We are excited to present our online Studio Visit series to help our customers get to know our artists better and see how they are occupying themselves during this period of social isolation. Once every other week we will ask one of our artists to respond to these two questions: why did you become an artist? and how has the quarantine affected your artistic practice? Check back here every other Thursday to hear from another of our talented artists.

Thursday October 15, 2020 - Boriana Kantcheva

Boriana Kantcheva draws on memories and imagination to create compelling narrative images in print and gouache. After emigrating from Bulgaria, Kantcheva received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University joint degree program. Kantcheva is the recipient of several Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching awards. She has exhibited her work in Boston and New York. 

Thursday October 1, 2020 - Caitlin Duennebier

Caitlin Duennebier received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2009 and studied on scholarship at University of the Arts London. She currently lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Working in painting, drawing, sculpture, and animation, Duennebier creates surreal narratives that focus on a cast of oddball characters.

Thursday September 17, 2020 - Mary Teichman

Mary Teichman graduated from the Cooper Union in New York in 1976. Her work has been included in more than 250 national and international invitational and juried exhibitions, and she was a member of the influential Printmaking Workshop in Manhattan during the 1970s and 80s. Her etchings are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, The Boston Athenaeum, The New York Public Library and the Museum of the City of New York, among others. She is active in The Boston Printmakers and the Society of American Graphic Artists, as well as the Printmaker's Network of Southern New England.

Thursday August 20, 2020 - Elisa H. Hamilton

Elisa H. Hamilton is a socially engaged multimedia artist who creates inclusive artworks that emphasize shared spaces and the hopeful examination of our everyday places, objects and experiences. Hamilton has worked with the DeCordova Sculpture Park, MIT List Visual Arts Center and Museum and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to create community engaging art projects, and she has received several grants to implement public art projects around Boston. Hamilton has held artist residencies with the Vermont Studio Center, Boston Center for the Arts, the Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts and the Fenway Alliance. She continues her creative practice at her studio at Boston Center for the Arts.

Thursday August 6, 2020 - Eben Haines

Eben Haines was born in Boston, Massachusetts and he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His work emphasizes the history and process of objects, focusing on human form and the built environment. Through a process of building up and covering over his material, Haines aims to present hand, object and image simultaneously. He currently lives and works in Boston.

Thursday July 30, 2020 - John Campbell 

John Campbell grew up in Muncie, Indiana, and moved to the East Coast to earn his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His work draws inspiration from Mughal and Indian miniature painting as well as religious art from around the world. Campbell works with the meticulous detail of a miniaturist and incorporates mythological characters into scenes where they take on new meaning. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Thursday July 16, 2020 - Ellen Shattuck Pierce

Ellen Shattuck Pierce graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in art and women's studies and received a Master of Fine Arts from York University in Toronto. Pierce's work expresses the private fantasies she experiences as a parent that often do not harmonize with the ideals of modern American homemaking. Pierce enjoys pushing the boundaries of printmaking by using collage and incorporating unexpected materials such as fur or glitter. She currently lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

Thursday July 9, 2020 - Amy McGregor-Radin

Amy McGregor-Radin received her Bachelor of Arts from Michigan State University, and holds a Master of Business Administration from Boston University. She currently lives in Needham, Massachusetts.

My art comes out of the wide range of emotions that result from my full time work—that of being a mother, wife, and growing woman. Humor, love, anger, joy, pride, worry, frustration, pressure, fear, celebration, appreciation, introspection...the list continues to grow as I learn about myself through the process of making art.

Thursday July 2, 2020 - Ted Ollier

Ted Ollier was born in the Midwest, lived in the South, and now resides in the Northeast. He has been a photographer, graphic designer, bass player, typographer, web pioneer, informational leafblower and armchair philosopher. At present, he is a printmaker and conceptual artist working in the Boston community of Medford. He teaches letterpress and design through the Harvard Extension School at the Bow & Arrow Press in Cambridge. Ollier’s concerns are with data and its interaction with the consensus reality, and how that reality is affected and changed by that data.

