Bio 

Barbara Trachtenberg received a fellowship to MacDowell Colony in 1978—when she was a young wife and mother. She continued supporting her family as a teacher and administrator in a hospital school for students with multiple handicaps in NH, continuing into the mid-80s and in a residential school for gifted, emotionally challenged youth. She has written about that experience in short fiction and completed two master's degrees—in special education (Keene State) and counseling psychology (Antioch). Moving to Boston in the mid-80s to teach in an immigrant city, she took a sabbatical to teach in Mexico and improve her Spanish. She returned as a school psychologist, and completed a doctorate in culture and literacy. Her dissertation—based on ethnographies of poor single Central American mothers of school children—sought the women’s perceptions of their own overcoming of obstacles to acculturation in the urban US. She retired at 62 to return to her early love of abstract art. Immigrant and women’s/girls’ issues are subjects in her serious and humorous work.. As an interviewer for an international peace organization’s artist group (servas.org).

A lifelong traveler, Trachtenberg began exhibiting her street photography in France and Havana. She soon took her abstract visual work seriously and moved to painting, collage, and assemblage, exhibiting throughout New England.

Her memberships and juried group exhibitions include Galatea in Boston’s artist district; group shows in Greater Boston’s galleries and university galleries; Rockport Art Association's Experimental Group; Rocky Neck Art Association, CambridgeArt and ConcordArt and five invited small group shows at honeyjonesstudio Gallery, Cambridge. Her SOLO shows include Havana, Cambridge, MA and rural France.. Trachtenberg received fellowships at MacDowell Colony and CAMAC (Marnay-sur-Seine, France) and has a presence online Berlin site of works on paper. She was a 2020 Northeast Regional Liaison as a MacDowell Colony Fellow.

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

I am a painter and collagist who loves color and sometimes leaves it. Process is key to my relationship with a work—I do not plan my work. Working in the largest space I can find to move in, sweep strokes and connect disparate elements, adding viscosity, impasto, texture, shape and color. Revising old work, playing with accidental composition, I work messy—tearing, painting without gloves, using what’s at hand. Transience, impermanence, decay and joy, disorder and letting go are embedded in the piece. I’m spontaneous, emotional, sensory. I use strong colors and old broken things, and if figures emerge, I dialogue with aspects of myself—listening, sniffing, watching. Working with bold strokes, automatic gestures and texture, found, used, worn items, refuse from the process itself are my physical relationship with my work.

Non-traditional beauty, made to music and movement, through color and juxtaposed shapes, reflect Boston’s urban push. A vital and vulgar American life influences my work. I hike among fragments of nature where random configurations inspire me. Working spontaneously, without plan, I paint visceral and viscous. My process acknowledges there’s no answer to anything, really—life is suffering and joy, confusion and clarity, rife with contradictions. Aging, decay, letting go, from old age to childhood and back.

Energy and battling emotions, movement and spontaneity push rich color and texture from that first mark. Imagery and characters emerge in the abstract. A daughter of Hungarian and Russian immigrants, I was a teacher for severely handicapped children, a school psychologist and a professor of applied linguistics. I interviewed single Central American refugee mothers of the mid 1980s about their strategies of acculturating and now volunteer with Boston area refugee organizations. An international street photographer since the early 1980s, I’ve had solo shows in Havana, Cuba, Cambridge, Boston, and rural France. My work has moved exclusively to mixed media painting exhibited in solo, and group shows throughout Greater Boston. I have a doctorate in literacy, language and cultural studies and masters degrees in education and psychology. I’m a MacDowell Colony Fellow. Since covid-19, I work in my home studio.

