Alison Nolan, Chair
Alison Nolan, Boston, is a principal of Blue Atlantic Fabricators which specializes in steel and aluminum custom fabrication for offshore wind, transportation, marine and heavy civil projects. Previously, she spent twenty-three years at Boston Harbor Cruises as General Manager and a 4th generation principal, where she oversaw the daily operation of BHC’s 60-vessel fleet. Her responsibilities included developing new products, public bidding and procurement, contract management, and maintaining standards for customer service and product delivery. In addition, she directed the company’s marketing, public relations and digital profiles. In 2019 she led a strategic M&A transition for the corporation. Ms. Nolan is a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committees of Boston Harbor Now, the national Passenger Vessel Foundation, Sail Boston, the Museum of Science, the USS Constitution Museum, SKAL International.
Anthony M. Amore, Vice-chair
Anthony M. Amore, Winchester, is the Director of Security and Chief Investigator for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. He has served in this capacity for nearly two decades. In addition to this work, he is one of the world's foremost authorities on art crime and protection. He teaches a course in art crime investigations at Harvard DCE's Museum Studies graduate program and has authored three national best-sellers on the topic.
Robert A. Cerasoli
Robert Cerasoli has a long career of elected, appointed and civic service, having served as a state representative from the Third Norfolk District, Inspector General for both the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the City of New Orleans, and instructor of higher education focusing on ethics, finance, government, and public administration. He serves on the boards of several not-for-profit, government and cultural agencies, including the Board of Trustees of the State Library of Massachusetts, and is trained in mediation and security. He shares with the board and staff his in-depth knowledge and love of history, art and collecting.
L’Merchie Frazier
Visual activist, public artist, historian, educator, lecturer, poet, L’Merchie Frazier was formerly Director of Education and Interpretation for the Museum of African American History, Boston/Nantucket, and is currently Executive Director of Creative / Strategic Planning for SPOKE Arts Inc. She is a member of the African American Artist in Residence Program at Northeastern University, 2025-2026 MLK Visiting Professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a life-long member of the Women of Color Quilter’s Network. Frazier’s innovative art focus supports social and reparative justice and the quest for civil and human rights through the lens of five hundred years of Black and Indigenous history. Her residencies in Brazil, Taiwan, Costa Rica, Africa, France, and Cuba feature public community projects, and her works are in the collections of the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery, the White House, Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design. She is a Boston Foundation Brother Thomas Fellow and was recently she awarded a 2025-2026 Wagner Arts Foundation Fellowship. She is a mayoral appointment to City of Boston Reparations Task Force and Senate appointment to the State House Art Commission.
Dawn Mahoney
Dawn Mahoney, Winthrop, full time artist, illustrator, and private instructor, is currently the president of the Winthrop Art Association where she has been a member since 1979, serving in all areas of leadership, and chairing dozens of local programs and committees to bring the arts to the community. Each year she reaches countless residents through her design work, demonstrations, local exhibits, and private commissions. She also teaches at the Winthrop Senior Center. She is represented in many US and international collections.
Paula Morse
Paula Morse, Cohasset, chair of the Art Commission from 2004-2024, has long been an advocate for public art and the preservation of historic properties and collections. She has been involved in curatorial, archival and publications work for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Department of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture), the Hull Lifesaving Museum, and the Cohasset Historical Society. She has co-authored the MFA’s catalogue of American sculpture and the Society’s architectural and social history, The First 250, Cohasset’s Earliest Houses and Places. She is a Massachusetts Historical Society Fellow and a former antique dealer with a shop in Concord.
Jessica Roscio
Prior to joining the Danforth Art Museum in Framingham in 2011, Jessica Roscio held positions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She became Curator of the Danforth in 2015, overseeing management of the collections during the Museum’s merger with Framingham State University and subsequent building-wide renovations. She was appointed Director in 2020 shortly after the re-opening of the museum. Jessica has taught courses at Emerson College and Suffolk University, has served as a juror for regional and national exhibitions, and is a regular contributor to Aspect Initiative, an online gallery focusing on contemporary photography in New England. Jessica holds an MA in Art History from the University at Buffalo and a Ph.D. in American Studies, with a focus on the History of Photography, from Boston University.