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SUMMARY:Sins Invalid: Disability Justice A-Z
DESCRIPTION:In the month of October\, the Academic Access Studio and Counseling Center facilitated a series of art-making events in preparation for the upcoming exhibit Sins Invalid: Disability Justice from A-Z. This exhibit is a collaboration between our Montserrat community and the artists featured in the book. Learn more about Sins Invalid here \nThe opening reception is on Monday\, 10/28 at 3:00 pm in the Paul M. Scott Library
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/sins-invalid-disability-justice-a-z/
LOCATION:Library Gallery\, 23 Essex Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Student Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Throughline: The Fiber Art of Mary Balzer Buskirk
DESCRIPTION:Mary Balzer Buskirk (1931-2009) combined a commitment to weaving as an art form with an intense investigation of techniques specific to the medium. Early patterns for rugs set the stage for wall hangings that demonstrate varying degrees of transparency\, along with tubular works that establish a sculptural presence. Buskirk began her engagement with textiles as a graduate student at Cranbrook in the mid-1950s. Following a move to California in 1960\, Buskirk’s initial attraction to the inherent abstraction of the grid of vertical and horizontal fiber opened onto more sinuous compositions inspired by natural forms. Textiles in the exhibition also showcase Buskirk’s interest in off-loom techniques\, along with her willingness\, as her career progressed\, to harken back to prior training in painting by mounting woven compositions on stretcher bars. \nUntitled (long hanging with circles)\, 1959\, 82” x 18”\, woolCourtesy of Martha Buskirk\nGallery talk with Prof. Martha Buskirk\, Ph.D. daughter of the artist\, Nov. 6 at 5pm followed by a reception at 6pm. The public is welcome at both events. \nFeatured Image:\nNew Beginning (detail)\, 1975\, 33” x 35”\, wool and mixed fibers\nCourtesy of Martha Buskirk
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/throughline-the-fiber-art-of-mary-balzer-buskirk/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talks,Exhibitions,Galleries Program
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SUMMARY:I’ll Be Your Mirror
DESCRIPTION:Presented in two parts\, this exhibition features recent works by five Montserrat alumni. Ranging from objective pieces to abstracted representations\, these works are reflections of the self and the world around us. \nI’ll Be Your Mirror offers a unique lens in portraying individual experiences and in challenging assumptions that prevent us from seeking truth. As you engage with the work\, you are encouraged to confront your own perspectives and embrace the narratives presented before you. \nThings look different based on where you’re looking from\, take a mirror to further explore the world we share. \nArtist Conversation\nwith Montserrat Alumni Annie Lee-Daly\, Shannon Herrick\, Cayla Montes\, Denali Musgrave\, and Zeynep Celik\nFriday\, December 6\, 11–12pm\, Hardie Room 101 \nPart I\nAnnie Lee-Daly\nShannon Herrick \nPart II\nCayla Montes\nDenali Musgrave\nZeynep Çelik
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/ill-be-your-mirror/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talks,Exhibitions,Galleries Program
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241011
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SUMMARY:Taytos & Garlic Sauce
DESCRIPTION:Taytos & Garlic Sauce\, a collection of student work from last summer’s travel study trip to Ireland. Come check it out and stop by the reception this Friday\, Sept 27 at 5pm! \n23 Essex St\, Beverly\, 2nd floor \nFind out more about next summer’s trip to Ireland\, open to all college students.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/taytos-garlic-sauce/
LOCATION:Hardie Building\, Essex Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Student Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Rosie Ranauro: OBSCURE//REPEAT
DESCRIPTION:Boston-based artist Rosie Ranauro’s work is a visual exploration of process\, defined not by fixed outcomes\, but by the dynamic interplay between creation and concealment. What remains hidden becomes a space for speculation\, imagination\, and personal interpretation. \nOBSCURE//REPEAT is a series of unstretched canvases painted on both sides\, with one side obscured from the viewer. Through its three-dimensional presence\, the canvases become evocative of the physical body\, one which moves between states of transition and rest. By concealing parts of the canvas\, Ranauro also withholds portions of the narrative from the viewer\, asking the question\, ‘what does it mean to be understood?’ \nRosie Ranauro lives and works in Boston\, MA\, and holds a BFA in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design ’11. She has shown locally and internationally and is currently an artist in residence at the Boston Center for the Arts. \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/rosie-ranauro/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Galleries Program
