About Us
Roslindale Open Studios is the neighborhood’s largest celebration of local art each year, bringing together artists, residents, businesses, and visitors for one inspiring weekend. At this free, family-friendly event, artists from Roslindale and beyond show and sell fine art and crafts at more than 30 locations, including group sites, local businesses, and home studios.
From paintings, drawings, photography, and ceramics, to textiles, jewelry, metalwork, and mixed media, there is truly something for everyone. Other activities include hands-on demonstrations, art projects for kids, home studio bingo, and live music.
Roslindale Open Studios is a Massachusetts charitable corporation with non-profit 501c3 status. A small committee of volunteers plans the annual event, and new members are always welcome. Please email us at Volunteer@RoslindaleOpenStudios.org if you’re interested in getting involved!
Volunteer Planning Committee
We are a small committee of volunteers who work much of the year planning Roslindale Open Studios.
Kasey Davis Appleman is a collector, assembler, painter, photographer, and arts educator. She finds inspiration through her love of nature and her obsession with collecting antiques, miniatures, and the irresistible “found object.” Her art captures the beauty of texture, the mystery of assembling, and the quirky happenstance of objects with nature. Driftwood, metal, glass, paper remnants, broken scraps, and other precious “finds” bring her mixed media to life. Visit Kasey's HOME STUDIO at 9 Lindall Street to see her mixed media assemblage and photography.
Website: KaseyAppleman.com
Tina Cincotti is Crafty Crab Ceramics, a nod to being born under the sign of Cancer. She primarily works with stoneware and porcelain clay at Create in Roslindale Square. What you’re most likely to find in her collection are earrings and other jewelry as well as what she calls “house jewelry,” which includes chimes, wall hangings, and more.
You can find Tina on Instagram at @CraftyCrabCeramics.
Mark Eclipse is an architect and a photographer. He is inspired by connections between place and culture, a building and its user, and among friends and family. He designs public places and concentrates on photography of places, portraits, and special occasions.
Website: MarkEclipse.com
Rachel Hammerman is a tinkerer whose work is linear and meandering. She draws pictures of worlds in which to get lost, and sculptures with heart, to help you find ground. Her mezuzahs are whimsical, and ever evolving — celebratory markers of identity and space — of belonging and being. What ties her seemingly disparate bodies of work together is a passion for detail, for capturing the intricacies which give us pause and presence; the things that hold us immediately in a smile, and those which echo something deeper within. You can visit her HOME STUDIO at 40 Fletcher Street.
Website: RachelHammermanArt.com
Amy Joyce is a Roslindale native currently residing in West Roxbury. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design and a minor in Advertising from The New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University. Joyce's style is colorful, layered, textured, and bright, oftentimes abstract. She works in photography, crayon, paper, acrylic, Photoshop, and decoupage. Past group exhibits include Roslindale Artists Exhibit, Scollay Square Gallery in Boston, MA, OnGreen, Maliotis Cultural Center in Brookline, MA, and Visions of Spring, Arnold Arboretum in Boston, MA. Visit the group site The Emerald Society to see Amy's work.
Website: https://www.branchdesign.net/
Gary Koeppel received the 2005 Viewers Choice Award for the First Annual Roslindale Open Studios. In 2006, Koeppel was again awarded Viewers Choice, as well as Third Prize in the juried selection. He holds a BFA in Graphic Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art. His work has appeared in galleries, museums, and art shows in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York and Connecticut, as well as the publication "Best of American Oil Paintings," published by Kennedy Publishing. His locations and inspiration range from "around the neighborhood" to Cape Cod and points north. Visit Gary's HOME STUDIO at 2 Vista Street to see his paintings.
Website: GaryKoeppelArt.com
Victoria Lane is an artist and professional interior designer, holding a BFA from Pratt Institute. Combining her love for pattern and color, her artwork begins with a distinct design and color palette in mind, and is then composed in a loose artistic style using paint and ink. Victoria is inspired by nature — especially the colors and organic forms of flowers and foliage. She finds endless seasonal inspiration at the Arnold Arboretum and in her Roslindale garden, where she grows many of her floral subjects.
Website: VictoriaLaneDesign.com for art and VictoriaLaneInteriorDesign.com for Interiors
Chris Lang is a photographer and attorney living in Roslindale. His photography uses interesting compositions, camera angles, and lighting to capture the beauty found in everyday moments, moments that we often miss hurrying through our days. His goal is to make you slow down, look, and really see the world around you.
Website: cLangPhotography.com
Abbi Matheson is a web content manager who lives in Roslindale. More of a crafter than an artist, she spends much of her free time engrossed in her current knitting or sewing project. She is passionate about creating websites that are both visually appealing and highly functional for all users.
Website: AbbiMatheson.com
Jodi Schmidt is a teacher at the Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts’ School Partnership Program. She considers her highest artistic achievement being a really good elementary art teacher and in 2005 she was named elementary art educator of the year by the Massachusetts Art Education Association. When she is not thinking about lessons and and how to help children create, she draws dinosaurs and gears, embroiders skulls, creates small collages, and paints fish.
Web Site: JodiSchmidt.com
Danielle West is a teacher in Boston Public Schools. When she is not teaching, you can find Danielle creating! She is a potter at Create in Rozzie Square and dabbles in fiber arts (crochet, macrame, weaving, and more!) She also loves graphic design and works with many local nonprofits to communicate their mission and work through graphic designs storytelling for print and social media!