Instructors

Artist in Residence - Danielle Krcmar, MFA

Danielle Krcmar received her MFA from UMASS Amherst in 1996 and her BFA in Sculpture in 1992 from SUNY Binghamton where she received the SUNY Binghamton Foundation Award. She received the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant in 1993, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant and the Blanche Colman Foundation Grant in 2001. Her work has been shown in the The Fuller Art Museum, The Art Complex Museum, The Gallery at Green Street, and other galleries in New England and New York. Her work has been covered in the New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, and Arts Media. She has taught at Brandeis University, Clark University, The Museum School in Boston and is currently Artist-in-Residence at Babson College.

Trim Room 220
781-239-5888
dkrcmar@babson.edu

Cartoonist in Residence - Hugh MacLeod

Hugh MacLeod is a cartoonist dedicated to drawing illustrations that spread messages and support businesses. He began by giving away his cartoons and blogging about them. Through his blog his cartoons began to gain more attention, opening a whole new market that longed for them. As a result, MacLeod now sells his drawings. His work at Babson began in 2011. He creates cartoons specifically geared toward entrepreneurship and what it means to Babson and Babson students. His work is inspiring, simple and yet complicated at the same time. MacLeod has also released books about how Web 2.0 affects marketing and advertising.
To learn more about Hugh MacLeod visit his blog: http://gapingvoid.com/
To see his work at Babson visit:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/babson_college/sets/72157627979870057/​

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Photography

David Akiba

David has been making photographs for 42 years. His work is in the collections of Boston Museum of Fine Art, The Fogg Art Museum, The DeCordova Museum, the Brooklyn Art Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, The Library of Congress and others. He received a Master of Fine Art in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design where he studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. His first notable solo show occurred at the Creative Photography Gallery, MIT during Minor White’s tenure. He has had a retrospective exhibition of his work covering almost 30 years at the Wiggin gallery of the Boston Public Library. A solo exhibition of his family photographs entitled “A Separate Journey” was recently exhibited in New York City at the 93nd Street Y. His “Light-struck” photographs were included in an exhibition entitled, “luminous Form, Abstraction in Color Photography” at the DeCordova Museum. He is represented by gallery Kayafas, www.gallerykayafas.com He is an adjunct professor of photography at Emerson College and Babson College. He has six children and lives in Jamaica Plain with his wife Jane.

Josephine Burr

Josephine Burr is a sculptor and ceramic designer with 20 years' experience exhibiting and teaching in clay. She received her MFA in Artisanry/Ceramics from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and was Director of Education and Studio Operations and Artist-in-Residence at Greenwich House Pottery, one of the largest and oldest ceramic art centers in New York City, from 2002-2007. Ms. Burr has taught at Harvard University, UMass Dartmouth, and Babson College as well as numerous art centers, and exhibited her work nationally. Her porcelain work was featured in Calvin Klein's Home Collection in 2006. In addition to her artwork, Ms. Burr is currently Chief Operating Officer of Anomia Press, a small publishing business run by Ms. Burr and her husband Andrew Innes. Anomia Press publishes and markets the Mensa award-winning card game Anomia, which came to market in 2010 and sold over 25,000 copies in its first year. Ms. Burr's ceramic sculpture incorporates minimalist forms with richly layered surfaces, using traditional ceramic processes as well as other media such as wax encaustic, graphite, and print transfers. She focuses on layering imagery and texture to evoke a sense of memory and time in her pieces. Her work will be on view in Babson's Hollister Gallery opening on February 2, 2012.

Mo Yang

Mo Yang ‘14 has been a ceramics enthusiast since high school. She loves to explore and to push the boundary of what clay can do through creative ideas and experiments. She is attentive to details and skilled at wheel throwing, hand building, and glazing techniques. In 2010, at the “Next: Emerging Talent” exhibition, her work “African Dream” earned the Nancy Braender Award from Canton Artists’ Guild. Mo is very excited to share her skills and passion for ceramics with interested beginners!