Biography
DAN McCOLE, Watercolorist

Watercolorist Dan McCole, is a graduate of Vesper George School of Art, in Boston, Massachusetts, completing a full course in fine arts and illustration.
Dan’s main source of instruction was under the guidance of James Wingate Parr, a most accomplished painter and teacher, who excelled in watercolor.
After graduation, Dan entered the newspaper world as a part-time editorial artist with the Boston Herald Traveler. And, in response to personal and family obligations, he put his painting life on hold and morphed into a career in the newspaper business. He remained at the Herald in the advertising department for ten years, founded a weekly newspaper (the Weymouth News in Weymouth, Massachusetts) and served in all related publishing, editorial, advertising and operational activities for another ten years. After selling the business he remained engaged in similar enterprises with other publications.
He was honored in 1981 with a first place award for the Best Column in the New England Press Association’s annual newspaper contest.
In 1985 he returned to the Herald and served as production news editor, late city room deskman, as well as an occasional columnist and feature writer. He retired from the Herald and the newspaper business in June, 2005.
In the early 1990s, as his personal obligations lessened, Dan re-entered the painting world. Positive reception and awards at local art festivals encouraged him to allocate more time to this talent. In his first one-man show in 1999 at the Crump Gallery in South Boston, he sold many of his originals and reproduction prints.
In 2003, Dan entered into an art gallery partnership with acclaimed painter and gallery owner Norman Crump. The Crump McCole Gallery was located at the World Trade Center, Boston.After five years the weak national economy forced the gallery to close.
Dan hosted an hour-long, weekly BNN TV Channel 9 show - Citizen’s Corner from 2003 through 2010. The show featured artists and activities in the local arts community.
He lives in South Boston, his place of birth.

AFFILIATIONS
Dan is co-founder and president of the South Boston Arts Association, an associate member of the New England Watercolor Society and enjoys full membership in the Quincy Art Association.
He is the chairman of non-profit South Boston Arts & Cultural Center Task Force, organized to explore ways to create a South Boston Arts & Cultural Center.
Through the South Boston Community Health Center Dan mentored local youth in an art-based program called Young at Arts. Most notably the group designed and painted scenes on eight foot boards shaped like lighthouses and wired to light poles and fences throughout the community. Through this arts program the group has made three working trips to the Katrina ravaged Mississippi and Louisiana gulf coast, and last April to Tornado-ravaged Tuscaloosa, Alabama to help in cleanup and reconstruction efforts.
Dan serves on the Laboure Center Annual Spring fund-raiser committee.
In May (2012) Dan was featured in a television profile on Greg’s List (host Greg Wayland) on NECN, New England Cable News. Dan McCole's Art – or NECN.com.
Dan’s studio is in “The Distillery”, 516 East Second Street, South Boston, MA 02127. ----------- Telephone: 617 464-4237 ----- Email: artdanmccole@gmail.com ---- Website: www.danmccole.com,.

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