School of Visual Arts

Message from the Dean

I am grateful to have this opportunity to introduce you to the excitement of this rich arts community. At the College of Fine Arts, students are prepared for professional work in the fields of music, theatre, or visual arts. Studio instruction is at the heart of a student’s experience in the College. We focus on the development of each student by emphasizing technique and professional skills through personalized instruction. Faculty members are carefully selected for their ability to impart knowledge, their personal accomplishments in the arts, and their commitment to students. Among the College of Fine Arts faculty are artists, performers, and scholars of national and international reputation.

The Boston University College of Fine Arts is comprised of the School of Music, the School of Theatre, and the School of Visual Arts. Although each School has its own faculty and program of study, all three Schools share the goal of providing the best possible training for the next generation of artists.

Walt C. Meissner
Dean ad interim

Message from the Director

What is it about the School of Visual Arts at Boston University that is so special?

We are a tight community within a large research university. Our students revel in the program’s intimacy, of knowing their professors closely and working day and night with like-minded people, while enjoying the advantages of the larger world of BU and Boston.

I believe what sets us apart is the rigor of the program. Students understand quickly that being an artist demands a consistent studio practice and a willingness to constantly improve. Along with our faculty of artist-teachers, strong visiting artists provide critiques in an atmosphere of open discourse and dialogue.

So what is it that makes our community work so well? Our students have a passion to be the best they can be.

They work hard. And our faculty is equally passionate about teaching. Their commitment and dedication are obvious when you walk the halls and galleries at BU and see the work by their students.

With all the hard work, there is also an easygoing playfulness, because our students and faculty are doing what they love. I invite you to visit us and witness the nurturing environment of the School of Visual Arts.

Lynne Allen
Director, School of Visual Arts, Professor of Art

Here at the School of Visual Arts at Boston University College of Fine Arts, degree programs are offered in painting, graphic design, sculpture, museum education, studio teaching, and art education. Each discipline offers students an intimate learning experience within the College’s larger community of artists, performers, musicians, and scholars. Graduate admission is highly selective and limited class sizes ensure that students get individual attention from faculty mentors.

Visits from distinguished artists and lecturers as well as a widely varied program of exhibitions broaden and enrich each student’s educational experience. Four on-campus galleries—the BU Art Gallery, the Commonwealth Gallery, the 808 Gallery, and the Sherman Gallery—provide exhibition opportunities for graduate students and alumni. The Artist Development Series jump-starts students’ art careers by providing panel discussions by prominent arts professionals and offering a range of workshops, from how to write a grant to how to build a professional online gallery.

Facilities available for graduate students include a computer lab, media room, welding shop, wood shop, art education resource repository, and painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, and photography studios. All graduate painters and sculptors have individual studios.

The School of Visual Arts at the College of Fine Arts was established in 1954 at Boston University to provide arts training of the highest level to motivated students with exceptional talent for professional careers in the arts. With a faculty composed of practicing artists, the School offers an intensive program of studio training in a supportive environment.

Boston University, situated in the heart of the city, encourages students to take part in one of the nation’s most vibrant arts communities. The intellectual and cultural resources of BU and other leading universities in town, combined with internationally renowned art museums, galleries, theatres, and orchestras, make for a stimulating, challenging, and inspiring environment. Graduate students do not merely observe the Boston art scene, but work in the midst of it, redefining it with their perspective, vision, and energy.

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Admission Requirements

In reviewing candidates for graduate admission, the faculty places primary emphasis on artistic promise and demonstrated motivation to succeed. Applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university. While the majority of applicants have undergraduate studio art degrees, applicants from other undergraduate disciplines may be considered based on equivalent training or experience.

Candidates for admission must submit the following:

1. A completed online application. To apply, please visit www.bu.edu/cfa.

2. A portfolio consisting of 15–20 slides that demonstrates competence, ability, and talent at the graduate-study level. We encourage applicants to upload their portfolios to the College of Fine Arts website: http://cfaito.bu.edu/visual-grad/. Traditional slides will be accepted in a slide sheet in CD format. Art Education and Studio Teaching applicants must include a self-portrait and observational figure drawings in an interior space. The School can return portfolios only if they are accompanied by a $10 check made payable to Boston University (or a self-addressed, stamped envelope) to cover mailing costs.

