Ms. Alison Canfield

Alison Canfield
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Alison CanfieldAlison Canfield graduated from the Liberal Arts program at Boston College with a double major in art & philosophy.She has been painting since the summer of 1993 when she fell in love with the Italian landscape while attending Boston Visual School's summer art program in Italy.Canfield is the founder and director of the Perrin Gallery, a successful alternative art exhibition space in the Boston area.Since 1996 she has worked for Montserrat College of Art's summer art program in Viterbo, Italy.Canfield served on the Board of Directors of the Boston Visual School.

Alison CanfieldAlison Canfield graduated from the Liberal Arts program at Boston College with a double major in art & philosophy.She has been painting since the summer of 1993 when she fell in love with the Italian landscape while attending Boston Visual School's summer art program in Italy.Canfield is the founder and director of the Perrin Gallery, a successful alternative art exhibition space in the Boston area.Since 1996 she has worked for Montserrat College of Art's summer art program in Viterbo, Italy.Canfield served on the Board of Directors of the Boston Visual School.

Director Alison Canfield

Curators: Alison Canfield, Gustavo Soto, Adriana Barrios.

Left to right: Judy Brown, Gustavo Soto-Rosa, Alison Canfield (Director), Perry Barton, and Bill McCann.
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Alison Canfield named new directorAs of August 2002 local curator and artist Alison Canfield has agreed to take on the position as Director of the Studio.Canfield is the founder and director of the Perrin Gallery, for ten years a successful alternative art exhibition space in the Boston area.Since 1996 she has worked for Montserrat College of Art's summer art program in Viterbo, Italy.Canfield served on the Board of Directors of the Boston Visual School. Alison has been involved in the Studio since it was just an idea, providing technical advice and professional guidance.She has also participated as one of our resident artists.For more information on Ms. Canfield please click here. We are honored to formalize our professional relationship with Ms. Canfield.

Our Lease has been extendedThanks to the hard work of the great people at FPAC and FPCC most of the artist leases have been extended into early 2006, including our lease at 63 Melcher.
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In the same issue Clothes Line, an installation by Caroline Bagenal and Alison Canfield, was mentioned in a review of the April 2002 FORT POINT VISION FOR PUBLIC ART, a project of the Fort Point Cultural Coalition Public Art Series.

Alison CanfieldAlison Canfield, Director of First Hand , graduated from the Liberal Arts program at Boston College with a double major in art & philosophy.She has been painting since the summer of 1993 when she fell in love with the Italian landscape while attending Boston Visual School's summer art program in Italy.Canfield is the founder and director of the Perrin Gallery, which was a successful alternative art exhibition space in the Boston area for 15 years.She also helped to launch Studio Soto of Boston Where she was the gallery director and on the Board of Directors.Since 1996 she has worked for Montserrat College of Art's summer art program in Viterbo, Italy where she has been in charge of Housing and Logistics.Canfield served on the Board of Directors of the Boston Visual School, where she was very active fund raising for their Italian summer program.

In parallel with her career as an artist and gallery director, Canfield has also cultivated a career in the culinary arts, catering professionally with Page Carter in Arlington and with City Farm Caterers in Brookline while continuingi to freelance in a private catering capacity.Her restaurant experience includes cooking at Daddios of Cambridge and helping to start up Gusto Trattoria in Roslindale, a long time dream project for the former owners of the renowned restaurant Icarus of Boston.

With FirstHand she has combined her skills as Gallery Director, curator, painter, chef, & Italy travel coordinator to bring you the finest personalized Italian experience in painting and the culinary arts available.A people person, Alison has a contagious enthusiasm for Italy, food & art that one would find hard to resist.Her passion is based in a belief that each of us deserves to enjoy life at its fullest and she is relentless in her pursuit to make this a reality.Come join Alison and her staff on an unforgettable sojourn into the heart of Italy's countryside.