Professional Experience: Arts & Education

 

Operations/Special Events Manager, Arlington Center for the Arts

Arlington, MA 1999-present

• Responsible for coordinating marketing, and scheduling events in a 12,000 square foot,
  multi-use building, including classrooms and galleries

• Manages logistics for major special community events, including:
          Jugband Festival, Blue Jean Ball, Shakespeare in the park, Arlington, MA

• Facilitates contracts, equipment, all related arrangements for renters

• Interfaces with Education Director on: all classes, summer camp, lesson planning, supplies, storage

• Maintains art gallery space and installation of selected shows at 20 Academy Street location

• Coordinates Artist and installation of off site exhibits at the Workbar, in Arlington, MA

• Coordinated logistics of moving ACA from a 50,000 square facility to a temporary space before
  then moving to the final 12,000 square space, 2016-2018

 

Arlington Open Studios Director, Arlington, MA, 2000-present 

• Coordinate logistics for 60-80 exhibiting artists

• Work with town officials and other off-site managers

• Schedule performers and food vendors for the 1-2 day event

 

Steering Committee for ARTLINKS, 2019-present

 

Board of CACHE, Medford, MA, 2019-present

 

Art Teacher

• Art classes: drawing, painting, mixed media, collage, printmaking, clay
          (Grades Kindergarten-Teen)

• Arlington Recreation Programs, Arlington, MA, 2018-present

• Arlington Center for the Arts, summer and school semester programs, 1998-present

• Brooks School, Medford, MA, after School program, 2007- present

• Lesley Ellis School, Arlington, MA, summer program,  2001-present

• STEP Program, Schools for Children, Arlington MA,  2018-2019   

 

Costume & Set Design

• Deborah Abel Dance Co., Carlisle, MA

              Teach set and costume design workshops

• Stage manager for the Deborah Abel School of Dance, 1992-present

• Costume creation & maintenance for The Wild Divine premiered on March 2018,
          Tsai Performance Center, Boston University, Boston, MA

• Set Designer, "The Eye of the Heart", Deborah Abel Dance Co.

         Kresge Auditorium, MIT, Cambridge, MA.

• Set Designer, "The Beauty Road: A Dance Concert of Duets", Deborah Able Dance Co.  

        1992 & 2008,  Kresge Auditorium, MIT, Cambridge, MA

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Grants & Awards

2016           Chairful Where You Sit, award best animal themed chair, Arlington MA

2007-08    Mural Grant, Arlington Cultural Council, Arlington, MA

2005          Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council Arts Lottery

2004          Residency, Peirce School, Arlington, MA

2003          Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council Arts Lottery

2001          Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council Arts Lottery

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Commissions

2018-19     Deb Abel Dance Company, Costumes, Wild Divine, Tsai Performance Center, Boston, MA

2013          Medford Community Arts Project Switch-box Mural, Jingle Bells, Medford, MA

2010-13    Teen Mural Workshop series & exhibits, Arlington Senior Center, Arlington MA

2010          Spy Pond Workshop and Parade

2008         Images of Arlington, Past & Present Mural, Gibbs School, Arlington MA 

2002         Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, "Furnish the Future"

2001          Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, "Furnish the Future"

2001          Stratton School Habitat Garden Mural, Arlington, MA

2001          Thompson School Arctic Mural, Arlington, MA

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Selected Exhibits

2018,        Belmont Galley of Art, Belmont, MA, Folktales & Fables

2017         The Belmont Gallery of Art, Art Blooms in Belmont: A Botanical Inspired Exhibit,

2016         State House Senate Gallery, Boston, MA

2013         Faculty Exhibit, Gibbs Gallery, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA

2009        Green: Images of Arlington

2008        Arlington Open Studios, Arlington MA

2004        Tufts Street Community Gallery, Arlington, MA

2003        Paths to Habitat, Habitat Gallery, Belmont, MA 

2003        State House Exhibit, Office of State Representative Jay R. Kaufman, Boston, MA

2003        Power of Three, The Boston Printmakers’ Print Biennial, Boston, MA

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Grants & Awards

2013          Arlington Cultural Council, performance Red Velvet grant award

2007-08   Arlington Cultural Council, Arlington, MA

2005         Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council Arts Lottery

2004         Residency, Peirce School, Arlington, MA

2003         Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council Arts Lottery

2001          Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council Arts Lottery

Commissions

2009       Set for the Beauty Road, Deb Abel Dance Company, Tsai Performance Center, Boston

2008       Images of Arlington, Past & Present Mural, Gibbs School, Arlington MA 

2002       Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, "Furnish the Future"

2001        Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, "Furnish the Future"

2001        Stratton School Habitat Garden Mural, Arlington, MA

2001        Thompson School Artic Mural, Arlington, MA

2000       Outdoor Mural, Thompson School, Arlington, MA

2000       Stratton School Diversity Quilt Mural, Arlington, MA  

1999         World Map Mural, Thompson School, Arlington, MA.

1998         Neighborhood Collaborative Mural, Joan Lamachia, Arlington, MA

1998         Tidepool Mural, Thompson School, Arlington, MA. 

 

Education

                Connecticut College, New London, CT,  B.F.A. (High Honors)

                Hartford College For Women, Hartford, CT,  A.A. (High Honors)