Members:
Charles Norris, Chair
Jonathan Baring-Gould
Julie S. Graham
Mags Harries
Teri Hensick
Jeannie Motherwell
Cynthia Smith
Gregory Williams
Contact the Public Art Commission: PAC@cambridgema.gov
Charles Norris, Chair, is an Architect and Urban Designer with the firm Norris & Norris with partner Diane Norris since 1998. Norris has been a Cambridge resident for 35 years since his professional training at Harvard Graduate School of Design. In addition to the Advisory Board, Norris has been a member of the City of Cambridge’s Public Art Commission since 2002.
Jon Baring-Gould was born in Ithaca NY, spent his formative years in Alaska, and moved to Cambridge, Mass. in the early 1980s. He received a B.S. from Northeastern University with a concentration in architecture and a minor in photography. Jon continued his education at Massachusetts College of Art where he received his masters in art education. This is where he was introduced to clay. Jon currently teaches ceramics at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School. When he is not teaching Jon and his wife, Molly, along with their children Eben, Lucia, and Caleb can be found in their studio located in their Cambridge home. Jon Baring-Gould is represented by over one hundred galleries nation wide. Locally his work can be found at The Pickle Pot in Salem, Blue Cloud Gallery in Somerville, The Cambridge Artist Coop and The Fogg Art Museum Gift Shop in Cambridge.
Julie Graham is an artist who lives in Cambridge, and has been teaching painting at the Museum School, Boston for 16 years. She has an intense interest in architecture, which serves as the starting point for her abstract work in painting, sculpture and photography. Julie exhibits her nationally, and also does design and color consulting in collaboration with local architects.
Mags Harries has 20 years of experience working as a public artist and collaborating with designers, landscape architects, engineers and fabricators to realize large-scale, complex projects. In 1990 she, along with partner Lajos Héder, formed Harries/Héder Collaborative in Cambridge, MA. Mag’s public art projects have received national recognition and have won many awards. Cambridge projects include Drawn Water at the Cambridge Water Dept building, revealing the landscape of water to the residents of Cambridge, and Glove Cycle at the Porter Square, Cambridge MA, subway station, which has become a landmark for the community. In addition, Mags teaches sculpture and public art at the Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts and gives lectures and workshops around the country on public art. She has exhibited her work in numerous one person and group shows and installations in museums and institutions around the country.
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Teri Hensick has been Conservator of Paintings at the Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard University Art Museums since the 1980’s. She holds a BA in Art History from Wellesley College and trained in paintings conservation in Florence (Universita Internationale dell'Arte), Zurich (Swiss Institute for Art Research) and Nuremberg (Germanisches Nationalmuseum). She interned in paintings conservation at the Harvard University Art Museums and was Associate Paintings Conservator at the Detroit Institute of Arts from 1977-1980. In addition to working on the collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, Teri has worked on the conservation of the murals by Sargent, Puvis de Chavannes and Abbey at the Boston Public Library. In 1995, she received a National Endowment for the Arts professional development grant to research Puvis de Chavannes's painting materials in France.
Jeannie Motherwell inherited a love of painting from her father and stepmother, both professional artists. Born and raised in New York City, she studied art at Bard College and the Art Student's League in New York. Motherwell continued painting after college and became active in arts education at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT. In 1998, Motherwell relocated to Cambridge, MA where she works at Boston University for the Arts Administration Graduate Program. She currently exhibits at the Lyman-Eyer Gallery in Provincetown, MA, where she summered much of her life.
Cynthia Smith is a Principal with Halvorson Design Partnership, Landscape Architects in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a project manager and landscape architect for several award-winning urban design, waterfront, campus and park projects that involve art, including the Salem Witch Trials Memorial, Post Office Square Park, City Square Park, Porter Square streetscape, Quincy Square Park, and the recently completed Nashua Street Park along the Charles River. She is a recognized leader in integrating art with the landscape and at the Centennial meeting of the American Society of Landscape Architects, delivered a paper entitled “Accomplices Before the Fact: Collaboration Between Artists and Landscape Architects in Urban Park Making.” Ms. Smith received received her Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, and Bachelor Degree in Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon. She began her career at Sasaki Associates, Inc. in Watertown, MA, and later joined the SWA Group. She currently serves on the Public Art Commission of the City of Cambridge and the Board of Directors of the Hubbard Educational Trust. She is a past President of the Boston Society of Landscape Architects and has served as a design critic at MIT, Massachusetts College of Art and the Boston Architectural College.
Gregory Williams is Assistant Professor of contemporary art in the Art History Department at Boston University. His recent research has focused on West German art of the 1970s and 1980s. He has published numerous exhibition catalogue essays, as well as articles and reviews in periodicals such as Artforum, Texte zur Kunst, frieze and Art Journal. From 1996 to 1999 he was the director of apexart, a non-profit exhibition space in New York City.
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