Our Administrators and Board

Board Members (L-R): Monica Spenser, Andrea Green, Sandra Livis, Kristin Kulig, Michael Alfano,
Suzanne Bucceri, Kris Waldman

Kris Waldman, Executive Director, Vice President

Kris has loved making art since she was seven, when she learned to oil paint on a rickety dock on the Jersey shore with her beloved teacher, Zippin. Since then, she has expanded her art pursuits to include multimedia sculpture, photography and teaching. Kris worked as a Graphic Designer and Art Director for over 20 years prior to joining the CAA. She holds a Bachelors with honors from Dickinson College, a Certificate in Graphic Design from Mass. College of Art, and an MFA from the Art Institute of Boston. She exhibits at galleries and Open Studios events, and has received awards for her artwork, graphic design and art programs.
www.kriswaldman.com

Laurie Aurigemma, Office Manager

Laurie Aurigemma has long had an interest in traditional black and white photography and has exhibited her work at Pickering Wharf in Salem, MA. She has worked as a Book Production Artist for education publishing companies for over fourteen years and as a full charge bookkeeper for ten years.

Sandra Livis, President

Kristin Kulig, Treasurer

Kristin is Special Project Coordinator, Commonwealth of Massachusetts- Dept. of Mental Health.

John Finn, Clerk

Michael Alfano, Board Member

Michael has been sculpting figures, monuments, and philosophical pieces for fifteen years. After graduating with a degree in business, his original career was as a stockbroker. Soon dissatisfied, he turned to sculpting, in part as a way to transform the pain he experienced after his college girlfriend was killed by a drunk driver.

He first studied at the Art Students League of New York with an emphasis on life size sculpture and anatomy. His formal education continued at Boston University, and was augmented by internships with several prominent sculptors.

Michael exhibits his work at galleries and other public venues, and he is a regular entrant in art shows, where he has garnered dozens of awards. His sculptures are found in private collections throughout the world. The public monuments he created are on permanent display throughout the Northeast U.S. Many newspapers and magazines have featured Michael’s work and his story.
www.malfano.com

Suzanne Hoban Bucceri, Board Member

Suzanne is a multimedia artist, instructor and designer. After many years of teaching all medias to professional artists and advanced adult students she wanted to understand the creative process and devoted years of teaching talented children. She then successfully developed art educational programs for schools and townships in three states both for adults and children. She holds a BA with honors in Art and Psychology. She is a lifetime learner and has managed to study new and varied techniques no matter where she has lived. She has taught on staff of the Cultural Arts Alliance of Hopkinton, and presently teaches art classes in her home at Art Works Studios of Hopkinton, Ma.

Suzanne has studied art and design since nine years of age with many outstanding artists in the New York Metropolitan Area a few include Ruth Wilson, Ron Lent, and Pat Demming. She worked hard to help create “Art on the Mall” in Washington D.C. In 1995, she toured Mainland China with other educators associated with the Smithsonian Institute of Washington, D.C. to find other approaches to art education. Her work has been exhibited in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Germany.

She has been the recipient of many awards and honors both for her watercolors and oil paintings. Her watercolor portraits of buildings and businesses hang in colleges and hotels as well as private homes. She is a member of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., The American Association of University Woman, The Southborough Art Association and is on the Board of the Cultural Arts Alliance of Hopkinton.
www.artworks-studios.com

Monica Anderson Spencer, Board Member

Ms. Spencer is a native of Washington, D. C., graduating with honors from Howard University where she earned the Bachelor and Master Degrees of Music Education. She has performed with such diverse organizations as Enter Stage Left, Hines-Lee Opera Studio, Opera Southwest, the Goldovsky Opera Institute Summer Workshop, the Wolf Trap Opera Training Program, the Joffrey Ballet, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and with jazz greats Donald Byrd, Max Roach and Oscar Brown, Jr.

Ms. Spencer has appeared in the United States and abroad in the title role of Scott Joplin’s opera Treemonisha, and has performed the role of Queen Isabella in Gomes’ Colombo, Miss Silverpeal in Mozart’s The Impresario, Despina, in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte, Mrs. Nolan in Menotti’s The Medium, Strawberry Woman in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, and many others. She has appeared as a soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Takoma Park Symphony Orchestra and in recital at the State Department, The National Portrait Gallery, the Sumner School Museum, and in many churches in the Washington Metropolitan area and the Metrowest area of Boston, MA.

Currently, Ms. Spencer is the Chorus Director at Bellingham High School, in Bellingham, MA, where she also teaches music technology and voice. The mother of two sons, Franklin and Roland, she resides in Hopkinton, MA, with her husband, Wil.

Andrea Green, Board Member and Art Teacher

Andrea Green, a mixed media artist and teacher, holds a M.Ed. from Lesley University for Curriculum and Instruction in Creative Arts in Learning.  She earned Massachusetts Art Teacher Certification for grades K to 9 at Framingham State University. She has a BA in Fine Arts and Psychology from Brandeis University. Andrea has taken advanced art and architecture courses at RISD, Mass. College of Art and Worcester Art Museum. She taught art at the Danforth Museum School and in the Hudson and Worcester public schools for many years. She creates and gives art classes at Starting Line Studio in her home in Ashland and teaches a variety of art classes for children and adults at the CAA.
www.startinglinestudio.com