T. A. Charron

Artist and curator, T. A. Charron is a native New Englander. Charron was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and was brought up on his grandparent’s farm, in South Attleboro, Massachusetts.

Charron has studied with world renowned wildlife artist Robert Bateman, portrait artist Daniel E. Greene, “The Boston School” classically trained painter Robert Douglas Hunter and the “Howard Pyle lineage” illustrator, Norman Baer, and did additional studies in sculpture at Providence College and out west, with sculptor Veryl Goodnight, and stone lithography at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. He is a graduate of the Art Institute of Boston (Lesley University College of Art and Design) and graduated in 1972.

Nationally and regionally, he has received over 125 awards for excellence, in both painting and drawing. His artwork is in the permanent collections of museums and other public and private collections worldwide.

His commissioned paintings of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King and Astronaut Dr. Ronald McNair and 19 other significant portraits of people of color were unveiled to thousands of people at the Hall of Black Achievement events and are in the collection and on display at Bridgewater State University.

Recently, a copy on canvas, of the second commissioned portrait of Malcolm X, this one for the Malcolm X, Ella Little-Collins House was included into the collection of the Dillaway Thomas House Museum, in Roxbury Massachusetts, and is on display. Charron paintings have been published in five historical books, and his art has been featured nationally and locally on broadcast and cable news stations.

As curator, Charron put together “New England Impressions, Painting from Life” - 1989, for the Attleboro Arts Museum and was asked by the Harvard Club of Boston to curate the exhibition, “New England Painters of Today” - 1999. He was also the advisor for the exhibition, “Hounds of Heaven” - 1996, a series of paintings by R.H. Ives Gammell held at the Attleboro Arts Museum.

At the Rockport Art Association in Rockport, Massachusetts, Charron was on the exhibition and book committees for the W. Lester Stevens – 2003, Harry A. Vincent – 2006, and the A.T. Hibbard – 2012 national exhibitions. Charron had served as President of the Board of Trustees, of the Attleboro Arts Museum, in Massachusetts.

He had served as Vice President of the Rockport Art Association and presently he is on the Acquisition Committee, at the Cape Cod Museum of Art. Charron has also served on the board of the Attleboro Land Trust.

T. A. Charron has conducted workshop classes and painting and drawing demonstrations for over 30 years, teaching students both on location and in the studio. His traditional north light studio and home is located South Attleboro, Massachusetts.

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