L-R: VP Bob Vance, President Susie Robson, Treasurer Osmani Rodriguez Jr., Osmani Rodgriguez  Sr., Secretary Adele Rothman, Dana Acker.
Photo by Director Erik Gehring from the November 16, 2023 Annual Artists Meeting.

Board

President Susie Robson

Susie Robson has been a member of the Hyde Park Art Association at the Menino Arts Center for 30 years, and is the current Acting President of HPAA. She is a Principal UX Designer at Sophos Ltd. in Burlington, MA. She has 25+ years’ experience in interface/interaction design and UX research for both web-based and application-based software and mainframe software, She is treasurer and past secretary and founding board member of the Boston User Experience Professionals’ Association (UXPA) chapter. She has an M.M. in Business Management from Cambridge College. 

Vice-President Bob Vance

Business Analyst, Exec Board at Hyde Park Artist Association and works at Business Analyst at The MAC and 54th MVI Regiment

Studied at Boston Business College, lives in Hyde Park, Massachusetts, from Hyde Park, Massachusetts

Self-Employed, November 8, 2018 to present, 54th Mass Regiment Company A volunteers

Hyde Park Artist Association, October 2010 – Present, Volunteer board member – support curator

Business Analyst at The MAC and 54th MVI Regiment, September 15, 2010 to present

Volunteer; Board Member. at Southwest Boston CDC, September 10, 2002 – Present

Former BA for C/L Agri, Auto, platform mergers at QBE Insurance

Former Sr. Application Developer at Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions, Most lines of Insurance including HR, Recievables & Admin

Worked at QBE, Fairmount-Indigo Collaborative

Secretary Adele Rothman

Adele has been an HPAA member for over 25 years.  As well as being the current Secretary of the Board for two years, she has held other Board positions in the past, including a stint as Treasurer.  She also chaired the Membership Committee and the Studio Users Group. She completed the paperwork for HPAA’s non-profit status and was instrumental in the acquisition of the arts center.  Her education includes a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Cornell University as well as a Certificate with honors in both black & white photography and advertising from the New England School of Photography (NESOP) two-year professional program.  After graduation, she taught on-camera flash and introduction to color photography at NESOP as well as being an assistant instructor in introduction to darkroom at Northeastern University.  Professional photographic work includes wedding photography, portraiture, and pet photography.  Currently, she is a fine artist in the mediums of photography and collage. 

Treasurer Osmani Rodriguez Jr.

Osmani just graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston, majoring in Management with a concentration in Accounting. He is currently living in Hyde Park with his family. Osmani has have worked with the Center for Community Health Education and Research and Service (CCHERS), researching the effects of gentrification and displacement on the health of certain communities within the Boston area. He has also worked as an Office Assistant at the Boston Public Schools Headquarters and most recently he was a Sterilization Technician working at Arch Orthodontics.

Dana Acker

 

 

 

 

Board Member Dana Acker studied at Berklee College of Music, where for more than two decades he filled various administrative positions. As Assistant Director of Admissions for Scholarships and Educator Outreach, and later as Director of Summer Programs, he played key roles in the college’s recruitment and revenue goals, as well as marketing and program development.

Dana and his wife Rachael (also an HPAA Board Member) are long-time residents of Boston’s West Roxbury neighborhood. Dana is an active member of the local Jazz and Gypsy Jazz communities and has performed extensively throughout the Boston and New England areas, both as band leader and sideman.  His work in Gypsy Jazz with The Henry Acker Trio has allowed him to travel and perform at several high-profile festivals and events, sharing the bill with some of the genre’s most renowned artists. In addition to his career as performer, he is an accomplished composer/producer and has released several commercially available albums.   

His other interests include art and artists in all forms and mediums, particularly American musicians, composers, authors and artists, also film and video editing and production, the Red Sox, house painting, and the pursuit of anything resembling the ever-elusive (nay hopeless) golf swing.

Sean Hurley

Info to Come.

Osmani Rodriguez Sr.

 

 

 

 

 

Staff

Director Erik Gehring

Erik Gehring is a freelance photographer who specializes in trees and natural landscapes.  He is the Director at the Menino Arts Center, home of the Hyde Park Art Association in Boston, and he is a past President of the Boston Camera Club.  He lives in the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston with his wife Julie, sons Carl and William, dog Comet.  Although Erik enjoys photographing natural environments all over New England, his favorite destination is Boston’s Arnold Arboretum.

Erik’s work has appeared in Yankee Magazine, AMC’s Outdoors, Northern Woodlands, the Boston Globe, the Boston Metro, the Cape Cod Times, E the Environmental Magazine, and other publications.  He has shown his fine art prints at galleries throughout Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.

Erik also has lectured and taught workshops at the Arboretum, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Photographic Resource Center in Cambridge, the Eliot School in Jamaica Plain, the Cambridge Art Association, the Concord Art Association, the Hyde Park Art Association, and at locations all over New England for BlueHour Photo Ventures.

Curator Sasja Lucas

Drawing on experiences that were nurtured by a very creative family, Sasja has involved herself in many diverse artistic pursuits: drawing, painting, printmaking, murals; graphic, interior, exhibit and stage design/productions; and 2-D and 3-D fabrication for animation. She has taught art and design at a variety of institutions, including the Massachusetts College of Art, Newbury College, the Fuller Museum, Brookline Arts Center, Menino Arts Center, and Cornwall Studios/Gallery. This has brought her into contact with students aged two to ninety-two, from whom she always seeks inspiration and sees first-hand the process of discovery on which all her art is based. Sasja received a BFA from SUNY Binghamton, and an MA in painting from George Washington University.