Feb 6, 2021
Benares Angeley has been working with children in creative art endeavors for more than twenty years.
MARION The Marion Art Center announced Benares Angeley as its 2021 ArtStart Director in a Feb. 5 press release.
ArtStart is the MAC s summer art program for kids four-and-a-half to nine years old, offered from late June to July.
Angeley has been working with children in creative art endeavors for more than twenty years.
She is the founder and director of Children’s Art Lab, a creative, process-based mobile art studio that brings art to children and families through the South Coast.
Angeley has run many Art Lab programs at the Marion Art Center and has contributed to the MAC’s virtual programming, as well as other community partnerships such as the grassroots organization Tri-Town Against Racism.
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The Marion Art Center is pleased to welcome Benares Angeley as its 2021 ArtStart Director. Angeley has been working with children in creative art endeavors for more than twenty years. She is the founder and director of Children’s Art Lab, a creative, process-based mobile art studio that brings art to children and families through the SouthCoast region. Angeley teaches pre-K through 8th grade art and music at St. Francis Xavier School in Acushnet, MA while operating Art Lab through several venues. Angeley has run many Art Lab programs at the Marion Art Center and has contributed to the MAC’s virtual programming, as well as other community partnerships such as the grassroots organization Tri-Town Against Racism. She received her Masters of Fine Arts in Fibers from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth in 2005 and is currently working toward obtaining her Masters in Elementary Education through Merrimack College in North And