Friday, March 27, 2026 9:30am-3:30pm
Saturday, March 28, 2026 9:30am-3:30pm
This event will be conducted on ZOOM
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Lissa Cramer
Director, Boston University Art Galleries
Reviewing: Friday+Saturday
About | Lissa Cramer (she/her)
Lissa Cramer is the Director of the Boston University Art Galleries. She received her MS in Arts Administration from Boston University and a BA in Art History from the University of Kansas. She has previously worked for The Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO, and Tufts University Art Galleries in Medford, MA.
Cramer has achieved success with multiple exhibitions and publications throughout her career, including Shahzia Sikander: Parallax, Cey Adams, Departure: 40 Years of Art and Design, and Life Altering: Selections from a Kansas City Collection. Cramer also teaches Modern Art 1860-1970 and Managing Visual Arts for the Boston University MET College.
Focus | Contemporary
Lisa Crossman
Director of Curatorial Affairs, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
Reviewing: Saturday
About | Lisa Crossman (she/her) is Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. Lisa’s work centers exhibition making as a transformative process with the potential to be part of institutional change. Her curatorial practice foregrounds collaboration with artists, students, faculty, and guest curators, among others. Prior to this position, she was Curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum and worked with the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University.
Lisa holds a PhD from Tulane University, specializing in the history of modern and contemporary art of Latin America, with a focus on themes relating to ecology, social practice, and intersections of art and politics. Lisa is dedicated to supporting artists, which is reflected in her service to local community cultural councils, national professional organizations, and international networks.
Focus | broad range of contemporary art practices; interested in supporting emerging artists
Kim Curhan
Creative Research and Artist Relations, Alchemy Station
Reviewing: Friday+Saturday
About | Kim Curhan (She/her/hers) leads Creative Research at Alchemy Station, a Boston-based art consulting firm that curates artwork programs and site-specific commissions for primarily new developments and commercial clients. She also supports Alchemy Station’s artist-in-residence program for local artists. Her work is grounded in deep listening, artist advocacy, and aligning creative practice with client goals, values, and a strong sense of place. With a background in art history, clinical psychology, and research in neuroaesthetics, Kim brings a human-centered, curious lens to engaging with artists and supporting the presentation and sale of their work.
Focus | Emerging artists, public art, and artists looking to sell their work to a range of collectors.
Yorgos Efthymiadis
Independent Curator and Artist
Reviewing: Friday+Saturday
About | Yorgos Efthymiadis (he/him) is an artist/curator from Greece who resides in Somerville, MA. A winner of the 2025 James and Audrey Foster Prize, a recipient of FY25 Grants for Creative Individuals by Mass Cultural Council, and of a 2025 Sustaining Artist Grant by Collective Futures Fund, Efthymiadis was also an awardee of the Artist’s Resource Trust A.R.T. Grant in 2024. In addition, a recipient of the St. Botolph Club Foundation 2017 Emerging Artist Award, and a 2017 Finalist of the Mass Cultural Council Fellowship, Efthymiadis has exhibited nationally and internationally and was represented by Gallery Kayafas until its closure in 2024.
Efthymiadis is a board member of Somerville Arts Council and chair of the Visual Arts Fellowship Grants since 2017. Efthymiadis is also a reviewer for the Lenscratch Student Prize Awards since 2023 and finds it very fulfilling to help fellow photographers and give back to the photographic community.
In 2015 he created a gallery in his own kitchen, titled The Curated Fridge. The idea behind this project is to celebrate fine art photography and connect photographers with established and influential curators, gallerists, publishers and artists from around the world through free, quarterly curated calls. The Curated Fridge recently celebrated 10 years of exhibitions and has featured more than 1500 artists in 40+ shows juried by 45 guest curators.
Focus | Photography
Sabine Gilbert
Lennon Hernandez Wolcott
Programs and Development Manager,
Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston, Operations
Reviewing: Friday+Saturday
About | Lennon Hernandez Wolcott (she/her/hers) is an interdisciplinary artist with a BFA from Michigan State University and a PostBacc/MFA from the Museum School/Tufts. She is an artist creating space for community, facilitating opportunities for critical thinking, and promoting equitable decision making through exhibition, curation, and arts administration.
Lennon currently serves as the Development, Operations, and Program manager at the Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston. She was formerly the Exhibition Manager at the New Art Center, and worked for 6 years as Assistant Director of Admissions at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. She has experience in curation, strategic planning, development and access, inclusion and collaboration.
