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NRAS Faculty
& Visiting Workshop Artists
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NRAS Faculty
Kent Archer
Marcia Ballou
Mary Callahan
Sue Charles
Nancy Connelly
Kevin Dunn
Andrea Favret
Mac Haran
Margaret McWethy
Karl Nestelberger
Susan F. Lynch Raffa
Diane Rappisi
Jody Regan
Donna Rossetti-Bailey
Visiting Workshop Artists at NRAS
Marj Bates
Tim Bell
David Brega
Johanna Harmon
Liz Haywood-Sullivan
Colin Page
Maggie Price
Kent Archer is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in NYC, with a degree in cartooning. He studied under comic book greats Klaus Janson, David Mazzucheli, and Wilt Siomonson. Kent's work has been published by Image Comics and he is the inker for the webcomic "The Adventures of Dr. McNinja."
Marcia Blair Ballou has been fascinated with art and color from an early age. Born in Hawaii and raised in California, she was exposed to beauty and color from the world around her. Pursuing the joy of painting, she studies under the instruction of Ralph DuCasse and Russell Gordon and grew up with the exploration of color. Marcia has spent significant time studying and apprenticing with Medocino artists, Hilda Pertha and contemporary legend, Wayne Thiebaud. Marcia is devoted to teaching the joy of art. She posesses a strong sense of responsibility to share her art with people of all ages.
Marj Bates
Tim Bell is a painter in the American Impressionist tradition. A native Marylander, Tim currently resides south of Annapolis, Maryland. Tim draws inspiration from the areas beaches, waterways and hillsides. His most recent awards include "Grand Prize" and "Best Marine Painting" at the Plein Air Easton!, Maryland, 2006, "First Place" in the Rehoboth Beach Paint Out, Delaware, 2006. Tim was also listed in the "Pick of the Palette Top Ten Contemporary Painters to Collect in Delaware" by Delaware Beach Life. Tim received the "People's Choice Award" and the "Best Use of Light Award" at the Plein Air Easton, 2007. In 2008 he won the "Vanishing Landscape Award". Tim has exhibited his paintings from Pasadena, California to Portland, Maine to Key West, Florida. His paintings hang in private collections throughout the United States, Italy and Great Britain and are included in the permanent collection of Frostburg State University.
David Brega is recognized today as one of the country's foremost contemporary painters of still life, having carved out a specialty in trompe l'oeil painting. Brega attended the Paier School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut before moving to the West Coast where he worked as a commercial artist. Brega's first solo exhibit was at the Alexander Gallery in New York, followed by a second in 1991. In 2000, the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts mounted a twenty-five year retrospective exhibition of David Brega's work, together with the watercolors of his twin brother, Douglas.
Mary Callahan is a director of the New England Watercolor Society, a Copley Master in the Copley Society of Art and a signature member of Allied Artists of America as well as the Academic Artists of sprinfield, MA. Callahan is represented by galleries in the Boston area as well as by the DeCordova Museum in the corporate program. Her free, impressionistic watercolors have earned over 150 awards at national, regional and local exhibitions.
Sue Charles is a graduate of Boston University's School of Fine Arts with a BFA Painting.There teachers taught, with an old world approach much like learning a trade, the technical skills of a fine artist. Some favorite painters are William Merrit Chase, George Inness, Fairfield Porter and Wolf Kahn. Sue has been teaching oil painting at NRAS since 2002. She is a juried gallery artist at South Shore Art Center, and is represented by the South Street Gallery in Hingham and the private art dealer Susan Slane. Of her work, Sue says, " A good painting is like a poem. It contains just the essence and leaves room for the imagination. The best pictures stay in your memory like a melody. I aim for that."
Kevin Dunn
Kevin Dunn has been carving birds for over fifty years and his birds have been sold in gift shops and galleries in Washington, D.C., Cambridge, Cohasset, Martha's Vineyard, as well as the Marshfied Fair, the South Shore Science Center Corn Festival, and the South Shore Audubon's Webster Farm Day. He has taught bird carving at the Scituate Art Association, Silver Lake Regional Adult Education, Marshfield H.S. Evening Education, and presently at the Marshfield Senior Center and the North River Arts Society. He carves birds in two basic styles; Peeps and Tweets and Realistic. Peeps and Tweets developed from the idea of producing a unique handcarved bird at a moderate price. They are carved in eastern white pine with enough detail to capture the essence of the bird and painted with acrylics. Realistic carvings are done in tupelo or basswood to hold detail, fully textured to show individual feathers, painted in numerous acrylic washes, and have individual bases, often including habitat.
