tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79214067269870702732024-03-19T06:01:05.922-07:00Boston SculptorsA landmark cooperative gallery featuring innovative contemporary sculpture from northeast artists.Boston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-31128430816081335482012-09-03T12:08:00.000-07:002012-09-03T12:08:36.812-07:00Gillian Christy Preston: Waves of Grain: A New Sculpture Exhibit in Boston Creates Rural Art with Industrial Material<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Great write up on </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/gillian.c.preston" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">Gillian Christy Preston</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> upcoming gallery show by Dave Eisenberg on BostInno (below). There is a little preview video at the end not to be missed. Exhibition dates September 5 - October 7, 2012</span><br />
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<span class="date" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">August 30th, 2012 by </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px;"></span><span class="name" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://bostinno.com/author/daveeisenberg/" rel="author" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #27aae2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Posts by Dave Eisenberg">Dave Eisenberg</a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px;"></span><span class="tags" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; display: block; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 270px;">Posted in <a href="http://bostinno.com/tag/ae/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #27aae2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A&E</a>, <a href="http://bostinno.com/tag/boston-sculptors-gallery/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #27aae2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">boston sculptor's gallery</a>, <a href="http://bostinno.com/tag/waves-of-grain/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #27aae2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">waves of grain</a></span></div>
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When we think of metal, we think of extremes. It’s either cold or piping hot. It’s either jagged or smooth. The one definitive characteristic of metal, it seems, is that it’s industrial. We don’t often think of sweeping rural landscapes and soft breezes pushing and pulling at blades of grass in a Midwestern country side when we think of metal. But when local sculptor <a href="http://www.gillianchristy.com/home.shtml" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #27aae2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gillian Christy</a> showcases <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Waves of Grain</em>, her first Boston exhibition, which will be at the<a href="http://bostonsculptors.com/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #27aae2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Boston Sculptors Galler</a>y in the SOWA district from September 5 to October 7, spectators will get a taste of rural life in her metallic work.</div>
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“I’m originally from Iowa,” she said. “This Midwest imagery is something that I’ve always kind of reminisced about, while thinking about home and where I came from. When I think of home, I think of something warm and soft so I’m constantly thinking of that dynamic as well.”</div>
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Of course, there’s the dichotomy between gender and subject here as well. Metal just inherently is something we deem almost masculine as a fabric, much the way we might deem satin feminine.</div>
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“You know, obviously I’m a woman, so the idea of treating metal with this kind of genteel feminine quality, is something that has this nice parallel. How do you make something cold and hard into something warm?”</div>
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She hasn’t posted photographs of the work that will be featured, though she hinted that one piece (every pice as a whole will be at least 8 feet high or wide) will be of an upside down grain bin with paper floating around it, as well as one with 640 blades of metallic grass, a play on movement.</div>
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“There’s a lot of repetition but this kind of energetic movement of metal that you don’t normally see when you think of sculptures,” she added.</div>
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Her studio is in Rhode Island for now, but as she’s been living in Boston for a while, she’s looking to find a new art space to call home in the Hub as well.</div>
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While this is her first exhibition in Boston, you very well may have seen work before and not even known it. She’s created work for the NFL on CBS, as well as the W Hotel. And as a new member of the Boston Sculptors Gallery, she won’t soon go away, as members provide exhibitions every two years.</div>
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“An exhibition every two years, that’s a commitment, that’s making a lot of work,” she said. “You know, I’ve had success in the public art world and I was ready to make something that fit in the gallery… It’s just different type of work.”</div>
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Check out some of her art <a href="http://gillianchristy.com/gallery.shtml" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #27aae2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">here</a>, and scope the video below to see her at work as preview of her SOWA debut.</div>
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Boston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-61900082430925033722012-06-15T09:50:00.004-07:002012-06-15T09:50:44.461-07:00Stirring The Waters Part 6 of 6: Back on the Road, Homeward Bound<!--[if !mso]>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But maybe the most fun of all was our stay at Peggy’s B
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<span style="font-size: small;">Wait, Hannah, I thought you were allergic!</span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Peggy brought us the most amazing breakfast ever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And then Peggy drove us to her private beach place on Lake
Erie. Julie had actually thought ahead and brought a bathing suit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">A fitting end to <b>“Stirring the Waters/ Between Two
Bodies”</b>, first installment, in Ohio. Stay tuned for the 2nd installment,
when the visiting Ohio artists come to Boston Sculptors July 5, 2012.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>Boston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-35476502686809338692012-06-15T09:38:00.000-07:002012-06-15T09:38:29.417-07:00Stirring The Waters Part 5 of 6: Tourists in Cleveland!<!--[if !mso]>
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<span style="font-size: small;">by Boston Sculptor Jessica Straus</span></h5>
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<span style="font-size: small;">All but Andy (who stayed up ‘til the wee hours of the
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<span style="font-size: small;">I swear—we all fit on this bike. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Our first stop: the Cleveland Museum of Art<span> </span>then across the street, the Botanical
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<span style="font-size: small;">and they sent us over to a pop-up gallery a few blocks away
with a very quirky, ambitious artist from San Francisco who was traveling
across the country mounting exhibitions of her “Americana” paintings and making
elixirs from urban gardens along the way (It’s a long story…)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">By Boston Sculptor Jessica Straus </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Michelle Lougee’s “Octoplus” hangs in the entryway and leads
the viewers into the exhibition and her “Dinoflagellete” holds the platform
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<span style="font-size: small;">These works were all in the “Euclid Gallery”:<span> </span><span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">by Boston Sculptor Jessica Straus</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">After a satisfying and fun
breakfast (who knew you could laugh this much at 7:30 in the morning?) we all
set of to the Sculpture Center for a full day of installation. Intrepid rental
van driver, Andy Zimmerman, greeted us in the parking lot. He had begun his
installation a couple days earlier with the help of generous and genteel
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sculpture Center Director, Ann Albano, made very thoughtful
juxtapositions and as the show came together we could see how well the work
flowed from one artist to the next. We were very appreciative of the help of
the three Sculpture Center interns, Bobby, Emily, and Lauren, all graduates or
current students of the nearby Cleveland Art Institute.<span> </span>Oh darn! I didn't get a photo of wonderful
Lauren! Well, here’s Bobby and Emily:</span></div>
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<b>by Boston Sculptor Jessica Straus<br />
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There were plenty of things to be nervous about as the date drew near for our
departure to Cleveland. Foremost on my mind was the question of whether all of
our work would actually fit in the two cars and one rental truck that we had
designated to carry the work. After a couple nights of tossing and turning I
came to the conclusion that the only way I'd get any sleep would be to do a
"dry run". So about a week ahead of time we packed the two cars with
7 artists' work and whew! It all fit, even if just barely (half-obstructed
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At the crack of dawn, well in advance of rush hour on June 6, Laura Evans,
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the drive out there and the ride back we stopped at just about every rest stop
along the way-- we think we'd be in a pretty good position to write a guidebook
to Rt 90 rest stops--and yes, we had our strong preferences! We can tell you
which rest stops have Starbucks and where you'll have to settle for Horton's (a
very disappointing cup of Joe), where you get picnic tables and where you can
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>We arrived in Cleveland in time to join Marilu Swett
and Julie Shepley (who were finishing up their challenging first day of
installation) for dinner in Cleveland's "Little Italy" (it<i> is</i>
little, but very sweet and several good choices of restaurants right near the
Sculpture Center and our hotel, Glidden House. If you go to
Cleveland--definitely try to stay at the Glidden House:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's in a turn of the century mansion originally home of the Gliddens of
Glidden Paint fame, on the Case Western campus and right across from the
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span>Boston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-31825757725959359432012-06-15T08:31:00.001-07:002012-06-15T08:31:41.712-07:00Stirring The Waters/ Between Two Bodies - An Exchange exhibition with the Sculpture Center in Cleveland Ohio Part 1 of 6: Planningby Boston Sculptor Jessica Straus<br />
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Three years of planning and organizing an exchange between Boston Sculptors Gallery and The Sculpture Center of Cleveland, Ohio has finally come to fruition in the form of two exhibitions, "Stirring the Waters / Between Two Bodies" at each of our venues. The first of these shows, a group of 10 (Andy Zimmermann, Hannah Verlin, Marilu Swett, Margaret Swan, Jessica Straus, Julia Shepley, Michelle Lougee, Peter Haines, Laura Evans, Caroline Bagenal) has just opened at the Sculpture Center, and it looks fabulous!<br />
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Many folks have been asking me how these shows came to be so here's an account of the whole process:
As a member of the Exhibition Committee at Boston Sculptors Gallery I was researching exhibition venues outside the Boston area where Boston Sculptors members could mount an exhibition to extend our reach beyond our own gallery walls and to gain a wider audience for our work. I was particularly interested in finding an organization that shared our mission of exclusively showing sculpture. And to this, I added the requirement that the venue have a similar focus on high caliber, contemporary work. Right away I discovered how unusual is our focus on sculpture. I was really excited when my Goggle searches pointed me to the Sculpture Center in Cleveland. I spent a lot of time looking at their website (http://www.sculpturecenter.org), looking at each of their exhibitions, past, present, and future, and sensed a kindred spirit. There was just one wee thing that looked like a stumbling block for our having a shot at proposing an exhibition there; the Sculpture Center’s mission is to promote Ohio sculptors.<br />
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Nevertheless, I began a correspondence with The Sculpture Center's director, Ann Albano. She was incredibly gracious, but she did point out that they only showed sculptors with ties to their region. Hmm, would this be the end of the discussion? I offered her the possibility of an exchange with our gallery (which coincidentally has almost the same footprint, square footage-wise, as the Sculpture Center). I asked if this opportunity might indeed fit the Sculpture Center's mission of promoting Ohio sculptors in that an exchange would provide the opportunity for national exposure. Ann's response? "I'll bring it to my board and see what they think." I was so pleased to receive an email from Ann a while later, telling me her board approved the exchange and now we could begin the planning process in earnest. Hurray!<br />
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In the fall of 2009 I had the opportunity to travel to the Cleveland area--the perfect chance to visit the Sculpture Center and meet Ann Albano. I was immediately taken with the Center, a funky, quirky (in the best artistic sense), beautifully renovated space--two galleries, one in each of their two buildings joined together by a courtyard which displays sculptures by the Center's founder and benefactor, the late David Davis.<br />
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The Sculpture Center is less than a mile from University Circle, an area referred to as "Museum Mile" where one can visit, among other attractions, the Cleveland Museum of Art,<br />
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the Botanical Gardens,
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One of the two Sculpture Center's galleries fronts onto and has great visibility from Euclid Avenue, one of Cleveland's main thoroughfares.<br />
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I traveled back to Cleveland and the Sculpture Center in the fall of 2010 and met again with Ann. By this time we had had quite an email correspondence going as we began to work out the way this exchange would be orchestrated. There was so much to work out! I found Ann to be was incredibly thoughtful and insightful, someone who could zero in on the right questions to be asked. One of the first things we needed to figure out was how the artists would be selected for these two shows, a potentially tricky and complex process given that the Sculpture Center and the Boston Sculptors Gallery are structurally very different: Boston Sculptors is a cooperative, artist-run gallery whereas the Sculpture Center is a non profit that operates more like a museum without a collection, with the director serving as curator who selects artists for exhibitions.<br />
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Ann offered to curate both shows, selecting a group of Ohio artists who each had been showcased earlier as emerging artists at The Sculpture Center. Ann got to know the Boston Sculptors first through our gallery website and catalog and then she thoroughly investigated each of our individual artist's websites. Her goal was to make a dynamic exhibition that would be at once diverse and cohesive. Little by little as she narrowed her selections, a thread began to emerge for her that showed a regional flavor that would tie the work together.<br />
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Next entry: part 2 - Road Trip!Boston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-60659689563366377402012-06-14T04:07:00.000-07:002012-06-14T04:07:58.433-07:00Medfield’s Main Street becomes a sculpture path<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjESdiaF0HgNBi7TDJMK7oPEISyF-vAAfUAVcWPtqskNziIUfQi_U5yvIOXgdybnFIW35GzNnkX_8-zSl2SSKNjV6E8spwGBG87RRW94u6KE5YgAsADKxPrzEZMTxNW_gfGmijPa7KnIWY/s1600/Verlin+WALL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="134" width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjESdiaF0HgNBi7TDJMK7oPEISyF-vAAfUAVcWPtqskNziIUfQi_U5yvIOXgdybnFIW35GzNnkX_8-zSl2SSKNjV6E8spwGBG87RRW94u6KE5YgAsADKxPrzEZMTxNW_gfGmijPa7KnIWY/s200/Verlin+WALL.jpg" /></a>
By Lisa Kocian
Boston Globe Staff
June 14, 2012
Hannah Verlin is installing “Thoughts Are Free,” based on verse found in the Warsaw ghetto, along Main Street inMedfield this summer.
