instructors
Adria Arch
Instructor
BFA Carnegie Mellon University, MFA Massachusetts College of Art
Adria Arch is a painter, mixed media artist, teacher and arts administrator.
Her work is represented in many corporate and private collections including the DeCordova Museum and Fidelity Corporation, the Boston Public Library, and the Federal Bank of Boston, and Hale and Dorr, LLP.
She has taught painting, drawing, and printmaking at Montserrat College of Art, Endicott College, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and the DeCordova Museum of Art.
Her work was recently featured in a solo show at the Danforth Museum of Art. Adria will have a solo show at the Bromfield Gallery in July of 2012. Her work will be featured at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, MA, in the summer of 2013.
Jason Asselin
Master's degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art, BFA from Montserrat
Jason Asselin has been making artwork on the North Shore for eight years. He received his BFA from Montserrat in 2001. He holds a Master’s degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has concentrated his intentions towards interactive work in a variety of mediums. Jason is the artist behind the Highway Heart, a heart sign that was hung on Route 128 North in Danvers. The artwork raised interest from Salem News and Fox 25; it has turned into a charity to raise donations for the United Way of Massachusetts Bay. Jason’s website is www.highwayheart.org.
David Atkins
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA
David teaches a Foundation course at Montserrat College of Art. He has taught painting and drawing for several art centers including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, and the 92nd Street Y Art Center in New York City. While David has worked in abstract, landscape, and figurative modes he is primarily a figure painter. He has a studio in Manchester by the Sea, MA and currently shows in New York City.
Marjorie Augenbraum
Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs
B.A., History, Boston University; M.A., Art History, University of Massachusetts
Marjorie has been teaching Art History at Montserrat since 1999. She has also taught Art History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she received her M.A., and has worked at the Smith College Museum of Art Education Department. Currently, she also teaches at the Boston Center for Adult Education.
Jordan Bentley Ricks
BA, Colorado College, MFA, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Jordan Bentley Ricks is originally from Northern California, and she earned her BA in Creative Writing from The Colorado College in 2005. After moving to Boston she earned a Post-Baccalaureate degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2008, and in May of 2010 she graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with an MFA in Photography. She currently works and lives in Boston.
Kim Bernard
Working with encaustic, both 2 dimensionally and sculpturally, Kim Bernard exhibits her work nationally. Intrigued with the phenomena that objects and places have the power to elicit an air of spirtuality her works are simultaneously archaic and contemporary, implementing contrasting materials such as wax, lead and ceramic. Bernard is represented by Arden Gallery in Boston, Bowersock Gallery, Provincetown, MA, Fenn Gallery, Woodbury, CT, McGowan Fine Art, Concoard NH and Hawthorn Gallery, Birmingham, AL. She teaches at the Maine College of Art and regionally as a visting artist. Bernard is the founding member of New England Wax, a professional association of artisit working with encaustic, and has offered numerous presentations on encaustic and sculpture, acted as an invited juror and guest lecturer. www.kbernard.com
Ethan Berry
Professor
B.S., Kutztown State College; M.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art.
Ethan teaches in the Printmaking department at Montserrat, as well as Senior Seminar, and has been teaching here since 1977. A producer and designer for film, video, and performance events, he is past president of the Board of Directors of the Boston Film/Video Foundation, which was founded in 1976 in order to provide for artists an organizational support system for the creation of independent film video. He is a co-partner in ART ON DEMAND, a consulting group that provides arts programming and design consulting services. His work has also been shown at the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; the University of Massachusetts; the Provincetown Young Artists' Exhibition; and the Drawing Show at the Mills Gallery, Boston. More recently, he curated the exhibition, Seeing is Believing: Skeptical Print Activity at HallSpace Gallery in Boston in the spring of 2003. His work was also included, with several other Montserrat Printmaking faculty, in the exhibition, Printmaking on the North Shore, which was in the River Gallery in Ipswich, MA in the spring of 2003.
Wilbur Blair
BFA, Boston University, MFA, University of Michigan
John Bonner
John Bonner has been making animated films for 35 years, starting when he was 15, when several of his cartoons were shown on the BBC in the UK. Since then he has made hundreds of animations, including a series of cartoons for the Children's Channel starring his creation, Link Anchorman, the world's first web 2.0 character, before there even was a web. Currently he specializes in making online animated shorts for the big educational publishers, explaining anything from how brakes work to how to behave yourself. Over the years he has worked in every format known to man, from film to video to digital, in more mediums than he cares to remember, but consider Flash to be the best tool he's ever seen, and wishes it was around when he started out, because by now he would've created the animated version of "War and Peace."
