Faculty & Staff Holiday Shopping Guide 2024
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The holiday season means showering your loved ones with special gifts to show them you care. And there is no better way to show your love for the artistic, imaginative, or creatively inclined people in your life than Eliot School classes. Except, of course, for taking a class with them and bonding through creating. Luckily, if you aren't sure what class your loved one would like best, we offer gift certificates of any value!
Looking for something more tangible to gift someone special in your life? Then check out unique gifts for your friends and family, or yourself, crafted by our talented teaching artists! With so many ads and promotions cluttering your shopping options this time of year, we wanted to make finding meaningful local handmade gifts easy by sharing where you can buy the creations of our instructors you know and love.
Jerel Dye
Much of Jerel’s art stems from a deep interest in science and technology, though it frequently also contains a healthy dose of wonder. He has been creating art and comics since 2005. Beyond his standalone drawings, Jerel has produced dozens of self-published mini comics and created comics stories for anthologies such as Inbound, Minimum Paige, Hellbound, and the award-winning Little Nemo/Winsor McCay tribute Dream Another Dream. Jerel has also illustrated two graphic novels; Pigs Might Fly in 2017, and Einstein in 2022, listed as one of the top 10 graphic novels of the year by ALA Booklist. In 2012, he received the MICE comics grant for his mini-comic From the Clouds.
Buy his art here and check out his upcoming classes at the Eliot School here!
Cristina Hajosy
Cristina is a multi-media artist, whose work encompasses photography, printmaking, bookmaking, artists books/journals, zines, and decorative papers. She is a prolific artist and artisan and an active art educator, teaching at numerous schools in Greater Boston. She also owns and operates Cristina Hajosy Photography, providing wedding, portrait, and event photography in New England.
Buy her art here and check out her upcoming classes at the Eliot School here!
Diane Franklin
Diane is a paper and fiber artist who creates large wall pieces from fabric and/or paper, using techniques including shibori dyeing, screen printing, painting, rusting, and Gelli printing to transform the surface of her materials. She then combines those materials into abstract compositions. For the past few years, she has also made a number of artist books and collages, using her own photographs or printed papers. Diane has written articles for Fiber Art Now and Fibre Arts Take Two and wrote Dyeing Alchemy, a primer and workbook about Procion dyeing.
Buy her art here and check out her upcoming classes at the Eliot School here!
Dahlia Popovits
Dahlia is a multi-talented fiber artist who has been designing and weaving extraordinary clothes and accessories utilizing her award-winning handwoven textiles made with the finest luxury yarns from around the world, for nearly 50 years. She runs the Dahlia Gallery located at 524 Harrison Ave in the South End. This boutique woven fabric gallery features garments, accessories, and jewelry created by herself and other talented artisans. Dahlia is also an experienced instructor who has taught at a variety of art centers over the past 40 years.
Buy her art here and check out her upcoming classes at the Eliot School here!
Eli Portman
Eli specializes in ink illustrations of city scenes and watercolor landscapes, especially of locations in and around Boston. Eli has created murals and custom artwork for local businesses and events and displayed his work in universities, libraries, cafes, and art galleries all over the City of Boston. He is a member of the Copley Society of Art and released Selected Views of Boston, a coffee table book of his art in 2017.
Buy his art here and check out his upcoming classes at the Eliot School here!