Professor Tim Harney has an exhibit of his collages and paintings from his series “The View from Andrew’s Room” on display at the George Marshall Store Gallery, through Oct. 3. The gallery is located at 140 Lindsay Rd., York, Maine. Gallery hours are Wednesday-Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday, 1-5 pm.

See www.georgemarshallstoregallery.com.

Montserrat College of Art Professor Diane Ayott is one of four artists in the exhibit “Pattern and Repetition,” at the Simmons College Trustman Art Gallery, fourth floor, Main College Building, 300 The Fenway, in Boston, Sept. 1-30. The other artists are Kristina Bell DiTullo, Candy Nartonis, and Sarah Sutro.

A reception with the artists will be held Tuesday, September 7, from 5:00-6:30 p.m. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.

Curated by Trustman Gallery Director Michele Cohen, the exhibition brings together the work of four artists, who despite stylistic and conceptual differences, all intuitively employ pattern and repetition as a formal device. Using a variety of techniques and materials that range from painted wood panels to collaged Band-Aids these artists share a fascination with structure derived from repetitive shapes and color: the whole is the sum of its parts. Each artist generates myriad visual solutions using a limited palette of color and form to test their ingenuity and delight the viewer with subtle variations of texture, pattern, and color. As Cohen observed, the exhibition is fundamentally about “careful looking.”

Professor Judith Brassard Brown’s work has been chosen for inclusion in “Artists for ArtRocks,” an installation sponsored by UrbanArts, of transformed rocking chairs at Logan Airport’s International Terminal. Her entry is called ‘Somewhere Between’ and evocative of living in the Italian landscape. The grand opening the evening of September 7th in Terminal E.

Professors Judith Brassard Brown, Barbara Moody and Rose Olson along with faculty member Mary Bucci McCoy will have their work included in “Twenty 10,” the annual group show of artist-members of the Kingston Gallery, 450 Harrison Avenue in Boston. The opening is Friday, September 10th from 5-7:30.

Faculty member Dawn Paul will be on a panel for the Art School Faculty Caucus at the 2011 AWP (Associated Writing Programs) Conference in Washington, DC in February. The caucus provides an opportunity for writing faculty at art colleges to get together to share ideas.

Faculty member Marilu Swett will be have her work featured in three fall exhibits, all opening the first week in September. They include a solo show at Boston Sculptors Gallery on Harrison Ave., Boston (http://bostonsculptors.com/), an invitational at Curry College in Milton; and a second invitational on site at Allandale Farm in Brookline, MA. The farm exhibit, called Agriculture encounters Sculpture, will include 16 artists, many of them studio teachers, as well as four graduate students. The artists will install their work in and around Boston’s only working farm
(www.aes-2010.net).

Season for living and color
Works show off prisms where nature, art meet

Boston.com
By Cate McQuaid
Globe Correspondent / July 28, 2010

Summer gathering
Group shows are a staple in summertime. A light-hearted one at Boston Sculptors Gallery, “On/Of/Like/About Paper,’’ offers artists who usually work in three dimensions an opportunity to delve into paper and all its qualities: flatness, translucence, texture, pulpiness, ability to fold and take up space.

Leslie Wilcox’s wonderful lineup of 2-foot-tall sculptures made of heavyweight paper, each painted a buzzing tone, reminded me of deciding whom to talk to at a party: the carefully pleated one, the audaciously twisted one, the one that appears on the verge of toppling over? (Maybe not the last.)

Another party is evoked in Mary Sherman’s “At Heart, Spike Jones,’’ a Rube Goldberg-type contraption made of boxes suspended at different heights. Push a big blue button and a jaunty Jones tune plays. In one box, a turntable spins a cocktail glass; in another, a splatter painting rotates to a blur. Text encourages visitors to take a paper coaster with them and pass it on, sharing the art, sharing the party.

Hannah Verlin’s “Soak’’ installation looks like a ritual site. Wax bowls hang over a sheet of salt-covered paper. Ink in each bowl eats through the bottom and begins to drip out, splattering the paper and getting absorbed by the salt. The piece is all pristine white except for the ink, and beautifully conveys erosion and time passing. Caroline Bagenal has elegantly pieced together concentric paper circles in the simple “Cut Tree Rings.’’ Julia Shepley’s drawings in thread, shadow, and ink sandwiched between arcs of glass and mylar pull you in with delicate intimacy.

Sunday, July 4th, at 7am  faculty member Erin Dionne was on Magic 106.7 fm’s “Boston Life Show”. Erin discussed her writing career, motherhood, and work with host Gay Larson and her friend (and fellow Beverly-ian), poet January Gill O’Neil.

Liberal Arts faculty member Dawn Paul has been awarded her second residency at the Vermont Studio Center to work on her third novel. She is also the author of Country of Loneliness and Still River. Her residency will take place in January of next year.

Professor Gabrielle Keller of the Photo and Video Department was one of several artists included in the show “Animalia” at the Center for Fine Art Photography at 400 North College Avenue
Fort Collins, CO. The “Animalia” exhibit featured images by photographers from around the world, juried by Karen Irvine, Curator for the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. It was on display from May 8 – June 26.

July 7 – August 15, 2010

Boston Sculptors Gallery

486 Harrison Avenue

First Friday Reception: July 9, 5 - 8pm

Opening Reception: August 6, 5 - 8pm

Paper is a rudimentary, but also versatile medium. It can be folded, cut, crumpled, scored, drawn on and written across. It can be used to convey important news, give instructions, tell stories, and reflect the most delicate of feelings. But, mainly, in On/Of/Like/About Paper at the Boston Sculptors Gallery this summer, it also occupies space.

On/Of/Like/About Paper celebrates this highly expressive medium with work by twenty-two of its members: B Amore, Caroline Bagenal, Kim Bernard, Ben Cariens, Mac Dewart, Donna Dodson, Rosalyn Driscoll, Laura Evans, Sarah Hutt, Peter Lipsitt, Michelle Lougee, Eric Sealine, Liz Shepherd, Julia Shepley, Mary Sherman, Jessica Straus, Marilu Swett, Hannah Verlin, Ellen Wetmore, Dan Wills, Andy Zimmermann, and Lelia Daw.

Some of the works suggest architectural models. Some are free-standing sculptures, reliefs, or installations.  Still others are the stuff of a performance piece.  However, all address the nature of paper — its ability to convey ideas as well as its translucency, strength, frailty, texture, and above all, its marvelous mutability.

About the Boston Sculptors Gallery: Boston Sculptors Gallery is a landmark cooperative and has served as an alternative venue for exciting, innovative solo sculpture exhibitions since 1992. It is Boston’s premier venue for sculpture, featuring exciting and varied contemporary work by Boston area artists.  Gallery membership has expanded to thirty-four exhibiting sculptors including returning members and a stable of new members.

