Friday, March 21, 2025 – 9:30am-4:10pm
Saturday, March 22, 2025 – 9:30am-4:10pm
This event will be conducted on ZOOM
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Lynne Allen
Boston University, College of Fine Arts
Professor of Art, Printmaking; Chair of Print Media & Photography
Reviewing: Friday
About | Lynne Allen (she/her) Allen’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is included in collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art Library, the New York Public Library, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, among others. Selected exhibition venues include The North Dakota Museum of Art, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The Virginia Museum of Fine Art, as well as international exhibitions in the Guanlan China Biennial; the International Printmaking Biennial of Douro, Portugal; The Novosibirsk Print Biennial, Russia; and the International Print Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia. Artist residencies include Senezh House of Artists, USSR; the Guanlan Printmaking Base, China; Caversham Press, Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa; Grafikenshuis, Mariefred, Sweden;Musachina Art University, Japan, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Honors include two Fulbright Scholarships (USSR 1990, Jordan 2004-05), two Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Grants, a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant, and a Prilla Smith Brackett Award finalist.
A Professor of Art at Boston University, Allen is inaugural chair of the MFA program in Print Media + Photography, where she previously served as Director of the School of Visual Art (2006-15) and as Dean ad interim of the College of Fine Arts (2015-17). Before coming to Boston University, she was Professor of Art at Rutgers University, Director of the Brodsky Center 2000-2006 and Associate Director 1989- 2000).
Focus | printmaking/mixed media
Ellen Buchanan
Boston Art, Gallery Manager
Reviewing: Friday
About | Ellen Buchanan (they/them) is deeply passionate about the vibrant Boston Art scene. They graduated from Boston University in 2021 with a degree in English and Studio Art. They have worked both in private galleries as well as nonprofit art spaces in the Boston Area. As Gallery Manager at Boston Art they serve as the main contact for all artist and gallery relations, maintaining and navigating longstanding relationships as well as fostering new connections. Ellen manages Boston Art’s gallery inventory, researching new artists and serving as a creative lead for the gallery. They thoroughly enjoy building connections and exploring the local, national, and international art scene both through their position at Boston Art, and in their personal life.
Focus | I am accustomed to working with emerging as well as established artists. I also work with public artists/ artist groups on occasion.
Jane Carney
Boston Art Inc. , Art Consultant
Reviewing: Friday + Saturday
About | Jane Carney (she/her) was born + raised in Bristol Rhode Island in a very creative family of musicians and writers. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Arts Administration from Simmons College and earned a Master’s degree in Arts Business + Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in NYC. Carney lived in the city for 5 years and worked as Cataloguer & Junior Specialist in the Design department at Christie’s Auction House. In 2022 she chose to relocate back to the Boston area and found a role at Boston Art as an Art Consultant. This shift led her to finding a true passion in the arts – acting as a conduit for emerging artists and identifying opportunities for their successes while also working with a broad and passionate collector base.
Focus | Emerging Art / Public Art / Design + Furniture
Meghan Clare Considine
ICA Boston, Curatorial Assistant
Reviewing: Friday
About | Meghan Clare Considine (she/her) is curatorial assistant at the ICA Boston. Previously, she held positions at MASS MoCA and the Weisman Art Museum. She holds an MA in Art History from Williams College, and her writing has appeared in the International Journal of Islamic Architecture, Third Text Online, and Sixty Inches from the Center.
Focus | Performance, film, dance
Lisa Crossman
Director of Curatorial Affairs, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
Reviewing: Friday + Saturday
About | Lisa Crossman (she/her) is Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College. Since joining the Mead, Lisa’s projects have centered collaborations with artists, students, faculty, and guest curators. Prior to this position, she was Curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum and worked with the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University. Lisa holds a PhD from Tulane University, specializing in the history of modern and contemporary art of Latin America with a focus on themes relating to nature and ecology. In her curatorial practice she explores art as part of interdisciplinary conversations, with current research focusing on labor.
Focus | emerging artists, social practice, performance, installation, etc.