Hannah Verlin is installing “Thoughts Are Free,” based on verse found in the Warsaw ghetto, along Main Street inMedfield this summer.
Telephone poles might seem an unlikely canvas, but they are being used in Medfield to create a “sculpture path” that is meant to highlight cultural destinations and happenings in town.
Anyone walking or driving along Main Street (Route 109) near the center of town may notice bright white letters appearing on the poles this summer. The temporary exhibition marks a proposed cultural district, while also exploring the theme of this year’s Medfield Reads program.
The white words, in both English and Yiddish, are from a poem called “Thoughts Are Free,” which was found among documents buried in milk cans in the Warsaw ghetto during the Nazi occupation in World War II. The poem was chosen because it ties into the book chosen by the Medfield Public Library for its community reading project, “Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books,” by Massachusetts author Aaron Lansky.
“It is in part a marketing tool for the town with an eye toward attracting tourists,” said Jean Mineo, chairwoman of the town’s Cultural Council, and the project manager. And it’s also about “identifying cultural assets in the community,” she said.
There are quite a few of those. Although a small town, Medfield traces its history to the 1600s, and boasts such landmarks as the Peak House, which was built around 1668, and rebuilt around 1680 after it was burned down during King Philip’s War.
The outdoor installation, with 16 sites in all, will stretch along Main Street between the Peak House and the old section of Vine Lake Cemetery. It is the work of Somerville artist Hannah Verlin, who has completed about a third of the project and will continue her work through the summer.
The path roughly demarcates the proposed cultural district, which would include all of the local properties on the National Register of Historic Places, about 50 businesses, and most of Medfield’s religious and government institutions.
The cultural district designation is being sought as part of a Massachusetts Cultural Council effort, launched last year as a way for communities to gain access to a wide range of programs and resources.
Although there’s abundant history to showcase, the sculpture path also spotlights some of Medfield’s newer cultural attractions, including the Zullo Gallery Center for the Arts, where the white paper letters take a brief detour from the telephone poles and land on a brick wall.
“It’s a wonderful piece of work,” said William Pope, executive director of the Zullo Gallery, a nonprofit organization. “I saw some kids out there kind of touching it and looking at it.”
And that’s the idea. It’s meant to be a conversation piece, he said.
The gallery has another link to the library’s Medfield Reads program with an ongoing exhibit through June 24. Because Lansky’s book is about Yiddish and cultural history, the gallery is hosting “Outwitting History,” a juried show in which artists explore their own cultural history.
The collaboration of so many groups in town — the sculpture path links the Medfield Historical Society, the Vine Lake Preservation Trust, and the library, among others — helps all of the organizations.
“We’re all close, we’re all doing things, we all know each other,” said Pope.
Verlin said she purposely used cheap, thin paper, called sign-makers’ paper, and wheat paste to adhere the English and Yiddish words for the outdoor installation.
“It will be a little bit resilient, but over the course of the summer it will slowly deteriorate,” she said. “Conceptually, it sort of reflects the idea discussed by Lansky — as something present but being worn away.”
There’s a personal connection for her because Verlin, who is 29, is from a family of Ashkenazi Jews, and like many such families each generation has a lost a bit of the language, she said. She said although her great-grandparents were fluent in Yiddish, she only knows the words that are in the common vernacular.
The Cultural Council’s Mineo said the work on the proposed cultural district and the sculpture path has helped bring together many groups in town, and she is rooting for it to foster ongoing collaborations.
“I do hope that more people become involved in the cultural offerings of the community and that the organizations become stronger through collaborative efforts,” she said.
“I think art can be an integral and very hands-on and accessible way to build community.”
Lisa Kocian can be reached at lkocian@globe.com.Boston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-50022918793820753812012-06-13T06:08:00.001-07:002012-06-13T06:08:18.396-07:00When your surgeon has an art-school diploma on the wallWe just can't resist sharing this story. Thanks for making the case so eloquently!
originally published:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/growth/when-your-surgeon-has-an-art-school-diploma-on-the-wall/article4247486/?cmpid=rss1
JAMES MARTIN
The Globe and Mail
Published Monday, Jun. 11 2012, 2:03 PM EDT
Last updated Tuesday, Jun. 12 2012, 2:38 PM EDT
There are a few things we like to see on a doctor’s office wall. A medical degree is a good start, especially if it’s from a university that doesn’t have the words “mail-order correspondence” in its name. But what about an art school diploma? For physicians, especially those engaged in medical research, that might be a good idea.
“When people find out that I was in fine arts before going into medicine, they say, ‘Wow, that was a real change.’ But it was a straightforward progression from my point of view,” says John Semple. Today he’s the chief surgeon at Toronto’s Women’s College Hospital, where he specializes in post-cancer breast reconstruction. He’s also a professor in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and the chair of surgical research at the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.
But it all started by studying painting and sculpture at what is now the Ontario College of Art and Design University from 1970 to 1973. He then completed a medical illustration BSc at the University of Toronto, then medical school at McMaster University. “A training in art is really a training in observation. It teaches you how to be aware and how to see. And that’s certainly something you can use extremely well in medicine.”
Although an artist’s manual dexterity – and a deep knowledge and respect for the medium, “whether it’s Florentine marble or living human tissue” – is certainly an asset to a surgeon, Dr. Semple believes the world of scientific research can benefit from an artistic education.
“The idea that creativity is part of everyday thinking is something I use all the time,” he says, “specifically in my capacity for dealing with abstract ideas.” As a senior scientist at Women’s College Research Institute, he just completed a mobile health pilot project that saw post-surgical patients use a smartphone app to file daily reports with their doctors, giving them improved recovery care without having to return to the hospital. His other research areas include clinical work in breast reconstruction and the effects of hypoxia on high altitude mountain climbers.
“I find a lot of people fear facing abstract notions, and will retreat to known components,” he says, “But a painter is trained to face a blank canvas, and deal with it head on. From a research point of view, that can mean looking at things in ways people haven’t looked at before. That might be in terms of microvascular blood flow, or different ways the body can heal or be encouraged to heal.”
Creativity, Dr. Semple believes, isn’t so much taught as it’s cultivated. He believes so strongly in the power of artistic training as an across-the-board driver for innovation and advancement that he recently joined the OCADU board of governors.
“When I was applying to medical school, I got a lot of blank stares from people who couldn’t figure out how being an artist could have any relevance to science. But I think it’s such a great background for scientists. It’s the way you think as an artist that’s so important.
“Creativity is really a critical element of how human beings advance in all our disciplines. Where medicine and science need help from art is in looking over the horizon, in looking at something in a completely different way. Thinking as an artist means connecting the dots that aren’t next to each other.”
Special to The Globe and MailBoston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-46934598015429645952012-05-22T18:47:00.000-07:002012-05-22T18:47:36.306-07:00Boston Biennale Summer 2013 CallBoston Biennale - Summer 2013
From the website: 'The Boston Biennale was formed to establish and maintain a world-class cultural event that integrates contemporary and traditional arts within Boston's historic cultural setting. This event is one that celebrates and encourages excellence, creativity, diversity, participation, promotes artisans and local businesses, improves the cultural resources of Boston, and also provides access to the arts and education. They have a call out to artists: Send a JPEG of your vision for the Boston Biennale. One image per person, please. (10mb max file size) ideas@bostonbiennale.orgBoston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-22286986968519339062012-05-16T07:58:00.000-07:002012-05-16T07:58:08.940-07:00Boston Art Review: Sarah Hutt, "In Your Dreams"<a href="http://bostonartreview.blogspot.com/2012/05/sarah-hutt-in-your-dreams-at-boston.html?spref=bl">Boston Art Review: Sarah Hutt, "In Your Dreams", at Boston Sculptors ...</a>: The show is composed of three distinct sections: The Dream Boxes A wall of small clay figures And an arrangement of 2-D...Boston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-17844549619170131882012-04-24T08:00:00.003-07:002012-04-24T08:06:35.925-07:00Artist Selected for Edgar Allan Poe public art commission in Boston<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSwxD639ejm7RCg-GwsStHr8uMv4sf1o0XavAAQE2vxFVge3QTjcmf04e0xDSzI33j0d9swi48pNEaWsonFX1YhW6D_w5QTVrz0AtkWk2u6P9Z20g-wyXR9KpTg9Db6j_TmNsTMlQ_zro/s1600/rocknakpoeblog1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 164px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSwxD639ejm7RCg-GwsStHr8uMv4sf1o0XavAAQE2vxFVge3QTjcmf04e0xDSzI33j0d9swi48pNEaWsonFX1YhW6D_w5QTVrz0AtkWk2u6P9Z20g-wyXR9KpTg9Db6j_TmNsTMlQ_zro/s200/rocknakpoeblog1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5734983105263038818" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Poe Returning to Boston, from Rocknak’s preliminary design proposal<br /><br />Monday, April 23, 2012<br />FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<br /><br />Contacts:<br /><br />Jean Mineo, Project Manager<br /> Poe Square Public Art Project<br />508-242-9991; JeanMineo@aol.com<br /><br />Paul Lewis, Poe Foundation Chairman <br />& Boston College Professor of English<br />617-552-3710; paul.lewis@bc.edu<br /><br /><br />SCULPTURE HONORING EDGAR ALLAN POE IN BOSTON CHOSEN <br />AFTER LENGTHY REVIEW PROCESS<br /><br />POE TO RETURN TO CITY OF HIS BIRTH, WILL BE SEEN STRIDING ACROSS SQUARE DEDICATED TO HIM<br /><br />TRIUMPHANT POE RETURNING TO BOSTON…SCULPTOR CHOSEN <br />FROM 265 ARTISTS<br /><br />ARTIST/PHILOSOPHER SELECTED TO CREATE POE STATUE<br /><br />BOSTON – Stefanie Rocknak, a professional sculptor with a tandem career as a professor of philosophy in New York, has been selected to create a statue to commemorate Edgar Allan Poe in Boston, the city of his birth.<br /><br />“Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most influential writers ever born in the City of Boston. As a city proud of its rich history, I’m so pleased to see this wonderful tribute come to fruition. The statue chosen for Poe Square is full of life and motion, and is sure to inspire residents and future writers alike for generations to come,” said Mayor Tom Menino of Rocknak’s design.<br /><br />A five-member artist selection committee, empowered by Boston Art Commission guidelines, has made the decision following a lengthy process involving intense public scrutiny of design proposals created by three competing finalists. The finalists were picked from a pool of 265 artists who applied for the competitive public art commission from 42 states and 13 countries.<br /><br />“I propose to cast a life-size figure of Poe in bronze. Just off the train, the figure would be walking south towards his place of birth, where his mother and father once lived. Poe, with a trunk full of ideas—and worldwide success—is finally coming home,” said Rocknak of the design she calls Poe Returning to Boston.<br /><br />“The sense of Poe returning triumphant with creative ideas bursting forth from his suitcase is very appealing,” according to project manager Jean Mineo. <br /><br />“The review committee, and public input, conveyed great excitement with the dynamic sense of movement, accessible style, and Poe’s creative energy expressed in the proposal. There is also strong support for Steff’s approachable, ground level statue that helps humanize Poe and place him in the context of this active neighborhood,” Mineo said.<br /><br />The plan calls for the statue of one of America’s most influential writers to be installed in Edgar Allan Poe Square, a tree-lined, city-owned brick plaza at the intersection of Boylston Street and Charles Street South, just two blocks north of where Poe was born in 1809. Mayor Menino dedicated the location to Poe—and to his place in Boston’s literary heritage—during bicentennial celebrations in 2009.<br /><br />Poe, who at age 18 returned to Boston to publish his first book, later developed a notoriously contentious relationship with the city’s literary elite, including with local editors who seized an opportunity to criticize him upon another return to his native city for a reading in 1845, the year Poe’s most popular poem, The Raven, appeared. Poe’s final works were also published in Boston prior to his mysterious death in Baltimore in 1849.<br /> <br />An award-winning member of the Sculptors Guild whose artwork has appeared in numerous publications and in more than 40 exhibitions including at the Smithsonian, Stefanie Rocknak is an associate professor of philosophy and the director of the Cognitive Science Program at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York, where she has taught since 2001. A graduate of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, with a B.A. in American Studies and Art History with a concentration in studio art, she holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Boston University. Her interests include the 18th-century Scottish philosopher David Hume (the subject of her forthcoming book), the philosophy of art, and the philosophy of the mind. <br /><br />Describing her dual roles as artist and philosopher in Colby Magazine last November, Rocknak said: “Initially I kept them totally separate … but making representational art is a manifestation of my philosophical belief that all art doesn’t have to be conceptual.” She said her figurative artwork, usually created in wood, is “cathartic” representing “a way to externalize certain emotions.” <br /><br />The Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston appreciates support for the Poe Square Public Art Project, and the financial contributions of the City of Boston’s Edward Ingersoll Browne Trust Fund that made its planning and artist selection process possible. Construction of a finalized design of the sculpture—which proponents envision by the end of next year—will depend on success of future fundraising initiatives to offset the anticipated $125,000 total cost of the project.