Teaching Faculty

Adria Arch

Adria Arch works in paint and mixed media. Her work is represented in many corporate and private collections including the DeCordova Museum, Fidelity Corporation, the Boston Public Library, the Federal Bank of Boston, and Hale and Dorr, LLP.

Adria has taught at numerous venues in the Boston area, including the DeCordova Museum, Montserrat College of Art, and Mass College of Art and Design.
Adria has recently shown at the Danforth Museum and she completed a public wall installation at Lesley University. She is a member of the Bromfield Gallery in Boston. Adria has been a teacher with the GOLDEN Working Artist Program since July 2010.

See Adria’s work at: http://adriaarch.com

Jasmine Baetz

Jasmine Baetz has made things out of clay since she was very young, and it remains her primary tool for making sense of the world. She is interested in investigating history, belief, and identity.

She has taught art classes for children and families in different schools and studios in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. She has a BA in religious studies from University of Toronto, and is completing her BFA in ceramics at MassArt.

See Jasmine’s work at: www.jasminebaetz.com

Nina Berinstein

Nina Berinstein is a maker, drawer and observer of things. Curious by the organic forms around her, she is compelled to create in order to digest her surroundings and further understand them. Her ventures in clay began with functional forms on the potters wheel and have since traveled through varying methods of hand building until landing in coiled forms. Nina studied ceramics and art-based education at Bennington College, and since then has continued her studio art studies around the world in places like Buenos Aires and Barcelona. She continues her studio practice wherever she may be!

See Nina’s work at: www.ninaberinstein.com

Kinga Borondy

Kinga Borondy, a Rutgers University graduate, spent more than a dozen years learning pottery in a New Jersey studio with potter Gert Cook. She has been working in clay for more than 20 years; exploring throwing and hand-building techniques. Ms. Borondy is currently working with color, texture and perspective through water-soluble mediums and relief printing. Prior to teaching, she worked as a reporter and public relations expert in New Jersey for more than 20 years and is currently on staff in the Somerville school system.

Annie Buchholz

Annie Buchholz is a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a BFA in ceramics. While she is experienced in traditional ceramic techniques, she is passionate about mixed media sculpture. Annie takes a modern approach to the wheel, using it as a tool to make assembled sculptures. She finishes her pieces with encaustic paint and hand blown glass elements to create a multi-sensory experience through contrasting textures.

Mallorey Caron

Mallorey Caron grew up in the mountains of the Berkshires. She recently received her BFA from Lesley University College of Art and Design (formerly the Art Institute of Boston). She enjoys bookmaking and has recently gotten into sewing.

See Mallorey’s work at: www.malloreycaron.portfoliobox.io

Jodi Colella

Rebecca Cote

Rebecca Cote is a graduate student and teaching artist in Creative Arts in Learning, Community Arts Education program at Lesley University in Cambridge MA. Through community inclusive initiatives, she hopes to build positive identity, pride and ambition in youth and help rejuvenate communities through collaboratively identifying local assets.  She has been an entrepreneur and professional wilderness guide for over twenty years owning her own rafting company in northern California.  Her experience in and with the natural world informs her teaching and art making.  Rebecca utilizes her entrepreneurial experience to work independently as a guest artist for non-profit centers and evaluation reporter for teaching artists.  She graduated with a BA in Visual Art from Humboldt State University and has exhibited extensively on the West Coast.

Evan Farley

Evan Farley is a designer and artist who lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is currently attending Harvard Graduate School of Design as a Master in Architecture candidate. He received his B.A. from Bowdoin College in Visual Art. Farley’s work spans a broad spectrum from cinematic props showcased in major motion pictures to site specific public art installations and architectural design interventions.

See Evan’s work at: http://evanfarley.com/

Diane Fiedler

Diane Fiedler is an award-winning illustrator and designer whose clients include the Broad Institute, AstraZeneca, Gillette, WGBH-TV, Fidelity Investments, Planned Parenthood of NYC, and Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art.

