Talk To — A Salon of Paired Works in the Arnheim Gallery

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Talk To
October 15-26, 2013
with special guest Lewis Hyde Thursday October 17, 7pm

Most of us can name a work of art that has been a catalyst for our own thinking and production. This liminal connection might be an homage, a study, or even a negative retort. Each artist in this exhibition is presenting a work of art alongside the image of an inspirational work by another artist.

Lewis Hyde, the college’s recipient of the Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree in 2013, explores in his most recent book Common as Air our cultural commons, “the vast store of ideas, inventions, and works of art that we have inherited from the past and continue to enrich in the present.” This exhibition displays our indebtedness and connections to history and community.

The show was organized by Zachary Herrmann, Jill Slosburg-Ackerman, and Nicholas Sullivan.

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Laura Reeder in Selections

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Selections is a multi-disciplinary, multi-media exhibition in the Paine Gallery of work by MassArt faculty who are newly hired or who are returning from sabbatical.  Don’t miss seeing “me_ meme,” the work of our own Laura Reeder, who is in her second year in the Art Education Department.

In  a video on the college website, Laura says her installation is really about “how information is synthesized in an artist’s mind and how it’s put back out in contemporary media…. it’s a whole bunch of computers talking to each other around a few canvases that have multiple images.”

Selections will be up until December 7.

 

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Elizabeth Valentin

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Elizabeth Valentin (TPP 2013) teaches at Snowden International High School, the BPS high school in Copley Square.  Snowden is also where our student teaching supervisor Linda Hatch taught for many years before her retirement from the Boston Public Schools.

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.