Lesley University - Lesley Art + Design
Professor, Photography and Integrated Studies
EDUCATION
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Ed.M., in Arts in Education, June 2000 Cambridge, MA
Rhode Island School of Design, M.F.A., in Photography, 1995 Providence, RI
University of South Florida, B.A., in Studio Art, 1992 Tampa, FL
EXHIBITIONS
Crossing Cultures: Family, Memory and Displacement, curated by Claudia Ruiz Gustafson, Travelling exhibition: A.P.E. Arts Gallery, North Hampton, MA, Spring 2022, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA, Fall 2019; Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI, December 2020; Four Points Gallery, Boston MA, March 2021; A.P.E. Gallery, North Hampton, MA February 2022
Core Faculty Exhibition, VanDernoot Gallery, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA 2019
Atelier 28, Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA 2018 (Catalogue)
Group Exhibition, Main Street Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 2018
Stand Up, Gallery Kayafas, an all Women* group exhibition curated by a group of powerful female and gender non- conforming artists, educators, and curators living and working in Boston, MA, 2017
Art: Advocacy Speaks, Juried exhibition and catalogue, Spinning Plate Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, 2016 (Catalogue)
Atelier 24, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA 2016 (Catalogue)
Artists in Residence, Associazione Culturale Il Palmerino, invitational, by James Hull, independent curator: Boston Drawing Project, NESAD/Suffolk University, Green Street and Laconia Galleries. Firenze, Italia, August 2011
Mixed Images, Atrium Gallery, Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts September 2010
Two x 2: Vivian Poey and Robert Shreefter, Marran Gallery, 2005
Penumbra, Sandra & Philip Gordon Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, January 2003
Three Rivers Art Festival, Fine Art Photography Exhibit (Best of Show juror’s award) 1997
Of the Spirit, (best of show juror’s award) Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 1996 MFA exhibit, RISD Art Museum, May 1995
Photography Biennial Exhibition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, December 1994
Art by the Inch: A Collaborative Installation, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, October 1994 C.A.S.A., Works by Five Cuban-American Artists, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, Spring 1994
Summer Staff Exhibition '93, Dow Gallery, Snowmass, Colorado, August 1993
Student Exhibition, Scuola Lorenzo di Medici, Florence, Italy May 1990
Our Growing Strength: 20 Years of Celebrating Women, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 1991
One Under the Sun: A Celebration of Culture through the Arts, Featured Visual Artist, UC Ballroom, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 1991
The Map is not the Territory (A Collaborative Installation) and Cameras (A 10 minute play by John Jory). Graduate Critique Studio, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 1991
Solo exhibitions
Things don’t Stay series, Stoneham Gallery, 2005
Things Don't Stay, Marran Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 2003
Day by Day: A Photographic Installation, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Downtown Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 1997
On Fictional Grounds and Culinary Maps: MFA Thesis Exhibition, Red Eye Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, May 1995
Benefit exhibitions
Primavera: Spring Auction to support the International Charter School, Pawtucket, RI 2013
Prajnopaya TB Clinic 2005
150 x 150 , Green Street Gallery 2004
Photo Resource Center, Liver Foundation benefit 2003 Armani Exchange, Liver Foundation benefit 2004
Pittsburgh Hospital benefit 1995
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Invited Juror, Sensation, Feeling: Texture Juried exhibition, Gallery 236, October 2019
Crossing Borders: personal narratives of immigration – Sandra and Phillip Gordon Gallery at Boston Arts Academy, Boston, MA and Parker Gallery at Lesley University, Cambridge, MA 2018 (in collaboration with Student Assistant Amanda Miller)
Konekxion: Collette Bresilla, Parker Gallery@the Atrium, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA., Fall 2016 (in collaboration with TA Molly Pistrang)
Clearly Defined, Massachusetts Art Education Association member’s exhibition. Lesley University, Cambridge, Juror with Oscar Palacio and Maureen Creegan-Quinquis, Olivia Parker Gallery, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA 2016
Jell-O Soup: A memorial retrospective – honoring Susan Macchi, Olivia Parker Gallery, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, 2016 (in collaboration with Danielle Fischback)
Intuitive Space Idealized Visions: work by Dana Pasila and Kathleen Jacobs, Olivia Parker Gallery, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA 2015 (ArtScope review)