Dinah Cardin
Boston University, M.A. Communication
Drury College, B.A. Communication
Founder and Editor of ART Throb a multi-media online arts magazine for the North Shore. Dinah was a former Staff writer for various newspapers on the North Shore; the Salem Gazette, North Shore Sunday , Merrimack River Current, Saugus Advertiser and Wakefield Observer. She has taught writing for Media and communications at Salem State College. Visit www.nsartthrob.com
Kimberly Collins Jermain
Kimberly is a landscape painter and architectural color designer. She holds a BFA and an MFA in painting from the University of New Hampshire and Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She has received fellowships and residency grants that have supported her work on location in France, Palau and Iceland recording color in nature. She lectures widely about color in architecture, art and design.
Damian Cote
B.F.A., Cum Laude, Psychology and Fine Arts, UMass, Amherst
M.F.A., Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design
Damian Cote is an artist, carpenter, and teacher. His research interests include the topics of military life, war, social interaction, and human shortcomings. He works using drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and digital media. He is the owner and lead carpenter of Holyoke Carpentry since 2003. His artwork has been exhibited at the IPCNY, College of Notre Dame, and the Boston Printmakers North American Biennial. He has lived and worked in Okinawa, Japan, South Korea, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and currently in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Zoe Culbertson
Zoe Culbertson is a teacher, linguist, translator, artist, and shiatsu practitioner. She has studied and worked in Japan and Australia and has traveled extensively. She spent three years assisting a Japanese papermaker and artist outside of Tokyo, Japan. Her work includes traditional Japanese papers, plant fiber papers, artist books and alternative photographic processes. She cofounded The Boston Paper Collective in 2009. Currently pursuing a masters in acupuncture at the New England School of Acupuncture in Newton, she also practices shiatsu (a form of Japanese bodywork) in and around Boston at Shiatsu Moon (www.shiatsumoon.com).
Ned Delaney
Art Institute, Boston Museum School, Tufts University
Ned Delaney has published nearly 30 books. Half of the titles are books he's written and illustrated, the others, illustrated for other authors. He's worked for magazines, textbooks, TV and advirtising. He attended The Art Institute of Boston and graduated from the Boston Museum School and Tufts University.
Ron DiRito
Faulty, Chair :Photography & Video
B.A. Metropolitan State College;
M.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design
Professor and Chair of Montserrat College of Art Photography and Video Department. Before coming to Montserrat, Ron DiRito worked as a freelance photographer for various newspapers, magazines and photo agencies. As an artist Ron has received numerous award for his photography. His work is exhibited nationally and held in many public and private collections. Ron has been recognized in Who's Who Among American's Teachers for his dedication to his students and teaching.
Jeannie Donovan
BA, Emmanuel College; MFA, UMass/Dartmouth
Jeannie is a painter and papermaker and more recently has studied graphic design at Mass College of Art. Working mainly in watercolor, acrylic and oil, she also creates pulp paintings out of handmade paper, a technique she learned at Rugg Road Handmake Paper studio in Boston. She has taught extensively on the high school and college level and has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in Boston, New York City, Nantucket and Cape Cod. Her imagery is derived fromt he memory of a place or event - areas of line, color and texture create the emotional resonance of the experience.
James Durrett
Education: B.A., Art Education/Art Studio, University of Kentucky, Lexington; M.F.A., Vermont College, Montpellier, Vermont
James received a B.A. in art education/art studio from the University of Kentucky and an M.F.A. from the Vermont College of Art. He teaches workshops on stone and glass at The Carving Studio in West Rutland, Vermont, and has shown work at The Carving Studio, as well as Sculpture Fest, Woodstock, Vermont, and the North Bennington, (Vermont) Sculpure Fest.
