creative directory

Adrian R Tio has exhibited nationally as well as regionally in drawing, painting, and printmaking for over 40 years, and has conducted workshops on mural painting, papermaking, and the book arts.

Alissar Langworthy is an oil painter specializing in large-scale canvases. Her practice spans 30 years, and more recently, her abstract paintings have been partially influenced by experiences from life at sea as a maritime captain of a research vessel.

Amanda Medas is an artist and art therapist based in New Bedford. She is a member of the American Art Therapy Association (AATA) and works with various mediums including found objects, paints, oil pastels, and more.

Andy Anello is a performance artist based in New Bedford, who is known for “Lunar Teeth,” a quarterly performance art forum he hosts on the solstices and equinoxes.

Anthi Frangiadis is an architect and shop owner of The Drawing Room at 36 North Water Street, which features original, handcrafted work by New England artisans, with a focus on quality craftsmanship whether you are looking for artful gifts or a statement piece to hang on your wall.

Boston Maki is a New Bedford-based street artist known for affixing murals throughout the city and his tag “Big Brother” that resembles actor Tom Selleck with its mustache and aviator sunglasses.

Bradford Johansen is an illustrator, product designer, graphic artist, character designer and graphic designer whose clients include DC Comics.

Chuck Hauck is a sculptor, humorist, inventor, preservationist, humanitarian and co-founder of the artist collective Gallery X (photo courtesy of Peter Pereira/The Standard-Times).

Colton Simmons is a wedding photographer from Southeast New England.

Cynthia Bliss Ray is an Interior Designer based in New Bedford implementing design solutions with an emphasis on color theory.

David Richardson is a furniture artist who specializes in antique restoration, handmade reproduction, and contemporary furniture in southeastern Massachusetts.

David Stephan Graves is a designer, photographer, maker and art educator from Southeastern Massachusetts. His work explores materiality and social issues in tandem, including topics of waste, temporality, identity and mental health with both traditional and experimental making processes and mediums.

Deb Ehrens uses her camera to create contemplative and painterly imagery. Her photography captures the ephemeral and artful moments hidden in the everyday and is a view into the unexpected rhythms and patterns in the natural world.

Denn Santoro Fine Art Photography’s photos concentrate on the interplay of angles and shapes and light. He composes with a point of view that is intended to confound the viewers’ normal perspective and view of the world.

Design Art Technology Massachusetts Institute (DATMA) presents contemporary art with the convergence of design, art and technology through exhibitions, performances and education for all ages and cultural backgrounds in the SouthCoast region and beyond.

Environmental Alchemist, Rhonda M. Fazio is the founder of Dyer Maker Studio specializing in natural color and sustainable textile design. A transportable maker space based in the South Coast, offering educational workshops -“Dyeing to Wear It” and “Teaching through Textiles” – for secondary schools and adults, taught regionally and abroad.

Elin Noble is a master artisan of myriad fabric art materials and processes, including complex quilting, shibori resist dyeing, and the technique known as kyokechi. She is also an award-winning author of Dyes & Paints: A Hands-On Guide to Coloring Fabric.

Elizabeth Gouveia is involved with the Encompass Community for Independent Learning located at Friends Academy. They provide experiential offerings and free or affordable resources to support homeschool families and life-long learners of all ages.

Erik Durant is a figurative sculptor residing in New Bedford. Durant’s personal work is a quest to understand the human condition. As a sculptor his main interests lie in gesture, movement, and pose.

Hatch Street Studios is New Bedford’s largest community of visual and performing artists in the city’s North End. Working in a variety of mediums, Hatch Street artists create a vast array of traditional and contemporary works.

Jamie Uretsky is the curator of New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks!, which presents a rotating schedule of exhibitions, studio classes, and experiences as a cultural institution.

Jennifer Halli is a contemporary artist who works with ceramics and printmaking, creating structures that explore place and material while excavating themes of travel and loss. She lives and works in Wellington, New Zealand and New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Jessica Bregoli is a sculpture artist, event planner, curator and landscaper. Her intent is to bring into focus both the beauty of nature and the results of our careless actions upon it. In her sculptures she wants to help change the way we treat this earth and each other by focusing on art and nature

Joe Quigley​ is a political cartoonist and Labor and Gay rights activist, covering local, state, and national topics. He has taught in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and Oklahoma City.

John Magnan Studio’s passion is to make things by hand. Sometimes the work is inspired by his observations of the world around him or helping someone else realize their personal vision through art.

John Middleton collects objects along the shoreline and brings them together in works that call attention to the dignity, beauty, and uniqueness of their transformations while offering them the opportunity to tell their stories.

Kat Knutsen‘s work is a cross pollination between drawing, painting, animation, computer graphics, fiber arts, and sound design. As a multimedia artist, her work fluctuates between different platforms ranging from fashion design to the animated film depending on the concept. Knutsen was one of the 148 selected artists worldwide to work on the 2018 Oscar

Kate Frazer Rego is an artist and educator living in Southeastern Massachusetts. A graduate of UMASS Dartmouth and Boston University, Rego’s work has been shown nationally, including at an international performance art festival in New York City, NY in 2018, as well as the Cambridge Art Association’s Emerging Artist Exhibition in 2019.

Kelly Zélen’s sculptures have been exhibited around Massachusetts and New York, including a solo show at Colo Colo Gallery in New Bedford. (Photo by Shauna Andrus)

Ken Bizarro specializes in model ship building and restoration in the historic whaling port of New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Lasse Antonsen has curated and organized more than two hundred exhibitions. As an artist he has created installations at the Artists Foundation in Boston, the Whaling Museum in New Bedford, and the Museum of Natural History in Providence, and his work was included in exhibitions in Brooklyn, New York, at Proteus Gowanus, and in Jersey

Laura Lee Franco’s sculpture for the 2019 Seaport Art Walk entitled “Triptych of Thaumatropes” was awarded Best in Show, and is located on the corner of Union and Route 18. She graduated from Bristol Community College in 2019.

