thigginsart@gmail.com
(508) 652-0713
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Teresa Higgins was born in Washington D.C. surrounded by a family
of artists where she developed a passion for portraiture. However,
determined to be different, she completed her degree at the University
of Maryland in Secondary Education majoring in Speech/Theater and
minoring in English. After graduating she moved to Massachusetts and
taught Speech, Theater and English in the public schools. But her love
for the visual arts persisted. In 1973 she began graduate study in
painting and portraiture at Massachusetts College of Art and The Back
Bay Art Studios. She began creating custom pastel portraits in 1974. Her
work has been exhibited during the past
thirty years with many art associations, galleries and public
institutions including: The Copley Society, The Cambridge Art
Association, the
Marblehead Art Association, The Springfield Artists League, The Wilson
Gallery in Boston, The Swain Frame Gallery in Dover and the
Natick courthouse. Her works hang in private collections in Welleslely, Weston and Dover as well as throughout
the United States and Europe. She is a juried
associate member of the Pastel Society of America and a member of the
Portrait Society of America. Her paintings in oils and pastels are
created primarily from her photographs of the subject and can be viewed
in her Natick studio.
With twenty- five years of teaching experience including Boston Latin High School, Marblehead High School and Brookline Adult Education, she also teaches Studio Art Classes for children and adults in her studio in Natick. |
