Friday, November 7 2025
10:00am-2:20pm
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Ellen Buchanan
Boston Art, Gallery Manager
About | Ellen Buchanan (they/them) is deeply passionate about the vibrant Boston Art scene. They graduated from Boston University in 2021 with a degree in English and Studio Art. They have worked both in private galleries as well as nonprofit art spaces in the Boston Area. As Gallery Manager at Boston Art they serve as the main contact for all artist and gallery relations, maintaining and navigating longstanding relationships as well as fostering new connections. Ellen manages Boston Art’s gallery inventory, researching new artists and serving as a creative lead for the gallery. They thoroughly enjoy building connections and exploring the local, national, and international art scene both through their position at Boston Art, and in their personal life. Focus | I am accustomed to working with emerging as well as established artists. I also work with public artists/ artist groups on occasion.
Christina Godfrey
Savage Godfrey Gallery Director
About | Christina Godfrey graduated from Wheaton College, Norton, MA, in 2001. She revived the Sunne Savage Gallery’s interest in corporate and contemporary art when she accepted an art relocation project with RSM, formerly known as McGladrey, and went on to curate exhibitions of emerging artists at the RSM Art Gallery for 18 years.
Currently, Christina co-curates the Mini Museum at Boston Children’s Hospital while also managing corporate art collections in the Boston area. Since joining the Gallery in 2001, Christina has consistently turned new contacts into long-term clients through her creative and resourceful approach to project management and vast knowledge of regional artists.
The 2024 rebranding of the Savage Godfrey Gallery reflects Christina Godfrey’s dedication and key role over the past 20 years. She lead the opening of the Gallery’s new location at 693 Main Street in Norwell, MA. The Savage Godfrey Gallery promotes emerging to mid-career regional artist.
LaiSun Keane
LaiSun Keane Gallery , Owner + Director
About | LaiSun Keane (she/her) is the owner of an eponymous gallery in Boston’s SoWa Arts District, which specializes in contemporary works of art by American and International artists. LaiSun graduated with a Bachelor of Art Theory from University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. After graduating, she was involved with the non-profit gallery, the National Art School Gallery, and a commercial art gallery, AAG, which specialized in Australian Aboriginal Art. She moved to Boston in 2013 and in her indefatigable fashion, dived straight into the local art scene volunteering with many film festivals and non-profit art establishments. It ultimately led to her involvement with a long established ceramic gallery in Concord for five years, of which the final two years she was a partner. In April 2020, LaiSun started her own gallery, and has since staged ten exhibitions focusing on emerging artists, women, minorities and the overlooked.
Photo credit Dan Watkins, courtesy of LaiSun Keane
Jessica Roscio
Director and Curator, Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University
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 curatorial and administrative operations since the Museum became part of Framingham State University. Selected exhibitions include The Memory Palace: Domesticity, Objects, and the Interior, Dressed, Family Circle, Visionary Boston: John Brook, Steven Trefonides, and Kahlil Gibran, Barbara Swan: Reflected Self, and Lois Tarlow: Material Vocabulary. 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 taught courses at Emerson College and Suffolk University, and has been a regular contributor to Aspect Initiative, an online gallery focusing on contemporary photography in New England. 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.
Lauren Szumita
Cantor Art Gallery at Holy Cross, Director
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.
Emily Mazzola
Cecilia Vazquez
FA2D Professor and Chair MFA 2D Program Director, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
About | Cecilia Vazquez(she/her) was born and raised in Mexico City, where she attended the National University of Mexico for her BFA degree. Later on, she earned her MFA in Painting from MassArt, thanks to the support of a Fulbright grant.
She exhibits her work regularly, both in Mexico and abroad, in cultural institutions, museums, and private galleries. Her practice has granted her a position in the Mexican art-world, having been distinguished in three occasions with the National System of Creators Grant by the National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA, Mexico). She is also part of the Fulbright-García Robles Experts Network, and participates regularly as a jury member for national and international competitions and grants.
She has taught at college level for more than twenty years, mainly in Mexico and the US. She has also served as Visiting Artist in numerous occasions. Before her current appointment, she was Tenured Full Professor at the State University of Morelos in Mexico, where she also headed the MFA Maestría en Producción Artística, accredited by the National Register of Quality Graduate Programs.
Two monographies on her work have been published: Fondo, figura y fondo otra vez and Geometría blanda.
Cameron SumnerImage in header courtesy of Erin Jackson