You can find his large-scale works hanging in buildings across Boston—including on the MassArt campus. Clint has been a MassArt employee since receiving his MFA at the College in photography in 2008 and has been teaching here since 2017.
What drew you to the MFA photography program at MassArt?
What I loved most about the MassArt MFA was that the current students were involved in the interview process; first-year grad students would sit in on the interviews because they would end up being in your cohort—they were the second-year photo master’s students when I came in as a first year. It was a great vibe; you could just tell everyone wanted to be here.
What is ‘The Lab’ at MassArt all about?
I think of The Lab (which is what we call the computer print lab here) as the hub of the campus: it’s where everybody goes to print their documents, but it’s also a place where artists can work and connect. We have all sorts of specialty printers in The Lab—wide format, archival, inkjet, a latex printer, a RISO. All that equipment allows students to think beyond the parameters of a normal-sized artwork. Right now, I have a student who’s making a 1,000-foot print: 36 inches tall by 1,000 feet long. They ordered 19 rolls of vellum! I was like, “Yeah, let’s make this happen!”
If a student comes in with a cool idea like that, and I know it’s feasible, my response is, “Of course, let’s do it.” It’s a teaching opportunity where the student figures out how to accomplish their vision. Will the driver of the printer that you’re trying to print on be able to handle a 1,000-foot job? No. So how many slices do you need? I put that on the student to figure out, and I work on it with them.