Jodie Baehre is an artist, arts administrator, and community advocate living and working in Dorchester, MA.
 

Baehre has exhibited in over 30 shows throughout Boston, with her paintings held in the permanent collections of the Boston Public Library, Harvard University, Tango Therapeutics, and Massachusetts General Hospital. Her work is also part of State Street Bank’s permanent art collection. She has been featured in Boston Magazine, DigBoston, Daily Artspace, Bezar, The Boston Globe, and Apartment Therapy, among other publications.
 

Drawing inspiration from the works of Edward Hopper (1882–1967), Baehre uses light and shadow to evoke mood, atmosphere, and memory. Her work often reflects on themes of urban transformation, displacement, and nostalgia—grounded in the local experience but resonating far beyond.
 

In 2015, Baehre was nominated for the prestigious Brother Thomas Fellowship through the Boston Foundation. In 2018 and again in 2019, she was honored by The City of Boston as a Fay Chandler Emerging Artist. In 2019, she participated in an artist residency in Epsom, NH, awarded through Getaway.
 

Her commitment to community-centered art was recognized in 2022 when she received a curatorialship from the Fort Point Arts Community for There Once Was Parking, a public-facing exhibition funded in part by The City of Boston. The show, which examined the changing urban landscape, was displayed at the Assemblage Gallery in The Envoy Hotel, Boston, MA. Castle Island Brewing Company collaborated with Baehre to release a limited edition beer label featuring her award-winning painting Last Call, which also earned her the People’s Choice Award in the national art competition Emptiness.
 

That same year, Baehre received a second grant from The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture to create There Once Was Parking II, a vibrant, community-based event series in Dorchester. The series, which included concerts, art markets, and exhibitions, was entirely free and open to the public, exemplifying Baehre’s belief in art as a tool for inclusion, conversation, and neighborhood revitalization.

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In 2024, she completed a multi-painting commission for Tango Therapeutics and was again awarded a Getaway artist residency, this time in Connecticut.

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Deeply engaged in community arts and activism, Baehre is a proud member of The St. Botolph Club in Boston, the Fort Point Arts Community, The National Guild for Community Arts Education, The Edward Hopper House in Nyack, NY, and several horticultural societies. She actively volunteers for The Theater Offensive, the Michael E. Haynes Legacy Project, The Africa Hope Development Initiative, and the Western New York Iris Society—organizations that reflect her wide-ranging commitment to social justice, cultural equity, and community well-being and enhancement.

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Baehre studied Industrial Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Printmaking and the History of Italian Gardens at the Lorenzo De Medici school in Italy. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Boston and a Master of Science in Arts Administration from Boston University.

 

For over a decade, she has served as Director of Development & Fundraising at Project STEP, a transformative non-profit that provides exceptional music education to children of color in Boston.