<br /><br />For more information about the Poe Square Public Art Project—and about how to contribute to the Poe Statue Fund—contact the Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston at 160 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116, via email at info@poeboston.org, or care of http://poeboston.blogspot.com/ <br /><br />The Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston, Inc., is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation organized exclusively for the charitable educational purpose of honoring Poe in the city where he was born in 1809.Boston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-34367621183020601962012-03-30T10:21:00.004-07:002012-03-30T10:34:13.917-07:00Donald Lipski's explains St. Paul nautilus<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtTrtGiM7wvmnJwxioz6Hs2SJbJ7OOn-mmKLvrUSr5yPU4jbUed1NNlyf0o8Yjg9VZGEh6SU9b7hHbZBRJLrvhfonM0-SwKqw7PQ4y3h5e8N6Z0wQZN9zoPsS1I4RNOlHJ8TFuIyAjdTE/s1600/Lipski+pediment.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 119px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtTrtGiM7wvmnJwxioz6Hs2SJbJ7OOn-mmKLvrUSr5yPU4jbUed1NNlyf0o8Yjg9VZGEh6SU9b7hHbZBRJLrvhfonM0-SwKqw7PQ4y3h5e8N6Z0wQZN9zoPsS1I4RNOlHJ8TFuIyAjdTE/s200/Lipski+pediment.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725742606739984018" /></a><br /><br />Looks like a fantastic addition to public art in Boston!<br /><br />This from UniversalHub.com:<br /><br />To cap off major renovations, the Cathedral Church of St. Paul is getting a new design for its long vacant pediment: A nautilus shell, which will be lit at night.<br /><br />The design, by Philadelphia artist Donald Lipski, is scheduled for completion by Oct. 7 - the 100th anniversary of the church's dedication as a cathedral (it opened as a church in 1818). http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif<br /><br />The artist weighs with his explanation of the imagery in what is one of the most elegant, articulate, and clearly written statements I've come across in a long time (also on <a href="http://www.universalhub.com/2012/tremont-street-cathedral-get-new-look#comment-217661">UniversalHub.com</a>). Artists take note!<br /><br />Donald Lipski replies<br />By Donald Lipski (not verified) - 3/28/12 - 7:03 pm<br /><br />Thank you all for your thoughts. Here are some of mine:<br /><br />St. Paul’s is a house of prayer for all people. So I wanted to find an image, a <br />symbol, that would speak to everyone.<br /><br />I had the spiral in mind before I ever saw the Cathedral in person. The Greek <br />proportions of St. Paul’s derive from the Golden Rectangle, which in its <br />perfection generates a spiral. The SPIRAL is a universal symbol of the spiritual <br />journey. It’s the blueprint for life itself. Carl Jung saw the spiral as the <br />archetypal symbol of cosmic force.<br /><br />I came for my first visit on a sparkly day last fall, got there early and took a <br />walk in the Commons to see what it looked like from a distance. Just a little ways across, and with a beautiful view of the church through the trees, I came across a woman who had made a spiral in the leaves and was walking it over and over like a labyrinth. I took that as a sign. We are all on a path. We spiral in toward our center, and venture out again into the world. The spiral is a symbol for the spiritual journey.<br /><br />The Spiral is the most pervasive shape in the universe. We see it in the divine <br />workings of nature—from the movement of sub-atomic particles to the vastness of galaxies. It evokes thoughts of eternal growth and progression, circling out in ever widening circles.<br /><br />My sculpture will float in front of a blue panel, which I took from the shield and flag of the Episcopal Church. This is the blue used by artists for centuries for the clothing of Jesus's Mother, Mary. It’s called “Madonna Blue” and represents the human nature of Jesus, which He received from His Mother. And that is so apparent in the spirit at St. Paul’s.<br /><br />The St. Paul’s spiral is a slice from the shell of The Chambered Nautilus, an amazing creature. It starts it’s life in a tiny shell. As it grows, the nautilus <br />enlarges its shell through the addition of a new, larger, stronger chamber suitable for the next stage of its life. Season by season, these chambers are added, spiraling out with beautiful precision.<br /><br />Here in Boston, when St. Paul’s was in its infancy, Oliver Wendell Holmes saw the nautilus as a beautiful metaphor for spiritual growth. This is the last stanza of his poem, The Chambered Nautilus:<br /><br />Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,<br /><br />As the swift seasons roll!<br /><br />Leave thy low-vaulted past!<br /><br />Let each new temple, nobler than the last,<br /><br />Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,<br /><br />Till thou at length art free,<br /><br />Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!Boston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-16793442907352472342012-03-16T11:12:00.003-07:002012-03-23T06:45:22.969-07:00Boston Sculptors at U MA Lowell April 2 - 26, 2012<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotoptimizeforbrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;" >B</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">OSTON </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;" >S</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">CULPTORS </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi- font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;" >C</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">ELEBRATES </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;" >I</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">TS 20<sup>TH</sup> </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;" >A</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">NNIVERSARY</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial;" >Curated by Univ. MA Lowell (UML) professor <a href="http://ellenwetmore.iwarp.com/">Ellen Wetmore</a></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p> <p class="NoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;line-height:12.0pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial;" >Installation assistance by UML professor <a href="http://www.uml.edu/dept/art/faculty-coates.htm">Jim Coates</a></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:12.0pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Artist Reception and Gallery Talk with <a href="http://www.gillianchristy.com/home.shtml">Gillian Christy</a>: April 4, 5 - 7 pm </span></i></p> <p class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:12.0pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">A Conversation with <a href="http://www.nancyselvage.com/">Nancy Selvage</a>: April 23, 3-4:30 in O’Leary 222</span></i></p> <p class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Outdoor Exhibition continues through June 30</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;font-size:11.5pt;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lowell MA</span>: <a href="http://www.uml.edu/dept/art/galleries.htm">The University Gallery at UMass Lowell</a> is pleased to present a group exhibition of work by the Boston Sculptors. This exhibition highlights the variety of approaches to sculpture explored by 30 of the members and features an eclectic examination of materials and processes. The show includes works installed in the gallery and outdoors in the adjacent quad area. The Boston Sculptors is an artists’ cooperative whose founding members recognized in 1992 that there was a shortage of exhibition opportunities for sculpture in the Boston area. They set about to create more opportunities, in exhibition spaces, public galleries and in public art. What began as a series of conversations over dinner has, twenty years later, yielded two successful commercial galleries and numerous critically acclaimed shows.<span style=""></span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:0in; line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>Representative works from Massachusetts Cultural Council award-winning artists Laura Baring-Gould, Rosalyn Driscoll, Beth Galston, Mags Harries, Sarah Hutt, and Julia Shepley will be included as well as important works by B. Amore, Caroline Bagenal, Kim Bernard, Benjamin Cariens, Gillian Christy, Murray Dewart, Donna Dodson, Laura Evans, Sally S. Fine, Peter DeCamp Haines, Ken Hruby, David Lang, Michelle Lougee, Joyce McDaniels, Nancy Selvage, Jessica Straus, Marilu Swett, Dan Wills and Andy Zimmermann. Outdoor works are on view through June 30<sup>th</sup> and include work by Andy Moerlein, Margaret Swan, Hannah Verlin, Joseph Wheelwright and Leslie Wilcox. This show is offered in conjunction with the yearlong activities throughout New England to celebrate the group’s twentieth anniversary.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:0in; line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>Curator Ellen Wetmore is an established artist who has been a member of the Boston Sculptors Group for over eight years. She works with a variety of materials and media, including sculpture, video, sound art, and interactive environments. Ellen joined the UML Art Department faculty in 2008 and teaches foundation courses. </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:0in; line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>Jim Coates has taught sculpture at UML for over 30 years. He’s an established artist whose site-specific work revolves around an interest in shelter forms (primitive, modern and contemporary) and their ephemeral relationship to the natural environment. </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:0in; line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>The Dugan Gallery in Dugan Hall hosts a coinciding companion exhibition of sculpture by the B.F.A. students enrolled in the Spring 2012 Sculpture class working under the direction of Prof. Coates.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;font-size:11.5pt;" ></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:0in; line-height:12.0pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;" ></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-MS Mincho";mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";font-size:8.0pt;" >The University Gallery at UMass Lowell is coordinated by the Art Department and funded by the College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Funding for the outdoor exhibition provided by the Lowell Cultural Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. Additional funding provided by the Office of the Provost at UMass Lowell. All events are free, open to the public & handicapped accessible. Gallery Hours: Mon. – Thurs. 10 am - 7:30 pm, Fri. 11 am – 4 pm, Sat. by appt.</span></i></p>Boston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-41528891762291033772012-03-13T18:45:00.002-07:002012-03-13T18:51:06.919-07:00Stuff Moves: The Kinetic Sculptures of Kim Bernard<div class="posttitle"> <h2 style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Originally published at:</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://bostonartimages.wordpress.com/" title="Boston Art Images Blog"> Boston Art Images Blog</a></span></h2><div style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;" id="header"> <h2><span style="font-size:100%;">the Paula Ogier galaxy of art</span></h2> </div> <p class="post-info">March 13, 2012 by <a href="http://bostonartimages.wordpress.com/author/bostonvisualart/" title="Posts by Paula Ogier">Paula Ogier</a> </p> </div> <div id="attachment_1299" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 284px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1299 " title="Kim_Bernard_Harmonograph2" src="http://bostonartimages.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/kim_bernard_harmonograph2.jpg?w=274&h=350" alt="Sculptor Kim Bernard demonstrates the Harmonograph " height="350" width="274" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Sculptor Kim Bernard demonstrates the Harmonograph</p></div> <p>I visited the <a title="Boston Sculptors Gallery" href="http://bostonsculptors.com/" target="_blank">Boston Sculptors Gallery</a> on a whim this past Sunday and was delighted to find Kim Bernard, the artist responsible for <em>Stuff Moves</em>, one of two exhibits happening there, overseeing the gallery that day and encouraging visitors to play with her installations. The spacious back half of the gallery was alive with eye-popping red balls — hanging from cables, topping off the ends of sticks and serving as the weights at the end of pendulums — but the star of the exhibit was movement. Bernard’s <em>Stuff Moves</em> exhibit is play, art, color, choreography and physics lesson combined, and part of its fun and refreshment lies in the viewer being allowed to physically engage with the installations. The result for me was a happy wonderment inspired by bright color, large scale wave-like fluidity, and the occasional surprise of motion taking unexpected turns.</p> <p>She invited those of us in the gallery to take part as she introduced us to <em>Harmonograph</em>, a set of three wooden structures utilizing red balls for pendulums and a pulley string for controlling the up and down movement of an ink marker. The central structure has a top platform with piece of paper lying on it, and a pendulum that can be set into motion to make the paper gently move back and forth, up and down.</p> <div id="attachment_1301" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 325px"><img class=" wp-image-1301 " title="Kim_Bernard_Harmonograph" src="http://bostonartimages.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/kim_bernard_harmonograph.jpg?w=315&h=272" alt="Sculptor Kim Bernard watches the Harmonograph's pen descend to the paper surface to make a drawing" height="272" width="315" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Sculptor Kim Bernard watches the Harmonograph's pen descend to the paper surface to make a drawing</p></div> <p>When the pendulums of the two outer structures are pushed into movement, the viewer can lower the string holding the marker to let it create a drawing on the piece of paper. The effect on paper was highly reminiscent for me of the beloved Spirograph art toy of my childhood, except that in this case, once the pendulums have been set in motion, the forces of nature take over.</p> <p>Bernard’s kinetic sculpture work comes from her fascination with movement and its basic laws. Another piece in the exhibit, <em>Quantum Revival</em>, was inspired by the <a title="Pendulum Wave" href="http://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k16940&pageid=icb.page80863&pageContentId=icb.pagecontent341734&state=maximize&view=view.do&viewParam_name=indepth.html" target="_blank">Pendulum Wave</a>, which she came across in researching pendulums.