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Alison
Canfield
Alison Canfield, Director of First Hand , graduated from the
Liberal Arts program at Boston College with a double major in art
& philosophy. She has
been painting since the summer of 1993 when she fell in
love with the Italian landscape while attending Boston Visual School's summer art program
in Italy. Canfield is the founder and director of the Perrin Gallery, which
was a successful alternative art exhibition space in the
Boston area for 15 years. She also helped to launch Studio Soto
of Boston Where she was the gallery director and on
the Board of Directors. Since 1996 she has worked for Montserrat College
of Art’s summer art program in Viterbo, Italy where she has been
in charge of Housing and Logistics. Canfield served on the Board
of Directors of the Boston Visual School, where she was very active
fund raising for their Italian summer program.
In parallel with her career as an artist and
gallery director, Canfield has
also cultivated a career in the culinary arts, catering professionally with Page
Carter in Arlington and with City Farm Caterers in Brookline while
continuingi to freelance in a private catering capacity. Her restaurant experience includes cooking
at Daddios of Cambridge and helping to start up Gusto Trattoria in Roslindale,
a long time dream project for the former owners of the renowned
restaurant Icarus of Boston.
With FirstHand she has combined her skills as Gallery Director,
curator, painter, chef, & Italy travel coordinator to bring you
the finest personalized Italian experience in painting and the culinary
arts available. A people person, Alison has a contagious enthusiasm
for Italy, food & art that one would find hard to resist. Her passion
is based in a belief that each of us deserves to enjoy life at its
fullest and she is relentless in her pursuit to make this a reality.
Come join Alison and her staff on an unforgettable sojourn into
the heart of Italy's countryside.
Judith
M. Daniels
Ms. Daniels is passionate about photography as a way to experience
the world and oneself. She has a B.A. in Arts and Crafts and their
History from the University of California at Santa Cruz and has
studied at Massachusetts College of Art, the School of the Museum
of Fine Arts, New England School of Photography and The Boston Visual
School in Viterbo, Italy.
Judith
has been a serious fine art photographer for the past thirteen years.
In 1996 she received a grant for photography from the Massachusetts
Cultural Council administered through the Somerville Arts Council.
She is a part of the DeCordova Museum's Corporate Art Program. Exhibiting
her work regularly has led her to be in numerous private collections.
In
addition she has taught at The Brookline Arts Center, the Cambridge
and Boston Centers for Adult Education, and is currently teaching
at the Boston Photo Collaborative.
Judith
Brassard Brown
Judith
Brassard Brown, a Master of Fine Arts graduate from the Boston UniversityÕs
School of Visual Art, is currently a Professor in the Paintings
and Foundations Department at the Montserrat College of Art in Beverley
Massachusetts. Ms. Brown has been exhibiting her work since 1979
and is most recently affiliated with The Arden Gallery, Newbury
Street, Boston, Massachusetts. In 1988, Ms. Brown co-founded The
Boston Visual School, a non-profit organization that ran intensive
art study programs in Italy. She is also a Co-Owner, Developer and
resides in the Pearl Street Studios, a complex of eight working
artist studios and two residences located in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Ms. BrownÕs work is represented in over 100 private collections
in New England, New York, California, Israel, Great Britain and
Italy.
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