Education
2023 MFA in Visual Arts, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2013 MS, Library and Information Science, Concentration: Archives Management, Simmons University, Boston, MA
1999 BFA, Painting, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Selected Exhibitions
2025 Rooted in Ruins, The Overlook Gallery, Unbound Visual Arts, Brighton, MA (Group Exhibition)
2024 Roots/Wings Exhibition, Art + Everywhere and Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA (Group Exhibition)
2024 Small But Not Too Small, Juried Exhibition, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA (Group Exhibition)
2024 Mary Schein Fall Salon, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA (Group Exhibition)
2023 Undercurrents, Remis Gallery at The Governor’s Academy, Newbury, MA, November 28-January 12, (Group Exhibition)
2023 Lesley MFA 20th Anniversary Show, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, June, (Group Exhibition)
2023 Organic Mechanisms: New Artwork by Meghan Bailey, Washington Street Gallery, Somerville, MA, April, (Solo Exhibition)
2023 Heart of Machines: Ratchets, Reels, and Rivets, Arts League of Lowell Gallery, Lowell, MA, March, (Group Exhibition)
2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2022 First Look, Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA
2022 Intimacies, The CritLab at MAPSpace, Port Chester, NY
2021 Back to the Drawing Board, (fall) Washington Street Art Center Gallery, Somerville, MA
2021 New England Collective XI, Annual Juried Exhibition, Galatea Fine Art, Inc., Boston, MA (Juror: Grace Ryder O’Malley, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA)
2020 A Game of Chance: The Exquisite Corpse, Inside-Out Gallery, Somerville, MA
Bibliography
Collins-Fernandez, Gaby and Patricia Miranda. Intimacies: A Crit Lab Exhibition. E-book, MAPSpace Press, 2022, pp. 47-
Interview, “Networking for Artists,” Somerville Art Matters, Somerville Cable Access Television, Somerville, MA, February 6, 2006.
Awards
2025 Innovation Grant awarded by Art+Everywhere for the pilot project: Intersections of Art and Archives: An Unresidency Program at UMass Boston’s University Archives and Special Collections
2024 Nominated for application of the St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Grant
Teaching, Residencies, and Memberships
2024 Artist-in-Residence, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY
2024 Intoduction to Painting with Acrylic, Arlington Community Education, Arlington, MA
2023-present Art+Everywhere, Board of Directors, Cambridge, MA
2021 Taught a papier-mâché workshop for MFA graduate students at Lesley University.
2014-present Teach archives instruction sessions for undergraduates at UMass Boston.
2006, 2018-2025 Somerville Open Studios, Somerville, MA
Curatorial Projects
Grossmann Gallery in the Healey Library at UMass Boston
2023 Highlights from Univeristy Archives & Special Collections, includes selections from the Dorchester Pottery Collection and designed posters featuring collections from the archives.
2018 Art and Life of Theresa-India Young: Preserving African American Identity
2018 Finding Grace, a selection of black and white photographs by Lynn Blodgett
2018 Native American Resilience, paintings by Michelle Napoli and jewelry by Nia Holly and Kristen Wyman
2016 Celebrating a Thirty-Year History of the William Joiner Institute’s Writer’s Workshop
2015 Bicycling: Highlights from University Archives & Special Collections
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