Her illustrations have appeared on greeting cards and stationary, have been published nationally in textbooks and magazines for clients such as Harcourt Brace, ITP International,and CK Media, and appeared in The Boston Globe.

Her watercolor courses have been offered at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Tufts University, Boston’s Museum of Science, Arlington Center for the Arts, the Concord Art Association, and the Island Center for the Arts in Skopelos, Greece.

See Diane’s artwork at: www.diane-fiedler.squarespace.com

Bill Flynn

The art of drawing is really the art of seeing. At some point, the art of seeing encompasses the visible, but goes beyond that. It’s the art of seeing the invisible, the intangible. Known for his distinct “way of seeing,” renowned Boston-based artist Bill Flynn and has taught drawing to local artists and students.

Flynn has regularly exhibited his artwork in Boston and New York as well as around the New England region. He has been featured at the Boston Public Library, deCordova Museum, Victoria Munroe Gallery of Boston, MassArt’s Brant Gallery, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – to name a few. He is not only a distinguished artist, but also an author and former teacher at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which he graduated from in the 1960s. Shortly after graduating, he landed a teaching job at the school and proceeded to teach there for more than 40 years. Flynn has received many teaching awards and won fellowships in Spain and Japan.

Ann Forbush

Ann Forbush earned her BFA at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and her MFA at MassART in Boston. She studied textile design at Boston University and bookbinding at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine.

Her professional experience includes textile design for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, teaching printmaking and mixed media at deCordova’s School, and freelance work with two community theatre companies. Forbush has exhibited her artwork in regional, national, and international shows. She has received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and has work in the collection of The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC.

“I encourage each student to develop their own vision with techniques that appeal to their sensibilities. By providing exposure to a variety of processes, I strive to foster exploration and honor the joy of creative expression.”

See more of Ann’s work at: www.apforbush.com

Stacy Friedman

Stacy Friedman is a Boston-based artist, instructor, and collaborative printer. She received a BFA in Printmaking and History of Art from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her work uses a variety of printmaking techniques to explore themes of lineage, memory, and identity. She has been exhibiting her work nationally and teaching printmaking at local art institutions.

See Stacy’s work at: www.stacyfriedmanart.com

Randy Garber

Randy Garber has exhibited prints, paintings and mixed media installations nationally and internationally and is included in numerous public and private collections including The Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the deCordova Museum, Boston Athenaum, the Boston Public Library; the Karp Cancer Research Building, and the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf in Portland, ME.

She is a 2011 recipient of the Traveling Fellowship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and has received grants and awards from the Puffin Foundation, the St. Botolph Foundation, the Capelli di Angeli Foundation, Somerville Arts Council and several other sources. She is a published author of articles in Arts Media, the Journal of Communication Arts and Contemporary Impressions, the Journal of the American Print Alliance.

Her most recent solo exhibition, Made in Translation, was at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 2010 she had two solo exhibitions, which were reviewed in Art New England among other publications. She has been a guest artist at Princeton University and currently teaches Printmaking at the Massachusetts College of Art. She is a published author of articles in Arts Media, the Journal of Communication Arts and Contemporary Impressions, the Journal of the American Print Alliance.

See Randy’s work at: http://randygarber.com

Jane Goldman

Painter, printmaker, and public artist, Jane Goldman has been described as “an artist of vision and precision”; “one of this country’s most exciting watercolorists”; and “a true cognoscenti of the medium.” Her 60,000 + terrazzo installation at Boston’s Logan Airport is noted as one of the area’s most successful public art endeavors.

Goldman received her BA from Smith College and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin. She has taught at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the University of California Los Angeles, Rice University, and the University of Hartford, and also been a visiting artist at Harvard University and Artist Proof, South Africa. She has received various grants and fellowships to work at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland, the Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus in Germany, and the Cité des Arts in France.

Goldman is represented by Soprafina Gallery, Boston; Stewart & Stewart Fine Arts, Michigan, and McGowan Fine Arts, New Hampshire. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, the Peabody-Essex Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Library of Congress and many other public and private collections. Goldman is a founding partner of Mixit Print Studio in Somerville, MA.

