Teja Arboleda, Assistant Professor, Digital Media & Communications
M.Ed. Lesley University
B.A., Clark University
Teja has been with The New England Institute of Art since 1998 and has worked professionally and steadily in the field for 22 years. He was Assistant Director/Editor for FRONTLINE (WGBH/PBSTV) from 1990 – 1992, and AD/Editor on more than 30 documentaries for PBS and has an EMMY award for his work on a PBS documentary. He was producer at Chronicle, specializing in culture and race issues in New England. Teja was instrumental in developing the bachelor’s degree program in Digital Film & Video, which includes Digital Cinema, EJournalism, and Corporate and Commercial Video Production. He has successfully overseen two major fiction film productions utilizing student crews. As an advocate of higher learning, he has lectured for New England based college planners, helping them to prepare high school students for highereducation art schools. Teja has also consulted for area high schools on digital media technical needs and production strategies and has lectured at SMPTE and other technology conferences. He has lectured at Josai International University in Togane, Japan on race and stereotypes in American TV and film.
Kay Corry Aubrey, Part-time Faculty, Web Design & Interactive Media
M.S., Northeastern University
M.S.W., Boston University
B.A., McGill University
Kay Corry Aubrey has been a usability researcher and interaction designer for 15 years. She runs her own usability consulting business, Usability Resources Inc. of Bedford, MA. Her clients include Oracle, the Massachusetts Medical Society, 170 Systems, and many Boston area startups.
John Bay, Part-time Faculty, Media Arts & Animation
M.S., Wheelock College
John Bay is the Education Program Director at Wheelock Family Theatre in Boston, MA and teaches Acting for Animators at the New England Institute of Art. He has a master’s degree in child development from Wheelock College. Mr. Bay is a professional artisteducatorwho specializes in training teachers, out of school staff, and other human service professionals to integrate the arts and multiple intelligences into the school curriculum and workplace. He has designed and presented professional development workshops throughout New England for K-12 teachers, undergraduate and graduate students, college faculty, child life specialists, social workers, and museum and historical society staff, focusing on how to infuse drama and other artsrelated teaching and learning strategies into their respective workplaces. Mr. Bay has been a keynote speaker, workshop presenter, consultant, and grants panelist, as well as a performer with the Studebaker Theatre, throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
Claire Beckett, Assistant Professor, Photography
M.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art
B.A., Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
From 2002-2004, Claire Beckett worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Benin, West Africa, where she focused on HIV/AIDS prevention and Girls' Education initiatives. Beckett's photographs have been exhibited at the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, at the College Art Association's Regional MFA Exhibition, and at the Herra Gallery in Wakefield, RI. Beckett's studio practice focuses on large-format environmental portraiture. She is represented by the Boston Drawing Project at the Bernard Toale Gallery. For 2007, she has solo exhibitions scheduled at the University of Rhode Island and at the Bernard Toale Gallery. She is currently photographing young army soldiers going through basic training in preparation for deployment to Iraq. She writes that, "I am deeply moved by the notion of these people who face war. The ongoing nature of the conflict in Iraq ensures that each soldier will likely be called for mobilization, some for a second or third time." The people she photographs are mostly part-time American Army National Guard or ROTC soldiers in Massachusetts. Since 2004 she has been making photographs during their training exercises, typically spending monthly drill weekends with the soldiers. National Guard soldiers often call themselves M-Day or Mobilization-Day soldiers, referring to the day that one leaves home for military deployment. Beckett's photographs deal with this anticipation of war, and with each portrait she is asking the viewer to consider the humanity of an individual soldier.
Nash Bly, Part-time Faculty, Audio & Media Technology
Nash is the principle communications engineer for Video Transfer, a media duplicator with seven offices throughout the United States. Video Transfer prepares data and communications content for distribution on a diverse variety of physical and electronic media. iRobot, Harvard University, and WGBH Television are a few of their clients. Nash designs communication systems and helps the company adapt to changing technology. He studied electrical engineering at Cornell University where he became the technical coordinator for the Communication Arts Video Lab, an early interactive-video developer. Nash has produced three software products, most recently, a digital media archive application for the Web. The hands-on manipulation of technology to either create or repair a technical object is the skill he hopes to share with his students.
Daniel Card, Full-time Faculty, The Center for Professional Development
Ed.D. student, Pepperdine University
M.P.A., University of Southern California
B.A., Syracuse University
Dan has worked as an adjunct in The Center for Professional Development, teaching most programs offered within the Interactive Media department at The New England Institute of Art. In addition to teaching, Dan possesses multifaceted experience in communication systems (print, video, CDROM, and DVD production,) which he has demonstrated by designing and building an online module based web knowledge management system(PT) with searchable resources with ties to 3rd parties such as Amazon.com., in addition to redesigning and maintaining an extensive Windows network running Windows 2000 active Directory, and building a complete dynamic Intranet Site to help in organization, automation, and communication aspects of the school.
Mary Cardaras, Digital Media & Communications, Radio, TV, Film & Communication
Ph.D. Candidate, Northeastern University
M.S., Northwestern University
B.A., Valparaiso University
Mary freelances for CNN, Boston, and has worked for CNN, Atlanta, CNN London, and numerous other television stations in five other major markets over more than 25 years. She is the recipient of two EMMY awards for excellence in spot news producing and feature producing and has been nominated numerous times during her career in news. She continues to produce documentaries and is establishing a new non-profit organization to support the work of independent cinematic artists, The South End Cinema Foundation for the Arts. She is a member of the Radio and Television News Directors Association, the Association for Education in Journalism and Communication, and the Arab-U.S. Association for Communication Educators. She works with the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation, the American Repertory Theatre, and the Press & Information Office of the Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations.
James E. Clements, Associate Professor, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production
M.A., University of Massachusetts, Boston
B.S., Nazareth College, Rochester, NY
Whether behind the camera, on the television set, behind a set of drums or in front of a classroom, Jim Clements' creative talents are apparent. For the past three decades, Jim has spent his time performing as a musician, producing and directing in the television media, and teaching. Some of his television experiences include freelance cameraman for E Television and producer/director for Continental Cablevision, MediaOne, and AT&T. Jim has produced and directed television adaptations of theatrical productions by Underground Railway Theater and the long-running Boston local music scene show, "The Exploding Envelope." He brings his creative energy into the classroom at The New England Institute of Art, where, during the past nine years, he has taught Intro to Television Production, Single Camera Production, Multi-camera Production, Lighting for Video, Performance for Television and Broadcast Engineering. He was nominated for the 1993 and 1995 Hometown Video Festival Award, the 1991, 1994, and 1997 Massachusetts Cable Award and won the 1991 Hometown Video Festival Award. Jim is actively involved in community work, as an original board member of Arlington Community Media, Inc., the public access non-profit corporation for Arlington Massachusetts. He is an avid reader, photographer, traveler and member of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Jim is married and has one son.
Jim is the recipient of the 2008 InaBeth Miller Award for Distinguished Faculty of the Year.
Ken Cmar, Part-time Faculty, Audio & Media Technology/Audio Production
B.M., Berklee College of Music
Ken is the owner and President of Wonderdrug Records, a Boston based independent record label/distribution company specializing in regional heavy rock/metal and punk. Wonderdrug has over 50 releases in it's 19 year history. Ken also produces and engineers most of the artists on Wonderdrug, as well as other local artists. Wonderdrug also specializes in digital distribution of many local and regional artists, and has had great success licensing local bands to various TV shows such as “The Unit” on CBS, “Men in Trees” on ABC, “Without a Trace” on CBS, “My Name is Earl” on NBC, "The United States of Tara" on Showtime, and over 15 music licenses to FX Networks Golden Globe winning drama “THE SHIELD”. Many other licenses to various cable and network TV shows, as well as independent film. Executive Producer for the independent film “Die You Zombie Bastards” (Image Entertainment) winner of multiple film festivals.
Ken has been teaching at The New England Institute of Art for over 9 years and has appeared as a featured speaker on various music business panels at trade shows.
Art Cohen, Part-time Faculty, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production/Television
BA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1969, History with a minor in Journalism
Art Cohen is an Emmy award winning filmmaker and journalist whose credits include PBS, National Geographic, WGBH, A&E, The Family Channel, USA Network, and WCVB, Boston. Cohen is also a reporter and anchor for the CBS owned and operated all news radio station WBZAMin Boston, and he teaches in the broadcast program at the New England Institute of Art in Brookline, Massachusetts. He has won two New England Emmy Awards. He began his broadcast career in 1967 at WFCR-FM in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he rose to the positions of News Director and Program Director. He was also news director at WMAS in Springfield, Massachusetts, and Executive Producer for News and Public Affairs at WBUR-FM in Boston, Massachusetts.
