Artist Caretakers Networking Night

Calling New England parents or caretakers looking to expand their creative network! Join us for an evening of community and connection with fellow artists, arts administrators, and curators. We will host a short panel for guests and friends of the gallery to reflect on their role as a caretaker and creative, followed by freeform networking. This event will be hosted by the staff and board of Gallery 263.
This networking event is an opportunity for parent and caregivers creatives to meet and exchange ideas in a casual environment. Children are free and welcomed to the event. This event is alcohol free, but beverages and light snacks will be provided.
Sliding scale donations between $20 and $30 are required to attend. These donations directly sustain our nonprofit operations. Thank you!

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Special Guests:
Jamal Thorne is an African American artist from Maryland with a reputation for visually captivating drawings and mixed media collages. His artistic journey began at the age of 15 as a graffiti artist, igniting a lifelong passion for creative expression. Graduating from Morgan State University in Baltimore with a degree in fine art, Jamal further cultivated his artistic identity by pursuing a master's degree in fine arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Art and Northeastern University. After graduating in 2012, Jamal was awarded the Joan Mitchell Grant for painting. He currently serves as a dedicated art and design professor at Northeastern University, all the while maintaining an active studio practice in the city of Boston. His body of work predominantly centers around his personal experiences as a black male, delving into themes of identity performance, consumption habits, and the emotional labor inherent in everyday life. Initially focused on drawing in charcoal and graphite, Jamal's artistic style has since evolved into multilayered collages that blend drawings of cultural iconography, found materials, and acrylic paint. His latest creative endeavors delve deeper into the connection between generational trauma and identity, inviting viewers to engage in a profound exploration of the human experience.

MiJung Yun is a visual artist best known for drawings of natural phenomena and abstract paintings. She was born in South Korea and currently works in Boston. Throughout her career, she has favored charcoal, graphite, pen, and ink on paper, and acrylic and oil paint on canvas. These materials are used to depict the structures of natural imagery and human figures from life, memory, and imagination. MiJung received her B.A. in Education and M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction Education from Arizona State University. Later, she achieved an A.A. in Fine Arts from Mesa Community College and received her MFA (2025) in Studio Art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. She is a recipient of Tufts University’s Domestic Travel Grant and 2025 Nichols Drawing Breath Award.

Amy Lovera is an artist whose work is rooted in imaginative storytelling and the interplay between reality and fiction. Her narrative works translate personal histories through reenacting them as photographs, animations, drawings and performances. Lovera’s work has been screened, exhibited and published both nationally and internationally, including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the RISD Museum and Mexico’s Fine Art Photography journal, Luna Córnea. Lovera is one of this year’s recipients of the Make Art individual artist grant awarded by the Rhode Island State Council of the Arts. She has also been awarded grants from LEF Foundation, Bridgewater State University and RISCA’s Aaron Siskind Fellowship in Photography. She holds an MFA in photography from Rhode Island School of Design with a certificate in reflective collegiate teaching from Brown University. Lovera is an Associate Professor in the Art & Art History Department at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. She makes her home and work in Rhode Island.

Michelle Millar Fisher is currently the Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts within the Contemporary Art Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her work focuses on the intersections of people, power, and the material world. The recipient of an MA and an M.Phil in Art History from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, she received an M.Phil from and completed her doctorate in art history at The Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY). She has long been interested in the confluence of gender and design, and has written widely on care work, mothering, and reproductive labor, including parenting in museums (and hiding care work at work), being childfree, grief and mothers, and the architecture of maternity. Since 2017, she has co-organized an independent team of collaborators around a book (MIT Press 2021), exhibition, curriculum, and program series called . Previously, she was the The Louis C. Madeira IV Assistant Curator of European Decorative Arts and Design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a Curatorial Assistant at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and a museum educator at the Guggenheim Museum. She co-founded ArtHistoryTeachingResources.org and Art + Museum Transparency, dedicated to supporting critical conversations on the intersections of art and labor.

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