This gallery is unusual in that it exclusively shows sculpture in a large space which is transformed every month by two of the thirty-four members of this group.  Nick Capasso, Senior Curator of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park says, “the Boston Sculptors Gallery, one of the few cooperative sculpture galleries in the country, is among the most stimulating venues for three-dimensional contemporary art in the Northeast.”

Congratulations to Professor Gordon Arnold and Professor Rob Roy, winners of the Luz Dorrien Faculty Development Award.  Rob and Gordon will use these funds to support an exhibition on the subject of art and war,  which they are co-curating for the Montserrat College of Art Gallery.   The tentative list of participating artists in Setting the Record Straight:  Searching for Objectivity in Global Conflicts includes:  Fiore Banner, Chris Burden, Steve McQueen, Emily Prince, Gerhard Richter, and Rob Roy. The Dorrien award is announced annually at commencement.

Congratulations to Rose Olson, winner of the Cornelia Endowed Faculty Development Award. Rose Olson will use the funds to support an upcoming exhibition of new work, and for, specifically, the construction of a special light module to simulate daylight in the gallery and thus enhance the presentation and viewing of her paintings.

Thanks to all faculty who submitted proposals and to the ad hoc Faculty Development Committee members who had to make the difficult choice.

Dean Laura

Nathan Walker, Faculty Illustration, has been very busy lately. Most recently,he was chosen as Best Public Artist by the Peoples Choice Awards in the Seacoast News, NH. www.seacoastoline.com.

He has also been doing some Artist in Residency programs at both the Portsmouth Middle School, Portsmouth, NH (in May) and Portsmouth's Little Harbour Elementary School. www.seacoastonline.com.

Catalina Viejo,(2005), currently has an exhibition at LOT F Gallery in Boston. She has 50 of her miniature paintings on display and the show will be up until May 22. (LOT F Gallery, 145 Pearl St, Boston MA, www.lotfgallery.com)

Her Boston Celtics miniature paintings have received a huge following after being  featured on yahoo sports!! Here is the link below sports.yahoo.com

In addition, karmaloop.com has approached her and will be featuring and selling her Boston Celtics miniature paintings on their site.
 www.karmaloop.com

She will have a solo show coming up in June in Jamaica Plain. Attached is a small image and a press release with all the info. The show is called "Mis Amores" and will be showing recent large paintings and drawings. The opening is June 3rd, 6-8pm at Prudential Unlimited Realty, 673 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain MA

And last, but not least her etsy store has been up and running for a couple of months now and doing very well! There are beautiful paintings, drawings and collages for sale.
 http://www.catalinaviejo.etsy.com

Assoc. Professor Diane Ayott’s work is included in an exhibit at Lydon Contemporary, a new gallery in Chicago, IL. Her work is included in a group show which will be on exhibit all summer. The gallery is located at 230 W. Superior St., Chicago. www.lydonfineart.com

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce Diction, the first solo exhibition of Associate Professor of Art Education and  Foundation Diane Ayott. Ayott’s paintings and works on paper shift between balance and distortion, building on the foundations of color, pattern and repetition. The following is taken from a gallery press release re: Ayott's work: Ayott’s painted surfaces are worked in great detail; often using bottle caps, lids, and other quotidian objects as stamps in repetitive patterns. The works are an accrual of layers upon layers of marks upon marks, stamps upon stamps and patterns upon patterns. Beneath the quilt, the patchwork of marks, we find geometric shapes, the color developing strata and fields. The textured paint application and obsessive mark-making engage viewers viscerally and are further complimented by painterly considerations of color and form.

Diction exhibit dates are:
February 11 – March 13, 2010
Artist’s Reception:
Thursday, February 11, 6 to 8 p.m.

Writing faculty member Dawn Paul will read from her new novel, The Country of Loneliness, on Wednesday, February 10, at 7 to 9 p.m. at the Beverly Public Library, Main Branch, 32 Essex Street.  There will be a book sale and signing after, with proceeds to benefit the Beverly Public Library. She will also be reading at Montserrat College of Art on Thursday, February 18, at 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Paul Scott Library and will discuss the process of writing the book and how and why it went from memoir to fiction.

On April 9, she will be participating in a book signing with Marick Press at the AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) 2010 Annual Conference and Bookfair in Denver. 

Assistant Professor of Foundation and Sculpture, Marilu Swett, is in a show called Alchemy: Art and Science at Clark University in Worcester, Feb.15-April 11, 2010 at the Traina Center for the Arts.

Associate Professor of Foundation, Painting and Drawing, Masako Kamiya has been awarded a 2010 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in the Painting category.  The following is from the Mass. Culutral Council website: MCC's Artist Fellowships provide direct support to Massachusetts artists across a range of disciplines, to recognize exceptional work and to promote the further development of their talents. These highly competitive awards provide artists recognition and affirmation among their peers and the public. They catalyze crucial artistic advancement and pave the way for creative innovation of enduring cultural value.

Painting and Drawing Professor, Barbara Moody, will have a solo show of large acrylic paintings called “subMERGE” at the Kingston Gallery in Boston from March 3-28, 2010. The opening reception will be held on Friday, March 5th, 5-7:30 p.m. (First Fridays in SOWA) and a closing reception on Sunday, March 28th 3-5 p.m. See www.barbaramoody.com or www.kingstongallery.com for information and directions.

Instructor of Graphic Design and Printmaking, Sarah Hulsey, was recently appointed to the board of directors for the College Book Art Association. It's a three year position, 2010-2013.

Adjunct faculty member, Jennifer Jean, is publishing a book called "In the War" about growing up with a Vietnam War veteran father. Montserrat student Shino Takahashi has provided the cover photo for the book. A launch event for the book is currently in the planning stages and more information will be provided once available.

Assistant Professor Kimberlee A. Cloutier-Blazzard, Ph.D., is reprising her 2008 College Art Association talk entitled “Bean Kings and Brawling Priests: Pairing Epiphany and Easter in Baroque Haarlem” at the St. Paul Lutheran Church in Gloucester, MA on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 4 p.m. Admission is free but donations for Haiti relief will be accepted.  Kimberlee gave her original version of this lecture at Montserrat last year.

Work by Associate Professor of Foundation, Painting and Drawing, Masako Kamiya, will be featured in twp upcoming shows. Her first is a solo show at the Danforth Museum of Art in the center gallery and the title will be announced soon. It runs March 20 – May 16, 2010, with an opening reception on Saturday, March 20th, 6-8 p.m. Masako will provide a public talk and walk though on Wednesday, March 17th at 12 p.m. & Sunday, April 11 at 3 p.m.

Her second show, Masako Kamiya: New Paintings, takes place at Gallery NAGA and runs April 3 - May 1, 2010. The opening reception will take place Friday, April 2, 6-8 p.m. with a public talk on Saturday, April 10 at 2 p.m.