3. A résumé.

4. Official transcripts from all colleges/universities attended.

5. Two recommendations, preferably from art teachers or employers familiar with the applicant’s artistic work.

The deadline for application and portfolio submission is February 15 for Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Design. Art Education, Museum Education, and Studio Teaching encourage application by February 15 but will accept later applications on a space-available basis.

All application materials except the portfolio must be sent directly to the College of Fine Arts Graduate Admissions Office (Room 230) and should state the program of application. The portfolio should be sent to the School of Visual Arts (Room 552). Both are located at the College of Fine Arts, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215.

The Visual Arts faculty reserves the right to request additional samples or to examine the proficiency level in any of the phases of professional or academic pursuit and to prescribe certain courses as prerequisites.

Entrance to the MFA programs in Graphic Design, Painting, and Sculpture is for the fall semester only. Spring semester entrance can be considered for the Art Education, Studio Teaching, and Museum Education programs if no prerequisite courses are necessary.

Financial Aid

Scholarship Opportunities

Exceptional Visual Arts applicants may receive merit-based scholarships in the form of grants or graduate assistantships. Based on portfolio strength, Visual Arts students may receive merit awards ranging from $2,000 to $12,000 annually. In addition, each year the School of Visual Arts selects an Alajalov Fellow to receive a full-tuition scholarship for the two-year course of study. Applicants may also be considered for a Dean’s scholarship of $15,000. All accepted graduate Visual Arts students are automatically considered for all available scholarships, and selection is based on outstanding artistic and academic achievement. No financial aid form is needed for scholarship consideration. Graduate students may apply for loans, Work-Study, and graduate teaching and service assistantships.

Graduate Assistantships

Students apply for Graduate Teaching Assistantships after they are accepted. Assistantships are highly competitive and offer select graduate students the opportunity to work with the Visual Arts faculty to gain teaching experience. Graduate students may also apply for Service Assistantships in the Visual Arts library, the on-campus galleries, the wood shop, and the Visual Arts office. Assistantship awards range from $700 to $5,000 annually, depending on the position.

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MA Art Education

The Master of Arts programs in Art Education and Studio Teaching
allow students to concentrate on developing methods that teach
children and adolescents to think visually and to create art that has personal meaning. Graduate students become a cohesive community of art educators and studio practitioners.

The School of Visual Arts is pleased to also offer an online program in art education for experienced teachers who are unable to relocate. Please refer to our website (www.arteducation.bu.edu) for additional information.

Art Education

The Master of Arts program in Art Education is designed for teachers who already have state licensure or for individuals who are interested in the field of art education for reasons other than teaching licensure. Students design an individual course of study by selecting a combination of art education, liberal arts, and studio art classes.

Art Education Curriculum

Art Education
Clinical Practicum or
   studio elective
Studio or liberal arts electives
Related studies

Studio Teaching

The Master of Arts program in Studio Teaching offers art education practice and theory for students with an undergraduate degree in a studio discipline. The program consists of courses in art education theory, methods and materials including pre-practicum experiences in gallery and school settings, student teaching, and concludes with a clinical practicum to thoroughly prepare students to enter the field of teaching. Additional coursework may be necessary if undergraduate work does not satisfy minimum state requirements. The program can lead to professional licensure for teaching visual arts in Grades Pre-K–12.

Studio Teaching Curriculum

Program for Certification Pre-K–12:
   Teaching Art Pre-K–8
Teaching Art 5–12
Special Populations
Contemporary Issues in
   Art Education
Processes and Structures
Child Growth and Development
Practicum Pre-K–8 and
   Practicum 5–12
Art Education Teaching
   Seminars
Art Curriculum Planning
Clinical Practicum

Museum Education

The Master of Arts program in Museum Education is a new program of study within the Art Education department at Boston University.

