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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.
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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.
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