 |
Beth Balliro
Senior Institute Coordinator
Visual Arts Faculty
(Ms. Balliro will be on Maternity Leave through Spring, 2010)
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 has 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 was honored at the 2009 Mass. College of Art & Design Commencement and is featured in the recently published book Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Arts Education.
Her paintings were featured in the solo exhibition: Nothing Flourishes Alone, at B.A.A.’s Gordon Gallery. Other recent projects include: Jai Zi: Painting Projection and Video/Dance Collaboration with Fernadina Chan, Boston University Dance Theater, The Boston Drawing Project, Bernard Toale Gallery; New Art 2008, MPG Contemporary; Sublime Climate, Thompson Gallery; New England/New Talent, Fitchburg Art Museum. Previous exhibitions include: Wichita Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Forsyth Chapel Gallery, Arnheim Gallery at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Starr Gallery. Cover Artwork for Salamander Journal & "Untold Poetry" published in Pakistan and India, publication in Chicago’s Woman Made Journal.
| |
