Jameel Parker, art teacher at Cambridge Rindge & Latin and MSAE student, is working on a 110′ long mural entitled "365 Days of Black History," which will be part of his thesis work.  Jameel is using images of CRLS students and faculty in the mural rather than famous historical figures, and his students are doing the actual painting after he drew the figures.    

Part of the mural will be shown at Mass Art in February.

Read about the project on Wicked Local Cambridge.

Steve Locke has left us — for a semester — to be Artist-in-Residence

at Savannah College of Art and Design. 

For those of you who can hardly stand having him gone, there is a Flat Steve in South 106!

You can also keep up with his adventures in Savannah by going to his blog "A Letter from Savannah " in the Weblogs and Journals section of this site.  You must be logged in to comment and see all of the blogs.

Art Education Studio Reviews

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
December 18, 19, 20
9:00-12:oo & 1:30-4:30 each day
in South 109 & 206

Reviews are required for all Juniors and Seniors who are taking a Portfolio class this fall. Studio Education majors will have preference to avoid conflicts with their studio department’s  reviews. If there are open times, the reviews will be opened to sophomores and first-year students.  All Art Education Portfolio students are strongly encouraged to attend at least the equivalent of one full day.

The review schedule has been  posted  outside of the S210 studio. 
Your time and location have been assigned and have been confirmed via e-mail on December 12.
Review Schedule, Fall 2007 (pdf)

Join the 0ngoing Discussion of Reviews! 

The American Repertory Theatre invites you to:

NO CHILD …

Written & performed by Nilaja Sun
Directed by Hal Brooks

Loeb Drama Center
Brattle Street
Cambridge

Nilaja Sun worked as a teaching artist at a high school in the Bronx, where every day the students face huge challenges in simply coming to school. She directed them in a play, and their trials and triumphs form the basis of No Child…. In a performance reminiscent of The Syringa Tree, Nilaja herself takes all the parts, transforming into the students, teachers, parents, administrators, janitors and security guards who inhabit our public schools and shape the future of America.

An award-winning hit in New York, No Child… is a virtuosic performance, joyous and heart-wrenching. In Nilaja’s words, “I created this piece to be a snapshot from the trenches, something entertaining and provocative that’ll get people talking about the state of our public schools.”

Lois Hetland has seen this production and declares it’s “not to be missed…. it’s going to be the talk of the town!”

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The Ethics of Transgression: Is It Still Possible?

Lecture by Donald Kuspit

Donald Kuspit Ph.D. will respond to issues in contemporary art as seen through the three-exhibition series "Spinning Straw into Gold: The Ethics of Production," on view throughout the fall in the Trustman Gallery at Simmons College.  The series, curated by Trustman Gallery Director Barbara O’Brien, features artists Chantal Zakari; Two Girls Working: Tiffany Ludwig and Renee Piechocki; Deborah Bohnert; and Rachel Dayson-Levy.  It focuses on the inspiration for, and production of, contemporary art in a Post-appropriation age where the "hunt and gather" model has expanded from art historical images to pop culture and now includes the cyber arena.

Kuspit is a prolific and widely published author, essayist and curator.  His book "The End of Art," published in 2004, is a wry, sometimes caustic assessment of contemporary art from his point of view, privileged by his decades in the field.  In 2005, Barry Gewen of the New York Times called Kuspit, "a New York critic at the red-hot center of the contemporary art scene." He is the editor of Art Criticism, a contributing editor of Artforum, and a regular contributor to Art New England magazine and Artnet, an online journal.  Currently, Kuspit is a professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

This lecture is sponsored by Simmons College’s Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences as part of the series, "Careers in the Liberal Arts." The exhibition series, "Spinning Straw into Gold: The Ethics of Production," was funded by the LEF Foundation and by the Catherine Hannah Behrend Class of ’70 Fund.

For more information, contact Marcia Lomedico at 617-521-2268 or visit the Trustman Gallery website at  http://www.simmons.edu/trustman
Due to construction, parking is limited.  For alternative options, please visit http://my.simmons.edu/services/business/parking/off-campus.shtml.