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Robert
Baart, Painter
Diploma, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
(1969), SMFA Traveling Scholarship recipient (1970).
Mr. Baart has been teaching renaissance painting
techniques at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston, MA for many years. He has lectured and
demonstrated historical painting methods for numerous
organizations including the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, MA, The Gardner Museum, Boston, MA and Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA. His paintings are in
the collection of the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis
University, Waltham, MA and the DeCordova Museum
and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA and numerous corporate
and private collections.
Recent exhibitions include the Bromfield Gallery,
Boston, MA; Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA; and the
Newton Free Library, Newton, MA. In 1986 he produced
the video documentary GOLDBEATING: The Making of
Gold Leaf, which won an award at the American Film
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Joel
Babb, Painter
BA, Princeton University (1969); MFA, School of
the Museum of Fine Arts (1974). Exhibitions include
Vose Galleries in Boston, Sherry French, Gerold
Wunderlich, The National Academy in New York City,
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Portland Museum
of Art, the Ogunquit Museum in Maine, Arnot Art
Museum, Frost Gully Gallery, Trudy Labell Fine Arts
in Florida, and many other galleries and museums.
Among Mr. Babb’s numerous corporate and university
commissions, he has completed paintings for the
Charles Hotel, Cambridge MA, Harvard Business School,
Cambridge, MA. Additionally, his recreation of the
first successful kidney transplant hangs in the
Countway Library at Harvard Medical School, Boston,
MA.
www.joelmbabb.com |
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Vincent
Crotty, Painter
Vincent Crotty was born and raised in Kanturk, Co.
Cork, a small town in rural Ireland. In 1990, Crotty
immigrated to Boston, where he began studying classical
painting techniques as well as plein air painting.
Over the years, he has studied with notable artists
and teachers such as Kevin MacPherson,
John Kilroy, Mark Daily, Gregg Kreutz, David Leffel,
and the internationally acclaimed marine artist
John Stobart. He was the 2001 recipient of
the John Stobart Foundation Award for Excellence
in Plein Air Painting. His portrait of Irish poet
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill hangs in the esteemed
Irish Collection in the Boston College Burns Library.
Selected galleries currently representing Crotty
include: Aisling Gallery (Hingham, Mass.), John
Silvia Gallery (Nantucket, Mass.), Kensington-Stobart
Gallery (Salem, Mass.), and Mystic Seaport Gallery
(Mystic, Conn.).
www.vincentcrotty.com |
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Laura
Davidson, Book Artist, Painter
B.F.A., Kansas City Art Institute (1981). Laura
Davidson is a book artist and painter. Using mixed
media techniques, she creates paintings, sculpture
as well as both unique and limited edition books.
Laura is the recipient of numerous grants and awards
including NEA and The Artists Resource Trust Fund
Grant. Her limited edition and unique books are
found in public and private collections throughout
the United States, Canada, and England including
the The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, The Cleveland
Art Institute, Cleveland, OH and The Getty Center
for the History of Art & the Humanities, Santa
Monica, CA
www.lauradavidson.com |
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Jay
Higginbottom, Painter
BA, Architecture, Lehigh University - (1993), Bachelors
of Architecture - Boston Architectural Center (1997),
Shape of Two Cities Urban Planning Program - Columbia
University (1991). Additionally, Mr. Higginbottom
studied watercolor locally with Frank Constantino
and Myron Barnstone, at Barnstone Studios, Coplay
PA as well as with John Lovette in Italy. He has
exhibited his work locally for the past ten years.
His 2006 exhibit at the Gulu-Gulu Café, “Paris
Under Winter Skies,” featured watercolors
based on recent travels.
www.jacobhigginbottom.com |
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Mary McCarthy , Book Artist
BA Art & Ed., William Paterson University (1974). Mary started teaching in public schools but in 1978 was hired by Phillips Academy where she taught photography for 14 years. Her interest in bookmaking started while teaching, since 1982 she has been making one of a kind and limited edition books which are in collections such as The Library of Congress, Getty Research Institute, Houghton Library and the Tate. She has received numerous grants to travel to Senegal, W. Africa for research about the country and the slave trade from Goree Island. Presently she is on the Faculty of Suffolk University teaching Artists Books in the Graphic Design Dept. She has two published books; Making Books by Hand, coauthor with Philip Manna, 1997 Rockport Publishers, and A Closer Look, 2007 Greenwillow books imprint of Harper Collins. |
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Lisa Knox,
Painter
MAT
in Art Education (‘91) BFA in painting (‘83)
Diploma in painting (’80) School of the Museum
of Fine Arts in affiliation with Tufts University
. Lisa’s work is in collections throughout
the U.S. She has been invited to demonstrate portrait
painting at many museums and art organizations,
including the University of Michigan Museum of Fine
Art and The Children’s Museum in Boston. |
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Peter Madden, Book Artist, Printmaker, Alternative Photographer
Peter Madden has been teaching books arts and alterative printmaking and photo processes for over fifteen years. He is on the faculty of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Massachusetts College of Art as well a workshop leader and lecturer throughout the United States . Recent venues include the Center for Book Arts in New York City, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, The San Francisco Center for the Book, The Decordova Museum, Brigham and Young University, Harvard University and Brandeis University. His own books, boxes and prints have been exhibited regularly and extensively for over two decades, are included in the collections of major museums and universities, have received numerous prestigious awards and are featured in over two dozen publications on book arts and printmaking.