RESUME

2024

  • Concord Art Association: Acrylic on Paper, “Darkness and Light,” JUROR: John Nolan, Professor of Art, Montserrat College & Director of Hallspace Gallery, Boston, MA

  • Cambridge Art Association: “The Boat,” Acrylic on Canvas, Members’ Juried Exhibition: Cambridge, MA, JUROR: Mike Carroll, Owner & Director of the Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA

  • Newton Art Association: “ Fisherman, Jamaica Pond,” acrylic on paper; JUROR: Ruth Scotch is a faculty at DanforthArt & Framingham State University, Reception and Awards Ceremony: Sunday, March 17, 2:00-4:00pm

2023

  • FenceART: Annual 2023, JURIED, year-round rotated outdoor public art project, showcasing art in a broad range of styles & media. 5 City-wide locations, Painting

  • honeyjonesstudio Gallery: November 23 to December 23, 2023: INVITED, 2-person: paintings and collages: “Along with Eva's ceramics, we are featuring the work of multi-disciplinary and modern expressionist artist Barbara Trachtenberg, who has been on a years’-long journey to piece together her own Hungarian ancestry. The voice of Barbara's late mother, opera singer Helen Frisch, will appear through Library of Congress recordings.”

  • PIANOCRAFT GALLERY: HARMONY: Art and Music at the Piano Factory, JURIED: 3 PAINTINGS, September 22-October 8, 2023, https://pianocraftgallery.com/exhibitions

  • Rockport Art Association & Museum: Juried National, Hibbard & Maddocks Galleries, Online, Saturday September 30 – Sunday November 5, 2023, Gala & Awards Reception: Saturday, September 30, 6:00 – 8:00 PM, Michael J. Bobbitt, Executive Director of the Mass Cultural Council; September 30 to November 5; https://www.rockportartassn.org/raam-national

  • Mary Schein Fall Salon: Cambridge Art Association, University Place Gallery, Harvard Square. Opening Reception & Awards Presentation: Saturday, September 9, noon-2pm

  • Brickbottom Members’ Exhibition: June 17, 2023 - July 29, 2023, 2 Paintings, Opening Reception, June 17, 3-5 PM, Somerville, MA

  • INVITED, 3-PERSON Exhibition, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA, https://brickbottom.org/exhibition/all-who-wander-are-not-lost/: May 11- June 10

    Brickbottom Gallery, 1 Fitchburg Street, C-111, Somerville, MA, 02143, OPENING reception: Mothers Day, Sunday, May 14, 3-5 PM.

    CLOSING reception, Saturday, June 10, 3-5 PM.

  • Rockport Art Association and Museum, Contributing Members’ Show, Apr 1 – Apr 15, 2023, Hibbard & Maddocks Galleries, Opening Reception: Saturday, April 1

  • Charles Fine Art Gallery, Gloucester, MA, JURIED, Truro, oil on panel, April 2—April 28, 2023, Opening Reception, April 1, 2023

  • Mosesian Art Center: Watertown, MA, JURIOR, Boriana Kantcheva, JANUARY 27 - MARCH 10; NAA 2 paintings

  • Talking Points, JUROR: Caron Tabb, January 23 - February 21, 2023, Cambridge College Town Common Gallery, in collaboration with Cambridge Art Association, Painting

  • Newton Art Association: Juried Exhibition, Allen Art Center, Newton, MA, painting

2022

  • North Shore Art Association, Exhibit New England 2022 - North Shore Arts of Gloucester (nsarts.org).

  • Jane Deering Gallery, Experimental Group of the Rockport Art Association & Museum, April, Painting: A Sea of Stories, Provincetown; https://www.janedeeringgallery.com/experimental-group

  • Suzuki School of Music, Newton Art Association, group exhibition, Woodpecker Playing Bach Partitas.

  • Human Being – Being Human, JURIED, PIANOCRAFT GALLERY. Reception and awards, Friday, February 4, 6 to 9 PM.  www.newtonartassociation.com; www.pianocraftgallery.com, 2 PAINTINGS: Angustia, and Scheherazade (Honorable Mention).

  • Galatea Gallery (SOWA, Boston), Unquiet, in conjunction with Newton Open Studios, mixed media, A Fortune in Diamonds/Chunky Boats, Reception 2/4/2022

2021

  • honeyjonesstudio Gallery: 3-Woman Show, Scheherazade, December 5-30, 2021, Cambridge, MA.