He began his television career at WGBYTV, in Springfield, where he produced a series on the environment. In 1976 he joined WGBH-TV in Boston as a reporter for its news program and later produced a series of local documentaries and public affairs specials for WGBH. He has produced for the PBS medical series "Bodywatch" and was senior producer for "The Western Tradition," a 52-part instructional series on the history of western civilization funded by CPB/Annenberg. He also produced dozens of segments and programs for the daily magazine show "Chronicle" on WCVB-TV in Boston. Since 1994 he has worked with Oceanic Research Group and Jonathan Bird Productions making underwater nature films. Credits include "Sharks: The Real Story" (1996 - re-cut for USA Network as "Sharks: Search for a Frenzy"), "Beneath the North Atlantic" (1998), "Endangered Mermaids" (2001), "Silent Wrecks" (2004), "Sharks: Deep Trouble," (2005), for National Geographic's international channel.
Owen Curtin, Full-time Faculty, Audio & Media Technology
B.A., Emerson College
M.S. candidate
Owen is a sound designer, musician and songwriter who has worked with "Easy Listening" at Slam Dance and the Newport Film Festival, "Dirt Boy" at the Seattle, Tokyo and American International Film, with The Dresden Dolls/Amanda Palmer on "Gothic Rock Duo" and The Harvard Din & Tonics, a jazz a cappella group. Owen has taught at Emerson College, been an engineer at Sonic Studios in Charlestown, Massachusetts and Audio Support Specialist at Emerson.
Corey Davis, Assistant Professor, Photography
M.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art
In 1990 Corey Davis began taking photographs while studying abroad in India, Nepal and Tibet with the School for International Training and since then has returned to this region twice. While there in 1994, he took photos for the Nepalese publication Himal magazine. After receiving his B.A. in photography and geography from Clark University, he worked for the Congressional Human Rights Foundation and the International Campaign for Tibet in Washington, DC. He has assisted artists such as, Abelardo Morrell when he was the Artist in Residence at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the artist Sol LeWitt at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Corey’s work examines the variations of both traditional and non-traditional landscapes. He employs multiple film and digital formats, but primarily uses 8x10 and 4x5 large format view cameras. Since receiving his M.F.A. from Mass Art in 1999, Corey has taught photography at many local institutions and exhibited his work at Somerville's Vernon Street Studios, the St. Botolph Club, Huntington Gallery and Photographic Resource Center in Boston. In 2006 he was awarded an artist grant and traveled to Banda Aceh, Sumatra to photograph the aftermath of the devastating tsunami.
Gale Delaney, Part-Time Faculty, Media Arts & Animation
B.F.A., Juilliard School of Drama
Certification in Orientation and Mobility, UMASS Boston (in progress)
Gale has taught at the college since 1998 developing a performance program that includes basic acting, vocal acting, improvisation, performing for television, and acting and movement for animators. She teaches and conducts workshops in performance and public speaking in several area colleges. Gale worked in theater in New York for many years as a producer, director and actress appearing in plays at LaMama, Ubu Theater, and Westbeth Theater Center which she co-founded. She created live installations (theater you can walk through) for a two year series of comedy evenings called "Mainly Mime." She has also appeared in several independent films. Gale has also written scripts for television drama and corporate communications. She has received two Addy Awards, the Silver Award at the International Film and Television Festival of New York, and First Prize at the Telly awards for her scriptwriting. Gale is also a visual artist and member of the Sculptor's Workshop. She recently was a part of the Faith Quilts Project, a large scale project culminating in an exhibit at the Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama. She exhibited several quilts developed over two years and created theater pieces which were performed throughout the exhibit. Gale lived for many years overseas in Chile, Jerusalem, and Berlin. She has studied art at the Freie Kunst Shule in East Berlin and here at Mass Art.
Dewey Dellay, Part-time Faculty, Audio & Media Technology
B.S., Empire State College
Dewey Dellay teaches Music Theory and Designing Music and Sound for Visual Media. He divides his time between Cambridge, MA and Manhattan. He originally was a bassist and has played in such diversified settings as The Gary Burton Burton Group with Pat Metheny, Ronnie Spector, and the MIT Chamber Orchestra. He now is a composer and has composed music for numerous national commercials (AOL, Rogaine, Prilosec, and Panasonic among others), along with having his music in television shows like Date Patrol, Amerca's Spookiest Places, Cat House, and How to Clean Your House. Some of his film credits include Haunted Lantern, Pear Harbor - The view from Japan, and Chaos and Order produced by NEIA. His theater work has gotten him an IRNE for his music in Five by Tenn and an Elliot Norton Award for his music and sound design in The Women, 9 Parts of Desire, and Miss Witherspoon.
Rachelle Dermer, Professor, Department Chair, Photography
Ph.D., M.A., Boston University
B.F.A., Arizona State University
Rachelle Dermer is an artist and a scholar working with and studying lens-based media. Dermer earned her B.F.A. in photography from Arizona State University where she studied with Tamarra Kaida, Bill Jay, James Hajicek and Mark Klett. Her contemporary landscape studies are heavily influenced by the work of Klett and the re-photographic project. Interested in further studying contemporary theory in conjunction with photography and other lens-based media, Dermer opted to pursue a Ph.D. at Boston University. Her dissertation, Photographic Objectivity and the Construction of the Medical Subject in the United States (2002), explores the intertwined histories of medicine and photography. Her published writing includes an article in the Autumn, 1999 issue of the journal, History of Photography on the theme, "Medicine and Photography," for which she also served as invited guest-editor. Dermer remains intent on defining a career that includes artistic production in conjunction with scholarly endeavors. After completing her dissertation, she returned her focus to making art as her primary commitment. Using digital photography and video, Dermer uses personal narrative as a way of exploring subjectivity and identity. She documents her experiences in order to interrogate intersubjectivity as it is both evidenced and eradicated by the lens. Her solo exhibitions include Myths of Freedom at the Clark University Art Gallery and the Marran Gallery at Lesley University. She is also a filmmaker and has screened her films at a number of venues. Recently, her film, Commit to the Line, was an official selection at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and won the Provincetonw Film Festival First Place Award.
Lisa Diorio, Web Design & Interactive Media
M.S. Computer Engineering
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
B.S. Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley, California
Professional Certification:
Microsoft Certified Professional, Microsoft Certified Application Developer, Microsoft Certified Trainer
2005-2008
Lisa Diorio has 35 years of professional experience in various software and design disciplines and has worked as a software engineer, technical manager, director of marketing, instructor and training manager. She also ran a small software business for eight years which rounded out her experience in sales, marketing and technical writing. Lisa currently maintains a small consulting business working with clients in the areas of website design, database design, office productivity tools and internet marketing.
She has extensive experience in corporate and academic training including teaching, course development and instructor management. Her training philosophy is to help students to master material quickly through creative exercises that target fundamental understanding of the underlying principles of each topic. Lisa is currently teaching Internet Technologies, Web Development, Advanced Javascript, PHP and C++.
Jason Donati, Chair, Media Arts & Animation
M.F.A., Rochester Institute of Technology
B.F.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jason Donati is an award winning animator and cinematographer. He is currently the Chair of Media Arts & Animation at The New England Institute of Art in Brookline Massachusetts. Mr. Donati recently published his first book, Exploring Digital Cinematography, with Cengage Delmar Learning. Previously, he has worked as Creative Director for Kaon, Inc., where his team was responsible for the production of photorealistic 3D models and animation in the creation of interactive product tours for Fortune 500 consumer electronic companies. Prior to that, Jason was Director of 3D at Animation Technologies, Inc. in Boston, where he led a team of animators delivering cutting-edge visual solutions for medical and legal visualization purposes.
Jason's personal animated films have been showcased internationally at some of the most prestigious festivals and conferences in the industry, including SIGGRAPH 1999 (Los Angles, USA), SIGGRAPH 2000 (New Orleans, USA), Ani Mundi 1999 (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil), Seoul Film Festival 1999 (Seoul, Korea) and ASIFA East 1999 & 2000 (NYC, USA). He holds a BFA in Computer Animation from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an MFA from the School of Film & Animation at Rochester Institute of Technology. Jason is a long time member of the Association of Computer Machinery (ACM/SIGGRAPH) as well as the Association Internationale du Film d' Animation (ASIFA East).
