Lela Hersh, ASA, is President of Museum of Fine Arts Consulting, LLC, and an accredited senior appraiser with a specialty in Fine Arts and Fine Arts Photography. Ms Hersh has been involved in the arts for over 35 years and worked as a curator, art advisor, collection manager, and museum consultant. She is a Senior Lecturer at the … Read more

Kathryn Dietz is an award-winning independent filmmaker whose documentaries for PBS include Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary Pickford for American Experience, China in the Red and Young & Restless in China for Frontline, Time of Fearand CHINA: A Century of Revolution for national PBS, and Getting Better: 200 Years of Medicine for the New England Journal of Medicine. She was Executive Director of Filmmakers Collaborative … Read more

Mitch Ryerson is an artist, designer, and craftsman specializing in wood structures and furniture. His work has been exhibited extensively and is in numerous private and public collections including the Fuller Craft Museum, the Mint Museum, the Boston Public Library, and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Ryerson’s many commissions for Boston-area parks and schools are enjoyed … Read more

Jenine Shereos is a sculptor and installation artist specializing in fiber and textile processes. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and published in The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, Frame Magazine, Make Magazine, Textile Plus Magazine, and Mary Schoeser’s publication; Textiles: The Art of Mankind. Shereos is also a … Read more

Sofie Elana Hodara is a designer, artist, and educator. She is a member artist at Bromfield Gallery, where she shows monochromatic prints depicting minimalist patterns, and a contributing artist at Culture Industry [dot] Club, a collective of artists and academics making work to critique the Quantified Self movement. As a designer, Hodara is pursuing projects … Read more

Martha Rettig is a designer and artist whose work focuses on merging traditional mediums with emerging technologies. Her experience over the past fifteen years crosses many areas of design, including design concept, visual design, interactive design, interface design, data visualization, experience design, and creative direction. She co-founded an interactive design agency, Cykod, in 2006 and … Read more

Richard Murphy is a poet and educator who has taught writing and literature for more than 30 years. He is guest lecturer at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His critical essays have appeared in The International Journal of the Humanities; Journal of Ecocriticism; Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics Poetry / Literature and Culture; and … Read more

Kristen Mallia is a graphic designer with a fine arts background in ceramic sculpture. She is Creative Director and Designer at MALLIA Design. From food truck wrap design, to menus, restaurant interior design, wayfinding signage and vinyl window treatments, Kristen extends her original graphic treatments to all facets of each business, from virtual to venue. … Read more

Santiago Hernandez is a Cuban painter, collagist, and mixed media sculptor based in Boston. He holds an MFA in Painting from the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL and a BFA in Studio Art from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. Santiago also studied anatomy, figure drawing and figure painting at the Art … Read more

Marguerite White spent the better part of a decade working and living on commercial waterfronts in the US and Europe. From Nantucket to Vinalhaven, ME, Coney Island, Amsterdam, Cologne and New Orleans, she both painted the waterfronts and was a house-painter on the waterfront before moving to the middle of Texas, where there was no … Read more