STAFF
Candice Driver (she/her/ella) | Norma Jean Calderwood Director
Candice Driver (she/her) holds a BA in Art History from Pennsylvania State University (2017), and a MA from Boston University (2020). Prior to the CAA, she worked at various institutions as a curator, preservationist, gallery assistant, among other roles. Her main goal as a member of the arts’ community is to create an inclusive space for everyone to view and/or create art.
Contact Candice at cdriver@cambridgeart.org
Anna Fubini (she/her) | Associate Director
Anna Fubini (she/her) is an artist, community arts educator, and arts administrator based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, originally from Brookline. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Studio Art & Gender Studies from Skidmore College (2015) and a Master of Science in Arts Administration from Boston University (2023).
As an artist, Anna works in experimental fiber and mixed media to create conceptual sculptural installations for site-specific and public display. As an arts administrator and community educator, Anna has worked with various nonprofit institutions across Massachusetts.
Anna Fubini at afubini@cambridgeart.org
Stephanie Todhunter | Program Manager
Stephanie Todhunter (she/her) is a visual artist with 15 years of professional experience. She has managed Jerome Street Studios, a collaborative art space, since 2011 and has served on the boards of West Medford Open Studios (2013-2023) and the Cambridge Art Association (2020-2023).
Stephanie holds a BA from Bowdoin College and completed postgraduate studies at the University of Minnesota. Her recent exhibitions include the Kathryn Schultz and Abigail Ogilvy Galleries, the Danforth Museum, and The Art Complex Museum. In 2017, she was named Artist of the Year by the Cambridge Art Association and received the Mozaik Future Art Award from Mozaik Philanthropy in 2020. She currently resides in Medford, MA, with her family.
Contact Stephanie at stodhunter@cambridgeart.org
Colin Asquith (he/him) | Art Handler
Stacey Foley | Accountant
EXECUTIVE BOARD COMMITTEE
Mark Zieff | President, CAA Associate Artist Member
Mark Zieff is a still-life pencil artist who creates artistically realistic drawings of commonplace man-made objects. Mark holds a degree in Industrial Design from Syracuse University and has held senior leadership roles at a number of leading consumer products companies including Tupperware, Parker Brothers (Hasbro) and Highliner Foods.
As both a designer and artist, Mark has always been fascinated with man-made objects and uses his artwork to explore the relationships between object and user; both the physical and emotional connection we have with inanimate objects. His drawings are characterized by a high level of detail, soft tonal transitions and dramatically lit compositions.
His work has been selected by juries for regional and national competitions and is regularly seen in museums, universities and galleries including 13FOREST Gallery and Galatea Fine Art.
Julie Fei-Fan Balzer | Vice President, CAA Artist Member
Julie Fei-Fan Balzer is a painter, printmaker, and collage artist who constructs vibrant compositions. Her artwork investigates the interplay of identity and perception, inviting viewers to take a longer look. Julie works in layers, both physically and metaphorically, exploring what is visible and what is concealed. Passionate about connecting with and inspiring other artists, she shares her expertise through in-person workshops and her online classroom at MyArtPractice.com. Julie’s achievements include high-profile clients, multiple publications – including her book, “Carve Stamp Play” – and exhibits in New York City and Greater Boston. She is a graduate of Brown University.
Kat Desy | Treasurer, CAA Associate Artist Member
Massachusetts-based pen and ink artist, Kat Desy, has been drawing for more than 20 years. Originally studying the Monart method, which teaches how to view the world using the five basic elements of shape, she spent years exploring various 2D and 3D mediums.
One marketing degree and years of full-time work later, Desy picked up a pen again and started drawing geometric shapes filled with fine line work. Pandemic boredom led to a mounting collection of work, and she started showing in galleries in 2021, most recently exhibiting in the annual juried ‘8 Visions’ show at the Attleboro Arts Museum.
She also works full-time as the Director of Marketing, Partner & Public Sector for Black Kite, a Boston cybersecurity company. www.katdesyart.com.
Ingrid Schorr | Secretary, Associate Artist Member
Ingrid Schorr is a longtime Cambridge resident and a transplant from Georgia. She is an arts administrator at Brandeis University, where she produces the annual Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts. Professional passions include promoting access to the arts and connecting people to resources. Personal passions include knitting and weaving, kittens, Leonard Bernstein, and the Beatles.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Lennon Hernandez Wolcott | Lennon Hernandez Wolcott 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.
Kamal Ahmad | Kamal Ahmad (he/him) is an artist, educator, and curator who lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a multidisciplinary visual artist who creates painting, sculpture, video, printmaking and design, and sometimes combines those mediums together. His recent work is more personal and psychological which is based on his past of witnessing wars and psychology of wars as well as religious and cultural identities among different ethnicity groups. The inspiration of his themes comes from his unique background, and it transfers and grows into new artistry forms along the time.
