Milisa Galazzi
Artist, Milisa Galazzi, is best known for her three dimensional hand sewn shadow drawings, her printed works on paper, and her richly layered abstract drawing and paintings - all of which explore the very nature of being human. Her work is held in private international collections as well as public collections in the United States. She is an adjunct professor at Clark University, she mentors artists internationally through Mastrius, and she exhibits nationally in solo and group shows in both galleries and museums.
Her work is represented by, Miller White Fine Arts gallery on Cape Cod and can be viewed and purchased on Artsy. Galazzi presents talks at national and international conferences and provides personalized group trainings for organizations. Her artwork has been featured and reviewed in Surface Design, FiberArts and ArtScope magazines as well as in books such as, "Contemporary Cape Cod Artist: On Abstraction," and "Paper + Wax, Techniques in Handmade Paper and Encaustic” as wells as, "Encaustic: Art in the Twenty First Century." Galazzi was 'boat schooled' as a child while she and her family traveled and lived aboard their thirty-one foot trimaran sail boat hand built by her father. She received an MA with Honors from the Rhode Island School of Design where she researched the educational effectiveness of creative community-based education settings and her findings are published by Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Project Zero Press, 1999. Galazzi holds a BA from Brown University where she studied Studio Art with minors in Women’s Studies and Cultural Anthropology and she spent a semester studying at Studio Art College International (SACI) in Florence, Italy. She attended and graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover. Additionally, she is the Founder of full palette LEARN. TEACH. LEAD. an organization whose mission is to Cultivate Creativity & Mindfulness for a Better World. Galazzi works full time in her studio near Providence, Rhode Island.
