By Joe Jin Charles “Chuck” Johnson is a great artist working in Gateway Arts studios since 2019. Someday in 2019, Chuck was walking on the street in Boston, and he found himself seeing if he can get something from Gateway. Some artists really impressed him, and he began his journey at Gateway. Before talking with … Read More
By Gaby Trinidad Maria Schlomann is a Boston-based artist who has been working at Gateway Arts since 2013. However, her artistic career extends far beyond that when she first walked through Gateway’s doors. Schlomann first became interested in art between the ages of 10 and 11 years old. It was at this time she realized … Read More
By Claire Winget Boston artist Beatrice Farah has been making art since before she can remember. From a young age, Farah loved to draw her favorite Disney characters in her sketchbook. Farah’s initial interest in drawing has since bloomed into a lifelong love of art that has called her to explore a vast range … Read More
By Kelly Fleming Arlington artist Beth Knipstein is well known at Gateway Arts for her bright personality and colorful artwork. Her bubbly persona can be easily observed in her art, which is filled with bright colors, references to Disney, pop culture, and whimsical elements. Beth works across a range of mediums, including paint, colored pencils, … Read More
Artist Janet Inman began working at Gateway Arts in 1996, and has been a significant creative fixture within the studios ever since. Over the course of her decades long career, Inman has developed a distinct artistic voice. She enjoys making works of art in a dainty style, almost emulating herself and her own petite stature. Working … Read More
By Patrick Shea During April and March of 2018, me and a few other artists at Gateway Arts went to B.I.G. (Brookline Interactive Group) Studios near Brookline High School and each artist did their own digital storytelling video. Artists got to make digital stories from ideas they have and their stories could be short or … Read More
In preparation for the holiday season, new Gateway artist Hannah DeFelice is hard at work producing a vast number of holiday related cards, creches, and menorahs. After finalizing a last detail, DeFelice smiles and proudly declares another unique and intricate menorah complete, and ready for a customer. Once each hand crafted item is finished it … Read More
Artist Molly Piper is admired in the Gateway Studios as much for her kindness as her unique artistic style and perspective. Piper feels deeply connected to people and the world around her. She uses art to explore and address social and political events, often doing so with a touch of humor. While the specifics of … Read More
Artist Kathleen Wells on her most recent series, The Revolving Door, featured in the Three Views exhibition in the Gateway Gallery, May 7 – June 2nd, 2018. The whole series is me thinking about revolving doors as a metaphor — as being and as a process. A space or many spaces, and times. To transform … Read More
By Nicole Veilleux In a digital age, incorporating visual elements in storytelling has a remarkable effect on people. Last fall seven Gateway artists explored a new media means of communication at Brookline Interactive Group (BIG) community media arts center, working to visualize and share stories from their lives as students of a Digital Storytelling course, made possible through donations … Read More
Hi, my name is Dani. My name is short for Daniel it’s a Spanish name because I am from South America and came from a place called Peru nearly or toward another country called Chile. I am fond of people from that country. I grew up here and tried to be positive and happy about … Read More
Gateway artist Igor Reyes explains the impact the documentary film “Life Animated” had on him as an individual with Autism, as he related to Owen and their mutual love of cartoons. In his own words Igor shares his lived experiences with communication, reality, and relationships in the world as a son, artist, and individual with … Read More
Gateway Arts will open its doors for Brookline Open Studios on Saturday, April 29. The studio art center has been in Brookline for over 40 years, and provides support for building careers for over 100 artists from surrounding areas. With the goal of providing individualized, arts-based services to adults with disabilities; Gateway Arts has grown … Read More
A deeply honest and compelling freestyle poem by artist Rebecca Bella Rich on the state of our current world, and how women could make it a better place. If Women Ruled The World If women ruled the world it would be more put together than a man’s world. Right now things are painful because … Read More
Facilitator Sarah Kershaw has worked at Gateway Arts for seven years. After learning about the program through friends, she found herself immediately struck by the artists’ work. She was amazed at the idea of getting to work creatively with the artists we serve and continues to be inspired by the talent and dedication she observes … Read More
Facilitator Leah Medin will mark 10 years at Gateway Arts this spring. Leah oversees a sunny, warm studio space at the far end of the Gateway Arts studios, populated by artists’ desks, floor looms, and a colorful array of fabrics, yarns, and other neatly organized supplies. A variety of works in progress, from embroideries and … Read More
It’s with great enthusiasm that we announce the appointment of Gregory Liakos as Director of Gateway Arts. Greg comes to Gateway with extensive experience in a range of institutions including the Peabody Essex Museum, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and most recently as interim director of the Boston arts nonprofit, SPOKE. “In addition to Greg’s professional … Read More
Gateway Arts is pleased to announce the promotion of Bil Thibodeau into the position of Artistic Director. Bil has been associated with Gateway Arts for many years as the creator and supervisor of the Folk-Art Studio, as well as as the assistant to Stephen DeFronzo, former Artistic Director. Bil assumes the role with a great … Read More
Artistic Director to Step Down June 30, 2022 Stephen De Fronzo, Artistic Director of Gateway Arts is stepping down. For the past 35 years, he has been a key member of a team that has created this model studio art center for individuals with disabilities; comprised of art studios, a store, and gallery. Beginning in … Read More
Director of Gateway Arts to Step Down in June 2022 (Brookline, MA) Gateway Arts, a Vinfen service announced this month that Rae Edelson, who has been the Director of Gateway Arts for more than 44 years, will step down as of June 30, 2022. Edelson will work closely with Vinfen, the Gateway Arts staff, and … Read More
My Hip Life By Joanne O’Connell My sister and I had joined a boys’ swimming club. It was a really enjoyable for me to do on a hot day. My sister and I had taken swim lessons before. She was five and I was ten or eleven. She knew most of the strokes, even how … Read More