See Jane’s work at: http://janegoldmanart.com

Raul Gonzalez

Raul Gonzalez teaches at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Brookline Arts Center, the Boston Architectural College, and the Maud Morgan Visual Arts Center. Raul is also an Afterschool and Outback Specialist teacher for the Agassiz Baldwin Community. He is a founding member of the Miracle Five artists collective and has exhibited his work in many galleries including the Bernard Toale Gallery, Space 242, NEGLAA, and the Aidekman Arts Center. With his wife Elaine Bay and under the pseudonym DieRaul, he has designed posters for bands and movies including Mates of State, the Blow, Shepherdess, and many more.

He is the recipient of a Boston Art Award and an Artadia award and is currently preparing for his second solo exhibition at Carrol and Sons. He loves to draw and share his love of art and drawing with people young and old everywhere.

See Raul’s work at: http://www.artbyraul.com/

Andrew Goulet

Andrew grew up in Lexington, MA. He received his BA from Middlebury College, where he studied biology and studio art. His background in the biological sciences and interest in the natural world have deeply informed his artistic practice. After graduating, he taught in Korea and New York City and has worked in artist’s studios and printshops. Since returning to Boston, he has completed a woodworking program at the North Bennet Street School.

Julie Graham

Julie is on the painting faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and in addition teaches private critique classes. She has taught summer courses internationally, both with SMFA and independently. She attended graduate school at the Central School of Art, London and received her B.A. from Hood College, Frederick, Maryland.

Her solo exhibitions included at the Victoria Munroe Gallery, Boston; Chase Gallery, Boston; Harcus Gallery, Boston; Cambridge Multicultural Arts Centre. Her Group exhibitions include: Frederieke Taylor Gallery, NYC; Stephen Haller Gallery and Art in General, NYC; Ruth Bachofner Gallery,LA; Kinkead Contemporary, LA; Neilsen Gallery, Creiger-Dane Gallery, Rose Art Museum, and Fuller Museum, Boston; Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire. Grants and Awards: Mass Cultural Council Award, Finalist; 2 Blanche Colman Awards, MacDowell Colony Residency. Her previous teaching experience includes: Rhode Island School of Design; Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; U of Massachusetts, Boston; Art New England, VT.

See Julie’s work at: www.juliesgraham.com

Nancy Hart

Lisa Houck

Lisa Houck works in watercolor, oil on wood, ceramics, mosaics and etching. Each medium allows her to invent new ways to express her view of nature through color and pattern. Her artwork has been exhibited widely, and is in numerous public and private collections, including The Boston Athenaeum, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, Fidelity Investments, four libraries in Broward County Florida, Hale and Dorr, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

See Lisa’s work at: www.lisahouck.com

Aleigha Howland

Aleigha is from Boston and was raised in the south shore and went on to earn her BFA in 2008 from The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, majoring in Photography.

Though she majored in Photography, Aleigha extensively explored mediums such as bookmaking, printmaking, painting and ceramics. She has a background in early childhood care and has worked creatively with children in after school programs, summer programs, art center programs, fundraiser and volunteer settings. Aleigha holds Lead Teacher certification from Massachusetts EEC in care for infants through preschool as well as school age qualifications. There is nothing more rewarding for her than the glowing smile on a child’s face when they learn something new or achieve a goal and realize what they are capable of.

Aleigha has personal work on display in multiple exhibitions and has won several awards. Her work is on display in the home of the president of Lesley University and is archived at the Boston Public Library. Though life would be void without producing her own art work, Aleigha’s highest passion lies in creating with children.

Joel Janowitz

Boriana Kantcheva

Boriana Kantcheva (she/her/hers), has lived and worked in the Boston area for over 18 years. She has received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and an MFA from School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University joint degree program. She has worked as an assistant teacher at the Carpenter Center for Visual and Environmental Studies where she has received several Harvard University Certificates of Distinction in Teaching awards. She currently holds a position as a gallery coordinator at Chandler Gallery in Cambridge. Boriana is a member of Bromfield Gallery and her work can also be seen at 13 Forest Gallery.