Matthew Ellard, Full-time Faculty, Audio & Media Technology
B.A., Thames Polytechnic University
Matthew has been producing,mixing and engineering music for twenty years. Starting in London, relocating to Los Angeles, and finally hitting the Eastern seaboard around the turn of the centruy, where he continues to create sonic mayhem to this day. He has worked with many legendary producers such as Glyn Johns, Paul Rothschild, Rock Rubin, Dr Dre, Trevor Horn, Howard Benson, Mark “Spike” Stent, Slade and Kolderie, Jim Dickinson, Hervie Hancock, and David Lynch to name a few. Although he works mainly with rock bands, in the past he has worked with many well known acts from Radiohead to Ice Cube, Ozzy Osbourne to Motorhead, Janes Addiction to Ministry, Queen to Elton John, George Michael to Seal, Natalie Merchant to Elliot Smith,Weezer to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Wilco to The Slip, Between the Burried and Me to Converge, and many more.
Sean Fitzroy, Part-time Faculty, Web Design & Interactive Media
B.S., Florida State University
Sean has more than 10 years experience in digital media production, developing and using cutting-edge new media tools. He has been a Web developer, video editor, technical consultant, and quality assurance specialist. His clients include Harvard Business School, WGBH, Del Monte, Florida State University, and Cambridge Community Television. He has taught Web graphics, video editing, and streaming media courses in New York and Boston.
Chris Florio, Full-Time Faculty, Web Design & Interactive Media
B.M., Composition, Berklee College of Music
Graduate work, New England Conservatory of Music
Chris Florio is a composer, performer and interactive developer. He is owner and director of IDV Media and Passion Records. Chris has produced countless interactive projects for organizations such as Apple Computer, Fidelity Investments, the Army Corp of Engineers and Universal Studios. He has created many interactive performances, including for the Lexington Sinfonietta, The Boston Center for the Arts, The Museum of our National Heritage, The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and the Marlborogh Symphony Orchestra.
Jeff Freedner, Part-time Faculty, Media Arts & Animation
M.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art
B.F.A., Tufts University and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Jeff is a freelance print production artist for Fidelity Investments, and a freelance designer. He has been an Interactive Design Consultant for The Learning Community Group of Boston, Concentric Vision, UPromise, as well as a design consultant and developer for The Freelance Players Theater Company. He has also worked with Event Zero and Trinity Communications, Inc and Digitas. You will find his illustrations in the catalog of "Just Pretend," a New Hampshirebased toy company. Along with his classroom work at The New England Institute of Art, he is an adjunct faculty member at Emmanuel College.
Jay Frigoletto, Part-time Faculty, Audio & Media Technology/ Audio Production
Alumnus, Berklee College of Music
Jay is a veteran audio engineer, having worked on albums that have earned multiple gold and platinum records, Billboard #1s and top tens, 8 Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations, and a Grammy award. He has owned highend mastering studios in Los Angeles and Atlanta, and currently owns Mastersuite, a mastering studio at the Metronome Media complex in Brookline, NH. As a mixing or mastering engineer his major label clients have included Alice in Chains, India Arie, Oasis, INXS, Ani DiFranco, Shinedown, Babyface, Shadows Fall, Clutch, Arrested Development, Nonpoint, Skindred, Clay Walker, Kumbia Kings, Intocable, Soraya, Yellowjackets, X-Men 2 Soundtrack, and Touched By an Angel for CBS Television.
Thomas Gentz, Full-time Associate Professor, Web Design & Interactive Media
M.B.A., Suffolk University
B.A., Hobart College
Thomas has 30 years of healthcare sales and marketing experience with Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Massachusetts, CIGNA Healthcare, Central Mass Healthcare, Aetna/US Healthcare and two and one half years of multimedia sales experience selling to Fortune 500 companies such as AT&T, ADP, The Hartford, Black & Decker, US Surgical, MasterCard, Verizon, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He currently teaches Multimedia Sales and Marketing, and Multimedia Project Management at The New England Institute of Art and the New England Institute of Technology in Warwick, Rhode Island.
Hendrik Gideonse, Part-time Faculty, Audio & Media Technology
M.M., Sound Recording Technology, Candidate, University of Massachusetts Lowell
M.A., Music Composition, Tufts University
B.A., Music, Tufts University
Hendrik Gideonse owns Indecent Music, a recording and production studio in Medford, MA, where he produces music for independent songwriters, rock bands and hip-hop artists. Hendrik started performing professionally in 1991 with an infamous Boston ska band and also worked as a live sound engineer with acts like Fishbone, The Wynton Marsalis Quintet, Tito Puente and Think Tree. Currently, Hendrik is working on developing pro audio hardware for surround mixing and recording, working with Geoff Daking and David Thibodeau on developing better manuals for their products, and designing a new type of quadratic residue diffusor. At the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Hendrik is working with Alex Case, to develop his skills in acoustics and product development.
Doug Glen, Part-time Faculty, Web Design & Interactive Media/Graphic Design
B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design
Doug is the Art Director at CCI/Crosby, publisher of periodicals focused on helping K-12 educators use video technology in their curricula. He is the former director of computer graphics at Cahners Business Information. His interests include photography, video, and fine art.
Daniel Goldfine, Part-Time Faculty, Audio Production/ CPD
Associates Degree in Digital Imaging from Rockport College and a Certificate in Audio Recording from Northeast Broadcasting School
Daniel Goldfine has worked in several facets of the music industry including tech support for Cambridge based music technology company MOTU and for Framingham based BOSE Corporation. Recording projects have included Boston bands Lifestyle and Freezepop, and projects both here and in the U.K. with members of internationally known bands The Cure, Psychedelic Furrs and Morrissey. Daniel has also taught audio recording at various institutions of higher learning in the Boston area.
Adam Gooder, Full-time Faculty, Associate Professor, Digital Media & Communications
M.F.A, Art Institute of Boston/Lesley University
B.F.A. New York University
Adam has been teaching video production for over ten years. Adam enjoys working with students on ambitious projects, like digital shorts, music videos and documentaries, as well as helping them craft their demo reels. He recently secured distribution for a feature documentary, "Chaos & Order: Making American Theater," which he photographed, edited, and coproduced with Mary Cardaras (the department chair), professors Tim Jackson and Steve Grossman, plus many hardworking student crew members. Adam is involved in his own artistic projects and has collaborated on a digital film for the new Institute of Contemporary Art.
Jerry Goodwin, Assistant Professor, Digital Media & Communications
Ph.D. Candidate, Boston University
M.A., University of Detroit
B.A., Siena Heights College
Jerry's voice was a staple of radio for over forty years with stops in Dallas, Miami, Detroit, and Boston. He is famous for his "Duke of Madness" character heard for many years on Detroit and Boston radio. He is a member in good standing with the New England Media Gang and in 2005 was recognized by the Detroit radio community as one of Detroit's rock radio "Legends". As a member of SAG, he has performed in many films and TV shows produced in and around the New England area. As a member of Actors Equity, he has twice been awarded the "Best Performance" award by the Boston Theatre Critics. He is presently doing character voices for numerous CD- ROM games and holds character voice seminars three times a year for Chart Productions in Boston. Besides holding memberships in the Screen Actors Guild and the Actors Equity Association, he is also a member of The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and a charter member of Stage Source of Boston.
Tamarah Green, Part-Time Faculty, Digital Media & Communications
B.A, Communications, University of Massachusetts
I have been working in cable TV for 16 1/2 years, working in all aspects of pre and post video production. This includes producing, editing, directing, camera and even reporting and anchoring for a local news program. I am currently the Executive Director of the Watertown Community Access Center, where I am responsible for managing the facility as well as the outreach, PR and fundraising. The WCAC is Watertown's local cable facility where all members of the town - and surrounding communities - are invited to learn how to produce their own programs or help out with the production of existing shows.
Robert Griffin, Full-time Faculty, Web Design & Interactive Media
M.S., Boston University
B.A., Brandeis University
Bob's previous employment includes marketing and communications positions at Syndicated Technologies and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. He has been a Conference Speaker, at NHGEA, "Setting Up a High School Curriculum to Teach eCommerce." At Barnett International, Atlanta, Georgia, "Growing Membership Through the Internet."a Guest Lecturer at Harvard Business School, "Marketing Managed Care Via the Internet." and received a "First in Class" award (1995) for International Multimedia from New York Media Festival and recognition as a finalist for an interactive kiosk from Advertising Age magazine.
