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Craig Masten has sketched and painted all his adult life, and in recent years devotes himself to art on a full time basis. He considers oil painting his first love, but also enjoys watercolors, as well as pastels, print-making, and pen and ink. He has studied at the Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA; the DeCordova Museum School in Lincoln, MA.; and currently participates in a variety of painting and figure/life art programs. Since moving to Rhode Island in 2002, Mr. Masten has taken workshops taught by a number of the area’’s artists, including Mildred Kelleher, Al Albrektson, Allen Johnson, Sam Rouslin, Richard Grosvenor, Carole Berren, Anthony Tomaselli, Richard Harrington, Joan Boghossian, Betsy Zimmerman, Carol Fitzsimonds, Lisa Goddard, Carole Berren, and Gail Armstrong. Most especially, he gives credit to the encouragement of Natalie Pfansteihl and the members of her Narragansett Bay plein air painters. He has spent many pleasant hours in their company as well as other such groups attempting to capture the memorable places of New England. He also acknowledges other contemporary artists--notably Eric Weingardt, Charles Reid, Richard Schmid, William Thon and David Aldridge--as significant influences in his development as a painter. Mr. Masten is an award-winning artist member of the Rhode Island Watercolor Society, the Wickford Art Assoc., the South County Art Assoc., the Cape Cod Art Assoc., the Providence Art Club, and Spring Bull Studio & Gallery. He has shown his work in numerous juried shows and exhibitions at these organizations, as well as at the DeCordova Museum, the Warwick Art Museum, the Newport Art Museum, the Newport Art Guild, and BFA Studioworks Gallery. His work is regularly represented as an artist member at the Spring Bull Studio Gallery in Newport, RI, and at the Deacon Taylor House and Gallery, Studio #3, in Providence, RI. EDUCATION B.A., DePauw University, Greencastle IN; M.A., Boston University, Boston, MAs; M.S.W., Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA; the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA.; the Museum School, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA; Brookline Art Association, Brookline, MA; and Brighton Art Association, Brighton, MA. Later studied locally in RI with artists Natalie Pfansteihl, Mildred Kelleher, Al Albrektson, Allen Johnson, Sam Rouslin, Richard Grosvenor,Carole Berren, Anthony Thomaselli, Richard Harrington, Elizabeth Zimmerman, Joan Boghossian, Gail Armstrong, and Lisa Goddard. ART MEMBERSHIPS and AFFILIATIONS --Providence Art Club, Artist Member --Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Signature Artist Member --Wickford Art Association, Artist Member --Cape Cod Art Association, Artist Member --South Country Art Association, Artist Member -- Newport Artists Guild/Newport Art Museum --Spring Bull Studio and Gallery, Artist Member --Deacon Taylor Studios and Gallery, Artist Member RECENT PRIZES and AWARDS --Third Place, RI Watercolor Society, 2009 --Honorable Mention, Providence Art Club, 2009 --Second Place, Wickford Art Association, 2008 --Signature Member, RI Watercolor Society, 2008 --Stella Halit Award, Providence Art Club, 2008 --Honorable Mention, Wickford Art Assoc., 2008 --Honorable Mention, RI Watercolor Society, 2007 --Honorable Mention, Providence Art Club, 2007 --First Place, Wickford Art Association, 2007 --First Place, Wickford Art Association, 2007 --Second Place, Cape Cod Art Association, 2006 --Second Place, Wickford Art Association, 2006 RECENT GROUP SHOWS --2010--Members Invitational, South County Art Association --2009--Signature Members Show, RIWS --2008--Portsmouth Art Assoc. "RIWS Invitational." --2007——Spring Bull Gallery, Special Exhibition of RIWS Painters. --2007-- Providence Art Club, Two Person Show with wife Gail Armstrong, ““A Marriage of Two Artists.”” --2007--Rhode Island Watercolor Society, "Related Perspectives," with wife, Gail Armstrong,& Uncle, Henry Budlong. --2007——Spring Bull Gallery, Four Person Show with wife, uncle, and mother in law,““Related Scenes.”” --2006——Wickford Art Assoc., Narragansett Bay Plein Air Painting Group Show. RECENT EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS --Members Invitational, South County Art Assoc., 2010 --Third Place,Open Juried show, Winter Wonderland, RIWS, 2009 --Members Exhibition, Providence Art Club, 2009 --Open juried All NE Exhibition, Cape Cod Art Assoc., 2009 --Signature Members Invitational Show, RIWS, 2009 --Open juried 14th Annual Art of the Ocean State, Wickford Art Assoc., 2009 --Open juried show, All Creatures Great & Small, RIWS, 2009 --Open Juried show, " Open Chaos," Wickford Art Assoc., 2009 --Open Juried All Media show sponsored by Gov. Carceri and the RI State Council on the Arts, 2008 --Open Juried Avant Garde/Abstract/New Media Show, Wickford Art Assoc., 2008 --Open Juried All Media Invitational, South County Art Assoc., 2008 --Open Juried "National Show," the RIWS, 2008. --Open juried "Regional All New England Show," Cape Cod Art Assoc., 2008. --Open Juried "Paint Rhode Island." show at the RIWS, 2008 --Portsmouth Invitational for the RIWS, 2008 --Open Juried Regional, Cape Cod Art Assoc. 2008 --Rhode Island Artists for Save The Bay,2008 --Stella Halit Award, Artist Members Show, Providence Art Club, 2008 --Open National Annual Juried Exhibition, Providence Art Club, 2008 --Open Juried Show, Wickford Art Assoc., Man or Beast. 2008 --Open Juried Regional,NE Exhibition, Cape Cod Art Assoc., 2007 --Open Juried "Scenes of Rhode Island", sponsored by Gov. Carcieri and the RI Council for the Arts, 1007 --Open Juried, National Watermedia Show, RIWS 2007 --Co-presenter in gallery program, ““Artists Who Marry Artists,”” Bert Gallery, 2007 --Honorable Mention,RIWS,“Passion for Color,” 2007 --Three Person Show,RIWS “Related Perspectives,” 2007 --Open Juried Regional, Cape Cod Art Assoc., 2007 --Open juried National, Cape Cod Art Assoc., 2007 --Honorable Mention, Juried Artist Members Show, Providence Art Club, “Construction, Reconstruction,” 2007 --Open National ““Annual Juried Exhibition,”” Providence Art Club, 2007 --First Place, Juried “Spring Members Show,” Wickford Art Assoc. 2007 --First Place, Open Juried Show, “Interiors,” Wickford Art Assoc. 2007 --Presenter, Rhode Island Flower Show, “Art in the Garden,” 2007