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Faculty News: Lanie Wurzel and Kate Spade Saturday

Monday, May 20th, 2013

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Montserrat Faculty Member Lanie Wurzel has been commissioned to make original artwork for the online promotion of the fashion label KATE SPADE SATURDAY!

I have always been interested in the lives of women, their beauty, their secrets, and their layers of complexity. My characters are often caught in an intimate moment of introspection—like an elusive thought or feeling has just passed them by.” – Wurzel

Visit saturday.com/blog to learn more!


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Faculty News: Diane Ayott in Art Market Provincetown

Monday, May 13th, 2013

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Assoc. Prof. Diane Ayott will be part of new and exciting season at AMP!

AMP: Art Market Provincetown
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, May 25, 6 – 9 pm

ampAbove and Below brings together a diverse group of artists whose vision is at once uniquely personal, political and spiritual, and at times captures the child experience with a mature and introspective vision. The exhibition incorporates a range of mediums including film, installation, painting and encaustic sculpture. On View: May 13 – June 10

Featuring:
Diane Ayott: Overall
Martha Gorzycki: Veil
Jicky Schnee:
Pianoforte; Tempanissimo
Champa Vaid: New York Series
Teressa Valla: Crossing Over
Susan Bernstein: Underground |+ 14inches gallery|

For much more info, please visit: artmarketprovincetown.com


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Summer Immersive Featured Artist: Bill Flynn

Monday, May 13th, 2013

imageOne of our Summer Immersive Instructors, Bill Flynn, is featured in an article in the current Art Scope Magazine for his exhibition Exhale_Draw at Assoc. Prof. John Colan‘s gallery, HallSpace. The exhibit will remain on view through June 15.

>>Click here to read the full review!

Flynn will be teaching From Observation to Metaphor at Montserrat June 10 – 14.

This workshop will stress finding your way of transforming the literal world into a poetic visual experience through drawing. Our goal will be developing a personal perspective toward your own art process.Throughout our time we will move from observation to discovery and transformation.We will explore the language of marks, shapes and visual organization through serious play.We’ll take some time to look at the evolution of drawing through history and the techniques that made it visible and changed our ways of seeing.

Visit montserrat.edu/continuing-ed/summer-workshops/workshops or contact ce@montserrat.edu or 978 921 4242 x 1202 to learn more.

image-1Bill Flynn’s writing and artwork reflect an intimate relationship with drawing. He has exhibited widely throughout the North East, and is currently represented by Victoria Munroe Gallery in Boston. Flynn has taught at Montserrat College of Art, Rhode Island School of Design’s international program, and the School of the Museum of Fine Art, where he also studied. victoriamunroefineart.com


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Rocky Neck Call for Art with Juror Blyth Hazen

Thursday, May 9th, 2013

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twentythirteen: recent works is an exhibition of paintings, photography, mixed-media and sculpture at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, Gloucester that will take place in July.

Guest juror: Montserrat College of Art Assoc. Prof. Blyth Hazen.

Prizes awarded. Request a prospectus/entry form for twentythirteen by email to art@rockyneckartcolony.org

Deadline: May 15


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Faculty News: Barbara Moody Awarded Distinguished Artist/Teacher

Wednesday, May 8th, 2013

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Congratulations to Prof. Barbara Moody has been awarded Distinguished Artist/Teacher of the Goetemann Artist in Residence Program at the Rocky Neck Art Colony for the week of May 12 – 18. In addition to offering workshops and studio critiques during the week, she will give a slide talk entitled “Finding Your Unique Voice as an Artist” on Mother’s Day, May 12 at 2 pm at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester. Barbara will show images of her work to illustrate different ways of seeing, as well as a short video of her process. A reception at Rocky Neck Art Colony follows the talk.

The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.capeannmuseum.org or call 978-283-4141.

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Moody will also be teaching a Summer Immersive art workshop at Montserrat this July. Click here to learn more!

Barbara Moody is a professor at Montserrat, where she also served as Dean for nine years. She earned her master’s and doctorate degrees in Higher Education Administration from Harvard University and a BFA from Syracuse University. Over the past 10 years, she has had five solo shows at the Kingston Gallery in Boston. Her work has been exhibited in California, New York and Chicago, as well as at the DeCordova Museum. Moody’s large-scale, commissioned mural projects are installed at Meditech Corp. in Fall River, MA, a company that has more than 60 of her artworks in their collection. Barbara is teaching Developing Personal Imagery the week of July 8 – 12.

From painting and book arts to film and creative writing, we are proud to bring our accomplished faculty to this year’s Summer Immersives program. We invite you to spend your summer devoted to your art in the unique environment that only a working art college can offer, with instruction from some of Montserrat’s best!

Visit our website or contact us at ce@montserrat.edu or 978 921 4242 x 1202 to learn more.


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