Grants and awards
Professional experience
Solo exhibitions
Public art
2- and 3-person exhibitions
Group exhibitions
Education
1983 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA: BFA Ceramics
1990, 1986, 1983 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts: Deer Isle, ME
1982 Kent State University, Kent, OH: Blossom/Kent Art Program
Grants and awards
2005 The Copley Society, Boston, MA: Juror’s Award III
2005 Art Center of Estes Park, Estes Park, CO: Juror’s Award
2005 The Copley Society, Boston, MA: First Jurors’ Choice
2004 Rockwall Artists League, Rockwall, TX: Honorable mention
2003 Concord Art Association, Honorable Mention, New American Crafts
2002 Concord Art Association, 3rd Prize, New American Crafts
1990 New England Foundation for the Arts
1987, 1986, 1985 & 1983 Cambridge Arts Lottery
1986 Arts on the Line
1986 Somerville Arts Lottery, Somerville MA
1986 Real Art Ways: Fusion/Fission
1986 & 1983 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME: Tuition grants
1982 Blossom Kent Art Program: Merit Scholarship
Professional experience
1984-Present Miniature Art of the Month Club solo project mailing small art objects to subscribers
1995 Mail Art Workshop, Holderness School, Plymouth, NH
1986–2002 Member, Christmas Store, crafts co-operative
1985–1999 Member, Secrets, crafts co-operative
1984-86 Ceramics Instructor and Department Director, Project Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
1986 Mail Art Workshop, Artpark, Lewiston, NY
1983 Teaching Assistant, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1982 Assistant with Peruvian Textile Project, Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA
Solo exhibitions
2006 Rearranged: The Garden in Back, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
2005 From a Trickle to a Thundermist, Blackstone River Gallery, Woonsocket, MA
2005 Marcella Anna Stasa, Wainwright Bank, Cambridge, MA
2004 To Have and to Hold, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
2004 Second Nature, Loring Coleman Gallery, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
2004 Garden Art, Community Growing Center, Somerville, MA
2003 Fragile Nature, Towne Art Gallery, Wheelock College, Boston, MA
2002 Little Objects, Somerville Public Library, Somerville, MA
2000 Solo Show, Artists Foundation Gallery, Boston MA
1999 Dolled Up, ARTSWorcester, Worcester, MAPublic art
2006 Rearranged: The Outdoor Installation, Chelsea Gallery District, New York, NY
2005 Art Up Front, A Taste of Culture, Cambridge, MA
2004 Sculpture in and by the River, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA
2004 Wind Sea Sky, Easton’s Beach, Newport, RI
2004 Windows Art Project, The Law Offices, Somerville, MA
2004 Garden Art, Community Growing Center, Somerville, MA
2004 May Fire, Charles River Esplanade, Boston, MA
2003 Windows Art Project, J.J. Sullivan, Somerville, MA
1997 On the Land, Conant Land, Carlisle, MA
1990, 1989 Art-o-Mat, First Night Boston Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA
1989 Second to None, Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA
1988 Artwalk at Graves Landing, Graves Landing, Cambridge, MA
1987 River Tiles, Charles River Park, Cambridge, MA
1986, 1985, 1983 Cambridge Arts Lottery, Cambridge, MA
1986 T Magnets, Arts on the Line, Cambridge & Boston, MA
1986 Miniature Art of the Month Club, Somerville Arts Lottery, Somerville, MA
1986 Fusion/Fission: Miniature Art of the Month Club, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
1983 100 Stones, Charles River Park, Cambridge, MA
1982 Art Up Front, Central and Harvard Squares, Cambridge, MA2 and 3-person exhibitions
2005 Nature Gone Awry, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2005 Poetic Art, Renaisance Gallery, Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River, MA
1986 I Don't Know Much About Art But I Know What I Like, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center
1987 Works by Marcella Stasa & Phyllis Ewen, Recycle Gallery, Boston Children's MuseumGroup exhibitions
2006
Faith in Art, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA
Back To Nature, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA
Gone Astray, The Copley Society, Boston, MA
Phoenix Artists’ Group Show, Phoenix Gallery, New York City, NY
Men, Women, Feminine, Masculine, Ayer Lofts Gallery, Lowell, MA
Tiny Fine Art Exhibition, Art at Large & Bergdorf Goodman, New York City, NY
A Sense of Self, A Sense of Place, ARTSWorcester, Worcester, MA
Small Works I, The Copley Society, Boston, MA
2005