Writing Center Director Erin Dionne's new novel for 'tweens', THE TOTAL TRAGEDY OF A GIRL NAMED HAMLET (Dial Books 2010), debuted on January 7th. Booklist said, "Some sisterly bonding, the sweet flutterings of a first romance, and a creatively contrived comeuppance for the mean girls make this a cheerful read for younger middle-schoolers.
Kirkus Reviews noted, "Hamlet believably grows to fit the new challenges in her life, and her frustrations, presented in a good-humored, first-person narrative, are entertainingly contained within the three Shakespearean(ish) acts of this amusing tale, which captures some of the pitfalls of middle school."

Dionne will also be on the faculty of the New England Society of Children's Book Writer's and Illustrators annual conference in May, and presenting at various schools across New England and New York this spring.

Poetry by Liberal Arts instructor Colleen Michaels was recently published in Literary Momma, an online literary magazine that features writing by mother writers about the complexities and many faces of motherhood. Visit Literary Momma to read Michaels’ piece entitled “The Last Bath of the First Snow.”

Paintings and works on paper by Mary Bucci McCoy, graphic design instructor, is currently featured in Paintings, an exhibit at the Kingston Gallery on view now through January 31, 2010.

A recent review of Bucci McCoy's work was featured in the Weekly Dig. "It's easy to get intimidated by Mary Bucci McCoy's artist statement — there's a poem in French, free use of the backslash, and we think we caught the word "dialectical" in there somewhere. Her work itself, on the other hand — elevated or impressed blocks painted with minimalist abstractions — is warm and inviting, to the point that you'll be tempted to touch the thick splotches of paint. Must be that dialectic or sumthin'. After a few sips of wine and the welcoming atmosphere of the Kingston Gallery, you'll be nodding at that art like your B.A. was worth a damn." — Weekly Dig, 12.23.09–1.6.10

Kingston Gallery
450 Harrison Ave.
Boston, MA 02118
http://www.kingstongallery.com
617.423.4113

Work by Adjunct Professor Matt Murphy will be featured in two upcoming group shows. The first is in Brooklyn, NY at Camel Art Space. The exhibit is called "Distimacy" and runs February 12-28, 2010.  And the other is at Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket, RI, which runs February 4-28th. The exhibit is currently untitled. 

Foundation, Painting and Drawing professor Judith Brown’s solo-exhibition Out of Time is underway at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury and will remain on view through February 14, 2010. Her work is also included in a group exhibition of Dorchester artists at the Boston Convention Center through January.

Assistant professor of Liberal Arts Caroline Bagennal has a report of the 2009 Venice Biennale entitled "Worlds Apart," in the current issue of Afterimage, the journal of media arts and cultural criticism. Visit the website here.

Professor of Photography and Video Ethan Berry is currently working on a documentary video piece about the Historic Balch House in Beverly, MA. This is the first in a series of three films about houses owned by the Beverly Historical Society that he will be working on. For the past five years he has also been working as a team leader doing personal growth work with a group called Mens Divisions International. Berry continues to compete in U.S Masters swimming in swim meets and open water swims and recently completed his second 6.2 mile Salem Sound swim from Marblehead Neck to Singing Beach in Manchester.

Work by Assistant Professor of Printmaking, Sarah Smith, is currently included in The Assignment, a national, juried book arts exhibition held at 23 Sandy Gallery in conjunction with the annual meeting of the College Book Art Association (CBAA) in Portland, Oregon. To illuminate the meeting’s focus on book arts teaching practice and pedagogy, this exhibition features artist book works that were generated directly from course assignments or from self-assignments generated by the artist. The exhibit runs now through January 9, 2010. The Assignment was juried by Macy Chadwick and Clifton Meador. Macy is an instructor at Academy of Art University in San Francisco, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the San Francisco Center for the Book. She is also the proprietress of In Cahoots Press in Oakland, California. Clifton is associate professor and director of the M.F.A. program in book and paper at Columbia College in Chicago. He is also the editor of the Journal of Artist Books.

Work by Illustration Instructor Kelly Murphy is featured in the 18th Children's Book Illustrators Show & Signing at Chemers Gallery in Tustin, California.  A description of Kelly's work appears on the gallery blog: "Using a rich color pallet, Kelly really brings her mixed-media pieces to life. Kelly's award-winning illustrations have been featured in curated shows and international magazines. Her adorable paintings really "pop" in person." An example of Kelly's work is also featured beside the copy.

Former professor Grace Lin recently featured on the Today Show! Grace was interviewed to discuss her middle-grade novel Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Little, Brown, July), which Al Roker chose for his Al’s Book Club for Kids. Click here to watch Lin’s visit to the show.

Professor of Photography and Video, Ethan Berry, recently addressed the National Honor Society and the National Arts Honor Society at an assembly at Salem High School. In attendance were school committee members, faculty and parents along with the students. Berry talked from the point of view of Senior Fine Arts Seminar Coordinator at Montserrat, specifically about discussion skills.

The Cape Ann Museum will present a lecture by Laura Olmstead Tonelli, Art History Faculty and Dean of Academic Affairs, Montserrat College of Art Saturday at 3 p.m. in conjunction with the current exhibition Women Artists from the Cape Ann Museum Collection. Tonelli's talk will focus on the education of women artists from the Renaissance to modern times, and how society's definition of "woman" and "artist" affected their choice of subjects and media. The museum is located at 27 Pleasant St., Gloucester. For information, call 978-283-0455.

Greg Cook, founder and author of The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, will be teaching the critical theory section of the Senior Fine Arts Seminar at Montserrat during the second semester that begins January 26th. His Journal was recently awarded a $30,000 grant from Creative Capital and the Warhol Foundation’s Arts Writers Grant Program.

Letters from the Road, a journal of thoughts and pictures by Professors of Photography and Video Ethan Berry and Gabrielle Keller, whose dialogue started at a motorcycle shop, which became an ideal setting for extended conversations that went beyond motorcycles and the traditional imagery associated with them. They continued to communicate while traveling, one writing from the road, and the other photographing in the motorcycle repair shop. The interplay between the male voice (the written work) and the female voice (the pictures) created an intensely personal narrative that eventually became a conversation in itself. The conversation moves forward as a series of moments in time, brief encounters of feeling, thought, and image that resonate across pages and miles. The Foreword is written by Anthony Rotundo, author of American Manhood: “Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era.” The journal received an Honorable Mention, Fine Art Books from the International Photograpy Awards.

Work by Associate Professor of Illustration, Fred Lynch, is featured in the November issue of Midwest Airline's magazine, My Midwest. The article explores the work of six American artists who specialize in sketchbook journalism. That is, the illustrative documentation of travels and life journeys through on-site drawings.

“Hypnotic Discotheque Fascination,” a Flash-based music game designed in collaboration with Pixelate, by Graphic Design Instructor Justin Gagne '00, was recently reviewed on Mark Hurst’s online newsletter Good Experience Games as, “clever use of color and music transform a simple concept into a fun game.”