Steve Grossman, Assistant Professor, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production
M.A., Boston University
M.F.A., University of Southern California
A.B., Boston University
Steve teaches screenwriting at the New England Institute of Art and is responsible for developing the narrative film writing sequence, including such courses as "Writing for the Visual Media," "Fundamentals of Scripting and Storyboarding," "Writing the Short," "Introduction to the Feature Screenplay," and "Writing the Feature Screenplay." In addition, he teaches "Topics in Film" courses and has introduced "Writing for Animation" in the Media Arts and Animation department. He has written feature screenplays, edited films, and created trailers for independent Hollywood producers such as Roger Corman, Halcyon Films, Dynamite Entertainment and Zacharias Motion Pictures. Steve is the writer of "Survive!" a television pilot produced by Metromedia. He co-produced and edited the short film "Trifles," the winner of over 25 awards worldwide. His most recent assignment was writer and associate producer on the documentary "Chaos and Order: Making American Theater" (distributed by Films for the Humanities & Sciences) which spotlights the American Repertory Theater, one of the most respected and innovative dramatic institutions in the United States. Narrated by Tony-Award winning actress Cherry Jones, the film features F. Murray Abraham, Debra Winger, and numerous other renowned performers, along with groundbreaking directors Andrei Serban, Peter Sellers, and Robert Woodruff. "Chaos and Order: Making American Theater" has been accepted by the American Theatre Wing Archives and the Americans For the Arts Archives, and screened at the New England Film and Video Festival, SOWA Film Festival, Provincetown International Film Festival, and the National Arts Club. He serves on the Board of the South End Cinema Foundation for the Arts. A former literary agent representing screen rights for authors (including National Book Award finalists) and screenwriters, Steve continues to be a consultant for writers. He is an active writer with feature screenplays and projects currently circulating in Los Angeles.
Thomas Gustainis
Assistant Professor, Photography
M.F.A., School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
B.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design
Thomas Gustainis received his BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, and his MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2003. He has worked for the Polaroid Collections and boasts his own active commercial practice with clients such as British Petroleum and TASCHEN. His work is actively exhibited and is represented in Boston by Gallery Kayafas. Gustainis's work often confronts and challenges our notion of what is real and fabricated, be it narrative artistic genres, or the nature of photography itself.
Jon Hichborn, Part-time Faculty, Audio & Media Technology
A.A., The New York Institute of Technology
Jon Hichborn, the "bounty hunter" of royalty tracking for writers, publishers and artists Worldwide, has more than 25 years experience in the music business. Hichborn owns Records On The Wall and handles royalty-tracking matters for a diverse group of artists, including Derek And The Dominos, Robert Johnson, Dr. John, Wild Cherry, Spiral Starecase, Foghat, Solomon Burke, Yvonne Elliman and many others. Along with an exclusive royalty tracking system, Records On The Wall is able to license, evaluate and track all incoming statements and payments.
While tracking existing payments, Records On The Wall also looks to alternative sources for royalties, many of which clients are unaware ever exist. Working directly with the artists, or by helping attorneys and auditors alike, Records On The Wall locates previously unknown sources of income, thus assisting in the collection process.
Hichborn began in the music business as a coordinator for Universal Television, Motion Pictures and Home Video, locating composers and licensing songs for movies and television. Some of the films he worked on include: Back To The Future, The Breakfast Club & Out Of Africa. In the television sector he worked on Miami Vice, Magnum, P.I., Knight Rider, Murder, She Wrote and The Equalizer.
As a result of his accomplishments, he has been presented with multiple gold and platinum plaques from The Recording Industry Association of America signifying outstanding sales figures on soundtracks for motion picture and television productions.
In addition to his responsibilities at Record On The Wall, Hichborn is an active member of the community and gives his time to judge music and voice competitions. In his free time he enjoys photography, hiking and spending time with his two children and wife Lisa.
Joel Howe
Part-time Faculty, Web Design & Interactive Media
M.S. Engineering
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Dhansham Khemraj, Part-time Faculty, Web Design & Interactive Media
M.S., Lesley College
B.S., Wentworth Institute of Technology
GTE, Electrical Engineering PMTC (Guyana)
MCSE Certification
CheckPoint Engineer Certification
A native of Guyana, Dhansham began his engineering career as an Instrument Control Engineer at Guysco (Guyana Sugar Corporation) in Guyana. He moved to Boston, where he is a senior system officer at State Street Corporation and an adjunct professor at The New England Institute of Art and Lesley University. Dhansham is a former MIS director, senior consultant and senior network engineer who held positions with Bennett and Company, ISS Corporation and Renaissance Solution.
Milan Kohout, Part-time Faculty, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production/Television
M.S., The Technical University in Pilsen
Diploma, Museum of Fine Arts
Milan is originally from The Czech Republic. Since his emigration to the U.S. in the late 1980s, he has been striving to combine both scientific and artistic professionalism in his daily life. He continued to work as an independent artist and later became a signatory member and activist of the dissident human rights organization CHARTER 77 (nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1985). Since 1994, he has been a member of the Mobius Artists Group and has created many full-scale performances (both collaborative and solo) and video pieces. Currently, his work is mostly focused on the subject of human rights and the politics of exclusion. As a Mobius Artists Group member, Milan has participated in many international art exchange programs, which have allowed him to address these human rights concerns in performances throughout Europe and Asia. This body of work has been supported through of number of awards and grants.
Since the early 1990s, Milan has been working on all aspects of professional TV productions with particular focus on video engineering and producing. He engineered many multi-camera productions with live- or world-pool feeds including Harvard University Commencements. Since 1998, Milan has engineered and produced more than two hundred live events for the C-SPAN national TV network.
Allan Kraut, Full-time Faculty, Associate Professor, Audio & Media Technology/Audio Production
M. Ed, Cambridge College
B.S., Nova Southeastern University
Allan has spent over 10 years mixing thousands of rock bands as the sound engineer and production manager in many Boston venues. He has been teaching audio for over 11 years and put together the curriculum and hands-on stations for Audio Recording One and the curriculum for Live Sound Reinforcement. Allan is currently the co-owner of The Mix Hut recording studio in Cambridge and founder of Merch Music, a music download and marketing company. He has a B.A. in Business Administration from Nova Southeastern University and a M.Ed from Cambridge College. Allan has a passion for new ideas and technology and the ability to motivate students with his droll but thoughtful personality.
John Krivit, Full-time Associate Professor, Audio & Media Technology/Audio Production
B.A., University of Michigan
M.Ed., Argosy University
John Krivit is a producer, engineer, performer, composer and educator. He was the owner of The Sound Market Recording Studio from 1988-1998, where he produced hundreds of sessions for television, radio, multimedia and CD release, including soundtrack work for "Judging Amy" (CBSTV), "General Hospital" (ABC TV), "Witness to the Mob" (NBC TV), and "Closing The Loop" (WMAR TV 2, WRC TV 4). He is a full-time Associate Professor of Audio & Media Technology at The New England Institute of Art, where in 2002 he was honored with the Inabeth Miller Distinguished Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching. Professor. Krivit is a full member of the Audio Engineering Society, and a standing member of its Education Committee. In 2005, he served as an Education Forum Panelist to discuss current trends in Audio Education at the 119th Convention held in New York.
Expertise includes: Audio Education, Careers in Audio, The Audio Engineering Society, Acoustics, Music Production, Music Software, Audio Production, Computers and Music
Molly Lamb, Adjunct Faculty, Photography
B.A., University of Massachusetts
Molly Lamb grew up in Tennessee, has lived and worked in Minnesota and Vermont, and is now based in Boston. Her work focuses on the details of life and is greatly influenced by the places she's lived and her background in documentary photography. Teaching young people is also an important part of her work. She teaches photography at the Boys and Girls Club of Charlestown and works as an Artist in Residence at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
Eric Scott Latek
B.S., Emerson College
Eric Scott Latek graduated with a BS in Film Concentration, Visual and Media Arts / Mass Communication from Emerson College in 1998. While in school, Latek was selected to write and direct a short film. "A Life In The Day of Ringo Vings" was the end result, and the film went onto to win various awards such as "Best International Director", AFMA International Film Festival, "People's Choice Award", Adobe Digital Cinema, and "WOW" Award, Tampa International Education & Time Warner Film Festival. After graduation, Latek began to teach courses in Filmmaking and Computer Animation for such schools as Rhode Island School of Design, Johnson & Wales’ School of Technology, and the New England Institute of Art, Boston.
