TEACHING EXPERIENCE

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Painting and Drawing Instructor, 2019-present
Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, MA, Architectural Drawing Instructor, 2018–present
Nantucket Artists Association, Nantucket, MA, Painting and Drawing Instructor, 2013–present
59 Wareham St. Artists Studios, Boston MA, Private Art Instructor, 2006-present
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, Painting and Drawing Instructor, 1995–12
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA, Teacher’s Assistant to Dorothy P. P. Snow, 1980-83

MULTI MEDIA EXPERIENCE

2012-14 Nantucket Community Television, Nantucket, MA, Creative Director, Station Manager, Editor.
2010-11 Liberty Mutual, Boston, MA, Director of E-business Strategic Planning.
2000-08 National College Radio, Founder, Executive Producer.
1997-00 Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA, Creative Director,
1992-97 Wisdom Publications, Boston, MA, Director of Art and Production.

ART EXHIBITIONS

2018 The Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, MA, Regional Juried Exhibition.
2017 The Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, MA, Regional Juried Exhibition.
2016 The Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, MA, Regional Juried Exhibition.
2016 The Artist Association of Nantucket, Nantucket MA, Summer Exhibition.
2016 John Rugge Gallery, Nantucket, MA, Summer Exhibition.
2013 Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, Fabergé Revealed, A Portrait Studio Installation.
2013 Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, Impressionist On The Water, The Studio Boat, A Landscape Painting and Time Lapse Video Installation.
2012 Kurakula Center, Medford, MA, Consecration of the Kalachakra Stupa for World Peace.
2010 The Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, MA, New England Representational Painting.
2010 Khaki Gallery, Boston, MA, Group Work.
2010 Norman H. Reed Trust, Benefactor: Office of the Mayor, Salem, MA.
2008 The Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, MA, New England Representational Painting. Bronze Medalist.
2009 The Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Venus by the Sea: Works by Lisa J. Sawlit and Other Contemporary Masters of Classicism.
2008 The Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, MA, New England Representational Painting. Bronze Medalist.
2008 Artists for Humanity, Boston, MA, Third Annual Art to Go Exhibition.
2008 The French Library, Boston Massachusetts. L’Académie Française, A Lineage from Leonardo.
2007 A Private Reception with Curator Stephan Wolohogian of the Fogg Art Museum, (Congressman Michael Huffington Attending).
2006 Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts. Master of Fine Art Thesis Exhibition, Drawing the Cast: A Return to Beauty, Wisdom, and Knowledge.
2005 The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. Affirming the Hand.
2005 The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, The Foyer Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts. Raphael and Leonardo: Copying Old Master Drawings.
2005 The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. The Inauguration Exhibition of the New Donnelley Building.
2004 Montserrat College of Art, Beverly Massachusetts. Faculty Exhibition.
2004 Montserrat College of Art, Carol Schlosberg Gallery, Beverly, Massachusetts. The Mantle Series and Other Drawings.
2003 McPhail Gallery, Belmont, Massachusetts. The Mantle Series.

PUBLICATIONS, INTERVIEWS AND AWARDS

2018 Glenn G. Macnutt Award, The Guild of Boston Artists.
2015 National Public Radio, An interview with Artist Lisa Sawlit by Liz Hunt O’Brian.
2014 Muse Award, American Alliance of Museums, Honorable Mention.
2013 Connected, Peabody Essex Museum, Rigging a Studio Boat, by Ed Rodley.
2013 Connected, Peabody Essex Museum, Fabergé Hatches at PEM, by Whitney van Dyke.
2012 N Magazine, 2010, Portrait of the Daila Lama by Rob Cocuzzo.
2010 Medici Member Award, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
2009 The Utrecht Art Supplies 60th Anniversary Art Competition, 2nd Prize in Mixed Media.
2008 Drawing the Cast, The Emulation of Aesthetic Values, Five Études of the Apollo Belvedere by Lisa J. Sawlit, Foreword by Juliette Aristedes, Introduction by Graydon Parrish.
2008 The Guild of Boston Artists, Annual New England Representational Painting Competition, Bronze Medal.

EDUCATION

Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, Master of Fine Art, 2008.
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, Bachelor of Fine Art, 1983.

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

Medici Group, Boston, MA, Member.
National College Radio, Boston, MA, Chairman.
Boston Classical Orchestra, Boston, MA, Advisor.
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Overseer Advisory Board Member.