FACULTY

Elizabeth DaCosta Ahern is a painter, printmaker, and art instructor. She has received many grants and awards, including the Massachusetts Artist Foundation Grant, and a Kinnicutt Travel Grant to paint in Portugal. In June, 2006, she was Ambassador for the Arts in the State Department's American Artist Abroad Program. She has taught at the DeCordova Museum School and the Worcester Art Museum, and has offered workshops in New Mexico and Greece. Elizabeth's work is in many collections, including the Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, Bank of America, San Francisco, and Fidelity Investments, Boston. She is a graduate of Boston University, and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and studied in a Master Class with Helen Frankenthaler in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

David Barber is a poet and the poetry editor of The Atlantic Magazine. In his new book of poetry, Wonder Cabinet, Barber takes as a model the late-Renaissance curiosity cabinet. His first book, The Spirit Level, won the Terence des Pres prize. His poetry and criticism have appeared in The Paris Review, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, and Poetry. Barber has taught at MIT and Emerson College.

Priscilla Baumann, who earned her Ph.D. in Medieval Studies at Boston University, is particularly interested in medieval French art, architecture, and cultural history. After completing a B.A. in French at Manhattanville College, and an M.A. in French at Middlebury College, Priscilla was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Sorbonne in Paris. Priscilla was cited as Distinguished Instructor of Art History at the Radcliffe Seminars. Her extensive archive of slides photographed on site enhances her classes, and offers unique details not available elsewhere. She was a Visiting Lecturer at Tufts University, and has been a Docent at the Harvard University Art Museums since 1983. Priscilla has published articles in scholarly journals, and lectures frequently in the Boston area on medieval sculpture and architecture.

Carrie Bennett's first book of poetry, Biography of Water, won the 2004 Washington Prize, and was published by Word Works in 2005. After receiving her M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she moved to Boston where she currently teaches in the Writing Program at Boston University. Her poetry has been published in Boston Review, Indiana Review, The Bellingham Review, 88, Phoebe, So to Speak, and is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly and Chelsea.

Suzanne E. Berger, M.F.A., Johns Hopkins University, M.Ed., Northeastern University, is a poet, essayist, teacher, and author of These Rooms, Penmaen Press, Legacies, Alice James Books, and Horizontal Woman, Houghton Mifflin. She has taught at Metropolitan College, Boston University, Harvard University Summer School, and the Radcliffe Seminars. She has awards from MacDowell Colony, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, and the Somerville Arts Council, and earned a Pushcart Prize, a teaching citation from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, and a prize for Vogue from Easter Seals for writing about disability. Her work has been published in major literary magazines, including Ploughshares, Agni, The New Yorker, and Harvard Review.

Judith Black is a photographer and an associate professor of art at Wellesley College. Her work involves her family and self in a twentyfive year exploration of the portrait. Her research includes work on photographers who use their family experiences as material for their work, and how that representation reflects the social and cultural image of the family in the visual arts of the period. Her work is included in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, and the Polaroid International Collection.

Barbara Bosworth is Professor of Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. She has received fellowships or grants from the Friends of Photography, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Buhl Foundation. Her photographs have been included in numerous landscape exhibitions, including Crossing the Frontier, organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The Altered Landscape, organized by the Reno Museum of Art, and are in the permanent collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. Her most recent book is Trees: National Champions. Other publications include: The Altered Landscape, America's Uncommon Places, Bang! The Gun As Image, Barbara Bosworth, and Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape.