Ian Factor
B.F.A., School of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse, NY, Certificates of Accomplishment: Massacusetts College of Art, Museum of Fine Arts School, DeCordova Museum School
Ian Factor was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and began traditional training in figure drawing, painting and sculpture at the age of eight. He studied at the DeCordova Museum School in Lincoln Massachusetts, the Museum of Fine Arts School and Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Factor earned his BFA from the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University in New York. After a residency at the Rocky Neck Art Colony in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Factor spent several years travelling and producing artwork throughout the United States. From 1994-1999 Factor taught at Montserrat College of Art while also working heavily in the commercial art field producing illustrations, murals and designs for corporate clients including Burton Snowboards, Timberland Outdoor Gear, Converse Footwear, Magic Hat Brewery, Vail Associates, Bank Boston(Fleet Bank) and IBM.
Logan Faerber
Jim Falck
BFA, Montserrat College of Art
Radiant Design: Painting by Jim Falck, Montserrat College of Art Gallery: "Jim Falck's colorful watercolors bring to mind Stuart Davis's jazzy modernist style and John Marin's deep engagement with the places he painted." The Boston Phoenix, 5/22/07
Yetti Frenkel
Yetti Frenkel specializes in painting large scale murals of people and animals. Her paintings chronicle the urban scene, portraying diverse populations that makeup contemporary communities. She has worked with children, businesses and community organizations to create murals that brighten and enhance neighborhoods, schools, and institutions.
Tara Merenda Nelson and Gordon Nelson
Tara Merenda Nelson is a Boston-based filmmaker, curator and installation artist. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums basements and backyards throughout the United States and Canada, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In February, 2011, she curated a four-city tour for French experimental filmmaker Rose Lowder. She has worked as an intern at the Harvard Film Archive and WGBH's Antiques Roadshow, and holds an MFA in Film/Video from the Massachusetts College of Art.
Gordon Nelson is a Scottish born filmmaker, educator and curator who was raised in Pennsylvania and is married to Tara Merenda Nelson. He teaches filmmaking classes at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Massachusetts College of Art and Design and Somerville Community Access TV and has curated film programs at MoMA (NYC) and the Carnegie Museum of Art. He is also a founder of Jefferson Presents, a microcinema collective with over 100 independent screenings.
Carrie Green
BFA, Montserrat College of Art
Bill Hanscom
MFA, University of the Arts, Philadelphia; BFA, Montserrat College of Art
Bill's bookbinding and letterpress printing practices sprouted from his studies in graphic design while attending Montserrat. Since that time he has studied bookbinding and letterpress printing within the University of the Arts MFA Book Arts program in Philadelphia.
His work is largely text-driven with an emphasis on dry humor and typography. His work has been exhibited at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; The Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Middleton Library Printmaking Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; and Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL. His work is held in the collections of Columbia University, The Free Library of Philadelphia, and numerous private collections.
Outside of Montserrat, Bill is employed by the Weissman Preservation Center at Harvard University Library, where his work as a Project Book and Paper Conservation Technician is a constant source of inspiration for his creative practice.
Tim Harney
MFA, BFA, UMass Amherst
While he is a painter above all else, Tim is passionate about teaching. And after so many years of it, he is confident about the solid understanding his approach provides. "The drawing ethic along with the formal considerations I introduce puts the student in a stronger position to choose the visual language and means they wish."
Tim was born in Montserrat's hometown of Beverly, MA in 1955. He attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. In addition to Montserrat, he has taught painting and drawing at the DeCordova Museum School, the University of New Hampshire and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
Tim has exhibited in Boston, Seattle, New York , La Jolla and Boca Raton. In 2001, Tim's work was included in the landmark exhibition: Painting in Boston 1950-2000 at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park. Lincoln, MA. His work is in the permanent collection of the DeCordova Museum as well as in many private and corporate collections.
Blyth Hazen
BA, Austin College
MFA, Massachusetts College of Art
Blyth Hazen received her B.A. from Austin College, Sherman, Texas and her M.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art. She is an Associate Professor at Montserrat College of Art. In addition, she serves as the Education Coordinator at Do While Studio, a Boston-based non-profit organization working with art, technology and community-based projects. She has a background in painting and has been working with digital media since the mid 1980s. Ms. Hazen collaborates with Jennifer Hall on large-scale art/robotics installations, some of which have been installed at the DeCordova Museum, Keene State College and Phillips Exeter Academy. In 2003, she was a recipient of the St. Botolph Club Grants-in Aid award and co-authored a chapter in the book Women in Technology recently published by MIT. More of Blyth Hazen's work can be seen at www.dowhile.org/physical/people/hazenb.html.
