BOARD MEMBER BIOS

Judy Ain is a ceramic artist with a studio in Truro who fires her pots in salt and wood kilns in Virginia near her home in Washington, DC. She works with noted potter Kevin Crowe at the Tye River Pottery in the Blue Ridge foothills where he operates a 2,000-pot anagama wood kiln. She graduated from Wellesley College and earned a Masters degree in Teaching at George Washington University. She taught enrichment mathematics in the DC school system and also taught at the National Cathedral School. She started her own business in training teachers to teach elementary school mathematics, and subsequently taught pottery at the Hinckley Pottery. Now retired, she resides in Washington and Truro.

Ellen Anthony loves the arts: received Academy of American Poets award, played French horn in the Hudson Valley Symphony, made documentaries for PBS, performed original theater pieces at WHAT, Mobius, Academy of Performing Arts, created Quirky Circus, sang in Outer Cape Chorale and began painting daily in 2018. Her Truro roots go back to her grandfather E. A. Wilson who co-founded Truro Historical Society in 1967. Ellen teaches Qigong and believes the arts and personal wellness are key to healing our world.

Carmi Bee, FAIA, is the President of RKTB Architects in New York. An educator as well as a practicing architect, he is Professor Emeritus of Architectural Design at the City College of New York, where he taught for forty-two years, and has served as a guest critic at The Cooper Union, Columbia University, and Princeton University. He received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from The Cooper Union and an MFA in Architecture from Princeton University. He serves on the Committee on Housing of the AIA, the Board of Directors of Westbeth Artists Housing in New York, and has served as a Trustee of The Cooper Union. His firm has received numerous accolades and design awards. He is committed to creating environments that serve human needs and develop a sense of historic continuity. He lives in New York and Truro

Harriet Bee is an accomplished conceptual, text, and copy editor with expertise in modern architecture and design, photography, painting and sculpture, drawings and prints, and film and video. She has achieved an exemplary record during many years as an editor, editorial manager, project manager, book planner, and museum publishing consultant. She studied English and Philosophy at Bates College, where she earned a BA degree, and Art History at Columbia University and the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU. In 2004 she retired as Editorial Director in the Department of Publications at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she had worked for over thirty years. She was responsible for hiring and directing the editorial staff and planning, supervising, and editing individual titles. She lives in New York and Truro.

Kristina Bird has worked as an Art Conservator in Truro for over twenty-five years. She formerly worked professionally in London for five years and apprenticed in Boston. Before she became a conservator, repairing and restoring a wide range of artworks, she was immersed in intensive language studies, having gone to boarding school in France, the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown, and had a junior year abroad in Barcelona, as well as language studies in Italy. Art, music, cooking, family, and friends are the mainstays of her life in Truro.

Kathleen Collins has worked in the field of art and design in higher education since 1974, as a faculty member, chair, dean, and president. It was her love for and commitment to photography that began this career path, which culminated in fifteen years of service at the Kansas City Art Institute, from which she retired in 2012 as President Emeritus. She earned a BA in psychology from Stanford University in 1967 and an MFA in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1974, where she served as a faculty member and chair at the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences from 1974 to 1989. As a photographer, she has worked primarily in color and most often with a large-format view camera. She has exhibited regularly across the country and received numerous grants, among them an NEA grant. She has also curated major exhibitions including two of the work of Manuel Alvarez Bravo. She resides in Truro as well as Kansas City, MO, and Patzcuaro, Michoacan, MX.

Meg Clarke is an architect and photographer. She is the owner and principal of Clarke Architecture, PLLC, and taught architecture and design for five years as an Assistant Professor at the New York Institute of Technology in Abu Dhabi. Meg served on the board of the Lowell School and is a member of Many Hands and People Animals Love in Washington DC. Meg received her undergraduate degree in Art History from Mount Holyoke College and her Master of Architecture from the University of Maryland. She lives in Truro and Washington, DC. Her work can be seen on her website, www.megclarke.net

Tim Dickey is a builder and musician who lives in Truro.