Mary Kenny

Mary Kenny uses many different methods and materials to make her art. Focusing on the relationship between humans, animals and the natural world, Mary has used animation, video, installation, and most recently ceramics to realize her vision. She is an avid crafter; using knitting, needle felting, woodcarving, and other materials to enhance her clay sculptures. She is currently an instructor and resident artist at the Harvard Ceramics Program in Alston, MA and has taught Sewing for many years at various local community centers. She holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from UMass Dartmouth. Her work has been shown at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA Carpenter Center at Harvard University, the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, and the Decordova Museum in Lincoln, MA.

See Mary’s work at: http://www.marykennymarykenny.com/

Catherine Kernan

Catherine Kernan is a painter and printmaker. Represented by Jason McCoy Gallery in New York, and Soprafina Gallery in Boston, Catherine has been showing professionally for thirty five years. She is co-owner, co-founder, and director of Mixit Print Studio, a professional open rental printmaking studio in Somerville, Massachusetts., and her teaching experience is extensive. Catherine Kernan’s work is in the collections of, among others, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Harvard Art Museums, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Boston Public Library, Grunewald Collection, New York Public Library, Library of Congress, and the Detroit Institute of Art.

See Catherine’s work at: www.catherinekernan.com

Angela Kimberk

Angela Kimberk received a BFA from the Mass College of Art through independent work on Peruvian archaeological textiles at Harvard.

While working with children developing science exhibits for the Children’s Museum, she became fascinated by how people make sense of the world, and how their understanding is expressed in what they make. As an artist in residence in the public school community, her focus was on broadening children’s ability to learn by including the arts and engaging their creative process.

In her studio work as a fiber artist, she indulges her passion for structure, form and color and often makes things reflective of human nature and the natural world. She also covers architectural elements, like walls and columns with shaped stone and is enthusiastically learning about printing on cloth with dye plants.

Angela lives in Cambridge where she grew up, and next to a tidal, fresh water river in Maine.

See Angela’s work at: www.akimberk.com

Lauren Levine

Lauren has a BFA Majoring in Ceramics from NSCAD University in Halifax, NS, and studied in China with WVU Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute summer program. She has travelled extensively and has participated in residencies at Guldagergaard in Denmark as well as Medalta in Medicine Hat AB. Lauren has worked in figure sculpting, wheel throwing, and slab-building and is interested in the combination of all of these in a single piece.

See Lauren’s work at:  laurenlevineceramics.weebly.com

Anne Lilly

Kinetic sculptor Anne Lilly uses carefully engineered motion to shift and manipulate our perception of time and space. Her highly ordered and precisely constructed interactive sculptures move in strikingly organic, fluid and mesmeric ways. Employing these opposing modalities — analytical and intuitive, rational and emotional — Lilly’s sculptures elicit new connections between the physical space outside ourselves and our own private, psychological domain. Usually fabricated in machined stainless steel, they require touch to initiate movement: contrasting clinical qualities against the sensuous response of each piece.

Lilly was nominated for the 2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize of Boston’s ICA. She has created public artworks for the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA, the City of Boston’s ParkArts program, and the Fort Point Public Arts Series. Her work was included in the 2007 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, in Lincoln, MA, has been collected by the DeCordova Musuem, and the Middlebury College Museum of Art, and corporate and private collections internationally.

Lilly holds a B.Arch degree, Magna Cum Laude, from Virginia Tech, has taught at Massachusetts College of Art, and collaborated with the DeCordova Museum’s on an annual institute for teachers, using kinetic sculpture to link the instruction of art and science in middle and high schools. Ms. Lilly is represented by the Rice/Polak Gallery in Provincetown, MA, and the Simon Gallery in Morristown, NJ.

