Artist Pipeline Program
The Artist Pipeline Program is a program to cultivate Allston-Brighton artists learning to build a sustainable arts future. Through workshops, resources, an artist presentation, and short-term projects, a small cohort of artists gain boots-on-the-ground skills, get individualized support for their self-identified goal or challenge, work towards an engagement opportunity at Harvard, and earn a certificate of completion.
This free program is a self-directed artist development opportunity that includes access to Harvard Ed Portal and Harvard University resources and culminates in a capstone project or short-term paid gig.
2026-2027 Artist Pipeline Cohort
The Harvard Ed Portal's Artist Pipeline Program is for artists across diverse backgrounds and mediums who live and/or work in the Allston-Brighton neighborhood and are at a threshold in their career. We're excited to welcome this year's cohort! Learn more below.
Bejeana Breneville (she/her)
Bejeana Breneville is a fiber artist and social impact community advocate who uses creativity as a way to bring people together, build confidence, and spark joy. She enjoys creating community-centered, mindful making experiences that celebrate learning, fun, and true belonging. Her work is rooted in her Haitian heritage, her lived experience of being born without thumbs, and her passion for making the arts more accessible and welcoming for everyone.
Photo Credit: Nneka Oyigbo
Paul DeFazio
Paul DeFazio is an artist and architect whose work centers on the integration of disability and design practice, drawing in particular from his lived experience of blindness. His work explores multisensory drawing, blind aesthetics, and the politics of accessibility. He holds a Master of Architecture from Rice University (2024) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Edinboro University (2017). Paul is interested in creative practice that blurs the line between art, design, and advocacy, and uses disability as a lens through which to challenge assumed ways of knowing and making.
Photo Credit: Izzy Walter
Rosangeline Fleming (she/her)
Rosangeline Fleming is an arts educator based in Boston. Born and raised in a small farm town in western Massachusetts, Rosangeline has been dedicated to increasing education and acceptance in rural communities through the promotion of arts and cultural events with the organization The Rural Justice Network, of which she has served as a board member since its founding in 2021. With a background in graphic design and fine arts her work combines traditional and digital mediums, with a focus on exploring beauty in mundane experiences and human identity.
Olivia Hatten (she/her)
Olivia is a movement arts educator and artist born, raised, and practicing on Nipmuc, Pocumtuc, Massachusett, and Pawtucket land. Her dance and embodiment work is a testimony of her ancestors prayers and preparation, as it is her own prayer and preparation for her descendants to continue this work. Through this work she also reckons and encourage others to reckon with the trauma, self and other inflicted, that has manifested in and around us and our environment.
Photo credit: Renan Arouca
Corinna Parrish (she/they)
Corinna is a singer-songwriter who finds inspiration in the everyday. Writing songs for the past 10 years and playing gigs in her hometowns of New York and Boston, Corinna's music focuses on everyday feelings and encounters; connecting words and music to moments both mundane and grand. Corinna’s music touches on love, loss, growth, change, and their own identity, using music to reflect on the ever-changing world around them. Through music, Corinna hopes to connect people to themselves and to each other, bringing community and understanding to creative spaces. Outside of her creative applications of music, Corinna studies the impact that music has on the brain at the Music, Imaging, and Neural Dynamics (MIND) Lab at Northeastern University. Looking at therapeutic and holistic applications of music to improve wellbeing, Corinna’s practice is rooted in the connective and healing power of music.
Photo Credit: Emily Greenberg
Izaiah Rhodes (they/them)
Izaiah Rhodes is a Black artist and educator based in Boston, Massachusetts. They seek to use craft as a means for empowerment while acknowledging its role in both exploitation and liberation. Rhodes honors and continues the legacy of African American craftspeople’s contributions to woodworking and metalsmithing.
Photo Credit: Hunter Astrid Borkowski
Sapphire Skye Toth (she/her)
Sapphire Skye Toth, a Filipina-American and queer woman of color from Daly City, California, now based in Boston, is a composer, clarinetist, arts administrator, arts labor advocate and storyteller. Rooted in community and collaboration, she approaches composition as a way of weaving tales, sharing laughter, and illuminating voices often missing from the classical canon.
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Photo Credit: Alyssa Wang
Artist Pipeline Mentors
Zakiyyah Sutton (she/her)
Zakiyyah is an artist-activist who utilizes music and visual media to explore themes that centralize marginalized communities. She also serves as a racial equity consultant with Arts Connect International, supporting arts organizations in reassessing their practices through the lens of equity and creative justice. Visit their personal page here.
Headshot by Sara Espinosa
Mel Taing (she/her)
Mel Taing is a Boston-based Cambodian American photographer, community artist, and educator. Specializing in creative portraiture, exhibition documentation, and community engagement, Mel seeks to celebrate the vibrance, radiance, and joy of the intersecting communities in her life. Visit their personal page here.
Headshot by Mel Taing
Co-Facilitators
In partnership with Arts Connect International, a Boston-based organization that builds equity and inclusion in and through the arts. Their ultimate goal is creative justice.
Past Participants
Learn more about the previous Artist Pipeline Program cohort and their Springboard projects, plus view past guest presenters and co-facilitators!
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