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241013
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SUMMARY:Cold\, Tenderly: Shoe Bones Presents Three Exhibits
DESCRIPTION:Cold\, Tenderly is a series of three exhibitions curated by Frankie Symonds\, artist and Founder/Director of Shoe Bones Gallery in Salem\, MA.  Through a range of artistic approaches and media\, including photography\, painting\, video\, and drawing\, each exhibition probes different psychological states of being—from love and vulnerability to guarded indifference and absurdity. Cold\, Tenderly seeks to ultimately explore the intimate as well as distant spaces created between ourselves and others. \nPansies and Sissies: Jamieson Edson and Campbell McLean\n\nJuly 17 – August 10\nExhibition Reception: Thursday\, July 25. 6–8PM\nPlease note that the Schlosberg Gallery will be closed on Saturday\, August 3 for a private event.\n \nPansies And Sissies\, a two-person exhibition featuring Boston-based artists\, Jamieson Edson and Campbell McLean\, is a tender and at times flirtatious exercise in queer friendship\, love\, and creative inspiration. Edson and McLean are close friends and frequently depict the people who frequent their lives as their primary subjects. They also regularly appear in each other’s work\, and their overlapping social lives mean that many of the same faces\, mediated through lenses\, brushes\, and other processes\, are mirrored in each of their works. Using oil paint\, various printing processes\, and a Polaroid camera respectively\, McLean and Edson create intimate\, affectionate moments that are dramatic\, even cinematic. By filtering the modesty of daily life through their creative methods\, Edson and McLean highlight the passion\, beauty\, and heightened sense of reality found in closeness\, care\, and interdependence.\n \nJamieson Edson is a visual artist based in Boston. They received their BFA from the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2015. Working predominantly with Polaroid\, Jamieson crafts evocative portraits of dear friends\, lovers and captivating acquaintances. \nJamieson EdsonCampbell and Virgil at the CCVA\, 2024Polaroid 600 print4.25 x 3.25 in.Courtesy of the artist.\nCampbell McLean was born\, raised\, and educated in Boston\, graduating from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2022. Since graduating\, Campbell has delved in Boston’s queer nightlife\, both as attendee and employee. From domestic bliss to sweaty leather-bars\, her paintings document and canonize the local queer experience through dynamic and environmental portraits. \nCampbell McLeanSunrise over Tuesday\, 2023Oil on canvas24 x 26 in.Courtesy of the artist.\nRyan Hawk: Sweet Surrender\n\nAugust 19 – September 7 \nGallery talk with curator Frankie Symonds\, Shoe Bones Gallery\, Salem: Wednesday\, September 4\, 3 pm\, Schlosberg Gallery \nSweet Surrender is an ongoing installation featuring moving images and sculpture that interrogates representations of masculinity\, often through narratives of tragedy and humor. Hawk incorporates prosthetic objects\, using it both metaphorically and literally to explore corporeal experience while also bringing to light the inherent awkwardness associated with penetrating social boundaries. The installation centers on a video of a lone man on stage that transforms into a karaoke set to the pop-rock song “Sweet Surrender” by Sarah McLachlan\, which subsequently turns awkward. Despite the proverbial support of a third leg\, the man struggles to perform.  Sweet Surrender is a continuation of Hawk’s artistic research into alternative forms of masculine embodiment within the dominant social and cultural imagination. \nRyan Hawk is a visual artist and scholar using film\, sculpture\, and critical theory to engage and often exploit the Western imaginary. Hawk holds a BFA in studio art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and an MFA in studio art from the University of Texas at Austin. \nRyan HawkSweet Surrender\, 2018Video StillCourtesy of the artist.