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Executive Directors
Sandra Livis, Co-Executive Director
Sandra has been a resident of Hopkinton for 14 years and working with the CAA for the past four years.
She is currently a writer for the Hopkinton Independent Newspaper. She has
extensive fundraising experience from her involvement with the HPTA Silent Auction.
Her past work experience includes banking and sales.
Barbara Timko, Co-Executive Director
Barb has had a long interest in the arts. She received
her Bachelors in Art History and Printmaking and Drawing from Boston College
and has an MBA from Simmons. For many years she designed and sold fiber work
in the New England area. She has taught knitting on and off for 18 years and
worked in finance for 20 years, predominately at Harvard and Brandeis.
Currently she is spending more time raising her children, but keeps involved in
the community and sings with the Heritage Chorale.
Board of Directors
Michael Alfano has been sculpting figures, monuments, and philosophical pieces for fifteen years. After graduating with a degree in business, his original career was as a stockbroker. Soon dissatisfied, he turned to sculpting, in part as a way to transform the pain he experienced after his college girlfriend was killed by a drunk driver.
He first studied at the Art Students League of New York with an emphasis on life size sculpture and anatomy. His formal education continued at Boston University, and was augmented by internships with several prominent sculptors.
Michael exhibits his work at galleries and other public venues, and he is a
regular entrant in art shows, where he has garnered dozens of awards. His sculptures
are found in private collections throughout the world. The public monuments he created
are on permanent display throughout the Northeast U.S. Many newspapers and magazines have
featured Michael's work and his story.
www.malfano.com
Suzanne Hoban Bucceri is a multimedia artist, instructor and designer. After many years of teaching all medias to professional artists and advanced adult students she wanted to understand the creative process and devoted years of teaching talented children. She then successfully developed art educational programs for schools and townships in three states both for adults and children. She holds a BA with honors in Art and Psychology. She is a lifetime learner and has managed to study new and varied techniques no matter where she has lived. She has taught on staff of the Cultural Arts Alliance of Hopkinton, and presently teaches art classes in her home at Art Works Studios of Hopkinton, Ma.
Suzanne has studied art and design since nine years of age with many outstanding artists in the New York Metropolitan Area a few include Ruth Wilson, Ron Lent, and Pat Demming. She worked hard to help create “Art on the Mall” in Washington D.C. In 1995, she toured Mainland China with other educators associated with the Smithsonian Institute of Washington, D.C. to find other approaches to art education. Her work has been exhibited in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Germany.
She has been the recipient of many awards and honors both for her watercolors and oil paintings. Her watercolor portraits of buildings and businesses hang in colleges and hotels as well as private homes. She is a member of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., The American Association of University Woman, The Southborough Art Association and is on the Board of the Cultural Arts Alliance of Hopkinton.
Janet Gordon has been on the CAA's Board of Directors since 2001.
She and her husband are the owners of Premier Image Gallery
in Ashland and
have actively supported local artists for the past 14 years with art shows
at our gallery. The upstairs gallery continuously features art by our
very talented local artists.
www.premier-image.com
Kate Heyd, is a painter and a photographer from Hopkinton.She earned her BA in Fine Arts from Penn State University in 1995. She has exhibited in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts and volunteers for the CAA.
Kristin Kulig, Special Project Coordinator, Commonwealth of Massachusetts- Dept. of Mental Health
William Moser is a self trained sculptor who first started sculpting in wood 39 years ago. Basic sculpting principles were initially learned from an old Swiss wood sculptor. Refinements in techniques and an understanding of diverse subject matter and style was gained from studies of sculptures by the masters at most of the major European and American galleries. His figurative sculpting style has centered on mainly classical subjects and ideas, and often expresses emotions of two people or the aspirations of individuals. Works are executed in hardwoods, marble, alabaster, and other objects are cast in bonded bronze, copper, marble, and hydrostone by first modeling figures in clay. Certain works depict historical and classical themes which were executed on location in several foreign countries. These sculptures in different media may be viewed on line at www.mosersculpture.com
The sculptor was born in Tennessee and majored in engineering, chemistry, and mathematics at Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt and MTSU. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at MIT following which he lived in Switzerland for five years while working at CIBA AG and the Organometallic Institute. Upon returning to the U.S., he worked at the Exxon and Badger corporate laboratories and most recently was a Professor of Chemical Engineering at WPI for 20 years. His research in the Catalytic Sciences resulted in over 100 publications in archival journals and over 20 U.S. and international patents.
Mr. Moser and his wife Terry have lived in Hopkinton for 23 years at 4 Wescott Drive. They have three adult children, William II, Ph.D., Alexander, Ph.D, and Britt Nicole. He was elected to the Hopkinton CAA Board of Directors in 2007.
Deb Phelan is a CPA and has served as CAA Executive Director and held many volunteer positions including Hopkinton PTA President and Fundraising Chairperson. She has also served on the Hopkinton High School Building Committee, the CAA's Barn building committee and is currently the Treasurer of the CAA.
Monica Anderson Spencer, soprano, is a native of Washington, D. C., graduating with honors from Howard University where she earned the Bachelor and Master Degrees of Music Education. She has performed with such diverse organizations as Enter Stage Left, Hines-Lee Opera Studio, Opera Southwest, the Goldovsky Opera Institute Summer Workshop, the Wolf Trap Opera Training Program, the Joffrey Ballet, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and with jazz greats Donald Byrd, Max Roach and Oscar Brown, Jr.
Ms. Spencer has appeared in the United States and abroad in the title role of Scott Joplin's opera Treemonisha, and has performed the role of Queen Isabella in Gomes' Colombo, Miss Silverpeal in Mozart's The Impresario, Despina, in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, Mrs. Nolan in Menotti's The Medium, Strawberry Woman in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, and many others. She has appeared as a soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Takoma Park Symphony Orchestra and in recital at the State Department, The National Portrait Gallery, the Sumner School Museum, and in many churches in the Washington Metropolitan area and the Metrowest area of Boston, MA.
Currently, Ms. Spencer is the Chorus Director at Bellingham High School, in Bellingham, MA, where she also teaches music technology and voice. The mother of two sons, Franklin and Roland, she resides in Hopkinton, MA, with her husband, Wil.
Kris Waldman, Art Director and Senior Graphic Designer at
Sasaki Associates, holds a MFA from the Arts Institute of Boston. She is a mixed media sculptor and a member
of the Waltham Mills Artists' Association.
Kris's Website
