Mara Metcalf

Mara Metcalf has been exhibiting professionally since completing her BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design (’80) and her MFA from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts (’88).

For over 30 years she has been a member of the faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She received an Excellence in Teaching Award in 2010 and was nominated again in 2015. Metcalf has received a travel grant to study Giotto's frescos in Italy and a faculty enrichment grant to revisit famous waterfalls in Oregon.

Mara has recently coordinated a show of 5 artists whose work investigates place and space through materiality, imagination and physical processes. She has also curated an exhibition of artists who use their work to explore the fragile connection we have with nature. Entitled “de-natured,” it featured work in video, installation, sculpture and painting; and was held at Salve Regina University, Newport RI.

Additional exhibitions of Metcalf’s art include: Enigmatic Space Chazan Gallery, Wheeler School, Providence RI. If it’s not you, it’s me, Metcalf + Napolitano, in Bannister Gallery at RI College in 2016. She had a solo shows Birds Eye View in the AS220 Project Space in 2015 and Arcadia at Krause Gallery in the Moses Brown SchooI. She was part of On Nature at Chazan Gallery in Providence, RI. Her work is in the collection of the RISD Museum in Providence, RI.