Sarah Hulsey
Sarah Hulsey studied letterpress at the Bow & Arrow Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her work has been in shows at Soulard Art Market in Saint Louis, Missouri; the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University; the Fourth International Book and Paper Triennial and the Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois; and 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland, Oregon. She is a board member of the College Book Art Association and serves on its Book Art Criticism Task Force.
Michiko Imai
Michiko Imai was born and raised in Nara, Japan. She began her studies of
Calligraphy at the age of four at Baikou Calligraphy School. When Michiko
was 25 years old, she received a membership to the Tenshin Kai (calligraphy
society) and her life as a calligrapher began. Michiko progressed to the
next level, becoming a member of the Cho-ko Guild which is the most
prestigious calligraphy society in Japan. During her apprenticeship, she
taught calligraphy and studied the art of Japanese silk scroll making
(hyougu) at Mizuno Hyougu.
In 1998, Master Calligrapher Michiko Imai was awarded the highest rank in
Japanese Calligraphy of Shihan. She currently holds a guild licence for
teaching both calligraphy and instructing teachers to teach calligraphy.
Michiko Imai is among the few to have won multiple best of category awards
in national competitions (Japan). Her work has been displayed at the Tokyo
Metropolitan Art Museum, Osaka Municipal Museum Of Art, Nara City Museum Of
Art and Kyoto Municipal Museum Of Art.
Jahna Jabbour
BFA, Montserrat College of Art
Jahna Jabbour is a recent Montserrat College of Art Graduate and practicing artist. Her
recent body of work focused on documentation and the exploration of passing time. This body
of work was constructed with minimal materials and objects found in her every day. She is
constantly expanding her use of material and encourages risk taking and playfulness in her work
ethic.
Masako Kamiya
Education: B.F.A. and Diploma, Fine Arts, Montserrat College of Art; M.F.A., Painting, Massachusetts College of Art.
"My goal as an instructor is not to simply tell students what may make their art work better, but to demonstrate how to think and work as an artist."
A 1997 graduate of Montserrat, Masako joined the full-time faculty at Montserrat teaching in the Painting and Foundation Departments in the fall of 2002. Her solo show at Kingston Gallery in 2002 was featured in Art in America. Now represented by Gallery NAGA, her solo show there in February 2003 was praised in The Boston Globe and ArtsMedia Magazine and her work is included in the publication, New American Painting. She has been featured in other venues in Boston including HallSpace and a show titled Boston Abstraction Now: Selections from New American Paintings edition #44, at the OSP Gallery in Boston, spring 2003.
Education: B.F.A. and Diploma, Fine Arts, Montserrat College of Art; M.F.A., Painting, Massachusetts College of Art.
Amy Lithimane
MFA,Studio Art Teaching - Boston University, 2010
BFA,Graphic Design, Boston University, 2009
Amy has taught and volunteered in the visual arts in urban and surrounding schools around the Greater Boston area with students of all ages. Certified teacher in the visual arts PreK-12. Attended the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia in Venice, Italy, studying digital photography and printmaking. She teaches digital photography at Boston University’s MA Online Art Education summer intensive programs, Montserrat College of Art, and at Endicott College. Amy has extensive experience with film and digital photography. Works as a freelance graphic designer and photographer in the Boston area with clients from non-profit organizations, technology and fashion companies, and with local area musicians. Finalist in Photographer’s Forum Best of College Photography in 2010 and Best of Photography in 2009.
Maria Malatesta
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Fifth Year Certificate and Diploma, Lesley College, BS
Diploma and Fifth Year Certificate, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. BS, Lesley College, Cambridge, MA
Maria has been teaching Mixed Media and Painting for 12 years. She has assisted teaching programs in Umbria, Italy and in Tortola, BVI. In 2009, her work was exhibited in a two person show outside of Philadelphia and received a favorable review in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Maria received a grant to the Vermont Studio Center and her work has been accepted twice into the National Prize show at the Cambridge Art Association. She has been included in numerous group shows throughout the Boston area. Maria works in her studio in the South End of Boston. Her work can be seen at the Chameleon Gallery in Newburyport, MA.
