2025 Pembroke Arts Festival Jurors
Bob Beaulieu
Majoring in illustration, he turned his career toward design and advertising and was president/
owner of his own agency in Boston for a number of years. Painting throughout the years until
“semi-retiring” to devote even more time to do his painting. Primarily a Plein Aire painter,
Robert has combined his ability to capture detail, atmosphere and light. Also many of his
works incorporate the bygone character of older buildings, storefronts..and even automobiles.
He has participated in a number of shows throughout New England, and locally with the
Scituate Art Association, North River Arts,
Duxbury Arts Festival, Quincy Arts Festival,
and the South Shore Art Center. Numerous award winning ribbons adorn his studio, as well as winning best oil in show at the prestigious Cohasset festival on the green, two years in a row.
Enjoying meeting other artists, and those interested, Robert does a number of demos a year as well as teaches courses in Plein Aire and Portraits
with the South Shore Art Center (Cohasset) as well as Scituate Arts Association where he hosts a monthly portrait/figure workshop. He is President emeritus of the Scituate Arts Association where he created many artistic endeavors on the South Shore for the public, as well as the purchase of the Front Street Art Gallery.
Many times you can find Robert driving to painting locations in his classic MG, with his easel
and palette strapped on the back of the vehicles’ luggage rack. When not immersed in his
painting, Roberts other interests include Bicycling, Scuba Diving and he has held a National
Competition license with the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) for over forty years.
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Donna Garcia
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Donna Garcia (She/Her/Hers) is a lens-based artist, curator, educator, podcaster and arts advocate. Best known for her conceptual self-portraiture and uncanny noir style, her work explores the performative potential of the medium of photography as well as the idea of how we exist within liminal space.
Ms. Garcia is currently the Collections and Education Manager for the Nobska Light Museum and Falmouth Museums on the Green, and formerly the Director of Education and Programs at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA. She is also a contributing editor for LENSCRATCH, co-host/co-founder of the Modern Art and Culture Podcast, she has taught workshops and been a portfolio reviewer nationally, and internationally. She has been a juror for many international photographic organizations including, acting as first and second round juror for Photolucida Critical Mass for the past three years. She has juried CFE’s for the A. Smith Gallery, The Atlanta Dogwood Arts Festival, the South x Southeast Gallery, the Curated Fridge and the Alternative Process Institute, Rome, Italy, to name a few.
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She is the former co-owner of the Garcia | Wilburn Gallery, and the former Executive Director of the Atlanta Photography Group and Gallery. In addition, as Regional Marketing and Creative Director at Ogilvy in NYC, she developed, managed and executed major art installations / programing around Art Base Miami, Flux Nights Atlanta, Art Nights DC, James Bond’s Skyfall, Coachella, Ultra Miami, World Cup, South Beach Food and Wine Festival, The Latin Grammys, and the Oscars.
Ms. Garcia has an MFA in Photography and an MS in Communications.
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