“Anne Lilly’s captivating stainless steel sculptures … are so intricately engineered they appear to do magic. Tall rods rising from cylinders planted on gears rush toward each other, bowing, then fall away in one fluid motion. Rotating grills look like they’ll collide, then they miraculously pass. The movement of each sparely designed piece is full of grace and surprise.” — Cate McQuaid, the Boston Globe

See Anne’s work at: http://www.annelilly.com

Emmaline Lipka

Zackary Mickelson

Zachary Mickelson received his BFA with a focus in ceramics from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He trained in hand built figurative sculpture, but was also influenced by Japanese pottery techniques while studying abroad. He is currently focused on functional wheel thrown pieces and utilizes his sculptural background to explore alternative forms.

Mickelson apprenticed under Victoria Christen, a studio potter residing in Portland, Oregon before returning to Massachusetts. The journey from sculptor to potter and the relationship between these two aspects of ceramic art is central to Zac’s process. Also, an appreciation for craftsmanship of all kinds, and a respect for the effort and devotion that accompanies mastery of any skill. He is currently teaching ceramic classes at the Harvard Ceramic Program in Allston, MA.

See Zac’s work at: http://zacharymickelson.wix.com

Jennifer Murphy

Jennifer Murphy received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts as well as her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Tufts University. While she was traditionally trained as a printmaker Jennifer explores different modes of fiber, textile, mold making and sculpture processes to create installation environments.

Jennifer currently works at the Institute of Contemporary Art in the education department in addition to her varying roles at TILL where she is the gallery manager as well as the art teacher and counselor for diverse group sessions. Jennifer has worked in many different print studios such as the School of the Museum of Fine Arts where she was the shop monitor as well as the teaching assistant to woodcut artist John Schulz, Piscataqua Fine Arts in Portsmouth, New Hampshire where she spent a summer working for reduction woodcut artist Don Gorrvett, and Mixit Print Studio where she is the shop assistant. Jennifer has shown work locally and has been a part of several collaborative publications.

See Jen’s work: https://www.jennifer-marie-murphy.com/

Vanessa Norris

Vanessa Norris is a ceramic artist who makes functional tableware and often incorporates details visible only upon closer inspection, such as bumps on the lip of a cup or rounded wire protruding from the side of a butter dish. She has moved across the country several times to work for different artists, including production potter Bruce Larrabee in Park City, UT and nationally recognized studio potter Deb Schwartzkopf in Seattle, WA. In addition to assisting and learning from those in her field, Vanessa has instructed courses at MassArt in Boston, Moshier Art Center in Burien, WA, and Indigo Fire in Belmont, MA. Vanessa graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a BFA in Ceramics in 2016. She is an Artaxis member, has exhibited her pots in many states across the United States, and has been featured twice in the Exposure section of Ceramics Monthly. She currently lives and works in Boston.

Tiffany Playford

Tiffany Playford studied while teaching in The Ceramic Program sponsored by the Office of the Arts at Harvard. In addition, she is a ceramics teacher for Mather House at Harvard University. Playford also apprenticed with Stephanie Young and she has been teaching young potters for the numerous years at The New Art Center in Newton.

Her work is an exploration of color, form, pattern, and texture, qualities that come together in pots that are sensual, whimsical and immediately charming. She continues to study these questions in sculptural ceramics through hands on artmaking.

Nancy Popper

Nancy Popper holds an undergraduate degree from Bard College, and a graduate degree from Mass College of Art, as well as a certificate in printmaking from the Institute d’Arte in Venice, Italy. Her prints have appeared as illustrations in several publications, including the New Yorker Magazine and the Boston Globe Magazine. She has exhibited locally, most recently participating in a group show of women printmakers at 13FOREST Gallery in East Arlington, as well as in New York and Japan. Her work hangs in numerous private and public collections, including City Hall in Kanazawa, Japan, and the Office of Cultural Affairs in Boston City Hall. She has taught studio art at the Nashoba Brooks School of Concord, the Decordova Museum, and heads the Art Department for the Summer Arts Program at the Cambridge School of Weston. She currently teaches Art to Fifth and Sixth graders at the Advent School in Boston.