Lauren Savoia’s work is driven by a personal reaction to different found man-made and natural materials. Organic, raw and often neglected objects play an important role in her creativity.

Lisa Elliott is a hand weaver and member of the Cranberry Country Weavers Guild. Elliott sells her hand-woven wearables and home accessories at the Made in Warren Artist Cooperative in Warren, Rhode Island.

Lori Bradley is inspired by the great mid-century feminist artists who recognized and honored traditional women’s decorative work by embracing all the pattern, the complexity, the bright colors, the swirling lines and shapes.

Lucas Amaral is a custom shoe designer and owns LXR Customs.

Material Creative Studio is a collaborative partnership between designers David Graves of Fall River and Meridyth Espindola of Quincy, offering affordable and hands-on creative workshops for communities across the South Coast.

Mediumstudio is a full service design studio that provides high end products for print and digital. Their client base is a diverse group ranging from large corporations and institutions to small businesses. They are driven by a philanthropic mission, specializing in the support of non-profit organizations and the creative economy, and devoted to community development

Merri Cyr has worked as a fine art and commercial photographer since the early 1990s. Primarily focused on portraiture of musicians and artists, her clients include Disney, Apple, Columbia Records, Sony, Vimeo, Warner Brothers, Verve, Polygram, Rolling Stone, among many others.

Michael Pietragalla | Furnituremaker is an artist and craftsman who owns Floating Stone Woodworks, which is a custom furniture shop in New Bedford. He specializes in hand-crafted tables, bookcases, consoles, case pieces, benches and more.

Michelle T. Lapointe has been creating artworks of stained glass for more than 30 years. She is also a painter and photographer, working in a wide range of styles from fluid forms to hard-edged geometrics.

Milton Brightman’s paintings are lush with vibrant color and exacting detail. They are nearly all landscapes of some sort, be they dense city images, bucolic forest scenes, or nautical views. His work has been shown at the New Bedford Art Museum, The Federal Reserve in Boston, One Man Show, Bristol Art Museum, Gallery X and

Pat Coomey Thornton is a painter who creates a work where color, texture, and mark offer the observer an absorbing entrance to their own experiences and thoughts.

Phyllis Dobbyn Adams Contemporary Fine Art evokes the natural beauty of coastal New England, the ocean, the beaches and the wild life are her constant inspiration.

Ralph B. Beach is a visual storyteller creating prolific art of the African Diaspora.

Rhonda M. Fazio is an artist, teacher, writer, public speaker, and storyteller, who specializes in the art and craft of sustainable textile design, natural dyes, weaving, and spinning.

Roger Andrews is a freelance illustrator specializing in conceptual illustration with a focus in intellectual property development and design.

Ron Fortier paints prolifically and has participated in various group and individual exhibitions in the United States and Europe. His work is represented in various private collections, and he maintains a studio in Portugal where he is represented by the Galeria O Rastro.

Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum is a Greek Revival whaling mansion where patrons can experience period rooms and a full city block of gardens. It’s the best example of the “brave houses and flowery gardens” described by Herman Melville in Moby Dick.

Roy St. C. Rossow  is a painter who seeks to capture the poetic beauty of the landscape in its changing of light and time in his work. By drawing inspiration from his immediate environment, he becomes more aware of the subtle changes of light both natural and man made.

S&G Project Gallery was founded by Denn Santoro to feature coherent bodies of work by artists. Artists often create a series of related works, bodies of work built around a certain theme, or collaborations with other artists on a theme or idea.

Sarah G. Kocur is the owner of LoveMODA, a purse and clothing company based in downtown New Bedford.

South Coast Surface Design (SoCoSD) is a new design studio in downtown New Bedford. The exhibits feature local surface design artists and introduce national and international artists to the Massachusetts and Rhode Island South Coast region.

Stephen Remick paints the backyards of New England and the woods beyond.

Susan Gilmore | ART is an art director, graphic designer, illustrator, and photographer primarily with Moore & Isherwood Communications, Inc. in New Bedford and Nantucket. She also specializes in landscape painting, 2-D assemblages,  3-D assemblages, and wire sculpture.

Tabitha Harkin is a fine artist inspired by life in diverse places, traveling, nature, color, gardens, and the work of Marsden Hartley, Wolf Kahn, Paul Klee and Edward Gorey, among others. She also does graphic design, landscape  and architectural work.

The Landing | Laurie Botelho owned by Laurie Botelho and run by Manager Carlos Chamarro, is a little shop filled with local artisan wares in the heart of New Bedford’s Seaport Cultural District. They are located across the street from the #1 Fishing Port of America and Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Ferries.

Tracy Silva Barbosa of Duende Glass is an artist of Azorean heritage who has worked with the world-renowned architectural glass artist, John Lewis, assisting with the glass marvels of the Oklahoma City Memorial and One World Trade, New York. Her artistic process uses painstaking layers of transparent color mixed with various images such as post-industrial

Violet Foulk is a photographer from the Southcoast, initially pursuing live music photography in Brooklyn before returning to New Bedford and opening a studio.

Weinport Creative LLC is a brand-centric, independently owned creative services company based out of New Bedford, MA. Through strategic thinking, research, and creative direction, they design intelligent and beautiful visual messaging that brings brands to life.

Yue Ryder is a cosplayer, model, and content creator based in New Bedford.

Zachary M. White is a New Bedford based printmaker and photographer who is heavily influenced by New Bedford and its history as well as cartography. His works have been included in various exhibitions throughout Massachusetts; he is a member of Gallery X in New Bedford, and the Monotype Guild of New England.