Louise Freshman Brown has had solo exhibits at Piirto Gallery, Helsinki, Finland, Everson Museum, NY, The Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, FL, and the Monique Goldstrom Gallery, NYC, to name a few. Group exhibits include Venice, Italy, Sollentuna, Sweden, Van Nuys, CA, and Washington, D.C. Her works are in over 500 private, public, and corporate collections, including the Voorhees Museum, NJ, Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, AL, The Federal Reserve, and Bankers Trust of New York, among others. She completed major commissions for Mayo Clinic, Merck and Co., IBM, and numerous other institutions. She received a B.F.A in Painting, and an M.F.A. in Painting/Printmaking from Syracuse University. She is a Professor of Art at The University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, where in 2005 she received the Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award and in 2007 the Distinguished Professor Award. Visit: www.freshmanbrown.com

Jan Cannon has been a career advisor since 1994, and is quoted in The Wall Street Journal, AARP Bulletin, The Christian Science Monitor, Women's World, Working Mother, and Business 2.0, and has written articles for the Boston Herald, WomenWork.org, BellaOnline.com, staffITnow.com and other websites. Jan is often a radio and cable TV guest, speaking on career and employment topics. She is the author of Now What Do I Do? The Career Guide for Women, Finding a Job in a Slow Economy, and Find a Job: 7 Steps to Success. She earned a B.A. at Case Western Reserve University, an M.A.T. from Simmons, and an M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Northeastern University.

Lana Z. Caplan is a Boston-based photographer, filmmaker, and installation artist. Recent exhibitions and screenings include, among others: Gallery NAGA, Boston; John Stevenson Gallery, NY; Danforth Museum, MA; Photographic Resource Center, Boston; and the William Benton Museum of Art, CT. Her grants and awards include: Massachusetts College of Art, International Programs Travel Grant; Vermont Studio Center, Artist-in-Residence, Artist Grant; Massachusetts Cultural Council, Professional Development Grant; Contemporary Artist Center, North Adams, MA; and Polaroid Corporation, Materials Grant. Caplan earned a B.S. in Art History and Psychology at Boston University, and an M.F.A. in Photography at Massachusetts College of Art. Visit: www.lanazcaplan.com

Mark Chester has been a professional photographer since 1972. His photographs and/or feature stories have been published in The New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Christian Science Monitor, among others. Chester's book, No in America, is a collection of tongue-in-cheek photographs of no signs. He was the photographer for Charles Kuralt's book, Dateline America. His photographs are in permanent collections in the Baltimore, Brooklyn, Corcoran, Denver, Portland, and San Francisco Museums, among others. A graduate of the University of Arizona, Mark is a Copley Artist member, and teaches at the Falmouth Artists Guild and Cape Cod Art Association.

Carol Ann Clem is a partner at Clem Cronon Associates, a consulting firm specializing in helping nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and small businesses improve their marketing and strategic planning in order to more effectively achieve their goals. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College and earned a Master of Management at Northwestern University. She has taught at Babson, Brandeis, Northeastern, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Presently she teaches at Harvard Extension School.

Sharlene Voogd Cochrane, Ph.D., serves as director of the division of interdisciplinary inquiry at Lesley University. She teaches courses in history and cultural studies, and her focus is the intersections of gender, race, and religion.

Steven Cramer, poet, is Director of the low-residency M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University. He is the author of four poetry collections including Goodbye to the Orchard, Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand, The World Book, and The Eye that Desires to Look Upward. His poems and criticism have appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Partisan Review, Poetry, and TriQuarterly, as well as in The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Christina Davis, poet, received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and her Master's degree from the University of Oxford. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Gettysburg Review, Jubilat, LIT, The May Anthologies (selected by Ted Hughes), New England Review, New Republic, Paris Review, and Provincetown Arts (selected by Susan Mitchell). The recipient of several residencies to Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, she currently works at Poets House, and lives in Greenwich Village, NY.

