Art Faculty

Elissa Chase

Adjunct Instructor

J.D., Tulane University | M.Phil., University of Glasgow | BS, Beloit College

Elissa Chase is an Adjunct Lecturer in Art History. er courses include Art History 1: Pre-history to the Renaissance and Art History 2: Renaissance to the Present. She has also taught at Assumption College, Clark University and Worcester State University. Her courses include History of Western Art; Art in the 19th Century and Renaissance Art.

Elissa came to Mount Wachusett from a career in the law. She has worked in Chicago, London and Paris as well as the Boston area. Elissa earned her bachelor’s degree from Beloit College, her M.Phil. at the University of Glasgow and her J.D. at Tulane University.

Jesse Connor

Assistant Professor
(978) 630-9340
jconnor14@mwcc.mass.edu

MFA, University of Michigan | BFA, University of Massachusetts

Jesse Connor works in printmaking, painting, and drawing. He has experimented with combining these elements to create surfaces and images on both small and very large-scale work. His images explore the relationship between the form and function of industrial and domestic spaces and artifacts. Connor has exhibited abroad in Cameroon, West Africa, and Berlin, Germany. He has also shown in Key West, Florida, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and in various venues in Massachusetts. His most recent show was at A.P.E. in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Connor has taught at a variety of colleges in the Northeast. He teaches currently at Springfield Technical Community College and Mount Wachusett Community College and has taught a variety of drawing, painting and printmaking courses at the University of Massachusetts and Bennington College. He maintains a studio in Leverett, MA. jesse-connor.weebly.com

John Pacheco

Emeritus Professor

MFA, Painting, Boston University (studied under James Weeks) | BA, Studio Art, Yale College (studied under William Bailey)

1972-78 Art teacher, Watertown, Ma: St. Patrick’s High School, 9-12; East Junior High School, 7-9; Browne School, K-6. Thorpe, England – Tasis School 8-12. 1980 to present: Art professor, painting, drawing, design, art history, Mt. Wachusett Community College, Gardner, MA. John is married with five children. Art Pictured: “Mind’s Eye”, 30″ x 30″, oil on linen

Joyce Conlon

Adjunct Instructor
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MFA, Hartford Art School | MA, Anthropology | BFA, Painting, Pratt Institute

Joyce Conlon is a painter and has exhibited her work on the East and West Coasts of the United States and in Europe including: Startup Art Fair at Hotel del Sol, San Francisco, Galeria Tetove in Tetovo, Macedonia, Galeria Qahili in Prishtina, Kosovo, Galeria Centar in Podgorica, Montenegro, Hampden Gallery at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Silpe Gallery at the University of Hartford, Hartford CT.

Ms. Conlon was a 2017 MacDowell Fellow. She has also been awarded residencies from the Vermont Studio Center and was an invited participant in International Artist Symposiums in Carei, Romania and Struga, Macedonia. She is the recipient of grants from the University of Hartford and the Vermont Studio Center.

Ms. Conlon has a B.F.A. in Painting from Pratt Institute, M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts and an M.F.A. from Hartford Art School. She has taught at the Richmond Art Center in Richmond, CA, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in Novato, CA. She taught drawing and painting at Mt. Wachusett Community College from 2010 – 2013 and has returned to teach in Spring 2018.

Joyce Miller

Professor, Department Chair
978-630-9221
j_miller@mwcc.mass.edu

MFA, Sculpture, UMass Amherst | BFA, Painting, Illinois State University

Joyce Miller is a Professor of Art at MWCC and instructs ceramics, drawing, and foundation courses. She received her B.F.A. in painting from Illinois State University and her M.F.A. in sculpture from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Upon graduating, she studied ceramics for 8 years in a production studio. She was a member of the Soho 20 gallery in New York City, has exhibited at East West Gallery in Chicago, and has participated in many invitational and juried exhibitions at colleges and galleries throughout the United States. Her recent work includes sculptural clay pieces and mixed-media drawings.

Mary Crawford

Adjunct Instructor

MFA, UMass Amherst | MALS, Wesleyan University | BA, Vassar College

Mary teaches at Keene State and Mount Wachusett Community College, and has exhibited throughout New England at venues including Studio 220, New York, NY; Flywheel, Easthampton, MA; Paper City Studios, Holyoke; Keene State College, Keene, NH; A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA; Gallery A3, Amherst, MA; Pure Light Gallery, Turners Falls MA; Canal Gallery, Holyoke, MA.

She was an Artist in Residence at Tallix Foundry, Beacon, NY.

Susan Montgomery

Adjunct Instructor
Represented by Bernard Toole Gallery, Boston
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BFA, Printmaking, Hartford Art School | MFA, Painting, University of Massachusetts

Tracie Pouliot

Adjunct Instructor
traciepouliot.com

MFA, Community Art, Maryland Institute College of Art | BFA, Pratt Institute

Tracie Pouliot grew up in central Massachusetts. She received a Bachelor of Fine Art from Pratt Institute and a Master of Art in Community Art from Maryland Institute College of Art. She is the artist behind People You May Meet, her online hand-drawn portrait business. She also founded the Chair City Community Workshop where she works with community members in downtown Gardner to make letterpress-printed, hand bound books from interviews with former furniture workers. Her work combines community art, printmaking, book arts, drawing and illustration, oral history and participatory events. She has participated in many regional juried exhibits, and received several grants for the Chair City Community Workshop as well as being the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in 2017.