Painting and Drawing Professor, Barbara Moody, has been designated the featured artist for November in Always Already, a group show at the Chicago Art Source Gallery, Chicago, IL from Nov 13, 2009-Jan 9, 2010. Four of her large paintings (50 x 68”) will be featured in the show. She will also exhibit a number of small paintings at Albright Art + Craft in Concord, MA, in December. 

Painting and Drawing Assistant Professor, Kate Jellinghaus, is curating a large exhibit of youth art for the Mark W. Potter Gallery at The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut. The exhibit is entitled: UBUNTU: I Am Because We Are: Art from the Juvenile Justice System and Beyond. It includes work from both the Boston and New York branches of Artistic Noise, a non-profit organization that brings art programming to system-involved youth. The show runs from November 6th - December 4th, 2009.

On Thursday, November 19, 2009, Montserrat’s new Liberal Arts Instructor and author Dawn Paul will read from her latest novel, The Country of Loneliness, (Marick Press), at Cornerstone Books, 45 Lafayette Street in Salem, MA at 7 p.m.  The Country of Loneliness pays tribute to the compassionate imagination and its power to create understanding and love between a father and daughter after long years of separation, fear and silence.  Paul is the author of Still River (Corvid Press) and her short fiction has been published in journals and anthologies. She has been a writing resident at the Vermont Studio Center and the Ragdale Foundation and has an MFA from Goddard College.  For more information, contact thursdaytheatreWM@gmail.com.

Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts, Caroline Bagenal, is exhibiting paintings, prints and sculptures at New England Bio Labs, Ipswich, MA, from Oct 27th - Dec 8th, 2009.

Assistant Professor Kimberlee A. Cloutier-Blazzard, Ph.D., recently had her essay "The Wise Man Has Two Tongues: Images of the Satyr and the Peasant by Jordaens and Steen," published in the book Myth in History, History in Myth (E.J. Brill, 2009). Also, "Presence in Absence as an Artistic Mode," her review of Mia Mochizuki’s book, The Netherlandish Image after Iconoclasm, 1566-1672: Material Religion in the Dutch Golden Age will come out next month in Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art, vol. X (November 2009).

Beginning October 2nd, Professor of Painting and Foundation Rose Olson will be exhibiting her paintings at Susan Maasch Fine Art in Portland, Maine. Work by Penelope Jones and the photography of Berenice Abbott and Charles Grogg will also be included. The opening reception takes place on Friday, October 2nd, from 5–8 p.m. and the exhibit runs October 2 – 30, 2009.

Director of Internships and Career Services at Montserrat College of Art, Joan Milnes, recently received the Higher Education Leader of the Year Award from the National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE). The award is made in recognition of Joan's use of experiential learning at Montserrat.  In her letter of nomination, Kate Moore, Director North America, EUSA-Academic Internship Programs, writes: “This internship program has broken the boundaries of traditional thinking that art and employment are incompatible.”

The 4th Annual Edition of North Shore Magazine's Best of the North Shore, has awarded the Gallery Della-Piana of Wenham, the “Best Art Gallery” on the North Shore! Elissa Della-Piana, Associate Professor of Illustration at Montserrat, opened the gallery one year ago in Wenham, MA.

In an upcoming exhibit, the Gallery Della-Piana will feature 12 Equine painters and photographers. The exhibit opens August 19th and runs through October 17th and will include photography by Montserrat Trustee, Bill Wasserman, among others.

Colleen Michaels will read her poetry at “Thursday's Theatre of Words & Music” at Cornerstone Books, 45 Lafayette Street, in Salem, MA, this Thursday, June 25th, at 7 p.m. Michaels’ poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in “Images”, "A Room of our Own", "Bread and Circus" and "Blue Collar Review". She has been a featured poet for the *New and Emerging Writers Series”, works as a freelance writer and editor, and is a devoted member of the Salem Writers Group. For more information contact thursdaytheatreWM@gmail.com.

Work by Barbara Moody and Doug Bell will be included in the “Alphabet Project 3” show at Essex Art Center June 19 - Aug 14, 2009. Twenty-six artists were invited to create works based on a letter of the alphabet. Opening reception will be held on Friday, June 19, 5 - 7 p.m. Moody will also have two large drawings in  “Zoologic,” an upcoming exhibition at the Courthouse Gallery in Lake George, NY, July 11 - Aug 14, 2009. 

Sarah Smith’s fire extinguisher book was accepted into a juried alumni show at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. The second is a Guild of Bookworkers 100th anniversary show called "Marking Time". The show will travel from the Minnesota Center for Book Arts to eight additional venues over the next two years.

Work by Montserrat Faculty members Ethan Berry, Kaitlyn Boucher, Gabrielle Keller and George Peet is included in The Odysseus Project: Finding Home. The show features work by artists and veteran-artists focusing on issues of war and the experience of veterans returning home.  Art @ 12 Farnsworth Street, June 12 - 27, 2009.  Opening reception Friday, June 12, 2009 at Art @ 12 Farnsworth Street 5 p.m. An artist panel discussion with Ken Hruby, Associate Professor of Sculpture, School of the Museum of Fine Arts will take place on Thursday June 18th at 7 p.m.  In conjunction with the art exhibit, The Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences will host a reading by faculty of their 21st annual Writers Workshop, led by award winning poet Brian Turner Thursday June 25th at the Pierre Menard Gallery, 10 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA , 7p.m. These events and exhibit are made possible by the Fort Point Artists Community and the Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences.

Professor Gordon Arnold (liberal arts) recently discussed Hollywood, History, and Conspiracy Theory in lectures at the historic Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro, Vermont, and at the Druker Auditorium of the Newton Free Library in Newton, MA.  Based on his recent book Conspiracy Theory in Film, Television, and Politics, his lectures focused on how conspiracy themes in movies reflected and shaped American political visions from the cold war to the post-9/11 world.

Barbara Moody is one of six artists whose work was chosen nationally for “Touch: A Survey of Contemporary Drawing” at the Murphy Gallery in Minneapolis. The exhibit dates: February 21-April 9, 2009. Moody recently returned from an advanced acrylic workshop in Santa Fe, NM, and is working on a series of new paintings for a solo show in Boston in January 2010. 

Beginning Tuesday, March 3rd, the Kingston Gallery will feature Judith Brassard Brown’s most recent mixed media paintings in Out of Time. Brown’s work continues to respond to the insecurity in today's world. Though at first glance, the paintings may seem to jump in subject or approach, all connect to common human concerns. Each contrasts what we see at first glance with a much slower process of sensing or perceiving much more below the surface. Looking at the range of human experience and how we are remarkably similar regardless of separation across years or political boundaries, the works involve layering the remnants of every day life (collage elements of all sorts) with a range of drawing materials, paint and wax as each image builds to its own truth or reality.

Exhibit Dates: March 3-28, 2009

Opening Reception: Friday, March 6 from 5 -7:30 p.m.