Thursday June 25, 2020 - Maeve Mueller

Maeve Mueller studied at the School at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she concentrated in ceramics and light metals. A New England native originally hailing from Salem, New Hampshire, Mueller now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The more like meditation my art practice is, the happier I am. If I’m going to dedicate my life to making objects (and I am) they should be honest and precious and created for the purpose of being intimately experienced by others.

Thursday June 18, 2020 - Marco Athié

Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Athié has resided in Arlington, Massachusetts, for the last decade. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Missouri, where he studied under master watercolorist and underground comic artist Frank Stack, among others. Knowing that our eyes have a wealth of options for receiving entertainment and pleasure, he uses a layered, subtly abstracted approach that encourages viewers to immerse themselves within the painting.

Thursday June 11, 2020 - Patt Kelley

With strong attention to dramatic lighting, Patt Kelley’s illustrative watercolors echo a curiosity of being, an interest in what puts the air into our lungs and makes our great world spin. With a focus on nature, Kelley’s paintings evoke a tongue in cheek sentimentality that could cause a laugh or make your heart swell.

Thursday May 28, 2020 - Coco Berkman

Gloucester artist and printmaker Coco Berkman utilizes her love of drawing and a literary inspired imagination along with Japanese carving tools, luxurious oil-based inks and beautiful cotton rag papers to create images that inspire a particular emotional effect. She has studied at several printmaking studios throughout the United States and Ireland.

Thursday May 21, 2020 - Carlos Santiago

Carlos Santiago is a Puerto Rican-born painter who enjoys exploring the interchange of shape, form and texture. Santiago earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. He subsequently worked for ten years as a design professional in New York City’s fashion industry. Santiago continued his artistic education at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where he studied oil painting.

Thursday May 14, 2020 - Mary O’Malley

Mary O'Malley earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and her Master of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts. O'Malley's work has been exhibited widely, including a show at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park and a solo show at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, Massachusetts. In 2010, her work was acquired by the U.S. Embassy in Dubai. She lives and works in Rochester, New Hampshire.

Thursday May 7, 2020 - Lindsey Kocur

Lindsey Kocur holds a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Kocur’s paintings simulate encounters with the built environment in its many forms, whether they appear as settings for daily life, stages for entertainment or backdrops for advertising. Each fabricated space can be seen as either a grand vision or a place of escape. In either case, they represent extreme reactions to unattainable Utopian standards. Kocur’s studio is in Allston, Massachusetts.

Thursday April 30, 2020 - CW Roelle

CW Roelle is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. He began drawing with wire in his junior year when, after looking at a figure drawing he had just made in class he wanted to reach into the paper, grab the line and move it with his hands. Roelle considers his wire pieces drawings more than sculptures. The imagery he uses is often inspired by the silent film era and the narratives he creates are generally subtle mood studies. Roelle lives in western Rhode Island and works as a postal carrier. 

Thursday April 23, 2020 - Nicole Duennebier

Nicole Duennebier’s work is characterized by a voracious approach to historical influences. Visually her paintings evoke a keen interest in Dutch still lifes, the Old Masters, and Rococo landscapes. She depicts flora and fauna with heightened, sometimes excessive, detail and texture which renders her subjects both attractive and repulsive. Duennebier was a 2016 Massachusetts Cultural Council Painting Fellow, and she currently lives and works in Malden, Massachusetts.

Thursday April 16, 2020 - David Palmquist

David Palmquist is a painter living in Brookline and working at Vernon Street Studios in Somerville, Massachusetts. He spent his formative years in Minneapolis, Minnesota, later attending North Park College in Chicago, Illinois, and graduating with a Bachelor's degree in finance. Palmquist is drawn to order, a predilection that expresses itself through graphing, pixilation, and exaggerated definition in his paintings.

Thursday April 9, 2020 - Heather Pilchard

Heather Pilchard is a painter, photographer, bookbinder and teacher. She graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University with a Bachelor of Fine Art in 1995. Pilchard currently lives in Wellfleet on Cape Cod.