Joseph Diggs was born to a military family in Croix Chapeau, France and grew up on Cape Cod where he now lives and paints. Although he is based on Cape Cod, Joe’s work is housed in many private collections on the Cape, nationally and internationally. Joe Earned his BFA at Southeastern Massachusetts University then returned, after years of travel and work experience to earn his MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design Program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. He is currently represented by the Berta Walker Gallery of Provincetown, MA.

Karen Dukess is a writer whose first novel, The Last Book Party, was published in 2019 and characterized in the New York Times "a spare, bittersweet page-turner." Her novel is set in Truro where she has spent all her summers. She has a degree in Russian Studies from Brown University and a Master’s in Journalism from Columbia University. Her work history is primarily in publishing but eclectic. She has been a tour guide in the former Soviet Union, a newspaper reporter in Florida, a magazine publisher in Russia and, for nearly a decade, a speechwriter on gender equality for the United Nations Development Programme. She has blogged on raising boys for The Huffington Post and written book reviews for USA Today. She has a particular interest in helping to enrich Castle Hill’s literary programs. She lives with her family near New York City and spends as much time as possible in Truro.

Nathalie Ferrier is a multi-media sculptor and teacher who received an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2007. Her sculpture and installations have been exhibited at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, The Cape Cod Museum of Art, Cape Cod Community College, Art Basel Miami; the GAA Gallery, ArtStrand, and Gallery Ehva in Provincetown; and in New York and Australia. She was formerly a fashion designer in Paris working in hautecouture for Christian Lacroix and Thiery Mugler. She also was the owner and designer of the toy line Born To Be Wild. Currently she works at Cape Cod Community College as Director of the Higgins Art Gallery and teaches a Fashion Fiber Art course at the college. A resident of Truro, she also teaches French conversational groups on the Outer Cape.

Joe Fiorello has been a sculptor, painter, and printmaker on the Outer Cape for over forty years and active at Castle hill for nearly all of that time, as a student, volunteer, and board member. He holds degrees from the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and also attended the Massachusetts College of Art. His work has been selected for exhibitions in Boston, New York, Sarasota, and Tampa as well as in Kyoto, Tokyo, and Sakai City, Japan. He has been a trustee of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum since 2002 where he has also served as a juror and curator. He is also in the business of the restoration of historic homes and period furniture. He is represented by the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown and lives in Sarasota and Truro.

Leon Friedman is the Joseph Kushner Special Professor of Civil Liberties Law at Hofstra University where he teaches constitutional and copyright law. He is also a practicing lawyer specializing in civil rights, first amendment, and intellectual property law. He has written over a dozen books and published widely in law journals and other periodicals as well as written or worked on briefs for the United States Supreme Court in cases dealing with the first amendment, civil rights, employment discrimination, criminal procedure, and abuse of government power. In the area of copyright law he has represented many well-known publishers and authors. He is a general counsel for the PEN American Center and a former member of the Board of the New York Civil Liberties Union. He lives in New York and Truro.

David Grayson

Douglas Green grew up in Scarsdale, New York. After a year cabinetmaking for Thos. Moser, Doug moved to New York City to pursue a career as an industrial designer. Working as a freelance consultant he developed a new method for manufacturing furniture that assembled without fasteners. Doug founded Green Design Furniture Co. in Portland, Maine in 1993 that manufactured a line of artisan-made solid cherry furniture. In 2019, Doug retired and has since pursued a lifelong interest in the art of Japanese Netsuke to learn how to create small intricate carvings in English Boxwood, ebony, bone and antler. Doug’s mother, Carol Green, was a passionate supporter and board member of Castle Hill for decades and he is delighted to be continuing that tradition. Last year, he taught the first woodworking course in Castle Hill’s new wood shop. Doug divides his time between Truro and Cape Elizabeth, Maine. He earned a BA at Bowdoin College and a master’s degree in Industrial Design at Pratt Institute.

