RAA&M Board of Governors

Executive Board

Harley Bartlett, President

Susan Lynn, Vice President

Dr. Philip Garton, Treasurer

Rosalie Sidoti, Secretary
secretary@rockportartassn.org

Harley Bartlett

**PRESIDENT**
Juried Artist Member – Painting
Harley Bartlett was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and followed his BA with studies at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He has exhibited in New England galleries for over 30 years and has owned a mural and decorative painting company supplying paintings and murals since 1992. Harley is a past President of The Providence Art Club (2003-07) and former Secretary of their Board of Managers. He is a former member of The Copley Society, National Society of Mural Painters and New England Plein Air Painters. In 2015 Harley was voted in as an elected member of The Guild of Boston Artists and is a current Board Member. He is a past member of the Salmagundi Club in NYC. He is also an elected artist at the Lyme Art Association and currently serves as the President.

TODD MONTANARO

RAA&M Curator
Juried Artist Member - Painting
Todd Montanaro lives and works in Rockport. After a 30-year career in banking, Todd is now focused on making art and running Gallery Montanaro. He is a long-time collector and scholar of Cape Ann historic art.
Todd studied studio art at The Art Institute of Chicago, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and through multiple workshops with nationally renowned artists.
Todd is a juried member of Copley Society of Art, Oil Painters of America, National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society, Rockport Art Association & Museum, and North Shore Arts Association.
Todd also holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and marketing from the University of Rhode Island and master’s degree in finance from Boston College.

Donald Demers

Juried Artist Member – Painting
Donald Demers is considered to be one of the finest marine and landscape painters in America. The exemplary level of Don’s paintings has placed them in some of the most prestigious public and private collections in the country. Don Demers is a highly sought after instructor and his teaching has taken him around the United States and Europe. His work as an illustrator has been honored four times in the annual exhibition of the Society of Illustrators. Don’s marine paintings have garnered him a record 21 awards at the Mystic International Marine Exhibition including the prestigious Rudolph J. Schaefer Award. He has received awards for his landscape painting from the Joan Irving Museum in Irvine, California, the Laguna Plein Air Invitational and from The Guild of Boston Artists. Don is a Fellow of the American Society of Marine Artists, an elected member of the Guild of Boston Artists, a Signature member of the Plein Air Painters of America, an elected member of the Salmagundi Club and an elected member of the California Art Club.

Stephen Delaney

Juried Artist Member – Photography
Steve is a juried artist member in photography at RAA&M, an elected artist at the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and a past juried artist member of the New Hampshire Art Association. His early work was primarily black and white images produced in his own darkroom. Street scenes from the 1970s were featured in his early work. Today, consistent themes of his images connect to transportation, railroads, and landscapes. His work has received recognition of excellence from various organizations, including the Railroad Hall of Fame in Galesburg, Illinois, and the Carl Sandburg College in Illinois acquired one of his prints for their permanent collection. He has authored several articles for transit related publications.
Professionally, Steve has spent most of his career in public management positions, including human resources and town administrator/town manager positions. He has held part-time faculty positions over the past 27 years, with the last 10 being an instructor in municipal finance and management at Boston University’s Metropolitan College. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Salem State University and a Masters in Urban Affairs from Boston University. A native of Peabody, he now lives in Middleton, Massachusetts.

Dan Ross

Dan: I’ve had the pleasure of being an avid Cape Ann and American impressionist art collector for 35 years. I founded and ran an art fund for the last 25 years, bringing new investors in to the art world. I've lectured on art collecting at the Concord Museum, the Boston art show, and at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine.
I have also proven to be a really untalented sculptor, taking classes in both college and as an adult at the DeCordova, the benefit being I truly appreciate artists with talent, skill and vision.
My day job has been as CEO of a number of high tech firms. My most important job has been the wonderful pleasure of being with my wife for 50 years and being father and friend to our two incredible children.

