$20 Suggested Donation

Join S13 Resident Damien Hoar de Galvan at the Hawthorne Barn for an intimate, hands-on workshop exploring material, form, and process. Gain insight into the artist’s approach while experimenting with sculptural ideas of your own — no prior experience needed.

Damien Hoar de Galvan was born in 1979 in Northampton, Massachusetts, and spent his early childhood between western Massachusetts and Argentina, where his father is from, before moving at age two to Beverly, Massachusetts, his mother’s hometown, where he grew up through high school. After graduating from Beverly High School, he attended Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont, playing on the soccer team and earning a degree in Behavioral Science in 2001. He then briefly lived in Portland, Oregon, where he began painting and considering a career as an artist. In 2002, he moved to Boston and focused on painting and collage for five years before enrolling in the Post-Baccalaureate program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, which he completed in 2008; during this time, he began working in sculpture, particularly in the wood shop. Since 2008, he has worked across a range of materials, with wooden sculpture emerging as his primary medium. In 2025, he received the James and Audrey Foster Prize from the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, and his work has since been exhibited throughout the United States. He lives and works in Milton, Massachusetts.