Kamal’s artwork has appeared at a number of galleries and museums such as MassMoCA, Boston Sculptors Gallery, MUSA Gallery, Piano Craft Gallery, etc. He has worked as an educator, art technician, designer, curator, coordinator and installer in many different organizations such as University of Sulaimani, BU, MassArt, MIT, PC Gallery, etc. Kamal has most recently worked as a curator and one of the directors of Piano Craft Gallery in Boston as well.
Kamal was born in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan. He received his first MFA from Boston University in 2016 and his second MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2019. He received his BFA from Sulaymaniyah University in Kurdistan in 2010.
Chris Gill | Chris Gill is an abstract, improvisational action painter, who lives with his wife, the artist, Jane Goldman, in the Mixit Artist Cooperative in Somerville, Massachusetts. Chris and Jane also have a house in Maine. Chris grew up in the Boston suburbs and has lived on both the East and West Coasts. He has 4 adult children. He attended Boston University as an undergraduate, and later the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. Chris’ “day job” has been as psychotherapist, with 30 years of practice in the field, primarily working with adolescents and families. Chris is also a musician. Chris played drums in several bands in the San Francisco and Boston new wave and punk rock scenes in the late 70’s and early 80’s, including Ultrasheen and Vitamin. He has also written and recorded many songs and has performed as a performance and spoken word artist.
As a painter, his primary media are watercolor and gouache. He paints on large rolls of paper, which he often cuts up later to make different size paintings. Chris rarely touches a paintbrush to the paper, though he uses one to splatter, drip and mix paint. Most of the time he spills, pours, squirts and drips paint on the paper from containers of various types and sizes. He also uses a variety of imprinting techniques, whereby he folds and rolls sections of the freshly painted paper onto itself, creating layered and textured effects.
As a lifelong musician, who plays the drums, Chris tends to paint very rhythmically. He considers much of his work to be a kind of visual music. He sees it as a birthing process, in which he finds great excitement and joy in the discovery aspect of how each painting, as a unique, organic creation, grows and evolves as a natural entity. Chris does not paint figuratively, per se, but sees his painting as about nature, the world and the universe. Chris states that he “channels nature” through his painting processes. which mirror those of nature, and his paintings often have a naturalistic look.
Erica Licea-Kane | Erica has had a long career as a studio artist and college art instructor, including 17 years as the Gallery Director at Wheelock College. She received her BFA at the Parsons School of Design, and her MFA at the Massachusetts College of Art, earning both degrees in the field of fine art, textiles. Erica has exhibited her work extensively throughout the United States and abroad.
Recent exhibitions of Erica’s work include The Krakorian Gallery at the Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester MA, The Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, Site:Brooklyn, NY, Able Baker contemporary, Portland, ME, the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, the Andrews Art Museum, Andrews, NC, the Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA and the Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA.
Erica has been the recipient of several grants and fellowships including the 2018 Artist Fellowship in Painting from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the A.R.T Grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, and a Regional Fellowship from the New England Foundation for the Arts of the National Endowment of the Arts.
Her work has been reviewed in several publications with recent coverage in the Portland Phoenix, the “Take” section in the Boston Globe, The Portland Press Herald and Take Magazine as well as past reviews in the Boston Globe Magazine, The Boston Herald, Surface Design Journal and several of the Lark Publications, Fiberarts Design Book, #’s 3, 4, 6 editions. Currently she is a visiting lecturer at several institutions in the Boston area.
Erica is currently represented by SJ Art Consulting in Haverhill, MA.
David Rabkin | David Rabkin’s interests and experience span three careers, one in software and general management, a second as a museum leader, and now a third as an artist. While finishing college, he designed and developed a PC-based project management system for an architectural firm, a project that catalyzed a career in software development for factory scheduling, decision support, and customer relationship management. Along the way, he earned a PhD in technology and innovation management from MIT. In 2000, he joined Boston’s Museum of Science in a unique role: to engage and facilitate the Museum’s senior team and staff in a collaborative process to imagine and implement a new strategy to add technology as a core topic to the Museum’s focus on science. In that role, and in subsequent management roles at the museum, he led teams developing a wide range of programs for children and adults, producing media from podcasts to planetarium shows, creating exhibits, and curating an art gallery.
Today, he is a lens-based artist living in Cambridge, MA. His grandfather was a photographer, woodworker and painter, and he can hardly remember a time before his first camera or when he wasn’t drawing and working with any material he could get his hands on, particularly wood. While he has worked in many media, photography is the only art form he has pursued continuously since his childhood.
He is married to an elected official in Cambridge, and they have a son and daughter in their twenties. He’s an avid sailor, hiker, and chef. Plus he does stage makeup.
Artwork in header courtesy of CAA Associate Artist Member Natalia Mirabito