Hope Riccardi

Hope Ricciardi is a Boston based painter.

She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and at Tufts University.

Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at, among others, The Massachussetts State House, Sommerville Museum, Whistler Museum, Boston City Hall, Resnikoff Gallery, Gallatea Fine Arts Gallery, Medicine Wheel Gallery Arsenal center for the Arts and lesley University.

She is an art teacher specialized in work in oil painting, drawing and printmaking.

After over 35 years of teaching, Hope works in her studio in the SOWA Art & Design District of Boston's South End, where she hosts weekly figure drawing sessions and work in oil painting, drawing and printmakking.

She is affiliated with the SOWA Artist Guild, United South End Artists (Board of Directors, Chair),National Association of Women Artists (NYC & Boston Galatea Fine Art), Armenian International Women Artists, Violence Transformed (Curator) and the Boston Open Studios Coalition .

Her work has been in included in private collections and in the collection of the Armenian Museum and Library of America.