The first Alumni Draw & Draft Night will begin Thursday, July 2nd from 6:00 – 8:00 pm in the Hardie Building. Other classes for July will be on the 16th and 30th. We will have a model available. The group will pay the model’s fee. You decide where to have the draft after the class.
Contact Peter Brefini on Facebook if you are interested in attending.
Montserrat has been offered an extraordinary opportunity to increase it’s year-end giving through the annual fund with the donation of a $50,000 matching gift from a generous anonymous donor. Any gifts made from now until June 30 will qualify, in effect doubling each new gift. Gifts may be made by check, credit card by calling Cynthia Bowen in the Development Office at 978-921-4242 x 1115 or by donating on line on the college’s website at www.montserrat.edu/giving/annual-giving.php.
All annual fund monies directly support student scholarship for the 95% of Montserrat students who require aid to complete their college educations.
We thank you in advance for your gifts!
Drawing by Peter Brefini '07
Alumni,
Please join us for Draw and Draft Night at Montserrat. Peter Brefini ’07 and a few of us plan to get together and draw one night a week, followed by a drink at a Beverly pub. We’re still working on the details. You can contact Peter on Facebook – Draw and Draft Group or email kburke@montserrat.edu
The Montserrat Admissions office is looking forward to welcoming in its new incoming class this fall. In the meantime the staff has already begun working with the Fall 2010 students by welcoming them on campus throughout the summer months for campus tours and preliminary portfolio reviews. In July, the Admissions Staff plans on meeting with all of our Summer Pre-College Students to give them advice on portfolio development.
Pre-College Summer Program '08 students visiting the Institue of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.
Montserrat College of Art will hold its annual Pre-College Summer Program in July. The program will bring 28 students from 15 states to Beverly.
Besides their foundation drawing class and three other courses each weekday, the students will participate in Open studios, activities, field trips, and several museum outings. Most of the students live on campus with resident assistants.
The students’ week begins with a scavenger hunt of downtown Beverly to help them get their bearings and feel comfortable on campus and in town. They also have an opportunity to spend time with the gallery staff about the exhibits they will be going to visit. Field trips to Boston included the Institute of Contemporary Art – Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand; Museum of Fine Arts – Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice; and Peabody Essex Museum in Salem – Surfland: Photographs by Joni Sternbach, and Trash Menagerie, Flock – Tin Can Sally is pseudonym for Sally Seamans , Montserrat’s Image Librarian.
One student described the experience on her blog “Montserrat was, in short, an incredible experience. Sure, a LOT happened that I hadn’t bargained for … and I learned something every day. Sure, in the classes I took, but more in the friendships and conversations I had with people.”
The program will end with an exhibit of students’ work to which parents and friends will be invited on July 31 from 6:00 – 8:00.
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