Judith Greenberg has been coming to Truro since she was a child when you could still run (or cartwheel) unabashedly down the dunes of Provincetown. In 2016, she and her family bought a house of their own in Truro; it has become a cherished spot to continue building memories across generations. Judith holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Yale and has taught at NYU’s Gallatin School for Individualized Study for the past twenty years. Her teaching and writing focus on written, visual, and other artistic navigations of memory. Her classes range from introductions to interdisciplinary thinking and writing academic research papers for first-year students to upper-level seminars. She received Gallatin's Jewish Studies grant for her work on Cypora's Echo, a story that begins when her mother bequeathed her a “difficult legacy” of family inheritance including two documents: a diary written by a cousin in 1942 in a Polish ghetto during its final days and a photo of that same cousin with her baby daughter, before the baby was hidden by Polish Catholic friends. From 2012-1017, she wrote regularly for the Huffington Post on a variety of topics and recently she finished her first novel, now in revision.

Stewart Grossman, formerly a partner in a national law firm where his problem solving focused on financial reorganizations and court appointed Trusteeships, retired early in the Covid pandemic. Now a resident of Truro and Palm Springs, CA, he gardens, paints, works in encaustic and  creates sculptures in glass, stone and welded metals.  Stewart also serves on the boards of the Boston Ballet, the Red Auerbach Youth Foundation, the Desert Art Center and Castle Hill.

Judith Huge is a writer, speaker, consultant, and training professional who calls herself “an English teacher on steroids.” Highly successful in helping people find and craft their words into stories that draw in the reader while drawing out the writer, she serves as Board President of the International Women’s Writing Guild, based in New York. Formerly head of her own consulting firm, she is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University. She is also a former business columnist and travel writer for the Gannett Newspapers and an “avid angler fishing for stripers and stories in the waters of Cape Cod.” She has been published in the anthology “Women in the Wild,” and teaches in Tampa at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of the University of South Florida. She lives in Tampa and Wellfleet.

Kathy Jackson began her relationship with Castle Hill in the living room of her grandmother, artist and teacher Ella Jackson on Fisher Road in Truro during meetings of Castle Hill’s founding artists in the early 1970s. Her mother, the artist and poet Leslie Jackson, then began her decades of teaching drawing at Castle Hill. Her father Robert Jackson served for a number of years on the Castle Hill Board and as its Co-President. She graduated from Yale with a major in studio art, and went on to study music and dance. She subsequently taught music and fiber arts privately and at the Santa Cruz Waldorf School while running a transcription and editing business. For three consecutive summers she taught a felting class at Castle Hill, where she also takes classes. She lives in Truro, on Fisher Road.

Ely J. (Terry) Kahn III is an award-winning author, an experienced former journalist, and a retired independent strategic communications consultant. His consulting clients include the United States Postal Service, the Washington Consulting Practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Colgate-Palmolive, as well as work for the Federal Aviation Administration, the City of New York, the Department of Health and Human Services, JPMorganChase, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the National Labor Relations Board, Times Mirror, the Gartner Group, the Delaware North Companies, the International Management Group (IMG), the Jack Morton Company, and Fidelity. His work as a published author, editor, and journalist in both magazines and newspapers includes a decade as Boston Magazine’s senior editor, several years as the editor of the Provincetown Advocate and as managing editor of The Real Paper, the founding editor of SportBoston, and director of communications in Boston for the 1994 World Cup. He has written several books including two collaborations with best-selling business book author Jim Loehr, and for such magazines and newspapers as Inc., Worth, Newsday, the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, and Yankee. He was a writing instructor for two years at Harvard University’s Extension Program. In 1989, he won the Christopher Award for his best-selling book, The Steven McDonald Story. Kahn lives in New York City and has been a part-time resident of Truro since 1948.

