Corry Buckwalter

Corry Buckwalter is a visual artist and art educator based in Arlington, Massachusetts. Her landscape watercolor paintings explore urban rivers, ponds and hillsides where glimpses of nature can offer surprising moments. Corry is also known for her detailed botanical studies in watercolor and colored pencil. In a recent series of landscape paintings exhibited in a solo show at Arlington Friends of the Drama Gallery, she examines a landscape of convergence, disruption and possibility: the Hoosic River in North Adams, MA.

Corry wrote, “Living in North Adams, MA, I was fascinated by the more than two miles of concrete flood control chutes that have managed flooding of the Hoosic River in this small city for 70 years. My paintings explore the state of the river in a city that is rapidly transforming in exciting ways. In addition to its reinvention from a mill town to an arts center, North Adams is poised to reshape the Hoosic River into a culturally accessible and environmentally sustainable urban corridor.”

Corry has a great appreciation for the spontaneity that is possible while creating a plein air painting. Capturing how ‘the light gets in’ is critical to her process. She values her regular practice of Japanese Sumi-e (ink painting) as a way to connect to nature and express movement with a brushstroke.

Current projects include a series of drawings and paintings of plants for the Mystic River Watershed Association in Arlington, as well as, abstract paintings of recent experiences exploring the Water of Leith Walkway in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Corry received her BA from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her masters in City Planning and Landscape Architecture from Cornell University. She has worked as a county planning director, magazine journalist, an educator at MASS MoCA, and currently as an art instructor. Corry’s passion for teaching is inspiring creativity in others, creating community and celebrating each student’s progress.

She teaches weekly and intensive art classes for: Arlington Community Education, New Art Center, Arlington Center for the Arts, Mystic Open Studios, Snow Farm New England Craft Program, and Southern Vermont Arts Center. Her courses include: Watercolor Painting, Mindful Drawing, Japanese Ink Painting, Botanical Drawing in Colored Pencil, and Plein Air Painting.

Corry’s work has been exhibited in numerous locations including Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Valley Artisans Market, Cambridge, NY; City of North Adams, MA; Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams; Arlington Open Studios; Translucent | Opaque Exhibit at the Arlington Center for the Arts; Arlington Friends of the Drama Gallery and others. The Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan commissioned Corry to create a colored pencil drawing of a newly discovered cell membrane structure in 2022.

Contact: corrybuckwalter@gmail.com | www.corrybuckwalter.com | Instagram: @corrybuckwalter_studio