La Petite XIII, Alder Gallery, Coburg, OR
Member’s Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association Cambridge, MA
12 x 12, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
Member’s Winter Exhibition, ARTSWorcester, Worcester, MA
Boston Arts Festival, Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park, Boston, MA
Contour: Dimensions in Art, The Copley Society, Boston, MA; juror’s award III
Red, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Small Works, The Copley Society, Boston, MA
Love Small, artSPACE @ 16, Malden, MA
Museum Without Walls, Central Park, New York City, NY
Decisive Moments, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Fall Member’s Show, The Copley Society, Boston, MA; first jurors’ choice
Prospecting for Art, Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA
Anything Goes, Lynn Arts, Lynn, MA
Collections, Elise Mankes Studio, Marblehead, MA
Photo National, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
Night and Day, Walsh Art Gallery, Fairfield, CT
Lines Into Shapes, Art Center of Estes Park, Estes Park, CO; juror’s award
Masters’ Mystery Art Show, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Impersonature, artSPACE @ 16, Malden, MA
Cornucopia, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
Art Up Front, A Taste of Culture, Cambridge, MA
Open Photography and Sculpture Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
ARTSWorcester Member’s Exhibition, Aurora Gallery, Worcester, MA
Alternative Photography, The Copley Society, Boston, MA
Worcester Biennial, ARTSWorcester, Aurora Gallery, Worcester, MA
40 x 40, Stuart Street Playhouse, Boston, MA
Manifest 2005: The Many Faces of Boston, The Copley Society, Boston, MA
Renewal: Reconstructing Castoffs into Art, ArtSpace Gallery, Maynard, MA
First Annual Juried Exhibition, Blackstone River Gallery, Woonsocket, RI
6th Biennial, A.I.R., New York, NY
Phoenix Artists’ Group Show, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
Members Juried Exhibition I, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
Renewed: A Transformation of Found Objects, The Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA
2004
Members Juried Exhibition I, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
Art of the Book, Art Books Press, Seattle, WA
Blue, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Windows Art Project, The Law Offices, Somerville, MA
Grown Up Figures, Fiber Art Center, Amherst, MA
Premier Holiday Sales Show, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
Crafts Showcase, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA
Small Works, artSPACE @ 16, Malden, MA
10 x 10 Holiday Show, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
Quilts For Art’s Sake 3, Makeready’s Gallery, 214 ArtSpace, Montclair NJ
Art 2004, Rockwall Artists League, Rockwall, TX; honorable mention
Works on Paper, Lynn Arts, Lynn, MA
ARTSWorcester, Member’s Exhibition, Aurora Gallery, Worcester, MA
Mother Lode National Art Exhibition, Placerville Arts Association, Placerville, CA
Northern National Art Competition, Nicolet College, Rhinelander, WI
Small Works, The Copley Society, Boston, MA
Sculpture in and by the River, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA
Wind Sea Sky, Easton’s Beach, Newport, RI
Small Works for Small Spaces, Ayer Lofts Gallery, Lowell, MA
17th National Juried Art Exhibit, South Cobb Arts Alliance, Mableton, GA
Viridian Artists XVth Annual Juried Exhibition slide show, Viridian Artists@ Chelsea, New York, NY
Renewal Revisited, Gibbs Gallery, Arlington, MA
Girl Art Now! Hera Gallery, Warwick, RI
Patterns of Worcester, Aurora Gallery, Worcester, MA
Earth Month Exhibit, Emerson Umbrella, Concord, MA
May Fire, Charles River Esplanade, Boston, MA
Mother? Ayer Lofts Gallery, Lowell, MA
Spring Juried Show, Copley Society, Boston, MA
Spring Members Art Exhibit, Arts Alliance, Hudson, MA
Revels, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Expo XXIII, B. J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY
The 18th Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Human Condition, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
2003
Small Works: Big Celebration, Gibbs Gallery, Arlington, MA
Small World Exhibit, New City Art, Easthampton, MA
Energy, The Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Crafts Showcase, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA
New American Crafts, Concord Art Association, Concord MA
Dolls Through a Window solo exhibit, Worcester Windows, Worcester, MA
Member’s Exhibition, ARTSWorcester, Worcester, MA
