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Burke H.S. Students Decorate Street Piano

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Alisa Rodny, our MAT alumna who teaches at Jeremiah Burke High School, and her students have decorated one of the public pianos which are being placed around Boston for anyone to play.  The piano they worked on will be placed at Franklin Park Zoo, near the zebra entrance, in Dorchester.

Play Me, I’m Yours is an arts project by artist Luke Jerram.  When the project goes live in Boston on September 27, over 1000 street pianos will have been installed in 37 cities across the globe, bearing the simple invitation to Play Me, I’m Yours!

The Street Pianos Festival in Boston runs from September 27 to October 14, 2013 and will include several solo and ensemble performances.

Deborah Forman

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Deborah Forman (MSAE 1997) has written a book, Paint Lab, recently published by Quarry Books.  She says John Crowe has been a big influence on her approach, which emphasizes experimentation and play.

After completing her MSAE, Deborah earned a MFA at Parsons in 2001. She is assistant professor of art at Wheaton College.

She is also the director of BlueOrange Workshops and will be giving Paint Lab workshops at RISD and other locations this fall.

 

Robin Shea

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Robin Shea Hackett (BFA 2007) is teaching at Fuller Middle School in Framingham, after moving back to the area from California. Her husband, Paul Hackett, also a MassArt graduate (BFA Glass, 2007) has begun the MAT program to become an art teacher also.

Visual Arts Consultant / Sociedad Latina

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Sociedad Latina is now hiring a Visual Arts consultant to run its whole-brain learning activities during our afterschool program.  The activities will be with groups of 10-15 children, teaching them the basics of your expertise. We are hoping that students will work crafting different art projects through artistic expression including drawing and painting. The activities run two times per week, Monday and Wednesday from 4:15-5:30 starting September 23 and it will run for nine weeks ending December 5.  Sociedad Latina is located in the Mission Hill area of Roxbury, MA. Continue reading →