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Artist, alum, and instructor Clint Baclawski on how MassArt’s creative community invites you to change your perspective.

Clint Baclawski '08 MFA & Associate Director of The Lab, Technology

Emma Levine (’26 BFA Illustration) shares her MassArt story, her experience as a Creative Director, and the importance of civic engagement.

Emma Levine '26 BFA Illustration

MassArt Illustration major Emma Levine ('26 BFA) talks about her MassArt experience and the importance of voting.

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MassArt graduate and professional artist Nicole Chesney reflects on the power and magic of the MassArt Auction

Nicole Chesney ’97 BFA Glass

Nicole Chesney has been an active participant in the MassArt Auction since 1997– since her first print in the silent auction her senior year, she has donated 20 artworks in support of current and future MassArt students.

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MassArt Alum Alex Small-Butera Wins Emmy for Animation

Alex Small-Butera '08 BFA Animation

Alex Small-Butera sat down for an interview to explain about how he and Lindsay got from here to there, rising in their careers to receive this mark of achievement from Hollywood on their ability as animators, as artists.

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Lindsay and Alex Small-Butera dressed in formal clothing on the red carpet at the 2024 Emmy Awards.

Artist, alum, and instructor Clint Baclawski on how MassArt’s creative community invites you to change your perspective.

Clint Baclawski '08 MFA & Associate Director of The Lab, Technology

MassArt instructor and director of ‘The Lab,’ Clint Baclawski is an accomplished artist who has won numerous awards, exhibited in the U.S. and abroad, and attended residencies in Venice, Italy, and Wassaic, NY.

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Visualizing Biology: Teaching Art Through Science at MassArt with Caroline Hu

Caroline Hu Assistant Professor, Integrative Sciences and Biological Arts

Caroline Hu received her PhD in biology from Stanford University and conducted her post-doctoral work at Harvard. Now the visual artist, biologist, and educator has landed her dream job — teaching biology in MassArt’s program of Integrative Sciences and Biological Arts (ISBA). We asked her how she educates art and design students about biology and about the opportunities for comics creators and biologists to work together.

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Caroline Hu sits on a staircase wearing a black dress and white boots.

MassArt Brings the Creative Process to Teens and Tweens at Public Libraries

Marjee-Anne Levine Assistant Professor, Fine Arts 3D

A free Summer Art Workshop Series at three different libraries came about through a collaboration between MassArt and the state library board, and serves as a pilot for an expanding collaboration.

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The Art of Curating an Exhibition

Catherine Lecomte Lecce '23 MFA

At MassArt, MFA students and alumni uncover their unique curatorial styles through hands-on experiences and courses like Curatorial Practice. Catherine LeComte Lecce’s exhibition, Matrescence, explored the profound and often overlooked transformations of motherhood.

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MassMoCa Exhibition Explores Uniquely American Forms of Violence Directed at Black and Queer People 

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James McLeod Puts a New Spin on “Venetian Glass”

James McLeod Chair, Fine Arts 3D

How a twist of fate led the Chair of Fine Art 3D to this year’s Venice Biennale—by way of Istanbul, Jerusalem, and Hebron.

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Humankind Versus the Earth at MAAM

Lisa Tung Executive Director, MassArt Art Museum

People have been antagonizing the environment. Now the environment is pushing back — hard. MAAM Executive Director Lisa Tung explains how the museum’s latest exhibition, Displacement, explores what has become an existential push and pull.

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