Montserrat illustration faculty member and author Kelly Murphy(Fiona’s Luck) will have her work included in a prestigious exhibition at the Brush Gallery, 256 Market St., Lowell, which will feature the work of several Caldecott Medal winners. The Caldecott Award is the highest award achievable in children’s book illustration. The exhibition will be on display Sept. 19 to Oct. 24. Other artists in the exhibition include David Macauley, (Cathedral, The Way Things Work), Christopher Bing (Casey at the Bat, Lincoln Shot), Matt Tavares(Zachary’s Ball), Chris Van Allsburg (The Polar Express, Jumanji), David Wiesner(Tuesday, The Three Pigs, Flotsam), and an opening reception will be held Saturday, Oct. 2 from 12-2 pm, including a 1-4 p.m. meet the authors session in which some of the illustrators will be on hand to sign copies of their books. Admission is free.
Kelly Murphy is an award-winning illustrator and animator working predominantly with traditional and mixed media. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, Kelly has been actively freelancing across the various fields of editorial illustration, picture books and poster illustration as well as character design for both the film and toy industry. An accomplished children’s book author and illustrator, Kelly’s books have been published by America’s leading publishing houses and her tenth children’s book was released in Fall 2009
Kelly’s work has been featured in curated shows, gallery exhibitions and international magazines specializing in illustration. She has been a member of the illustration faculty at Montserrat College of Art since 2002, Massachusetts College of Art and Design since Fall 2008 and Rhode Island School of Design since Spring of 2009.
Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday., 11 am – 4 pm, Sunday noon-4 pm. www.thebrush.org
First-year students discuss their Orientation Activities during lunch on Beverly Common on move-in day, Aug. 28. Interview conducted by student Dana Martin, Class of 2011.
Student Orientation Leader Hannah Imbesi explains hut building at Orientation Activities at Montserrat College of Art on move-in day for first-time students.
Cofounders of artists collective Rifrákt transform their mission to book form
The Boston Globe
Aug. 28, 2010
By Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent
Stephanie Goode (left) and Carolyn Hulbert (Montserrat College of Art Class of 2007) co-produced “25 Emerging Boston Artists 2010,’’ a coffee-table book that is made to order. (Dina Rudick/Globe Staff)
Ten years ago, if a scrappy group of young artists wanted to get their work seen, they’d find a dusty loft in a neighborhood where the rent was cheap and call it a gallery. Any art scene habitué older than 30 remembers Oni Gallery and Bad Grrls Studio. These days, it’s harder to find spaces where you can throw a show on the wall. Rents are higher. Many of the old, cheap neighborhoods have been gentrified.
Rifrákt, a nomadic collective of artists that first met a year ago in printmaker Carolyn Hulbert’s Jamaica Plain living room, has taken other routes to showing their art. They have mounted exhibits in people’s homes, taken over Hallway Gallery in JP for the month of April when its owner got married, and now they’ve published a hard-cover, coffee-table book of 56 pages, “25 Emerging Boston Artists 2010.’’
“We didn’t know how big it was going to be,’’ says Hulbert, 25, in a conversation with her Rifrákt cofounder, photographer Stephanie Goode, 27. The two have met for a bite to eat in Fort Point Channel, where Hulbert works full time as a receptionist at a law firm and Goode retouches photography for an online shopping site. (Hulbert is a 2007 alumna of Montserrat College of Art)Read more…
Excitement is high as Montserrat students, faculty and staff return to campus to start the 2010-’11 academic year with a lunch on Beverly Common, registration and orientation activities.
Montserrat Freshman enjoying the Kickoff celebration. From the left: Morgan O'Donnell-Curry, Merriweather McCarty, Chelsea Stewart and Marissa MacPhee
Montserrat community meet and catch up with each other on the common while making plans for the coming year.