Jared Leeds, Adjunct Faculty, Photography
B.A., Boston University
Jared Leeds graduated from Boston University with a degree in Journalism and minors in Photojournalism and English. Since then, he has gone on to pursue fine art, editorial and commercial work. He started off as a working as a news photographer. His work has been published in Boston Magazine, Bicycling Magazine, Chicago Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times, People and Forbes, and his clients include The Ford Foundation, Harvard, The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Tufts Health Plan and XXL to name a few. He is most interested in photographing people and their environments. He has been working as a Boston-based freelance photographer for over seven years. He maintains his own studio in the Fort Point Channel area.
Dave Lefkowitz, Assistant Chair, Audio & Media Technology/Audio Production; Full-time Faculty, Center for Professional Development
M.B.A Northeastern University 2008,
B.M. MP&E, Berklee College of Music 1994
Dave worked on over 100 CDs of varied musical styles. He continues to produce and record music under the Lefko Productions name. Some of the artists he has worked with include Johnny A, Stuart Kimball, Richard Davies, the Beloved Few, Entrain, and Cape Verde Artists Dany Silva and the Mendes Brothers. In 1999, Dave became a principal business partner of Renaissance Recording Company, on Arlington Street, in the Back Bay area of Boston. There, he held the title of Chief Audio Engineer. At Renaissance, David acquired industry recording business experience by fully managing the facility, performing duties such as studio booking, administration, finance, staff management, and building management. September 2000, David Lefkowitz began teaching audio-based technology and audio recording techniques at the New England Institute of Art. Some of the courses David teaches are Audio Technology 1&2, Audio Recording 1&2, Hard Disk Recording, Listening and Analysis, Principles of Computer Music, Electronics I, Advanced Recording Techniques, and Advanced Mixing Techniques. David also has developed curriculum for the college’s audio certificate (CPD) program. He has served as Assistant Chair for the NEiA Audio Production Department since August 2006.
Rob Lehmann, Chair, Associate Professor, Audio & Media Technology/Audio Production
M.B.A., University of Massachusetts
C.A.G.S., University of Massachusetts
B.M., Berklee College of Music
Rob has recorded and mixed audio for corporate and private clients; specializing in location recording of acoustic ensembles. He is a member of the Audio Engineering Society.
Thomas Lienhard, Part-Time Faculty, Audio & Media Technology/Audio Production
Thomas Lienhard has over 15 years of executive-level sales and marketing experience in the computer security and consumer electronics industries. As Regional Sales Manager, Thomas successfully represented custom security and audio products from Directed Electronics, Inc., one of the nation's largest suppliers and manufacturers of such products as the Viper car alarm and a/d/s/ loudspeakers. Thomas was also a distributor's representative for such products as JVC, Harmon Kardon, Pioneer Pro and Elan Home Systems. As VP Sales for Lucira Technologies Inc., an MIT 1K winner, and the winner of the Wharton School business plan competition, he helped pioneer the stolen computer tracking industry. Thomas is currently VP for Artery Lock Technology Group, LLC, a firm that sells and installs biometric and electronic access control systems and camera systems as well as GPS-based tracking products throughout the region.
Liz Linder, Adjunct Faculty
Liz Linder makes photographs that are accessible and at the same time refreshingly unique. Liz has been a photographer with her own studio for over 20 years. She has photographed well-known musical artists like Aerosmith, Jimmy Buffett, and Carly Simon as well as indie and emerging artists such as Letters to Cleo, Howie Day, and the North Mississippi Allstars. She has also worked with corporations such as John Hancock, EMC and Millennium Pharmaceuticals; and with institutions like Harvard University, MIT and Berklee College of Music. Her commercial work has appeared in dozens of leading publications, including Rolling Stone, The New York Times and People Magazine. She's even appeared on On Point Public Radio and ABC World News Tonight. Her personal work is exhibited and collected throughout the U.S. and Europe.
Rachel Loischild, Adjunct Faculty, Photography
M.F.A., Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
B.A., Clark University
Originating from a small town in the pioneer valley of Massachusetts, Rachel Loischild has been an exhibiting artist for six years and also works as a freelance commercial event photographer. She is well-versed in both traditional and digital forms of photographic production. A common theme in her work is a sense of visual anthropology. Her connection to her work comes from a curiosity about other peoples lives and the way they live, what has happened in their lives, their "history," and how their homes and possessions express this to an outsider. Underpinning the work is the overall sense of an archeology of the present and an interest in the antiquated. Working with an 8 x 10 view camera Loischild has a level of control and a methodical way of working that allows her to form her thoughts and create the image she wants. A common visual theme in her work could be described as a kind of "all over-ness," an almost frenetic filling of the frame, often times with many small objects that help to tell the story.
Amy Baxter MacDonald, Part-Time Faculty, Media Arts & Animation
B.A., Hamilton College
Amy MacDonald came to NEiA from Soup2Nuts Productions in Watertown, MA, where she served as an animator, art director, character designer, storyboarder, and background/layout artist. Animation credits include Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist (Comedy Central, Peabody Award winner, Cable Ace Award), The Cosby Show (CBS), The Lewis Lectures (Annecy Film Festival), Hey Monie (Oxygen and BET), O'Grady (Noggin), Home Movies (Cartoon Network), Word Girl (PBS), The Dick and Paula Celebrity Special (UPN, FX) and others. She teaches oil painting and drawing in the area as well.
Len Mailloux, Full-time Faculty, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production/Radio & Television
M. Ed., Candidate, Cambridge College
B.A., Candidate, University of Rhode Island
A.S., Mount Wachusett College
Len has served as both a part time and full time faculty member at NEIA for the last 15 years. He has taught in the Radio/TV, Digital Media Production, and General Education Departments. His current courses in Digital Media Production include "The First Amendment" and "Media Ethics and Law". Beside his duties in the classroom, Len is the founding General Manager of All Independent Radio which was one of the first ten college stations in America to broadcast solely on the Internet to a world audience. Len works with the student managers and air staff to help them polish their product and learn the inside aspects of the business that will help them get started in a media or related career.
Len is a 28 year broadcast veteran having served as News Director/Anchor at such stations as KVIL in Dallas, Texas and WVBF/WKLB in Boston. He is also a working Voice-Over artist who has recorded more than two dozen audio books for the Library of Congress in Washington as well as Internet and commercial voice work for clients such as Motorola, Freescale, TechOnline, Boston University Medical Center, Comcast and others.
He has also been reelected to a new two year term as Vice President of Regional Development for the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS), which represents almost 1000 college and high school stations throughout the country. Len has served on the IBS Board of Directors for more than 5 years and is the organizer of the Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles regional broadcast conferences in the Fall and a major speaker and organizer at the National IBS Conference in New York City each Spring. Len is an award winning journalist both for his own documentary work and various awards and citations presented to his news department in Boston. Len loves to garden and is married to Dianne for more than 30 years and the father of two grown sons.
Barry Marshall, Full-time faculty, Associate Professor, Audio & Media Technology/Audio Production
M.Ed., Argosy University
B.A., University of Massachusetts, Boston
Barry was musical director/producer for Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame's LaVern Baker. Producer of 30 albums including LaVern Baker, Linda Hopkins, Peter Wolf, Aimee Mann, the Irresponsibles, and Rev. Lee Mitchell. He was winner of Musician magazine's Best Unsigned Band Contest. Barry has written songs for feature films including Dick Tracy and Rage in Harlem and for the Broadway show "Wild Women Blues" (1997-2000). Barry holds memberships in Broadcast Music Inc., National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Audio Engineering Society, and serves as the faculty advisor for The New England Institute of Art's Naked Ear Records.
Melissa McDowell, Faculty, Digital Media & Communications
M.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art
B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Melissa McDowell has written, directed and produced several 16mm short films and works as a script consultant to writers and producers consulting on over one hundred feature length films. She served as the Director of Development at RossWWMedia, and worked along side Academy nominated producer Niki Marvin (The Shawshank Redemption, Nightmare on Elm Street 3) and Alex Ross who discovered the writer / director of Gattaca and The Truman Show.
McDowell teaches Film, Video and Screenwriting at several area colleges including the Massachusetts College of Art where she received her M.F.A. in Filmmaking.