Damon Katz is a lifelong summer resident of Truro, where he fondly remembers childhood art classes at Castle Hill and accompanying his parents to a great many art events and gatherings in the early 1970s. He is a graduate of Choate Rosemary Hall, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Connecticut College, and holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Boston University School of Law. He is the Chief Division Counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Boston. He resides in Boston and Truro.

Marni Elyse Katz is a freelance design journalist and an art consultant/curator. She is a correspondent for the Boston Globe and contributes regularly to numerous publications, including Boston Home, House Beautiful, and Dwell. Previously, Katz covered the Boston/Provincetown art scene for The Woven Tale Press. She was deputy editor at NBC Local Media, managing editor at America Online, and held editorial positions at other major publishing companies and startups. As a recognized name in local media, Katz moderates and speaks on panels for the Boston Globe, the Boston Design Center, and local design organizations. Katz has curated/juried shows for Cambridge Art Association and Galatea Fine Art, and sourced artwork for several years for the Webster & Company showroom at the Boston Design Center. She currently works with interior designers and private clients, organizes pop-up art events, and co-chairs art auctions for Castle Hill and Truro Treasures. Katz earned a B.A. from Connecticut College in Asian Studies and a M.A. in Art History from Columbia University with a focus on Indian miniature painting. She lives in Boston and Truro with her husband, two sons, and a very friendly cat. You can follow her on Instagram @StyleCarrot and @StyleCarrotCurates.

Marianne A. Kinzer has worked as a visual artist for over thirty years, and is a proficient watercolorist. She studied at the University of Art in Berlin and at the Art Institute of Chicago. She earned a Master’s degree in linguistics while also taking art classes, a practice she has continued during the summers at Castle Hill. She has shown her work on three continents: in her native Germany, in Turkey where she lived for four years, in Chicago, where she formerly resided, and in Boston. She maintains a large studio in the gallery district of Boston’s South End. As a teacher she has taught art, German language, and yoga. For many years she was an active member and teacher at the Oak Park League, near Chicago. She resides in Boston and Truro.

Sarah Lutz is a painter and printmaker who was born in Madison, Wisconsin, but lived in Vermont and Guatemala during most of her childhood. She holds a BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College and an MFA from the American University. She has been coming to Truro and involved with Castle Hill for several decades, as a student, volunteer, and board member. Her paintings and prints have been exhibited widely, including solo and group exhibitions at the Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, and at Lori Bookstein Fine Art in New York. She has received fellowships from Dartmouth College, the Vermont Studio Center, and MAPSpace in Port Chester, NY. Her work is in the collections of PAAM, the Tang Museum at Skidmore, and the Art in Embassies Program. She lives in New York and Truro.

Nomi Vanessa McGuire has been coming to Truro since childhood and was introduced to Castle Hill when her mother first attended a sculpture course there. In later years, she watched her father avidly purchase artworks at Castle Hill’s annual auctions. She continues that tradition with her own children as the family attachment to Castle Hill continues. She studied Architecture and Economics at Wellesley College, earned a Master’s degree in City Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and after working for several years pursued a PhD in City Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. She resides in Brooklyn and Truro.

Ann McQueen, a Wellfleet resident since 2018, is a life-long photographer whose interest in ceramics drew her to the Truro Center for the Art where she has served on the Board since 2019. Formerly a Boston resident, Ann worked as a freelance photographer for about a dozen years before transitioning to philanthropy. As a program officer for the arts at the Boston Foundation, she managed grantmaking for cultural organizations, supported donors’ giving, encouraged advocacy for state cultural funding and developed a fellowship program to support the work of individual artists.

Alan Motch is an artist who has showed his sculpture and drawings in museums and galleries in and around Boston for many years. He graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and earned a BFA from Tufts University. He won a traveling scholarship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts as a fifth-year student in 1974, and again in 1979 as an alumnus. He also received an Artist Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1982. He has been coming to Truro since 1968, and has always resided near the Castle Hill campus. He continues his work in drawing and printmaking, and lives in Lincoln, MA, and Truro.

