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MassArt Announces 2025 Faculty Promotion and Tenure Recipients

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BOSTON – The Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) Board of Trustees has approved the following faculty members for promotion or tenure, effective September 1, 2025:

Promotion to Associate Professor
Hossein Alizadeh, Integrative Sciences and Biological Arts (ISBA)
Ryan Diaz, Communication Design
Abraham Evensen Tena, Illustration
Tatiana Gómez Gaggero, Communication Design
Kayla Mohammadi, Fine Arts 2D

Promotion to Professor
Wesley Bedrosian, Illustration
S. Billie Mandle, Photography
Martha Rettig, Communication Design
Daniel Rowe, Animation
María Cecilia Vázquez Gutiérrez, Fine Arts 2D

Awarded Tenure
Stephanie Cardon, Studio Foundation
Erik DeLuca, Art Education
Joshua Hart, Studio Foundation
Lisa Daria Kennedy, Illustration
Calvin Lee, Animation
Robert Maloney, Illustration

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