</p> <div id="attachment_1308" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 360px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1308 " title="Bernard_Quantum_revival_2012" src="http://bostonartimages.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/bernard_quantum_revival_20121.jpg?w=350&h=337" alt="Quantum Revival kinetic sculpture by Kim Bernard" height="337" width="350" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Quantum Revival kinetic sculpture by Kim Bernard</p></div> <p>Bernard first laid a series of hanging red balls into a shelf bin on the wall. As she released them all at once, we watched the balls take up an undulating pattern of movements, alternating between moving in sync, in waves, and in complementary step. The display was a lovely and seemingly choreographed dance.</p> <p>“I certainly did not discover the Pendulum Wave,” says Bernard, “but rather ‘borrowed’ the idea to create a kinetic sculpture. Though I knew each pendulum needed to have an exact period, I did not know how to calculate the length to produce the exact number of oscillations. My son, who is a physics major at Harvard, knew the formula that would generate the cable lengths, hence the correct number of oscillations. In five minutes he produced a spread sheet with all of my cable lengths.”</p> <div id="attachment_1303" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 272px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1303" title="DSC03292" src="http://bostonartimages.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/dsc03292.jpg?w=262&h=350" alt="Dance of Shive sculpture by Kim Bernard" height="350" width="262" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Dance of Shive sculpture by Kim Bernard</p></div> <p><em>Dance of Shive</em>, another kinetic sculpture, was made up of 12 feet of nylon strapping stretched between two posts. The strapping held horizontal rods, each tipped with a small red bouncy ball. She welcomed us to move the rods, setting off a twirling wave of the 146 red balls. The effect was an ever-changing beautiful spiraling movement. I found the moving shadows it cast on the wall almost as enchanting as the piece itself in motion.</p> <p>I was disappointed to learn I’d stumbled upon the exhibit on its final day — otherwise, I’d be encouraging you to pay a visit there. I did get a chance to talk with Kim Bernard about her work, though.</p> <p>She has lived in Maine for 25 years, and works from a home studio in an attached barn. In the cold months, she works in a smaller, heated area in the barn, while in warmer months she can spread out into the entire lower level (her husband, a painter, has a studio on the second floor). If she really wants space or the wood shop, though, she will work there on milder winter days. “My step son is a custom surf board builder/designer and has a shop on the third floor of the barn,” says Bernard. “You might be interested to know that my 19-year old son will major in music at USM in the fall and my 22-year old physics major son is also a musician. My step daughter is a professional photographer in NYC. Need I say, we’re a creative bunch!”</p> <p>PO: How do you work in your studio, and how often?</p> <blockquote><p>KB: It all depends on my exhibit schedule. For the three months leading up to my <em>Stuff Moves</em> exhibit at Boston Sculptors Gallery, I worked in my studio all day, every day. After I take a show down, I regroup, fill the well, research, you know…put some compost back into the soil. I always have ideas for future work. It’s a matter of what I’m most curious about, what I’m excited to investigate, what spaces I have to exhibit my work in. It’s often a matter of matching an opportunity with an idea that’s been fermenting for some time. My husband would tell you I’m a workaholic, I don’t agree. It’s a labor of love and I thoroughly enjoy what I do. If I’m not in my studio, I’m researching a future project, visiting a gallery or museum, or doing something art related.</p> <p>What is atypical about this year is that I received 25K grant that has allowed me to reduce my teaching and focus on some specific projects: Build a Harmonograph, create some interactive kinetic sculpture, take a physic course, study <a title="Cymatics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymatics" target="_blank">cymatics</a> to create an interactive sculpture, work with time-lapse video and investigate Body Sensor Networks. You can read more about that on my blog: <a href="http://kimbernard.blogspot.com/2012_01_01_archive.html" target="_blank">http://kimbernard.blogspot.com/2012_01_01_archive.html</a></p></blockquote> <p>PO: Can you describe your general evolution toward doing what you’re doing now with sculpture? How did you start out? Were there any Aha moments for you along the way that pushed you in a particular direction?</p> <blockquote><p>KB: From the get-go, I’ve been a mover and a maker. As long as I can remember I have liked to make things and enjoyed dance. Six or so years ago I started questioning why I had two simultaneous but separate practices, one of creating 2-D work (in encaustic) and sculpture (in a variety of materials) and the other, a movement practice which has run the gamut of dance, martial arts and now yoga. I have always been aware of my body on space, ergonomics and <a title="Definition of Kinesthetics" href="http://www.audioenglish.net/dictionary/kinesthetics.htm" target="_blank">kinesthetics</a>. There was one particular ‘aha’ moment…I was assembling a sculpture that required that I bend, scoop up a piece of the sculpture, string it on steel rod in a spiral fashion (like a bead), then repeat the motion again and again. I became more interested in my body moving in space than the sculpture.</p> <p>The reason why I make sculpture is probably because there is so much body work involved. So, I made it my assignment to bring these two pursuits together and now my work is about movement and nothing else. At first, that seemed limiting but now I realize it is infinitely expansive. At times that means I’m creating kinetic sculpture, sometimes it’s making contraptions that draws, sometimes that means I move and make marks as a record of my own movement. I’ve been playing with stop-motion video lately since it captures and allows me to study movement patterns.</p> <p>With this exhibit of interactive kinetic sculpture people have often asked if I have a science background. I don’t. I studied sculpture for my BFA and MFA. My answer is that I am simply fascinated with movement and things that move, and that my work is an attempt to understand how things move. My way of doing that is with my hands and with my body.</p></blockquote> <p>To see the <em>Stuff Moves</em> exhibit in motion, watch this <a title="Stuff Moves exhibit at Boston Sculptors Gallery" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCeMZVYLO-E" target="_blank">short video</a>.</p> <p>The <a title="Boston Sculptors Gallery" href="http://bostonsculptors.com/" target="_blank">Boston Sculptors Gallery</a> is at 486 Harrison Avenue in the <a title="SOWA District of Boston" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoWa" target="_blank">SOWA </a>district of Boston’s South End. It functions as a cooperative, hosting two simultaneous solo shows each month featuring the works of its 34 members.</p><p>Note: Stuff Moves was on exhibit Feb. 8 - March 11, 2012<br /></p>Boston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-88018253116853352752012-02-27T07:47:00.002-08:002012-02-27T07:50:37.688-08:00About a Pear: Boston and the Business of Public Art<div id="blogEntry"> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Originally posted on <a href="http://www.boston.com/business/blogs/global-business-hub/2012/02/about_a_pear_bo.html">Boston.com</a><br /></span><span id="byline">Posted by Devin Cole</span> <span id="dateline">February 23, 2012 03:55 PM</span><br /> <h1><a href="http://www.boston.com/business/blogs/global-business-hub/2012/02/about_a_pear_bo.html">About a Pear: Boston and the Business of Public Art</a></h1> <div class="blogText"> <div class="firstGraph"><p class="byline">By Donna Dodson, <a href="http://www.donnadodsonartist.blogspot.com/">Artist</a></p> <div class="image right"> <a href="http://www.boston.com/business/blogs/global-business-hub/assets_c/2012/02/Clapp%20Pear-64876.html"><img src="http://www.boston.com/business/blogs/global-business-hub/assets_c/2012/02/Clapp%20Pear-thumb-400x534-64876.jpg" alt="Clapp Pear.JPG" class="mt-image-right" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;" height="334" width="250" /></a><p class="caption">Laura Baring-Gould, John McColgan and the Clapp Pear</p></div>Arts and Culture dynamically contribute to Boston’s business community. <a href="http://www.nefa.org/">The New England Foundation for the Arts</a>, NEFA, recently released its 2011 annual report, <em><a href="http://www.nefa.org/sites/default/files/nefanonprofitreport2011_web.pdf">New England’s Creative Economy: Nonprofit sector impact</a></em>. ‘In 2009, the spending of these 18,026 organizations amounted to nearly $3.7 billion, and they provided jobs for over 53,000 people.’ This sector has grown substantially since 2002, and these organizations have a track record for being a steady reliable industry, not susceptible to the ups and downs of the market economy. <p>NEFA’s study also demonstrates that direct spending results in significant indirect and induced impact on the region’s economy. ‘Nearly every dollar spent becomes sales to suppliers and income to employees. These businesses and employees, in turn, spend that money to buy goods and services to meet their own needs.’ Therefore, the $3.7 billion of art and culture spending has an indirect impact of $2.2 billion and an induced impact of $2.5 billion, providing a total of $8.4 billion in the New England economy. Within the workforce, the 53, 270 individuals employed by art and culture industries result in an additional 12,960 jobs as an indirect impact and an additional 17,000 jobs as an induced impact for a total of 83,330 jobs.</p> <p>The last and perhaps the most important impact of nonprofit arts and cultural organization is ‘more than economic.’ The NEFA study highlights ‘visitor attraction impact’ where those who come to an art museum, historic site or cultural festival spend money on food, lodging, shopping, etc. in the local economy. These nonprofits also help ‘attract new residents and new businesses’ by providing key dollars and vitality to a community. The Fenway district in Boston exemplifies this where key cultural institutions such as the <a href="http://www.mfa.org/">Museum of Fine Arts</a> and the <a href="http://www.gardnermuseum.org/">Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum</a>, are accompanied by teaching institutions like <a href="http://www.boston.com/business/blogs/global-business-hub/2012/02/The%20Massachusetts%20College%20of%20Art%20and%20Design">The Massachusetts College of Art and Design</a> and the <a href="http://www.smfa.edu/">School of the Museum of Fine Arts</a> that jointly bring visitors and students to Boston, provide key jobs across economic spectrums and greatly add to the vitality of Boston. This pattern is repeated across New England where museums, historic organizations, art and performance centers, gallery districts, artist’s housing, art schools and community centers contribute to the human capital of the region. The impact of this on the economy is significant and far reaching.</p> <p>An interesting case study of the economic impact of art is told through a 17-year effort to bring public art to <a href="http://www.edwardeverettsquare.org/">Edward Everett Square</a>, in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood. Organized in 1995 by historian and archivist John McColgan with a network of dedicated residents, civic associations and historic organizations, the group advocated for public art to celebrate the historic legacy of the community. Recognizing the importance of urban planning and design, the community successfully enjoined the city of Boston to provide $2.2 million in public works capital funding to redesign and renovate Edward Everett Square, transforming traffic and pedestrian safety, green space and creating a pedestrian plaza for public art.</p></div> <div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>In 2003, Somerville Artist Laura Baring-Gould was commissioned to create the artwork with the important goal of celebrating history and place within a diverse community. Baring-Gould seized upon the area’s history as a 300 acre pear orchard, where a hybrid pear was first cultivated by the Clapp family. Clapp’s Favorite pear was renowned for it tough skin, but sweet and juicy fruit -- an apt metaphor, Baring-Gould felt, for the tenacity and good will of the community. The artist added ten additional smaller sized artworks to the design to celebrate modern aspects of Dorchester history, and led a community initiative to inscribe bricks with quotes and dedications celebrating contemporary Dorchester stories. In 2007, the 12 foot tall Clapp pear sculpture was installed in Edward Everett Square, along with the ten additional artworks. In addition, comprehensive text panels describing the project and area’s history were installed in 2011. Each event was magnificently celebrated by the community, local business, city and state officials. </p> <p>When asked if the project met its stated goals John McColgan replied, ‘The Edward Everett Square art project has achieved the community vision, conceived in 1995, to reclaim this place as one of historical significance expressed through public art. The vision has now evolved and focuses more intensely on Edward Everett Square as an important cultural asset - one that may be used to promote awareness of art, culture and history, and to celebrate personal, community and national connections to Dorchester and Edward Everett Square.’ Laura Baring-Gould adds, ‘public art, when done well, can be a great addition to a community. Not only does the artwork create a landmark, but it contributes to a sense of importance and well being. All great cities have great art- several residents told me how much they feel the neighborhood has improved with the artworks that benefit us all.’</p> <p>Coming up with the concept is perhaps the biggest challenge of the project, but in truth, the success of the project hinged upon the cooperation of all the players, and upon all the pieces falling into place. Project Artist Laura Baring-Gould worked closely with the community while John Mc Colgan organized civic involvement of many neighborhood associations. The City of Boston provided financial support, as well as tangible support from the Parks Department, Department of Public Works, Boston Art Commission and the Public Improvement Commission. Local businesses also supported the project as did many local elected officials at all levels of government. Private firms were contracted for the design of the project and labor was contracted from local companies and donated by the Bricklayers & Allied Craftsmen Union Local 3 Training Center. Finally, Corporate Sponsorship was committed by Waste Management Corporation for maintenance. </p> <p>In other words, it was a true community effort, brought to bear with support from stakeholders throughout the neighborhood and city.