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Bio

creative placemaker | arts leader | artist |photographer

20 years of transforming space and building community thru large scale public art and culture projects and 25 years of C level corporate and nonprofit leadership experience.

managing director and coCEO WaterFire Providence (@waterfireprov) and WaterFire Arts Center (@waterfireartscenter) Providence, RI
[email protected]

🖼 Current exhibitions/experiences:

CHAZAN! Unfiltered - original art by Big Nazo’s Erminio Pinque, WaterFire Arts Center opening Weds., September 15 - Sunday October 24

🖼 Upcoming exhibitions/experiences:

WaterFire Celebrates 25 Years lighting, downtown Providence, RI, Weds. October 27, 5:46 - 10:30 PM

WaterFire 9th Annual Salute to Veterans lighting, downtown Providence, RI, Sat., November 6, 5:38 - 11 PM

WaterFire Celebrates the Holidays lighting, downtown Providence, RI, Saturday, December 4, 4:15. - 10 PM

🖼2021 Past Exhibitions

“The Let Out” Photography by The Vanta Guild | December 9 - January 15, 2021

“Private Visions, Public Ideals - The Legacy of Howard Ben Tré” | January 27 - March 27, 2021

“Down to Earth: Robert Rohm Sculpture, 1963 - 2013 | March 24 - April 25, 2021

RISD Graduate Show | May 18 - June 7, 2021 (not open to general public)

“Faith. Resilience. Perseverance.” Photographs by Jack Wang | June 10 - 20, 2021

"Mary Beth Meehan, A Retrospective" | June 27 - August 22, 2021

Believe art changes the 🌏.
#art4impact | #artmeansbusiness

❤️ art, public art, performance art, photography, painting, sculpture, dance, multidisciplinary, film, video, digital art

lifelong mariner ⚓️, photographer 📷, hockey player 🏒 and student of leadership 📚 (HBS, HKS, Wharton, Aspen Institute)

RI Foundation Fellow '06 (leadership, photography)
Harold Jackson Fellow '86 (Lloyds of London)

🎙 Weekly Leader podcast with Pam Fox Rollin (@pamfr) 2009-2013 (100 episodes)

⛵️ former executive director / CEO American Sail Training Association / Tall Ships America (@tallshipsamerica)

Current Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art @frmoca board member - Come visit!

I sailed on a tall ship for my 4 years of high school and been making photographs since I was 8; both profoundly shaped my life.

🐶 Zane’s human

🏫 Tabor Academy | Connecticut College

📍Fall River, MA and Providence, RI 🇺🇸 (ex NYC, St. Louis, London, Boston, Mattapoisett)