  • Lasell College’s Wedeman Gallery, Newton Art Association Members’ Exhibition, November to December, 2021, Marian Anderson and the D.A.R. Newton, MA

  • Rockport Art Association & Museum (RAA&M) Experimental Group #16 Then and Now (Chunky Boats/A Fortune in Diamonds) -December 11—31, 2021

  • New England Collective XI, Mary Schein Members’ Exhibition: IN PERSON at the Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA (Woodpecker Playing Bach, collage 40” x 40”)

  • honeyjonesstudio Gallery: September, Regarding Water: the Power of Water to renew, reflect, reconnect

  • Galatea New England Collective XI, Regional Exhibition, JUROR: GRACE RYDER O'MALLEY, 460B Harrison Ave., #B-6, Boston, MA, www.galateafineart.com

  • honeyjonesstudio gallery: Solace and Saudade, 7 paintings, Artist Talk

  • Women in Abstraction: A Sanctuary for Migratory Birds (painting): https://newartcenter.org/women-in-abstraction/#fullgallery

  • Beat Frequency/Bossa Nova/Eta Aquariids, honeyjonesstudio Gallery, (7 paintings)

  • 2021 National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Juror: Alice Gray Stites, Museum Director, Chief Curator, 21c Museums

  • Re-Emergence—A New Hope: Juried Show, PIANOCRAFT Gallery, Boston, MA, Newton Art Association

  • NUDES: honeyjonesstudio Gallery; Painting, “ReBirth of a Nation”

2020

  • RED: 2020, Cambridge Art Association, “Factory of Evil”: JUROR: Layla Bermeo, the Kristin and Roger Servison Associate Curator of American Paintings, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  • “Color Light Soul”: 7 paintings: 10/21/2020—11/7/2020 Gallery Invited Exhibition: honeyjonesstudio Gallery Cambridge, MA, Curator: Julie Ayaz

  • “Mary Schein Fall Salon," 2020, Cambridge Art Association, Kathryn Shultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA, September 9 – 30, 2020

  • 2020 Members Prize Show, “Seeking a Certain Grace,” Cambridge Art Association; JUROR: Jessica Roscio, DanforthArt, Framingham, MA. 74 artists chosen from among 210. University Place Gallery, Harvard Square, 124 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02138. Extended through April 30, 2020

  • “Broken Beauty,” University Place Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, January 7 – February 1, 2020, JUROR: Cathleen Daley, Co-Founder/Director of Room 83 Spring.
    Juried by Cathleen Daley, Co-Founder/Director of Room 83 Spring

  • “Reclaimed, Recycled, Reimagined,” (continued) 20 Depot Square Gallery, 3rd Floor, Peterborough, NH:. 15 found object assemblages, December, 2019—February, 2020, CURATOR: Pelagia Vincent, (20 Depot Square, 3rd Floor, Peterborough NH

  • "Different Strokes,” 8 paintings, collages/assemblages Invited Small Group Show, Lasell College Wedeman Gallery, February 4th—22nd, 2020, CURATORS: Lois Tarlow and Vladimir Zimakov, Gallery Director

  • “You Can’t Teach Art”: John Murray Invitational Group Exhibition: Holzwasser Gallery, Newart Center, Newton, MA, October 24, 2019—January 25, 2020, Painting, Two Figures

2019

• Depot Square Gallery, Peterborough, NH: 15 found object assemblages, December, 2019—end February, 2020, Pelagia Vincent, Curator

• John Murray Invitational Group Exhibition: Holzwasser Gallery, Newart Center, Newton, MA, October 24, 2019—January 25, 2020, Painting, Two Figures

• Gallery B, The Mill Contemporary Art, 4 paintings,, “24 x 24”, Curator: Sorin Bica

• Mary Schein Fall Sason, 2019, Cambridge Art Association, University Place Gallery, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA, painting, Immigrant Family

• Invited Small Group Annex Show May to June, Fountain Street, 5/1-6/2; Artist’s Talk

• 2019 Members’ Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, JUROR: Lisa Crossman, art historian and Curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum. University Place Gallery; February 7 - March 23. 60 artists chosen from among 145 I Listen to My Friend, painting.