</p> <p>As a result of the Clapp Pear project and the Edward Everett Square renovation, the community has experienced tangible results such as increased property values, a changed sense of place and a renewed identity as diverse community which shares a common sense of history and experience. This artwork illustrates the role art can have in improving civic space, community pride and the overall experience of a neighborhood/important Boston gateway. The Clapp Pear made a place into a <strong>Place</strong> with history. It was the stimulus that mobilized $3 million of indirect and induced spending in Dorchester whose trickle down and ripple effects will continue to impact the future of the local businesses, and the people who live there, for many years to come.</p> <p><em>Donna Dodson graduated cum laude from Wellesley College in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts. Since 2000, Dodson has been honored with solo shows nationwide for her wood sculptures. Dodson enjoys public speaking, and has been a guest speaker in conferences, panels and forums at museums and universities in North America.</em></p></div> </div> </div>Boston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-20113841870574531562012-02-02T12:44:00.000-08:002012-02-02T12:52:02.851-08:00B. Amore: Invisible Odysseys<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirMgJDDGAYypyE_ebWsUFP4_HCRM_WpvIXEzlP_X0nYASIpBgGxNvSDF0orRz-rf3-_mXEw09WI1i16PXELUb3PHVztgB4HC0EmsQ4G72hUNvqMNCUgaw7NjOAILGKQEdMfa8sJ3yFB2A/s1600/Workers_Mandala_email.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 184px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirMgJDDGAYypyE_ebWsUFP4_HCRM_WpvIXEzlP_X0nYASIpBgGxNvSDF0orRz-rf3-_mXEw09WI1i16PXELUb3PHVztgB4HC0EmsQ4G72hUNvqMNCUgaw7NjOAILGKQEdMfa8sJ3yFB2A/s200/Workers_Mandala_email.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704643008061478930" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><i>Invisible Odysseys: Art by Mexican Farmworkers </i></b>runs Feb. 3 - April 28, 2012 at the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury, VT. The accompanying bi-lingual book of photographs and statements was partially funded by the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston and is available through Kokoro Press.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I co-ordinated this project with my friends, Susannah McCandless and Ethan Mitchell. We brought art materials to farmworkers who help keep the dairy industry alive here in Vermont. They live in isolation and fear on the farms because of their undocumented status and the color of their skin in Vermont. As one worker said, “I feel like a grain of brown rice in a sea of white rice.” Extraordinary works of art have emerged in the dioramas that they have created expressing their journeys. This is truly “work of the soul,” both moving and powerful, and links their journeys to the larger history of immigration. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I’ve created two companion pieces integrating farmorkers journeys from Mexico to Vermont – <b><i>“Walk in my footsteps”</i></b>(incorporating actual workers’ footprints) and <b><i>“Workers’ Mandala; Tracing the journeys”</i></b> (incorporating actual workers’ gloves). I hope that you may be able to view the show or , if not, perhaps purchase the book which eloquently represents the exhibit in image and text. - B. Amore</p></span>Boston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-24820523435662178492012-02-02T11:41:00.000-08:002012-02-02T11:46:31.453-08:00Boston Sculptors in New England and Beyond in 2012<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ongoing Exhibitions (check with venue for end date)</span></span></strong></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></strong></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></strong></p><strong><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Gillian Christy: </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Winding Walk</span></span></span></p></strong><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Somersby Sculpture Park in Newburyport, MA (thru 2012) </span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" shape="rect" href="http://www.somerbyslandingsculpturepark.org/index.html" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.somerbyslandingsculpturepark.org/index.html</a></span></span></span><div><a track="on" shape="rect" href="http://www.somerbyslandingsculpturepark.org/index.html" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; text-decoration: underline; "></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" shape="rect" href="http://www.somerbyslandingsculpturepark.org/index.html" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "></a></span></span><strong><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Donna Dodson: </span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Elephant Parade (thru 2012)</span></span><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, 415 Summer St. Boston, MA</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" href="http://www.mccahome.com/bcec_art.html" shape="rect" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.mccahome.com/bcec_art.html </a></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Donna Dodson:</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Elephant Oracle</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Sculpture Fest in Woodstock, VT</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" href="http://www.sculpturefest.org/index.html" shape="rect" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.sculpturefest.org/index.html</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Donna Dodson</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: Hathor and Giant Panda</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Rockland Center for the Arts in Nyack, NY (thru 2014)</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" href="http://www.rocklandartcenter.org/" shape="rect" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.rocklandartcenter.org/</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Donna Dodson:</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Baby Bringer</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Verbier, Switzerland (thru 2012)</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" href="http://www.3-dfoundation.com/#_" shape="rect" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.3-dfoundation.com/#</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mags Harries: </span></span></strong><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Remediate/Re-Vision: Public Artists </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Engaging the Environment</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Boyden Gallery, </span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">St. Mary's College, MD</span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (thru March, 2012)</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" href="http://www.smcm.edu/boydengallery/remediate-re-vision.html" shape="rect" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.smcm.edu/boydengallery/remediate-re-vision.html</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mags Harries:</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> The Art of H20</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Peabody Essex Museum</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (thru July 8, 2012)</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" href="http://www.pem.org/exhibitions/134-ripple_effect_the_art_of_h20" shape="rect" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.pem.org/exhibitions/134-ripple_effect_the_art_of_h20</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mags Harries:</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Clean Volts</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, MA (thru </span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">summer, 2012)</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Joseph Wheelwright</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: Tree Figures</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY (thru May 2012) </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" href="http://www.katonahmuseum.org/" shape="rect" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.katonahmuseum.org</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Joseph Wheelwright</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: Fox Face</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">installed at Southern New Hampshire University</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" href="http://www.snhu.edu/" shape="rect" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.snhu.edu</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">FEBRUARY</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Andy Moerlein</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: Avian Instinct</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Karl Drerup Art Gallery, Plymouth State College, NH, (2/7- 3/3, 2012)</span></span><a track="on" href="http://www.plymouth.edu/gallery" shape="rect" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.plymouth.edu/gallery</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Michelle Lougee:</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Painting - Sculpture</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Fountain Street Fine Art, Framingham, MA</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Feb 10 - Mar 11, 2012. Reception: Feb. 11 5-7pm.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" href="http://www.fountainstreetfineart.com/" shape="rect" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.fountainstreetfineart.com</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">MARCH</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Kim Bernard:</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Confluence</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Morean Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL (March 16 - May 28, 2012)</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" href="http://www.moreanartscenter.org/" shape="rect" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.moreanartscenter.org</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Nancy Selvage:</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"Sustainable Ceramics: Contradiction or Possibility?"</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a talk at NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) Conference in Seattle, WA. March 29, 2012</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" href="http://nceca.net/static/conference_program.php" shape="rect" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://nceca.net/static/conference_program.php</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">APRIL</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></strong></p><strong><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Boston Sculptors Celebrates its 20th Anniversary</span></span></span></p></strong><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">UMass Lowell, University Gallery (April 2 - 27, 2012)</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Artists: B. Amore, Laura Baring-Gould, Murray Dewart, Donna Dodson, Rosalyn Driscoll, Sally Fine, Beth Galston, Peter DeCamp Haines, Mags Harries, Sarah Hutt, Joyce McDaniel, Andy Moerlein, Julia Shepley, Hannah Verlin, and Dan Wills. </span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" shape="rect" href="http://www.uml.edu/dept/art/galleries" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.uml.edu/dept/art/galleries</a></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" shape="rect" href="http://www.uml.edu/dept/art/galleries" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "></a></span></span><strong><strong><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><strong></strong></span></p><strong><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p></strong></strong></strong></span><strong><strong><p></p></strong><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: inline !important; "><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein</span></span></strong></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">119 Gallery, Lowell MA (April 3 - 28, 2012)</span></span></span></p></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" shape="rect" href="http://www.119gallery.org/" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.119gallery.org/</a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" shape="rect" href="http://www.119gallery.org/" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "></a></span></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span> </span></span><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-weight: normal; "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Kim Bernard:</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Momentum X</span></span></span></p></strong><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME (April 21 - May 27, 2012)</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" href="http://www.georgemarshallstoregallery.com/" shape="rect" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.georgemarshallstoregallery.com</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Donna Dodson</span></span></strong></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in Cazenovia, NY </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(April 29 - July 3, 2012)</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" href="http://www.stonequarryhillartpark.org/" shape="rect" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.stonequarryhillartpark.org/</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Andy Zimmermann</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: a large outdoor sculpture </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">installed at Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(April 15, 2012 - March 31, 2012)</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" href="http://www.snhu.edu/" shape="rect" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.snhu.edu/</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">MAY </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Donna Dodson:</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Whale Figure for Cultural Pittsfield</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a public art project in the birthplace of Herman Melville, </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">author of Moby Dick (May, 2012) </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" href="http://culturalpittsfield.blogspot.com/" shape="rect" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://culturalpittsfield.blogspot.com/</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">JUNE / JULY / AUG</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Boston Sculptors Exhibition: </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Change/Exchange</span></span></span></strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ohio Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH (June 8 - July 22, 2012)</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Artists: Caroline Bagenal, Laura Evans, Peter Haines, Michelle Lougee, Nancy Selvage, Jessica Straus, Marilu Swett, Hannah Verlin, Andy Zimmermann. