In this series, we highlight the many gifted artists who contribute to the deep creative culture of Concord and recognize the organizations dedicated to supporting the arts.
Yue Hua
Yue Hua/燨越 is a Boston-based filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist who utilizes a range of digital media to tell stories imbued with personal experience. Operating with the motto “the more personal, the more universal,” Hua creates multimedia installations that examine themes of cross-cultural identity, memory, and gender as the artist seeks to use her art to “dismantle traditional roles and empower women through visual storytelling.”
Hua holds a BFA with a major in film and television production from the China Academy of Art and an MFA in film and media arts from Emerson College. She is a recipient of the Emerging Artist Award from RPM Festival, the New England Local Filmmaker Award, and the Emerson Enhancement Fund. She also completed a Boston Center for the Arts ACTivate residency and has served as a teaching fellow at Emerson College and Rhode Island School of Design.
During her Umbrella Arts residency, Hua will continue to incorporate a range of elements into her interactive installations, including media arts, film, and animation. She will also experiment with Umbrella Arts’ woodworking and fabrication tools to produce new features that explore how “home” is constructed with everyday objects. She hopes the resulting installations invite audiences to see their local environment in new ways.
Climbing the Staircase, 2025
Quincey Spagnoletti
“The camera operates as a tool through which I attempt to mediate emotion, authorship, and self-perception.” Boston-based photographer Quincey Spagnoletti examines how women’s roles have been developed, inherited, and internalized over time and across multiple generations. Through photography and the incorporation of her own experiences, Spagnoletti challenges these norms. “I am particularly interested in how stories are passed down—what is emphasized, what is omitted, and how these fragments accumulate into a lived understanding of gender and identity.”
Spagnoletti earned a BA from Colgate University and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Her work has been featured in The Boston Globe and Boston Art Review, among other publications. She is the recipient of the Levitate Foundation Emerging Visual Artist Grant (2026), City of Boston Opportunity Fund Grant (2026 and 2024), and the CAA Becker Fund for Visual Artists Grant (2025).
During her Umbrella Arts residency, Spagnoletti will expand upon her current photographic project, Home Studio. Incorporating semi-staged environments enlivened with objects drawn from memories of her childhood and past homes—including doll houses, toys, and family photos strewn about the images—Spagnoletti reinvents these spaces. Often placing herself within the frame, she seeks to question identity and community—how they are formed and how they tell the story of home. Umbrella Arts’ active artistic community, along with that of wider Concord, will support Spagnoletti’s visual inquiry.
Quincey Spagnoletti and Yue Hua are two of seven current artists-in-residence at Umbrella Arts. During their yearlong residencies, Spagnoletti and Hua will explore identity, community, and what it means to make a “home”.