\nCreighton Baxter: hiss the name\n\nSeptember 16 – October 12\n \nA durational performance for hiss the name: Tuesday\, September 17\, 11-4 pm\, Schlosberg Gallery\nArtist Reception: Tuesday\, September 17\, 5:30-7:30 pm\nAs an iterative installation resulting from drawing\, assemblage\, and performance – hiss the name – is the true story of a fictionalized character seeking retribution and salvation in a world of vampiric avatars\, vengeful sirens\, and trans women running backward through time. Hinging a trilogy of durational performances with hundreds of drawings is the emergence of a phantasmatic villainess who haunts the series. Her presence is a proposal\, an alternative to neoliberal representations of trans womanhood which sanitize or hystericize. The Montserrat Galleries will present the final iteration of hiss the name\, including the last performance in the trilogy. In these narrative cinders of a fictional testimony\, reflections on surveillance\, and the sensorium emerge. \nThe interstices between Creighton Baxter’s modes of making embrace the challenges of remembrance\, recording\, and witnessing. By upending a singular aesthetic vantage\, she lays bare a fractured world. This shattered and (in)coherent frequency turns her artworks into glimpses of a larger absent whole. A totality which never arrives\, instead proof of life raises her hand. Baxter received her BFA at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and her MFA in Painting/Printmaking at Yale University. \nCreighton BaxterHiss the name (installation detail)\, 2024Mixed media on paperDimensions variableCourtesy of the artist.\nShoe Bones is an artist-run gallery in Salem\, MA that specializes in exhibiting queer\, self-taught\, and marginalized artists’ work. For more information\, visit https://shoebonesboston.info  or @shoe.bones. \nFrankie Symonds is an artist and independent curator who’s lived in or around Boston her whole life. For the last 15 years\, she’s made short and feature-length films and videos\, produced and directed a 20-episode cable access show\, performed live using various instruments such as a theremin and her rectum\, programmed film screenings\, and curated pop-up exhibits. Her work has been screened and exhibited across the United States and in Europe. She opened Shoe Bones in early 2023 and has been curating exhibits there since. 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/cold-tenderly-shoe-bones-exhibits/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Galleries Program
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SUMMARY:Plush
DESCRIPTION:Reception and Curator Walkthrough: Wednesday\, September 11\, 5-6:30\nTufting Demonstration and Workshop with Textile Artist\, Haley Wood: Friday\, September 13\, 3-5 pm. H101\nOpen to the public. \nPlush is a group exhibition that explores references to and uses of stuffed toys in a range of artistic practices that extend beyond contexts of childhood. Through a variety of media\, including sculpture\, assemblage\, mixed media\, and photography\, the participating artists transform reclaimed and fabricated objects to convey a range of human emotions. Turning away from the idea of the stuffed toy as merely a ‘toy’\, these plush objects become charged metaphors exploring love and attachment\, becoming surrogates\, comfort items\, and tangible manifestations of joy or sorrow. The exhibition aims to consider how we form attachments to these objects and what their softness evokes within us. \nCurated by Crow Stevenson\, Montserrat Galleries Curatorial Assistant\, with Lynne Cooney\, Director of Exhibitions and Galleries\, the included artists expand common conceptions and representations of stuffed objects.   \nJeffrey NowlinMonster (detail)\, 2019Fabric\, yarn\, thread\, polyfill\, stuffed animals\, vacuum hose114 in. 36 in. x 18 in.\nBrittany GorelickLeft Behind I\, 2024Monoprint21 in. x 30 in.\nJulie PeppitoAll-In-One\, 2023Reclaimed objects\, paper mâché\, fabric\, thread\, beads\, clay\, resin\, gouache\, wood\, fabric paint19 in x 7 in x 10 in\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAndrew Cain\, who lives in Upstate New York\, explores in his mixed media work ideas of ephemerality\, memory\, and nostalgia. I Love Your Guts is an interactive installation featuring life-size plush objects that are meant to be caressed\, squeezed\, and nuzzled. Conceived during the COVID-19 Pandemic\, I Love Your Guts served as a proxy for physical contact when social distancing was the norm. Cain’s iteration for Montserrat Galleries reminds us of the importance of touch as integral to human connection and togetherness. \nBrittany Gorelick is an artist and printmaker currently based in Kansas. Through traditional printmaking\, alternative papermaking and photographic processes\, Gorelick uses abstraction to explore the unseen symptoms of mental health. In two unique prints included in Plush\, Gorelick used an unstuffed teddy bear as a printmaking substrate. Run through the press\, the teddy bear form appears like a medical x-ray\, evoking a human dimension. \nAodhan Gyory\, currently based in Upstate New York\, works across multiple formats including soft