Fitzcarmel LaMarre
Featured Artist, November 2021 - New Bedford artist, Fitzcarmel LaMarre is a creative educational developer and program director, a home school workshop educator, muralist, portrait artist, graphic designer and a former public school art teacher.
Currently working on his graphic novel NEW DEADFORD, a community inclusive project including creative workshops for at-risk, underserved youth at the New Bedford Housing Authority’s Blue Meadow Property and Our Sisters' School. He has created free youth programming throughout New Bedford at the Greater New Bedford Boys and Girls Club, The New Bedford Art Museum, the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, Dennison Memorial recreation Center, New Bedford Parks, Recreation and Beaches' Andrea McCoy Recreation Center, and Southcoast Health's R.A.A.A.P. Program through his Creative Oasis Mobile Art Services Workshops.
He believes that by educating, challenging and engaging our most valuable resource, (our youth) that a brighter future of opportunities will be developed. "We must teach our kids the value of self education by making education more appealing…what better way than through the creativity of art” –Fitzcarmel M. LaMarre