Kingston Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue #43 on Thayer
Boston, MA 02118
1-617-423-4113
www.kingstongallery.com

Scott Hadfield joins other prominent artists in exhibit at Endicott College

Boston Paints: An Overview of Contemporary Painting from the Boston Metropolis

Visiting Artists Gallery
Center for Visual and Performing Arts
Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts 01915
Now through - Sunday, February 22, 2009

Reception: Wednesday, February 11, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Gallery hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Boston Paints is a dynamic exhibition presenting paintings by twenty-two prominent artists closely linked with the metropolitan art scene. Presented as one of two inaugural shows in the new Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Endicott College, 376 Hale Street, Beverly, the important investigation of regional activity will be on view through February 22, 2009. A reception to meet the artists is scheduled for Wednesday, February 11, 5:00 - 7:00 PM. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The exhibit and related programming are free and open to the public.

Works by Diane Ayott and Rose Olsen were selected for the 32nd Small Works exhibition currently underway at 80 Washington Square East Galleries in New York City.

This year's Small Works was judged by Daniel Ferris of Stephen Haller Gallery in New York. The unique concept of the competition dictates that all works submitted for possible exhibition measure twelve inches or less in every dimension. Throughout the years, tens of thousands of artists contributing from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and our own hemisphere, have challenged the size restriction with innovative and exciting creations. Although often imitated, the diversity and consistent quality of artworks exhibited in Small Works is rarely matched.   

The 32nd Small Works exhibition will be on display through March 13, 2009 at 80 Washington Square East Galleries. Gallery viewing hours are: Tuesday 10 a.m. - 7 p.m., Wednesday & Thursday 10 a.m.  - 6 p.m., Friday & Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Group Faculty Show at Kingston
Ten Webster Salon is featured in the Kingston's Center Gallery with work by Montserrat's Diane Ayott, Caroline Bagenal, JBBrown, Kathleen Gerdon-Archer, Masako Kamily, Mia Nehme, Rose Olson and Cathy Paige. Curator, Leonie Bradbury.

March 3rd-28th, 2009 with the Opening Reception on first Friday, March 6th from 5:30-7:30 pm.

Kingston Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA
www.kingstongallery.com

Faculty member Masako Kamiya is included in the group exhibition:
Opening Line
New Art Center in Newton MA
Curated by Suzan Goldwitz
www.newartcenter.org/exhibitions/index.html

The exhibit is on display through February 22, 2009

Joanne Mattera has two upcoming exhibits: she has been curated into Geometrics II, an exhibition of abstract geometric painting curated by Gloria Klein, at the 128 Rivington Gallery on the Lower East Side in New York City, March 18-April 19; and she is included in the international exhibition, Material Color, curated by Mary Birmingham, at the Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey She is one of three curators for Blogpix, which will take place at the Platform Gallery in Chelsea, New York City, March 5-28. The exhibition will be accompanied by a panel that addresses the activities of artists who have included the computer, cyberspace or the blogosphere in their practice. The event will be blogged and Twittered and she is moderating. Joann’e solo exhibition, Contemplating the Horizontal, at Arden Gallery in Boston, Dec. 2-30, 2008, was reviewed by Cate McQuaid in the Boston Globe.

Joanne attended the Miami art fairs in December on a press pass and reported on the events in her blog (http://joannemattera.blogspot.com/2008/12/fair-weather-eye-benders.html)

Out of Time II
Judith Brassard Brown's solo exhibition opens at the Kingston Gallery on March 3rd, 2009. Opening Reception during first Friday, March 6th from 5:30-7:30 pm. Curator, Leonie Bradbury.

Kingston Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA
www.kingstongallery.com

The Kent Street Project: Home is Where the Art Is
an initiative of Beth Israel Deaconness Hospital and Urban Arts led by Jessica Finch includes commissioned two paintings by Judith Brassard Brown among the fifty artists selected. There will be an opening and catalog soon.

The Algorithms of Art
This exhibit will seek to demonstrate the correlation between the genre of abstraction in contemporary art and certain disciplines of mathematics and science. The selected artists include Diane Ayott, Meghan Brady, Karen Dow, Anne Krinsky, Mary Bucci McCoy, Dorothea Rockburne, Craig Stockwell, Joan Waltemath.

Jan. 19 through Feb. 15
The opening reception is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 22, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Complete your evening with fine dining at our award-winning Hospitality Center Restaurant. Seatings are at 6 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., and patrons are asked to bring their own wine. Reservations are required: Call 603.629.4608.

Gallery Hours
Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Thursday, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Southern New Hampshire University
2500 North River Road, Manchester, NH 03106
www.snhu.edu
603.629.4622
Curated by Debbie Disston
Director, The McIninch Art Gallery: d.disston@snhu.edu

Work by Adjunct Professor Matt Murphy will appear in Color, Pattern, Structure, October 6 through 31, at The Harbor Art Gallery, UMass Boston, McCormack 1st Floor, 100 Morrissey Blvd., MA.  An opening reception will be held Thursday, October 9, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.  Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, noon to 7:00 p.m.  Call 617-287-7988 or visit www.umb.edu/harborgallery.

The work of Professor Gabrielle Keller is on view from October 7 through November 6 at the Winfisky Gallery, located at the Ellison Campus Center at Salem State University, 352 Lafayette Street, Salem. An opening reception will be held October 14 from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. Featured in the exhibition are works from her Bird Series portfolio, soon to be a book entitled Within Reach.  Keller also was recently awarded a $5,000 grant for her digital photography by the Ultimate Eye Foundation.

Assistant Professor Erin Dionne's first novel for 9-12 year olds, Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies, will be released by Penguin/Putnam's Dial Books for Young Readers in Spring 2009, and has been chosen as a Scholastic Book Fairs featured title, receiving exposure at all events nationwide. Dial will be doing a major paperback print run to support Scholastic's effort, and has also decided to keep its hardcover printing, so the book will be released simultaneously in paperback and hardcover this March.

The novel details the trials of 13-year-old Celeste Harris, who is no skinny banana, but her comfy track pants and daily snack of chocolate cookies suit her just fine. Her under-the-radar lifestyle could have continued, too, if her aunt hadn’t entered her in the Husky Peach Modeling Challenge. To stay out of the spotlight, she’s forced to launch Operation Skinny Celeste—because, after all, a thin girl can’t be a fat model! What Celeste never imagined was that losing weight would help her gain a backbone…and that she’s got plenty of off-stage reasons to shine.

On November 30, Illustration Instructor Kelly Murphy will participate in an artist talk/ panel discussion, "Excellence in Children’s Book Illustration," to be held at 3:00 at  the Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, Chase Center, Michael Metcalf Auditorium. Held in conjunction with The Original Art Exhibition: Celebrating the Fine Art of Children's Book Illustration, the panel will feature several recent Caldecott Award winners who graduated from RISD, who will discuss their background and the inspiration that brought them success. A book signing will follow the program. Free with Museum admission.

 

Work by Professor Rob Roy is currently included in two group exhibitions: Monotype/Monoprint at the Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA (September 6 - October 3), and Field Report: The Boston Printmakers, at the Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA (September 7 - October 18). Field Report will travel to venues across the U.S., and then to Europe and China through 2011. A monotype from Roy's Road Ritual series has recently been acquired by the Boston Public Library Print Collection.

Complexity, paintings by Associate Professor Diane Ayott will appear October 28th to November 22nd, 2008 at the Towne Art Gallery at Wheelock College, 200 Riverway, Boston. Gallery Hours: Noon- 5 p.m., Tuesday to Saturday.  An opening reception will be held Saturday, November 8th from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. For information contact Erica Licea-Kane at (617) 879-2219 or elicea-kane@wheelock.edu.

Work by Ayott appeared in Boston Color, held Thursday, May 29 to Saturday, June 28, 2008 at at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, 529 West 20th 6W, New York,  NY., and New England/New Talent, a juried selection of established and emerging contemporary artists from New England, from February 17 to June 1, 2008, at the Fitchburg (MA) Art Museum. Her patterned and layered paintings were most recently shown in a one-person exhibit, Moment to Moment, at the Danforth Museum in Framingham, MA curated by Director, Katherine French. Early next year Ayott’s work will be included in a group exhibit at the Mcininch Art Gallery at the University of Southern New Hampshire in Manchester NH.

Consequences of Geometry, a three-person exhibit featuring  the work of Associate Professor Diane Ayott, Professor Rose Olson, and Mary Bucci McCoy, is on view at the McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA.  Curated by Gallery Director David Raymond and installed by Jen Nazzaro, the exhibition runs from from September 2 to October 16, with a reception September 11, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. The show also was on view at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, MA, December 16 2007 through February 24, 2008.

Professor Judith Brassard Brown had an exhibition at "mimi," 26 Market St., Ipswich, MA, in June.  She has new  mixed media work in Out of Time, on view at The Gutman Library at Harvard University, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA, from September 3rd to 26th, 2008, with an opening reception September 18th from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. (http://www.gse.harvard.edu/library/spotlight/index.html). She also is showing work in Take Out: Annual Member's Show, at Kingston Gallery, 450 Harrison Ave. #43, Boston, from September 2nd to 27th , 2008, with an opening reception September 5th from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. (http://www.sowaartistsguild.com/about.html)

Somewhere Between, her solo exhibition, appeared at the Danforth Museum May 9 - June 24, 2007.  Her work appeared in the Dorchester Open Studios Juried Exhibition, October 26 through 28, 2007, Biennial 2007, New Hampshire Institute of Art Regional Juried Exhibition, juried by Pamela Clark Cochrane of the Clark Gallery, November 14 through December 15, 2007, and Paint, a national show juried by Gerry Bergstein, November 2 through December 31, 2007.                                                                                          

Drawings and vine sculptures'by Painting and Drawing Professor Thorpe Feidt and New York artist Jennifer Cushman are on view in In Praise of Shadows at The Gallery Della-Piana, #152-R Main Street, Wenham, from September 10th through October 4th. Gallery hours are Wednesday thru Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and by appointment. A reception will be held September 12 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Visit gallerydellapiana.blogspot.com for more details, profiles, and directions.

Liberal Arts Professor Dr. Gordon Arnold was recently asked to write an article for the British Broadcasting Corporation's World Service. The resulting essay, entitled Cuoc chien Viet Nam va chinh gioi My examines the continuing effects of the Vietnam War on American presidential politics. It has now been published in translation on the BBC’s Vietnamese language website, which is widely consulted in Southeast Asia and by Vietnamese readers worldwide.

To view the essay, visit :  http://www.bbc.co.uk/vietnamese/vietnam/story/2008/08/080828_vietnam_war_effects.shtml

Arnold's book, The Afterlife of America's War in Vietnam: Changing Vision in Politics and Screen, was reviewed by Beth Mauldin in the Winter 2007-08 issue of Film Quarterly (pages 92-93).

Assistant Professor George Thompson's new translation of the Hindu classic, The Bhagavad Gita, is in press at Farrar, Straus & Giroux and has received favorable reviews, including "This new translation of the Bhagavad Gita comes as close to the liveliness, topicality, and flow of the original as any I have seen," from Frits Staal, Professor Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley.  For more reviews, visit www.amazon.com/Bhagavad-Gita-New-Translation/dp/0865477442/ref

Thompson is also working on an anthology of translations from the Rigveda, and is negotiating with Cambridge Univserity Press to co-author An introduction to the Vedas.

Work by Joanne Mattera, Instructor in Painting and Drawing, will appear in Material Color at the Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, from October through January 2009. She has or had work in Calculated Color, at the Higgins Gallery of Cape Cod Community College, West Barnstable, MA, through Ocotber; No Chromophobia, an exhibition of non-objective color paintings, held through September at OK Harris Works of Art, New York, NY; Small Wonders, held through September at Garson Baker Fine Arts, New York, NY; 4th Anniversary Exhibition, held through June at DM Contemporary, Mill Neck, NY; This Just In, held through August at Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, and Abstract & Geometric, held in September  2007 at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago.

She had three solo shows in the past year: Silk Road, at the OK Harris Gallery in New York City, It's Always About You, Isn't It? at the Cervini Haas Gallery in Scottsdale, and Hue Again, at Montserrat’s Schlosberg Alumni Gallery. She also curated a 14-artist show, Luxe, Calme et Volupte: A Meditation on Visual Pleasure, for the Marcia Wood Gallery. Mattera has been appointed Director of the 2008 National Conference of Encaustic Painting at Montserrat, which took place in June.

Associate Professor Elissa Della-Piana has opened a new art gallery, The Gallery Della-Piana, at #152R Main Street, Wenham, MA. The opening exhibition, from July 12 through August 7 was In the Garden, drawings and paintings by Della-Piana.  Gallery hours are Wednesdays through Saturdays, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and by appointment.  Call: 1-978-468-1944  152-R Main Street, Route 1-A Wenham, MA, 01984.

She exhibited her intricate pencil drawings in a group show, A Tribute to Graphite Joe, at The Studio Gallery, Marblehead, May 10 through June 7,  where she was awarded a prize by Jurer Charleen Akullian of Commonwealth Fine Art, Boston. The exhibit was sponsored by Ticonderoga Corp.; visit www.oharewilliams.com.

Rose Olson, Professor of Painting and Foundation, is a painter with a studio in Boston’s South End. She has been a featured artist in SOWA magazine, a South End publication and is represented by Kingston Gallery, which is located a few blocks from her studio.  She welcomes everyone, especially Montserrat Students, to come to her solo exhibit at Kingston Gallery, Just Color No Curves, showing from September 30 to November 1, 2008.  Color is a major consideration in all of her work but in this exhibit the colors will be more liquid, revealing the natural wood-grain of the painting support and creating a light of their own. 

Her work is also appearing through October 16 in Consequences of Geometry at the McCoy Gallery, Merrimack 
College, 315 Turnpike Street North Andover, MA, and in Calculated Color at the Higgins  Art Gallery, Cape Cod Community College, 2240 Iyannough Road, West  Barnstable, MA, through October 2.

This past year she has exhibited at OK Harris Harris Works of Art  in SOHO , 383 West Broadway, NY;  Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA; WMG, Chicago, IL; NYU, New York, NY; The Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA; The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA; Gallery XIV and Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA. For more information on past and present exhibits and excerpts from reviews, please visit www.roseolson.com

Rose will not be teaching at Montserrat for the fall term, in order to travel, paint and prepare for exhibitions. In September, she will be showing paintings at OK Harris Works of Art, New York, NY; the McCoy Gallery at North Andover, MA, a 3-person exhibit; The Higgins Gallery at West Barnstable, MA, an 8-person show titled Calculated Color, and in Take Out at Kingston Gallery, followed by her one-person show at Kingston. 

She looks forward to teaching Foundation and Painting courses in the spring term and is scheduled for an exhibit of her work at Montserrat’s Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery during the month of March, 2009.

Work by Associate Professor Fred Lynch was featured at mimi in Ipswich in August.  His work also was juried into the Essex Art Center's 14th Annual Juried Show in Lawrence, MA (October 26 to December 7, 2007) by Carole Anne Meehan, Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the Eighth Annual Frances N. Roddy Exhibition at the Concord Art Association in Concord, MA (September 13 to October 14) by Barbara O'Brien, Director of the Trustman Gallery at Simmons College, Boston, MA, and the national juried show Paint!, (November 2 to December 31), by Gerry Bergstein. His work was also shown in a Rhode Island School of Design Faculty Exhibit, Providence, RI, from October 29 to November 9, 2007.
   

Assistant Professor Erin Dionne was invited to read her short story, "New Rollerskates," which appeared in Brevity & Echo, an anthology of short-short stories published by Rose Metal Press (Abigail Beckel and Kathleen Rooney, editors) for a National Public Radio show called DimeStories. The show will air in October, and will be available for download on www.NPR.org and www.dimestories.org.  

Two faculty members are recipients of a $1500 award from The Cornelia Endowed Fund,  made possible thanks to the generosity of Gail and Ernst von Metzsch of Manchester, MA.  (Gail is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the College.)

The fund was established by Gail and Ernst von Metzsch, in honor of Ernst’s mother, Cornelia von Metzsch.  As a young woman, Cornelia was able to have a university education and later married and raised a family of three children.  Her life completely changed during World War II when she escaped with her children to Australia from Indonesia, before Japan invaded the Indonesian islands.  She raised her children on her own, before it was fashionable and acceptable to be a single parent, and instilled in them the need for education and a love of the arts.  As a result, all three of her children are artistically talented.  This fellowship is established as a fitting tribute to her influence as a great educator and a loving mother.

Keeping in mind the criteria for the fund:  “To support innovative, high quality proposals for the professional development of Montserrat faculty,” the jurors recommended and the President approved the awarding of the Cornelia fund monies to Caroline Bagenal, Assistant Professor,  and Elissa Della Piana, Associate Professor

Caroline Bagenal plans to use the award for materials for the pedestal and shelves and to frame the related drawings and watercolors and defray publicity costs for the First Solo Exhibition at the Boston Sculptors Gallery.  Elissa Della Piana will use the money to defray travel costs to London and Bath, England while on sabbatical.  

Jurors for the award included Rob Roy (Professor, Faculty Affairs rep.), Leonie Bradbury (Gallery Director), outside evaluator Anne Dawson, Professor, Dept of Visual Arts, Eastern Connecticut State University and Laura Tonelli, Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs.

No Chromophobia
An Exhibition of Non Objective Color Paintings

MAY 31 – JULY 11; SEPTEMBER 2 - 6, 2008
(Opening Reception on Tuesday June 3rd from 5-7 pm)

OK Harris Works of Art
383 West Broadway New York, NY 10012
212.431.3600
www.okharris.com

OK Harris Works of Art is pleased to present No Chromophobia an exhibition of non objective color paintings by thirty-three painters. No Chromophobia highlights the individuality of practitioners of color-based abstraction while revealing shared concerns and assumptions that connect this wide-ranging group of mid-career painters. The exhibition presents an opportunity to reevaluate an important niche within American abstract painting.


Carla Aurich, Diane Ayott, Kate Beck, Siri Berg, Sharon Brant
Cathleen Daley, Julie Gross, Molly Heron, Kazuko Inoue
Marthe Keller, Joanne Klein, Pat Lipsky, Joanne Mattera
Lynn McCarty, Joan Mellon, Margaret Neill, Mary Obering
Doug Ohlson, Rose Olson, Paula Overbay, Susan Post
Cora Roth, Rebecca Salter, Susan Schwalb, Yuko Shiraishi
Louise P. Sloane, Linda Stillman, Rella Stuart-Hunt, Soonae Tark, Li Trincere, Suzanne Ulrich, Jean Wolff, Tamar Zinn

Diane Ayott courtesy of Kathryn Markel Fine Art, Kazuko Inoue courtesy of Allan Stone Gallery, Lynn McCarty courtesy of Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Margaret Neill courtesy of Cheryl Pelavin Gallery, Rebecca Salter courtesy of Howard Scott Gallery, Yuko Shiraishi courtesy of Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Tamar Zinn courtesy of Kathryn Markel Gallery, Susan Schwalb courtesy of Galerie Mourlot

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10am to 6pm
July: Tuesday - Friday 12 noon to 5pm
Gallery closed July 12th - September 1st; reopens September 2nd 10am

Two of  Professor Barbara Moody's mural paintings have been installed at Meditech Corporation in Fall River. The company already owns 65 of her paintings.  For her new project, Professor Moody made a 18”  x 15' painting, which was enlarged to fit a 111' cafeteria wall and was installed like wallpaper, as well as a three-panel 6' X  40' painting for the lobby. 

Art Education Instructor Karen Ristuben has released her debut jazz CD, called too much. From her home base on Boston’s North Shore, Ristuben is joined by many of the finest Boston-area players to lend a vibrant and innovative sound to some of the best of the jazz age. The CD also features two new originals by producer
Mason Daring.  Visit www.karenristubenmusic.com or e-mail ristuben@gmail.com

Susan Scott, a visiting artist for a painting course called Collage Projects, showed students works that involved deconstruction and reconstruction, and Associate Professor Diane Ayott noted that the students in the class employed this same combination of techniques in the course. Susan showed some of her work and talked about her process as an artist, and then held a discussion about the making of art and the particular issues of creating a life as an artist. "It was a very good session," Ayott said. "Our students enjoyed the informal atmosphere of just talking with the artists and sharing work and ideas."