Deborah Davidson
Suffolk University Gallery Director
Reviewing: Friday
About | Deborah Davidson (she/her) is an artist, curator, and educator. She is founder and director of Catalyst Conversations, devoted to the dialogue between art and science. She is part of the core faculty in the MFA program at Clark University, maintains a studio practice and directs the Suffolk University Gallery. She was the featured artist in Agni 61, the BU literary magazine. Davidson is also featured on the Mass Cultural Council’s podcast Creative Minds Outloud.
Focus | Greater Boston area artists
Marissa Del Toro
NXTHVN + Assistant Director for Programs and Exhibitions
Reviewing: Friday+Saturday
About | Marissa Del Toro (she/her) is the Assistant Director of Programs and Exhibitions at NXTHVN in New Haven, CT. Since 2021, Del Toro has worked with Museums Moving Forward, a data-driven initiative to support greater equity and accountability in art museum workplaces through coalition-building, research, and advocacy. She is currently co-curator of the traveling exhibition, Xican-a.o.x. Body with Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Gilbert Vicaro. She has guest curated and written for several institutions including the Latinx Project at NYU, Lehmann Maupin in New York City, and the Mission Cultural Latino Center in San Francisco, CA. She was a Curatorial Fellow at NXTHVN from 2021-2022. She previously held positions at Phoenix Art Museum; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; the Getty Research Institute as a Graduate Intern; the UTSA Art Gallery; and participated in the Latino Museum Studies Program at the Smithsonian Latino Center. She graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio with her MA in Art History and is originally from Southern California, where she received her BA in Art History from the University of California, Riverside.
Focus | Ceramics, Public, Sculpture, Textiles, Painting
Christina Godfrey
Savage Godfrey Gallery Director
Reviewing: Friday
About | Christina Godfrey graduated from Wheaton College, Norton, MA, in 2001. She revived the Sunne Savage Gallery’s interest in corporate and contemporary art when she accepted an art relocation project with RSM, formerly known as McGladrey, and went on to curate exhibitions of emerging artists at the RSM Art Gallery for 18 years.
Currently, Christina co-curates the Mini Museum at Boston Children’s Hospital while also managing corporate art collections in the Boston area. Since joining the Gallery in 2001, Christina has consistently turned new contacts into long-term clients through her creative and resourceful approach to project management and vast knowledge of regional artists.
The 2024 rebranding of the Savage Godfrey Gallery reflects Christina Godfrey’s dedication and key role over the past 20 years. She lead the opening of the Gallery’s new location at 693 Main Street in Norwell, MA. The Savage Godfrey Gallery promotes emerging to mid-career regional artist.
Focus | emerging art and public art
Max Gruber
ICA BOSTON Curatorial Assistant
Reviewing: Saturday
About | Max Gruber (he/him) is Curatorial Assistant at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. He is contributing to several ICA exhibitions, including Tau Lewis: Spirit Level, Gun Violence Memorial Project, Charles Atlas: About Time, and An Indigenous Present. He holds an M.A. in the History of Art from Williams College.
Focus | Photography, Video, Installation, Archival, Research-based
Caitee Hoglund
13Forest Gallery, Gallery Director
Reviewing: Friday+Saturday
About | Caitee Hoglund (she/her) joined 13FOREST Gallery as the Director in 2017, where she has been curating a dynamic program of exhibitions and events with a wide variety of Boston’s finest artists. Caitee has also served as a juror for several local arts institutions, including the Attleboro Arts Museum, Mosesian Center for the Arts, and the Cambridge Art Association. Before her time at 13FOREST, Caitee earned her Master’s Degree in Art History and Museum Studies from Tufts University.
Focus | painting, printmaking, ceramics, emerging artists
LaiSun Keane
LaiSun Keane Gallery , Owner + Director
Reviewing: Saturday
About | LaiSun Keane (she/her) is the owner of an eponymous gallery in Boston’s SoWa Arts District, which specializes in contemporary works of art by American and International artists. LaiSun graduated with a Bachelor of Art Theory from University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. After graduating, she was involved with the non-profit gallery, the National Art School Gallery, and a commercial art gallery, AAG, which specialized in Australian Aboriginal Art. She moved to Boston in 2013 and in her indefatigable fashion, dived straight into the local art scene volunteering with many film festivals and non-profit art establishments. It ultimately led to her involvement with a long established ceramic gallery in Concord for five years, of which the final two years she was a partner. In April 2020, LaiSun started her own gallery, and has since staged ten exhibitions focusing on emerging artists, women, minorities and the overlooked.
