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EDUCATION      
            
Tufts University, Medford, MA   
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA                                                                                                               Graduated May 2024,  Summa Cum Laude
B.A./B.F.A. Combined Degree Program, Majors: Applied Environmental Studies; Studio Art

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE  

Studio Assistant, Cambridge, MA May 2025- Present        
Assistant to artists Prilla Smith Brackett and Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz           
May 2025- Present                     
  • Create and organize art inventory databases in Air Table, catalogue and document artwork
  • Write and edit artist CVs, newsletters, and promotional materials
  • Create and implement systems for studio organization
  • Facilitate preparation, art display, promotion, and sales for open studios

                                                          
Project Assistant
MIT Office of the Arts, Cambridge, MA                                                                                                  
2024-May 2025
  • Assist with administration and coordination of arts programs and events for the MIT Artfinity festival
  • Support logistical planning, project-based research, and onsite management of arts events 
  • Assist with installation of exhibitions and receptions at the Wiesner Student Art Gallery
  • Write and publish student art studio class website, manage class registrations, respond to student questions
  • Manage and organize data concerning development, event planning                                                                                                                               
EXHIBITION RECORD                                                                                                                   

2025  Thinking in the Borderlands: Beyond the Human, juried online exhibition, Artsy.com, A Space Gallery, Brooklyn,             NY

            Summer and the Silence, Juniper Rag, juried online exhibition

            Grounded, Aplomb Gallery, Dover, NH

2024  Future Craft, Gallery 263, national, juried by Kendall Reiss, Cambridge, MA

            New England Pollinators, Till Wave Gallery, Watertown, MA

            Emerging Artists Show, North Shore Arts Association, Gloucester, MA

            Bent and Borrowed, Gallery 263, national, juried by Conor Moynihan Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings,                   and Photographs for the RISD Museum, Cambridge, MA

            2024 Salon Show, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA

           Building Backwards: SMFA Senior Thesis Show, The  Barbara and Steve Grossman Gallery, The School of the                Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA 

2023   Across State Lines, Kendall Reiss Gallery, juried by Kendall Reiss, Bristol, RI

            Drawing Department Juried Show,  The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

            Painting Department Juried Show,  The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

            Metal Department Juried Show,  The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

            South Asian Political Action Community Art Show, Tufts University, Medford, MA

            Painter’s Society Gallery Night, Tufts University, curated, showed work, Medford, MA

2022  Inside an Artist’s Mind, Plunge Art Gallery, Boston, MA                    

2021   Printmaking Department Juried Show, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA   

2020 Painting Department Juried Show, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA      

2019   Dual Degree Student Juried Show, Tufts University, Medford, MA


PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS                                                                                                         

2025     Payal Thiffault and Michelle May. Juniper Rag. “Summer and the Silence.” 2025.                                        https://www.juniperrag.com/summer-and-the-silence-exhibition/#Marisa-McCarthy


               The Portsmouth Herald, “Exhibits, Galleries, Theater and More: Seacoast Arts and Culture News.” February 19, 2025. https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/entertainment/2025/02/19/exhibits-galleries-theater-and-more-seacoast-arts-and-culture-news/79203053007/. 



2024   Voices Magazine, poetry and art featured

2023   Drunken Boat International Literary and Art Journal, Issue 25, art featured

             Gaze Magazine, Issue 4, art featured                    

2022    Applejam Zine, art featured

              Currents Magazine, poetry featured                     

              Beacon Magazine, (Boston University), cover illustration

              Melisma Music Journal, article featured


PRESENTATIONS                                                                                                                            

2025    Artist Talk: 4/6/25, Aplomb Gallery, Dover, NH. Discussion of my piece I Can Never Have It In

             The Way That I Want as part of the Grounded exhibition.             


OTHER PROJECTS                                                                                                                                

Logo Design
Tufts University Office of Sustainability: designed logos for CORE Fellows program 2023

The Resilient Sisterhood Project: designed organization logos 2022

Production Design
Trivia, Directed by Tim Leong, production design, wardrobe, and makeup for short film 2024