• Wedeman Gallery, Lasell College, Newton Art Association: JUROR: Vladimir Zimakov, Director,  Wedeman Gallery
director, Professor of art, Lasell College. Assemblage, Man with the Sun in His Heart

* City Hall, Newton, Newton Open Studios: MA, painting, Immigrant Caught in the Network.

• NEWTON OPEN STUDIOS, NewTV Gallery, Newton, MA, JUROR: Vladimir Zimakov, Director,  Wedeman Gallery
director, Professor of art, Lasell College, NewTV, Newton, MA: “SPACES” The Places and Spaces of Copicut Woods, painting

2018

• RED, 2018, Cambridge Art Association, JUROR: Dan Byers, John R. and Barbara Robinson, Cambridge Art Association’s Kathryn Schultz and University Place Galleries, Family Director of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, at Harvard University, 11/8 – 12/20
• Newton Art Association, James King Bonnar Show, Lasell College-Wedeman Art Gallery, Newton, MA, Assemblage: The Man With the Sun in His Heart, JUROR: Julie Bernson is Deputy Director for Learning and Engagement at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln.

• The Mill Contemporary Art; 3 paintings: “Refugee in Landscape,” “Make America Great Again,” “Immigrant Family,” CURATOR: Sorin Bica, PO.LI.TI.CAL SEE.SAW, Project B Gallery at 2 Central Street, Building #1, Framingham, MA

• Arlington Center for the Arts: “Refugee Ship,” Exhibition, I’m New Here: Perspectives on Migration, JUROR: Boriana Kantcheva, Chandler Gallery Coordinator, Maud Morgan Arts (50% of submitting artists were selected).

• Belmont Gallery, Monster Misunderstood, “Forlorn Man,” CURATOR:

• Mary Schein Fall Salon, University Place Gallery

• Newton Art Association: New Members Show, Honorable Mention, “The Red Door”); acrylic on canvas. JUDGES, Myra Abelson & Jeanne Gugino "There is mystery to this painting with the subtle veiling of color and painted edges. The pale blue and pink on the left suggest a landscape. . . balanced nicely by the strong red, which may be the other door."

• Newton Open Studios: Newart Center Main Gallery, 61 Washington Park, Newtonville, MA 02460

• SOLO EXHIBITION, "The Laws of Chance," Cambridge Health Associates, 335 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, February—May, http://www.cambridgehealthassociates.com/events/laws-chance

• Cambridge Art Association, MEMBERS' PRIZE SHOW; "The Other Red Door," JUROR: Joseph Carroll, of Joseph Carroll & Sons Gallery, Of 300 entries, 43 pieces were chosen. University Place Gallery, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA

• January to February: Holzwasser Gallery at the NewartCenter: "Repurposed"—3-Person Exhibition & Talk, Wood Collage Bas-Reliefs: "Interpretations of the Physical World"; JUROR: Sarah Montross, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum

• SOCIAL DOCUMENTARY: "SEEING WOMAN": 30 PHOTOGRAPHS FOR ZEKE MAGAZINE'S "Through a Woman's Lens"

http://www.socialdocumentary.net/exhibit/Barbara_Trachtenberg/2669: Retrospective on Girls and Women Internationally

https://www.socialdocumentary.net/exhibit/Barbara_Trachtenberg/4250: Cuba, from SOLO exhibition, Havana, Cuba, 2015

• Fall, 2017 to Winter, 2018:  Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center Illuminations Program, 2 photographs, 3 paintings; Curator,  Beverly Therkelsen

2017

• HANGAR / Center of Artistic Research, Lisbon, Portugal

• BLUE, JUROR: Vera Ingrid Grant, Annual Exhibition, JUROR: Vera Ingrid Grant, of the Hutchins Center for African American Art and Culture, Harvard University, December, 2017—January, 2018