www.petermadden.com
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Bonnie Mineo, Painter, Printmaker
BFA (96) and Diploma (98) from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in affiliation with Tufts University with a concentration in painting and printmaking. Previous to Museum School, Bonnie had a 20-year career in graphic design, which included owning her own business, PORTFOLIO, on Newbury Street. Her work intuitively evokes her travels and journeys incorporating painting with mixed media techniques and encaustic. She has been developing a low-tech, non-toxic printmaking process on foam plates creating exciting relationships with color, shape and texture. Bonnie has teaching experience at DeCordova Museum and the New Art Center. She has exhibited in Santa Fe, Martha’s Vineyard and locally for the past eight years and her work can be found in privatecollections.
www.bonniemineo.com |
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Janet Monafo, Painter
BA from Regis College, attended Mass College of Art. Janet is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the National Endowment for the Arts, the New England Foundation and the National Academy of Design. In 2002 she was selected for the Pastel Society Hall of Fame. Her one-person shows include the Allan Stone Gallery and Sherry French Galleries in New York. She has also participated in many group exhibitions including the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in NY, the National Academy of Design, NY and The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Her work is in public collections including the Arkansas Art Center and the Delaware Art Museum.
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Paul
Rahilly, Painter
Paul Rahilly graduated from Tufts University and
studied painting at the Art Students League in New
York.
He has exhibited nationally for over thirty years
and received numerous awards. Among them are grants
from the National Endowment for the Arts, Adolph
and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, National and
Massachusetts Artists Fellowship in Painting. Mr.
Rahilly exhibits at Gallery Naga, Boston and at
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Stephanie
Stigliano, Book Artist, Printmaker
BFA from Philadelphia College of Art (1980). MFA
in Painting and Printmaking, Massachusetts College
of Art (1988). Her prints and artist’s books
are in numerous museums
and public libraries including the Fogg Museum, the Houghton Library of Harvard University,
the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the National Museum
for Women in the Arts. Her local and national exhibits include the Hess
Gallery of Chestnut Hill, MA; Mobilia of Cambridge,
MA, City Arts of Wichita, KS, and SOFA of New York,
NY. Stephanie is currently on the faculty
of Pine Manor College and has been teaching book
making and pop-ups to children, teens and adults
for many years.
www.stephaniemahanstigliano.com |
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Ed Stitt, Painter
BA, Kent State University,
MFA, Massachusetts College
of Art. Exhibitions include
Tibor de Nagy and Gallery Henoch in New York City as
well as numerous one person shows at Gallery Naga.
His work has been featured in the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park and the Boston Athenaeum and is included in corporate and private collections throughout New England.
www.edstitt.net |
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Randal Thurston - Artist
M.F.A., Boston Museum School/Tufts University (1983). B.F.A., Southeastern Massachusetts University, Summa Cum Laude, (1979). Randal has exhibited extensively, received numerous grants and awards -recently completing a public art project for Cambridge River Festival in Cambridge, MA. His one person show, entitled Wunderkammern opened at the Fullercraft Museum in Brockton, MA in 2006. His artwork has been featured at the Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, MA and The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL. Randal currently teaches at New England School of Art Design at Suffolk University. In addition to his faculty position at NESAD he has been the artist in residence at local public and private schools - collaborating with students and teachers on a variety of projects. |
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Nancy Wolfe - Artist
Nancy received her M.F.A. in Painting in 1994 at Eastern Michigan University and is a lecturer in Art at EMU, Ypsilanti, MI. She has taught painting at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and was an interim Professor at Adrian College, Adrian, MI. She received her bachelor’s degree in Education at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. Her Visual Journal workshop is taught yearly for EMU’s Art Department and at Wayne State University’s Art Therapy Program in Detroit, Michigan. |
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