Fay Martin Chandler

Education

• Master of Fine Arts in painting (1967), Hoffberger Graduate School of Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
• BA in sociology, Sweet Briar College, Virginia

Professional Experience

• The Art Connection, Founder and Board of Directors
• Harvard Graduate School of Education, Advisory Council for Arts
• MIT, Council for the Arts
• Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Advisor
• Maryland Institute College of Art, Alumni Council
• MA Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Honorary Trustee
• Sweet Briar College, Friends of Art Council
• Resident of Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Visiting Fellow (1993)

More than thirty solo
exhibitions including

• The Cyclorama of the BCA, Boston
• Sacramento Street Gallery, Cambridge
• The Bodley Gallery, New York City
• Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore
• The Wenham Museum, MA
• The Helen Shilen Gallery and Mills Gallery, Boston
• Billiard Room Gallery, Cambridge
• The Nantucket Art Association and the Sibley Gallery, Nantucket
• Group Exhibitions including a three year traveling exhibition, organized by the Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, NY

Collections

• Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
• DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
• Chysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
• Represented in private collections throughout the United States as well as numerous other countries including Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom and Japan.
• Represented at numerous non-profit institutions in the Boston area including Cambridge Public Schools, Rosie's Place, The United Way, The Women's Education and Industrial Union, Oxfam, The Paige Academy, Latinos Y Ninos and The Committee to End Elder Homelessness.

Archives

• My papers, slides and video footage will be preserved at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe College, Cambridge. They document my experiences as a young girl in Virginia, as wife of a history professor, a mother of four children and as an artist with an entrepreneurial spirit.
• Who's Who in America
• Who's Who in the World