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" shape="rect" href="http://www.sculpturecenter.org/" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.sculpturecenter.org</a></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></p><strong><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Kim Bernard:</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> The Engine</span></span><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Biddeford, ME (June 12 - July 21, 2012: Artist Talk June 16 at 11 am)</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" href="http://www.feedtheengine.org/" shape="rect" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.feedtheengine.org</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><b><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Donna Dodson</span></span></span></p></b><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in Cazenovia, NY (April 29 - July 3, 2012)</span></span></p><a track="on" href="http://www.stonequarryhillartpark.org/" shape="rect" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.stonequarryhillartpark.org/</span></span></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></b><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Donna Dodson:</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Collection Connection</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Nancy Margolis Gallery in New York, NY (July - August, 2012)</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" href="http://nancymargolisgallery.com/" shape="rect" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://nancymargolisgallery.com/</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">FALL</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Donna Dodson:</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Flock Together</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Southern New Hampshire University's McInninch Gallery, </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Manchester, NH (September 2012)</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" href="http://www.snhu.edu/908.asp" shape="rect" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.snhu.edu/908.asp</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Kim Bernard:</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Discover Portsmouth</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Portsmouth, NH (November 1 - 30, 2012)</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a track="on" href="http://www.portsmouthhistory.org/discover_portsmouth_center/exhibits" shape="rect" linktype="1" style="cursor: default; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.portsmouthhistory.org/discover_portsmouth_center/exhibits</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p></span></div></div>Boston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-36268621658130140562012-01-16T04:51:00.000-08:002012-01-16T19:21:28.211-08:00Artists Face the Economy<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB-JWNIxiEPfaOdFAr2HQ5LzFWAuQxmBgcmicMdjlsKdBHx9vOKzJXvXjVxvqtFQ1xfrrY7LXT-eGnUw1fCa4Irv-FJk5YnG14PuxAuT7xGI9NinRoHi9j8-sMhFqVPAHGY2eYboQdj5k/s1600/Moerlein_Yearning.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB-JWNIxiEPfaOdFAr2HQ5LzFWAuQxmBgcmicMdjlsKdBHx9vOKzJXvXjVxvqtFQ1xfrrY7LXT-eGnUw1fCa4Irv-FJk5YnG14PuxAuT7xGI9NinRoHi9j8-sMhFqVPAHGY2eYboQdj5k/s200/Moerlein_Yearning.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698212848958163346" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPS8cp_7SP3O4g7GZ6bEUsiV08n6C7CPSGw4C-DnLdTz7tD8zJRTM9w4UesINxjZkzfB4aBHvCN68F8BnDWHcm7p2ft8HOoK7BgAwcWhzNoN-k7IkIQ8xXWoknVNNHwFI0Y-t5u1Te12Y/s1600/Cardinal1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPS8cp_7SP3O4g7GZ6bEUsiV08n6C7CPSGw4C-DnLdTz7tD8zJRTM9w4UesINxjZkzfB4aBHvCN68F8BnDWHcm7p2ft8HOoK7BgAwcWhzNoN-k7IkIQ8xXWoknVNNHwFI0Y-t5u1Te12Y/s200/Cardinal1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698212624780617394" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Artists use the tools of business to meet the market challenges of the economic slump.</span> <p class="Body1" style="tab-stops:.5in 284.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Artists <a href="http://http://andymoerlein.blogspot.com/">Andy Moerlein</a> (L: <span style="font-style: italic;">Yearning</span>) and <a href="http://http://www.donnadodsonartist.blogspot.com/">Donna Dodson</a> (R: <span style="font-style: italic;">Cardinal</span>) are building a market for their work despite the slow economy. They are proving that they can succeed in the creative market by<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>applying the tried and true methods of commercial enterprise: build name recognition, seek clients outside the familiar gallery setting, keep the attention of their established collector base, look for overseas opportunities, and encourage brand loyalty.</span></p> <p class="Body1" style="tab-stops:.5in 284.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">For the past two years the artists have been showing at Gallery Ehva in Provincetown MA. Dodson had an established reputation in this vital arts community, but Moerlein was a newcomer on the scene. To assure the newly established gallery was frequented by the important eyes on the cape, gallery Director Ewa Nogiec invited Moerlein to install several of his large outdoor sculptures in front of the gallery. These notable marks on the roadside art scene drew attention and sales. </span></p> <p class="Body1" style="tab-stops:.5in 284.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Both artists recognized the value of the Provincetown Art Association Museum to the culture of the community and became members, adding their work to the annual shows and contributing to fundraisers. To enrich her familiarity with the collector base on the cape that frequented Gallery Ehva, Dodson took regular trips south from her home in Jamaica Plain for receptions and networking opportunities. She made over a dozen trips to meet interested people, be with peer artists and contribute socially to gallery events. Print ads by Dodson and Moerlein increased foot traffic inside the gallery. Each of these very active investments contributed to the artist's recognition in the community and generated an interest in their work.</span></p> <p class="Body1" style="tab-stops:.5in 284.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Both artists have blogs and maintain extensive email networks They actively seek out interesting community leaders and engage them in conversations about art. Dodson is a connector for Boston World Partnership and Moerlein created a large scale art installation as part of the Concord NH Chamber of Commerce dinner. A fan of her work, businessman and designer Joseph Knight created a line of jewelry based on Dodson's elephant carvings. This relationship has lead to social and exhibition opportunities in the fashion centers of major cities. Exposure to a nontraditional art clientele has proven to be an education for both the artists and the fashion enthusiasts encountered.</span></p> <p class="Body1" style="tab-stops:.5in 284.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Dodson and Moerlein sought opportunities overseas and were invited to a sculpture residency in Verbier Switzerland. The trip was an exceptional opportunity to experience how a small but dynamic mountain village invested in art. Community visionaries recognized that internationally acclaimed artists<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>building sculptures in the heart of downtown could serve as an economic engine to awaken a quiet early summer season. This region of the Alps is known as a destination for alpine skiing, trekking and the renowned Verbier Music Festival. The residency is seen as a cultural draw for the quiet early summer months, as well as an all-season tourist attraction. This vision has resulted in the worlds highest mountain sculpture park.</span></p> <p class="Body1" style="tab-stops:.5in 284.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Upon their return from Switzerland Dodson and Moerlein had a rich body of experiences they hoped to share with other artists, their collectors and curious curators. They invited eight artists who had traveled to make art in similar settings to a panel discussion on international residencies and symposia. The aim was not only to build a deeper dialogue about art as an economic and business catalyst, but also to connect diverse art interests in one room. Attendees included a representative from the state arts council, board members from a variety of nonprofit arts organizations, educators and business leaders. In a quiet economy, this diverse population of interests needs to gather and share information on how the arts can prove to be an catalyst for community growth. Moerlein and Dodson felt the outreach kept their international activities on the radar of people in the community who could most impact future opportunities.</span></p> <p class="Body1" style="tab-stops:.5in 284.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Currently Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein each have solo shows at the Boston Sculptors Gallery, 486 Harrison Avenue. Boston Sculptors Gallery is a cooperative gallery. Each artist plans their shows and publicity with only limited structural support. The single part time gallery employee helps with ideas and address lists, gallery members share in the gallery web site and press dissemination, but individual artists are tasked with making their show as success. </span></p> <p class="Body1" style="tab-stops:.5in 284.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">In the lead up to this show the artists have put together an ambitious series of incentives aimed at reaching a deep audience. To meet their business goals Dodson and Moerlein presented a teaser exhibit at Gallery Ehva in Provincetown MA this summer. They advertised both on the cape as well as in the broader New England art market covered by ArtScope Magazine. This exposure caught the attention of art critic Elizabeth Michelman who wrote an article about the couple's solo reputation and collaboration works. By fall there was good attention on the upcoming shows. The goal is to draw a familiar crowd out by assuring that they are aware of the shows and curious about the new body of work these two artists have spent the past two years creating. In a debut show, sales are very important to growing the reputation of an artist such as Moerlein whereas for Dodson, repeat sales on the heels of a successful first show solidify the market value of the new work. </span></p> <p class="Body1" style="tab-stops:.5in 284.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">A Facebook presence was key to their plan. The artist community is active. Images of their work in progress drew lively commentary that contributed to the ideas the artists were developing. These social network contacts often grew into dialogue and friendships. Both artists also use email notice to keep a large contact base informed of their concepts and works in progress.</span></p> <p class="Body1" style="tab-stops:.5in 284.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Moerlein's home studio in Bow NH draws an audience from a very different network than the one Dodson has cultivated in Jamaica Plain. To draw their fan base close in the lead up to the show, the artists began a series of dinners and brunches. As with the audience of their panel discussion, the invited guests were selected from a diverse spectrum of community leaders. Increased sales were not a direct goal of these social events. Increased dialogue within these often isolated studio practices was important to the artists and they trusted that using a business model of increased visibility would have increased yield. The reputations exposed by their panel discussion, news articles and several visible commissions allowed the artists to send invitations to well established artists, important museum curators, busy collectors and generate a generous outpouring of well designed social events. The six meals were attended by over seventy five dynamic arts invested community leaders, most of who met together for the first time. </span></p> <p class="Body1" style="tab-stops:.5in 284.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">As part of one of these gatherings a bank president suggested that he would like to organize an event in the gallery, featuring the artists. He offered to bring notable clients from his community if Moerlein and Dodson could bring an interesting group of fellow sculptors for an exciting mixer. This event is an unexpected consequence of the pre-show social gatherings. </span></p> <p class="Body1" style="tab-stops:.5in 284.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">This week the artists set up their work in the gallery. They are both satisfied that they have laid the solid foundation for a successful show. Their preparation included the usual press releases to all the important news venues, but they also used the tools of good business:</span></p> <p class="Body1" style="tab-stops:.5in 284.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">1. Name recognition: Preview show, ads and articles in news venues, blog and Facebook presence.</span></p> <p class="Body1" style="tab-stops:.5in 284.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">2. Seek clients outside the familiar gallery setting: Invite creative arts board members to talks and meals. Travel overseas and build friendships/creative communities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Identify arts friendly business people and engage their interest and enthusiasm. Attend events such a fashion previews so they can learn from a similar, yet unconnected business model.</span></p> <p class="Body1" style="tab-stops:.5in 284.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">3. Build brand loyalty: The diners and brunches were well attended by collectors who owned the artist's work and by curators who had featured the artists in shows or collections.</span></p> <p class="Body1" style="tab-stops:.5in 284.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">4.Create a buzz: The artists understand that in the current economic climate an exciting preview and full frontal presence on social media are required to leverage reluctant investors. Their email lists are broadly selected and their postcards were mailed to an audience that has been chosen for reputation growth as well as future cultivation.</span></p> <span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US; mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein have made a determined effort to create a show that is not just an opportunity to present their work, but is also a vehicle for success beyond the sculpture shown. They are inspired to awaken a fan base that will take notice and grow with them as they build a career in a most unstructured creative market during an unsettled economic present.</span>Boston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-60705857346797665452011-12-16T11:33:00.000-08:002011-12-16T11:41:26.936-08:00Getting to Know Rosalyn Driscoll<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnS-_58d0uLwbx5c-8-pK0I6Mc_A2O_QB51uUZzSa-z__BR7m6RkjIo79d6Gzd8NUAHhMfBYmBDc-fJBNVmFq1Z1h2D48l7zeGrVkygIop-UwFEC1-JrGnHrgYkl1NjqXFqdBz1q09U6o/s1600/ROZ.