Kasey Walko James A. Lambert Devin Hudson McSheehy Tony L. Luong Nicolas Alfio Mihaich u FASHION DESIGN Daphna Mero Brad Paiva Andrew F. Berul You Jin Moon Derek J. Palmer Laura Lynn Bill Rebecca Newhouse Rebecca Raeder Victoria L. Braga Ceren Paydas Thomas James Rodricks Sarah E. Buxton u Jenny Plante Rachel Sadie Saunders Daniela Cabal Cory Ploessl Madeline Twohig Joseph John Carl Stehpen P. Quinlan Samantha L. Yazejian Yun-Ji Choi Joseph W. Ray Samantha M. Cruz Christopher D. Ridgway ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN Lauren Nicole Dewey Samnang K. Riebe Michael J. Barker Carolina A. Espaillat Navid Sanati u Ashley Emma Bussell Alyssa Chantal Fishenden Christina A. Schayer Kyle James Caisse Carly Bradbury Hampel Joanna Sokolowska Stellah Rudo Chinamora Morgan F. Hill Biyang Song Kevin Devilme Lindsay Hills Jonathan William Stockton u Athena N. Harris Gloria Song Im Joyce M. Taihei Thomas Hilsee Rachel A. Krafton Ana Maria Torres Angarita Yana Irbe Stephanie A. Liddi Robert A. Warren Zachariah P. Joder Jessica Mao u Danielle Mercier Master of Fine Arts Austin Charles LaRiviere u Grace Catherine Moore Low-Residency in Boston Fjoreta Ruseni Wai Yan Ryanne Nip Robert Maloney Kimberly Gale Nowers u Denise D. Manseau Nicole Lynn Oppedisano Adam Seth Mastoon

★ academic honors u departmental honors Sara Parvaresh PRINTMAKING GRAPHIC DESIGN Devon Kate Plaster Ryan David Barbosa Ewuradjoa Abaaho Christian H. Restrepo Alexandra M. Boucher Elizabeth Ann Almeida u Megan Reynolds Tatiana Charlot Anna Bachvarova Taylor Mae Stapleton Michael David Ethan Blouin Marsha S. Titova Kelly Differ Stephanie Ashlyn Bogle Samantha M. Wisell Michelle Rebeca Dugan Jay Borrelli Annie Kim Christopher Jason Bowers u FILM AND VIDEO Samuel Marcus Kontny Christopher Warren Caldwell Simona Babasikas Michael Nicholas Marafitte Bethany Chappell Jesslyn R. Boisclair Stephanie A. Motyka u Cara Marie Ciardelli Larissa Booth Jordan Parks Evan W. Eagan Nicholas Bouwer Anna C. Pausch Alison E. Eddlem Rose L. Carlson Michael Stewart Pollock Margaret Prescott Edgar Anthony John Cotte Kevin Whitman Dana L. Einsidler Christopher Cruz Sky Erickson Kirstin M. Davidson FINE ARTS 3D Kyle Gideon Brandi Rose Diaz CERAMICS Christina M. Glover Denise Fournier Elizabeth Lauren Harris Christina Dulce Harris Benjamin Z. Gibson Rosa Ji Yoon Hyun Alexa Lynn Mattes u Anna Maurine Graham Jessica So Im u Owen J. Roberts Benjamin Richard Gustavson Shinichiro Ishii Thomas Choong Kim Brittany E. Johnston FIBERS Ariana Elysse Ratner u Theresa Sebastian Kineke Dylan Michael Silvia ★ u Grace M. Black Maria Patricia Lobo Nicholas Alexander Joanna Theresa Agnes Corea Sophie London ★ u Valaskatgis Alexandra A. Dupuy Gabrielle Lupoli Michael M. Williams Hailey Noelle Firkins Jillian L. Lynch Jessica J. Schissler Brendan McCabe FINE ARTS 2D Mollie E. Tobin Amanda June McIntyre PAINTING Sean Francis Xavier Morse u GLASS u Jana Renee Ayars Alex David Norton Sean Patrick O’Connor Ashley Brewer Hanna Neely Brown Julia E. Paranay Jessica Rose Byrd Alexandra Elise Davis u Jesseca Purdy Christopher Jay Davis Jane B. Floyd Megan Leigh Riley John Michael Davis Joseph A. Webster Kira Jane Doutt u Marissa L. Scipione Tali Singer Hannah Mae Earley JEWELRY AND u Sarah B. Eiermann METALSMITHING Allison Spitaels Orfeo Fabbri Harry C. Stone Amanda N. Deveney Miguelina Felix Alexandra Streeter Rebecca Sarah Levine ★ u Clark Philip Filio Kayla Elizabeth Thompson Brendan Lyons ★ Mattaya Fitts Brendan R. Whipple Nanette L. Pengelley Ashley Harrison Morgan Ashley Wilson William M. Karlen SCULPTURE Shawn Michael Kelley u ILLUSTRATION Olivia Louise Amorello Minsun Kim John Francis Oliver u Emily Lubow Klobucher u Anika Todd Cartterfield Attridge III Arianna M. Lanzillotti Gregory Evan Fahey Kayla C. Bailey