Students learn to teach visual art in a museum setting, to design curricula for museum educational programs, and to perform curatorial and administrative duties associated with departments of museum education. The program prepares students to address the contemporary educational needs of the art museum through training in education, museum studies, and arts administration. Skills gained are also applicable to art education programming in crafts, historical, and science museums.

Museum education students take courses from three University departments: art history, art education, and arts administration. The MA in Museum Education program is designed for students who have earned BA or BFA degrees in visual arts or art history and who wish to teach in cultural institutions other than public schools. Required for admission are a minimum of 3.0 grade point average and a portfolio that demonstrates artistic expertise in one or more studio disciplines. Students who demonstrate proficiency in studio work, have completed at least 25 studio credits, and earned a degree in Art History may also be considered for admission.

Students benefit from unique collaborations between Boston University and the DeCordova Museum of Art in Lincoln, and the Institute of Contemporary Art and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston for both course and internship experiences.
A full semester museum internship is required of all students.

Museum Education Curriculum

Art Education coursework
Directed Study-Internship
Approved courses from art history
   and arts management
Studio courses
Approved electives
Thesis

Community Outreach Programs

Art education graduate students visit local galleries and museums to gain practical experience working with students in school and community settings. While studying behavioral characteristics of the art learner and drawing development across the life span, students in methods courses develop studio lessons that include critical and reflective components. Children from local school systems are invited to attend special programs held at the School of Visual Arts. The “Drawing in the Galleries” program is both an enrichment experience for K–8 students and an early internship teaching experience for art education graduate students. Pre-practicum experiences also include the teaching of students identified as gifted in the visual arts at Morse Elementary School in neighboring Cambridge.

“Portfolio Preparation for High School Juniors” offers local high school students a Saturday course taught by art education majors under the direction of our faculty to prepare work for college portfolios. Boston Prep, located in Hyde Park, offers an exciting elective photography course for high school students supported through partnerships with the Photographic Resource Center, the New England Institute of Art, and the Boston University Art Education program.

Teaching Internships

The Studio Teaching degree program in Art Education includes a full year of internship experiences: student teaching for sixteen weeks (eight weeks at the elementary level and eight weeks at the secondary level), followed by a second sixteen-week practicum designed to test lessons and units to be included in a curriculum thesis document. The art education faculty supervises internship experiences in cooperation with art teachers in local schools. The MA programs in Art Education and Studio Teaching maintain strong relationships with many schools in the greater Boston region, a situation that provides excellent placement options for students. For the past eleven years, the Art Education department has achieved a job placement rate of 95 percent or higher.

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MFA Graphic Design

The Master of Fine Arts program in Graphic Design is a conceptually based, two-year course of study. The program consists of regular critiques by a faculty of practicing professionals as well as training in advanced design technology. Research and discussion involve both modernist and postmodernist design theory and their application to contemporary graphic design. Students are encouraged to explore new ideas, maintain and promote the highest design standards, and keep fully abreast of contemporary developments in the field of graphic design.

Critiques, research, and discussion form the basis of the Graphic Design curriculum. Lectures by nationally and internationally distinguished designers and direct contact with the industry further enhance the curriculum. The final year of study is devoted primarily to the Master’s thesis—presented in an exhibition—for which a student is expected to make an original contribution to the field of graphic design.

Although Graphic Design students have full access to the computer lab in the College of Fine Arts, each student is required to own a personal laptop computer for work outside of the School.

Travel Opportunities

Graduate graphic design students may choose to study in London during the summer. Students participating in the London Summer Term program take courses in graphic design and advertising and visit numerous London design studios.

Graphic Design Curriculum

Graduate Graphic Design
Directed Study: Graphic Design
Thesis preparation and
   development
History of Graphic Design
Free electives
Graphic design electives

MFA Painting & Sculpture

Students in the graduate painting and sculpture departments undertake a full-time program designed to enhance their development as professional artists. Students are encouraged to develop individuality of vision and expression, and to adhere to a strong tradition of the pursuit of excellence in fine arts. Interacting with fellow students, a distinguished faculty, and many visiting artists further enriches the educational experience. One evening each week is dedicated to informal discussions with other professionals—including artists, musicians, scientists, philosophers, poets, and historians—from the Boston community.

