Staff & Board

Doug Breault

Exhibitions Director

Doug Breault is an artist, professor, and curator who splits his time between Boston & Providence. His work has been included in exhibitions and screenings nationally and internationally, including the MFA Boston, the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts, Amos Eno Gallery in Brooklyn, and the Bristol Art Museum. Doug has been a guest critic at MassArt, Kansas City Art Institute, Wellesley College, among others. He received his MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, focused on the intersections of photography and painting, and has been an artist in residence at AS220 and MassMoca. Doug has over 10 years of gallery experience with academic institutions, non-profit organizations, and commercial gallery spaces.

Sophia Day

Operations Director

Sophia (Phi) Day is an artist from the Chicagoland area who currently works in Boston. An interdisciplinary artist, her artist practice combines oil painting, printmaking, installation, and digital fabrication alongside her research practice. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. concentrating in oil painting. She also received a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Painting & Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and she recently received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Art at Tufts University. So far, her work has been shown in multiple cities such as Nashville, Chicago, and Boston. A teaching artist, she currently teaches at Bunker Hill Community College and has previously taught at RISD and the Tufts Experimental College. Sophia is passionate about the arts, food systems, and religious history and can be found at home with her dog, Tommy, when not at the gallery or in the studio.  

Allison Gray

Communications Director

Allison Gray is a fine artist and marketer based in the Boston area. She graduated in 2017 with a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art from The School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Allison has shown her work nationally, was awarded a Tufts Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship for painting, and has attended residencies at The Vermont Studio Center and at The Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency. Prior to pursuing fine arts, Allison worked in marketing. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in marketing and a minor in Mandarin Chinese from The University of Vermont, and she holds a Master of Business Administration from Babson College. Born and raised in Massachusetts, Allison is committed to engaging with and contributing to the arts in the Boston area and beyond.

David Craft

Co-founder

David is an artist, musician, wild edible plant forager, scientist, and a Cantabridgian since 2002. As a board member of Gallery 263, he helps with general direction, art selection, as well as food and music related events. He started the Gallery’s yoga program which has been in full swing since 2009. As an artist, he partook in the first Artist in Residency program at the Gallery, and also had an early solo show in January 2010 called Bread Machine.

Jaime Guyon

Jaime Guyon works as the development and marketing manager for Basil Tree Catering, an eco-friendly catering company in Cambridge. She graduated with a degree in vocal performance from Ithaca College and moved to Boston with aspirations of pursuing a career in classical music. However, her ever-growing interests in sustainability and food equity quickly eclipsed her ambition to become an opera star. From her home in Watertown, she is still known to sing an aria from time to time but has also added quilt making, watercolor painting, and block printing to her regular rotation of leisure activities. .

Laura Kathrein

Vice President

Laura is an environmental movement artist and educator originally from the Chicago-land area. She is a founder and co-director of WonderLab STEAM after school program at Lesley University. Before moving to Boston to complete her M.Ed. in Community Arts at Lesley University, Laura served as a gallery committee member at WREN, the Women’s Rural Entrepreneurial Network, where she assisted in the design and implementation of the Bethlehem community mural. Her current body of artistic work, Miracle of Movement, is a daily video movement project that began in September 2015. She is also one of seven in an online dance collective called Exquisite Movement. Laura joined the board of Gallery 263 after completing a graduate internship at the Peabody Essex Museum with former board president Hannah Swartz as the new initiatives intern. She is extremely excited to join the gallery’s close knit community of artists and arts advocates. Laura served as president of the board of Gallery 263 from 2021 to 2023. 

Olivier Kibbey

One of the newest members of the Board of Directors at Gallery 263, Olivier is excited to apply himself to the gallery’s mission. Originally from Connecticut, Olivier gained a firsthand appreciation for museum operations and public engagement at the Eli Whitney Museum. There, he led classes on a wide range of topics; from the post-war art of Ray and Charles Eames, to the Ottoman architecture of Aleppo. Olivier moved to Medford to attend Tufts University, where he majored in biology and music. He now resides in Cambridge, where he’s exposed to the city’s vibrant artistic community. Olivier’s mission at Gallery 263 is to use his attention to detail and organizational experience to improve the gallery’s operations.