sculpture\, textiles\, and illustration. Gyory’s soft sculpture included in the exhibition is a plush car seat that is part figure and wearable object. Made after experiencing a car accident. Gyory’s car seat recalls the harrowing moment in which Gyory was suspended from a sideways turned car only by a seatbelt. \nStephanie Metz is a California-based artist who works primarily in wool and industrial felt\, humble materials that embody contradictions in both the physical and conceptual realms. Metz transforms tangible materials into satisfying forms\, which occasionally resonate with kindred spirits. In her Teddy Bear Unnatural History series\, represented by two works in the exhibition\, Metz alludes to the methods and taxonomies of the natural sciences to examine the iconic teddy bear as an allegory for the way humans manipulate the natural world to our own ends. \nRegional artist\, Jeffrey Nowlin\, imagines the complexities of human experience through weaving and embroidery. His large-scale sculpture\, Monster\, is a collection of childhood plush toys\, bound together with coiled weaving. Monster is a metaphor for the psychological responses engendered by childhood memories.  \nJulie Peppito is a New York based artist and activist who interrogates the political and environmental impacts of our consumer-based culture. An activist and artist\, Peppito uses her artmaking to draw connections between our dependence upon cheaply made and disposable goods\, including reclaimed stuffed toys\, and their destructive effects on the planet and on human health. \nMegan Whitmarsh\, who lives in Los Angeles\, works in a variety of low-tech media including drawing\, comics\, stop-action animation\, hand-embroidery and soft sculpture inspired by growing up in the 1970’s and 80’s. Whitmarsh’s soft sculpture re-fabrications of functional objects reflect our collective material history and explore relationships between cultural and personal narratives.  \nHaley Wood is a fiber artist living in Arlington\, Massachusetts. Wood is inspired by medieval marginalia\, folk horror\, antiquities and oddities\, and living creatures that embody personality. From wall-hangings to tufted pillows created as multiples. Wood depicts a range of creatures that draw on children’s stories and folk traditions. 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/plush/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Galleries Program
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241104
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SUMMARY:Drafts\, Drawings\, and Doodles: Works on Paper by Montserrat College of Art Staff
DESCRIPTION:Drawing is an integral part of diverse arts practices\, whether as a preliminary sketch or finished illustration. Drawings\, Drafts\, and Doodles highlights a range of media and artistic approaches by Montserrat College of Art staff\, underscoring the importance of drawing and the wildly different drawing styles of members of Montserrat’s creative community. \nPictured:\nStacy Thomas-Vickory\nUntitled\nGraphite\n2024
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/the-drawing-room/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Galleries Program
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240515
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240518
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SUMMARY:2024 All Senior Show
DESCRIPTION:Featuring work by graduating 2024 Seniors across all concentrations including animation\, graphic design\, studio arts\, illustration\, interdisciplinary\, and art education.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/2024-all-senior-show/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Student Exhibition
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240518
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SUMMARY:Never Stop Growing
DESCRIPTION:Art Education Practicum Art Show by Meghan Ayer \nShowcasing artwork from the Albert N. Parlin School grades K–8 \nOpening Reception on May 14\, 5 – 7pm. \n1A Knowlton Street\, Beverly \n  \nArtists are like nature; they never stop growing. They are continually inspired\, motivated\, challenged\, and mentored inside and outside the studio! This show is a collection of finished and in-progress work reflecting the student artists’ personal evolution alongside my growth as an art educator.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/never-stop-growing/
LOCATION:Bare Gallery\, 275 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Student Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240510T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240510T190000
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SUMMARY:Media & Animation Showcase (MASh)