Judith Motzkin is a ceramic artist who works with “earth and fire.” She is known for her unique contemporary saggar fire method of painting with combustibles. Her site-specific installations with clay have been included annually in Appearances in Provincetown and in numerous museum and gallery exhibitions. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Jingdezhen Ceramics Museum in China. Her work includes BreadPots and SpiritKeeper Urns. She was a member of the Clay Dragon Studios in Cambridge until 1985 when she opened her own studio, and was founding director of CAOS, Cambridge’s first open studios. She has taught at MIT and Harvard as well as at Castle Hill, and has a degree in Asian Studies from Cornell University. She lives in Cambridge and Wellfleet.

Denise Mullen has served as President of Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR; Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research at Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada; Dean of the School of Art+Design at Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY; Vice Dean of the Corcoran College of Art + Design, Washington, DC; Chair of the Art Department and Professor at New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ; and Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute, Graduate Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY. She was President of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, Vice President of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design, and served on the Boards of the College Art Association, the National Council of Arts Administrators, Business and Culture for the Arts in Portland, Oregon, and is currently on the Board of the New York Film Academy and the honorary committee for the College Art Association’s 50th anniversary celebration of feminism. She received a Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in New York, a Bachelor of Arts in Art from Sweet Briar College in Virginia and attended the Institute for Educational Management: Change Leadership at the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education, Harvard University. As a practicing artist, she was represented by Joshua Heller Rare Books in Washington, DC, and has work included in numerous public and private collections.

Mary Ann O’Loughlin is a U.K. native who moved to the Boston area and ultimately discovered Truro. She has always had a strong interest in arts and creative pursuits, and enjoyed access to the Harvard Ceramics studio and ceramics classes at Castle Hill, which she refers to as a “magical place in her life.” Professionally, she spent thirty years in the high-tech industry in Europe, Canada, and the U.S. in senior roles in marketing and management. She has also worked at the Harvard Business School as Corporate Relations Director responsible for Europe, Middle East, and Africa markets in Executive Education. Now a member of the Board of WEST, a Boston non-profit dedicated to the advancement of women in science and technology careers, she is Chair of the Marketing Committee. She lives in Cambridge and Truro.

Anna Poor is a sculptor with deep roots on the Cape who grew up in a family of artists. She was a founder and owner of the ArtStrand Gallery in Provincetown. She has had numerous one-person and group shows and awards including a mid-career survey in 2010 at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and a Massachusetts Artist Fellowship In 2001. She received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has been on the Board at Castle Hill since 1988 and currently teaches at Lesley University College of Art and Design. She is represented by the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, by Taylor/Graham in New York, and by Sladmore Contemporary in London. She lives in Boston and Truro.

Kim Possee is an educator and artist. She is primarily a painter and printmaker but especially enjoys learning new processes and experimenting with them, integrating them into future works. She holds a BFA in Art Education from UMass/Amherst, an MFA from UMass/Dartmouth in Visual Design and a MEd in Curriculum and Instructional Technology from Framingham State University. She’s been teaching visual art to students at Truro Central School for over 20 years and lives in Orleans.

Robert Rindler is an artist and fine arts educator, and an administrator with a long record of accomplishment in higher education as a professor of art, senior academic and student affairs administrator, exhibition curator, and gallery director. He served at the University of Vermont as Chairman of the Art Department, at Boston Architectural College as Dean of Students, at Rhode Island School of Design as Provost, at The Cooper Union School of Art in New York as Dean, and at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design as President. He has served on the board of directors of five different art and educational institutions on Cape Cod. A graduate of The Cooper Union, he also holds a Masters degree in Environmental Design from Yale University. He has exhibited internationally and lives in Wellfleet.