Sangmi Lee Max Frevert Michael W. Brainard Alexis Arlene McAuliffe ★ Charli A. Herrington Jia Chen Ryan J. McGrory Shayne Jones Zachary Chomyszak u ★ Jordan Piantedosi Sean Eleni Kinsky Dimitri Dubuisson Jacqueline E. Roche Kyle S. Mackesey Michaela K. Dutra-Lowell u Nathaniel Scott Shaw Thaddeus James Sadowski Julia Elizabeth Emiliani Papatson Suphavai Gregory A. Shapiro Jessica Gagne William C. Weygint Mary Grace Tinsley Naijah Victoria Garrett Katharine M. Widzowski u Natasha Urkevic Noelle Gobbi Ivan Chester Zavala Danielle Williams Josette K. Jellison Matthew H. Willig Jacob Taylor Knox Alexandra Champoli Allison M. Disher Kristen Jenna Lee Brianna Danielle Dawes Sculpture / Conor B. Malarkey Trevor Denman Studio for Interrelated Media Jessica Lindsay Mathis Brielle Dickert Brianne Catherine Flora Abigail Mc Coy Anthony Fusco Teacher Education / Jewelry and Metalsmithing u Sarah Vera Habanera Michael Gower Stacy Friedman Moorhead Hollis Christopher Johnson History of Art / Erin H. Moran Tova Katzman u Printmaking u Eleanor Rose Norton Kyra June Kennedy Hilde-Kari Guttormsen Ross S. Page Dandi Li Painting / u Krista Marie Perry Amelia Grace Perkins Sculpture Chiara Pieri Sumiah Salloum u Kaleigh O’Keefe Heinhold ★ Katherine T. Pinelli Emily Sheffer u Sculpture u / Alexa Raniuk Alyssa A. Tadduni History of Art u ★ Jennifer Lee Rea Elizabeth A. Viggiano Melissa Anne Krok-Horton u Emma K. Rickert Michael Joseph Zaia Painting / u Austin P. Root History of Art Anne E. LaGattuta ★ Emma Sarah Rottersman STUDIO FOR Painting / Melissa Lee Stocker u INTERRELATED MEDIA History of Art Hailey Hall Thurrott Reilly McGinty Aguiar Melissa McDowell Marissa Bedard Illustration / INDUSTRIAL DESIGN Graphic Design Sakinah Amatullah James Bryan Medeiros Abdul Hamid Ali Bramble-Hakim Illustration / Douglas Ansine Austin J. Carrier History of Art u Michael Avagianos Kevin Jamieson Edson Chantal Dawn Mehanna Colin Joseph Gee Brandon E. Bailey Printmaking / Olivia M. Cody Rachelle E. Lemay Fibers Marco Cross Hong Esther Moon Erica Mischke Liz Culver Allison Leigh O’Brien Printmaking / u Michael R. Dittrich Caitlyn M. Pozerski History of Art u Tristan R. Elliott Jennifer M. Proscia Rachel Cass Oswald Art Education / Nicholas W. Frigo Molly Erin Rennie Fibers Kristen Lee Hinds Anna Lea Stabler Maximiliano A. Padilla David Byron Hogan Elaine Sim Thap Painting / Tara M. Kovalik Kelsey Marie Trottier History of Art Paige Marielle Lednar Amanda Kathleen Watkins Laura Penney ★ Hayden Alexander Lemire Shannon Marie Whalen Photography u / Jameson M. Lewis Alexandra Marie Zanca Studio Education u Jeanett Nyborg Madsen Kelsey Lynn Peterson ★ Eric Richard Magnussen BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS Sculpture / History of Art Stephanie J. McFadden ART AND DESIGN Seymour Max Polatin ★ Matthew Nouv Yamilah Atallah Studio for Interrelated Media / Scott Patrick Ramponi Diego Alexander Escobar History of Art Bonnie Alyssa Regan Elizabeth C. Quinn Annalisa Donatella Quagliata ★ Gina Marie Romeo u Film and Video / Paulkenson Sinelien Simpson OPEN CONCENTRATION Studio for Interrelated Media Alexander Stoltze Manuel Afonse Raposo ★ Hilary Marie Thompson Adam M. Truitt Museum Education / Evan F. Udelsman u History of Art Alison Marie Valvo u DUAL MAJOR Dana A. Renault u Painting / Lindsey M. Willette ★ Helen Rosemary Brechlin History of Art u Meng Yang u Painting / Katelyn E. St. John ★ Xianan Zhang History of Art Printmaking u / Daniel M. Browne History of Art u PHOTOGRAPHY Photography / Cole Robert Wuilleumier History of Art Jacquelyn Braxton History of Art / Mark J. Burke Studio for Interrelated Media Kaley Hayden Brummet Architectural Design / Thomas E. Callahan History of Art Colin Cardinal u Listed names reflect those available as of May 1, 2015