Rosalie Sidoti

**SECRETARY**
Juried Artist Member – Painting
Rosalie Sidoti, a national award-winning artist, holds an advanced MA and BFA degree in Fine Art. She is a former university supervisor, juror, lecturer and instructor for various art organizations in the Northeast. Rosalie is the owner/artist of the Sidoti Gallery of Fine Art in Rockport, MA.
She describes herself as neither a pure impressionist nor a pure realist. Her intention is to immerse the viewer in the paintings with a feeling of quiet tranquility and inclusion. Rosalie is most gratified when the observer can feel the peace and visually experience the moment as presented on the canvas. Rosalie achieves a simple impression. She allows liberal and lyrical translation of that simplicity. To suit the moment, Rosalie takes pieces of what initially inspired her and composes the imagery by moving objects and creating a mood. She paints directly onto the canvas, deviating as much or as little necessary to capture the emotional impact it initially held for her.
Rosalie Sidoti allows her intuition to drive her work. She defines painting as not only a necessity but also a privilege. The importance of teaching, mentoring and continuous learning have been at the forefront of her artistic journey. She has dedicated herself to sharing her knowledge with the artists and students she taught at Tufts University Graduate School of Education, The School of The Museum of Fine Arts and at the various workshops in the New England area.

Susan Lynn

Juried Artist Member – Painting
Susan Lynn is a juried artist member of the Rockport Art Association & Museum, as well as the North Shore Arts Association, and the Salmagundi Club. After receiving her BFA from Kansas State University, she spent the early part of her career working as an architectural illustrator before shifting her focus to fine art. Working in both watercolor and oil, she has earned signature membership status in American Women Artists, National Watercolor Society, and the Outdoor Painters Society. Susan’s work has been included in notable juried exhibitions with the Oil Painters of America, the American Impressionist Society, American Women Artists, the Academic Artists Association, the Copley Society, and the National Watercolor Society. She actively participates in many of the top invitational and juried plein air events in the country, winning the coveted Grand Prize at En Plein Air Texas in 2020. Her work is frequently featured in national art publications and has been the subject of feature articles in Plein Air Magazine and International Artist Magazine. In 2018, Susan moved from the Midwest to Rockport, having fallen in love with both the beauty of Cape Ann and with fellow Rockport artist John Caggiano. In 2019, she opened her gallery, the Susan Lynn Gallery & Studio at 79 Main Street in Rockport.

JACQUELINE JONES

Juried Artist Member – Painting
Jacqueline Jones is a New England-based landscape and seascape painter. She is also a noted instructor. Her educational background includes a degree in Graphic and Advertising Design from The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Painting from the Lyme Academy College of Fine Art. She holds representation from galleries across the country. Because of Jacqueline’s lifelong passion and professional dedication to her work, she has been the beneficiary of multiple awards and acknowledgments in both commercial venues and art institutions. Notable accomplishments include having work purchased for the permanent collection of the Brinton Museum, “1st Prize for Outstanding Work” 2017, 2nd place in the Nautical Exhibition 2018 at the Salmagundi Club in NYC and Peoples Choice Award from the Brinton Museum, Big Horn, Wyoming in September 2020. Her dedication goes beyond that of her own personal work. She has a commitment to be a supporter of her colleagues and the art institutions that foster their inspirations and aspirations.