DESCRIPTION:Free admission and open to the public! \nhttps://www.montserrat.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/MASh_Trailer_WIP3.mp4
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/media-animation-showcase-mash/
LOCATION:The Cabot\, 286 Cabot St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Student Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240508
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240512
DTSTAMP:20260430T051229
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SUMMARY:2024 Senior Thesis: Senior Studio Arts Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wednesday\, May 8\, 5-7 pm\nOpen to the public \n  \nNot For You features the work of Amanda Antunes\, Crow Stevenson\, Jael Nieves\, Jessica Matos\, Josue Bessiake\, Kaylyn Sverker\, and Ziggy Smith. The show explores themes of love\, grief\, vulnerability\, intimacy\, memory\, transformation\, and the weight of history. This is how we navigate human existence. This exhibition is a history only we can own — it’s not for you.  \n \nThe Itch I Can’t Scratch by Amy O’Rourke is a collection of paintings and rag rugs. Each work heals and/or tells the story of what it’s like experiencing living with daily pain. Amy explores the trials of having an ovarian cyst\, along with the removal of her right ovary and fallopian tube. She made the paintings while she still had the ovarian cyst\, and the rugs after it was removed in June of 2023. The work is symbolic of the journey she’s taken and the strength it takes to confront the weight of illness.  \n \nKote’M Sòti (Where I Come From) by Marc Elie Mordan is a vibrant explosion of color and culture. Marc uses oil to explain where he comes from\, Haiti. With the joy of color\, he creates bold bright\, daring pieces that draw from his roots. This show is about human identity and self-discovery. (Bare Gallery 1A Knowlton St.) \n \nDUPLICITY by Brandon Acosta: In their uneventful town\, six colleagues discover that bloodthirsty doppelgängers have replaced everyone they know. They all band together to fight against this otherworldly force\, but can they tell each other apart? DUPLICITY is a three-episode-long animated horror comedy show that takes place in Beverly\, Massachusetts during the present day. The show comments on the dangers of the Chameleon Effect and fake personalities in society\, along with the importance of truth\, comradery\, family\, and love. It throws the protagonists into a world where their true personalities and behaviors are revealed in an attempt to prove that they are human. However\, they all struggle to distinguish the doppelgängers from their colleagues because they do not truly know each other. In their desperate attempts to survive\, they must do anything to prove their humanity and to differentiate who’s who. \n \nSaving Strays by Abbey King explores personal experiences working with the shelter that inspired the work. It focuses on making others aware of the struggles that stray cats face\, and the work that animal rescue organizations put into finding them their forever homes.  \n \nWelcome to STARWORLD\, Exhume the Last MC by Taliyah Shepard is an Afrofuturistic exploration of current events and looks to the abstract future of Black Americans. It’s a thorough examination of how we illuminate the reality of “every n**** is a star” that has the potential to make a positive difference in the world. ST✦RWORLD  serves as a platform for exposing the vibrant tapestry of our culture since it’s fundamentally an unashamed celebration of Black joy. \n \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/2024-senior-thesis-show-senior-studio-arts-seminar/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Student Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T170000
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SUMMARY:Ebbing Flow
DESCRIPTION:A storefront installation by Montserrat College of Art Students. \nOn view at the Peabody Essex Museum\n181 Essex Street\, Salem\, MA \nMay 5 through Fall 2024 \nOpening reception on May 5 from 5–7pm. \nCreated by: \nKirsten Andersen\, Jude Arnott\, Jay Granniss\, Shane Halleran\, and Relena LaBoy \nShow statement: Throughout Salem’s history\, its reliance on the nearby ocean led to the initial artistic interest in creating an environment inseparable from its history and natural influences. This diptych is focused on domestic life\, faux sterility and aged but comforting living quarters after its immersion with the sea. With the ever-increasing landscape of natural disasters such as hurricanes\, typhoons\, tsunamis\, and floods\, the question of home as separate from shelter and the level of removal from the natural world in modern design remains somewhat ironic. Salem is an iconic area in the history of seaside New England and recent housing practices have led to a clear discrepancy of where the inside ends and the outside begins.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/ebbing-flow/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Student Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240501
