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Beth Balliro
Senior Institute Coordinator
Visual Arts Faculty
After her introduction to teaching in the Unitas Therapeutic Community in the South Bronx, Beth Balliro returned to Boston where she has worked as an artist/educator for over twelve years and at the Arts Academy since its opening. She has taught visual arts and music, supervised teen mural projects, and directed public performances in conjunction with national initiatives against youth violence. Ms. Balliro holds a Bachelors of Arts degree cum laude from Smith College and a Masters of Science in Art Education from the Massachusetts College of Art where she received the Rudolph Arnheim Award for Academic Excellence and the Foundation Auction Award. She is been awarded two Surdna Fellowships and has also received grants from the Fund for Teachers and the Art Renewal Grant program. In 2003 she was the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's
Teacher-in-Residence. Along with her visual arts colleagues, her teaching is featured in the recently published book Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Arts Education.
Her artwork, featured in last year’s New England/New Talent exhibition, is currently included in The Boston Drawing Project at the Bernard Toale Gallery and will be included in the interdisciplinary exhibition Sublime Climate at the Cambridge School of Weston this fall. Other exhibitions include: Wichita Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Fitchburg Art Museum, Forsyth Chapel, Massachusetts College of Art, Starr Gallery, Gordon Gallery. You may visit her website at www.balliro.com.
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