Luba Shapiro Grenader

I am a practicing mixed-media artist focusing on figurative and experimental drawing. I collaborate with nature who offers an abundance of materials, which I minimally alter and use as part of an image alongside found fibers. My past experiences as an immigrant and dissident inspire my empathy for global conditions of women, earth, and environment, as I consider our diverse human and unique experiences of tragedy and beauty.

I am an educator with over a decade of experience teaching at the university and community levels. I have taught medium and subject-based courses, both traditional and experimental, and have a particular interest and experience in teaching topics investigating materials, methods, and concepts.

EDUCATION

MFA in Visual Art, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT Painting, Mixed Media

BFA in Visual Arts, Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture; Award in liberal arts, Summa cum laude

Advanced Diploma in Fashion Design, School of Fashion Design, Boston, MA Fashion Design, Fashion Illustration

EXHIBITIONS

• ONE-PERSON

  Galatea Fine Arts, July 2024
  Porter Mills, Beverly, MA 2022 Marblehead Arts Association, MA 2018 Essex Art Center, community artist 2017

• JURIED & INVITATIONAL GROUP SHOWS

2024

Artbox Project. Basel 3.0, ArtBox Expo, Basel, Switzerland. In Conjunction with Art Basel Art Week 2024

Girl Art Now, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI

Harmony in Diversity, Galatea Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Plus One, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA

Ekphrastic: 10 Poets Respond to 10 Artists, Porter Mills, Beverly, MA

2023

Fluid Borders, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA

Adjunct Faculty Show, Endicott College, Beverly, MA

Postcard Show, A.I.R. Gallery, NY

The Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn Library, NY

2021

Unravel: Fiber Arts for Our Times, Arlington Center for The Arts

2020

Art Connect, Catamount Art Center, St. Johnsbury, VT

Uncommon Thread, Salem Arts Association, MA, Winner, 2nd Place

2019

ArtSlant Showcase Competition, ArtSlant, NY, Winner/Mixed-Media

2018

ArtSlant Showcase Competition, ArtSlant, NY, Finalist

Flux, Salem Arts Association, MA Juried Show

Wish You Were Here, A.I.R. Gallery, NY

2017

The Story of the Creatives, See.Me., NY

Massachusetts Arstist, Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA, Encounters With Cancer, Winner, 2nd place

Mothers, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

Art in Fiber, Marblehead Arts Association, MA

2016

Bump, Lynn Arts Center, MA

Crisis and Response, Red Sun Press, JP, MA

Traversing Dimensions, Caladan Gallery, Cambridge, MA

25 Boston Emerging Artists, RIFRAKT Artist Collective, Boston, MA

2015

This Collective Pull: A Mass Collaboration, Five Seven Delle Artspace, Boston, MA

Trans-Morphing: The Act of Change, Caladan Gallery, Cambridge, MA

War & Peace: Images of Conflict and Resolution, Lynn Arts, MA Honorable Mention

Balance: Mothers Who Create, TLGUTS, Lynn, MA

PRESENTATIONS

"Sharing Our Stories, Listening to Difference, Creating Communities". Artist Talk, HEATHMERE CENTER FOR CULTURAL ENGAGEMENT, Beverly, MA, 2023

"Waldorf Emergency Pedagogy: Connecting Through Dolls, Puppets, and Role Playing". Remote presentation for UKRAINIAN ART THERAPISTS WORKING WITH CHILDREN IN WAR ZONES, 2023

"Russian/Jewish Experience". Artist Speaker, HADASSA OF MERRIMACK VALLEY, MA 2017

AWARDS

Studio Visit Magazine, Finalist 2018, 2023

ArtSlant Prize Showcase Competition, Winner 2017, 2019

Uncommon Threads, Winner 2018

PUBLICATIONS

Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 51-52, Winter 2024
ArtSlant 9, winner, 2019 and 2022 Studio Visit Magazine,Volume 31-32, 2018 Rifrakt Publication: Top 25 Boston Artists
North Shore Art Throb, Salem, MA
Salem News, Salem, MA
Jewish Journal, Swampscott, MA
Muse, Redbrick Art Center, Beverly, MA

GALLERY AFFILIATION

Galatea Fine Arts, Boston, MA

EXHIBITIONS JURIED

Marblehead Festival of the Arts, Mixed-Media Category 2022-present

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Endicott College: Adjunct Professor, School of Visual and Performing Arts, 2018-present, teaching courses in basic, intermediate, advanced, & figure drawing; art & social justice; color & design

• Art Studio 37, Instructor & Owner, 2021- present
  Community art classes; subject and medium-based courses. Offering support to artists in work development and presentation.

• Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA, 2014 - Present

  Art Instructor, adult & youth classes in drawing, painting, 2D & 3D mixed media, fashion illustration.

• Endicott College, School of Education, 2018-2019

• Arlington Center for The Arts, 2015 - 2020

  Art Instructor, adult and youth classes in drawing, painting, mixed-media, fashion illustration

• Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA, 2017 - 2019

  Art Instructor, adult and youth classes Printmaking, painting, Fashion Design

PRIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Waldorf School at Moraine Farm, Beverly, MA,Community Art Program Coordinator, Art Instructor

Red Brick Art Center, Beverly, MA, Community Program Coordinator Assistant, Art Instructor

Zann Designs, Swampscott, MA, Assistant Designer, sewing, fitting, fashion illustration

D’Hajj Couture, Boston, MA, Assistant Designer, sewing, fitting, pattern making

Boston Trading Ltd., Lynn, MA, Assistant Designer; Assistant pattern maker

LANGUAGES

Russian