See Nancy’s work at: http://www.nancypopper.com

Wendy Prellwitz

Wendy Prellwitz is a painter. and printmaker. Her images are suffused with the richness of coastal light and atmosphere rooted in her connections to the North Fork of Long Island, Monhegan Island in Maine, and Ireland. Wendy attended the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She co-founded the architectural firm Prellwitz/Chilinski Associates in 1982, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Wendy has received multiple fellowships from the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, and a Grant-in-Aid from the St Botolph Foundation.

See Wendy’s work at: www.wendyprellwitz.com

Ian Prishwalko

Ian “EEN,” Prishwalko (en/een/eens) attended the School of The Museum of Fine Arts, receiving a BFA in Studio Art. A Painter/Printmaker by nature, Ian is traditionally trained in all printmaking processes, as well as many alternative methods – though, monotype has become a specialty. A self-proclaimed “outsider artist,” “jack of all trades, master of none,” Ian regards printmaking more as a lifestyle than an artistic medium. Ian uses print to address eens preferred themes of esotericism, spirituality, family, loss, and revival.

See Ian’s work at: http://www.ijprishwalko.com/

Jen Roberts

Lillian Rodriguez

Lillian Rodriguez is a multi-media artist & poet. She moved to the Boston area in August 2016 after living in Florence, Italy for year-long artist residency. In 2015, she graduated with a BFA from Alfred University School of Art & Design, with a minor in Art History. She has had her work & poetry shown internationally, and continues her practice while teaching art classes in various locations around the Boston area. She has been working with clay for over 10 years, and enjoys using it as a tool to experiment with & create the human form.

See her work and CV at: http://lillianirodriguez.weebly.com/

Mitch Ryerson

Mitch Ryerson is an artist, designer, and craftsman specializing in wood structures and furniture. He began his career building wooden boats in Maine, and then attended Boston University’s Program in Artisanry, receiving his BA in Furniture Design in 1982. He was a founding member of Powderhouse Woodworkers where he had his studio for 24 years before moving to his current studio in the Boston neighborhood of Allston in 2013.

His work has been exhibited extensively and is in numerous private and public collections including the Fuller Craft Museum, the Mint Museum, the Boston Public Library, and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Ryerson’s many commissions for Boston-area parks and schools are enjoyed by thousands of children and adults each year.

Ryerson is also a teacher. He has served as an instructor at the Haystack Mountain School and the Penland School of Crafts, among others. He is currently an adjunct professor of furniture design at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

See Mitch’s work at: http://ryersondesign.com/

Vinicius de Aguiar Sanchez

Vinicius de Aguiar Sanchez is an interdisciplinary artist whose works explore printmaking, animation and sound. His short films often explore narratives in mythology, history, literature and folklore. His work has been shown in international exhibitions, and festivals. He attended Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, B.F.A 2011, and the Studio Arts Center International in Florence, Italy, Post Baccalaureate 2012.

See Vinicius’ work at: www.instagram.com/vico_2017 & www.youtube.com/lampiao87

Janet Scudder

A professional with a Masters Degree’s degree in Visual Arts Education, a Bachelors Degree in Studio Art and more than 20 years of experience teaching art in a variety of setting from public and private elementary and middle schools, community-based arts centers, museums and museum schools as well as as a private instructor.

I have taught art in various forms to classes of between 5 and 50 students. I am familiar and comfortable with a number of art forms including ceramics, drawing in various media, painting and muti-sculpture. I have a vast knowledge of art history and expressions. I relate well to people of all ages and am able to help students develop their creativity even when they once thought they weren’t creative or artistic.

Alexandra Sheldon

Alexandra Sheldon lives and works in Cambridge. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Previously a still life and landscape painter, Alexandra began making collages in 1998 and has not stopped since. She enjoys teaching collage and drawing workshops in her Central Square studio as well as in and around Boston.

