Every couple of months we highlight artists involved with our program. Why did they get involved? What kind of art do they create? Find out the answers to these questions and more...
Martha Jane Bradford
Since 2001, Brookline artist Martha Jane Bradford has been donating her art through our program. A surge of interest in her work at the end of 2009 brought her above 75, and Martha has now donated 84 acrylics, oils, etchings, silkscreens, and digital drawings to community nonprofits. Here we answer the question: What exactly is a digital drawing?
Eleanor Rubin
Newton artist Eleanor Rubin, an art donor with The Art Connection for 13 years, now has 37 of her works on display at 24 local nonprofits. "Magnified Wish," a series of watercolors from 2004 are among her most recent donations - here she talks about the inspiration for these works and why donating her art is important...
Nan Tull
Nan has been a donating artist for over five years. She likes working with The Art Connection because we "help her get outside herself and share some of her love of art with others." That love is certainly shared at 20+ community agencies who have selected 40 of her works to grace their walls and also with visitors to her current retrospective show at the Danforth Museum.
Jason Pechinski
When an artist donates work, it may take anywhere from a couple of weeks to a couple of years for the work to be selected. Jason has only been an art donor with The Art Connection for six short months, and yet all eight of the works he has made available for donation have already placed! Wow...
Cora Roth
An art donor since 2000, Cora Roth had donated 15 works that were placed in 13 agencies in the Boston area. She recently moved to LA, but first donated an additional 30 large works which now hang on display in The Art Connection office gallery...
David Kupferman
David Kupferman recently moved from Waltham to Iowa but not before dropping off "a couple of works" for donation through our program. And by "a couple of works" we mean 200! We have placed over 75 works of his in the past five years and look forward to placing hundreds more (literally) in the years to come...
Jo Ann Rothschild
JoAnn has been donating art through The Art Connection for over 10 years and has donated the largest works we have been able to offer in our portfolio. Her colorful paintings on canvas are often 8' x 10' or bigger and are literally HUGE gifts to local nonprofits...
Faith Hyde
As of this year Faith Hyde has joined our 100 club! We have now placed 154 of her works in community agencies! Her lively caricatures of people she comes across while out and about inspire smiles in 48 Boston area organizations...
Fay Chandler
Fay Chandler has had more than 30 solo art exhibitions. Her work appears in collections in the Danforth Museum, the DeCordova Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Chrysler Museum of Art. Fay is the founder of The Art Connection.