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnS-_58d0uLwbx5c-8-pK0I6Mc_A2O_QB51uUZzSa-z__BR7m6RkjIo79d6Gzd8NUAHhMfBYmBDc-fJBNVmFq1Z1h2D48l7zeGrVkygIop-UwFEC1-JrGnHrgYkl1NjqXFqdBz1q09U6o/s200/ROZ.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686813558041382882" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://www.koodemonde.com/site/login">Koo de Monde</a> "brings together exceptional artists, designers and artisans with a global marketplace of sophisticated buyers. Our team of experienced curators scours the far corners of the earth searching for the hidden treasures of masters we like to call our exhibitors." And so perhaps it's no surprise they've teamed up with Boston Sculptor <a href="http://www.rosalyndriscoll.com/">Rosalyn Driscoll</a>. Be sure to check out their "touching" <a href="https://www.koodemonde.com/buzz/post/getting_to_know_rosalyn_driscoll">interview with Roz</a>, which includes some simply gorgeous images of her work.Boston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-85548084689217242972011-12-16T08:33:00.000-08:002011-12-16T08:38:47.864-08:00Blogger Scott Listfield on Ellen Wetmore and Jeff WarmouthArtist <a href="http://www.astronautdinosaur.com/">Scott Listfield</a> gave a talk recently at U Mass Lowell and wrote a hilarious <a href="http://astronautdinosaur.com/blog/2011/12/15/make-it-funny-jeffu-warmouth-and-ellen-wetmore/#comment-731">blog</a> on the trouble with humor in art; profiling two who succeed - Boston Sculptor <a href="http://ellenwetmore.iwarp.com/">Ellen Wetmore</a> and her husband <a href="http://jeffu.tv/">Jeff Warmouth</a>.<br /><br /><a onclick="if (this.className.indexOf("ubtn-disabled") == -1) {var e = document['stuffform'].publish;(e.length) ? e[0].click() : e.click(); if (window.event) window.event.cancelBubble = true; return false;}" id="publishButton" class="cssButton" href="javascript:void(0)" target=""><div class="cssButtonOuter"><div class="cssButtonMiddle"><div class="cssButtonInner"><br /></div></div></div></a>Boston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-39317375426608989502011-10-19T08:27:00.000-07:002011-10-19T08:31:05.847-07:00Artists Make Creative Leaps by Taking Global Risks<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A summary by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Donna Dodson</span> from the recent International Art Residencies and Symposia panel</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mary Sherman</span> set the stage with the history of US residencies. They were designed to promote national agendas in contrast to what they have become, a forum for raising awareness of being a citizen in the world. She gained the perspective of being one among many and an awareness of how other nationalities have conversations with and about Americans. It changed her knowledge of art history to be a part of it in a global sense versus a national sense.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Batu</span> made the point that sharing tools and learning new things from his peers was the part of the symposia that he looked forward to the most.<span> </span>As a teacher, he is energized from the experience of participating in symposia with peers from all over the world and building life long friendships. He also noted the importance of flattening the hierarchy of teacher/student through travel, exchange and sharing. These values are fundamental to his art making practice.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Donna Dodson</span> went to Switzerland with the idea that she wanted to make a pregnant stork figure.<span> </span>The piece was developed in conversation with Kiki Thompson, a resident of Verbier, to celebrate the recent baby boom in town. She planned to use her vocabulary on a larger scale, but in a site specific way to the Alps. The piece changed in conversation with Paul Goodwin, curator to Tate Britain, who challenged her to take a bold risk with the placement of the piece, and not face it to the tourists, but perch it on the precipice of the valley, about to take wing. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Robert Markey</span> described his public art and mural work in Brazil and Cambodia. As an external agent to a community, he is able to re-shape the relationships of street youth to police, and to demonstrate their value to the community. He teaches mural making and drawing skills, and in the process gets a community excited about art.<span> </span>By working internationally, he is able to reach a broader audience through his artwork than through temporary or gallery exhibits, and his art can have an impact beyond his local community in Mass.<span> </span>He brings back a global awareness to his studio practice, for example human trafficking, which is the subject of his recent work.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Roz Driscoll</span> responded to the shape of the rivers, trees, and Greek architecture to create site specific work in residence in England at the Crypt Gallery.<span> </span>She described the process of leaving behind her studio, tools and materials, and making a creative leap, or taking an artistic risk she needed to in order to grow in her work.<span> </span>She brought nothing but she had everything with her, i.e. her experiences, knowledge and collaborative relationships to make new artwork.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">John Weidman</span> said as a director of an international symposium he wants artists to come empty, to experience the place, and to create from the heart.<span> </span>He doesn’t want artists to come with a proposal or pre-conceived notion of a piece. In his own work, he often re-visits narratives or themes, but crafts his work in site specific materials, referencing the past, present, future.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kiki Thompson</span> emphasized three points, Art Culture and Education.<span> </span>3D foundation brought in a curator at the beginning and the end of the residency to shape the dialogue and conversation.<span> </span>They offered classes to the children in the community to de-mystify the art making process.<span> </span>They brought the artists to Art Basel which pushed her to make a creative leap with her piece, Samsara, or life cycle. She chose to make it black b/c she was responding to the black pieces at the fair the most.<span> </span>Life cycle celebrates birth and death, as a parallel to the seasons of nature.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For <span style="font-weight: bold;">Andy Moerlein</span> going to Switzerland and being in the Alps was like coming home to the mountains of Alaska.<span> </span>The people who loved the mountains loved his work the most.<span> </span>For Andy, there was a sharing of himself through his art and an understanding by the residents of Verbier that took place and transcended language.<span> </span>Art bridged the communication gap where meaning and an exchange of value, took place, he gave them art, and they gave him their appreciation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Laura Baring-Gould</span> described her experiences in Thailand. <span> </span>It changed her perspective of globalization where the stereotype was cheap goods are made in a poor country and consumed by a rich country. As an artist, a maker, and a story teller, Laura is using art to teach Americans about their history, and the Thai people are helping her with their casting techniques, ancient traditions, spiritual practices. They became real to one another, beyond the stereotypes of rich Americans who point at what they want done to working peers in the studio and poor Thai people lacking modern technology to people who are rich in the knowledge of their history, and who have the connectedness of art and culture as the fabric of their lives.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> We heard people say that the dialogue would empower the young people in the audience to try out their own ideas in the world. We hope our experiences would encourage the students to take advantage of opportunities to travel abroad and learn from their experiences by reflection and peer dialogue.<span> </span>All of the presenters shared an idea that they wanted to put into place with the help of other people and resources in the community.<span> </span>That’s how we make things happen.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Thank you very much to our EVENT Hosts and SPONSORS:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> The Derryfield School & Swissnex Consulate of Switzerland</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Moderator:<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mary Sherman</span> is the Director of TransCultural Exchange, an organization dedicated to promoting international art and the understanding of world cultures. Besides her work as an advocate of international creative dialogue, Mary Sherman is an artist and critic. She has participated in residencies in Romania, China, Korea, Chicago and was recently a guest artist at PROGR in Bern, Switzerland. Ms Sherman was an Artist in Residence of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, Cambridge MA.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Panelists:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Laura Baring-Gould</span>, sculptor/installation artist. With extensive travel and work experience in various international settings (Mexico, Ireland, Southeast Asia), Baring-Gould received a 2008 Fulbright grant for artistic investigations in bronze and bamboo in Thailand. From 2006 - 2010 Baring-Gould lived and worked in Thailand creating public art commissions. Her presentation will focus on observations of how art and art-making are differently practiced and culturally valued, and the opportunities present in meaningful global interaction.<br /><br />Sculptor <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rosalyn (Roz) Driscol</span>l just completed a summer artist's residency at Space, a program supported by Dartington Hall Trust, in Devon, UK. Her sculptures explore the sense of touch and the experience of the body. Driscoll’s engagement with touch and perception has led to her participating worldwide at conferences for neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, engineers, philosophers, designers, art historians, artists, and people working with disabilities. Her work has been exhibited in the US, Europe and Japan. Ms. Driscoll has received awards from the New England Foundation for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Robert Markey</span> is a painter, sculptor and multimedia artist. He has been traveling to Brazil and Cambodia for a number of years to work with disadvantaged kids creating mosaic murals. He is committed to purposeful community arts investment.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Batu Siharulidze</span>, Associate Professor at BU and Director of the Graduate Sculpture program. He has a long resume of international residencies in China, India, Turkey, Great Britain, USA, the Netherlands and Georgia.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kiki Thompson</span> has exhibited in New Zealand, Switzerland, New York, California and London. Ms. Thompson is Co-founder of the Verbier 3-D Sculpture Park Residency and was a participating artist in its first edition in 2011. She lives and works in Verbier, Switzerland.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> John Weidman</span> is the Director of the Andres Institute of Art (the site of an annual International Stone Symposia) as well as Director of the Nashua NH Sculpture Symposium. Besides his responsibilities as a Symposia Director, John is an internationally known sculptor who has participated in two or more international residencies/symposia annually for over a decade.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Event Hosts:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Donna Dodson</span> graduated cum laude from Wellesley College in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts. Since 2000, Dodson has been honored with solo shows nationwide for her wood sculptures. Dodson enjoys public speaking, and has been a guest speaker in conferences, panels and forums at museums and universities in North America . She is a member of the Wellesley College Friends of Art and She won a George Sugarman Foundation Grant in 2007. In 2011 she participated in the Verbier 3D Foundation's Artist Residency and Sculpture Park in the Swiss Alps where she created monumental outdoor sculpture.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Andy Moerlein</span> has an extensive resume of public art works. His work has been shown in museums, sculpture gardens, and galleries from Alaska to New York. In 2011 he participated in the Verbier 3D foundation's Artist Residency and Sculpture Park in the Swiss Alps.<br /><br />Mr. Moerlein has been an arts advocate, educator, and professional juror for over 30 years. He has been a teacher and gallery director at the Derryfield School in Manchester NH for 15 years. Moerlein holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MFA from Cornell University. He lives in Bow, NH.</span></p>Boston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-60296613671145978202011-10-05T08:54:00.000-07:002011-10-05T09:02:57.594-07:00Press Release: Passage by Harries / HederImages L to R: Poetry Trellis, Acoustic Chairs<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE3etCFhhMVaif5cCImh_lK1yZTVUMg-l6g5KMlRWIA-IT0fgdWnsMPk87p4hJdd-z7psAOFQ7gc43S5we5MkFYX50lvy8Ja97Up57D0kC-gcBlDE-OKHRd_TcKbsKZuJTV6EQ-EF0tMA/s1600/Harries+poetry+trellis.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE3etCFhhMVaif5cCImh_lK1yZTVUMg-l6g5KMlRWIA-IT0fgdWnsMPk87p4hJdd-z7psAOFQ7gc43S5we5MkFYX50lvy8Ja97Up57D0kC-gcBlDE-OKHRd_TcKbsKZuJTV6EQ-EF0tMA/s200/Harries+poetry+trellis.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660038266779931394" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinfEBery_uTKzjBkxmmspBF5FhObsv2oUSAEX2T_7zUf5_taMU5EBfHCAX3VoQFaeUpMfUCZBx0fm5dncThyphenhypheny-wxge_ykdHSeTq_v7cO0Amw731VhhGVRjjIur12-Xr1LEAiiZW_0-2Eo/s1600/Harries+acoustic+chair.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinfEBery_uTKzjBkxmmspBF5FhObsv2oUSAEX2T_7zUf5_taMU5EBfHCAX3VoQFaeUpMfUCZBx0fm5dncThyphenhypheny-wxge_ykdHSeTq_v7cO0Amw731VhhGVRjjIur12-Xr1LEAiiZW_0-2Eo/s200/Harries+acoustic+chair.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660038266455653986" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Passage<br /><br />We are pleased to announce the opening of the public art installation Passage at the new South Mountain Community Library. Passage is a multi-faceted public artwork that focuses on poetry and the landscape of South Phoenix.<br /><br />The Four Poetry Trellises span the path as it runs past the Library and towards the Western Canal. Letters welded to the canopy project shadow lines of poetry onto the path. The four couplets were written by noted local poet Alberto Ríos, meditating on the South Mountain landscape.