Jules Means
After studying ceramics in college Jules Means studied jewelry making in classes from Montserrat to Metalwerx to Sharon Arts and Sturbridge Village. For many years her focus was on fiber arts. She taught sewing and quilting classes at several local fabric stores including Stretch n Sew in Danvers and Cranberry Fiber Arts in Hamilton. She has taught and demonstrated wool spinning, knitting, embroidery and felting. Largely self-taught she loves to think of new designs and inspire students with ideas and encouragement. Making jewelry with simple tools, wire and beads is her latest passion.
Nathalie Miebach
Massachusetts College of Arts, MFA, Sculpture, MS Art Education
Oberlin College, BA, Political Science and East Asian Studies
Nathalie Miebach is a professional artist and teaches "Sculptural Weaving" at Massachusetts College of Art.
Nathalie's work focuses on the intersection of art and science and the visual articulation of scientific observations or theories. Nathalie works will be exhibited in 2010 at the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA and a solo exhibition at Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI. Recently she had a solo exhibition at Schick Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY and Amherst College. Her work has been featured at the Museum of Science, Boston, MA, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem , MA, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA and DeCordova Sculpture Museum, Lincoln, MA. Gallery representation at Cynthia Reeves Gallery, New York City, NY. Visit her website www.nathaliemiebach.com
Vladan Milenkovic
Vladan Milenkovic received a classical piano training in former Yugoslavia since his early childhood. He also developed an interest in jazz and improvised music from his early age. While studying biology at the University of Belgrade, Vlad had led his acclaimed jazz trio in former Yugoslavia before receiving a scholarship to study jazz composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1991. After spending some years working as a freelance performer and a music instructor in Boston, he completed his Masters degree in Jazz Pedagogy at University of Northern Iowa, and is currently on faculty at Augsburg College in Minneapolis.
Website: http://vladanmilenkovic.com/
Michael Miller
Bea Modisett
Instructor
BFA, Montserrat College of Art.
Bea Modisett graduated with her Bachelor of Fine Art Degree with Honors from Montserrat College of Art in 2007. Bea’s work is fueled by her love of travel, her most recent paintings attempt to capture the power, stillness and scale of land formations found in Utah which she first experienced during an epic cross country road trip. She has attended the Vermont Studio Center and Hambidge Center on fellowships for four and five week residencies and currently manages the Studios at Porter Mill - an artist studio building in Beverly. When she isn’t painting, Bea can be found exploring New England, reading, making plans for her next big trip and updating her blog (www.beamodisett.blogspot.com).
Matt Murphy
BFA, Massachusetts College of Art; MFA , University of Washington
Matthew Murphy is a painter living and working in Boston MA. He received his BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and his MFA from University of Washington in Seattle. He has shown at the Henry Museum, Crawl Space Gallery, University of Massachusetts Boston, Wentworth Institute of Technology and, most recently, Machines with Magnets. Matthew has taught at University of Washington, Boston University Academy, University of Massachusetts Boston and currently at Montserrat College of Art.
Tammy Nohelty
BFA, Montserrat College of Art; M.Ed. Salem State University
Tammy Picone Nohelty has been a practicing artist and arts educator in New England for 18 years. She received her BFA in Graphic Design and Photography from Montserrat College of Art in 1992. She holds a Master’s degree in Education from Salem State University in Visual Art and is licensed by the State of Massachusetts for K-12 studio art. She is currently teaching visual arts in the Marblehead Public Schools and is the Arts Curriculum Director for the Tower School's Arts At Tower summer programs. Tammy’s personal studio work is primarily focus is on alternative and digital photographic landscape imagery.
Rose Olson
B.A. Tuft University, Montserrat College of Art
Rose Olson is a painter with a studio in Boston’s South End. Her exhibits this year include Kingston Gallery, which represents her, Marcia Wood Gallery, Art Complex Museum, Danforth museum, NYU and Montserrrat College of Art among others. Reviews of her paintings have appeared in Art New England, The Boston Globe artsMEDIA, SoWa News and local venues. She has taught at The DeCordova Museum School, Radcliffe Seminars, Salem State College as well as Montserrat College of Art, where she is a professor in the Painting and Foundation Departments. www.roseolson.com
Greg Orfanos
BFA, Montserrat College of Art
Greg spent a good part of his youth drawing. While school desks took the brunt of his wandering imagination, Greg would draw whenever, wherever and on just about anything he could. Instead of becoming an astronaut or secret agent after high school, Greg made the obvious choice to attended Montserrat and fully dedicate himself to a life of creative endeavors.
