The TransCultural Exchange Board

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Mary Sherman, Chairman of the Board and President <website>
Mary Sherman founded TransCultural Exchange in 1989 to create art projects that transcend social, political, geographical and historical barriers. She has received numerous grants and awards, the most recent of which is a Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant, and has served as an artist in residence at such institutions as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She also teaches at Boston College and Northeastern University and has been invited to talk about contemporary art as a guest speaker, visiting lecturer and critic at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design; the University of Chicago; and the National Taiwan Museum of Arts, among others. In addition, she has published numerous articles on the visual arts in national and international publications and worked as the art critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and as a columnist for WBUR. As an artist, her works have been exhibited widely both in the U.S. and abroad, including at Harvard University; the Trans Hudson Gallery, NY; the Oskar Friedl Gallery, Chicago; Zendai MoMA, Shanghai; Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul; the London Biennale and the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei. She also has curated shows throughout the world, two of which received awards from the northeast chapter of the International Art Critics Association.

She is a member of ArtTable, the Boston Sculptors Gallery, the International Association of Art Critics, the National Writers Union, the College Board's National Task Force on the Arts in Education and the College Art Association.

Bonnie Clark <website>
Bonnie Clark is an experienced marketing professional with a proven track record of successfully developing and implementing marketing programs to secure market position and awareness within highly competitive industries, including the arts and non-profit sectors. She is also a member of Business Volunteers for the Arts in Boston, involved in providing pro bono marketing services to non-profit arts and cultural organizations. Additionally, Ms. Clark is a mixed media & collage artist, a member of the Fort Point Arts Community, the Surface Design Association, the International Society of Altered Book Artists, Mensa, and the American Marketing Association.

Audrey Goldstein
Audrey Goldstein is an exhibiting sculptor and the Fine Arts Program Director at Suffolk University’s art school, where she is also a professor. She designed the Bachelor of Fine Arts Program, and currently serves on the College of Arts & Sciences’ Honors Committee and Faculty Development Committee. While a member of the Kingston Gallery, she served as the chair of the Programming Committee.

Richard Lappin
Richard Lappin has been the Chief Financial Officer for a Cambridge based hedge fund for the past seven years.  He holds a degree in Business Administration from Northeastern University.  Mr. Lappin has 20 years of senior financial management experience and has managed the financial operations of such Boston institutions as the Institute of Contemporary Art, New England Conservatory of Music and the Boston Museum of Science.

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Francine Koslow Miller
Art Historian and art critic Francine Koslow Miller received her doctorate in art history at Boston University. She has taught extensively, most recently at Northeastern University and University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She also has written and published numerous articles in magazines and professional journals worldwide including Artforum, Art on Paper, Frieze, Tema Celeste and Art New England. A regular contributor to scholarly publications as well, her essays on modern art are included in the Grove Dictionary of Art. She recently co-authored the monograph John O’Reilly Assemblies of Magic (Twin Palms Press, 2002) and wrote Thomas Crotty: A Solitude of Space (Down East, 2003).

Sophie Parker <website>
Sophie Parker is an organizational development consultant specializing in large and small-scale meeting facilitation. She works with organizations on managing change and conflict, building communication and mediation skills with individual managers and teams. Other projects include the design and delivery of online assessments and e-learning programs and the use and application of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

Joanne Silver
Joanne Silver, who is the New England correspondent for ARTnews magazine, was the art critic for the Boston Herald for 18 years and has written extensively for The Providence Journal, Patriot Ledger, The Concord, New Hampshire Monitor and Albany Times Union.

STAFF AND KEY TILE PROJECT ORGANIZERS’ BIOGRAPHIES

MARY SHERMAN, Director. <website>
Mary Sherman founded TransCultural Exchange in 1989 to create art projects that transcend social, political, geographical and historical barriers. She has received numerous grants and awards, the most recent of which is a Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant, and has served as an artist in residence at such institutions as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She also teaches at Boston College and Northeastern University and has been invited to talk about contemporary art as a guest speaker, visiting lecturer and critic at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design; the University of Chicago; and the National Taiwan Museum of Arts, among others. In addition, she has published numerous articles on the visual arts in national and international publications and worked as the art critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and as a columnist for WBUR. As an artist, her works have been exhibited widely both in the U.S. and abroad, including at Harvard University; the Trans Hudson Gallery, NY; the Oskar Friedl Gallery, Chicago; Zendai MoMA, Shanghai; Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul; the London Biennale and the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei. She also has curated shows throughout the world, two of which received awards from the northeast chapter of the International Art Critics Association.

She is a member of ArtTable, the Boston Sculptors Gallery, the International Association of Art Critics, the National Writers Union, the College Board's National Task Force on the Arts in Education and the College Art Association.

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JENNIFER CAWLEY, Assistant to the Director.
Jennifer Cawley graduated summa cum laude from Wellesley College, where she studied art history, visual culture and theory, photography, and social justice. To TransCultural Exchange, she brings a dedication to excellence as well as several years of experience maintaining a small business and working in various museum departments as a volunteer at the RISD Museum and researcher, writer, fellow, and professional at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, where she contributed to numerous exhibitions and curated rachel bas-cohain: "in the middle, somewhat elevated" and "Raid the Icebox": From the Collection of the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, New and Less Exhibited Works on Paper by Women Artists. Ms. Cawley has also been the recipient of a Pamela Daniels Fellowship and the Plogsterth Prize in Art History and has contributed to publications in the United States and Germany.

DELPHINE EYCHENNE, Consultant.
Delphine is a bilingual project manager for the Arts and Cultural sector. She holds two Masters Degrees, one in Culture Project Management and the other in International Business Law. Ms. Eychenne has 9 years of experience in communications, media relations, event management and legal/political analysis, working as a parliamentary assistant, and a communications manager at one of France’s national centers for musical creation. Additionally, over the years she has been involved in many non-profit organizations, including theatres and dance companies, a contemporary art gallery, and a film festival, managing and developing projects.

MIRA BARTÓK, Tile Project Educational Consultant.
An award winning writer, artist, teacher and cultural specialist Mira Bartok will produce suggested promotional materials for the educational component of the Tile Project, Destination: The World. Ms. Bartok is the author and illustrator of the Fox Has His Day - Tales and Poems from the Far, Far North, a picture book anthology of Sami (Lapp) Folktales; the Ancient and Living Culture Series, a children’s book series on art and cultural traditions; the Big World Read-A-Long Series, a series on Native Americans for beginning readers; and a consultant and contributor for My History is American’s History – Fifteen Ways to Save America’s Stories, an education guidebook and website about family and community history, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the White House.

In addition, Ms. Bartok has taught workshops and classes, and has developed public programs on the art, music and oral traditions of world cultures at many institutions, including the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, The Chicago Museum of Science and Technology, St. Lawrence University in upstate New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, the Oriental Museum at the University of Chicago and the Peabody Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology at Harvard University. She is also the former Director of Education at the Chicago Children’s Museum.

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