Visual Arts

Andrew Mroczek is an artist and curator with a BFA from The Art Institute of Boston and an MFA in Visual Arts from Lesley University College of Art and Design. Mroczek’s studio practice investigates themes of power structures and dynamics, sex and sexuality, and the pervasive impacts of patriarchy. His work has been widely exhibited, with solo shows at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima, Peru; the Museum of Sex in New York; Lugar de la Memoria, Lima, Peru; the Centro Cultural de España, Lima, Peru; Chicago's Schneider Gallery, Houston's McClain Gallery, and Gravedigger’s Daughter in Maine, alongside numerous group exhibitions across the US, Cuba, Bolivia, India, Spain, and Venice, Italy. His work has been featured in numerous online and print publications including Artnet, the Huffington Post, Musée, Paper Magazine, VICE/Broadly, New York Magazine, the Advocate, Lenscratch, The Houston Press, El Comercio Peru, Artsy, and PRI's The World.

Mroczek has received numerous accolades, including a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship and a Photolucida Critical Mass Award. His work is included in several prominent permanent collections, such as the RISD Museum, Lugar de la Memoria, the Bill Arning Gay Art Collection, FOTOMUSEO in Bogota, Colombia, and in the book collections at Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, and MoMA in New York.

Caleb Cole is a Midwest-born, Boston-based artist whose work addresses the opportunities and difficulties of queer belonging, as well as aims to be a link in the creation of that tradition, no matter how fragile or ephemeral or impossible its connections. Cole has received an Artadia Boston Finalist Award, Hearst 8x10 Biennial Award, 3 Magenta Flash Forward Foundation Fellowships, and 2 Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist Awards, among other distinctions. Their work is in a variety of permanent collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Newport Art Museum, and Leslie Lohman Museum of Art. They teach at Boston College and Clark University and are represented by Gallery Kayafas, Boston. 

Jennifer Krasinski is a writer and cultural critic who frequently contributes to 4Columns, Artforum, Bookforum, the New Yorker (Goings On), and other publications. Her essays have been published in numerous books and catalogs including Reza Abdoh, Jill Johnston: The Disintegration of a Critic, and Hilton Als's Andy Warhol: The Series. She was an art columnist for the Village Voice from 2014 to 2018, and served as both senior editor at Artforum and later as the magazine’s digital editorial director, launching their video series “Artists On Writers,” and “Under the Cover.” She was on faculty in the MA Art Writing department at the School of Visual Arts (2013–2021), and has taught at Art Center College of Design, New York University, Yale University, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2012), a Rauschenberg residency (forthcoming), and is a 2023–24 MacDowell fellow. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. 

Greer Muldowney is an artist, photography professor and independent curator based in Somerville, Massachusetts. Her work often tackles the relationship of policy making and how it affects landscape, housing and community. She received an undergraduate degree in Political Science concentrating in Urban Policy and Studio Art from Clark University, and an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She has acted as the Curator for the Desotorow Gallery in Savannah, GA and was the Regional Coordinator for the Flash Forward Festival on behalf of the Magenta Foundation in Boston, MA. She serves as the Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Midway Artist Studios, and is the Founder and Director of Undergraduate Photography Now, an arts organization bolstering the work and professional development of photography students. She has juried and curated exhibitions nationally, and currently is an Assistant Professor at Boston College. 

For the past two decades, Stuart Steck has worked as both a curator and academic. Although he was originally trained in the field of decorative arts, his current interests focus on postwar art and critical theory. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses with us since 1998, and is currently the Director of Integrated Studies.

Stuart has held faculty positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University, Boston University and Suffolk University. He currently serves as the president of the Visual Culture Consortium, Boston and produced the Short Attention Span Digital Video Festival from 2007-2011. Over the years, Steck has received research grants from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Pittsburgh Foundation and the Boston University Humanities Foundation. He received his BA in History from Cornell University and his PhD in Art History from Boston University.

Naoe Suzuki is a Japanese American visual artist born in Tokyo, Japan. Her multidisciplinary practice combines research, mapping-based study, community engagement, and movement. Suzuki works with drawing, video, installation, language, and archives to explore the interconnectedness of our world, inviting viewers to reflect on our lifestyles, histories, relationships, and the legacy of colonialism to our environment with particular focus on water and land.  

Suzuki was awarded grants from Massachusetts Cultural Council (2022, 2006 & 2001,) Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Puffin Foundation (2023 & 2013),and Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2013 & 2004.) Her residency fellowships include Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Blue Mountain Center, MacDowell, Millay Colony for the Arts, Jentel, Studios at MASS MoCA, and Tokyo Wonder Site in Japan. Suzuki was an Artist-in-Residence at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in 2016–2017. She received an MFA in Studio for Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 1997. 

Suzuki lives and creates work in Waltham, Massachusetts, located on the traditional and ancestral land of the Massachusett, where the land has been inhibited and cared for by the Massachusett Tribe for thousands of years. 

Joseph R. Wolin is an independent curator and art critic based in New York, and Consulting Curator and Editor at the Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College. He has taught in the MFA in Photography and Integrated Media program at Lesley since 2016 and in the MFA in Photography at Parsons since 2008. Previously, he taught in the MFA in Visual Arts program at Lesley, as well as at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Mass Art; RISD; Fordham; and Drew University. The curator of more than thirty exhibitions around the world, his recent projects include exhibitions at Clamp and Jane Lombard Gallery in New York, and at Sean Horton (presents) in Dallas. He was the co-curator of Living Together, a series of exhibitions, performances, concerts, film and video screenings, panel discussions, lectures, readings, and workshops that took place at venues across Miami in 2017–19. The author of some 240 exhibition reviews in Time Out New York, his writing about art and artists has appeared in exhibition catalogues, journals, and magazines, most recently in Glasstire, Frieze, Border Crossings, and Public.