See Alexandra’s work at: www.alexandrasheldon.com

Heddi Siebel

Heddi Vaughan Siebel is a multi-disciplinary artist who has been on the fine arts faculty of Wellesley College and the Massachusetts College of Art, and the visiting faculty of Harvard University, Boston University and Rhode Island School of Design. She holds an M.F.A. from Yale University and a B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design. Her paintings have been exhibited at the Allan Stone Gallery, New York; the Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York; the List Arts Center, Cambridge. MA; the deCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA and the Boston Public Library, MA. Her prints and paintings are in private collections, and the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the deCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, the Boston Public Library, and the Yale Art Gallery.

Heddi’s print and installation artwork originates from the expedition journals, archival photographs and films taken on the Ziegler Polar Expedition of 1903 where her grandfather Dr. John Colin Vaughan was Assistant Surgeon. Support for her project has come from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, WGBH Filmmaker-In-Residence the LEF Foundation, the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, St. Botolph Club Foundation, Graham Gund, and others.

See Heddi’s work at: http://www.heddisiebel.com

Robert Siegelman

Robert Siegelman holds a diploma, and a Fifth Year Certificate, from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He teaches at the Museum School/SMFA, The Eliot School in Jamaica Plain, and Maud Morgan Arts. He leads workshops and consults with artists privately, as well. For many years he co-directed Art In Amsterdam, a workshop and residency program for artists and art students from around the world.

Siegelman’s work is in many important collections including the Boston Public Library, MIT, the Harvard University Art Museums, The Danforth Museum of Art, The Art Complex Museum, the deCordova Museum, the Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, the Leather Archives and Museum, Chicago USA, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
His work has been published and reviewed internationally in a variety of publications including The Sciences, XNOTDEAD, and Mascular Magazine. He is included in the book “100 Boston Artists” organized by Chawky Frenn, and “Self Portraits by Others” organized by Hunter O’Hanian. Upcoming publications include “Identities Now: Contemporary Portrait Photography” organized by Peter Hay Halpert. In 2013 Siegelman was included in: “Untitled Male Id” at the William Angus-Hughes Gallery in London England.

He is a recipient of various grants, and has participated in two residencies at the Vermont Studio Center. Siegelman’s artwork is represented at Gallery NAGA in Boston and McGowan Fine Arts in New Hampshire.

See Bob’s work at: www.robert-siegelman.tumblr.com

Annie Silverman

Annie Silverman is a relief printmaker and book artist who has been creating experimental work with print installations, printed dimensional objects and books for over 20 years, many of which contain printed, collaged elements. In 2007 she formed ABRAZOS PRESS with Sandra Butler and Nina Wishnok at the Miller Street studio building in Somerville, MA. ABRAZOS PRESS is a small teaching and professional studio where workshops are routinely given in Mixed media printmaking, Woodcut printmaking and Artist Books.

For many years Annie taught Artists Books and Relief Printmaking as a part-time instructor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Her work has been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally, most recently In Gronningen in the Netherlands, and at the Cahoon Museum of Art in Cotuit, MA. She has created solos exhibitions over the past 3 years at Philips Andover Academy,in Andover, MA,  and at Bentley University in Waltham, MA. Her dimensional print collage:”Le Cirque Imaginaire” was just accepted into the 2019 Boston Printmakers Biennial, which will be exhibited at Wellesley College in September 2019.

Annie has conducted teaching and artist residencies in Ireland and Denmark, and will return to teach a Master Class in Pronto plate (polyester plate lithography) this coming May at the Fynsk Graphic workshop in Odense,Denmark next to the Hans Christian Andersen Museum. She is working on a book project: 18 years of Woodblock Prints, which she hopes will be published in the Fall of 2019.

She curated her first exhibition, THE DICTIONARY PROJECT, at the Brickbottom Artists Gallery in Somerville in 2005. In 2015 she curated THE BIRDS AND THE BEES, at the NAVE ANNEX Gallery in Somerville and in August 20017,once again at the NAVE Annex in Somerville, Annie curated ABRAZOS PRESS’s 10 anniversary exhibition: Wondrous Strangeness.

