PERREAULT - Key Persons

Therese Perreault founded Arts Marketplace and Community Storytelling Arts. Arts Marketplace provides business training and professional development tools for individual artists and creative entrepreneurs to gain exposure, advance their career and grow professionally. Community Storytelling Arts, a collaborative space for independent artists and creative entrepreneurs working at the intersection of arts, community and business using creative expression through visuals and narrative to build community. Therese teaches photography at the Arts Institute and guest artist for with the Pima Public Library to bring creative expression into the community. She was a guest photographer at Voices, Inc. and Peoria Unified School District, where she worked on a World War II oral history project. She was also working with Voices, Inc. as a guest photographer with a South Park initiative. The South Park project was an intergenerational community project in which youth and senior citizens team up to photograph and write about their neighborhood. Therese has been working and studying photography since her high school days. Her first solo show was in Boston City Hall. It was a newly opened facility and not yet an accepted "gallery" space. It was the perfect setting for the exhibition about an inner city neighborhood. Showing photography in a nontraditional gallery space is something Therese has repeated in Portland, Maine and London, England. She enjoys incorporating a body of photo documentary work with the situation/environment it came from. Additionally, Therese has spent considerable time at the Maine Photographic Workshops as a student and assistant teacher. She studied photography with Craig Stevens, Eugene Richards, and Paul Caponigro. She was also fortunate enough to study and work with Ruth Bernhard. Therese has managed to find a path in which she has one foot in the creative world and one foot in the business world, often making her the a conduit between the two. Prior to moving to Tucson she was the Director of Career Services for Montserrat College of Art in Massachusetts. Therese developed an "Artist as Entrepreneur" workshop to help artists understand how to manage their art business. She was a founding member and wrote the first successful Mass Cultural Council grant for SeArts, a collaborative of artists and cultural organizations in Cape Ann, MA. Therese has worked in the public, private and quasi-public sectors including corporate 500 companies managing multi-million dollar creative budgets, as well as watching every penny for a family-owned business. She has a BFA, Photography, from the University of Maine and an MBA from Simmons College, Boston. She continues to pursue her photography and has exhibited her photographic work in the U.S. and Great Britain. Currently Therese is in the process of creating a photographic essay on descanso and their significance in modern cultural and religious traditions. "It all influences not only what I see, but the person I have become and the different paths I have chosen." Therese Perreault