• Summer Selective, 6 large paintings, Newton Open Studios, JUROR: Kathleen Smith Redman

• Concord Art Association: Stuart Shils Group Exhibition, Painting

• Summer Selective, Newton Open Studios, JUROR: Kathleen Smith Redman, Newton, MA

• The Fifth Annual One, ArtsWorcester, Worcester, MA

• Rockport Art Association, Contributing Members Exhibition, Rockport, MA

• Rockport Art Association, Experimental Group: "Unexpected, No. 4," Painting, JURIED, Rockport, MA

• Invited Small Group Exhibition, 4 Paintings, CURATOR, Katherine Miller, Newbury Court, Concord, MA

• Winter, Cambridge Art Association, Ideas of Home, Photograph "Two Women, Bulgaria"

• Winter, Concord Art Association, Roddy Annual, JUROR: Katherine French, Painting

2016

• Fall, Cambridge Art Association, "Mary Schein Fall Salon," Painting, Cambridge, MA

• Summer Selective, Newton Open Studios, 4 photographs, JUROR, Kathleen Smith Redman

• Spring to Summer: SOLO: Photonarrative, CUBA, "Waiting for Change"— Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center; https://patch.com/massachusetts/somerville/waiting-change-0

• Cuba Diversidad: A Photographic Journey, Bunker Hill Community College, INVITED Small Group Exhibition & Presentation: JUROR: Laura Montgomery, with Lou Jones and others

•  Cambridge Art Association, "Unconventional Means," JUROR: Robert Siegelman

• "Circling the Seine," 30" x 40" Cambridge Art Association: Mary Schein Fall Salon, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA

• Newton Open Studios, Summer Selective, JUROR: Kathleen Smith Redman

 • Cambridge Art Association, "Hippolyta," Cambridge Art Association, "SELFISH," JUROR:  Catherine Kehoe; Reception, Thursday, University Place Gallery

• Spring: SOLO PHOTONARRATIVE EXHIBITION: CUBA: Waiting for Change; Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; Opening Reception & Poetry Reading by Cuban-American writers

• Cambridge Art Association, "Unconventional Means," JUROR: Robert Siegelman, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, "Embargo"

2015

  • Cambridge Art Association, Mary Schein Fall Salon, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA

  • Narrative Street Photography: Presentation, Newton Arts Center, Newton, MA

  • FenceArt, Banners of artwork rotating among Newton public fence locations, Newton, MA, JUROR: Ellen Fisher http://www.newtoncommunitypride.org/festival/FenceART.html

  • Rocky Neck Art Colony: Gloucester, MA, Printed, Painted, Folded, Torn: Paperwork, JUROR: Katherine French, Director emerita Danforth Art, Framingham, MA.

  • SOLO Photonarrative Exhibition: CUBA Story and Community :Galeria Teodoro Ramos Blanco, Cerro, Havana, Cuba

2014

  • SOLO Exhibition: Hotel-Restaurant le Flaubert, Villenauxe-la-Grande, Champagne-Ardennes, France

  • Artist Residency: CAMAC Centre d'Art, Marnay-sur-Seine, France; http://www.camac.org/residences-dartistes/artistes-2/2014-2/barbara-trachtenberg/

  • Biennial: Les artistes ouvrent leur porte, Open Studios, Marnay-sur-Seine, Champagne-Ardennes, France, Centre culturel, La Maison du Boulanger, France

  • Papiers collées: ONLINE http://blattformer.blogspot.de/search/label/NOW%20B.%20Trachtenberg; CURATOR: Ruprecht Dreher, conceptual artist showing at the Berlin Art Fair, 2015

  • http://www.socialdocumentary.net/exhibit/Barbara_Trachtenberg/2669; CURATOR: Glenn Ruga

  • Street Photography: Photographs of Cambridge and Boston, MA; Griffin Museum of Photography, Small Group Show, Winchester, MA; CURATOR: Harvey Stein

