We saw our own Tin Can Sally’s – FLOCK in the Trash Menagerie Exhibition at the PEM in Salem. Sally even gave us a demo of her potentially dangerous process (cutting metal). Everyone came out with all ten fingers intact.
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from Dean Laura Tonelli
The Viterbo, Italy students celebrated their accomplishments last night with a display at the Accademia of paintings and watercolors from Judy Brown’s Landscape Painting class, sketchbooks created during Fred Lynch’s Journalistic Drawing class, and, from Charles Boyer’s writing class, journal readings on a variety of Italian topics — pizza “presents”, golden nectar at the Trevi Fountain, and surrealist memories of Viterbo night terrors.
Brad Wehrman from NDSU finishing up some writing in the Studio, his work behind him.
I call this High School Musical 3!! The snacks are courtesy of Leeza Masia, our resident caterer.
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Graduate Lindsey Parker with artistically crafted and unique motarboard
Montserrat College of Art’s Commencement was held on Friday, May 22 at the Cabot Street Cinema, Beverly, MA, and two prominent artists, Jenny Holzer and Annette Lemieux, and Montserrat College of Art Trustee Steve Dodge were awarded Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees. Lemieux, a professor at Harvard University, was also the keynote speaker for the ceremony. Other speakers were Montserrat President Helena J. Sturnick, Ph.D., Professor Gordon Arnold and graduating seniors Sarah Desjardins and Judith Shimer. Beverly Mayor William F. Scanlon also addressed the graduate and their families.
To view additional Commencement ’09 photos, please click here.
from Dean Laura Tonelli
The Montserrat Italy group started its second weekend in Italia with a day-long field trip throughout the region, led by “yours truly” in the Etrusca cap, painted by Viterbo alumnus Jim Falck.
I am sitting here with Liz Goodenough of Beverly.
First stop was the Etruscan necropolis of Cerverteri (a city of 30,000 people at its height c. 650 BCE that traded with groups from all around the Mediterranean, from Sardinia to Sicilly, Carthage to East Greece.) This is our Indiana Jones caper, dodging in and out of the tombs for several hours and getting lost on the Via degli Inferi. The most distinctive tombs are enormous mounds, covered in earth (and thus integrated into the landscape) with interiors carved out of the tufa to form replicas of Etruscan houses. The Etruscan art history students gave the tour to the whole group, describing different aspects of the architecture and decoration.
This is our Indiana Jones caper, dodging in and out of the tombs for several hours and getting lost on the Via degli Inferi.
Next stop was Tarquinia, with the spectacular painted tombs with banquet scenes of Monterozzi.
The Art History class paused to take in the view.
After a quick swim in the Mediterranean, we finished the day exploring the dazzling color-encrusted sculpture park built by Niki de St. Phalle and Jean Tinguely. The park is filled with characters from the Tarot, with the Empress-Sphinx serving as the house of the artist during the park’s construction.
Montserrat students Meghan Hawkes and Victoria Belisle catch the view from the top.
After gelati, acqua, and a pisolino (nap), we’re good to go again.
Next weekend – ROMA!
from Professor Judy Brown
It is difficult for me to believe we’ve begun our 2nd week here in Viterbo. Arriving crunched up, sleep deprived and suddenly stepping into the heat and sunlight, now seems a distant memory. The first days are always a blur of arrival: settling into our apartments at the student residence or through the walled city, eating our first meal, blissfully falling asleep at the end of that very long first day. That first Saturday we have initial class meetings, find our way around the city, eat more together (this is Italy after all!) and spend a leisurely Sunday on the shores of Lago Bolsena.
The pictures I’ve attached are from the first couple of days of Landscape class. Andy, Kristen, Kai, Michelle and Brad started out in gardens of the Palazzo Priori overlooking the Valley Faul or angling back into the terraces that build from the valley to the Papal Palace. Wednesday and Thursday we roamed in the narrow streets of the midieval quarter, San Pelligrino. Next week will find us in the fields that surround the thermal baths, Villa Lante and the nearby city of Tuscania.
More pictures later….
A presto….