Rob Silverstein is a retired lawyer who spent most of his professional career as the general counsel for a large real-estate development company in the New York Metropolitan area, and whose primary non-professional interest has always been art. He received his bachelors’ degree from Brown University and his law degree from NYU Law School. His exposure to art began early, as his mother ran a charitable art show in suburban New Jersey for three decades. Since his retirement he has been an art student both in Manhattan and at Castle Hill, where the quality of his experience in workshops and in the community led him to join the Board. He has also served on the board of New Jersey Future, and as the president of several co-op and condominium boards. He lives in New York and Wellfleet.

Isabel Souza began to develop an interest in ceramics at the age of ten when, as a student at Truro Central School, she was granted a scholarship by Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill and began to take classes there. In 2019, she graduated Magna Cum Laude from Syracuse University where she studied art and business. She explored fashion photography and textile design while studying abroad in Florence, Italy, in 2018. The work in her senior thesis exhibit was among those recognized as best in show. In addition, the College of Visual and Performing Arts gave her the Outstanding Senior Award and the Shaped Clay Society award. She is now a multi-faceted maker working in ceramics, printmaking, and fashion. She has been greatly influenced by the Cape Cod arts community in which she was born and raised. Her work explores her Portuguese heritage as well as her family’s history of gardeners and craftspeople.

Peter Sullivan is a partner in Odessa Realty Investments, whose primary focus is to produce superior risk-adjusted returns for its investors. He has extensive experience in managing portfolios of investment property and distressed assets. Prior to joining Odessa, he was Director of Asset Management at BlackRock and Vice President of Asset Management at Cabot, Cabot & Forbes. He has an outstanding track record of creating and implementing strategies for adding value, stabilizing property performance, and positioning assets to benefit from a market recovery. He also served as an Asset and Portfolio Manager at PaineWebber Properties and was an Associate at

Salomon Brothers Real Estate Investment Banking Group. He graduated from Boston University in Finance. He lives in Cambridge and Truro.

Elsa (Tina) Tarantal is an accomplished sculptor, painter, and arts educator. She is Professor Emerita at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, where she was on the faculty for many years, and has taught at numerous other institutions as well as at Castle Hill. She holds a BFA from The Cooper Union in New York, where she majored in Sculpture and minored in Painting and Printmaking, an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in Sculpture, and an MS from the University of Baroda, Gujarat, India, also in Sculpture. She has shown her work widely, notably at the Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia and the Kendall Gallery in Wellfleet, served on many exhibition juries, and received numerous awards both for teaching and sculpture. She lives in Truro.

Stephen Tarantal is a graphic designer, painter, and arts educator. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, where he was a tenured professor and served as Dean of the College of Art and Design from 1986 to 2010. He also served as Interim Provost and President. He was recruited as the Interim and Founding Dean at the College of Arts and Creative Enterprises, Zayed University, in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, UAE. He holds a BFA from The Cooper Union, New York, and an MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, in Philadelphia. He completed a Fulbright Grant in Baroda, India, as a Fine Arts Research Scholar. His work is in the collections of museums and corporations such as the Guggenheim, Yale, Xerox, Time-Life, and AT&T. He lives in Truro.

Christian Termyn is an environmental lawyer, amateur potter and part-time resident of Eastham. He grew up in Medfield, Massachusetts treasuring visits to grandparents and great-grandparents local to the Outer Cape. The unique cultural and natural landscape of the region inspired his education, and now legal practice, focused on land use, conservation and decarbonization of our energy system. He took his first ceramics class in law school while spending a summer in New Mexico and has had clay-brain ever since. He owes much to the Castle Hill organization and community for many wonderful creative and social opportunities over the years. Chris lives with his wife, Amy, and two boys in Oakland, California. He is a graduate of Yale University and Columbia Law School.

