Graphic & Interactive Design Faculty

Adjunct Professor
Phone: 603-585-9803
Email: cporter1@mwcc.mass.edu
Education: MFA, Goddard College

Courses Taught:

• GID101 Design Theory
• GID104 Digital Imaging
• GID117 Typography in Visual Communication
• GID204 Advanced Digital Imaging
• GID299 Portfolio Preparation and Production

Coni is the principle at CPorter Designs, a boutique design studio in southern New Hampshire. She is a visual designer who produces publication and book design for multiple publishers, brand design for small to medium sized companies (ranging from B&Bs and museums to retail stores and restaurants), and grant-driven public art projects about Climate Change. She has won design awards, received grants, and has given multiple media interviews about her contemporary visual work.

Department Chair
Phone: 978-630-9347
Email: l_cullen@mwcc.mass.edu
Education: BS Communications Media/Graphic Design, Fitchburg State University

Courses Taught:

• GID101 Design Theory
• GID104 Digital Imaging
• GID115 Digital Illustration
• GID202 Publication Design
• GID299 Portfolio Preparation and Production

Professor Cullen has taught graphic design at Mount Wachusett Community College for 24 years and has served as the Department Chair for the graphic design program for the since 2005. She has worked for many local and national clients during her tenure at Mount Wachusett Community College including non-profits such as the Relay For Life and Glenn’s Friends, and various local and national businesses.

A passionate and dedicated professor, she is committed to offering the very best design education to her students, and continues to be energized by and excited to teach each new class of students who enter the Graphic & Interactive Design program.

Adjunct Professor
Email: marlyntadros@gmail.com
Education: Cairo University

Courses Taught:

• GID109 Introduction to Web Design
• GID113 Interactive Web Design
• GID209 Advanced Web Design

Marlyn Tadros taught computer and internet technologies as well as programming languages at the New England Institute of Arts in Brookline for 19 years. She was also a Research Affiliate at the Middle East Center at Northeastern University, and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University’s Law School. She currently teaches web design and UX at Southern New Hampshire University.

Professor
Phone: 978-630-9223
Email: p_swerzenski@mwcc.mass.edu
Education: Master of Arts

Courses Taught:

• GID109 Introduction to Web Design
• GID110 Introduction to Animation
• GID112 Communication in Multimedia Design
• GID235 Typography in Visual Communication
• GID240 Creative Web Design I
• GID241 Creative Web Design II
• GID242 Interactive Web Design
• CIS127 Computer Technologies
• FYE101 First Year Experience

Professor Swerzenski has been an Organizational Development Consultant, Manager of Employee and Management Development, Instructional Designer, Train-the-Trainer Instructor, Safety Trainer and Private Consultant to educational institutions and Fortune 500 technology companies. He moved from the corporate world to education when asked to design the MWCC Web Design Program.

He is interested in developing environments which erase learning barriers and increase access to knowledge in ways that surprise, intrigue and amaze.

Lab Technician
Email: thilljr@mwcc.mass.edu
Education: AA in Art and Graphic & Interactive Design, MWCC

Tom Hill studied both Art and Graphic & Interactive Design while a student at Mount Wachusett Community College and graduated with two associate degrees from MWCC. He is a compassionate, genuine, and calm force for students and faculty alike, providing much-needed critique, feedback, and support in all areas of the Graphic and Interactive Design curriculum and program.