Focus | emerging artists, women, minorities and the overlooked
Michelle Y Loh
BANK Gallery, Strategic Director
Reviewing: Friday
About | Michelle Y. Loh (she/her) is an accomplished visual arts gallery director with extensive experience with New York and Asian artists and art institutions. She is committed to matching artists, collectors and art venues to their maximum mutual advantage.
Over the last ten years, Loh has curated sixteen exhibitions at museums and galleries in New York City, Greenwich, Connecticut, and in China. She has convened numerous events in New York, bringing artists together with prospective collectors and exhibitors.
Loh has lectured on contemporary Asian art at Columbia University, Pace University, the New York Academy of Art and other academic and cultural institutions.
Focus | Painting, sculptures, new media art, and concept art
Audrey Lopez
The Greenway, Director and Curator of Public Art
Reviewing: Friday+Saturday
About | Audrey N. Lopez, PhD (she/they/any) is curator and writer who works at the intersections of public art + social practice + installation. Lopez is interested in multi-anti-disclipinary and research-based approaches to curatorial work and art-making. Lopez lives in Providence, RI and works as the Director and Curator of Public Art for The Greenway in downtown Boston. She’s taught graduate and undergraduate courses at RISD and the University of California Santa Barbara, and currently has a co-curated show up at UCLA’s Fowler Museum as part of Getty Foundation’s 2024 PST: Art & Science Collide.
Focus | Public art, multidiscplinary work, research-based approaches to art-making
Lindsay Metivier
Peel Gallery + Photo Lab Owner and Director: Professor of Photography at UNC
Reviewing: Friday+Saturday
About | Lindsay Metivier (she/her) is a photographer, an educator, an independent curator, and a gallerist based in Carrboro, North Carolina. She holds a BFA in both Photography and Art Education from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA in Studio Art from UNC Chapel Hill. Her work has been exhibited widely, most recently at the Oneoneone Gallery, The Nasher Museum at Duke University, The Ackland Art Museum at UNC Chapel Hill, The John and June Allcott Gallery, The Front Gallery, and Transmitter. Her work has been featured in The Heavy Collective, Humble Arts Foundation, and A New Nothing.
Focus | All types of art and artist. I’m a photography teacher and photographer.
Alison Meyer
Hera Gallery, Director
Reviewing: Friday + Saturday
About | Alison Meyer (she/her) Alison completed her BFA at the University of Rhode Island and is the gallery director at Hera Gallery. The world of photography and image-making has captivated her from a young age. It all started when her grandparents gifted her a 35 mm point-and-shoot camera on her ninth birthday. Through conceptual photography, her work explores memory, imagination, and mortality.
Focus | Photography
Barbara O’Brien
Independent Curator and Critic
Reviewing: Friday+Saturday
About | Barbara O’Brien (she/her) An independent curator and critic based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, O’Brien is the former Executive Director of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri. After earning her MFA at RISD in 1990, she spent 20 years in Boston where her positions included editor-in-chief of Art New England magazine and Director of the Trustman Gallery at Simmons University. O’Brien is an elected member of AICA-USA, international association of art critics.
Focus | Artists at all level of their career. Focus on painting, sculpture, photography and mixed-media works.
Jessica Roscio
Director and Curator, Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University
Reviewing: Friday
About | Jessica Roscio (she/her/hers) joined the Danforth Art Museum in 2011, was appointed Curator in 2015, and became the Director in 2020. She has overseen curatorial and administrative operations since the Museum became part of Framingham State University. Selected exhibitions include The Memory Palace: Domesticity, Objects, and the Interior, Dressed, Family Circle, Visionary Boston: John Brook, Steven Trefonides, and Kahlil Gibran, Barbara Swan: Reflected Self, and Lois Tarlow: Material Vocabulary. Prior to the Danforth, Roscio held positions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She taught courses at Emerson College and Suffolk University, and has been a regular contributor to Aspect Initiative, an online gallery focusing on contemporary photography in New England. Roscio has an MA in Art History from the University at Buffalo and a Ph.D. in American Studies, with a focus on the History of Photography, from Boston University.