Jamal Thorne is a Boston based artist who is known for his use of the drawing medium to investigate and visualize the nature of performed identity. With massive drawings on paper, site-specific wall drawings, and works in mixed media Jamal blends references from popular culture, religious iconography, and symbolism in an attempt to create a possible image of what our multilayered identities could look like. In addition to exploring identity, Jamal uses multilayered mixed media collages to investigate the relationship between generational trauma and current behavior. Born in Maryland, Jamal Thorne received his B.A. in Photographic Media from Morgan State University in 2008. Thorne relocated to Boston where he became the pioneering student in a newly formed cooperative M.F.A. Program between Northeastern University and The School of the Museum of Fine Art. He has exhibited his work at venues that include the James E. Lewis Museum in Baltimore, the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, and the Huret and Specter Gallery in Boston. Jamal has received commissions for site-specific drawing installations at Tufts University and Google LLC in Cambridge. Jamal Thorne also received the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant in 2012. While continuing his work as an artist, Jamal serves as the Program Coordinator for Media Arts and Studio Art at Northeastern University’s College of Art, Media, and Design.

Gloria Vigliani is a physician who serves as a consultant to Boston area biotech companies in the fields of clinical research and international new drug registration. She received a BS degree in Biology from Tufts University and an MD degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania. After ten years on the faculty of Internal Medicine at University of Massachusetts Medical School, she transitioned into biotech, where she has held various senior level positions over the last twenty-five years. She is also a potter who has participated in numerous summer workshops at Castle Hill during the past twenty-five years and is actively engaged at the Harvard Ceramics Studio during the winter months. She is a resident of Newton, MA, and has been a part-time resident of Truro for nearly three decades.

Amy Waltch is a painter and printmaker who first learned of Castle Hill when her parents purchased a house in Truro more than three decades ago. Her father was interested in art, and while he had little time to devote to it outside his professional life, became an Executive Board Member of Castle Hill for a number of years. She studied painting at the Massachusetts College of Art, and spent a lot of time coming down to Truro to take classes at Castle Hill. She remembers an especially interesting workshop with Helen Frankenthaler. She is now primarily interested in printmaking and would like to find a way to reach out to other printmakers so that they may learn how much Castle Hill has to offer. She lives in Lincoln, MA, and Truro.

Anne Webb-Johnson lived in England for the first 27 years of her life followed by 7 years in the Bahamas, before moving permanently to the Boston area in 1973. She has always enjoyed the arts, with an emphasis on drawing and painting. Her career in architecture and interior design started in England with her degree at the Hull School of Architecture and continued through her time in The Bahamas and in the Boston area as a practicing designer. In the late 80’s she founded Wellesley Design Consultants Inc. with Chuck Steinman, a Truro resident. This firm has concentrated on elder care design and is responsible for many award winning jobs in the New England area and throughout the United States. Anne has owned a house in North Truro for 40 years. After retiring in 2019 and moving to Truro full-time, she now can pursue her love of painting and drawing and has taken many virtual and in person classes at Castle Hill and PAAM.

Ellyn Weiss is a visual artist as well as an independent curator with studios in Mt. Rainier, MD, and Truro. She has had more than twenty-five solo and featured exhibitions and has participated in numerous juried and curated exhibitions. She works in a variety of mediums, including wax, oilbar, dry pigment, wire, plastic dip, and tar. For ten years she co-curated the “Zeitgeist” series of exhibitions, featuring biological and global responses specific to issues of our times. Prior to becoming a full-time artist, she practiced environmental law. She served as General Counsel to the Union of Concerned Scientists and still serves on its Board of Directors. She lives in Washington, DC, and Truro.

Erin Woodbrey is a New England-based visual artist whose interdisciplinary work utilizes installation, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and time-based media. Woodbrey’s work has been exhibited across the USA, Europe, and Asia, including solo and group exhibitions in Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Iceland, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Her work has also been exhibited at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland, the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum in San Antonio, TX, and Gaa Gallery in Wellfleet and Provincetown, MA, and Cologne, Germany. Woodbrey received her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014. In 2007 she completed her BFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University where she was also the recipient of a 2017-18 Traveling Fellowship.