2022 MENTORSHIP PROGRAM 

Under the guidance of the gallery team and curatorial advisor Jen Mergel, mentees Ana Hernández and Michael Sun pursued studio visits with artists, met with museum educators, curators and directors, reviewed Boston-area exhibitions, and refined their exhibition checklist, layout, statement and engagement plans. During their times as mentees, Ana Hernández was a rising senior at Brookline High School, with experience in AP Art. Michael Sun graduated from Newton South High School and, soon after, began his freshman year at Brandeis University. Their program culminated with group exhibition Chromatic Visions.

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     Chromatic Visions

    A GROUP EXHIBITION ORGANIZED BY THE PRAISE SHADOWS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

    Artwork by Rashida Abuwala, Clint Baclawski, Cicely Carew, and Daniela Rivera
  • Photos by Dan Watkins Photography for Praise Shadows Art Gallery 
     
  • Jen Mergel has developed nationally newsworthy exhibitions, talks, and programs in her leadership roles at the Museum of Fine Arts,...
    Jen Mergel has developed nationally newsworthy exhibitions, talks, and programs in her leadership roles at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the Association of Art Museum Curators, Voices in Contemporary Art, and most recently Olmsted Now. Boston-born and based, she is fiercely committed to championing culture makers, history keepers and change agents who deepen social and spatial justice, locally and globally. She is driven to initiate, innovate and collaborate on projects that foster community curiosity, connective capital and cultural equity through the intersection of the arts with a wide range of disciplines. From November 2021 - January 2023, she served as the inaugural Director of Experience & Cultural Partnerships for Boston's Emerald Necklace Conservancy, where she is now Senior Advisor, Cultural Partnerships & Parks Equity.