Dee Boyle-Clapp, former executive director of the Pioneer Valley Humane Society, has been named the new program coordinator for the Arts Extension Service.
Boyle-Clapp was a board member for the Franklin Arts Council and the Shelburne Falls Area Business Association and was a co-owner of Artemis Gallery in Shelburne Falls. She served as a founding member and first director of the Art Bank, the community art school and performance center in Shelburne Falls, and was most recently the program coordinator for the Fostering the Arts and Culture Partnership, a John and Abigail Adams grant funded through the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Boyle-Clapp is working with Leo Hwang-Carlos, Greenfield Community College’s associate dean of humanities, and members of the college’s business department to explore the creation of an artist-and-business series of online courses that will be available to students at GCC, the Arts Extension Service and the University Without Walls program.
A sculptor, Boyle-Clapp earned bachelor’s degrees in both art and art history from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She received her Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from UMass Amherst. She has taught at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Garden in Lincoln, the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum in Springfield and other venues.
I'm so used to this stuff, I don't even blink an eyelash anymore.
Western MA was once republican turf.
It's now 75% moonbat. (Howie Carr's term for this area)