Focus | printmaking, sculpture, drawing, installation, interdisciplinary art, conceptual art, community based work,emerging art, grad school prep
Caitee Hoglund
Gallery Director, 13Forest Gallery
Reviewing: Friday+Saturday
About | Caitee Hoglund (she/her) joined 13FOREST Gallery as the Director in 2017, where she has been curating a dynamic program of exhibitions and events with a wide variety of Boston’s finest artists. Caitee guest curated MassArt’s 2025 Spring Graduate Thesis exhibition and has also served as a juror for several local arts institutions, including the Attleboro Arts Museum, Mosesian Center for the Arts, and the Cambridge Art Association. Before her time at 13FOREST, Caitee earned her Master’s Degree in Art History and Museum Studies from Tufts University.
Focus | painting, printmaking, ceramics, emerging artists, commercial galleries
LaiSun Keane
LaiSun Keane Gallery , Owner + Director
Reviewing: Saturday
About | LaiSun Keane (she/her)
Laisun Keane is the founder and director of her eponymous gallery, LaiSun Keane. She holds a BA in Art Theory from UNSW Sydney, Australia, and established the gallery in April 2020, leading it for nearly six years. Located in the SoWa Art District in Boston, LaiSun Keane is dedicated to amplifying non-mainstream and underrepresented voices, with a curatorial focus on artists and communities that have historically been overlooked. The gallery presents nine to ten exhibitions annually and is recognized for its thematic, research-driven, and narrative-based programming.
Photo credit Dan Watkins.
Focus | emerging artists, women, minorities and the overlooked
Nuria Lizarraga
Gallery Manager, Meridian Art Consulting
Reviewing: Saturday
About | Nuria Lizarraga (she/her) is an artist and arts professional with a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and an MA in Museum Studies from Tufts University. Her background spans painting, illustration, and graphic arts. She is currently the Gallery Manager at Meridian Art Consulting and has worked with leading Boston-area galleries and institutions including the Copley Society of Art, Tufts Art Galleries, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She brings a multidisciplinary, institution-informed perspective to portfolio reviews, with an emphasis on clarity of vision, materials, and professional presentation.
Focus | painting, illustration, graphic arts, emerging artists
Audrey Lopez
The Greenway, Director and Curator of Public Art
Reviewing: Friday+Saturday
About | Audrey N. Lopez, PhD (she/her) is a curator, researcher, and writer working at the intersection of public art, installation, and design across New England and Southern California. Grounded in participatory approaches to public space, Lopez’s curatorial practice works to strengthen communities’ relationships to public land, memory, and imagination through art that inspires sustained civic engagement and creative collective action. Her curatorial work has been featured in Artforum, ARTnews, ArchDaily, designboom, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, KCRW, The Boston Globe, WBUR, and Boston Art Review. Lopez earned her PhD from the University of California Santa Barbara (USCB) and has taught courses at both UCSB and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She is currently Director & Curator of Public Art at The Greenway in downtown Boston.
Focus | artists with research-based practices, public art, emerging artists as well
Liz Morlock
Reviewing: Friday+Saturday
About | Liz Morlock (she/her, b. 1993, Long Beach, CA) is a curator and writer living and working in Boston, MA. She currently serves as the Director of Steven Zevitas Gallery with a focus on providing space for emerging, contemporary artists. In April 2025, she partnered with Steven Zevitas to open Z’M Projects, a project space that hosts major one-work presentations and curated exhibitions. Morlock also works as the Marketing Manager for New American Paintings, a bi-monthly art publication featuring contemporary painters across all regions of the United States. She previously worked as the Assistant Director of Samsøñ, a gallery specializing in the representation of underrepresented artists and recontextualization of established artists. Recent writing projects consider the site-specific distribution of arts capital in the city of Boston.
Focus | Painting, sculpture, prints, emerging through mid-career
Jessica Roscio
Director and Curator, Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University
Reviewing: Friday
About | Jessica Roscio (she/her/hers) joined the Danforth Art Museum in 2011, was appointed Curator in 2015, and became the Director in 2020. She has overseen all curatorial and administrative operations since the Museum became a part of Framingham State University. Prior to the Danforth, Roscio held positions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She writes on both historical and contemporary photography and is a regular contributor to Aspect Initiative, an online gallery focusing on innovative photographic practices in New England. She has juried numerous exhibitions across media both regionally and nationally. Roscio has an MA in Art History from the University at Buffalo and a Ph.D. in American Studies, with a focus on the History of Photography, from Boston University.
