:: Faculty Biographies

Grace Consoli has taught Art History at AIB for over ten years.  She also teaches at the New England School of Art and Design and at Mass Art, specializing in contemporary and female artists. Grace has directed galleries in New York and Provincetown and worked at the Provincetown Art Association & Museum. She has had several art-related experiences in Italy: she received an internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, conducted an art-based radio program, worked in a Florence gallery and at the Pecci Museum, and taught at the Art Institute of Florence.  She's also an independent curator, and writes reviews and articles and conducts interviews for ARTSmedia Magazine.

Amanda Gluibizzi has a Master's Degree in Art History from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, and a Master's in Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.  She is the Head Librarian for the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and is also an adjunct faculty member at AIB in the art history and photography departments.  In 2003, she co-curated Immersion, a group show featuring contemporary artists.

Lori Grace, MFA, MCMHC is a published writer, teacher, and therapist who has worked part-time teaching students from Lesley College and later the Art Institute of Boston since 1991.  Her current private practice work involves helping creative artists of all kinds work through creative blocks.  Having attended a painting and drawing school in southern France, Ms. Grace has sold her visual work in the United States and in France, and is passionate about making short fiction “live” (via the five senses) on the page.  As a writer, short fiction is her active medium, and she reads and writes it voraciously.

Jaimey Hamilton holds a Ph.D. from Boston University in the field of modern and contemporary art history, specializing in contemporary visual culture and theory.  She has written and given lectures on feature films, video and media arts, installation and performance art, as well on the recent historical origins of contemporary multi-media art in 50's and 60's assemblage.  Her dissertation examines the postwar assemblage practices of Alberto Burri, Robert Rauschenberg, and Arman.  She currently teaches contemporary art at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and is working on a book about assemblage art in the postwar era. 

Fred Levy, 2004 recipient of the Phelan award in CA, is currently adjunct faculty and manager of the academic computing lab at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.  He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of Museum of Fine Arts and is an accomplished photographer and multi-media artists who integrates both traditional and digital techniques in his work.  He exhibits his work both regionally and on the west coast.