Sculptors and painters share seminars and group critiques and all students are required to take liberal arts and studio electives. The close proximity and accessibility of individual studio spaces creates a setting in which students share ideas, techniques, and processes. Each student also determines and develops a body of work that is presented in a Master’s thesis exhibition.

Painting

The Master of Fine Arts program in Painting encourages students to generate paintings, drawings, and prints as a way to develop and practice new techniques and explore ideas and images. Considering works by contemporary and past painters challenges students to adhere to the highest standards as they develop a personal artistic sensibility within a unique body of work. Professors provide guidance and feedback during individual and group critiques. Two extensive group critiques per semester, midyear reviews, and individual critiques with visiting artists offer additional opportunities for student work evaluation.

Painting Curriculum

Graduate Painting
Fine Arts Seminar/Discussion
Liberal arts electives
Advanced Drawing or
   art elective

Sculpture

The Master of Fine Arts program in Sculpture fosters student exploration of personal expression through diverse media and stylistic forms. Work in the program ranges from intense observation to imagination and invention and reflects various philosophical and artistic points of view. The members of the sculpture faculty encourage independence of thought and aesthetic sensibility. Sculpture students meet with their faculty for intensive weekly discussions focused on their own vision and on the exploration of technical possibilities. Boston University also has facilities for the more traditional methods of clay, plaster, wax, welding, wood, and stone.

Sculpture Curriculum

Graduate Sculpture
Fine Arts Seminar/Discussion
Liberal arts electives
Advanced Drawing or
   art elective

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Visiting Artists

To enrich and enliven the student experience, the School of Visual Arts invites to campus artists and critics of national and international reputation whose interests cross disciplines. These luminaries interact closely with students in various ways, from delivering talks to giving individual critiques. The Contemporary Perspectives Lecture Series and the Tim Hamill Visiting Artist Lecture present noted painters, sculptors, printmakers, graphic artists, art educators, filmmakers, and art critics to campus for lectures as well as studio visits.

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Study Abroad Options for Graduate Students

Boston University Beijing Art Center is a semester-long study abroad program for graduate painters, sculptors, and graphic designers. The program is housed within Tsinghua University School of Art in Beijing and offers students studio space with high ceilings and natural light. The course of study includes the following:

• Chinese Language
• Chinese Art History
• Chinese Studio Arts (Ink Painting, Ceramics,
  Sculpture and/or Graphic Design)
  
• Studio Art (studio program)

Boston University graduate students must have a 3.5 GPA and submit a proposal why study in China would be beneficial to them; 10–20 images of artistic work, and two letters of recommendation.

Each year, one to two graduate students are chosen from a competitive process to spend one week in a pre-selected international destination. One destination is the Tiputini Biodiversity Station in the rain forest of tropical Ecuador. The remote location provides an unparalleled amount of flora and fauna to observe and study. Ecuador hosts nearly 2,000 species of freshwater fish, 680 species of amphibians and reptiles, 1,435 species of birds, 30 species of mammals, nearly 20,000 species of flowering plants, and tens of thousands of insects. The week-long excursion offers an interested student a unique opportunity to draw, photograph, and paint in diverse locations.

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Faculty

Art Education

Judith W. Simpson
Associate Professor of Art

BS, University of New Hampshire; MS, Massachusetts College of Art; PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Has published articles in leading professional journals and presented nationally and internationally at National Art Education Association (NAEA), United States Society of Education through Art (USSEA), and International Society of Education through Art (INSEA) conferences. Primary author of the text Creating Meaning Through Art: Teacher as Choice Maker. Her research interests are the role of art education in urban schools and the development of curricula that enable learners to maximize their creative, aesthetic, and artistic potential. Director of the Boston University School of Visual Arts, 2003–2006.