Small Works, The Copley Society, Boston, MA
What Are They Doing Now? The Marketplace in Porter Square, Cambridge, MA
Pushing The Envelope, The Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Overhung, Oni Gallery, Boston, MA
Fall Member’s Show, The Copley Society, Boston, MA
ARTSWorcester, Member’s Exhibition, Aurora Gallery, Worcester, MA
Fall Salon, The Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Windows Art Project, J.J. Sullivan, Somerville, MA
Boston Arts Festival, Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park, Boston, MA
Renewal, The Marketplace in Porter Square, Cambridge, MA
New Member’s Exhibition, The Copley Society, Boston, MA
2D/3D: An Exploration, ARTSWorcester Aurora Gallery, Worcester, MA
Photos From 3rd Space, artSPACE@16, Malden, MA
National Prize Show, The Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Analog to Digital/Digital to Analog, Fort Point Arts Community Gallery, Boston MA
Worcester Biennial, ARTSWorcester Aurora Gallery, Worcester, MA
Abstraction 2003, Stage Gallery, Merrick, NY
Small Works, Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY
2002
Spiritual Art V, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE
ARTSWorcester, Member’s Exhibition, Aurora Gallery, Worcester, MA
New Directions ’02, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Ninth Annual Juried Show, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
Renewal: Transforming Found Materials into Art, New Arts Center, Newton, MA
Frances N. Roddy Open Competition, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
Wild Kingdom, Susi’s, Cambridge, MA
Still Playing With Dolls, Gibbs Gallery, Arlington, MA
2001
ARTSWorcester, Member’s Exhibition, Aurora Gallery, Worcester, MA
Group Show, Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, MA
2000
Crafts Showcase, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA
1999
Crafts Showcase, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA
Art in the Park, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Dolled Up solo exhibit, ARTSWorcester, Worcester, MA
1998
Art to Wear, Cambridge Artists Cooperative, Cambridge, MA
1997
On the Land, Conant Land, Carlisle, MA
Worcester Biennial, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA
1995
Book Arts: Images & Words, Cambridge Artists Cooperative, Cambridge, MA
1993
Lost and Found: Images from Childhood, Union of Maine Visual Artists, Brunswick, ME
1992
Length/Width/Height, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1991
Playing Around: Toys by Artists, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Opening Day, a Baseball Show, Pacchetto, Newton Centre, MA
Gifts of Art, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
1990
Art-o-Mat/First Night Boston, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA
Small Works/Multi Media, Artists Foundation, Boston, MA
Tabletops, The Loading Zone, Boston, MA
Gifts of Art, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
1989
Art-o-Mat/First Night Boston, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA
Second to None, Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA
Gifts of Art, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
1988
Artwalk at Graves Landing, Graves Landing, Cambridge, MA
1987
River Tiles, Charles River Park, Cambridge, MA
Classy Glass & Ceramics, Enchanted Eye Gallery, Hollis, NH
River Tiles, Charles River Park, Cambridge, MA
1986
Project All Stars, Project Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
T Magnets, Arts on the Line, Cambridge & Boston, MA
Miniature Art of the Month Club, Somerville Arts Lottery, Somerville, MA
Fusion/Fission: Miniature Art of the Month Club, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
1985
Boston Arts Festival, Charles River Esplanade, Boston MA
Out of the Fogg, Project Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Artists Make Cakes, Project Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
1984
Avant Guards, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The Figure: New Form/New Function, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
1983
100 Stones, Charles River Park, Cambridge, MA
Stiles/Styles, The Unitarian Church of Boston, Boston, MA
1982
Art Up Front, Central and Harvard Squares, Cambridge, MA
Objects of Desire, Thompson Gallery, Boston, MA
Student Work, Kent State University, Kent, OH
1981
Massachusetts College of Art Student Work, City Hall, Boston, MA
Women's Work, Thompson Gallery, Boston, MA
1980
Cambridge Artists, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA