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Luke Bruffee has a degree in sculpture from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a Master of Education from Cambridge College. He has taught art for the past twenty years in the Boston area. He combines abstract and realism in his methods of art teaching and has years of experience of differentiated teaching for the individual within a classroom context. He lives and maintains a studio in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. |
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Linda Carney-Goodrich, is a writer and teacher from Boston. She is the author of Dot Girl (Nixes Mate Books, 2024) and her work has appeared in Lily Poetry, The MacGuffin, Literary Mama, Anti-Heroine Chic, Muddy River, Gyroscope, Wordgathering Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature, among others. Her story, “Park Street Station” won third prize in the 2024 Boston in 100 Words Contest. Linda is the Poetry Coordinator for the Menino Art Center in Hyde Park and the owner of Home Scholars of Boston. She has a Masters in Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education and has taught people of all ages and backgrounds for over two decades. https://www.homescholarsofboston.com/ |
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Rosemarie Clinton has taught art to children at the Greenwood Elementary School and the Menino Arts Center. Rosemarie has received several prizes for her impressionist paintings, including a Gold Medal Grumbacher award. |
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Erik Gehring is a freelance photographer who specializes in trees and natural landscapes. He is the current Director at the Hyde Park Art Association, and he is a past President of the Boston Camera Club. Erik’s work has appeared in Yankee Magazine, AMC’s Outdoors, Northern Woodlands, the Boston Globe, the Boston Metro, the Cape Code Times, E the Environmental Magazine, and other publications. He has shown his fine art prints at galleries throughout Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.Erik has also lectured and taught classes at the Arboretum, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, the Eliot School in Jamaica Plain, the Concord Art Association, the Hyde Park Art Association, and many different camera clubs throughout New England. www.erikgehring.com |
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Lisa Goren was born in California and raised in NYC. And yet, she has dreamed of polar landscapes since she was in her teens. Her first trip took her to Antarctica where she was inspired and captivated by the landscape. She has also traveled to Iceland, Alaska, and the High Arctic to increase her understanding of the Polar Regions. Her watercolors show an unfamiliar landscape in a new light. By using vibrant colors and taking risks with different surfaces, she makes the viewer reevaluate their understanding of both these landscapes and their beliefs in the potential of the medium. Her works create questions about the nature of abstraction and our planet as many of her pieces are representations of unfamiliar, threatened terrains.Lisa’s work can be found in personal collections all over the world, from Australia to Iceland, and the United States. She was awarded a place on the 2013 voyage of The Arctic Circle, and artist residency sailing near the North Pole. This “trip of a lifetime” was chronicled in an article she wrote for the New York Times and led her to her next phase of her Polar work. She had two pieces in “Gaia – Les femmes et l’ecologie” in Paris to coincide with the COP21 Climate talks.Lisa has been working out of Boston, MA for the past 25 years and is a board member of the National Association of Women Artists (Mass. Chapter). She was named Artist-in-Residence for the South Shore Art Association, 2016-2017. https://www.lisagorenpaintings.com/ |
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Larry Johnson, a 1979 graduate of the Art Institute of Boston, has been an artist all his life. He grew up making homemade comic books and self-published his book Tales of Fantasy for several years. These days he draws and paints landscapes, fantasy scenes, and still life subject matter. A long-time resident of Jamaica Plain, he moved to Hyde Park in 2009, and for five years taught a comic book workshop at The Menino Arts Center. He currently teaches drawing to residents of local retirement communities through the Hyde Park Art Association’s Mobile Arts Program. And he is also a member artist of the Switch Co-op, an art gallery located in Hyde Park, and serves on its steering committee. https://larryjohnsonartist.com/ |
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Art Walks Boston’s founder, Rob Larsen, is a Boston native who’s had a lifelong association with art as a fan, artist, teacher and photographer. As an artist he’s got art in collections around the world and has over a decade of exhibition history, showing alongside some of the biggest names in graffiti and street art. He’s been interviewed dozens of times about street art and graffiti including a lengthy interview for the Boston section of The History of American Graffiti and a recent interview with Miami’s Museum of Graffiti. He’s done demos and taught classes on graffiti and street art for many audiences- including a street art program for middle school students through Citizen Schools and street art and graffiti program at the Boston Center for Adult Education. Rob has spent a lot of time traveling the world looking at art. Beyond a life goal of seeing every Vermeer in person (23 down, 11 to go), he often travels to important national shows, big international art fairs and museums of all shapes and sizes. In addition to the perspective the act of seeing all that art brings, those travels have given Rob the opportunity to amass a world class collection of graffiti and street art photos. Rob has documented Boston graffiti for decades and has an international photo collection that encompasses dozens of trips to and thousands of photos from places like New York, Paris, Rome, Dublin, Reykjavik, LA, San Francisco, Miami and Amsterdam. https://drunkenfist.com/art/ |
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Drawing on experiences that were nurtured by a very creative family, Sasja Lucas has involved herself in many diverse artistic pursuits: drawing, painting, printmaking, murals; graphic, interior, exhibit and stage design/productions; and 2-D and 3-D fabrication for animation. She has taught art and design at a variety of institutions, including the Massachusetts College of Art, Newbury College, the Fuller Museum, Brookline Arts Center, Menino Arts Center, and Cornwall Studios/Gallery. This has brought her into contact with students aged two to ninety-two, from whom she always seeks inspiration and sees first-hand the process of discovery on which all her art is based. Sasja received a BFA from SUNY Binghamton, and an MA in painting from George Washington University. https://sasjalucas.com/ |
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Judith Robichaud, a fine artist and HPAA member, has shown her work at several art fairs and galleries in Boston and New York. Judith claims her professional artist life started when she began renting a studio at the Menino Art Center in 2011. She has since maintained a consistent studio practice while juggling the art fair scene, freelancing and volunteering for Roslindale Open Studios. https://www.judithrobichaud.com/ |
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Susan Strouse has always led the life of an artist, working in a variety of creative practices including painting, quilting, photography and gardening. Her most recent paintings full of color, light, and movement have been influenced by many years as a garden designer, working outside, surrounded by plants, with the earth below and the sky above. These abstract landscapes, while calling upon memories and observation, invite the viewer to have their own experience and interpretation. Susan’s work has been shown throughout the Northeast, including galleries in Boston and NYC. Her teaching experiences include classes, talks, workshops and demonstrations at the Arnold Arboretum, Allandale Farm, Waltham Mills, Motherbrook Arts and numerous private garden sites. https://susanstrouseart.com |