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240505
DTSTAMP:20260430T051229
CREATED:20240306T151535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240409T152714Z
UID:20157-1714521600-1714867199@www.montserrat.edu
SUMMARY:2024 Senior Thesis: Senior Studio Arts Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wednesday\, May 1\, 5-7 pm\nOpen to the public \nHuman Constructs\nMontserrat Gallery \nThis show serves as a collection of intimate evidence categorizing experiences of identity. The artists investigate the figure through visual representation and/or the body’s spatial and internal relation to the work. Human Constructs surveys painting and drawing\, sculpture\, installation\, and sound to bring together an archive unique to each artist. \nFeaturing: \n\nJ. Adam Bee\nAngelina DeDominicis\nMary Hall\nDelilah Jaros\nPyre Klein\nRelena LaBoy\nElias Rackliffe\nAndrew Steinberg\n\n  \nWhat Once Was \nThis two-person show explores memory through painting and mixed-media installation. Within this work\, there is an attempt to reach out and revive the moments and experiences the artists yearn for from a dormant state in their subconscious. \nCarol Schlosberg Gallery \nFeaturing: \n\nGillian Avelar\nNicole Andrade\n\n  \nYard Sale \nThis solo show examines the intersection of childhood toys\, perception\, and the journey of growing up. \nBare Gallery\, 1A Knowlton St \nFeaturing Elijah Fernandes \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/2024-senior-thesis-senior-studio-arts-seminar/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Student Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240425
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240508
DTSTAMP:20260430T051229
CREATED:20240501T205810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240501T205810Z
UID:21377-1714003200-1715126399@www.montserrat.edu
SUMMARY:Patchwork Pedagogy
DESCRIPTION:An Art Education Exhibition \nHardie Building\, Second floor \nOpening Reception May 2\, 5–7pm
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/patchwork-pedagogy/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Student Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240424
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240428
DTSTAMP:20260430T051229
CREATED:20240306T150912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240328T194534Z
UID:20155-1713916800-1714262399@www.montserrat.edu
SUMMARY:2024 Senior Thesis: Animation + Interactive Media
DESCRIPTION:Feast Your Eyes!\nReception: Wednesday\, April 24\, 5-7pm\n23 Essex Street\, Beverly\, MA 01915\nOpen to the public \nWorks featured in:\nMontserrat Gallery\nSchlosberg Gallery\nBare Gallery \nFeaturing\nAnimation\n\nMountain Lily\, Brooke Bates\nWhen the World is Safe\, Catherine Cardenas\nFollowed\, Cassandra Elizabeth\nCOME BACK TO WHAT YOU KNOW\, James Marquez\nFerret Bound\, Nina Nichols\nLiquid Stars\, Adrianna Palleschi\nLost Connection\, Alexzander Powers\nPaleo Resurrection\, Emma Russell\n\nGames\n\nCatch and Release\, Ruby Cenci\nResting Place\, Owen Serre\nDustCutter\, Sariel Yim\n\nBooks\n\nThe Tale of Kamaria\, Charlotte Fecteau\nCryptics!\, Rita Green\nFragmented\, Alexianna Richard\nIsthera\, Makayla Tompkins
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/2024-senior-thesis-animation/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Student Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240423
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240504
DTSTAMP:20260430T051229
CREATED:20240423T211334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240423T211334Z
UID:21195-1713830400-1714780799@www.montserrat.edu
SUMMARY:Re-Collections
DESCRIPTION:April 23 – May 3\, 2024\nPaul Scott Library Gallery\nCurated by Josue Bessiake \nOpening Reception on April 24 at 3pm \n  \nThe works presented in Re-Collections have been selected from the Montserrat College of Art Teaching Archive\, an archival body affiliated with the college that spans from the distant to the recent past. The Teaching Collection consists of diverse media acquired throughout Montserrat’s history–from paintings by former faculty and alumni to vintage adverts from the early days of Montserrat. The works selected here include such disparate works as an incomplete suite of Matisse lithographs\, acquired from an unrecorded source\, student prints by current faculty members Len Thomas-Vickory and Stacy Thomas-Vickory\, to a printed poem by James Merrill. \nThe selected works from the archive illustrate how the meaning and significance of an artwork can change