Dawn Southworth (drawing) crosses disciplines while creating mixed media works and installations. She has been awarded artist fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in both painting and drawing and is a recipient of a NEA/NEFA Fellowship in sculpture. Her work is represented in numerous museum, public and private collections including the Addison Gallery of American Art, the DeCordova Museum, Fidelity, Wellington Management and the Boston Public Library. Southworth, a passionate collector, has the extraordinary ability to combine a vast range of materials and processes. Her use of found objects, drawing, sewing, pyrography, and construction are unified in emotionally charged imagery laden with metaphor and symbol grounded in a strong conceptual base.

In addition, Dawn is the co-owner and director, with her husband Dana Salvo, of the Clark Gallery. A member of the Boston Art Dealers Association, the gallery exhibits contemporary art in all media by emerging, mid-career and established artists from the Northeast and nationally. The gallery's exhibition program reflects a broad range of twentieth century ideas appealing to collectors and institutions with diverse interests.