Focus | Photography, painting, fiber, installation, emerging artists
Caitlin Julia Rubin
Independent Curator; Interim Curator of Exhibitions, Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Reviewing: Friday+Saturday
About | Caitlin Julia Rubin (she/her/hers) is a curator and writer. She is currently Interim Curator of Exhibitions at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute and previously held the role of Associate Curator & Director of Programs at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. Within this position and in prior years at the Rose, she organized and co-organized projects by Mark Dion, Rosalyn Drexler, Jennie C. Jones, Tuesday Smillie, and Caroline Woolard, among others; curated numerous collection-focused presentations; and contributed to and produced both museum and artist publications. With Lauren Haynes, she co-curated the exhibition “Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love,” which debuted at the Rose Art Museum in February 2023 and traveled to the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The third and final presentation recently closed at the Queens Museum, New York, where it was highlighted as a New York Times Critic’s Pick and listed among the “Best Art of 2024.”
Focus | All media; socially-engaged practices
Lauren Szumita
Cantor Art Gallery at Holy Cross, Director
Reviewing: Friday
About | Lauren Szumita (she/her) is the Director of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross. She previously was the curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum, where she organized Cicely Carew: Quantum Sanctuary (2022), Rania Matar: Oceans at My Door (2023), Paper Town (2023), and FAM’s inaugural façade installation, Gabriel Sosa’s La bodega de mis suenos (ongoing), among others. Prior, she was Curatorial Assistant of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at Worcester Art Museum where she oversaw the Central Massachusetts Artists Initiative (CMAI) rotation for contemporary, regional artists. Lauren holds an MA in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Oregon and a BA in Art History from Boston College.
Focus | all except decorative – needs to have meaty conceptual aspect
Leah Triplett
Director of Contemporary Curatorial, PAFA
Reviewing: Friday+Saturday
About | Leah Triplett (she series) is a curator and writer, currently serving as the Director of Exhibitions and Contemporary Curatorial Initiatives at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). Her writing has appeared in ArtAsiaPacific, ArtNet News, Sculpture, Public Art Dialogue, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and others. She taught critical writing in the painting and sculpture MFA programs at Boston University from 2021 to 2023. She is the 2024 Mary Ann Unger Estate Fellow, researching the artist’s late 1970s and early 1980s works.
Focus | emerging artist, craft adjacent, public art, new media, painting, sculpture
Manuela Uribe
Powell Fine Art Advisory, Associate Advisor
Reviewing: Saturday
About | Manuela Uribe (she/her) joined the Powell Fine Art team in 2022. She considers herself a multi-disciplinarian at heart, committed to a career in the commercial art world while dabbling in her own art-making practice in her spare time.
She received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), where she also briefly pursued a painting practice. She specialized in Postmodern and Contemporary Latin American art, and enriched those studies through internships at Bogotá-based art consulting firms and editorial projects at local galleries.
Focus | painting, works on paper, printmaking
Terence Washington
Independent Curator
Reviewing: Friday+Saturday
About | Terence Washington (he/him) earned a B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in 2015 and an M.A. in Art History from Williams College in 2017. He has since worked as an educator and public programmer at the National Gallery of Art and the Free Library of Philadelphia, an administrator for NXTHVN and Readying the Museum, and a guest curator at the MFA Boston, joining the curatorial team for the 2022 exhibition Philip Guston Now. He has also written essays and poetry for several artist books and exhibition catalogues.
Focus | public art, contemporary
Matthew Weldon Showman
Ferrara Showman Gallery, Co-owner and Director
Reviewing: Friday+Saturday
About | Matthew Weldon Showman (he/him) has been an integral part of the gallery’s success and growth since joining the gallery in 2011. His extensive knowledge of contemporary art has helped position the gallery as one of the premier galleries in the American South. His steadfast and boundless dedication to artist development, curatorial programming, community engagement, and education culminate into the gallery’s position today. His leadership in the Arts District New Orleans has illuminated the city as an international destination for Contemporary Art and exporting it through the expansion of the gallery’s art fair participation and international presence. With a keen eye for curation and exceptional skills in cultivating and advising clients/collections, Showman has become an invaluable asset to the gallery.
Focus | emerging, historically under-represented artists, BIPOC/AAPI/LGBT+
Image in header courtesy of CAA Artist Member Anne-Marie Delaunay-Danizio