or evolve over time. Because of the ephemeral nature of the archive\, the intent of specific objects that have entered the collection is not always clear or perhaps even lost. Therefore\, the works shown here explore the spontaneous nature of the archive. In other words\, the exhibition shows the randomness and range of artifacts in the collection. Such as the “Poem for Vassili and Mimi” by James Merril\, a story that reminisces on a fond memory of having fun on a summer night. An incomplete suite of lithographs by Henri Matisse\, entitled Rondeau\, is a poem recalling a dream of a woman whose beauty is so great it warrants praise. Despite coming from vastly different origins the works come together to appear cohesive. \nRe-Collections is a record of history and memory.  The works represented are part of the chronicle of Montserrat College of Art consisting of former students\, faculty\, and staff as well as artists who have contributed their time and art to the college. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/re-collections/
LOCATION:Library Gallery\, 23 Essex Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Galleries Program
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240421
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240427
DTSTAMP:20260430T051229
CREATED:20240409T141724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240409T142131Z
UID:20976-1713657600-1714175999@www.montserrat.edu
SUMMARY:Upswingin'
DESCRIPTION:A Collage Exhibition \nFeaturing Spencer Kall and Alex Pint. \nOpening Reception on Wednesday\, April 24 \n11am–12pm \n1A Knowlton Street\, Beverly \nOpen to the public
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/upswingin/
LOCATION:Bare Gallery\, 275 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Student Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240413
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240419
DTSTAMP:20260430T051229
CREATED:20240228T205049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240307T184518Z
UID:20022-1712966400-1713484799@www.montserrat.edu
SUMMARY:Student Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Open House: Saturday\, April 13\, 2 – 4 pm\nEach spring\, Montserrat celebrates the work of our students during what is known as Student Showcase. \n\n\n\nThe mission of Student Showcase is to recognize and honor the accomplishments of student artists and scholars. We want to make the Showcase an opportunity to share those accomplishments—and Montserrat’s creative spirit—with our community at large. This annual weekend event includes the enjoyment of visual and literary art forms and social activities involving the entire college\, the public\, alumni\, parents\, friends and future students of Montserrat College of Art.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/student-showcase/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Student Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240407
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240415
DTSTAMP:20260430T051229
CREATED:20240409T143652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240409T143747Z
UID:20979-1712448000-1713139199@www.montserrat.edu
SUMMARY:National Library Week exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Students in Bernadette Carr’s Using Images class created a poster series celebrating National Library Week (4/7 – 4/13). \nPosters created by Deon Agyeman\, Jorielle Arlock\, Mikayla Bogus\, Lilly Caporuscio\, Erin Cox\, Whitney Farnsworth\, Kamille Ryan\, Marina Stagliola and Sam Wilkinson.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/national-library-week-exhibit-2/
LOCATION:Library Gallery\, 23 Essex Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Student Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240403
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240407
DTSTAMP:20260430T051229
CREATED:20240306T145619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240328T195306Z
UID:20146-1712102400-1712447999@www.montserrat.edu
SUMMARY:2024 Senior Thesis: Graphic Design
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wednesday\, April 4\, 5-7 pm\nMontserrat Gallery \n  \nGallery statements:\nAesthetic Syntax Alex Pint \nAesthetic Syntax is about the concept that design is art\, and this show comprises two aspects: an insult and a vehicle. The insult is that design is lower than art\, but poster design is the vehicle to disassemble that narrative. \nEmotion Capsules Brianna Brand \n“Emotion capsules” can be feelings in the present moment\, memories from the past\, or fears of the future. They are in the form of posters with attached poetry of experiences. \nGolden Standards Cas DaBreo \n“Golden Standards” is an album and design identity based on an amalgamation of songs written in order to unleash