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The MassArt Graduate Programs and Photography department are pleased to welcome Max LaBelle, Jen Mawson, Nick Ortoleva, and Jyoti Liggin as the Alumni Panel of the Spring 2025 Photography Lecture Series. Please join us in K406 at 2:00pm on Tuesday, March 25th.

 

Max LaBelle, BFA 2019
Max LaBelle is an artist living and working in Central Massachusetts. He graduated from MassArt in 2019 with a BFA in Photography, and is currently completing his MFA at the University of Hartford’s international low residency program. He has worked as an assistant and studio manager for Abelardo Morell for the past six years. His most recent body of work examines and questions the post industrial landscape and its materials through still lifes and rephotographed objects. A selection from this ongoing project was most recently shown as part of the group show A Field of Blue is Not a Sky at Villa Heike Gallery in Berlin.

Jen Mawson, MFA 2020
Jen Mawson (she/her) (b. 1994 Bamberg, Germany) is a photographer who lives and works in Massachusetts. She received her MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a BA from the University of Missouri in Interdisciplinary Studies, with an emphasis in Photography, Religious Studies and English. After years of practicing and working with photographers at every stage of the photographic process she has maintained a reverence and healthy hesitation of the medium. Her practice is situated in the tradition of pointing a camera at the mundane, everyday and overlooked wonders of the world observed. 

Nick Ortoleva, BFA 2024
Nick (b. Seoul, Korea) grew up in Central Massachusetts, and currently resides in Boston where he works as a Fine Art Printer and Digitization Specialist at Digital Silver Imaging. 

Nick uses his camera to document and shape a segmented narrative through his lens. He often reflects on personal experiences and his relationships with the communities in which he has found kinship. He frequently references stories he hears of family and traditions passed down through his heritage as he continues to write a memoir through his own visual language, warping perception, color, and light. In his most recent work, he explores family archives and returns to Seoul, Korea for the first time since his birth to uncover what an unknown place of origin can hold for the individual as a means to discover Oneself.

Nick received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (24’). During his time as an undergrad, he was awarded the Gertrude Kasebier McPhee Grant (23’) and the Gertrude Kasebier Palmer/Tourlentes Travel Grant (24’), which he used to travel to Seoul and begin his reflection on place. Nick has shown work in group shows at Abigail Ogilvy SoWA, Panopticon Gallery, and the Photographic Resource Center Boston.


Jyoti Liggin, BFA 2021

Jyoti Liggin is a baker, crafter, curator, and photographer that uses her art to discuss topics like family, mental health, and identity. After receiving her BFA in Photography from MassArt, she relocated to her hometown of Oakland, CA where she currently works as a photography studio manager and as gallery manager at Oakland Photo Workshop. Her photography work has been exhibited at Panopticon Gallery in Boston, MA and Oakland Photo Workshop in Oakland, CA and in online exhibitions by the Darkside Collective and Too Tired Project. Her curatorial work has been featured at Panopticon Gallery (Boston, MA), Oakland Photo Workshop (Oakland, CA), and the Asian Resource Center (Oakland, CA). She also recently began teaching workshops at the EBPCO Community Darkroom in Oakland, CA.

 

 

All Photography lectures are free and open to the public

Questions? Contact gradprogram@massart.edu

 

Image detail: Nick Ortoleva, Lost in the Cosmos Fields, 2024

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