  • Members’ Show: Male Bather on the Seine, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA

  • Artist Reflection: Ten Years of the Artists Professional Toolbox, http://online.flipbuilder.com/vfda/gxfp/mobile/index.html#p=85

  • Royal Sonesta Hotel ArtBar, 6 CUBA photographs; Cambridge, MA

  • Newton Open Studios Spring Show: Photographs and Paintings/Mixed Media: Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center

  • Cambridge Art Association: Pretty Ugly, Woman and Shadow, Havana; Juried by Camilo Alvarez, Samson Projects, Boston, MA, Kathryn Schultz Gallery

  • Concord Art Association: Photography, Drawings, Mixed Media, Crafts & Graphics; The Street, Havana and Seated Man, Havana

2013

  • Pink Revolution, 69th Annual Members' Juried Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, JUROR: Kate McNamara, Director & Chief Curator at the Boston University Art Gallery. Co-founder of Cleopatra’s, a Brooklyn-based project space; past curator at MoMA PS1, New York; AIR Antwerpen, Belgium; and Participant, INC., New York

  • SOLO: PHOTOGRAPHS: Trident Bookstore and Cafe, Newbury Street, Boston, MA

  • SOLO: PAINTINGS AND MIXED MEDIA: Trident Bookstore and Cafe, Newbury Street, Boston, MA

  • Mirrors and Windows: La Farmácia Johnson, Havana, Cuba, Cambridge Art Association, Juried by Dana Salvo & Dawn Southworth, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA

  • Griffin Museum of Photography: Winter Solstice Members' Show, "Newsboys"

  • NewTV Summer Selective, Newton, MA: 5 juried pieces, JUROR, Kathleen Smith, Director of Exhibits at New Art CenterNewton Mayor’s Office Summer Show, “Stay Cool”

  • Invited Group Show: "Old Structures," CURATOR: Emily Passman—September, REVIEW: http://news.acmi.tv/2013/schwamb-mill/

  • Danforth Museum: "Lubavitcher I," Community of Artists: JUROR, Katherine French, Danforth Museum Director, New England Chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) for curatorial excellence

  • YWCA Stand Against Racism, JUROR, Karen Haas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Jewish-Cape Verdean Seder: "Two Boys"

  • FACE TO FACE: Painting, "Face to Face," JUROR, Arlette Kayafas of Gallery Kayafas

  • Cambridge Art Association: BLUE, "Mother, Muted," Group show, JUROR, Joseph Thompson, Director, Mass MoCA

  • SECRETS: Group Show, "In the Kitchen," JUROR, Jane Young of Chase Young Gallery, Boston. The Cambridge Art Association's Kathryn Schultz Gallery, 25 Lowell Street, Cambridge

  • "Brothers, Morocco," Greater Lynn International Photographic Competition

2012

  • RE CYCLE: "Totem to a Marathon" JUROR, Susie Nielsen, Farm Gallery + Project Space, Wellfleet MA, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA

  • Boston Camera Club: Latimer Competition: Third Place, "Souq"

  • Newton Open Studios: New Photographs: Mexico, Morocco

  • Concord Art Association, FRANCES RODDY 13th Open Competition, "Lubavitcher I," JUROR, Jen Mergel, Beal Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  • Scollay Square Gallery, "Friends: Morocco," "Brothers, Morocco," "Woman Baking Bread, Morocco," Boston City Hall: Art and Poetry

  • Newton Open Studios TOP TEN: JUROR, Katherine French, Director, Danforth Museum

2011

  • April, BLUE, Cambridge Art Association

1989

  • PHOTOGRAPHS: The Families of Cuetzálan: Chelsea Public Library

  • Boston Camera Club: Third Prize, Morocco, “Marrakech” color photograph

AWARDS

PUBLICATIONS

  • CUBA: Story and Community: With essays by Lic. Magdalena Rivas Rodríguezand Lic. Félix Hernández Ambrosio, Curador y Gallerista, Galería Teodoro Ramos Blanco, Havana

