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Hillary Douglas

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Hillary Douglas (BFA 2006) sent news of her amazing adventures since graduating:
“After graduating in 2006 I did a year of teaching English and Visual Art abroad in Nanjing, China through the first International Baccalaureate Program to be offered at a Chinese public school. Then, in 2008-09 I did a year of AmeriCorps service in Las Cruces, New Mexico. From there, I’ve taught Visual Art for four years at Zia Middle School, also in Las Cruces. I am now off to embark on my next adventure as a graduate student, at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where I have an assistantship to teach an undergraduate level course.”

Art Making Session for Neighborhood House Charter School

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In response to the Marathon bombings and all the subsequent events of  last week, Beth Balliro of the Art Education Department invited all in the college community to come to South 109 on Thursday, April 25 between 8:30 and 12 to make small 2D art works for the students of Neighborhood House Charter School in Dorchester.  Martin Richard, the eight-year-old boy killed in the bombing, was a student at the school, as is his sister, who was injured. His mother, also injured, is the school librarian.

Last week’s events  hit very close to home for many of us, and in this workshop students, faculty, staff, and alumni  responded to violence with art.  Over the course of the morning a wall of the 3″ square canvases went up, as participants painted and collaged images of animals, flowers, a ballet dancer, a city skyline, and all kinds of  subjects meant to appeal to the children.

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