Staff

Erin Muirhead McCarty (she/her/hers) is a seasoned development professional whose work has focused primarily on directing annual fund campaigns, individual and corporate giving, institutional fundraising, and strategic partnerships.

She holds a degree in studio arts, and art history from Virginia Commonwealth University’s nationally ranked School of The Arts, and studied visual arts and restoration in Florence, Italy.

Erin has a love of pop-culture, politics, travel and adventure, and enjoys binge-watching documentaries, she relies on her two teenage daughters to keep her current on all of the latest Tik Tok challenges, Instagram trends, and viral memes.

Lionel was born in Haiti. Ever since he was a child he had an interest in art-making. After immigrating to the U.S. He joined groups and attended schools that had a strong focus on art. As a result, Lionel worked for a variety of art-based nonprofit organizations. This garnered him a passion for teaching and mentoring youths. He then joined the Community Art Center and is now the Teen Media Manager. In this role, he can manage, mentor, and teach youth with the same passion that he has for art-making. His work usually involves comic book art, however, throughout the years He's expanded his skill sets into painting and filmmaking.

Rory Liddy (he/him/his) is a well-rounded individual with a passion for all things media. He grew up in many places, splitting his childhood between North Cambridge, East Arlington, and Limerick, Ireland. His earliest endeavors were as a musician: playing guitar, writing songs, and freestyling, but as he grew older began to gravitate towards the video side of things. Today, he primarily identifies himself as a videographer and media consultant, but really, he loves the arts as a whole. 

He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he was awarded the W.E.B. DuBois Award for Outstanding Sociological Contribution for his Honors Thesis. After graduating, he had a prolific career as both a print and video journalist writing for newspapers and producing for TV stations across Massachusetts. He is also a self-employed videographer, a ‘one stop shop’ of sorts: filming, editing, and directing independent documentaries for clients and himself. He found his way to the Community Art Center in 2024, when he was hired as the Interim Teen Media Instructor. Since then he has also been given the role of DIYDS Festival Coordinator, and whatever else the Center may need. He is a family man through and through; when not at work, he enjoys spending time with his fiancé and his brothers, working on new projects, and watching his favorite shows.