Phil Press:
Phil Press, founder and director of the CCSS graduated from Brown University
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.