Recent exhibitions include: Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Common Language: Videos from USA, GALERIA 10+36 Mendellin, Columbia, South America, Small Works Show, Main Gallery @ SBCA, CAA Regional MFA Invitational Exhibition, Film and Video Works, Boston, MA, Art and Soul, Southborough Center for the Arts. MFA Thesis Exhibition, Paine and Bakalar Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art. Boston, MA.
Melissa is also the proud owner of a Boston based video production company that was recently nominated as the "Best in Boston" by CBS Channel 4.
Christopher McKenzie, Assistant Professor, Digital Film & Video Production and Photography
M.F.A., American University
B.A., Rice University
Chris McKenzie works as a freelance videographer and editor in Boston. Before moving to film and video, he worked in print journalism for six years, primarily as a graphic designer, photographer and photo editor. He never completely got over working in journalism and remains a news junkie to this day. He taught film and video at colleges and universities around Washington, C.C. for three years. He was Director of Photography for two feature-length narrative projects, edited two others, and served as production manager on another. He produced and edited a music video that was nominated for the 2004 Headbanger’s Ball, Best Video of the Year. He continues to work on narrative and documentary projects in both the Boston area and his home state, Oklahoma. He has also worked as a software tester for Avid Technology. On occasion, he dabbles in acting; this summer, he starred in a play called “Gin, Love and Kerouac,” which was staged in Cambridge by the Peripitus Theater Company. His acting coach, Bridget O’Leary, just happens to be his wife; she is a graduate student in the theater directing program at Boston Univerisity.
Sean McLaughlin, Adjunct Faculty, Audio Production
A.S., Massachusetts Communications College
Sean brings a decade of experience as a producer and engineer to The New England Institute of Art. He has worked at recording and mixing studios in the Northeast and Los Angeles. His clients include Seal, Dwight Yokam, Metallica, Maroon 5, Warren G., Rush, Marilyn Manson, Evanescence, Buckcherry and Death Row Records. While at Renaissance Recording Studios as producer/engineer, he also worked with Dave Foley, Duke Robillard Horns and Trigger Effect. Sean also spent time at Prophet Sound Studios in Stoughton, Massachusetts. Sean is a musician/performer in his own right, both playing and teaching bass. His discography includes A Tupac Shakur Compilation CD, the "Rush in Rio" live DVD, "Guns, God & Government" live DVD by Marilyn Manson and Maroon 5's "This Love" single.
Richard Mendelson, Part-time Faculty, Audio & Media Technology
Richard brings experience teaching engineering, advanced recording techniques, advanced mix techniques, multi-track recording, ear training and production courses to The New England Institute of Art. He was co-owner, manager and engineer at Boston's Syncro Sound Studios working with such clients as Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Cheap Trick, Paul Simon, Squeeze and Peter Wolf. He has taught music engineering, mixing and production at Berklee College of Music. His discography includes five international best selling Sampling CDs and CD ROMS, as well as "G" released in 1997 and Mike and the Mechanics "Beggars on a Beach of Gold" Platinum release from 1996.
Larry Miller, Full-time Faculty, Assistant Professor, Digital Media & Communications
M.Ed., Cambridge College
Larry Miller has over 27 years of experience eaching radio performance, production and Operations.Larry began his radio career as a teen-age disc-jockey in 1956 and has worked as a Program Director, Music Director,Production Director and News Director. He’s been heard on-air from Honolulu to Detroit, San Francisco, San Diego and Boston, where he can still be heard on WMBR’s retro “Lost & Found.” Over his career he has worked for the ABC FM stations in Los Angeles and New York City, as a classical music announcer at WCRB, WBUR and at W-Bach in Boston. He’s handled formats as diverse as 50s Rock n’ Roll, Big Band, Beautiful Music/MOR, Hawaiian, Folk, Country, Classical and Progressive Rock. Larry was a pioneer in the development of FM Rock Radio in the 60s and 70s, beginning in 1967 at KMPX in San Francisco.His work has been referenced in many books relating the history of radio and those who changed it.
Neil Miller, Part-time Faculty, Audio Media & Technology
BSEE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
After completing his studies in music and electronics, Neil was on the road for ten years in bands before settling down as an electrical engineer for Tom Scholz of the band Boston. He currently consults with several major corporations on circuit design and sound design for audio and medical electronics, programming for industrial automation, and product design for consumer electronics.
His designs include the Scholz Rockman, as well as circuitry for Ovation Guitars, Parker Guitars and Fishman Transducers. He continues to perform as a classical, jazz and R&B keyboardist, and has led the gospel house band for the original House of Blues in Cambridge. He has appeared at hundreds of venues large and small in the New England area.
Bruce Myren, Adjunct Faculty, Photography
M.F.A. University of Connecticut
B.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art
A graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Bruce Myren earned his MFA from the University of Connecticut at Storrs in May of 2009. Regionally, Myren’s landscape work has been shown at Panopticon Gallery, Artists Foundation gallery, Lillian Immig Gallery at Emmanuel College, and the William Benton Museum of Art. Recent group exhibitions include RSVP: Arbor online only at Michael Mazzeo Gallery, Groundtruthing at Seattle’s Soil Gallery and place.mark at the University of Michigan’s School of Art and Design. A current Art in Embassies Program artist, he has presented at the College Art Association and the Society of Photographic Education conferences. Myren’s latest exhibitions include solo shows at the Danforth Museum of Art and Gallery Kayafas, where he is represented. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Photography at the New England Institute of Art.
Although he shoots most of his personal work with his 8 x 10 Deardorff camera, Bruce has always been at the forefront of digital imaging technology. He started the digital imaging room at the professional camera store, E.P. Levine, Inc., in 1996, where he was the "Digital Evangelist" for 4 years. He has taught at the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University, served as the US tech rep for Eyelike medium format digital backs (now Sinar), and was a digital mentor for American Photo Magazine's Mentor Series. Bruce started his own freelance company, BeeDigital, in 1999 and continues today to help photographers, art directors, and publishing houses navigate the digital world.
More information can be found at brucemyren.com.
Tricia Neumyer, Assistant Professor, Photography
M.F.A., School of the Museum of Fine Arts
B.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art
Tricia Neumyer is a freelance photographic production specialist. She works with various clients in the Boston area including Jim Rohan Imaging, The Photographic Resource Center, Tim Gillman Worldwide, and The Boston Photo Collaborative. She is a fine art photographer and an Artist’s bookmaker, using a wide variety of techniques and equipment. Her work has been exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum, Aidekman Arts Center at Tufts University and the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham.
Tony Norton, Part-Time Faculty, Audio Production
MSMT Indiana University
B.S. Castleton State College
Dan O'Connor, Adjunct Professor, Photography
M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
B.F.A., SUNY
Dan O'Connor takes his interest in the narrative possibilities of multiple photographs and combined it with his interest in the interactions of man and nature. His works are built not only in nature and from nature, but also with various methods of assembling the photographs. The photographs create their own structure and language for viewing the photographic content. There is an investigation of man’s ability to be at once a part of nature and separate from it. His commercial work combines his artistic vision and applies it to other subject matter such as portraiture, architecture and landscape photography. There is a constant attention to detail and a respect for the medium of photography. He uses all the current forms photography to create his images; using medium format film cameras, digital cameras, and Photoshop to arrive at finished images.
Pete Peloquin, Full-time Faculty, Audio & Media Technology/Audio Production
Pete is co-founder and chief engineer of Boston Skyline Studios. He was the chief engineer for Waltz Audio and has also worked as a freelance engineer for Marky Mark, Letters to Cleo, Ed O.G., Big Shug and Wise Guys.
Sejal Petal, Adjunct Professor, Photography
M.F.A., Syracuse University
B.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art
Sejal Petal is a successful fine art photographer who has been exhibiting her work for nine years. She also works freelance in digital image manipulation and color correction. In her artwork, she constructs a life in an unfamiliar land in an effort to make herself a great performer, using her body and behavior in a particular way simply to reconstruct the existing space. She uses photography as a means to distill experiences in a frame that becomes much like a page in a diary. In making a still image of her real experience she is trying to distill imaginative participation versus physical participation. She allows her audience to logically interpret and recreate the space and time of the ‘original’ performance. In the context of contemporary society, her self-portraits became a search for self-definition and the other, where she, as a person or an artist, act as a negotiator between public and private. As a result of such unconscious behavior, she has now come to be classified as an Orientalist artist and the subject of her work as Oriental. Having spent most of her life in America, she sees herself as the cultural informant who practices Orientalism as a defense mechanism towards issues that she cannot resolve for her “oriental” self. She dominates her eastern origin by becoming prone to the occidental way of seeing her own culture.
