Parkway Artists Directory by It's All About Arts

Parkway Artists Directory BE INSPIRED Jamaica Plain Roslindale Hyde Park Mattapan West Roxbury

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” Maya Angelou Thank you for helping us to celebrate and support the local artists who make our world more delightful, entertaining, interesting and visually exciting. The Parkway Area - Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, Mattapan, Hyde Park and West Roxbury is home to so many talented people. There are artists: painters, sculptors, potters, musicians, dancers, singers, writers, comedians, actors, photographers, crafters, fabric, designers, illustrators, performers, etc. They all need us as much as we need them. The best way to support local artists is to buy their work, go to their concerts and/or performances. This directory is to showcase the talents in the Parkway area and connect everyone together. Publication in the directory is by choice only. If you want to be included or know someone who should be, please contact Janice Williams at decoupagejan@gmail.com for details. Businesses and organizations in the Parkway area can also be included. For updates, sign up for our newsletter at roslindalearts.org.

MUSIC Terry Kitchen

Folksinger, Songwriter, Guitarist and Author Called “one of New England’s best songwriters” by The Boston Globe, Terry Kitchen creates songs that are portraits of ordinary people and emotions, captured with extraordinary compassion, honesty and humor. He’s been performing on folk stages across the country since the 1990s, releasing a dozen albums of distinctive, literate musical storytelling. His latest CD Lost Songs reached #13 on the national Folk-DJ chart. His songs have won the Mid-Atlantic and USA Song Contests and been runner-up in the John Lennon Song Contest, and have appeared in numerous films. In the 1980s he was the leader of the groundbreaking Boston band Loose Ties, whose experiences he recounts in his novel Next Big Thing, called “a great debut novel” by The San Francisco Book Review. He also published a short story collection, Coping Mechanisms, in 2020. http://terrykitchen.com/ www.youtube.com/terrykitchensongs https://www.facebook.com/terrykitchensongs

Glenn Williams

Singer, Songwriter, Musician and Visual Artist Glenn Williams has spent many years both as a practicing artist and supporting the arts. He was the Art Director for many years at Sacred Heart School in Roslindale. He co-founder and President of the Roslindale Arts Alliance that started Roslindale Open Studios and Roslindale Porch Fest. For twenty years he was host of It’s All About Arts TV Show on BNN Media. For many years he was the “Voice of Roslindale” performing emcee duties for Roslindale Farmers Market and other local events. He and his partner Tim Casey have produced many albums under their Low Budget Records Label. They have performed all over New England. Currently Glenn is the General Manager of BNN Media. https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennroslindale/

Photography Erik Gehring Photography

Erik Gehring is the current Programming Coordinator at the Menino Arts Center, Home of the Hyde Park art Association, and a past President of the Boston Camera Club. His favorite photographic destination is the nearby Arnold Arboretum. @erikgehring on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

Bob D Ward

Photography, Graphic Design I am a professional Graphic Designer and I love to take pictures of my surroundings and when I travel. I am currently building a website of my entire photography collection. https://www.facebook.com/bobdward2

Painting/Drawing Vivienne Shalom Painter, Mosaic Artist, Poet

Vivienne is a mosaic artist as well as a painter of landscapes and portraits. She also writes poetry and is a committee member of Rozzie Reads Poetry. Vivienneshalom.com

Lisa Goren Watercolors

Lisa Goren was born in California and raised in NYC. And yet she has dreamed of Polar landscapes since she was in her teens. Her watercolors show an unfamiliar landscape in a new light by using vibrant colors and taking risks with different surfaces. During the Pandemic, she has been working on smaller paintings of animals in “human” spaces. www.lisagorenpaintings.com, Insta/Twitter: @lisafgoren, FB: Watercolors by Lisa Goren

Janice Williams Visual Artist, Writer

Janice has been on the local art scene for many years. She is an active artist and loves to support and help other artists. Co-Founder of the Roslindale Arts Alliance, she helps curate local exhibits, facilitate and promote the RAA Youth Scholarship Program and publishes a newsletter via the Roslindale Arts Alliance. Janice was the producer of It’s All About Arts TV Show on BNN Media. Her favorite medium is collage but also works in acrylics. artstudio99.com

Literary Holly Guran Poetry

Guran is the author of Twilight Chorus (Main Street Rag), the chapbooks River Tracks (Poets Corner Press) and Mothers’ Trails (Noctiluca Press), grew up with a view of the Hudson River which partly accounts for the frequency of rivers and water in her collection, River of Bones (Iris Press). Holly lived in a variety of places from Eugene, Oregon to Rome, Italy, eventually landing in Boston where she is retired from a long career at Roxbury Community College. She earned a Massachusetts Cultural Council finalist award (2012), is a member of the Jamaica Pond Poets, and has been a presenter at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Her work has appeared in scores of publications including Salamander, Poet Lore, Poetry East, Westchester Review, U.S. Worksheets 1, and she was a featured poet in The Aurorean and Bellowing Ark. Her narrative poems, based on a 19th century correspondence between a mill girl and the editor she married, have been performed in Boston and at the Lowell National Historic Park, and the manuscript, Harriet and William, is seeking a publisher. Holly lives with her husband, Philip and their dog, Ginger, and enjoys visits with children and grandchildren. She helps coordinate the monthly series, Rozzie Reads Poetry and Open Mic, which has taken place on Zoom since the start of the pandemic. She can be reached by e-mail. hguran@aol.com - https://poetry-holly-guran.vpweb.com

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