Teaching Experience

Public Arts Projects, and Teaching

2024 Art Cloth Network: Dream Big, Set Goals, Accomplish Tasks, Jan/Feb

TextileArtist.org, Member Workshop Jan/Feb 2024

2023 Island Art Center, Greece, Artist Travel Journaling

Snow Farm New England Craft Program Mixed Media Mark Making

2022 Snow Farm New England Center for Craft, Fiber Studio: Fiber Frolic and Mixed Media: Make Your Mark

Snow Farm: New England Center for Craft, Williamsburg, Creative Workshop for Staff

Textile and Fibre Artists of Manitoba, Artist Talk with Project Challenge

2021 Design Outside the Lines Retreat, Ashland, OR, Textile as Narrative

Snow Farm - New England Center for Craft, Williamsburg, MA, Mixed Media Fiber Workshop, October 2021

Fuller Craft Museum, Dreams to Action: Strategies for Advancing Your Art or Craft Career

Center for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh Fiberarts Guild, Pittsburgh, PA, Artist lecture and workshops, Art + Autobiography

Photographic Resource Center, Writing Your Artist Statement and Biography,

TextileArtist.org Community Stitch Challenge, Workshop Leader Text in Textile Art

2012-2020 Teaching Artist in Residence, Department of Youth Services (DYS,) Commonwealth Corporation, Collaborative for Educational Services Northampton, MA, provide art education projects for youth serving sentences in the Massachusetts Court System and residing in secure treatment residences.

Programs Include:

Spectrum REACH, Grafton, MA

Central Region Community Members, Worcester, MA*

Bright Futures, Youth Treatment Residence, DYS, Methuen*

Visual Thinking Strategies Pilot Program, Winsor School, Clinton, MA

Spectrum REACH, DYS, North Grafton, MA*

Westborough Reception, Westborough, MA *

Fay A. Rotenberg School, Westborough, MA*

Spectrum REACH, North Grafton, MA, 2013*

Fay A. Rotenberg School, Westborough, MA*

Fay A. Rotenberg School, Westborough, MA

* Funded by Massachusetts Cultural Council STARS Residency grant program, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Department of Youth Services, the Commonwealth Corporation, and the Collaborative for Educational Services in Northampton, MA.

2020 TextileArtist.org Stitch Challenge, Workshop Leader

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, Threads of Community Public Art Project, Online Workshops and Art Lab at Home

Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts, Boston, MA, Mixed Media Workshop

2019 Surface Design Association Conference, Beyond the Surface, St Louis, MO, Mining Our Personal to Recognize the Universal

Danforth Museum of Art, Attire/Autobiography

Eliot School of Fine Art and Craft, Boston, MA, Mixed Media Studio Summer Immersion

Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston, Newton, MA, Staff Training, How to Facilitate Conversations of Identity and Meaning and Seeing Something Together, Exploring Jewish Identity, family mission statements, and portraits with parents of young children, funded by the Covenant Foundation

2018 Open Table, Maynard, MA, food sustainability organization, Community Mural Project: Welcome to All, funded by Massachusetts Cultural Council Maynard Cultural Council grant

Phillips Exeter Academy, NH, Student, student, staff, and public workshop: Narrative Garments

Bay State College, Boston, MA, Guest Critic, Senior Class Final Collections

Newton Art Association, Newton, MA, Artist Lecture and Demo: Fragments of Eden: Textiles and Collage

2017 Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA, Visiting Artist, 2014-2017

2016 Peabody and Essex Museum, Story Trails, Salem, MA, Guest Artist

2014 North Hill, PurposeFULL Living, Needham, MA, Inaugural Artist in Residence, workshops, museum trips, collaborative art project

Concord Art Association, Concord, MA, Guest Critic, Artist Review and Critique Session

Franklin Art Association Members Exhibition, Franklin, MA, Juror

Framingham High School Art Department, Framingham, MA, Guest Critic

Raw Art Works, Lynn, MA, Visiting Artist

2013 Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA,Workshop, Coaching Groups: How They Help

Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA, Exhibiting Artist Teen Docent Training and Family Workshops

2011 Stonehill College, MA, Visiting Artist, Printmaking

2010 National Family Institute Massachusetts, Respite Program, After School Program, Lawrence, MA, Teaching Artist

Concord Art Association, Concord, MA, Artist Demonstration

Wright Center for Spiritual Renewal, Concord, MA, Workshop, Making Art from Life

2008 Concord Carlisle High School, Concord, MA, Teaching Artist, Spectrum Gay Straight Alliance, Tiger for Human Rights, funded by Massachusetts Cultural Council, Local Cultural Council grant and CCHS Parent Association grant

2007 Groton Public Library, Groton, MA, Self Portraits in Fabric, funded by Massachusetts Cultural Council, Local Cultural Council grant

American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA, Facilitator, Community Fabric Mandala

2006 North Crossing, teen therapeutic residence, Newton, MA, community wall hanging. Exhibitions at Simmons School of Social Work, Simmons College, Boston, MA; Corporate Offices Northeast Family Institute, Danvers, MA; Massachusetts State House, Mental Health Funding Breakfast, Boston, MA; awarded Community Spirit Award from Northeast Family Institute, Currently on view at North Crossing residence, Teaching Artist.

Community Interventions Program, teen therapeutic residence, Arlington, MA community wall hanging exhibited at Arlington Center for the Arts, currently on view at CIP. Teaching Artist

2004-2007 The Faith Quilts Projects: Kerem Shalom Intergenerational Dialogue wall hanging; First Parish in Concord Go Out Into the World Social Action Committee wall hanging; Keystone Montessori School Immigrant Hindu Mothers Community wall hanging. Exhibitions at Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA; Cloud Foundation, Boston, MA; Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Peabody and Essex Museum, Salem, MA, Facilitator and Exhibiting Artist