Karen Davis is a photographer, book artist, and teacher. Her work is featured at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), the Houghton Rare Books Library, Harvard University, the Boston Drawing Project at Bernard Toale Gallery, and in corporate and private collections. Davis was recently awarded the Director's Prize in the CAA 2006 National Prize Show. Solo exhibitions include: the Dean's Gallery at MIT, the Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Gallery 57, CAC Gallery, and University Place Gallery, Cambridge, and Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston; her portfolio, For Patrons Only, was featured in Fotophile Magazine. She earned a B.S. in History from Simmons College, an M.A. in Education from the University of Chicago, and a degree in Manufacturing Processes from Wentworth Institute, MA. Visit: www.yesthatkarendavis.com

Patricia Deyton is the Director of the Center for Gender in Organizations (CGO) at the Simmons School of Management. Previously she was Executive Director of the Council of Women World Leaders, based at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Ms. Deyton received a Masters in Social Work from Columbia University and a Masters of Divinity from Yale. Presently she teaches at Harvard Extension School, and is a Senior Lecturer in the Simmons MBA program. Kendall Dudley is a career consultant, writing teacher, and artist. He has taught at Tufts University, Montserrat College of Art, Rowe Conference Center, Star Island and Pendle Hill, and has been a career consultant to Harvard for the last 12 years. His artwork appears in solo and group shows, while public art events have focused on 9/11 and on international hunger. Photographs of his were recently published in Science. He wrote Picturing Work: Career Design Using Writing and Art, and an article based on it appears in the American Counseling Association's online journal VISTAS. He's currently writing Living an Intentional Life: 100 Things To Do Before You Hit 100. He went to the Wharton School (B.S.) and Columbia University (M.I.A.), and worked as a city planner in Iran for the Peace Corps. Visit: www.lifeworkscareers.com

Kendall Dudley is a career consultant, writing teacher, and artist. He's frequently quoted in the media, and has appeared on WBUR, Evening Chronicle, and Channel 7. He presents at major career development conferences, and wrote Picturing Work: Career Design Using Writing and Art, a chapter of which is posted on VISTAS, the online journal of the American Counseling Association. He has taught at Tufts University, Montserrat College of Art, Rowe Conference Center, Star Island, and Pendle Hill, and has been a career consultant to Harvard for the last 12 years. His architectural photographs are in numerous university collections, and were recently published in Science. Dudley has a B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania, and a M.A. from Columbia University. Visit: www.lifeworkscareers.com

Robert Gilroy, S.J., is a Jesuit priest and mixed-media artist. The focus of his work is to facilitate conversation through reflection on spiritual experiences in daily life and art. Before arriving at Eastern Point Retreat House in Gloucester, he worked with diverse populations, including people living with physical and emotional handicaps, HIV, addictions, and the homeless. For the past 20 years he has spent much time working with the Lakota Sioux in South Dakota. A graduate of Lesley's Expressive Therapies program, he holds a B.A. in art and M.Div. in theology.

Kristin Gleason is a practicing fine art photographer, and holds a M.F.A. from Rochester Institute of Technology, and a B.F.A. from the University of Notre Dame. Her photographs have been exhibited in galleries across the U.S. and abroad. She recently published a book of photographs, Twilight Cityscapes: Fine Art Night Photography of Australia.

Marjorie Glick is known for her large scale, vividly colored realism watercolors that are inspired by New England's places of antiquity, and by the beauty found in nature. Her work resides in numerous corporate and private collections, including Fidelity Investments and Brigham and Women's Hospital. She has exhibited at several regional museums and galleries, including the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, the Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA, and the Forum Gallery, NYC. She is the recipient of grants from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (Artist's Resource Trust Grant) and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She holds a B.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art, and has studied independently with Wolf Kahn and George Nick. Visit: www.marjorieglick.com

Joan Green is a choreographer, dancer, and painter who just completed a project, Dance on Paper, Dance on the Floor (Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center), that integrated her art forms. She was a founder and codirector of Back Porch Dance Company, an intergenerational women's ensemble, as well as a founder of the Cambridge Performance Project, an after-school arts education program. She has taught dance at the Dance Complex, Cape Cod Community College, Springstep, and to elders throughout MA. She studied with Liz Lerman and others at the Dance Exchange. As a painter, she has had two solo shows at CMAC, four paintings commissioned by Children's Hospital Boston (2005 & 2006), and is a 2006 grantee of the George Sugarman Foundation. She is a graduate of Stanford University, and studied art at Cornell University, Ohio State, and Maryland Institute.

