Christina Chang : Mixed Heritage Familiar Objects 

Videotaped on location at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center

Christina Chang creates artwork that deals with her mixed ethnic background and it's interplay with her American heritage.  As a Chinese-Italian-American Woman, Christina creates work that deals with her complex ethnic make-up.  She creates two-dimensional and three-dimensional mixed media sculptures that use primarily Chinese and Chinese American imagery.  Non traditional at materials, such as chopsticks and synthetic hair are used to create her works of art and images of Chinese American culture are seen in her large sculptures of fortune cookies.

"Chang takes inspiration from her own Chinese-Italian-American family photos and images, the media, and American pop culture, and she takes exception to Asian American stereotypes as she sees them in everyday life." Massey, Annabelle, The Met, #26, July 1, 1998

Eugene Bussey, Jr. photographer and Curator of Art Speaks at the Fuller instructed a workshop in Matting and Framing - Your Art Work. This half hour television workshop illustrates why matting and framing are crucial in enhancing and protecting artwork. For artists, matting and framing your artwork makes it more attractive and appealing. This program gives you an opportunity to consider doing it yourself.

Topics covered in this workshop included acid-free products, precise measuring tools, dust covers, hanging wire, non-glare glass, and metal and wood frames.

We would like to extend our sincerest thanks to the artists involved in the workshops for their time, effort, and wonderful presentation of three of our most popular and talked about shows.

Artists Lorna Ritz  - Anthony Curtis Gallery Exhibit 

http://www.lornaritz.com/

Lorna Ritz is a woman who lives each day to it's very fullest. She quietly and effectively makes her mark on the world, and it on her.   Lorna Ritz has studied the Russian Constructivists, Cubism, Impressionist and the  Abstract Expressionism of the 50's - 70's.  She is a professor, artist and flourisher.  She travels extensively and when she returns home it is to a breathtaking view of the Berkshire Mountains at her converted studio in Amherst, MA. Lorna, her art, her knowledge of the world and people, her determination and her love of life will leave a lasting impression on anyone she meets. 

R.A.P. - Rapport Amongst Peers

Presented by Eileen Feldman the Executive Director of Arts Reaching Through Society. The R.A.P. program provides young people with the necessary tools for leadership skills and community building through music, art, drama, writing, movement, and other creative arts.

Artists-at-Large

with founder  Thomas C. Seggers, Jr.

Meet artist-photographer Thomas C. Seggers, Jr. who has just opened Artists-at-Large, a unique non-profit gallery and workspace located in a spacious building at 37 Everett Street in Hyde Park, MA.  Artists-at-Large is a new venue designed to connect and create a dialogue between working artists and the public through exhibitions (where a small portion of the proceeds are donated to a charity of the exhibitors choice), artists run workshops (where we can learn their creative techniques), and by having a friendly and accessible environment where all are welcome.

Call 617-276-3223 or send an email for more information.

'95 to 2000 - An Artistic Journey
An About the Arts special presentation taking a look back at five years of arts programming.  Featuring an eclectic collection of artwork set to music, performance, song and poetry.  

Sandy Goldberg: The Silver Project
Videotaped on location at Massachusetts College of Art, Boston

Paintings on pure silver. The artist's  paintings refer to value and strength and include  purses, Superman capes, and the statement of weight in ounces.  The weight paintings are simple white letters on black backgrounds, borrowed from the work of On Kawara, who has been making one painting with each day's date as an ongoing project for years.  The artist sets her prices at 10% below the opening day's market value of the silver.  

Diane Richardson – "Remembrances the Poetry of Langston Hughes"  Diane has served as host of "About the Arts", becoming a

community cable arts award nominee for her compositions include a setting of the poetry of Langston Hughes to jazz. 

Dr. Richardson currently teaches at Berklee College of Music and Tufts University specializing in jazz, pop, r&b, and vocal technique.

Video Shorts: Doomtown Submitted by Robert Dohrmann  

This work is a simulated film trailer regarding an  anticipated nuclear related catastrophe.  Keeping in the spirit of a 1950's and 1960's era trailer releases, the video examines a typical American city and typical American families under a nuclear attack. 

The video incorporates the footage of actual nuclear tests from the Nevada Test Site, layered with "over the top" dialogue trying to sell this fictitious film.  This is meant to add both humor and an ironic element of apocalyptic catastrophe.  Imaginary cities were set up in the early 1950's by The Atomic Energy Commission using everyday American consumer good, with the characters played by store-bought manikins, to test survival in the event of a nuclear attack.  

Many of the images in this video will be very familiar and have in fact become iconographic representatives of American Civil Defense Testing.  

A Gordon For Me - Submitted by Katherine Gordon - www.gordongalleries.com

TEEN IMAGE PROGRAM

The Boston Photo Collaborative’s Teen Image Program is a year round teen-run and operated photography business. This program brings us a first hand look at the services that these entrepreneurial young people offer to local businesses, individuals, and non-profit organizations throughout greater Boston.

GENERATION X....FINALLY FOUND

Written and performed by the Strand Teen Players.

Determined not to be included in the so called, "lost generation," the Strand Teen Players are on a mission to take responsibility for their lives and to assure the success of their futures.

These thirty teens from the Dorchester/Roxbury area have created an original thought provoking original production featuring music, dance, poetry and song, which is based on the complexities and challenges they confront in their lives. Filmed on location at the Strand Theatre in Boston.