Arts Extension Service Staff

Staff:

Dee Boyle Clapp M.F.A., M.N.M. Interim Director is a sculptor, installation artist and lecturer on 'green' topics.  She has been teaching a variety of studio, art history and arts management courses for 20 years at UMass Amherst, museum schools, and at community colleges.  Dee co-owned the Artemis Gallery and was a founding member and the first director of the Art Bank, and was part of the restoration team for this 1860's bank building in Shelburne Falls, MA.  As Director she ran all programming for two galleries, studio art courses, the Children’s Blue Snow Performance Series, the Adult Performance Series, festivals and community events.  Dee directed a local humane society, and established successful humane education and outreach programs, doubled the organization’s endowment and annual operating budget, and prepared the organization for a $5 million capital campaign. She was program coordinator for the Fostering the Arts and Culture Partnership creative economy project organizing business and marketing training, exhibition and web opportunities, and networking for artists, and joined the staff at the Arts Extension Service in 2008.  Dee's work has long involved sustainability. She has greened two organizations, co-chairs a UMass Green Team, and lectures on sustainability issues.  She holds bachelor's degrees in art and art history from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, an MFA in sculpture from UMass Amherst, and is completing an online Master's in nonprofit management from Regis University in Denver, Colorado.

Perry Huntoon, Administrative Assistant  is an artist who graduated from Smith College with a BA in Fine Arts in 2009. She studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in the spring of 2008.  Currently, Perry serves as Vice President of C3 Northampton, a creative community collective.