George Pfromm, Part-Time Faculty, Media Arts & Animation
A.A., The Art Institute of Seattle
George has worked as an illustrator, storyboard artist and animator ever since obtaining his degree in 1993. His illustration work has appeared in magazines and newspapers, nationwide including the New York Times, the Stranger and the Portland Mercury. As an animator he has worked on a variety of things, from childrens television shows, to multimedia projects and games. Currently samples of his work can be seen at www.honoluludogfight.com. Currently I reside in Somerville.
Gabriel Polonsky, Part-time Faculty, Media Arts & Animation
Gabriel Polonsky is the Emmy nominated Owner and Creative Director of Gabriel Polonsky Studio that he founded in 1992. They fully produce of 2D character animation, mixed media, stop motion, clay animation and live action for national TV commercials, series opens, on-air network promos, web content and more. Polonsky also does creative development consulting, character design/development, illustration, cartooning, caricature, sculpture and model making.
Some projects include: National TV series opens for PBS, network ID's for Cartoon Network, Sci-Fi and Discovery Channels, commercials for The FDA, Volkswagen, Talbots, Filene’s and Marshall's Stores, sculptures of Barbara Walters for WABC-TV, a Nickelodeon Network and many clay animated commercials. Award winning Illustrations, cartoons and caricatures for The Boston Globe, print ads for Converse Sneakers and college textbook illustration for Prentice-Hall Publishers, animation character designs of Drew Barrymore and Ben Stiller for Miramax feature films and "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" for WNBC.
In January 2008 Polonsky had a one-man exhibit of his life's work at the gallery on the plaza at The New England Institute of Art titled "The Arts of Gabriel Polonsky; a retrospective of drawings, animation, design, cartoons, sculpture and everything in-between", where he currently teaches advanced 2D animation and drawing and perspective. Polonsky has also taught courses at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley College, The Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University and given workshops at Harvard University Mass Art and The Boston Museum School.
Don Puluse, Part-time Faculty, Audio & Media Technology
Don developed the major of Music Production and Engineering at Berklee College of Music. Two years later, in 1985, he was appointed Dean of the Music Technology Division. He retired from this position in 2001.
After completing his education at Eastman School of Music, Newark College of Engineering and Manhattan School of Music, Don served in the United States Marine Band, "The President's Own".
Don was a Studio Recording Engineer at Columbia Records in New York City for twenty years before accepting the position at Berklee. He received a Grammy nomination for Best Engineered Classical Recording of 1971 for his recording of the Leonard Bernstein Mass. He has also earned twelve gold and platinum albums, including Chicago II, Chicago III, Chicago at Carnegie Hall, Bob Dylan: Self Portrait and New Morning, Sly Stone: Stand, Everyday People and Dance to the Music, Janis Joplin in Concert, Ted Nugent: Double Live Gonzo, and Labelle: Night Birds and Lady Marmalade.
In 1998, Don became Chairman of the Education Committee of the International Audio Engineering Society, and was elected to serve one term as governor. He is currently on the AES Foundation Committee which awards graduate scholarships. He served two terms as Chairman of the Boston Chapter and is currently on the Executive Committee of the Boston Chapter of AES. Don is also a former governor of the Recording Academy.
Don is currently on the teaching staff and Advisory Group at the New England Institute of Art, and consults and lectures on the Music Recording Industry. He is also on the board of Symphony by the Sea, a North Shore professional orchestra.
Camilo Ramirez, Adjunct Professor, Photography
M.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art
B.F.A., Florida International University
Camilo Ramirez was born in Santa Monica, California. He received a BFA in Photography from Florida International University in 2001 and a Master of Fine Art from Massachusetts College of Art in 2006. He has been included in numerous group shows throughout Florida and the Boston area. He also works as a freelance graphic designer as well as a computer & digital-photography consultant. He is currently a member of the adjunct faculty at Massart and Emerson College. Camilo continues to photograph and work in Jamaica Plain, MA.
Jay Rinaldi, Full-time Faculty, Web Design & Interactive Media
M.Ed., Lesley College
Jay is the co-designer of www.scsounds.com, a streaming media consultant for Harvard Biotechnology Club, an audio/visual consultant for Entertaining Diversity, Inc., and handles Web development for www.n-newsletter.com. His former positions include: audio and video consultant for Core Group Ltd.; Lead computers, sound designer, and a/v compressionist for Sierra Online's strategy games for the Impressions Software division. He is an alumnus (Music and Theatre Arts) of Susquehanna University and of Berklee College of Music (Music Synthesis).
Chuck Rosina, Full-time Faculty, Digital Media & Communications
B.A., Hunter College
Chuck makes his living as a professional freelance sound person in the New England area. Most of his work is sound for video and television, but he also produces radio news and does multi-track music recording. He has been working in the audio field for 20 years. During the 1990s he was one of two staff audio people at the Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications (MCET) where he received an Emmy in 1999 for field and live broadcast work. His work as a freelancer is wide and varied, including Good Morning America, the B.B.C., and live sports broadcasts for CN8 (the Comcast Network). In addition, his sound work can be heard on car commercials, C-Span programs, and radio news reports on the Pacifica Network. Chuck started teaching Audio for Video at NEiA in the fall of 2005. He enjoys being part of this prestigious community.
Irina Rozovsky, Adjuct Professor, Photography
M.F.A., Syracuse University
B.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art
Irina Rozovsky was born in Moscow and moved to Boston with her parents in 1989. She studied French and Spanish and Tufts University and completed her M.F.A. in photography at Massachusetts College of Art in 2007. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including 25 Under 25: Up and Coming Photographers at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York City and published in the accompanying catalogue published by Duke University. Recently, she had a solo exhibition, Of Birds and Men, at the Carpenter Center, Harvard University.
Ukumbwa Sauti, Part-time Faculty, Audio & Media Technology/Audio Production; Part-time Faculty, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production/Television; Center for Professional Development, Digital Video Production
Rochester Institute of Technology
New Jersey City University
Pursuing M.Ed at Cambridge College
Ukumbwa is owner of DASKU! Music and DASKU! Productions. His experience ranges from video consultant/producer for Hands Across Massachusetts and the Midtown Cultural District to music producer/artist for Entertaining Diversity Inc. A songwriter/producer/keyboardist/percussionist in his own right, he's also a comedy writer and stand-up comedian. Ukumbwa has also worked with Boston's charter Match School program.
Anthony Schultz, Part-time Faculty, Audio & Media Technology/Audio Production
B.M., Berklee College of Music
An engineer with over ten years' experience, Tony is owner of Big T Productions.
Ray Sewell, Part-Time Faculty, Web Design & Interactive Media
B.A., Brigham Young University
Ray is a business analyst for a Boston-area software company where he has worked with companies like Red Hat, SUN, HP, EMC and Autodesk. He has worked with the internet and internet technologies for the last 10 years as a web designer, programmer, analyst, manager and corporate trainer.
Dorothy Shamonsky, Part-time Faculty, Web Design & Interactive Media
Ph.D., M.I.T.
SMvis, M.I.T.
B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design
Dorothy Shamonsky is a graphic and industrial designer specializing in the human-computer interface. She possesses broad practical experience mixed with deep theoretical knowledge in interface design and usability. Currently she coaches interface and usability design teams in creative and agile design methodologies as well as working as a designer. Her client list includes Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Viacom Networks, Merrill Lynch, Citibank, MOMA, and Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Her prior teaching experience includes Adjunct Professor, Computer Graphics Department, Pratt Institute and Associate Professor, Interactive Telecommunications Department, N.Y.U. She has a forthcoming book on the topic of mixed reality interfaces.
Allan Shapiro, Full-time Faculty, Audio & Media Technology/Audio Production
Al has 26 years of experience as a recording engineer, producer, and technician. He has worked at such studios as Power Station, Record Plant, Hit Factory, and Electric Lady. Al has worked with artists ranging from The Clash to Frank Sinatra. He has also done work on numerous films and television dramas.