Barry Shauck
Assistant Professor of Art

BS, Frostburg State College; MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art. Retired Instructional Facilitator for the Visual Arts, Howard County Public School System; Director of the Young People’s Studios, Maryland Institute College of Art. Former Adjunct Professor of Art Education, Maryland Institute College of Art; President of the Maryland Art Education Association; Supervision and Administration Division Director of the National Art Education Association. Author of “Artful Collaborations” articles series for School Arts magazine in joint effort with Renee Sandell, and the chapter “Developing a Culture for the Arts Leadership” for the NAEA Supervision and Administration anthology.

BA, University of Bridgeport; MFA, Southern Connecticut State College; EdM, EdD, Columbia University. Has taught at Boston College, Wilton Public Schools (CT), and the State of Connecticut Community College System. Has presented papers at numerous seminars.

Diana Hampe
Lecturer in Art

BA, Regis College; MFA, Boston University. Visual Arts Curriculum Coordinator K–12, and AP teacher at Walpole High School. Serves on Advanced Placement College Board. Co-chair of the Advisory Board for the Scholastic Art Awards. Massachusetts Outstanding Art Educator, 1985 and 2002. Massachusetts Alliance for the Arts in 1995.

Graphic Design

Bryce Ambo
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art

BFA, University of Hawaii; MFA, Yale University. Visiting Critic, Yale University School of Art, 1988. Freelance designer, Harvard University Art Museums, National Endowment for the Arts.

Jon Craine
Lecturer in Art

Studied at Yale University. Managing Director of Devine & Pearson’s Design and Branding business unit. Formerly worldwide director of design for the Polaroid Corporation and a principal designer at IBM. Has work in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, museums in Germany and Finland; works have appeared in numerous publications, such as Print, Graphis, and Domus. On the Advisory Board for the Design Management Institute.

Richard B. Doubleday is an Assistant Professor of Art in the Department of Graphic Design at the College of Fine Arts and teaches in the London Summer British Programmes. Awards and honors include a Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship and a visiting fellowship at Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London. Richard has exhibited at many international events and competitions including a retrospective poster exhibition at the School of Architecture and Design, Rafael Landivar University, Guatemala. Richard recently conducted a concept book workshop at Suzhou Art & Design Technology Institute in China. Richard is principal of Richard Doubleday Design. Former graphic designer for Rothman Partners, Inc. Architects and Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is currently a member of the Boston Society of Printers. Member of the writing team for Phaidon Graphic Classics and serves as an editorial advisor and contributing writer for the 4th and 5th editions of Meggs’ History of Graphic Design. Writings on design history published in Baseline, IDEA, A! DISEÑO, IdN, Icograda, Print, NOVUM, Neshan Iran, Shift Japan, Typo Prague, and Australian Creative. His posters have been published in Design & Packaging China and Atlas of Graphic Design, published by Maomao Publications. Richard is author of Jan Tschichold, Designer: The Penguin Years published by Oak Knoll Press USA and Lund Humphries UK, and co-author of Jan Tschichold Master Typographer: His Life, Work and Legacy published by Thames & Hudson UK.

Alston Purvis
Associate Professor of Art

BFA, Virginia Commonwealth University; MFA, Yale University. Instructor, Cooper Union, 1969–70; Associate Professor, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague, 1971–82. Several solo and group exhibitions in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, London, New York, and Paris, among others. Freelance graphic designer and translator for major galleries, corporations, and publishers. Published extensively in leading graphic design journals. Author of numerous books, including Dutch Graphic Design, 1918–1945; Wendingen, 1918–1933; Graphic Design 20th Century; A Century of Posters; H.N. Werkman; Creative Type; The Vendetta; Meggs’ History of Graphic Design (co-author); Dutch Graphic Design: From the End of the 19th Century and Beyond. Has presented lectures at the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Wolfsonian Foundation at Florida International University, and many others. Chair, Graphic Design department. School of Visual Arts Director ad interim, 1998–2002.

