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Community Highlights: November 26 – December 13, 2024

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Join us in celebrating the latest staff, faculty, students, and alumni news and accomplishments.

Highlights

Boston Globe New England Gives: MassArt Giving Tuesday Feature

GBH: President Grant Discusses Arts, Education, and More on The Culture Show

GBH: Alumnus Sherwin Long Selected for Community Canvass

WBZ: Common Good Award Honoree Toni Elka Reflects on the Importance of Youth Development

Salem News: Common Good Award Recipient Shares Inspiration, Motivation

Somerville Times: Somerville Art Teacher May Chau to be honored with 2024 MassArt Common Good Award

Time Out: MassArt Art Museum Feature

Faculty/Staff

MASSCreative: Assistant Professor Named to Advocacy Fellowship Program

MASSCreative Artivist Town Hall Recording: Joyce Linehan on how cultural policy is made

Alumni

Art Forum: Best of 2024: Steve Locke Exhibit at MassMoca

CanvasRebel Magazine: Alumnus Hung-ju Kan Feature; Alumna Monica Srivastava Rising Star Feature

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MassArt alumna Sam Lallement, BFA Fashion Design ’21, launches apparel brand

  • Alumni in the News
  • Fashion Design
MassArt Fashion Design alumna Sam Lallement, BFA '21 is launching her own apparel brand, Apparé, inspired by her love of performance, fashion, and bold design.
Hays Free Press 

President Grant on The Culture Show: August 19, 2026

  • President Grant in the Media
President Grant returns to GBH’s The Culture Show, exploring the impact of a new exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum and research on the calming effects of drawing.
GBH 

The 2026 Lenscratch Honorable Mention Student Prize Winner: Anastasia Sierra

  • Alumni in the News
  • Photography
MassArt Photography alum Anastasia Sierra, MFA '26, is selected as a Lenscratch Student Prize Honorable Mention Winner for her project, "The Witching Hour."
Lenscratch 

MassArt alum Jeremy Ayers named 2026 Seven Daysies Local’s Pick for Best Craft Artisan

  • Alumni in the News
  • Ceramics
Jeremy Ayers, BFA ’98, is recognized among Vermont’s leading craft artisans, known for his ceramic practice Jeremy Ayers Pottery.
Sevens Days Community 

Laura Buscemi, BFA ’24 Illustration, to create a mural on Bruce Freeman Rail Trail

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  • Illustration
MassArt alum Laura Buscemi, BFA '24 Illustration, has been selected from 54 applicants to create a mural on Concord's Bruce Freeman Rail Trail.
The Concord Bridge 

Lenscratch Student Prize: Top 25 to Watch

  • Alumni in the News
  • MFA Photography
  • Photography
Two recent MassArt photography grads—Anastasia Sierra, MFA ’26 and Connor Archambault, BFA ’26—were recently recognized as part of the 2026 Lenscratch Student Prize.
Lenscratch 

José Santos’ portraits explore Portuguese-American identity

  • Alumni in the News
  • Art Education
MassArt alum José Santos has a new exhibition on display at Portugalia Marketplace in Fall River.
The Herald News 

President Grant on GBH’s The Culture Show: Smithsonian Museum, crafting on the rise, and summer reading picks

  • President Grant in the Media
President Grant joined host Jared Bowen for her monthly appearance on GBH's "The Culture Show."
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Rare 1970s photographs and early video by William Wegman go on view

  • Alumni in the News
The exhibition "William Wegman: Private Show," brings together rare vintage photographs and video from the 1970s with later works by MassArt alum William Wegman, BFA '65 Painting.
Art Daily 

Mass. summers are getting hotter. Is it cool to wear shorts in the office yet?

  • Faculty in the News
  • MassArt in the Media
  • Fashion Design
Professor Jennifer Varekamp, MassArt Fashion Design Chair, weighs in on office attire trends.
GBH 

Museum of American Bird Art Collaborates with MassArt Students

  • MassArt in the Media
  • Integrative Sciences and Biological Arts
For the second year in a row, MassArt’s talented studio art students have created works of art inspired by Mass Audubon’s Museum of American Bird Art collection.
Mass Audubon 

Elizabeth Freeman celebrated with MassArt student exhibit at Du Bois Freedom Center

  • MassArt in the Media
  • Illustration
A new exhibition of MassArt student work at the Du Bois Freedom Center honors Elizabeth Freeman, the first enslaved African American woman to sue Massachusetts and win her freedom.
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