Cliff Hakim is founder and principal of the firm Rethinking Work. Author of the best seller We Are All Self-Employed, Hakim's articles have been featured extensively in Fortune, Financial Times, Fast Company, Industry Week, and the Boston Globe. His new book is Rethinking Work: Are You Ready to Take Charge? Hakim received a B.A. from Fitchburg State College, and an M.A. from Boston College.

Tracy L. Hurd, developmental psychologist, holds a Ph.D. from Boston College and a Master's in Child Development from Tufts University. She served as a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University's Center for the Study of Human Development and at Lesley University's Center for Children, Families, and Public Policy. She has been a faculty member at Simmons College, Lesley University, and Boston College. The author of numerous articles, she has recently published Nurturing Children and Youth: A Developmental Guidebook. Her research and commentaries on children, faith, families and specific topics can be found on the UUA's website: www.uua.org

Karinè Kadiyska is a figurative artist. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Painting and a Master's degree in Sculpture from Boston University, and spent two years in Carrara, Italy studying marble carving with the local craftsmen. Karinè teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art, Newbury College, and Brookline Adult and Community Education. Her work is in the permanent collections of the New England School of Art and Design, and the Carrara Academy of Fine Arts in Italy. Visit: http://kkadiyska.ifreepages.com

Leslie Lawrence is a former Fellow, National Endowment For the Arts, and contributor to many periodicals and anthologies, including The Boston Globe Magazine, Women's Review of Books, and Women On Women. She has creative nonfiction in Fourth Genre, poetry in The Seneca Review, and fiction in Prairie Schooner and The Marlboro Review. Lawrence teaches at Tufts University, and conducts private writing workshops. She received a B.A. from Oberlin College, an M.A.T. from Brown University, and an M.F.A. from Goddard College.

Mary Grimley Mason, who received her Ph.D. at Harvard University, taught literature and directed the Women's Studies program at Emmanuel College. She co-edited Journeys: Women's Autobiographical Writing with Carol Hurd Green. Her memoir, Life Prints: A Memoir of Healing and Discovery, motivated her to write her latest book, Working Against Odds: Stories of Disabled Women's Work Lives. Presently she is a Resident Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University.

Martha Barry McKenna, Ed.D., is provost and professor of the arts at Lesley University. She teaches courses in the interdisciplinary arts, humanities, and aesthetics.

Sue Motulsky has taught career exploration and decision-making courses and workshops for over 15 years, facilitating participants in their career transitions, supporting their self-esteem and confidence, and assisting them in exploring themselves and potential career options. She is a private practice career counselor, and Assistant Professor, Counseling Psychology Division, Lesley University. Sue earned an M.A. in English Literature from Boston University, a Certificate of Advanced Study from Harvard in Culture, Gender, and Relational Development, and an Ed.D. in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard.

Ruth Nemzoff, former assistant minority leader of the New Hampshire State Legislature, and the first female Deputy Commissioner of Health and Welfare in New Hampshire, is currently a professor at Bentley College and Resident Scholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center. She is writing a book on parenting adult sons and daughters. Ruth holds a Doctorate in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from Harvard University, a Master's degree in Counseling from Columbia University, and a Bachelor's degree in American Studies from Barnard College.

Kat O'Connor earned a Bachelor of Arts in Drawing with highest honors from Montana State University and an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has exhibited her work nationwide, including three solo shows at regional museums, and has won numerous awards. Her work is included in many private and corporate collections. O'Connor has taught at Southwest Texas State University, the University of Texas at San Antonio, Worcester State College, Worcester Art Museum, and the DeCordova Museum.

