Artist Anna Poor reflects on community and the women who inspired her.

“I just loved being around these older women who were so independent,” says Poor. “Maybe it was a pattern that started in my youth.” Poor followed in their footsteps and became an artist in her own right. While in school at Mass. College of Art and Design, she worked in a sculpture foundry — an experience that brought her to Castle Hill, where she met its founder (and fellow sculptor) Joyce Johnson. “She was very skeptical of me when we first met,” says Poor. “I had to work hard to prove myself.”

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“Twelve local artists representing a range of creative disciplines have been selected for the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod’s inaugural Capacity-Building Grant Program. Through the program, the cohort will spend the next nine months identifying practical strategies to help them achieve financial sustainability to grow their practice.

“Sculptor and glassblower Olivia Leigh Curtis (’22 BFA Sculpture) of Falmouth was one of the artists selected. She graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston in May.”

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…Before grad school at UA, Barquin knew she was destined for a life in the arts. She grew up in a creative family who saw craft opportunities everywhere. She recalls a walk with her mother as a child when they went past electricians working on electricity poles. The scraps they left behind were purple and green, and that day they took them home to make rings.

“”That sense of reuse and creativity, innovation, has always been a part of me,” she says.

“Barquin attended the Massachusetts College of Art and Design which, with financial aid, was very affordable. It also had an exceptional print-making studio. Between the resources and the faculty available in print-making, Barquin made it her major and a huge part of her early career.“

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The City of Boston commissioned Matthew Hinçman to create Wythe & Web, and it was funded by the City’s Percent for Art program.

The artwork is located on the lawn in front of the library and BCYF Curtis Hall facing South Street. It is a sculptural intervention that consists of a series of low brick walls that zig-zag across the lawn. Some of the walls are capped with brightly colored glazed bricks, and others are capped with slabs of granite. In addition to the walls, there are five bronze chairs that take their form from the vinyl webbed folding chairs found in millions of backyards and lawns. 

Matthew Hinçman is a sculptor and educator living in Jamaica Plain, and is a professor of sculpture at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt). He is also chair of the Fine Arts 3D Program at MassArt. He currently serves on the board of the Boston-based nonprofit Now+There. He’s best known for “Jamaica Pond Bench, 2006,” and “STILL, 2014,” both located in Jamaica Plain.

Corrina Sephora is a metal sculptor and mixed-media artist specializing in blacksmithing. She explores emotion, memory and ritual with what she calls “repetitious imagery,” prominently featuring trees, ladders and nautical and celestial motifs.

She moved to Atlanta in 1996 after graduating from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, and though she cherishes the coastal life, Sephora says the landlocked city she calls home influences her with its strong arts community, as do “the Cherokee and Creek people who, at one time, walked on these lands.”