Emily Lam

Secretary

Emily is co-founder of Rtangent, a Cambridge-based start-up focused on software applications to support improving access to cultural and historical venues with the use of physical and virtual geolocation of indoor spaces. Emily is a photographer and performs most of the photogrammetry done by Rtangent, as seen in the recurring Gallery 263 virtual experiences and by other clients, including the USS Constitution Museum, the Paul Revere House, and King’s Chapel. Emily Lam holds BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Boston University. Her research includes the investigation of how light as a medium can be manipulated to achieve health, productivity, and energy efficiency benefits. Her research produced two patents on the use of engineered light to realize indoor positioning to support applications, including indoor navigation, object localization, and future augmented and virtual reality (XR) functions.

Steven Miller

Steven E. Miller is a long-time Cambridgeport resident and life-long political activist. His meandering career includes stints as a community organizer, educator, radio & TV presenter, high tech manager, health policy and transportation advocate, technical writer, journalist and book author, actor, and more. His focus is on strengthening the gallery’s connections with the local community.

Kirsten Sims

Treasurer

Kirsten Sims has spent her life and career dedicated to good things. After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design with a degree in Industrial Design and a plan for developing abandoned urban space by installing 50-foot daffodils, she spent time teaching press printing, installing Christmas animatronics, painting horse farm fences, and wandering around the US on buses. Kirsten landed in Boston by way of Rhode Island-Connecticut-NYC-England 23 years ago, and doesn’t foresee a departure any time soon—her time here nearly quadruples any other residence she’s had. A communications designer by trade and a collaborative problem solver by nature, Kirsten’s work includes footwear, exhibits, identity systems, marketing collateral, print and media advertising, tabletop display, video, photography, illustration, and a whole lot of strategic and conceptual thinking. (She’s a big fan of strategic and conceptual thinking.) She is currently the national senior director of external affairs for Cradles to Crayons—a national nonprofit organization that aims to end Children’s Clothing Insecurity by distributing clothing and other basic essentials to millions of children in need. Along with her board position with Gallery 263, she also sits on the board of Food For Free, a Cambridge-based, Eastern-Massachusetts-serving, anti-hunger and food rescue organization. She is also a member of the Cambridge Nonprofit Coalition and teaches in the Graphic Design department at Lasell University in Newton.

Rebecca Smith

Becca Smith is the former music manager at Gallery 263 and was introduced to the gallery through the foraged banquet events! A long-time Cambridge (and now Somerville) resident, she has been hosting an indie rock radio show on WMBR since 2006 and ran a DIY performance space out of her previous Cambridge home for 5+ years. Becca has taken up pottery during the pandemic (making work as Starwhal Ceramics) and enjoys dabbling in other arts and crafts. She brings her love of inclusive event hosting, skills in qualitative research, and passion for Gallery 263’s mission to the board.

Joe Talloen

Joachim, Joe, is deeply passionate about the arts and their impact on society. Currently serving as a research and data scientist at McKinsey & Co., Joe came to Boston from Carnegie Mellon University where he earned his Ph.D. in Behavioral Economics and honed his expertise in data science and machine learning. As a member of the board, he spearheads the strategic vision, champions data-driven decision making, guides talent and operational direction, and lends an innovative touch to enabling robust fundraising efforts for the gallery.

Lucy Yan

President

Lucy Yan is a creative technologist residing in Boston with roots in Beijing and Portland, Oregon. Aside from working as a Program Manager at Iron Mountain, she’s a part time student at the Realist Academy of Art. After completing a BS in Electrical Engineering from Boston University, Lucy started a nonprofit chapter to keep women in STEM. Later she went on to complete a Masters in Industrial Design Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, and has since become a strong advocate for all things circular economy as well as moka pots. Lucy’s mission at Gallery 263 is to foster community appreciation (and financial support) of the arts.