Résumé

 

Résumé

Exhibitions

2020

Art on the Trails: Rising Up, Beals Preserve, Southborough, MA, Juror: Hilary Zelson

TREE MEMORIES, Southborough Library, Main Street, Southborough, MA

2019

Holiday Show, Project B Gallery,  The Mill Contemporary Art
Curated by Sorin Bica

New Terrain, Encaustic paintings by Lois Arthur, Karma Kitaj, and Catherine Weber, Brookline Bank, West Roxbury, MA

Art on the Trails: Marking Territory, Beals Preserve, Southborough, MA, Juror: Shana Dumont Garr

Still: Encaustic Paintings by Lois Arthur, Claire Ryan-Robertson & Catherine M. Weber, Holzwasser Gallery, New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA

2018

Annex Member Group Show, Fountain Street Gallery, Boston
Space Invaders, International exhibition juried by Samuel Rowlett, Fountain Street Gallery, Boston
Tree Memories, Redux, Nourish Cafe, Release Wellbeing Center 
Lucent Fruit, Theracopia Wellness Center

2017

SHIFTS: Approaching Encaustic from All Angles, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, Juror: Ben Shattuck, Lead Curator at Dedee Shattuck Gallery in Westport, MA.
Art on the Trails: Finding Solace in the Woods, Beals Preserve, Southborough, MA, Juror: Mary Tinti
Lazy Summer, Springdale Barrel Room, Jack’s Abbey, Framingham, MA
three artists | three months, theracopia, Southborough, MA

2016

Vision + Verse, The University of New England Art GalleryPortland, Maine, Juror/Curator: Anne Zill
Beneath the Surface, Saco Museum of Art, Saco, Maine, Juror: Ron Crusan, Dir. Ogunquit Museum of American Art

2015

Contemporary Mosaics in Wax Solo Exhibition, Ashland Public Library, Ashland, MA
Tree Memories Solo Exhibition, Open Spirit Center, Framingham, MA

2014

Transformation, Sharon Arts Center, NH
The Diptych Project II, Engine, Biddeford, ME
Tree Memories Solo Exhibition, Newton Free Library, Newton, MA
Community of Artists, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
Lucent Fruit, Heart and Stone Gallery, Northborough, MA

2013

Material Matters, Portland Public Library, Portland, ME
Encaustic: Luminosity in Wax, Gallery Seven, Maynard, MA
Community of Artists, Annual Juried Exhibition, Danforth Museum,
Framingham, MA  Juror: Danforth Museum Director Katherine French
RED, A Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2nd Anniversary: COTTON, Fountain Street Fine Art, Framingham, MA, Juried by Joanne Mattera (Jurors comments)

2012

National Juried Exhibition, Encaustic Art Institute, New Mexico
Add Women and Stir, Library Arts Center, Newport, New Hampshire
lucent fruit series, Starbucks, Southborough, MA
12 x 12 show, Fountain Street Fine Art, Framingham, MA
Women’s Art Forum Show, Hopkinton Art Center
Show of Hearts, Post Road Art Center, Marlborough, MA

2011

Chestnut Hill Farm Art Show and Sale, Southborough, MA
Member’s Show, Fountain Street Fine Art, Marlborough, MA

2009

Heatstroke, Saco Museum, Juried by Katherine French, Director, Danforth Museum
Ancient Medium, N.E.W. Terrain, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA                    Juror: Craig Youngblood

2008

In Flat Fields, River Tree Arts, Kennebunk, ME Juror: Shawn Hill

2006

Juried Show, Arts Center at Southborough
Juried Show, Clinton Arts Society, Third Prize

Publications

2021

Layering: The Art and Experience of Hot Wax, April, 2021

2020

Art on the Trails, Rising Up: Exhibition Catalog and Poetry Chapbook, Summer, 2020

2019

Art on the Trails, Marking Territory: Exhibition Catalog and Poetry Chapbook, Summer, 2019

2018

Art on the Trails:  Exhibition Catalog and Poetry Chapbook, Summer 2018

2017

Art on the Trails: Finding Solace in the Woods Exhibition Catalog and Poetry Chapbook, Summer 2017

2016

Vision and Verse Exhibition Catalog, Summer, 2016
Beneath the Surface Exhibition Catalog, Spring, 2016

2014

Transformations Exhibition Catalog, Fall, 2014
The Art of Collaboration, Encaustic Art Magazine, Winter, 2014
Community of Artists Exhibition Catalog, Danforth Art Museum, Summer, 2014
The Diptych II Project Exhibition Catalog, Summer, 2014

2013

Critical Mass.: “Cotton” at Fountain Street Fine ArtJoanne Mattera Art Blog Below the Surface blog, New England Wax
RED exhibition catalog. Curated by Adam and Marian Peck. A Gallery Press, Provincetown, MA, Spring, 2013

Projects

Founder and Program Director, Art on the Trails, 2017-2021

Teaching

Encaustic Painting, New Arts Center, Newton, Massachusetts
Private and public encaustic and collage demos and classes including regional art guilds and centers
Artist marketing workshops at galleries and conferences including 2013 Int’l Encaustic Conference

Associations

New England Wax
Hopkinton Center for the Arts
Southborough Cultural Arts Council
International Encaustic Association
Women’s Caucus of Art

Grants and Awards

2017-2021 Southborough Community Fund Grant for Art on the Trails
2018-20201Massachusetts Cultural Council Grants for Art on the Trails program and film
3rd prize, Clinton Arts Society Juried Show 2006
1st prize, Worcester Magazine poetry contest 2005

Education

BA, Emerson College, Communications Studies
MA, University of Massachusetts Critical and Creative Thinking
Massachusetts College of Art (course work in graphic design)