Montserrat’s Summer Immersive Instructors and Students Exhibit Art at Marblehead Arts Association

Montserrat College of Art’s Summer Immersive Program will exhibit artwork by the workshop’s instructors and students this summer in the exhibit Ever Evolving at Marblehead Arts Association. The opening reception will take place Sunday, August 3, 2 - 4 pm and will remain on view through Sept. 14 at 8 Hooper St., Marblehead, MA.

Montserrat’s Summer Immersive Program has entered its fourth year of operation. Since its inception it has nearly tripled in size, workshops expanding from traditional topics and media to now include a diverse range of intensive courses. From painting to mixed media, digital photography to paper sculpture, the Summer Immersive program brings together a unique community of instructors and students engaged in creative inquiry.

Ever Evolving is a celebration of the creative community formed by a special group of instructors and their students who come together each summer at Montserrat College of Art. Artists Timothy Hawkesworth, Lala Zietlyn, Barbara Moody and Maria Malatesta have ignited the passion of devoted participants for four summers, and in turn have cultivated a rich dialogue amongst themselves, instructor to instructor.  This exhibition gives testament to the unique community they have created, and pleased present works by all four instructors and their most recent students. The exhibition is sponsored by the Marblehead Arts Association and Montserrat's Department of Continuing Education.

For more information, contact Montserrat’s Director of Community Relations Programs Kathleen Burke at kathleen.burke@montserrat.edu or 978.867.9662.

About the Exhibiting Summer Immersive Instructors:

Timothy Hawkesworth grew up in Ireland and immigrated to the U.S. in 1977. Since then, he has shown internationally, and his work can be found in collections such as the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Dublin City Hugh Lane Gallery. His work has received considerable critical attention, including reviews in the New York Times, Art News, the New Yorker, theLA Times, the Boston Globe and the Irish Times. He teaches around the country.

Lala Zeitlyn claims her real education as an artist took place on the family farm, although she studied painting at Bard and Philadelphia College of Art. She has shown in the Philadelphia area and her work is in many private collections. She is a practicing body worker and brings this knowledge to her teaching, exploring the many forms of access we have between body, mind and spirit. She has taught workshops with Tim Hawkesworth for the past eight years.

Barbara Moody is a professor at Montserrat, where she also served as Dean for nine years. She earned her master's and doctorate degrees in Higher Education Administration from Harvard University and a BFA from Syracuse University. Over the past 10 years, she has had five solo shows at the Kingston Gallery in Boston. Her work has been exhibited in California, New York and Chicago, as well as at the DeCordova Museum. Moody's large-scale, commissioned mural projects are installed at Meditech Corp. in Fall River, MA, a company that has more than 60 of her artworks in their collection.

Maria Malatesta studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Lesley College. She has been teaching Mixed Media and Painting for 12 years at Montserrat, and has assisted teaching programs in Umbria, Italy and in Tortola, BVI. Maria received a grant to the Vermont Studio Center and her work has been accepted twice into the National Prize show at the Cambridge Art Association. She has been included in numerous group shows throughout the Boston area.