Alyssa L. Langlais is a Merrimac, MA-based paper collage, mixed media, and digital artist enamored with water and swimming. Her work uses found images, color, texture, and graphic forms to explore memory, evoke symbolism, and record time. She creates collages as a way to capture the intense and beautiful moments she experiences in the water. Her collage and mixed media pieces are one-of-a-kind, hand cut, and arranged depictions of watery scenes. She will occasionally delve into other nature-based subjects as well as exploring imaginary realms. She has found that the digital medium allows her freedom to continue her work outside of her studio and lends itself perfectly to the graphic forms that she is drawn to.

Alyssa has been a “Galleries, Archives, Libraries, and Museums” space professional for over 27 years, as a curator, registrar, project manager, and digital technologist. An avid open-water marathon swimmer, she swims frequently on the NH and MA seacoast and in New England lakes. She enjoys creating collaged memory maps of her adventures and collaborating with other athletes. Alyssa works with non-profits, designing websites, logos, and commemorative artwork. Recently, Alyssa founded the Gulf of Maine Open Water Swimming Association with several like-minded friends.

Leslie Lyman

Leslie Lyman is interested in social history, especially the everyday lives of women. Her art is informed by a lifetime of caregiving and an understanding of the historical lineage from which this work comes. Her work aims to document and increase the awareness, understanding and appreciation of the quiet beauty, the many frustrations and the enduring labor of nurturing.Leslie uses photography and sculptural installation to capture images that hold memory and the ghosts of memory. She blends old and new, fully aware that there are stories embedded deep within objects and knowing that recollection, sentiment, intention and attention are passed on to the lives of other women.Now a resident of Ipswich, Leslie and her husband have lived on the north shore for thirty years where they raised their family of four sons. She has an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a BA from Smith College. Leslie works at Waring School and has a studio in Ipswich.