Greg became a proud graduate of Montserrat College of Art with a B.F.A. in Illustration. When Greg is not teaching he can be found in his studio creating. His work has been shown in galleries throughout Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York. He has recently had his work exhibited by the City of Norwalk,CT, Gallery 305K in Bridgeport,CT, and The Warwick Museum of Art in RI. He has also been commissioned for many paintings by both businesses and private individuals.
Greg believes that the exchange of creative ideas in the classroom creates a symbiosis in which the teaching and making of art exist in harmony. He feels that sharing his academic and professional experiences candidly with students is essential. These experiences not only help students to better understand visual communication, but also assist them in finding their own identities as art professionals.
Greg is a mixed media artist that works primarily with acrylic paint and collage. Making pictures that tell stories has always been a running theme in Greg’s work. Though a narrative is always prominent in his paintings, it is often portrayed in a surreal and allegorical way. His images are a composite of his daily routine, forgotten memories, random thoughts and haunting dreams. Although Greg takes his education, art making and teaching very seriously, he does feel there is plenty of room for humor. His work is often embedded with a fascination of the bizarre, a bit of sarcasm and a tongue-in-cheek sensibility.
Having kicked the habit of drawing on school property, Greg still enjoys creating on not so acceptable surfaces. He can often be found drawing on household walls with the aid of his young son Mars.
To learn more about Greg and his work visit at www.gregorfanos.com
Shelley Reed
Shelley Reed has been mining art history for over 20 years. Trained at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, she has exhibited extensively and is currently represented by the Clark Gallery in Boston and the Sears-Peyton Gallery in New York.
Rhoda Rosenberg
B.A., Temple University; M.F.A., Tufts University; Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Rhoda has exhibited in Massachusetts and throughout the U.S. In the summer of 2002, with money from a grant from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and a faculty enrichment grant from Montserrat, she traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa to visit and teach at Artist Proof, a print collaborative. The trip led to two exhibitions in the Montserrat Galleries in the spring of 2003, in addition to a fundraising campaign in the aftermath of a devastating fire that destroyed Artist Proof earlier that year. Her work was also in a show at the River Gallery in Ipswich with other Montserrat Printmaking faculty in early spring of 2003 titled Printmaking on the North Shore. Rhoda also teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Robin Samiljan
B.A.Vanderbilt University, Master of Education, Endicott College
"Every season has a unique color palette, energized and transformed by the endless cycle of rebirth. A walk through the woods and I am surrounded by the security of nature, viewing what was once a budding branch now a full-bodied tree. The waves and currents change along the coast and I am in awe of their movement. Nothing stays the same and the life cycle never ends. Landscape painting allows for me to capture the balance between the reality of what exists and the illusions in my dreams."
Ms. Samiljan is an artist member of the Copley Society of Art in Boston, and is an active exhibitor in many of the local art associations on the North Shore of Boston. In 2008 and 2009, Children’s Hospital and Newton-Wellesley Hospital purchased her artwork for their permanent collections; her work contributes to providing the peaceful environment these hospitals strive to create for their patients and visitors. Dick Blick featured one of Ms. Samiljan’s encaustic paintings in their 2011 Holiday Flyer. The endorsement was sponsored by the Ampersand Company.
www.robinsamiljan.com
Chelsea Sams
BFA, Montserrat College of Art
Lisa Sawlit
BFA Tufts University,
MFA Tufts University,
As a mid career artist Ms. Sawlit has worked within multiple mediums. Her current focus is in representational drawing and painting. She works as a fine artist in Boston and teaches painting and drawing part time at Montserrat College of Art where she has taught for the last twelve years. Her most recent exhibitions include a solo show of drawings at MacPhail Gallery in Belmont, MA, 2003, a solo show of drawings and paintings at Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, 2004, and a group show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2005. She is also an original signatory of the "Slow Art Manifesto" signed in NYC in 2005 and now studies classical painting exclusively under renowned painter Graydon Parish.
Ms. Sawlit continues making contributions in online media, as she is Chairman and Founder for National College Radio. She also serves as an Online Advisory Board Member of The Boston Classical Orchestra and has a seat on the Planning Committee at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Sarah Smith
MFA in Bookarts/Printmaking at the University of the Arts.
"I try to expose my students to as many basic skills, processes, techniques, visiting artists and field trips as possible, while also teaching them the history of the arts of the book, including type, design, printing and binding, with the aim to give them a better understanding (and inspiration from) the visual, technical and intellectual world around them."