Roz Sommer

Roz Sommer has taught art to children from kindergarten through high school for over 30 years in two New York City independent schools, before moving to Cambridge in 2009. She received a B.S. in Art Education from New York University and continued to study art at Parsons, Pratt, School of Visual Arts, and New York University.

Since moving to Cambridge, she has worked full time as a visual artist and has been in many group shows including exhibits at the Cambridge Art Association, Fountain Street Art Gallery and the Danforth Museum. In 2012 she had a two-person show, “Coincidence”, at the Chandler Gallery of the Maud Morgan Arts Center.

See Roz’s work at: http://rozsommer.com

Julia Talcott

Julia Talcott is a graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Arts in Michigan and works as an illustrator, printmaker and printmaking teacher in the greater Boston area.

Her illustration clients include magazines, books, advertising and design agencies. Creator of the 1996 Christmas stamp for the US Postal Service, she has received 4 certificates of design excellence from Print Magazine. In 2013 she was awarded The Otis Philbrick Memorial Purchase Prize at the Boston Printmakers Biennial for the collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and a Frances Roddy Prize, at the Concord Art Association, Concord, MA. In 2014 she was awarded 1st prize at the Summer juried show “Off the Wall” at the Danforth Museum, Framingham MA. Julia is a Boardmember of the Boston Printmakers and represented by Bromfield Gallery. She has shown her work in various group shows both in the Boston area and nationally and is included in the collections of many corporations as well as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

See Julia’s work at: juliatalcott.com

Texas Trinity

Alice Turkel

Alice Turkel has taught woodworking and other crafts to students from pre-school through college. She has teaching experience in public school, private school, afterschool and summer camp settings. She has received three grants from the Cambridge Arts Council for her work with public school children.

She worked for many years as a stage carpenter and then a cabinetmaker before attending Boston University’s Program in Artisanry, where she completed her bachelor’s degree in Woodworking and Furniture design. Alice is deeply invested in education for children and has served six terms as a member of the Cambridge School Committee.

Christopher Wallace

Christopher Wallace is an artist, lithographer and educator based in Cambridge, MA. He received his MFA in printmaking from the University of North Texas in 2013, and his BFA in printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2010. He has held teaching positions at the University of Houston, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Glassell School of Art, and Lonestar College.

See Christopher’s work at: South Paw Press

Jenn Wood

My work is influenced by nature, humanity, decay, and renewal. Content may allude to water, environmental concerns, urban or rural sites, and human Psychology. Personal concerns referred to in much of my work are the invaluable resources of nature and water; they are critical stimuli in which I have Been immersed since childhood, as often as possible. The work is based in Painting/Mixed Media and Photography. I utilize traditional and non-traditional art processes, materials, and tools, which I find to be irresistible. Compositional concerns include line, color, light, texture, and degrees of transparency.

Building on my interest to interpret time and memory as tangible imagery, I contemplate these phenomena, and employ materials and processes to represent them as physical and emotional layers. I am inquisitive by nature and drawn to experimentation to find new approaches to my work. The processes of Painting/Mixed Media and Photography animate my fascination with the universe and where I fit in.

See Jenn’s work at: www.jennwoodstudio.com

Daniel Zeese

Daniel Zeese is an artist, designer, and educator practicing in Boston. His latest work explores populations, belonging, and identity within an urban environment. His work investigates what it means to be within civilization while on the edge of the wilderness. Outnumbered, on the fringe of what is accepted in the city, celebrated from a distance, and threatened to exile by the powers of the majority. Daniel reacts to the continuing history of violence within cities against the people who, while defining the cultural identity of a place, are often misunderstood, attacked and objectified.  Later we experience the outcome, the resulting martyrdom, through the master cultural narrative. Daniel received a Bachelors of Fine Arts, Sculpture, from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2010 and a Masters in Architecture from Boston Architectural College in 2016. He has worked internationally directing the design of major installations in the public realm for the art studio of Janet Echelman since 2012.

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