Joni Siani, Part-time Faculty, Digital Audio & Media Technology
M.A., Candidate, Newbury College, Couseling Psychology
B.S., Newbury College
A.A., Quincy Community College
Joni hones in on the importance of teaching people to speak and write properly, a skill she has learned from 20 years as an on-air morning announcer in major market radio. She has also worked as an entertainment reporter for both television and radio, hosts a real estate TV show, and has her own production company providing sound and entertainment for corporate events. She is currently writing a book on relationships featuring celebrities such as Carl Reiner and everyday couples. In her spare time she sings with a band and works as a wedding DJ.
Rick Smith, Part-time Faculty, Audio & Media Technology
B.S., State University of New York, Fredonia
Rick has worked extensively in both sound reinforcement and television audio. He has worked for ABC, NBC, FOX, TNN and ESPN to name a few, As a freelancer, he has been responsible for the design, setup, troubleshooting and operation of all audio communications systems for television production. He has worked the Boston Marathon, the US Open tennis tournament, NBA and NHL games and on the induction ceremonies at the Basketball Hall of Fame. As a Live Sound Engineer, he has been the Front of the House Mixer, Monitor Miser as well as a system designer and technician in theaters, corporate settings, live television studio mixes and at music festivals. Career highlights include Woodstock 1994, the NHL All-star Game, HBO Boxing, World Cup Soccer and the Newport Jazz Festival.
Jane Souza, Dean of Academic Affairs, The New England Institute of Art
Ph.D., University of Nebraska, Lincoln
M.Ed.. Curry College
B.A., University of Massachusetts, Boston
Dr. Souza joined the Brookline-based College from CONNECT - a Southeastern Massachusetts Higher Education Partnership, where she served as both its Founding Director and Executive Director since 2005. In that position, Dr. Souza developed and led the CONNECT organization, worked with regional partners and with college and university faculty and staff to improve the quality, accessibility and affordability of higher education in southeastern Massachusetts. She planned, developed and delivered all CONNECT programs, projects, and activities while securing and managing the financial and human resources required to operate the organization.
In addition, Dr. Souza has served on the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education's Transfer Policy Implementation Team. She also has facilitated the development of the CONNECT Presidents' Transfer Program to encourage students unable to be accepted into the four-year institutions to begin their higher education at the community colleges. Dr. Souza also facilitated the development of a collaborative model through which the CONNECT Partnership could efficiently and effectively respond to employer hiring needs in the area.
Lauri Stevens, Chair, Web Design & Interactive Media
M.B.A., Bentley College
M.S., Boston University
B.A., Clemson University
Lauri is an interactive media professional who has developed titles for clients including IBM (Networks division), IBM Fun and Games, Scott Foresman/Addiso-Wesley, Lancet Media, and others. She spent 14 years in television and radio as a news reporter and anchor before making the leap to new media. She has also worked as a Senior Research Manager conducting world-wide customer satisfaction surveys for major high-tech clients including Compaq, Dell, Cisco, IBM and many others. In this capacity she built the first of its-kind online customer feedback system for IBM. She is a member of the Massachusetts Interactive Media Council, the Theatre Communications Group and has served on the boards of Women in Communications, Inc. and a local chapter of the American Red Cross.
Marlyn Tadros, Full-time Faculty, Web Design & Interactive Media
Ph.D., Cairo University (Egypt)
Certificate in Client Server Programming and Web Development
Marlyn Tadros, Ph.D. teaches web design and computer technologies at the New England Institute of Art in Brookline, MA. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Women's Department at Northeastern University and taught human rights in the Political Science Department. She was also a Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard University. Tadros has a Ph.D in Comparative Literature from Cairo University. She served on the Board of Directors of several local and international organizations, and is the executive director of a nonprofit organization called Virtual Activism. Tadros has numerous publications and articles. She has been appointed to the International Fellowships Panel of the American Association of University Women and continues to be a Research Fellow at the Middle East Center for Cultural Understanding at Northeastern University.
David Thibodeau, Part-Time Faculty, Audio & Media Technology/Audio Production
Mr. Thibodeau was trained in electronics in the Army where he worked mostly on tape recorders. He left the US Army in 1979 and worked for a consumer audio repair center.
In 1980 he began as an assistant engineer at Reel Dreams Recording in Bloomfield CT. In 1981 he moved to Nashville and toured with an up and coming country band as a drummer. In 1982 he attended Middle Tennessee State University and earned a BS in Computer Science with minors in Mathematics and Electronics. In 1987 he was hired as the chief engineer for the MTSU Recording program. During this time he also developed and taught the Recording Studio Maintenance course at MTSU.
In 1993 he left MTSU to pursue a career as a free-lance technician. He provided technical services for recording studios throughout New England and beyond. He has attended technical training seminars by various manufacturers, Sony, Neotek, SSL, Studer and Waveframe.
In 1998 he joined Professional Audio Design as the Vice President of Technical Operations refurbishing SSL recording consoles. He has also designed the wiring systems and consulted on systems design for many high end recording studios throughout the United States:
• Bennett Studios
• Aerosmith
• Southern Tracks
• Hit Factory NYC and Miami
• Metallica
• Big3 Productions
• Brian Wilson
• Wu Tang Clan
• Baseline Studios
• Blue Man Group
• Godsmack
• Jon Bon Jovi
• The Paley Center for Media in NYC
February 2005 he started a new company, DakingPlus, with partner Geoffrey Daking. Together they have been working on designs of digitally controlled analog products. He is still doing free lance work, last summer he went to Beijing to work on the summer Olympics installing and maintaining the commentary audio systems at the Bird’s Nest Stadium.
Bret Upham, Faculty, Digital Media & Communications, Radio, TV, Film & Communication
Bachelor of Science Degree in Mass Communication
Emerson College
Associate Degree in Mechanical Engineering
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Bret has more than 20 years of experience in the television industry. He was a production manager for The Chedd-Angier Production Company in Watertown, a world-renowned documentary company that produces shows for PBS. He worked as a consultant for Avid Technology. Through his travels in the past ten years, he has helped launch a USA Networks television station in the Boston area, and has worked as a editor/cameraman in Los Angles, New York and Boston. Bret has been all over the world for Hewlett-Packard documenting new software and product releases. Some of the shows and networks he has worked with are The Disney Network; CBS-Eye On People; ABC; Good Morning America; ESPN; Court TV; MTV; Real TV; American Movie Classics; Outdoor Life Network; Hewlett Packard; HBO; UBS Sailing Challenge; Extra; NBC-Today Show; America's Most Wanted; The Weather Channel and E! Entertainment. Bret also has produced and directed commercials for a local ABC affiliate.
Bret is a freelance producer, cameraman and editor.
Eric Welsh, Part-time Faculty, Audio & Media Technology
Eric Welsh was a major participant of the start-up company DiscLive, Inc. where he served on the Board of Directors and was the Company's Chief Audio Engineer. DiscLive was one of the first companys to record live concert CD's that were made available for immediate distribution to customers directly following the concert. Eric resigned from the company in 2004.
Eric is Co-Founder and Chief Engineer of The Show, a company that was formed along with a former partner from DiscLive. The Show records live concerts via multi-tracks, which are then mixed and mastered. The CDs (or even vinyl records) are then shipped to the customers a few weeks later. The Show has continued its success to this day and Eric has toured Europe, Japan, the UK and North America with many high profile acts including The Pixies and Dead Can Dance.
Eric is also a co-owner/engineer of a recording studio in Boston called Chill House Studios.
Visit www.ericwelsh.com
Jason Wiener, Part-time Faculty, Media Arts & Animation
B.A., Wesleyan University
Jason brings outstanding experience as an educator, professional 3D Artist, Illustrator, and Web Designer. Before The New England Institute of Art, he spent three years at The Art Institute of California San Francisco where he played an active role in the curriculum development for classes on 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Animation for film and games. He taught courses in theory and practical 3D applications, including Maya, 3D Studio MAX, Photoshop, and the Unreal Tournament Editor. In addition, Jason managed video game production teams and served as mentor of Game Production club.
Jeff Williams, Part-time Faculty Audio & Media Technology, Audio Production
B.A., UMass Lowell
In addition to being a musician, engineer and sound designer. Jeff was a sound designerfor 12 years for Kurzweil Music Systems, where he created sounds for the company's most successful products, in addition to product design and demonstration. While at Kurzweil Jeff worked with artists including Take 6, Tower of Power and Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater. Recent work along these lines includes a complete set of presets for the plugin company WaveArts. Jeff writes/produces/engineers music for the webbased machinima series The Strangerhood and Red vs. Blue. Jeff runs Blue Leopard Audio, a studio which caters to Boston upandcoming talent, and plays church organ on Sunday mornings.