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Painting

Dana Clancy
Assistant Professor of Art

BA, Vassar College; MFA, Boston University. Studied at the New York Studio School and Hunter College. Exhibitions include group shows in New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, as well as the solo show “Viewing Space” at the Danforth Museum of Art. Clancy has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and at University of Connecticut, School of Fine Arts.

Dana Frankfort
Assistant Professor of Art

BA, Brandeis University; MFA, Yale University. Core Fellow at The Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX. Solo shows in Los Angeles (Kantor/Feuer Gallery, 2006), Houston (Inman Gallery, 2007), Brooklyn (Brooklyn Fire Proof, 2005), Toronto (Greener Pastures, 2008) and Brussels (SorryWe’reClosed, 2008). Work featured in The Saatchi Gallery’s Abstract America in 2008. Received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2006.

Hugh O’Donnell
Professor of Art

BA, Falmouth School of Art; H Dip AD/MA, Birmingham School of Art; study at the Royal College of Art. Painting fellowships to Gloucestershire College of Art (England) and Kyoto University of Arts (Japan). Awards include First Prize, Sir Whitworth Wallace Trust; Arts Council Award and Purchase Award, Arts Council of Great Britain; the 1989 Digital Dance Award. Commissions include: Works for Public Places (Arts Council and Arun District Council), Red Steps and set and costume design for the Siobhan Davies Dance Company. Exhibitions include: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; Metropolitan Museum, NY; Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; XLII Venice Biennale, Italy; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; IV Medellin Biennal, Colombia. Public collections include: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Rose Art Museum, MA; British Council, UK; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Arts Council of Great Britain; London Contemporary Arts Society. Numerous television appearances. Senior lecturer in painting at Brighton University (England), 1978–1987. From 1988 to 1996, adjunct professor, visiting critic, public lecturer, and master class workshop leader internationally, including Royal College of Art, Slade School of Fine Art (University College, London); Pasadena Art Center, Los Angeles; New York Studio School, Cooper Union, New York City; Pratt University, NY; University of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Director, School of Visual Arts, 1996–1998.

Richard Raiselis
Associate Professor of Art

BA, Yale University; MFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Former Associate Professor, University of Michigan and Temple University Abroad in Rome. Group and solo exhibitions in New York, California, Illinois, Michigan, Arkansas, and Texas, among others. Awards include Michigan Council for the Arts Grant, 1985 and Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant, 2000. Works in corporate collections of Chemical Bank, Exxon, Fidelity Investments, Michigan Bell, and others.

Harold Reddicliffe
Associate Professor of Art

BA, Williams College; MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art. Former Associate Professor at Columbus College of Art & Design. National Endowment for the Arts Grants in 1981 and 1985; solo and group exhibitions in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Florida, Ohio, and New York.

Richard Ryan
Associate Professor of Art

BA, Stanford University; MFA, Yale University. Former Senior Critic, Brandeis University, American University, and Yale University; Artist-in-Residence, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), Brandeis University, and University of Melbourne (Australia); visiting artist at numerous academic institutions nationwide. Many awards and grants include a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2000) and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant (1993). Solo and group exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, Boston, among others.

John Walker
Professor of Art

Studied at the Birmingham School of Art in England and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in France. Works collected in the British Museum, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Australian National Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Fogg Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Gallery of Art, the Phillips Collection, Yale Center for British Art, the Scottish National Gallery, the Tate Gallery, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship; first prize, John Moores Exhibition in Liverpool, England; first prize, Bradford International Print Biennale in Yorkshire, England; and the Harkness Fellowship, New York.

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Sculpture

Sachiko Akiyama
Assistant Professor of Art

BA, Amherst College; MFA, Boston University. Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting in 2005. Work represented by the Nielsen Gallery (Boston, MA). Group exhibitions at Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NY), the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park (Lincoln, MA), the Alpha Gallery (Boston, MA), and the Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA). Awards include an Artist Resource Trust Grant (2006), a Joan Mitchell Grant (2006), an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2005), a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant (2005), and a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant (2004).

