MC Mendez
Interviews:
Arts Arlington Artist of the Month, April 2023
https://artsarlington.org/grants-and-resources/artlinks-arlington-networking-for-artists/featured-artist-michelle-c-mendez/
Interview with Friends by Jamaal Eversley at Enso Gallery "Bold & Beautiful" Exhibit, Brockton, MA March 3, 2023
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CpWETRRDOVa/?igshid=MjkzY2Y1YTY%3D
About:
M. C. Mendez, born in Boston, graduate of Boston University College of Fine Arts with a Master’s Degree in Visual Arts, 1990, studied with John Wilson, Phyllis Berman, David Aronson, and John Moore. Her study includes the Caumsett Landscape Painting Program where she was influenced by artist Gillian Pederson-Krag's light-filled allegorical landscapes.
Michelle recently completed an artist retreat at San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy. In 2014, she was an artist-in-residence at Civita di Castellana Jerusalem School. She painted for half a year on the Isle of Iona and Mull, Scotland and traveled to China to study Chinese art and poetry.
Her Sherlock series was shown at the All Newton Library and at the Newburyport Firehouse Gallery, and she has been in many group shows in the Boston area.
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In the mid-90’s, Mendez lived and worked as an artist in the Fort Point Channel Community, while working at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the conservation lab and development office. Prior to that, she worked at Cabot Advertising.
From 2002 to 2021, Mendez worked as a high school art teacher at Walpole High and Canton High which included AP Art & Design. She has also taught art at Newbury College, the MIT interim program, and to children and adults in community programs and private schools in Quincy, Brookline and Randolph.
Canton High School Teachers in "Art of the Educator" , Canton The Repository, 2016
Now retired, Mendez is exploring landscape, seascapes and allegorical painting.