  • CUBA, March, 2014: Hardcover of color photographs

  • Anthology: RE CYCLED, Cambridge Art Association

  • Anthology: SECRETS, Cambridge Art Association

  • YWCA "Stand Against Racism": http://www.bu.edu/prc/StandAgainstRacism/index.html: “Jewish-Cape Verdean Seder"

  • Book: PAIRINGS

  • Book: SEEING, Photographs and poems

  • Book: VILLAGE FAMILIES AND NEIGHBORS

  • Shalom Magazine, December, 2013

  • Book: FABRIC FRANCE, hardcover of photographs

  • 2005: “Interview with Richard Lethem,” COMMENTARY in Words and Images, pp. 12-24

  • Dissertation: Immigrant Women’s Strategies for Overcoming Barriers in the Urban US: https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/304162559.html?FMT=ABS

COMMUNITY

Works owned by:

  • WGBH and the Boston Globe in celebrating the second-annual Summer Arts Walk on Newbury Street July, 2015, Robert Klein Gallery, Newbury • Street, Boston, MA, West Roxbury Academy, Boston Public Schools

  • The Art Connection (http://www.theartconnection.org) an organization whose mission is to enrich and empower underserved communities by expanding access to original works of visual art

  • WGBH AUCTION, 2015

  • Greater Boston Citizenship Initiative

  • MassBay Community College

  • Workshop: Big Sister Association; Photos and Poems, Workshop with urban girls and their "big sisters": writing poems from participants' photographs, 2013, Boston, MA

  • Photographer: JEWISH-CAPE VERDEAN SEDER, 2013, Boston, MA

  • Presenter: Photographic Resource Center at Boston University

PRESENTATIONS, TALKS

  • Cuba Diversidad: Panel Discussion., A Photographic Journey, Bunker Hill Community College, Group Exhibition: Curator: Laura Montgomery,  Presentation

  • Photographic Resource Center at Boston University

  • 2013: New England Women in Photography: Simmons College

  • 2011-2012: NewTV GALLERY, Newton, MA: Winners of Juried Newton Open Studios, Group Show, JUROR by Katherine French, Director, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA

  • 2012, March, Presentation: "Women in Photography Night": Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, with Lisa Kessler http://www.flickr.com/photos/prcboston/sets/72157629270275528/

  • 2011, Fall, Newton Public Library, Preview Show for Winners of Juried Exhibit; JUROR by Katherine French of the Danforth Museum

  • 2011, Fall, NEWTON OPEN STUDIOS

  • 2010, Spring, NEWTON OPEN STUDIOS

  • Monolog presented by actress at American Anthropological Association, Chicago. Visual Anthropology

COLLECTIONS

  • Paintings and Photographs in Private Collections in New England, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Chicago, North Carolina and Mexico

  • WGBH, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (photograph, Lubavicher, I)

STUDIES

  • Monoprint, Collage, Painting, Drawing: Roz Ablow, Tim Harney, Bonnie Mineo, John Murray, Joanne Mattera

  • Maggie Dietz, Poet, Boston University, http://www.bu.edu/creativewriting/maggie-dietz/

MEMBERSHIPS and degrees

  • Danforth Museum of Art, NewArtCenter, ArtsWorcester, Rockport Art Association and Experimental Group, Griffin Museum of Photography, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Newton Open Studios, Boston Camera Club, Cambridge Art Association, Concord Art Association, Newton Art Association

  • Ed.D, Cultural Studies, Boston University

  • M.A, Psychology, Antioch New England

  • M.Ed., Education, Keene State College

  • Phi Beta Delta International Scholar

  • SERVAS International Peace organization, Interviewer

affiliation:

The Mill Contemporary Art Gallery and Studios at The Mill at Saxonville: 2 Central Street, Saxonville (Framingham), MA

Fountain Street Artists Annex: 260 Harrison Avenue, Boston

MacDowell Colony Fellow, and current Regional Liaison