Jim Chisholm (MSAE 1995) is Associate Professor of Art and Design at North Shore Community College and was recently granted tenure.   He teaches art history and appreciation, basic drawing, and visual design theory.  Jim also teaches painting and drawing at the Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem, the Museum of Fine Arts, and Harvard Extension School.  In May 2004 he received a citation and award from Harvard Extension School for 25+ years of service.

Jim, a Salem resident,  continues to show his work at galleries on the North Shore, most recently the Erlich Gallery in Marblehead.

 North Shore Community College purchased eight of his paintings, including the two below.  Several  of Jim’s paintings hang  in the President’s Office at NSCC.