Based on the drawings from Remains, her October one-person show at the Kingston Gallery in Boston, Professor Barbara Moody has been accepted into the New York Drawing Center’s Viewing Program. This online artist registry is a resource used by the Drawing Center’s curatorial staff as wall as by other arts professionals. She will update her online portfolio every two years.

Illustration Adjunct Professor Kelly Murphy's eighth book hit the bookstores on April 1st, 2008. Hush, Little Dragon, written by Boni Ashburn and illustrated by Murphy, is published by Abrams Books for Young Readers. Murphy teaches Children's Book Illustration, Illustrating Fiction and Illustration Four: Advanced Illustration. Visit:  http://www.kelmurphy.com/dragon.htm

Work by Professor Rob Roy was included in Field Report, a print exhibition at the Art Gallery, the Barrington Center for the Arts, Gordon College, Wenham, MA.  The exhibition was organized by the Boston Printmakers and will travel internationally through 2010. The Gordon College exhibit ran from March 8 - April 15.

 

On April 3, Associate Professor Blyth Hazen spoke at a session of "bioArt Seminar," a series of lectures exploring the question "What is bioArt?" sponsored by the Harvard Medical School's Biomedical Graduate Student Organization.

Assistant Professor Kate Jellinghaus won a $1,500 travel grant from the Cultural Branch of the U.S. Embassy in Sofia, to travel to Bulgaria in the spring of 2008 to install and introduce the photography exhibit, Uncovering Identity: A Bulgarian Photo Project (displayed in November at Montserrat in the Schlosberg Gallery) at the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture Gallery. The expanded photo exhibit was supported in part by the US Embassy and featured the artists (orphan youth), their friends, volunteers in the project and larger community.

An article featuring the opening of HallSpace, Graphic Design Chair John Colan's new Dorchester gallery, appeared in the February 7, 2008 issue of the Dorchester Reporter. The inaugural show, Leah Piepgras' abstract "Euphoria," was on display through March 1 at the gallery, which is located at 950 Dot Avenue.  For information, visit www.hallspace.org.

On February 21, 2008, Assistant Professor John McVey participated in one of the "Creative Salons" -- Japanese Aesthetics: How It Applies to Graphic Design -- held at the Peabody Essex Museum. Keiko Thayer demonstrated ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) and McVey pointed to connections with typographic and graphic design, in particular the relationship of rules/theory to intuitive practice in both ikebana and design.

Montserrat faculty, students and alumni were participants in "The Canvasation Project," an exhibition held at Gallery XIV, 37 Thayer Street, Boston, from March 7 to March 22. "The Canvasation Project" was a multi-media exhibition featuring more than 100 artists and individual artworks, together with 12 collaborative paintings painted by groups of participating artists and documented by the film production team Film Our Way Films. The artworks and video installation are presented together to create a space that reflects the creative process. 

Canvasations were created by artists associated with: Kingston Gallery, Gallery XIV, Paul Alexander Gallery, Artists for Humanity, Boston Public School Art Teachers, 450 Harrison Ave Studios, The Art Institute of Boston, Montserrat College of Art, Reflect-arts.com, Hill House Boston, and The Miracle Five.  Film Our Way Films are Robert Flame Lamothe and Yvonne Marra Lamothe, documentary filmmakers that have been recording and investigating artists' creative flow for over twenty years.

Montserrat artists participated in two collaborative paintings in the exhibition. Professors Barbara Moody, Rose Olson and Judith Brassard Brown were three of the ten artists in the Kingston Collaborative painting. In addition, the Montserrat Group brought together faculty Rob Roy and Caroline Bagenal with alumni Mike Kripal, Melinda D’Aloia, Erik Troxell, Jeffrey Newell, Bea Modisett, Erica Buschman and Catalina Viejo de la Roda. Each artist also will have personal work as part of the upcoming exhibition.

"The Canvasation Project"  exhibition preview was held Thursday, March 6, with a “First Friday” opening and artist reception Friday, March 7. A Gallery XIV Salon was held on March 18, with a creative dialogue featuring Barbara O'Brian, assistant professor of art at the Trustman Art Gallery at Simmons College, and Montserrat Gallery Director/Curator Leonie Bradbury.  For information, visit  ww.galleryxiv.com.
 

Assistant Professor Kimberlee A. Cloutier-Blazzard presented a paper, Bean Kings and Brawling Priests: Pairing Epiphany and Easter in Baroque Haarlem, at the College Art Association meeting in Dallas, TX in February, 2008.

It Makes Sense, a show featuring Assistant Professor Marilu Swett, was held at the Boston Sculptors Gallery, 468 Harrison Avenue, from March 12 through April 13, 2008. The exhibition presented a body of work that probes and plays with the complexity of our sensate lives. Swett's mixred-media drawings and collages suggest multiple relationships between our senses and our experience of a work of art.

"New Work by Timothy Harney," a show featuring Assistant Professor Timothy Harney, was held from January 8 -31 at the Clark Gallery in Lincoln, MA.  The exhibit included small paintings and recent collages that propel his private dialogue of memory, dreams and imagination, as well as abstract compositions exploring color and form.

Professor Ethan Berry served as panel chair at the Popular Culture and American Culture Association's national meeting, held March 12 - 22, 2008, in San Francisco.  For conference information, visit http://www.pcaca.org.

Remains, Professor Barbara Moody's one-person show at the Kingston Gallery in Boston, MA , was held October 2 to 27, 2007.  The exhibition included large drawings of piles of mysterious and elaborate debris. See www.kingstongallery.com for gallery hours and directions, or visit www.barbaramoody.com. Her work received a one-page review in the September issue of Artscope, p. 24, and was also included in an exhibition at the Riverside Art Museum in Riverside, CA in August, 2007.

The work of Associate Professor Diane Ayott, Professor Rose Olsen and Joanne Mattera, Instructor in Painting and Drawing, was included in the exhibition, "Abstract & Geometric," juried by Julie Karabenick, at Woman Made Gallery, in Chicago. The exhibit, held September 7 -October 4, 2007, can be viewed online at: http://www.womanmade.org.

Professor Gabrielle Keller's work from the bird migration series was included in the 2007 Danforth New England Photography Biennial.  The show was juried by Karen Haas, Curator of the Lane Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Arlette Kayafas, Director of the Kayafas Gallery, Boston.  Hass and Kayafas chose 78 works from 639 pieces submitted by 148 artists for this tightly curated show. Also, a photograph from her "bird series" was a winner  listed in the PIX DIgital Imaging Contest (http://www.pdngallery.com/contests/pixdigital/2007/) and was published  in the November, 2007 issue of PDN Magazine.

Keller's work from the revere series was given Honorable mention in the Prix de la Photographie, Paris International Photo Exhibition. More work can be viewed on her website www.gabriellekeller.com