Jan Avgikos
Residency Faculty
Jan Avgikos is an art critic and historian who is based in New York City. She is a contributing editor with Artforum, where she regularly publishes reviews. She is widely published, and her writings appear internationally in magazines, museum catalogs, and anthologies...
Andy Graydon
June 2020 Faculty Advisor
The work of American artist Andy Graydon explores experiences of absence and displacement, such as those encountered in travel, in writing and in recording. This work across media has been exhibited, screened...
Ben Sloat
Program Director
Ben Sloat earned a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His work has been exhibited at the 13th Havana Biennial, Matanzas, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts...
Craig Stockwell
June 2021 Guest Critic (available for advising)
Craig Stockwell has shown his drawings and paintings extensively in New England and nationally including the Boston MFA, Nielsen Gallery in Boston, The Fitchburg Museum, Moma PS1, The Painting Center in NY, Spheris Gallery in Vermont and...
Makeda Best
Residency Faculty (available for studio mentoring)
Makeda Best is the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums. Her scholarly interests focus on 19th- and 20th-century American photography, with a special interest in photojournalism, documentary...
Alex Jackson
Residency Faculty
Alex Jackson is originally from Kenosha, WI and currently lives and works in New Haven, CT. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison for his BFA and received his MFA from Yale University in 2017.
Laurel Sparks
Residency Faculty
Laurel Sparks is a Brooklyn-based painter whose work employs symbol systems and the transmitting potential of pattern and materiality. She holds an MFA from Bard College and a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University in Boston, MA.
Oliver Wasow
Residency Faculty
Oliver Wasow is a fine art photographer living and working in Rhinebeck, NY. He received his BA from Hunter College and his Master’s Degree from the Transart Institute in Austria. His work is currently represented by Theodore: Art Gallery in NYC.
Deborah Davidson
Residency Faculty
Deborah Davidson is an artist, curator and educator. She received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and BA from Binghamton University. She is founder and director of Catalyst Conversations, devoted to the dialogue between art and science.
Peter Rostovsky
Residency Faculty
Peter Rostovsky is a Russian-born artist and writer who works in a variety of disciplines that include painting, sculpture, installation, and digital art. His many projects attempt to bridge the gap between painting and conceptual art.
Stuart Steck
Residency Faculty
Stuart is currently the Interim Associate Dean and Director of Integrated Studies at Lesley University’s College of Art and Design. Over the course of his career, Steck has worked as both a curator and academic. Although he was originally trained in the field of decorative arts...
Deb Todd Wheeler
Residency Faculty
Deb Todd Wheeler generates discreetly intimate experiences through interactive installations, objects, and participatory gatherings. Raised by musicians, and trained as a material craftsman, she has an interest in both antiquated and new technologies, and an...