Focus | photography, painting, installation, multi-disciplinary artists, emerging artists
Caitlin Julia Rubin
Independent Curator
Reviewing: Friday
About | Caitlin Julia Rubin (she/her/hers) is a curator and writer, and has held curatorial positions at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute and Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, where she was the Associate Curator & Director of Programs. Within this position and in prior years at the Rose, she organized and co-organized projects by Mark Dion, Rosalyn Drexler, Jennie C. Jones, Tuesday Smillie, and Caroline Woolard, among others; curated numerous collection-focused presentations; and contributed to and produced both museum and artist publications. With Lauren Haynes, she co-curated the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love, which debuted at the Rose Art Museum in February 2023 and traveled to the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and the Queens Museum, New York, where it was highlighted as a New York Times Critic’s Pick and listed among the “Best Art of 2024.” Her exhibition with the artist Hồng-Ân Trương, With love from your Vietnamese Sisters, was on view at Radcliffe from September–December 2025.
Focus | research-based and socially-engaged practices in all media
Jasper A. Sanchez
Assistant Curator, Boston Public Art Triennial
Reviewing: Friday
About | Jasper A. Sanchez (he | they) is a Venezuelan-Colombian from Miami who works as a curator and cultural organizer across Boston. Their contemporary curatorial practice melds queer diasporas and reimagines public space to achieve creative justice and uplift artists. He is currently Boston Public Art Triennial’s Assistant Curator, where he produces large-scale, temporary, and site-specific public art experiences. Sanchez facilitates the annual Public Art Accelerator– a skill-building and grant-funding program designed to support early-to-mid-career Boston-based artists in creating public art projects in Boston neighborhoods. Sanchez has curated exhibitions with the Boston LGBTQIA+ Artist Alliance, Boston Cyberarts, Boston Center for the Arts, and Tufts University Art Galleries. Their writing and programming appear in Boston Art Review. He is also part of Mobius Artists Group and the inaugural Collective Futures Fund Advisory Council. Sanchez holds a BA in Art History & Critical Theory from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.
Focus |Sculpture, Painting, Printmaking, Performance, Installation, and/or Object-based Art; Public Art, Queer Art, Diaspora Art, Participatory Art, Socially Engaged Art, Emerging Artists, Early-Mid Career Artists
Lauren Szumita
Cantor Art Gallery at Holy Cross, Director
Reviewing: Friday
About | Lauren Szumita (she/her) is the Director of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross. She previously was the curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum, where she organized Cicely Carew: Quantum Sanctuary (2022), Rania Matar: Oceans at My Door (2023), Paper Town (2023), and FAM’s inaugural façade installation, Gabriel Sosa’s La bodega de mis suenos (ongoing), among others. Prior, she was Curatorial Assistant of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at Worcester Art Museum where she oversaw the Central Massachusetts Artists Initiative (CMAI) rotation for contemporary, regional artists. Lauren holds an MA in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Oregon and a BA in Art History from Boston College.
Focus | Any. More expertise with photo/works on paper.
Leah Triplett
Curator of Contemporary Art, PAFA
Reviewing: Saturday
About | Leah Triplett (she/her) is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). Previously she was a curator at Now + There, where she facilitated the Public Art Accelerator and organized large-scale public art commissions in Boston. Her writing has appeared in ArtAsiaPacific, ArtNet News, Sculpture, Public Art Dialogue, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and others. She taught MFA painting and sculpture students at Boston University from 2021 to 2023.
Focus | Emerging art, craft adjacent, ceramics, public art, going from studio to public art
Shari Weschler
Gallery & Education Coordinator, Wickford Art Association
Reviewing: Friday+Saturday
About | Shari Weschler (she/her), branded as Sumo Bunni, is an American figural narrative painter who exhibits nationally and internationally. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art, with concentration in painting and art history. While attending MICA she studied drawing, printmaking, and gelatin silver photography.
Her exhibition history includes over thirty solo and forty group shows and has been published extensively. She is an avid collector of fine art and masks. She was the owner and director of Coastal Contemporary Gallery founded May of 2018 in Newport, Rhode Island. The gallery represented over thirty exceptional national and regional artists and collaborated with independent curators and local ventures. Her business won Best of Rhode Island, RI Monthly 2021 for Contemporary Gallery.
Weschler has served in various positions including board member, curator, co-curator, juror, gallery director, consultant and portfolio reviewer for other prestigious galleries, associations, and collaboratives. She has years of experience in children’s arts education and worked as a professional picture framer in 2025, completing a twelve-week PPFA certification course. While actively maintaining her creative practice, she is employed as Wickford Art Association’s Gallery and Education Coordinator and offers private consulting and portfolio reviews for artists.
Focus | Painting, drawing, photography, curating, writing, experience working with novice – established artists
Image in header courtesy of Erin Jackson