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©2025 Marisa McCarthy

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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE  
                                                                                                      
Project Assistant
MIT Office of the Arts, Cambridge, MA                                                                                                  
2024-present
  • 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   Grounded, Aplomb Gallery, (Dover, NH)

2024   Future Craft, Gallery 263, (Cambridge, MA)

             New England Pollinators, Till Wave Gallery, (Watertown, MA)

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

             Bent and Borrowed, Gallery 263, (Cambridge, MA)

             2024 Salon Show, Essex Art Center, (Lawrence, MA)

             Building Backwards: SMFA Senior Thesis Show, (Boston, MA) 

2023   Across State Lines, Kendall Reiss Gallery (Providence, RI)

             Drawing Department Juried Show, SMFA (Boston, MA)

             Painting Department Juried Show, SMFA  (Boston, MA)

             Metal Department Juried Show, SMFA (Boston, MA)

             South Asian Political Action Community Art Show, Tufts (Medford, MA) 

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

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

2021    Printmaking Department Juried Show, SMFA (Boston, MA)     

2020   Painting Department Juried Show, SMFA, (Boston, MA)      

2019    Dual Degree Student Juried Show, Tufts, (Medford, MA) 


PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS                                                                                                         

2025 “Exhibits, Galleries, Theater and More: Seacoast Arts and Culture News.” Portsmouth Herald, 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