People Archive

Heather Bagdoian

Who are you and what are your practitioner sites? I am a teacher and social studies department head at Claremont Academy in Worcester MA. I also am a genocide fellow with the Genocide Education Project, where I work to educate teachers and students about the Armenian genocide and Armenian culture. In my classes, we do…
Ry Southard

Who are you/What do you do? Ry Southard. Retired 40-year business development executive wanting to use my dusty, but not rusty, BFA from San Francisco Art Institute, 1980. What are your career aspirations/what motivates you? Rewire my creative brain and see where it takes me. Currently there is no expectation other than to soar.…
Annabel Romero Hernandez

Who are you/What do you do? My name is Annabel Romero Hernandez. I have a research-based practice. My primary medium is paper, and I aim to map all the invisible connections between science and culture in a visual language. What are your career aspirations/what motivates you? I would like to expand my current art practice…
Rebecca McGee Tuck

Who are you/What do you do? I am a visual artist working at the intersection of sculpture, fiber, and environmental activism. My practice of walking along the coastline and collecting marine debris informs my work and woven forms that explore history, memory, and ecological fragility. What are your career aspirations/what motivates you? My career aspirations…
Tonya Lemos

I initially chose the Low Residency MFA at MASS MoCA for practical reasons; its accessibility and unique museum collaboration, but very quickly realized it was so much more. The program’s commitment to diverse voices, especially women, non-binary, and queer speakers and faculty, makes me feel truly at home. I never expected to find such a…
Jason Hearst

Who are you/What do you do? My name is Jason Hearst. I am an audio engineer/recording studio owner and a high school alpine ski coach. What are your career aspirations/what motivates you? My goal for this program is to help contextualize my lifelong pursuit of art. As I am moving into a new phase in…
Eva Lin Fahey 张雯林

Who are you/What do you do? Eva Lin Fahey 张雯林 she/her I am a visual artist with a studio in Florence, MA. My work considers the impact of family separation in the face of China’s One Child Policy through the creation of personal mythologies and manifestations of past, present, and future ghosts. What are your career…
Kailey Atkinson

Who are you/What do you do? I am an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Easton, PA. Through collage, photography, social practice, and sculpture, I create visual narratives that often explore issues prevalent in society today and draw parallels to the past. What are your career aspirations/what motivates you? My goal is to grow as a practicing…
Anne Lilly

The narrow path of the self-taught only leads so far! Such was true for me at least, after twenty-five years of serious art-making. Diligence about educating myself never fully addressed my lack of solid intellectual grounding. In the fall of 2022, I knew I wanted to enter a low residency MFA program to try and…
Rochelle Johnson

Who are you/What do you do? I am Rochelle Johnson, and I use oil paints to depict my lived life journey as a Black woman living in the 21st century. What are your career aspirations/what motivates you? I would love to showcase my work in museums and galleries. The thing that motivates me the most is that…