The Varo Registry was developed by Robin Masi, Full time Faculty, Art Institute Online, Ed.M. candidate, Harvard University Graduate School of Education and an artist. Masi's current research interest is the intersection between ethics and creativity. A short paper presenting this topic is attached.

Robin Masi is an artist and a writer. She received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University and her MFA from the Academy of Art College, San Francisco. She is currently attending Harvard University's Graduate School of Education in the Arts in Education program. She has exhibited her conceptual costumes, abstract figurative paintings and charcoals in exhibitions in New England, California, Washington D.C. and New York. Her play Vanishing Point has been performed in Rome and New York. Masi current work includes a site-specific installation on the events around 9/11 entitled The Witness Project on exhibit at the Fitchburg Museum of Art and Regis College's Carney Gallery. Masi's recent exhibits include the Biennial Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston and the Gutman Gallery, Harvard University.

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