FALL 2024 PORTFOLIO REVIEWERS

FALL 2024 PORTFOLIO REVIEWERS

We’re excited to announce that the CAA will be offering a member-only, one-day, in-person Portfolio Review this fall at our Kathryn Schultz Gallery. This program will complement our Spring online reviews.

Date | Friday, October 25
Time | 30-minute sessions from 10am-2:20pm
Location | in-person at the Kathryn Schultz Gallery


Lynne Allen

Boston University Professor of Art, Printmaking; Chair of Print Media & Photography

About | Lynne Allen’s work has been exhibited widely 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 Whitney Museum of American Art, 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 (juror in 2019); 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; the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, VA; Byrdcliffe Artist Residency, NY, as well as artist workshops/lectures abroad (Iceland, Poland, Denmark, China, Slovenia, South Africa, Russia, Sweden).

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, and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant, Diploma Award Tallinn International Print Biennial, and a Prilla Smith Brackett Award finalist.

Allen holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of New Mexico and a Master of Art for Teachers from the University of Washington. Lynne previously served as Director of the School of Visual Art (2006-15) and as Dean ad interim of the Boston University College of Fine Arts (2015-17). Prior to coming to Boston University, she was Professor of Art at Rutgers University, Director of the Brodsky Center (formerly the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper), and Master Printer and Educational Director at Tamarind Institute.


Deborah Davidson

Suffolk University Gallery Director

About | Deborah Davidson (she/her) is a curator, artist and educator. She received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and her B.A. from Binghamton University. She has been the director of the Suffolk University Gallery since 2013 where she continues to curate exciting exhibitions and programs, which engage the University community as well as adding to a larger conversation in the Boston cultural arena.

She is also part of the core faculty in the MFA program in Visual Arts at Lesley University College of Art and Design. Deborah was the featured artist in the 2005 issue of Agni, the BU literary magazine, her first published writing appeared there. Her work is in many private and public collections, including Yale University, Wellesley College, Boston Public Library, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Deborah is founder and director of Catalyst Conversations, devoted to the dialogue between art and science. Her previous curatorial projects include The Book As Subject And Object, Northeastern University and Cannot Be Described In Words: Drawing/Daring, The Art Complex Museum. She has had solo exhibitions at the Danforth Museum of Art, Kingston Gallery, Oresman Gallery, Smith College and Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy. Awards include Finalist, Brother Thomas Fellowship, Artist in Residence, Northeastern University, and a Berkshire Taconic A.R.T. grant.


Emily Mazzola

Curator, Fitchburg Art Museum

About | Emily Mazzola is the Curator of the Fitchburg Art Museum. She holds a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in the History of Art and Architecture; her dissertation is titled: “Identities on Display in the Smithsonian’s First Ladies Hall.” Her research interests include American Art, museum studies, and material culture. She has worked on curatorial and research projects at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, the Heinz History Center, and the Frick Pittsburgh. Prior to attending U. Pitt, Emily was the Fitchburg Art Museum’s first Koch Curatorial Fellow in 2015.


Toni Pepe

Assistant Professor of Photography, Boston University

About | Toni Pepe (b.1981 Boston, MA) is a visual artist who uses vernacular or press imagery to explore alternative notions of an archive as well as different modes for collecting and preserving knowledge. Pepe enjoys finding the possibilities and limitations of photography – how it can make us both remember and forget, make something feel entirely present and absent, and show us something beyond the frame. She views the medium of photography as a tool amongst many that she uses in the studio. Occasionally, the camera is the answer to her creative question, but oftentimes, she is using other techniques including mold-making, assemblage, embroidery, performance, and laser etching. As Pepe weaves these varied processes into her practice, her focus is always turned toward how these materials relate to photography in an expanded sense.

Pepe is currently chair and assistant professor of photography at Boston University where she has helped to build and now launch a new MFA in Print Media and Photography. She received her MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology (2008) and an MLA in visual culture from Boston University (2011). Pepe has exhibited both nationally and internationally including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Blue Sky Gallery. She was a 2024 MacDowell Fellow, finalist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, a Critical Mass top 50, a Review Santa Fe 100, an SPE Imagemaker, and an Artist Trust Grant awardee. Her work is in the permanent collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Boston Athenaeum, Fidelity, the Danforth Art Museum, Candela Books & Gallery, the Magenta Foundation, as well as many private collections. 


Jessica Roscio

Director and Curator, Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University

About | Jessica Roscio (she/her) 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.


Cecilia Vázquez

FA2D Associate Professor and ChairMFA 2D Program Director, Massachusetts College of Art and Design

About | Cecilia Vázquez was born and raised in Mexico City, where she attended the National University of Mexico for her BFA degree. Later on, she earned her MFA in Painting from MassArt, thanks to the support of a Fulbright grant. 

She exhibits her work regularly, both in Mexico and abroad, in cultural institutions, museums, and private galleries. Her practice has granted her a position in the Mexican art-world, having been distinguished in three occasions with the National System of Creators Grant by the National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA, Mexico). She is also part of the Fulbright-García Robles Experts Network, and participates regularly as a jury member for national and international competitions and grants. 

She has taught at college level for more than twenty years, mainly in Mexico and the US. She has also served as Visiting Artist in numerous occasions. Before her current appointment, she was Tenured Full Professor at the State University of Morelos in Mexico, where she also headed the MFA Maestría en Producción Artística, accredited by the National Register of Quality Graduate Programs. 


Two monographies on her work have been published: Fondo, figura y fondo otra vez and Geometría blanda.

Image in header courtesy of Bekka Teerlink from CAA’s Pulse of the Making Exhibit