Emily O’Neil

Executive Director (she/her)

Emily O’Neil joins the New Art Center with more than a decade of strategic planning, program development, community building and grant-making experience in the arts and culture nonprofit sector. Emily graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College with a degree in Art History, and later completed a Master’s degree in Urban Policy from Tufts University, focusing her thesis on the value of arts education in Boston’s public school system.

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Reggie Woolery

Deputy Director of Education
(he/him)

Reggie Woolery is a visual artist, writer, and educator. He is the former Director of Education at Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit and the California Museum of Photography at University of California Riverside. He served as Head of Media Studies at The Ross School in East Hampton Long Island.

His writings on digital media and photography have appeared in Bomb, NKA Journal of Contemporary African American Art, TRANS, Black Film Review, Felix, International Documentary Association Magazine and FUSE: Journal of Arts & Culture, where he served as contributing editor.

Reggie’s multimedia work has been featured at The Photographer’s Gallery, London, the 40th Flaherty Film Seminar, and at MIT in Race in Digital Space. He has been an artist fellow at the Society of Humanities at Cornell University, Banff Centre for the Arts, and a critical studies fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s ISP.

Rebecca Connors

Marketing and Development Manager (she/her)

Rebecca Connors comes to the New Art Center with experience in creative communications and marketing for nonprofits. Over the years she has worked in bookstores, environmental advocacy, web development, and the arts. She lives with her family and two cats in Boston, where she received her MFA in poetry from the Solstice Creative Writing Program, now at Lasell University. When not at work, she’s writing poems, spending time with her family, tending to her many houseplants, and listening to way too many podcasts. 

Julie Fox

Ceramics Program Manager (she/her)

Julie Fox is Ceramics Program Manager. If it’s happening in Ceramics, then it’s Julie. She is also a Faculty member and has taught at New Art since 2007. Julie has a Fine Arts degree from the University of Washington. Pottery making has been her profession for 25 years. She has had a residency at the Hudson River Museum and been on the Westchester County roster of teaching Artists. Julie and her husband spend their free time managing their dog’s social calendar.

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Jim Garber

Facilities Manager (he/him)

Jim Garber accepted a permanent position with the New Art Center in December, 2013 as the Facilities Manager. He attended Trade School. He likes to fix and build things. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family, especially his 4 granddaughters.

Meagan Hepp

Ceramics Technician (they/them)

Meagan Hepp is a Boston based artist and educator. Meagan joined the New Art Center team in the late Spring of 2022. They have a BFA in Fine Arts and Education from the New England School of Art and Design. In addition to being New Art Center’s Ceramics Technician, they are an adjunct professor in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences at Suffolk University. They are proud to hold the title of Kingston Gallery’s Emerging Artist for 2021-2022. In their art practice, they make both small scale sculpture out of recycled materials and large scale public art. Meagan serves on the Board of Trustees for TransCultural Exchange’s International Conference for the Arts, as well as the Governing Board of Catalyst Conversations, a non-profit dedicated to the dialogue between art and science. In their free time they enjoy watching their cat Cornelia chase reflections from the many disco balls in Hepp’s home studio, as well as spending time with their friends.

Marte Humbert

Registrar (she/her)

Marte Humbert has been at the New Art Center since 2010. As the Registrar she is the point person for the Center along with overseeing registrations and class availability. Her early working career was in the field of Employee Relations. In her free time she enjoys designing and creating jewelry and spending time with family and friends.

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McKenney Leavell

Development and Marketing Coordinator (she/they)

McKenney joined the New Art Center in the fall of 2022. They received their B.A. in Arts Administration from Simmons University. She has held several roles in the music industry and is excited to expand into the world of nonprofit arts organizations. In their free time, McKenney enjoys listening to podcasts, attending local drag events, and spending time with their rabbit, Mars.

Sarah Moriarty

Education Coordinator (she/her)

Sarah has been teaching at New Art Center since 2019, and stepped into the Education Coordinator role in 2022. After receiving her BA in History and Art History from Bridgewater State University, she went on to earn a MA in Culture, Criticism, and Curation from the University of Arts London, where she researched and wrote about community engagement practices for arts-based organizations and museums. Sarah loves engaging with our younger students and fostering connections within our community. In her free time, she enjoys reading, hiking, and afternoons spent at the museum.

Milo Proscia

Office Manager (he/him/they/them)

Milo Proscia joined the New Art Center as Office Manager in Spring of 2022. They received their BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Interrelated Media Studies. After holding various roles within the arts, he has discovered he thrives in environments where he can contribute to an individual’s artistic journey. He is always curious to find different forms of expression from songwriting, to collaging, to refinishing and repurposing furniture. They enjoy spending their time singing karaoke with friends, taking care of plants, and spending quality time with his cat Meatloaf.

Seline Smith

Studio Manager
(she/her)

Seline Smith is a Boston based artist who graduated with her BFA in Painting and Art Education from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Throughout Seline’s years of teaching art, she also a working contemporary artist using primarily oil paint and collage, but also loves to try new mediums of art. Seline enjoys painting, teaching, going to museums and spending time with her friends and loved ones.

Lennon Hernadez Wolcott

Exhibition Coordinator (she/her)

Lennon completed her Bachelor of Fine Art with a focus in Printmaking and Sculpture at Michigan State University in 2010. Leaving the Midwest to attend the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University for the Post Baccalaureate Certificate program (2015) and Master of Fine Arts (2017) where she studied Identity, Craft, and Decolonization through Book Arts, Installation, Printmaking, Sculpture, Papermaking, and Performance.

Warren Wucinich

Night Coordinator
(he/him)

Warren is a professional illustrator, cartoonist, and comic book creator originally from Las Vegas. He has over twenty years of experience in various media including graphic novels, character design, book and album covers, caricature, and fine art. An interest in education and the art community brought him to the New Art Center in the autumn of 2023. Warren likes to spend his free time developing new art projects, binge-watching 80’s television shows, and eating large amounts of pie.