Adria Arch is a visual artist, instructor, and art administrator. Her undergraduate studies included Rhode Island School of Design and Carnegie Mellon University. She received an MA in art education at the University of Arizona and an MFA in painting at Massachusetts College of Art and Design...

As a practicing artist and art workshop instructor, Janet uses pastels, oils, and charcoal to explore the variation of light in nature and architecture. She is particularly drawn to the chaos and unexpected beauty of urban landscapes, traffic and, more recently, ships and the shoreline...

I was a creative child who liked to sit at the dining room table and draw. I took art classes at the local library during the summer in the small, rural village where I grew up, in Southern New Hampshire. After high school I studied art in Boston and San Francisco, where I earned a B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute...