Illustration Faculty member Allison Cole now has her “Pillow Cloud” for sale at The Land of Nod (a division of Crate & Barrel). Fittingly, Allison is teaching her new course The Entrepreneurial Illustrator this spring at Montserrat! Visit www.landofnod.com to see Allison’s Head in the Clouds Pillow!

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Fred’s work features drawings from his trip to Viterbo, Italy, where he teaches Montserrat’s study abroad summer program. Each July, Montserrat hosts a four-week residential program affording art students and enthusiasts a unique opportunity to live and study in a country famous for its rich cultural legacy. Fred teaches Journalistic Drawing in Italy where students develop a series of on-site drawings in a sketchbook journal, based directly on their experiences living and traveling in Italy. They closely observe, document and comment on their investigations of various aspects of Italian life and culture. To view more of Fred’s work visit drawingviterbo.blogspot.com.

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Photo by Vinny Egizi

Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs, Marjorie Augenbraum was asked again this year to be one of the judges for St. Mary’s Star of the Sea’s (in Beverly) 15th annual Culturama event. The event is a school tradition where 7th and 8th graders choose a topic of interest from various subjects, write an 8 page research paper, prepare a 5 minute speech, design a tri-fold poster, and create a 3-D presentation. Community members from assorted professional backgrounds were chosen to judge the student’s work. The students, staff, faculty and community at St. Mary’s came together to celebrate the academic achievement of their students work that they had been creating since September, 2011!

“This was the second year I was one of the judges, and once again I was impressed by the students,” said Augenbraum.

Judging by the quality of the student’s posters and 3-D visual aids, it is evident that there are strict and rigorous guidelines for the projects. Augenbraum found that the students were articulate and showed a high degree of curiosity and interest in the subject he or she had chosen. There was a wide range of subject matter. Among the students she spoke with, there was a thorough presentation on bottlenose dolphins, a survey of the founding and films of Pixar, and an investigation of medical research being conducted on sea creatures. Event Coordinator Evangeline Egizi‘s son Dante presented his Culturama project on Doomsday, 2012. A student who presented a fascinating study into the truth about energy drinks told Augenbraum that her level of consumption and that of a friend had changed as a direct result of her new knowledge!

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Revoy's logo design

Montserrat faculty member Antoine Revoy, has been chosen as a Gold Medal inclusion to Graphis Magazine‘s Logo Design 8 Annual, which will be published later this year!

The objective of the contest was to design a simple and clear logo for a service allowing online payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet in euro currency. The logo’s design was based on the euro currency’s glyph. Click here to view the winning logo.

To see more of Antoine’s work visit his:
Homepage | www.revoy.net
Portfolio | illustration.revoy.net
Blog | blog.revoy.net

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Visit the NK Gallery site for more information.

Agglomeration merges MacNaught and Bufenmeyer’s individuality to create something bigger than themselves as a collaborative experiment to see what combining two different approaches to image making would yield.

McNaught’s work has been focused on formal issues of image making using strategies similar to game playing as building blocks to tap into her creativity.  Her tightly planned structures using repetitive pattern, mark making, and shapes result in a complexity that creates a dynamic geometry that takes on a life of its own.

NK Gallery
450 Harrison Ave. #61
Boston MA 02118
Gallery Hours: Wed- Sat 11 am – 4 pm

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Asst. Prof. Stacy Thomas-Vickory

Gallery Opening: Saturday, Feb. 4, 2 – 4pm in the Willow Community Gallery with live music courtesy of Vive La Renaissance.

Stacy received her BFA in Printmaking from Montserrat College of Art in 1991 and her MFA in Printmaking and Drawing from SUNY at Buffalo. Her selected juried exhibitions include 30th Anniversary Show and 25 Years, 25 Artists, Montserrat College of Art; Mondo Tera Firma and Small in a Big Big World, The Cloister Gallery, Marblehead, MA; The Landscape Reconsidered: Collage, Assemblage & Montage, the Gibbs Gallery, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA (Fall, 2002). Her work is included in numerous private collections and in The New American Paintings Catalog, February 1998. She currently teaches Book Arts, Painting and Drawing, and Printmaking at Montserrat.

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Congratulations to Graphic Design faculty Mary Bucci McCoy and Printmaking faculty Damian Cote who have both been awarded 2012 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowships for Painting and Drawing!

The MCC awarded 31 Artists in Drawing, Painting and Traditional Arts. Visit the MCC site to learn more: www.artsake.massculturalcouncil.org

The awards were anonymously judged, based solely on the artistic quality and creative ability of the work submitted. Applications were open to all eligible Massachusetts artists. A total number of 866 eligible applications were received; 317 in Drawing, 531 in Painting and 18 in Traditional Arts.

Click here to see full list of recipients.

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Johnny Adimando, Untitled (Moon Texture), 2011, silkscreen on paper, 6 x 8 inches

This January, Montserrat’s new printmaking faculty member and artist Johnny Adimando will attempt and fail at the impossible: to reach the moon through conventional methods of paper folding and printmaking. At its apogee the Moon is about 406700 km from the Earth, while a single sheet of paper is about 0.01 cm high. It would take approximately 1,520,640,000 stacked pieces of paper to reach the Moon or a single sheet of paper folded on itself 42 times could reach the Moon’s surface.

Please join Johnny for a reception for his 16 ft printstallation in the newly renovated 17 Cox Gallery! RSVP on the Facebook Event Page!

TO THE MoON: Works on paper by Johnny Adimando
Curated by Montserrat’s Exhibitions Manager Lucas Spivey

Exhibit Dates: Jan. 23 – March 23
Opening Reception: Jan. 30, 5-7pm – First Quarter
Artist Talk with Johnny Adimando: Feb. 21, 5pm – New Moon
Montserrat’s Collective Performance Lab: March 7, 5-7pm – Full Moon

Johnny Adimando received his BFA from Tyler School of Art and his MFA from Rhode Island School of Design where he currently instructs printmaking and critique. He currently resides in Providence, RI.

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Elizabeth Alexander, "Helmet"

Faculty Member Elizabeth Alexander has two openings coming up in February!

She will have works from Welder’s Daughter in the upcoming Border Line: The Craft of Fine Art group exhibition at The Mikhail Zakin Gallery at The Art School at Old Church in Emarest, NJ. The exhibit includes contemporary artists blurring the lines of traditional notions of art and craft.

Exhibit: Jan. 27 – Feb. 24
Reception: Thursday, Feb. 2, 6–8pm

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Elizabeth will also have a sculpture and installation entitled Still Life: A Fabricator’s Banquet at the Dana Art Gallery in Wellesley, MA.

Exhibit: Feb. 13 – March 8
Reception: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 5-7:30pm

Elizabeth works in a number of mediums, taking everyday objects and turning them into sculptures of intrigue and beauty. Her work is focused on a blurring of reality, memory, and imagination which is achieved through intricate patterns of cutting, adding and taking away.

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Assoc. Prof. Erin Dionne was featured in The Boston Globe West for her most recent novel Notes from an Accidental Band Geek!

Erin Dionne, Framingham (preteen novelist)
Notes from an Accidental Band Geek

What led up to this book: ‘‘I participated in marching band in high school and at Boston College. Being part of a school marching band is a bizarre experience that a lot of people don’t know about. After my first two books sold, my former editor said she would love it if someone wrote a novel set amidst a school marching band. While this book includes a lot of the experiences I had as part of a band, including marching in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, which we did while I was at BC, it’s not a story about me. I played piccolo and flute; my main character plays brass. She’s standoffish and prickly and snobbish; I am not.’’

What’s in store for 2012: Dionne’s first project is to deliver her second child, due this month. After that, she’ll be completing her next age-group novel, scheduled for publication in 2013.

Click here to read the full article in The Boston Globe West!

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