<br /><br />The three Acoustic Chairs are grouped by the Library entrance. Sitting in these Chairs,<br />people experience intimate readings of poetry. The collection of poems was curated by Ríos. The collection features 19 poets with writings about that draw on South Phoenix and the landscape of the area.<br /><br />Jumbled steel letters embedded in the concrete sides of the Chairs and in the surrounding pavement encourage visitors to make their own words and poetry.<br /><br />For more information please visit:<br />www.harriesheder.com.<br /><br />South Mountain Community Library, 7050 South 24th Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85042<br /><br />From the HarriesHeder website:<br /><p>"Over the past 8 years we have been involved with the rapidly changing environment of the South Mountain area of Phoenix. During that time this area of citrus orchards and flower farms became a built-up residential community. We have been able to contribute to the pedestrian, bicycle and equestrian connections, and to the public image of this community through a series of projects: <a title="Arbors & Ghost Trees" href="http://www.harriesheder.com/projects/streets-walks-and-plazas-2/arbors-and-ghost-trees/"><em>Arbors & Ghost Trees</em></a> for Baseline Road and <a title="The Zanjero's Line" href="http://www.harriesheder.com/projects/streets-walks-and-plazas-2/the-zanjeross-line/"><em>The Zanjero’s Line</em></a> for the Highline Canal Trail that have been completed and the soon to be built Western Canal Bridge. <em>Passage</em> creates another link in these trails, one that relates to the others and adds new artistic ideas particularly fitting for the new South Mountain Community Library.</p> <p><strong><em> </em></strong></p> <div id="attachment_1578" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 242px;"><strong><em><img class="size-medium wp-image-1578 aligncenter" title="passage2" src="http://www.harriesheder.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/passage2-e1317142235949-232x300.jpg" alt="" height="300" width="232" /></em></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Illustration showing location of Library, Western Canal, and art elements</p></div> <p><strong><em>Passage</em></strong> is a multi-faceted, collaborative public artwork. The South Mountain Community Library is operated jointly by the Phoenix Public Library and South Mountain Community College. Used by students and the community at large, the Library is a magnet for community identity and the spirit of learning. To reflect this energy, we wanted to integrate visual elements with words. With the help of noted local poet, Alberto Ríos, we focused with poetry onto the South Mountain landscape, the quality of words, and the contents of the Library. The project consists of four Poetry Trellises and three Acoustic Chairs.</p>Boston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-13551653340369195032011-10-05T08:38:00.000-07:002011-10-05T08:47:30.346-07:00It's a Giant Person! And It's a Tree? It's Art<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4nWqgpNWdYQxwQtlD28qoE3D-3Gx2L5hisi79jW8uH3vDvbk7ynBGDig4f0I2B4yLYU7tgS3fJefg1DTQb974VkBoEvL4k4ES7eevBla_cPIdynXxK0ck4xJFtKhjrfCc-M-GbvluRxA/s1600/Wheelwright.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 145px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4nWqgpNWdYQxwQtlD28qoE3D-3Gx2L5hisi79jW8uH3vDvbk7ynBGDig4f0I2B4yLYU7tgS3fJefg1DTQb974VkBoEvL4k4ES7eevBla_cPIdynXxK0ck4xJFtKhjrfCc-M-GbvluRxA/s200/Wheelwright.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660034706997926226" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This just in from the New York Times, September 23, 2011</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:85%;" > on Boston Sculptor Joseph Wheelwright's show on view through May, 2012 </span><br /><div class="columnGroup first"><h1 class="articleHeadline" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">It’s a Giant Person! And It’s a Tree? It’s Art</span></h1> <h6 class="byline"><span style="font-size:85%;">By SUSAN HODARA</span></h6><strong style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">Photo credit: Margaret Fox</strong><span style="font-style: italic;"> “Pine Man,” from the Joseph Wheelwright exhibition in Katonah. The tallest of the five tree figures on display is 27 feet high.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> </span><div class="articleInline runaroundLeft"><div class="inlineImage module"> </div></div><div class="articleBody"><p>ONE figure towers over the <a href="http://www.katonahmuseum.org/">Katonah Museum of Art</a>‘s South Lawn, bark-skinned, wild-haired, branching arms and fingers splayed. Another poses by the museum’s entrance, and three more take their places in the sculpture garden, blending in with the over-100-year-old Norwegian spruces as if they belong to the landscape, yet gesticulating in a way that is distinctly human. </p><p> The monumental works in “Joseph Wheelwright: Tree Figures,” from 16 ½ to 27 feet tall, began life upside down as live trees rooted in the soil on the artist’s 40-acre property in East Corinth, Vt. </p><p> “I start by looking for trees with bifurcated trunks,” said <a title="His Web site." href="http://www.joewheelwright.com/">Mr. Wheelwright</a>, a sculptor who lives in Boston with his wife, Susan MacGregor Wheelwright. </p><p> “If the hips and the swing of the legs look good, I poke down into the roots to see what the tree is going to give me for shoulders. Sometimes you can follow the root structure all the way out to the fingers.” </p><p> Having identified a promising specimen, Mr. Wheelwright, 63, fells the top portion of the tree, which will not be part of the figure, and then, using customized equipment, uproots and inverts the remainder. </p><p> “It’s a big deal,” he said. “You have to use a crane to gently remove it, or sometimes I build a ramp so when the tree falls it pulls the roots up and out.” </p><p> Completing the sculpture involves adapting and adding to the existing growth to form the head and facial features and position the arms and hands. </p><p> “I use every part of the tree that is appealing, but I don’t have any rules about not using other materials,” Mr. Wheelwright said. Often the heads are carved from laminated pine planks and then covered with bark. </p><p> The figures are made from an assortment of species. The three pieces in the museum’s sculpture garden, “Yellow Birch Figure,” “Cherry Figure” and “Oracle,” are made from yellow birch, cherry and pine trees. </p><p> Mr. Wheelwright has found that hornbeams, relatively short hardwood trees, are particularly suited to his purposes. </p><p> “They have fewer roots, but they always send out a few strong shoulders,” he said. “Smoke Jumper,” by the entryway, was created from hornbeam and then bronzed (it is the artist’s second bronzed large-scale tree figure). </p><p> The five tree figures in Katonah, sculptured from 2006 to 2008, are part of a group of 10 that Mr. Wheelwright, who also carves massive stone heads, has produced since 2003. </p><p> Since the 1970s, he has also been fashioning smaller figures from roots and branches. Five of those pieces, bronzed and ranging from 10 to 32 inches tall, are on view in the museum’s atrium through the end of the year. </p><p> Decades of trolling for sources in the forest have convinced Mr. Wheelwright that trees and humans share a common ancestor. </p><p> “There’s no question that we are descended from the same organism,” he said. “You see it all the time: an armpit will form at the bottom of a branch; then it will mound like a shoulder. And many times I’ve seen fingers that seem to grow like a hand, with a spray of three or four, and then something thicker that heads down like a thumb. It’s quite astonishing.” </p><p> Putting the tree figures on display at the Katonah Museum was a labor-intensive project that involved flatbeds, forklifts and slings. </p><p> “It took a week to get them here and unload them and set them up in the garden,” Nancy Wallach, the museum’s director of curatorial affairs, said. </p><p> The installation, she said, was one of the museum’s most ambitious to date, in terms of both the size of the sculptures (the heaviest weighs about two tons) and the complexity of securing them in the ground. </p><p> The tree figures will remain on view through next spring, giving museumgoers the opportunity to experience the works as the seasons change. </p><p> “Just wait till it snows,” Ms. Wallach said. “Can you imagine?” </p> <div class="authorIdentification"> <p>“Joseph Wheelwright: Tree Figures,” through May in the Marilyn M. Simpson Sculpture Garden and on the South Lawn at the Katonah Museum of Art, 134 Jay Street (Route 22). For more information: katonahmuseum.org or (914) 232-9555. </p> </div> <div class="articleCorrection"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="columnGroup "> <div class="articleFooter"> <div class="articleMeta"> <div class="opposingFloatControl wrap"> <div class="element1"> <h6 class="metaFootnote">A version of this article appeared in print on September 25, 2011, on page WE10 of the New York edition with the headline: It’s a Giant Person! And It’s a Tree? It’s Art.</h6> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>Boston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921406726987070273.post-35602477473693663292011-06-30T11:26:00.000-07:002011-06-30T11:45:24.724-07:00Roz Driscoll Residency at Space, Dartington Hall, Devon UK<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotoptimizeforbrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">During the month of April, Roz Driscoll had the first artist’s residency at Space, Dartington Hall, Devon, UK, in preparation for a collaborative multi-sensory installation, <i style="">Just Under the Surface,</i> in Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, London, UK, May 6-19, 2011</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">April was the warmest, driest, earliest spring in English memory, providing me with a glorious month at Dartington Hall, a 2000 acre estate in Devon with a rich legacy in progressive education, environmental practices and the arts. The extraordinary gardens, grounds and community of Dartington Hall and town of Totnes created the context for a rich, productive month. I worked in a spacious studio in the former home of the renowned Dartington College of the Arts, where I made sculptures and drawings in preparation for the installation in London. </span></p> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">See www.dartington.org.</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilVVdbsHsquMuPc4fMKl5fZomgaKPxnlrD7mMyj2OmapqoBnZ61monHDo4wFdrH9BEGRxFEH6dtLm74iYzbwS34tlVtSdqCmMaRebYzbuCEUnesJN1kpdp090gm5RnF1k0JGDIQnLRjqM/s1600/Devon.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilVVdbsHsquMuPc4fMKl5fZomgaKPxnlrD7mMyj2OmapqoBnZ61monHDo4wFdrH9BEGRxFEH6dtLm74iYzbwS34tlVtSdqCmMaRebYzbuCEUnesJN1kpdp090gm5RnF1k0JGDIQnLRjqM/s200/Devon.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624084332989214738" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNIJT84ZHBPyFZ9jRhotMmGQFlvfpKqafqxdTQdMM5O2p5Ve_twVJR49zwDbhhBcf38fX26aR3tKacc5EGAkzhKe48ofwFtOlspdYuabLPYl1BlIQ3G6fZVhfLk5y5Uk6UeKA7Jg1beYw/s1600/Dartington_Hall.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNIJT84ZHBPyFZ9jRhotMmGQFlvfpKqafqxdTQdMM5O2p5Ve_twVJR49zwDbhhBcf38fX26aR3tKacc5EGAkzhKe48ofwFtOlspdYuabLPYl1BlIQ3G6fZVhfLk5y5Uk6UeKA7Jg1beYw/s200/Dartington_Hall.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624084258017071538" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:14pt;color:black;" ><br /><br /><br /></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotoptimizeforbrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In London, we installed <i style="">Just Under the Surface</i>, an immersive, multi-sensory installation in the Crypt Gallery, a labyrinthine crypt under St Pancras Church. My collaborators, with whom I had worked for over a year on the project, were Tereza Stehlikova, film-maker, Bonnie Kemske, ceramacist, and Anais Tondeur, textile artist. We considered the crypt our fifth collaborator.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Drawing on the mythological imagery of the neoclassical church of St Pancras, I envisioned the crypt as the Greek underworld—Hades, land of the dead. Five rivers flowed through Hades: Lethe, river of forgetfulness; Styx, river of hate; Cocytus, lamentation; Acheron, sorrow and pain; and Phlegethon, fire. I had made the five rivers in my studio in Massachusetts during the winter and shipped them to London. During the Dartington residency I added two rivers to reflect the modern psyche: the rivers of disconnection and meaninglessness. The installation was richly sensory and immersive, engaging visitors in body and soul.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">See www.rosalyndriscoll.com and <a href="http://www.artintouch.co.uk/">www.artintouch.co.uk</a>. </span></p> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">(images below L to R: River of Disconnection, River of Fire, River of Hate, River of Meaninglessness)</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFHTllxcpL2wGYJTZqRwpw-GOcZAIQDsbaevuNSNHuHPdMvjd726evz-VkYlUTGqeurIVJ4m2hVErkDG7TihVJrPNm4g4aRRN4xtjC96ql4kpYWsSk9FYlLD-nvk_2fd_ns0Idy2s2_88/s1600/River_of_Disconnection_.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFHTllxcpL2wGYJTZqRwpw-GOcZAIQDsbaevuNSNHuHPdMvjd726evz-VkYlUTGqeurIVJ4m2hVErkDG7TihVJrPNm4g4aRRN4xtjC96ql4kpYWsSk9FYlLD-nvk_2fd_ns0Idy2s2_88/s200/River_of_Disconnection_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624084406845493010" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLyZWypsEolw9V4ehAIEw9v58Bm8Bbs0IB4G1HHPnJ5uKDNtczAj4y4utnJGbZQjQzmsiEzGGHFDMcoQMQSEyUclhSZynjiI14Vs-xWDLwtzA-P1tNh2phWeTRnLhC0SDwzrfwi7pB4qs/s1600/River_of_Fire.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 138px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLyZWypsEolw9V4ehAIEw9v58Bm8Bbs0IB4G1HHPnJ5uKDNtczAj4y4utnJGbZQjQzmsiEzGGHFDMcoQMQSEyUclhSZynjiI14Vs-xWDLwtzA-P1tNh2phWeTRnLhC0SDwzrfwi7pB4qs/s200/River_of_Fire.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624084520818925890" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqmfsgoVJE4yzZ5EqgsSD2XMsD8hiKQeiY5aPQUQP5dfsq2t7nkeH-RIlKH5ebgXP7kHhEnO9_cIq0W0NETLYQFjlojO08iJKRCyFvclZo6gjUMPKfBu7IlhJ4hoEinqyzcHtTLJxoDy8/s1600/River_of_Hate_.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqmfsgoVJE4yzZ5EqgsSD2XMsD8hiKQeiY5aPQUQP5dfsq2t7nkeH-RIlKH5ebgXP7kHhEnO9_cIq0W0NETLYQFjlojO08iJKRCyFvclZo6gjUMPKfBu7IlhJ4hoEinqyzcHtTLJxoDy8/s200/River_of_Hate_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624084636654367890" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqgVQM0Ol1qhKVvzMJCMQR1uO49vj-CUgpwooB6ltmePzOYWLkga_FMIHOTmXHHvqcALGojrA21RwvNZf1zLjqUAi5q4R66inRCHw0EpGOgeUn-Fi1LLacbbdYesBTzV7Md3NE12SE6UI/s1600/River_of_Meaninglessness.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 152px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqgVQM0Ol1qhKVvzMJCMQR1uO49vj-CUgpwooB6ltmePzOYWLkga_FMIHOTmXHHvqcALGojrA21RwvNZf1zLjqUAi5q4R66inRCHw0EpGOgeUn-Fi1LLacbbdYesBTzV7Md3NE12SE6UI/s200/River_of_Meaninglessness.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624084730363509266" border="0" /></a>Boston Sculptors Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16683886986499136135noreply@blogger.com0