A Brief Biography
A native of Cambridge, MA, I am a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design; class of 1974.
I received a BFA in painting and Illustration.
While attending MassArt, I had the benefit of being a student of Prof. Calvin Burnett, Prof. Ron Hayes, and Prof. Charles Demetropoulos. All were most influential in my early development as a growing artist. Several years later, in 1977, I Joined the Boston Negro Artists Association (later The Boston Afro-American Artists (BAAA)). I had the privilege of being mentored by, and exhibiting with many talented artists in the organization: James E. Guilford Jr, Leon Robinson, and Tyron Geter; just to name a few.
Concurrent with my association with BAAA, I became an affiliate artist from 1988 - 1991, with AAMARP (African-American Master Artists-in-Residence Program at Northeastern University); founded by Prof. Dana Chandler, in Boston, MA.
The AfricanWinterGallery, founded in 2005, by Laurence Martin Pierce, in Dorchester, MA, was another gathering place and incubator for many talented and creative artists; many with whom I exhibited and worked.
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In 1977, I earned a Massachusetts teaching certificate from Boston State College and Suffolk University. I was certified as an Art Teacher for all grade levels: K-12. After receiving my certification, I taught art from 1977 through 1991 in various public and semi-private educational settings; in Cambridge and Boston.
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From 1991 to 2018, I served as an Art and Photography teacher at Newton Country Day School; an all girls independent school in Newton MA. While at NCDS, I taught a full range of studio visual art courses and developed the Art curriculum for both the Middle and Upper School divisions. Also, in the Upper school, I taught Intro to Black and White Photography up to 2014. I later transitioned to Intro to Digital Photography in 2005. In 2004, I was appointed Chair of the Visual Arts Department; and served in that capacity, until my retirement in 2018.
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