Painting it Forward: the Legacy of Doffie Arnold, Olivia Parker Gallery, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA 201
Three Artists: Celebrating Autism (Ongoing collaboration with Professor Elizabeth Stringer Keefe)
Larry Bisonnette, Owen Suskind, Sebastian Lopez Duran, Olivia Parker Gallery, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA., 2017
Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE) (Ongoing collaboration with Dan Mazur)
Comics as Community: Ten years of the Boston Comics Roundtable, Olivia Parker Gallery, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA 2016
The Writing on the Wall, MICE, Olivia Parker Gallery, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA 2015
Local Superheroes, Olivia Parker Gallery, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA 2014
M.Ed. Teacher of Visual Art: Thesis Exhibitions
Cadence, M.Ed., Teacher of Visual Art Spring Thesis Show, Spring 2017 Exploring Terrain, M.Ed., Teacher of Visual Art thesis exhibition, Spring 2016 Journeys, M.Ed., Teacher of Visual Art thesis exhibition, Spring 2015
My Art is :, M.Ed., Teacher of Visual Art thesis exhibition, Spring 2014
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Fraction Magazine, Vivian Poey, Un Pedacito de Mar/A Little Piece of the Sea, Issue 156, April 2022 (http://www.fractionmagazine.com/issue-156)
Light from Without and from Within, Quarantine images of two photographers, with an essay by April Austin, in Christian Science Monitor, January, 2021
Revi, S., Crossing Cultures, Featured: what makes it great, What will you Remember? Photography Views Reviews Interviews, 2019. (https://whatwillyouremember.com/crossing-cultures-claudia-ruiz-gustafson-astrid- reischwitz-vivian-poet-nilou-moochhala-at-cambridge-art-association/)
Giving Voice to Immigrant Experiences, Featured Story Video, Lesley University Website: https://lesley.edu/stories/vivian-poey
Trajectories: Layered Photos tell Difficult Story, Lesley University Website: https://lesley.edu/article/trajectories- layered-photos-tell-difficult-story
The world of an Autistic Artist: Sebastian Lopez Duran, In Folk Art Messenger, Vol 28, Spring/Summer 2018 (pp. 8-11)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Wager, A.C., Berriz, B. Cramer, L. and Poey, V. (Eds.) (2023) Art as a Way of Listening: Centering Student and Community Voices in Language Learning and Cultural Revitalization. New York, NY: Routledge.
Berriz, B., Wager, A., & Poey, V. (Eds.). (2018). Art as a way of talking for emergent bilingual youth: A foundation for literacy in preK-12 schools. New York, NY: Routledge.
Wager, A.C., Poey, V., & Berriz, B. (Eds.). (2017). Art as voice: Creating access for emergent bilingual families and communities [Peer reviewed Special issue]. Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism, and Practice, 9(1). Peer-reviewed, open-access (As of November 7, 2019 full issue has been downloaded 1, 430 times globally).
Poey, V., Weber, N. Diaz, G & Smiley, S. (2013) Strategies to Integrate the Arts and Science, Shell Education: Huntington Beach, California.
Chapters and Journal Articles
Poey, V., Berriz, B., & Wager, A.C. (2017). Diverse experiences and complex identities: A resource archive of artists’ and educators’ works [Special issue]. Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism, and Practice, 9(1) As of November 2019 it has been downloaded 190 times globally, separate from the full issue.
Berriz, B., Wager, A., & Poey, V. (Eds.) (2018). Preface, The art of creating literacy with emergent bilingual children: Book organization. In B. Berriz, A.C. Wager, & V. Poey (Eds.) Art as a way of talking for emergent bilingual youth: A foundation for literacy in preK-12 schools. (pp. xiii-xiv). New York, NY: Routledge.
Berriz, B., Wager, A., & Poey, V. (Eds.) (2018). Introduction, Art as a way of talking: Creating a foundation for learning with emergent bilinguals in PreK-12 schools. In B. Berriz, A.C. Wager, & V. Poey (Eds.) Art as a way of talking for emergent bilingual youth: A foundation for literacy in preK-12 schools. (pp. 1-24). New York, NY: Routledge.
Poey, V. (2018). Section II In the Heights: Lifting Potential, Expanding Possibilities. Further Applications for Practice and Discussion Questions. In B. Berriz, A.C. Wager, & V. Poey (Eds.) Art as a way of talking for emergent bilingual youth: A foundation for literacy in preK-12 schools. (pp. 180-183). New York, NY: Routledge.
Poey. V, (2011) Chapter 4: Imaging the Spaces Between: Art and Inclusive Pedagogy. In Dallalfar, A., Kingston-Mann, E. and Sieber, T. (eds.) Transforming Classroom Culture: Inclusive Pedagogical Practices. (pp. 78-93) New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Poey, V. On Fictional Grounds and Culinary Maps. Journal for Pedagogy, Pluralism and Practice, Issue 7 Fall, 2003. Poey, V. (2002)A Visual Conversation, Christian Science Monitor
V.Poey (1996) Photographic Portfolio, The Americas Review, Vol. 24 Fall-Winter