MFAWC: Off the Grid

Off the Grid
Arnheim Gallery
November 19 – 29

A peek at the work created by the 2013 graduate students from the MassArt Low-Residency MFA program. The artists from Boston, Colorado, Florida, Maryland and Rhode Island come together twice a year to hone their practice and create work during an intensive residency at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. This exhibit highlights a recent visual investigation by each of the candidates: Terry Boutelle, Diane Cionni, Joan Cox, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, Lisa Daria Kennedy, Julianne Martin, Vincent Wolf.

Alumnae Return with Exhibition in Arnheim


Trade Off
An Artist Trading Card Group Show
Arnheim Gallery
November 4-17

Four MassArt Art Education alumnae make connections through social, cultural, grade level, and state lines using Artist Trading Cards. The intent of this show is to provide an opportunity for K-8 students to collaborate, as well as exhibit their work as artists. This show also aims to demonstrate how art educators can both gain inspiration from students, as well as keep up an active art-making practice.

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President Dawn Barrett's Inauguration and Art Education


October 18, 2012:  A Banner Day

Deborah carried a banner for Art Education in the procession from the old MassArt building on Brookline  Avenue to Evans Park for the pageant to celebrate Dawn Barrett’s inauguration as President of MassArt. “I particularly wanted to be in the procession from the Longwood Building because, when I started working at MassArt in 1982, the college was still located there. ”

Deborah made the banner in the staff workshop last week and finished it with assistance from Julie Blauss,  work/study student.  Using strip piecing techniques from her quilt making days, she glued, rather than sewed, the fabric strips to form the 8-pointed star. Continue reading

Art from Uganda in the Arnheim

Ugandart
New Paintings and Prints from Uganda
Arnheim Gallery
October 10-27, 2012

Work by emerging Ugandan artists and child artists discovered through free children’s workshops conducted by the artists.

Curated by the Uganda Art Consortium, founded in 2008 to provide art therapy programs for HIV-AIDS patients and free children’s art workshops in Uganda. More information: ugandart.com.

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