T. A. Charron

Juried Artist Member – Photography
Artist and curator, **T. A. Charron** is a native New Englander. Charron was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and was brought up on his grandparent’s farm, in South Attleboro, Massachusetts.
Charron has studied with world renowned wildlife artist Robert Bateman, portrait artist Daniel E. Greene, “The Boston School” classically trained painter Robert Douglas Hunter and the “Howard Pyle lineage” illustrator, Norman Baer, and did additional studies in sculpture at Providence College and out west, with sculptor Veryl Goodnight, and stone lithography at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. He is a graduate of the Art Institute of Boston (Lesley University College of Art and Design) and graduated in 1972.
Nationally and regionally, he has received over 125 awards for excellence, in both painting and drawing. His artwork is in the permanent collections of museums and other public and private collections worldwide. His commissioned paintings of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King and Astronaut Dr. Ronald McNair and 19 other significant portraits of people of color were unveiled to thousands of people at the Hall of Black Achievement events and are in the collection and on display at Bridgewater State University.
Recently, a copy on canvas, of the second commissioned portrait of Malcolm X, this one for the Malcolm X, Ella Little-Collins House was included into the collection of the Dillaway Thomas House Museum, in Roxbury Massachusetts, and is on display. Charron paintings have been published in five historical books, and his art has been featured nationally and locally on broadcast and cable news stations.
As curator, Charron put together “New England Impressions, Painting from Life” - 1989, for the Attleboro Arts Museum and was asked by the Harvard Club of Boston to curate the exhibition, “New England Painters of Today” - 1999. He was also the advisor for the exhibition, “Hounds of Heaven” - 1996, a series of paintings by R.H. Ives Gammell held at the Attleboro Arts Museum.
At the Rockport Art Association in Rockport, Massachusetts, Charron was on the exhibition and book committees for the W. Lester Stevens – 2003, Harry A. Vincent – 2006, and the A.T. Hibbard – 2012 national exhibitions.
Charron had served as President of the Board of Trustees, of the Attleboro Arts Museum, in Massachusetts. He had served as Vice President of the Rockport Art Association and presently he is on the Acquisition Committee, at the Cape Cod Museum of Art. Charron has also served on the board of the Attleboro Land Trust.
T. A. Charron has conducted workshop classes and painting and drawing demonstrations for over 30 years, teaching students both on location and in the studio. His traditional north light studio and home is located South Attleboro, Massachusetts.

DR. PHILIP GARTON

**TREASURER**
Dr. Garton is a seasoned finance executive with more than three decades of experience at global organizations. As the CFO of Shoals Technologies Group, Philip helped lead the organization through the largest renewable energy IPO in history, raising over $1.9 B. He also successfully served as CFO at several other private equity backed companies, including but not limited to Springs Window Fashions, JM Swank, Lincoln Industrial Corporation, and Purdy Brush. In addition, Philip has led finance for major international divisions of Honeywell and Vallourec SA. He started his career at Coopers & Lybrand. Philip is an actively licensed Certified Public Accountant and holds a Doctor of Business Administration from the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business, an MBA from the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University, as well as an MBA, BBA and BA all from Southern Methodist University in Finance, Accounting and Economics respectively.

Jack (JP) Boudreau

JP is a founding partner of Folly Cove Fine Art in Rockport MA. With a background in hotel management, he has made a rewarding transition to dealing art. Folly Cove gathers some of the best artists in the business, and you will find many of them are also represented at the Rockport Art Association & Museum.

RAE O’SHea

Juried Artist Member – Painting
Originally from central New Jersey and now residing in Rockport, MA, Rae began a lifelong love of traveling and painting at an early age. She believes plein air painting to be an essential element in her development as a painter. Most of her studio paintings are based on studies painted on location.
Rae has a BA from the University of Maryland with a double major in European History and English Literature.
She is a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society and the Plein Air Painters of Colorado and an artist member of several art organizations here and in the UK.

Kate Hanlon

Juried Artist Member – Graphics

Kate’s lifelong involvement with printmaking includes a 30-year engagement with the uniquely American medium of white line woodcut, also known as the Provincetown Print. Her images, a synthesis of observation and invention, reflect scenes from her life on Boston’s North Shore and her travels throughout New England and beyond. Kate aims to carry the tradition of white line woodcut into the 21st century.

“There’s something about working with wood that I love; its warmth to the touch, color and fragrance. The woodblock had a full life of its own as a tree before lending itself to my own creative impulses, and the history of its life is captured in the grain patterns that become a part of my print. It’s a sort of collaboration; in my response to the woodgrain, the tree lives again through my prints.”

A member of the Boston Printmakers and the Society of American Graphic Artists, Kate’s award-winning woodcuts may be found in numerous private collections, as well as the permanent collections of the Boston Athenaeum, the Boston Public Library, the Library of Congress, the Da Nang Museum of Fine Arts, Vietnam, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. She has twice participated in cultural diplomacy through the Art In Embassies program of the US Department of State.

Kate also expresses her creativity through drawing, painting, gardening and playing Irish fiddle, and is a popular teacher of drawing and printmaking throughout New England and beyond.

She currently resides in Newburyport, MA, but is planning a move to Deer Isle, ME in spring of 2025.