Go Out Doors: Meet the Artists!
Meet Kayo Burmon, Karla Collins Eck, Howie Green, Caroline Provost, Rebecca Tuck, and Sophy Tuttle, the wonderful artists featured in our outdoor art installation, Go Out Doors!
(Concord, MA) Kayo is an accomplished painter and printmaker working in the Boston, MA area. Represented by galleries in Massachusetts and Maine, she has mounted extensive exhibits and has works in numerous private collections.
Karla Collins Eck
(Concord, MA) Karla graduated Bachelor of Arts from N.U. with a focus on design. She painted her first mural there at the Huntington Avenue YMCA. At the Carving Center and Sculpture Studio in VT she used only traditional tools. Her coursework included theatre design, graphic design, animation and typography. Her background in teaching ranges from preschool to substitute teacher with emphasis on special education. This year Karla has been a valuable apprentice to Margot Kimball at the Village Art Room. There she leads the Minuteman Arc classes twice a week. She assists when ever she can to put up their community art shows. Last year she received a small grant from the Concord Local Cultural Council to support teaching special artists at The Village Art Room. As a new member to the group ACCT Artists Create Change Together she collaborated making mural banners for non-profits and community action groups.
(Boston, MA) Howie Green came to international attention with the publication of his book "Jazz Fish Zen: Adventures in Mamboland". His art has appeared in over 45 solo and group shows and he has completed over 100 murals working with corporate and community groups including the Mayor's Office of Boston and Boston Red Sox Foundation. He has participated in numerous public art events including Cow Parade Boston, Benches on Parade, Elephant Parade Bangkok Thailand, Street Pianos Boston, PGA Tournament Golf Balls Parade, Medford Street Art Banners, South Shore Fish Out of Water Sculpture, and Volkswagen Polo Design Event in Copenhagen Denmark.
Instagram: @howiegreen
(Littleton, MA)
(Natick, MA) Rebecca is a mixed media sculptor and a collector of lost things. Her work is inspired by the bits of land and sea debris that she collects and the imagined existence that they had before she acquired them. The artist incorporates many diverse techniques into her work including welding, weaving, collage, sewing, and now, woodworking, to produce layered and multi- textured sculpture. Tuck received her BFA in Sculpture from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2019. In 2019 she received the William Wyman Grant to Haystack Mountain School of Arts and Crafts. Her work has been shown in juried exhibits around Massachusetts. Most recently in “Totems” at Beacon Gallery, Boston, “We the People” and “Human/Nature” at Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown and in “Emergence- Bring to Light” at Piano Craft Gallery, Boston where her piece received First Place.
Instagram: @rebeccabombshellart
Facebook: Rebecca McGee Tuck Art
Associated hashtags: #Rebeccamcgeetuck
(Newbury, MA) Sophy is a visual artist born in Colchester, England and currently residing in Medford, Massachusetts. She received her BFA in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design in 2008 and her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the University of Hartford Art School in 2019. Influenced by artists such as Walton Ford, Mark Dion, Alexis Rockman, and Swoon, Sophy uses visual storytelling to reimagine the future, resituate our position in the web of life, and create new narratives that explore regenerative, resilient culture building among all forms of life. Sophy works on a variety of scales and mural painting is an important, socially-engaged part of her practice. She continues to show paintings regionally while becoming more engaged in public and community-based art projects in Boston and beyond.