Eamon Brown
Lecturer in Art

BFA, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; MFA, Rhode Island School of Design. Collaborated on large-scale installations with artists Jim Drain and Ara Peterson with work exhibited in Cosmic Wonder at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco in 2006; the 2004 Liverpool Biennial in Liverpool, England; and the 2003 Biennale d’Arte Contemporain De Lyon in Lyon, France. Residency at The Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2003. Taught sculpture and drawing at MassArt and Rhode Island School of Design.

Batu Siharulidze
Associate Professor of Art

Post-graduate degree, All-Union Academy of Arts, Moscow, Former USSR; Graduate degree, State Academy of Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia; Art teacher degree, Art College, Tbilisi, Georgia. Formerly taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, George Mason University, and the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. Work has been nationally and internationally exhibited and collected, including in Boston, Washington, DC, Chicago, USA; Haarlem, Netherlands; Madrid, Spain; Milan, Italy; Bradford, London, England; Vienna, Austria; St. Petersburg, Moscow, Russia; Tbilisi, Georgia, in museums, shows, permanent displays, commissions, and symposia. Sculpture Trakia became a permanent display in Peace Garden, border of Turkey, Bulgaria, and Greece, in 2003.

Photography

Stephen Frank
Assistant Professor of Art

BFA, Ohio University; MFA, Rhode Island School of Design. Taught at University of Massachusetts, Boston, and College of Communication, Boston University. Finalist, 1980 Massachusetts Artists Fellowship. Awards include Royal Society of Arts Silver Medal; Action for Boston Community Development, Community Award for outstanding photographs depicting ABCD and the Boston Community. Photograph of Diane Arbus in Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph and many publications nationally and internationally. Work in collections of National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA. Numerous group and one-person exhibitions of photography in New England and other states.

Printmaking

Lynne Allen
Professor of Art; Director, School of Visual Arts

BS, Kutztown University; MEd, University of Washington; MFA, University of New Mexico. Work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, and is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art Library, the New York Public Library, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, the Springfield (MO) Art Museum, the Minneapolis Museum of Art, the Vesteros Kunst Museum, Sweden, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, as well as numerous corporate collections. Previously Professor of Art at Rutgers University (1989–2006) and Director of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper (2000–2006). Also former Master Printer and Educational Director at Tamarind Institute. Work selected for over 100 exhibitions in the United States, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art Digital Now Print National, the Whitney Museum of American Art New Editions, the Boston Printmakers, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Portland Art Museum, Honolulu Academy of Arts, among others. International exhibitions include the 21st Ljubljana Print Biennial, the International Print Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia, where she won a diploma award. Work is featured in Print Now, published by the Victoria and Albert Museum. Honors include two Fulbright Scholarships (USSR 1990, Jordan 2004–05), two Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Grants, a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant, and a Pew Fellowship finalist. Other honors include a distinguished international award for a residency at Grafikens Hus, Stockholm. Has written articles for the serial book The Tamarind Papers, as well as the printmaking periodicals GRAPHEON (Czech Republic) and Contemporary Impressions (Atlanta). Lectures widely in North America as well as abroad in such countries as Poland, Estonia, Israel, Russia, Sweden, Jordan, Canada, and South Africa. Had artist residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Plains Art Museum, as well as in Canada, Sweden, Belgium, Russia, Jordan, and South Africa.

Deborah Cornell
Associate Professor of Art

BFA, Rhode Island School of Design; MFA, Vermont College. Founder and Director, Experimental Etching Studio. Awards include Bunting Institute Fellowship; Ford Foundation; Massachusetts Cultural Council, among others. Visiting Artist at Royal Academy, London; St. Petersburg Academy; Curtin University, Australia; University of Texas; Rhode Island School of Design, and others. Exhibitions include numerous solo and group shows in Venice, St. Petersburg, UK, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and throughout the U.S. Her virtual reality environments have been presented worldwide electronically over the High Speed Access Grid. Selected collections include Museum of Fine Arts, Worcester Art Museum, IBM, Fidelity Group, Gillette Corporation, Boston Public Library, Hospital Trust, Gannett Corporation.

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