The Cambridge Center for Adult Education

Phil Press, founder and director of the CCSS graduated from Brown University in 1968 intending to become a lawyer, but after one year at Columbia Law School he took a leave of absence and drove a cab in New York City where he discovered the New York Studio School. After a year he won a scholarship to Skowhegan and then eventually received an MFA from Queens College in 1974.
He was one of the early members of the Bromfield Gallery and taught at the Art Institute of Boston, Northeastern University, Tufts and Montserrat College of Art.

Barbara Baum is a painter who received a Bachelor's and a Master's Degree in Painting at Boston University School for the Arts. She has been teaching at the Cambridge Center Studio School for ten years and has also taught at Milton Academy and the Art Institute of Boston. Her studio work includes commissioned portraits as well as work that is abstract. She has had one person and group shows in the Boston area and on the Cape. She is currently associated with the AA/B Gallery in Boston.

Charles Feininger - B.A. Harvard University (American History), 1988 - Studied Painting & Drawing in the Intensive Studio Program at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education with Phil Press and Monique Johannet, 1992-1997 - Studied Painting at the Art Institute of Boston with Martin Mugar, 1993 - 1994 - Work exhibited at Stadtische Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany March - June 2001 - Work exhibited at the Cologne Art Fair, fall 2001 - Work exhibited at Achim Moeller Fine Art Ltd., New York, NY, 2001 - 2002 - Drawing Instructor, Intensive Studio Program, 1998 - 2004

Sue Miller has been represented by the Allan Stone Gallery, NYC, for the past 25 years with numerous solo and group exhibitions. In Boston, Sue shows with the Nielsen Gallery. In addition, she has had solo shows at The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco; Central Hall Gallery, Port Washington, NY; and Women in the Arts, NYC. Her work has been included in group shows across the country and been reviewed in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, ArtNews, Art in America, Arts Magazine, The Boston Herald, Art New England, San Francisco Chronicle, ArtSpeak, Gallery & Studio, and numerous other publications. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the New England Foundation for the Arts/ NEA. She has served as faculty or visiting artist at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Moore College of Art, Philadelphia; Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY; University of California at Berkeley; U. Mass. Boston and other schools, colleges and universities. She currently teaches at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, MA. Links: http://www.AllanStoneGallery.com
http://www.NielsenGallery.com
http://www.artnet.com (click on artists; "M", and scroll to Miller)

Martin Mugar's work has been exhibited at Creiger-Dane in Boston, Rising Tide in Provincetown and the Bowery Gallery in New York City. His work is in several permanent collections,including the Boston Public Library, the MIT Museum in Cambridge,MA, the Fuller Museum In Brockton,MA and the Weatherspoon Museum in Greensboro,NC. He served as Associate Professor at the Art Institute of Boston. He has also tayught at the University of New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, University of North Carolina at Greensoboro and Montserrat Colege of Art.

Sheffield Van Buren studied at the school of Pietro Annigoni, Florence, Italy, in 1964. Studied with Wayne Thiebaud at Cornell University in the summer of 1967. Graduated with a BA in painting from Marlborough College, under Wolf Kahn, in 1968. He is represented in the collections of Brandeis University and Bowdoin College as well as in a number of private collections.