About our Program:
The Visual Arts Program at Munroe Center offers a wide range of classes for all ages and all levels of experience. Our year-round programming is led by a team of professional artists who develop a curriculum that both teaches fundamental skills while helping students evolve their own unique, creative vision. Classes include painting, drawing, portfolio development, and the fiber arts.
The Visual Arts Program at Munroe Center offers a wide range of classes for all ages and all levels of experience. Our year-round programming is led by a team of professional artists who develop a curriculum that both teaches fundamental skills while helping students evolve their own unique, creative vision. Classes include painting, drawing, portfolio development, and the fiber arts.
For more information about visual art classes, email office@munroecenter.org
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Classes:
Meet the Instructors:
Joanne Stowell
Joanne Stowell has an MFA in Visual Arts from Lesley University College of Art and Design. Although primarily a painter, Joanne works in a variety of mediums including drawing, sculpture, ceramics, and installation art and she enjoys teaching a wide variety of art classes. She has had artwork in several exhibitions both local and nationwide. |
Emily Passman
Emily Passman is a painter and teacher of painting and drawing in the Boston area. She started her career as an elementary school teacher, then graphic designer, before becoming a full-time painter 20 years ago. Her work is shown both locally and internationally. |
Laurel Smith
Laurel is a working and teaching artist who has been at Munroe since 2013. She founded and facilitates the Life Drawing studio group, and leads ‘In Your Hands’, the teen studio group. She has been active in the visual arts in Lexington since her grown children were elementary students, and is a member of the ArtWalk committee. Her focus is on building an individual’s art ‘language’ through practice, risk, and play. 
Jennifer Benn
Benn is an established painter who has exhibited her work nationally. Her paintings examine technology and the affect of technology on the world. In 1999 she was awarded the Currier Museum of Arts highest award in the annual New Hampshire Art Association juried exhibit, and in 2004 she won the prestigious Ezekiel A. Straw Award. She enjoys travel and exploring new places and has taken part in artists’ residencies both in Ireland and in Spain. During her time in Ireland she led four college summer programs to study Art and Culture at the Burren College of Art. She has taught at a number of other institutions including University College, Syracuse University, UNH-Manchester, the NH Art Institute, Hesser College, White Pines College/Chester College of New England, Main Street Art, and Maine College of Art. She also teaches private lessons in her Button Factory studio in Portsmouth, NH. She currently has pieces on exhibit at the Lamont Gallery. Check out her work online at: https://www.electriccanvas.com/ |
Sarah Pizzi
Pizzi received a BFA in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA. She has exhibited her work in an open studio in Lacoste, France in addition to various gallery exhibition shows in the city of Savannah including: SCAD deFine Art Student Showcase and SCAD Drawing Works Exhibition, Hunny at Allure Salon, Project Liminal at Indigo Sky Gallery and Welcome to the Jam at the Bull Street College Center. Her work consists of paintings and mixed media installations centering on mental, psychological, and spiritual relationships. Pizzi currently works and resides in Boston, MA. 
Shubhra Chandra
Chandra has lived in Lexington, MA since 1994, after receiving her Master’s degree in Clothing and Textiles from Michigan State University, with a specialization in Women’s Fashion Design and a minor in Theatre Costume Design. She has worked in the fashion industry for large retailers in design, product development and sourcing. She established – Shubhra Designs, LLC and www.shubrah.com in 2008, an online eco-friendly, fashion collection. The designs are a fusion of Indian fabrics with western silhouettes and sustainable fashions. She also advises high school students on their portfolios for college applications. Shubhra has been an active volunteer in the town, serving on the boards of several educational non-profit organizations and also teaching fashion classes via Hayden Recreation Center and Lexington Community Education. |
Leah Nashel
Leah Nashel is a painter, writer, and multi-disciplinary artist. She graduated from Brandeis
University with a BA in Visual Arts, and just spent an awesome summer teaching at
Munroe Center for the Arts Summer Camp! She is excited to share her love of creating with
more students, helping them develop work that is unique and inspiring to them.
Leah Nashel is a painter, writer, and multi-disciplinary artist. She graduated from Brandeis
University with a BA in Visual Arts, and just spent an awesome summer teaching at
Munroe Center for the Arts Summer Camp! She is excited to share her love of creating with
more students, helping them develop work that is unique and inspiring to them.
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