Studio Artists
Our Current Studio Artists and Scholarship Opportunities
ACM has an amazing group of talented, community-focused studio artists. Click below to find out more about their fascinating art and what motivates them.
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Meagan O’Brien is an artist working from Revere, MA. She loves storytelling, traveling (though learned to love to be at home during the pandemic!), and bright, joyful colors. After receiving a BFA in Design from Alfred University she quickly began building relationships with many kinds of clients. She has worked with city agencies, start-ups, and corporations over the last decade. Recently you can find her on a ladder or lift completing large scale community murals, or at her iPad making commercial illustrations.
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My name is Emily Kwong, recent college graduate from Salem State University and aspiring artist. Born and raised in Peabody, Massachusetts I work primarily in acrylic paints and watercolors.
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Christine Willis has always created. Her childhood in upstate New York was filled with all manner of creative pursuits inspired by her family and her proximity to nature.
Christine continues this approach with a modern, multidisciplinary studio that incorporates textiles, block printing, pattern-making, ceramics, weaving, and photography. Christine is most inspired by travel and nature and her artwork is centered around energy and the cycle of life, using symbols and signs to memorialize her lived experiences. She has traveled the world, finding inspiration in the colors, textures, and patterns of everyday life from India to Thailand to Mexico.
Christine earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography from Lesley University. She loves big earrings, bandanas, and anything handmade, vintage, or heirloom. She lives outside of Boston with her husband, two children, one cat, one dog, and three fish.
ACM Studio Artists
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My paintings explore color and movement while paying homage to the natural world. My process is organic and for me, my paintings are about the act of creating as much as they are about the finished product. When I start a painting I am inspired by something specific - a color, object, or texture - but as the painting develops it takes on a life of its own and tells me what needs to happen next. The finished painting rarely looks anything like what I initially envisioned, but it is the journey and surprise ending that gets me excited to start the next painting.
I am a Lowell, MA native but currently live in Medford, MA with my husband, two little girls, and dog Matilda. My studio is located in the Jerome Street Studios in Medford, MA (visitors are welcome by appointment only).
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As an artist, I try my best to portray the emotions that go on within me along with the emotions of others around me. I containing my subjects, collaging my interests, and paying attention to the world around me, and regurgitating what I see – much of my work has political undertones. I also highlight figures within the media, as our history is being written. those who have made to change, and continue to do so, within my world, and the worlds around me. my Inspiration comes from collage and paper artists like Mickalene Thomas or Kara Walker and painters, such as Titus Kaphar.
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Bosede Ajibola Opetubo (she/her) makes art as a practice of self-love for her adult and childhood selves. Inspired by the possibilities of afro-futurism, she uses visual, performance, public, and collaborative art and artmaking as a means to conquer [individual] limiting beliefs and find [collective] emotional liberation.
I am a Lowell, MA native but currently live in Medford, MA with my husband, two little girls, and dog Matilda. My studio is located in the Jerome Street Studios in Medford, MA (visitors are welcome by appointment only).
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Talia Connelly is a Greater Boston-based designer working at the intersection of textiles and industrial design. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design, where she found the key to life's happiness in the form of a loom, knitting machine, and closets stacked eight feet high with cones of yarn in every color and texture imaginable. Since graduating, she has worked in fashion, footwear, and 3D printing industries, fusing her knowledge of artisanal craft processes with automated technology.
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sculpting roots photograph raw nature, do abstract paintings/digital collages
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Allison Rabin is a proud member of the Medford Sewing Group and an Art Therapist currently working in Salem, MA. She began making art around the young age of 4, when her local grocery store hosted coloring contests in her hometown of Evanston, IL. After her husband developed an allergy to paint and glue following a bout of COVID, she sought out her own studio space at Arts Collaborative Medford to continue creating paintings and collages. Allison is a passionate painter and a member of Drawn Together in Salem, which gathers virtually every week. Allison is a multidisciplinary artist who currently enjoys using found material to make collages and mosaics. Since 2020, she has been collecting sea pottery which she finds on beaches on the North Shore.
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Taryn is an illustrator, animator, and maker of things based in Somerville, Massachusetts. She loves bringing a playful appreciation of nature to her work with bright colors and a little imagination. With each project, she hopes to spark curiosity and wonder for our planet and the life that lives here.
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Jessie is an interdisciplinary artist based in Boston. She makes photographs and incorporates written text, found video, textile, and installation. In her work she investigates themes of adolescent memory, family structures that diverge from the nuclear family, DNA, and the transfer of traits from past generations to present individuals.