Beverly Oracle Update: Visiting Artist Anna Schuleit Haber Speaks at Merrimack College

January 23, 2014

MacArthur Award winning artist Anna Schuleit Haber will be speaking at Merrimack College’s Writing House on Thursday, Jan. 30 at 4 pm. Anna will discuss her latest projects, including The Beverly Oracle, a large-scale public art project commissioned by the city of Beverly, MA. All are cordially invited.

Learn more about the event here!

The Writers House
Merrimack College
North Andover, MA 01845

To reach the Writers House, please enter the campus from Cullen Ave. — from Route 125. Please note that Cullen Ave. is a one-way street.

Anna is a visual artist whose work revolves around aspects of memory, place, and the human form. Her works have ranged from small-scale room installations made with paint, to large-scale projects using extensive sound systems, live sod, thousands of flowers, mirrors, antique telephones, bodies of water, and neuroscience technologies. She has led large teams of consultants, students, and volunteers, and has collaborated with artists, patients, doctors, state agency officials, scientists, historians, students, dancers, sociologists, musicians, and children. Anna studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, creative writing at Dartmouth College, and was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard. Among many other honors, she was named a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow for work that has “conceptual clarity, compassion, and beauty.” Anna has been a visiting artist and guest lecturer at Brown University, Smith College, RISD, The New School, Brandeis, Pratt, the University of Michigan, Syracuse, McGill University, Bowdoin College, and at MIT. Most recently she was commissioned a new, permanent public art work in Beverly, MA, as part of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Arts and Cultural District Public Art competition. She is currently a visiting artist at Montserrat College of Art. Her work has been widely reviewed and discussed in the press, including NPR, the Washington Post, The New York Times, Art in America, Art New England, The Massachusetts Review, and many overseas publications. She has been a guest on the Charlie Rose Show and been featured in several documentary films.

Artist Website: www.anna-schuleit.com


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