Bio

Constantia Thibaut, or Connie Thibaut, as she is known to most, is a graphics and mixed-media artist who studied painting for five years at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, where she was exposed to the Surrealist painters whose work became a strong inspiration. Later, at Massachusetts College of Art (MCA), where she graduated with a BFA, she learned about the Surrealist women painters.
While earning the MSAE (Master's of Science in Art Education) at MCA, she chose a Surrealist reinterpretation of an Old French romance as the subject of her thesis show. She has studied with and been influenced by local Boston area artists such as the late Conger Metcalf (Neo-Romanticism) and more recently Adria Arch (Abstract Expressionism).
As an art educator, she is proud to have taught children - especially adolescents - in the Boston Public School system, from which she is now retired. She is convinced that bringing art to inner city teenagers will help them find meaning and fulfillment at a critical time in their lives; that making art can open up a means of creative expression, a consolation, a source of strength; and that studying art, like the study of literature and philosophy - can empower and save lives.
She taught art to adults and teenagers at other institutions as well, such as the Arlington Center for the Arts, Art All-State for 11th graders in Worcester, and MCA evening and summer programs. Her course offerings included: Surrealism: Myth & Metaphor, Fantastic Art, Renaissance Painting Techniques, Figure Drawing, Portraiture, and 2D and 3D Fundamentals.
Although she has retired from teaching, she continues to create art that is informed by her life experiences and which reinterprets the traditions of the Renaissance, Fantastic Art, and Expressionism.