Nancy Connelly
Andrea Favret was born in Scituate, MA and developed an interest in art as a child. She began taking classes, first at the New England School of Art and Design and then with renowned portrait artist, Robert Cormier. Taking avantage of the South Shore's seascapes, she developed a style of watercolor painting that is complimentary to any scene of southeast New England. Favret has been represented by several fine art galleries and her work is currently being represented by Fine Arts Studio, which she owns and operates. She is a juried artist member of the Cape Cod Art Association. She also teaches watercolor and drawing classes at the Sandwich Community School, and the Wareham Art Gallery.
Mac Haran
Johanna Harmon studied fine art painting at Scottsdale Artists’ School, the Fechin Art Institute, and the Art Students League of Denver. Over the years she has received awards and recognition from the Art Renewal Center, The Artist’s Magazine; and numerous awards from Oil Painters of America, including Best of Show from the 2007 National Juried Exhibition. Her work has been published in Southwest Art, Artbook of the New West, and Focus Santa Fe. Her Solo Exhibitions are held at McLarry Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, Group Shows at Waterhouse Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA and Newbury Fine Arts, Boston, MA, and in Juried Exhibitions all over the country.
Liz Haywood- Sullivan, PSA, is a representational artist focusing primarily on pastel landscapes. Her paintings are consistently described as inspiring and are defined by strong contrast values and graphic compositions. She graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1978 with a degree in Environmental Design and worked as an industrial designer, exhibit designer, and professional illustrator prior to spending 11 years operating Haywood+Sullivan, Inc., a full-service graphic design business with her husband.
Since 1996 she has worked exclusively as a professional pastel artist, art educator, and community arts advocate. Holding Signature Memberships in the Pastel Society of America, the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, and the Connecticut Pastel Society, her award-winning paintings have been seen in numerous local, national, and museum shows, and are included in private and corporate collections worldwide.
Robin McGoff
Margaret McWethy is an impressionist painter who works to capture brilliance of light and rhythms of nature in her colorful still lifes and landscapes. She graduated from Swarthmore College, studied at the Cape Cod School of Art with master colorist, Henry Hensche and nationally known portrait painters Cedric and Joanette Egeli. She is a featured artist in the publication Painting the Impressionist Landscape, by Lois Griffel, in Capturing Radiant Color in Oils by Susan Sarbeck and Painting the Impressionist Watercolor by Lee Boynton. Margaret is a member of the Plein Air Painters of new england. Her work hangs in private collections in the United States, Canada and Europe.
Colin Page studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design and Cooper Union, receiving his BFA in 2000. He recently had solo shows at the Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland, ME and at the F.A.N. Gallery in Philidelphia, PA. Page has also participated in numerous group shows up and down the east coast. For several years he has been living in Maine focusing on painting the landscape. Recently he was part of a panel discussion at the Farnsworth Museum of Art in Rock land, ME.
Maggie Price is a co-founder and former editor of The Pastel Journal, a national magazine for pastel artists. She is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, the Pastel Society of New Mexico, Plein Air New Mexico, APOW, and a member of the Pastel Society of the West Coast and the Great Lakes Pastel Society.
Susan F. Lynch Raffa is a local artist. She has been teaching oil painting for adults, as well as classes for children at the NRAS for over 5 years. Susan previously owned a small gallery in Plymouth, MA, and was a member of the NRAS Board of Directors. Susan also teaches at the Steeple School in Marshfield Hills, and runs their in-house art appreciation program. She enjoys entering local exhibits, and has won awards. Susan has taken classes at the Massachusetts College of Art and the Cape Cod School of Arts, she has also studied with John Kilroy, Edwina Caci and Lois Griffel.
Diane Rappisi studied in the full-time Professional Program at the innovative Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia, PA, which was founded by renowned artist Nelson Shanks. There she deepened her understanding of color, form and anatomy, and discovered her innate love of figure painting.
Diane comes from southern New Jersey, where she painted, taught, and founded two local arts organizations. Her recent honors include the CSOPA's Faces of Spring in Old Lyme, CT (1st Place), and the invitational joint exhibition Merci Beaucoup for Two in Medford, NJ. Her work resides in numerous private and public collections across the country, and selected pieces have been published for the National Park Service in Glen Echo, MD.
Jody Regan says "Painting is both incredibly intense brain work, and supremely joyful; an irresistible combination." This is Jody's fifth year teaching oil painting at NRAS. Regan is a representational oil painter, who discovered painting as her second career, after many years in the software developement world. Jody has had her work exhibited locally, and at the Catherine Lonillard Wolfe exhibit i New York, the Academic Artists Society Contemporary Realism Exhibit in Springfield, MA, and has won numerous awards, including her most recent Best Oil Painting at the Pembroke Arts Festival.
Donna Rossetti-Bailey
Donna graduated from Boston University's School of Fine Arts in 1974 and taught an award-winning art program in the Rockland Public School System for 23 years. Donna now teaches patel and drawing classes, as well as workshops, independently in a number of local art organizations. She holds memberships in many local and national art associations, including the Pastel Society of Cape Cod, the American Artist's Professional League, and the Pastel Society of America.
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