Sarah began bookbinding, making pop-up books of her illustrations and cartoons at Umass Amherst, with the guidance of Northampton bookbinder, Bill Streeter. She then went on to get an MFA in Bookarts/Printmaking at the University of the Arts (formally Philadelphia College of Art), where obfuscatory writing and letterpress printing loomed large in her work.
She also is a book conservator at the Northeast Document Conservation Center in Andover, MA. Her teaching at Montserrat includes graphic design, letterpress and bookbinding.
Aside from producing letterpress printed broadsides and books, Sarah also paints odd oil paintings and has written articles for published and proposed issues of Art Journal. She wrote the Introduction to Richard Purdy's book, Revisiting Late Ba Pe: Perambulations in Reverse Archeology, published in the Fall of 2003.
Sarah's teaching experience includes typography, letterpress, binding and bookarts at Penland School in North Carolina and the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore. Her absurdity can be found in collections at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, The Boston Public Library, Printed Matter in New York City, Special Collections of Georgia Southern University and the Greenfield Library in Philadelphia.
Margaurita Spear
BFA, Painting & Art Education, Montserrat College of Art
Lucas Spivey
A Seattle transplant, Lucas Spivey is the Exhibitions Manager for Montserrat College of Art Galleries. He has worked with non-profit, academic and commercial galleries including the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Ver(a)rt Gallery, Path with Art, Mighty Tieton, the Wing Museum, Kingston Gallery and the Marblehead Art Association. He is currently a member of the Beverly Cultural Council and Founder/Director of 17 Cox, a gallery and artist residence in Beverly MA.
lucasspivey.com
Christopher Stepler
AAS in Textile/Surface Design, Fashion Institute of Technology; BFA in Printmaking, Montserrat College of Art
Len Thomas-Vickory
Assistant Professor
B.F.A., Montserrat College of Art; M.F.A., School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Len has extensive art historical studies in early 20th Century Soviet Art, the Modern Art Movement, and turn-of-the-century European Art. He has worked as an auctioneer at Skinner Auction House. His work has been shown throughout New England, most recently in the exhibition, Printmaking on the North Shore, which was in the River Gallery in Ipswich, MA in the spring of 2003; the work of several other Montserrat Printmaking faculty members was included. His work is in the permanent collection at the Queensborough Community College/City University of New York Art Gallery, and in various private collections. He has previous teaching experience at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Velvet Pelican Projects is his most recently launched printmaking project.
Elise Towle Snow
Instructor
BFA, Montserrat College of Art
Elise Towle Snow graduated from Montserrat College of Art with a concentration in sculpture but since leaving school and crossing the bridge to Salem, her focus has shifted towards printmaking and illustration using her Japanese Gocco silkscreening device. Elise is an active participant in the craft community and has been selling her art and stationery on Etsy since 2005. She the newest organizer of Boston's Bazaar Bizarre, one of the biggest and longest-running craft fairs in the country. She is also the founder of Stay Crafty, a free lodging exchange for traveling vendors, which launches this Fall. Operating under the alias of Argyle Whale, Elise's latest pursuits can be followed online through her blog. http://argylewhale.blogspot.com
Kevin Townsend
Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington,DC - BFA
Kevin Townsedn is a painter, printmaker and former master printer for Hand Print Workshop International and River Tree Arts. He has taught drawing, painting and printmaking as adjunct faculty at Corcoran College of Art and Design and most recently at Maine College of Art. Kevin has been recognized by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities for excellence in high school arts education and was awarded an honorarium from the National Museumof American Art for his work as master printer. His work has been featured in the Prints Washington Exhibition and can be found in the Corcoran Gallery of Art's permanent collection as well as the White House Ornament Collection.
Catalina Viejo
BFA, Montserrat College of Art,
2005
Catalina was the Valedictorian for Montserrat College of Art 2005. She has exhibited in numerous shows including: Tufts Summer Show, Cambridge Art Associations and a solo show at Montserrat College of Art. To view her work, visit www.catalinaviejo.com.
Adam Ziskie
BFA, Montserrat College of Art
Adam Ziskie is a Detroit native. He attended Montserrat College of Art, where he majored in Illustration. Adam’s illustration work can be seen in two releases from Kane Miller in the winter of 2012.
