Paola is an adept educator and visual artist with capabilities in promoting positive and inclusive learning environments, developing an engaging curriculum to meet needs of varied learning modalities, and building student rapport. Deep knowledge of curriculum design and understanding of student centered learning and comprehension.

Founder/Director Art Study Center, London England – 2002-2012

Education

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) European Honors Recipient – BFA

Tufts University/SMFA, Extended Studies-Archaeology/Mythology – MFA

San Francisco Art Institute- Extended Studies

Teaching

 Tufts University, Medford MA-Faculty, 2012-present        

 Newton Community Education, Newton MA-Instructor

Select Exhibitions

2020       Solo Show, RISD, Providence RI 2017 ; Group Show, Laconia Gallery, Boston MA

2016       Saatchi -Selected New Artist, London UK

2014       Group Show, Grossman Gallery, SMFA, Boston MA

2015       Group, Saatchi Gallery, London

2012       Solo, In the LAPse of the Gods, Lazarides Gallery, Soho, London UK

2009       Solo, Highclere Castle, Hampshire UK
2006      Group, Merriscourt Gallery, Oxfordshire, UK

Select Awards

Arts and Humanities Literary Award -Grant, HP Lovecraft & Edgar Allen Poe Event

Arts &Humanities History Award-Grant “Higher Ground, Black History Month

 

Publications

NCE Magazine, Featured Artist -Cover, 2019

Sunday Telegraph Magazine, London UK Featured Artist

BBC Television Documentary (featured artist), Painters on the Ridgeway, UK

Ridgeway Painters– Publication, Richard Ingrams, Phaidon House Press, London UK