Holly Smith Pedlosky, teacher and artist-photographer, has exhibited in the Print Room of the Fogg Museum at Harvard, the Hilles Library at Radcliffe, the Fine Arts Gallery in Worcester, and extensively in Boston, Chicago, Cape Cod, and Venice, Italy. She is researching the themes of eros and generativity in the work of the 19TH Century pioneer photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron. Holly invented a process of making gelatin-silver photographic emulsions which she re-photographs as they float in water. Holly teaches photography in Italy in the summer for the International Center of Photography and Northeastern University. Holly earned an A.B., Radcliffe College, Harvard University, an M.A., Urban Planning, University of Colorado, and an M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied with Generative Systems founder and artist Sonia Landy Sheridan. Visit: www.arts-cape.com/hollypedlosky

Rosamond Purcell is a photographer, artist, collector, and author. Her work has been exhibited at major museums nationwide, and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Her most recent book, Bookworm, highlights photographs, photographic collages, and assemblages related to books and book-like forms, created from her own collection of ruined objects and damaged books. She has collaborated with Stephen Jay Gould on three books, including Finders Keepers, and with Ricky Jay on Dice: Deception, Fate and Rotten Luck. She is the author of Special Cases and Owls Head-On The Nature of Lost Things about the artistic process and William Buckminster and his vast collection of junk.

Jane M. Rabb earned a B.A., with an honors English concentration, from Radcliffe College, after which she read English at St. Hilda's College, Oxford University. She earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Harvard University; and, later, a M.Ed. and C.A.S. in Human Development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has taught at Harvard University, Harvard University Extension School, and The New School, as well as the Radcliffe Seminars, where she was cited by the Trustees as a Distinguished Instructor. She is the author of Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators, as well as many monographs on 19TH and 20TH Century authors and artists. She is also the editor of Literature and Photography: Interactions 1840–1990, and The Short Story and Photography: 1880s–1980s. writing

Karin Rosenthal, a Wellesley College graduate, studied photography at R.I.T. and the Boston Museum School, and has photographed nudes in nature for over 30 years. Her nudes have been published and exhibited internationally, and are in major anthologies such as Male Nude Now, Naked Women, and Eros. Her photographs reside in numerous museum collections, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Fogg Museum, the International Center of Photography, and the Yale University Art Gallery. The book, Karin Rosenthal: Twenty Years of Photographs, was produced in conjunction with a major show of her work at the Danforth Museum of Art in 2000. She was awarded the 2006 Ultimate Eye Foundation Grant for Figurative Photography. Visit www.krosenthal.com to view her work.

Anne Sanow is a Provincetown-based writer who came to Massachusetts as a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in 2003. She completed her first book there, a collection of stories set in Saudi Arabia. Her stories have been published or are forthcoming in journals including The Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, Crab Orchard Review, Other Voices, and New Orleans Review. She received two Pushcart Prize nominations, and was the 2007 winner of the Jack Hodgins Founders' Award for Fiction from The Malahat Review. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, and other artist residency programs. Anne worked in publishing at Cambridge University Press and Routledge, and as a freelance editor. She has taught writing at Washington University in St. Louis (where she received her M.F.A.), the Phillips Exeter Academy Summer School, Montserrat College of Art, and in a continuing education program on Cape Cod.

Julia Thacker first came to Massachusetts as a Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. The work she produced there was subsequently awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe. The granddaughter of a Harlan County coal miner, Julia sets much of her fiction against the backdrop of a vanishing Appalachian culture. Her stories have been published in Antaeus, The Boston Globe Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, New Directions, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. Most recently, an excerpt from her novella, The Funeral of the Man Who Wasn't Dead Yet, appeared in AGNI Magazine, where it won the John Cheever Award for Short Fiction. She has taught creative writing at Tufts University, Harvard University Summer School, and the Radcliffe Seminars, and conducts private seminars in fiction and memoir writing. She holds a Master of Arts from Brown University.

Marc Weinberg has sold screenplays and story ideas to the USA Network and Dick Clark Productions, written a biopic on Harry Houdini for A&E, and was a staff writer on two Discovery Channel series. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, and has a Master's Degree in Screenwriting from UCLA. He teaches at Brandeis University and Emerson College, and has a feature film slated for production this spring.