Adventure, beauty, rich images, music, a search for justice and a reverence for the earth are some of the many colored
threads that have woven the rich tapestry that is the weaving in progress of my life.
I have followed my bliss to backpacking with twins in Europe, a solo bus trip to Central America, serendipitous carpentry jobs
in Hawaii and the Virgin Islands, building houses with Habitat for Humanity in Nicaragua and Boston, helping refugees in
Texas, serving in the Peace Corps in Bolivia and much more.
MARIA TERMINI'S RESUME
EDUCATION
B.A. and M.F.A. from The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, Other courses at Boston University, The Cambridge
Center for Adult Education, Interface, The Kaji Aso Studio, The New England Conservatory, National Training Labs, Bethel,
ME, Andover-Newton Theological School, Newton, MA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
The Munroe Center for the Arts, Lexington, MA
The Eliot School, Boston, MA
Spontaneous Celebrations, Jamaica Plain, MA
The Children’s Museum, Sucre, Bolivia
Telstar Adult Education, Bethel, ME
The Art Institute, Boston, MA
The Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA
The Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, MA
The De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Boston Public Schools
SELECTED EXHIBITS (* indicates one-person shows)
The Society of Washington Artists, Smithsonian, Washington, DC, 1964
*American Cultural Center, Rome, Italy, 1972, silkscreen prints
*Apogee Gallery, Bethesda, MD 1977
*Merrimack College, Andover, MA, 1974
Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, 1978
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA 1979
*Boston University, Boston, serigraphs, 1979
*The Helen Shlein Gallery, Boston, MA 1981, collages and prints
African-American Artists-in-Residence, Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA
Boston Visual Artist’s Union, Boston, MA, 1979-84, juried shows
*University of Massachusetts, Dorchester, MA, 1990
*Children’s Museum, Sucre, Bolivia, 1995, drawings
*Boston Public Library, Jamaica Plain, MA, 1998
*The Guild Room, All Saint’s Church, Brookline, MA, 1998, 2000,
Innovative Moves Gallery, Boston, MA, 1999
Yale Medical School, New Haven, CT, Visions Towards Wellness, 2000
Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, NH, “ A Feast for the Eyes”, 2001,
colored pencil drawings
*The Cambridge Center, Cambridge, watercolors, MA 2001
The Boston Printmakers Biennial, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2001,
national juried show
*The Guttman Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2001
A Soul Stirring Exhibit, Swedenborgian Chapel, Cambridge, MA, 2001
and following years
The Gallery of Social and Political Art, Boston, MA, 2002
*Flying Colors, The Cambridge Multi-Cultural Arts Center, Cambridge,
MA, 2003, weavings, fabric applique, quilts
The Essential Substance: A Fiber Art Exhibition, 2005, Mt. Ida College,
Newton, MA, j
* Colorsongs, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA, glass tile mosaics,
2007
IMPROVISATIONS, Newbury College, Brookline, MA, 2007, weavings
and fabric applique pieces
COLLECTIONS
The De Cordova Museum, The Fogg Museum, New England Telephone, First National Bank of Boston, Harvard University,
American Embassy in Rome, The Boston Public Library, The Children’s Museum in Sucre, Bolivia, and many non-profits,
including Pine Street Inn, The New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans, The Cambridge YWCA, Codman Square Health
Center, and also in many private collections.
COMMISSIONS
Porcelain enamel frieze for the Quincy Elementary School in Boston.
Murals for the city of Boston: Fields Corner and Oak Square.
Murals in Bolivia: Children’s Museum in Sucre, and in the communities of Molle Punku and Talula (Chuquisaca). Designs
and illustrations for Houghton-Mifflin, Lotus Software, and Prentice-Hall. Banners for Harvard University and Boston’s First
Night, Illustrations for El Cuento del Karai by Fiori Zulli.
AWARDS
The Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
The Blanche Coleman Award (2x)
Artist in Residence, Boston Public Schools
The Brookline Arts Council
The Boston Arts Council,
The Newton Cultural Council
Archives of The National Museum of Women in the Arts