a monster caged for 21 lifetimes. These tracks demonstrate insecurity\, expectations\, and seemingly never-ending journeys. \nImperfect Little Guys Misha Huntington \nAll my life I’ve struggled with fine motor skills. It has been a barrier that has put me behind my peers and requires accommodations. Despite this\, I have always had a passion for working with my hands. With sewing\, I discovered that what I make is always a little funky and unique\, and that uniqueness makes them endearing. Sometimes what makes us imperfect can bring us joy. \nIt’s Okay to Not Be Okay Grace Perry \n“It’s Okay to Not Be Okay” is a children’s poetry book made on the same principle as the title. It’s 46 lines telling the reader in multiple different ways\, that it’s okay\, they are okay\, and everything will be okay.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/2024-senior-thesis-graphic-design/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Student Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240401
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240407
DTSTAMP:20260430T051229
CREATED:20240320T205243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240320T205243Z
UID:20553-1711929600-1712447999@www.montserrat.edu
SUMMARY:Taliyah “Starr” Shepard: No Cops\, No Creeps\, No Phobes
DESCRIPTION:In every state\, in every town\, there’s a culture that is under your nose and your feet. It has a strange aura and it draws you in. The basement culture scene is an ancient practice that holds as much weight as religion. Every week we gather and partake in the wine and other things. We listen to music and lose ourselves in a moment that brings us together. The prophets speak to the feelings of the youth. They usher us into a collective consciousness that is somehow still individual. How do so many youth find peace here amidst the swinging arms of a mosh pit? The darkest corners of the basement? I’ve never felt so alive as water drips from the mysterious source in the ceiling onto my face. I’ve danced with future lawyers\, doctors\, and musicians. I’ve heard them preach about advancement for all minorities and cultures. They speak with more love and knowledge than our senators and presidents. If you fall to the ground many hands are quick to uplift you. We take acceptance seriously that’s why there are: No Cops\, No Creeps\, and No Phobes allowed. \nThis show sheds light on the beauty of basement show culture. Going to college you find “your people\,” now put those people in someone’s basement on or off campus. This is my experience with the culture. I started attending these spaces in 2021 and have since been to 20+ shows in Massachusetts\, New Jersey\, and New York. The culture spans many decades and that’s the recorded ones. One of the things I found the most endearing was the statement “No Cops\, No Creeps\, No Phobes.” This is a statement that means the safety of those at the show. Even with those regulations\, some things slip through the cracks. I’ve been to shows where they called the cops or someone’s actions were questioned. The response in these situations is something I’ve always admired as it comes from a place of love and support. The creeps aren’t tolerated\, the (homo)phobes are non-existent\, and we all escape the watchful eyes of the cops. \nI’ve always had a problem with fitting in; here you don’t have you. \nYou do need $5 though.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/taliyah-starr-shepard-no-cops-no-creeps-no-phobes/
LOCATION:Library Gallery\, 23 Essex Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Student Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240327
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240331
DTSTAMP:20260430T051229
CREATED:20240306T145343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240318T164025Z
UID:20144-1711497600-1711843199@www.montserrat.edu
SUMMARY:2024 Senior Thesis: Illustration
DESCRIPTION:Trip Across the Universe\nIt has long been said that when you sneeze\, someone is thinking of you. And that when thunder shakes the sky\, the gods bowl. Through stories\, what is unknown is given form. Humans have told stories for as long as they have been perplexed by the world around them. These stories are a fundamental part of the human condition\, and not only allow us to make sense of what we don’t understand but to form complex emotional connections.  \nThe stories that we have chosen to share explore facets of our own experiences as we attempt to not only be understood but to make sense of what we have yet to master. Beneath the layers of fantasy and social commentary housed within our stories is an attempt to tell you what we know\, so that you can apply it to your own experience. It is to form a connection between you and me. \nReception: Wednesday\, March 27\, 5-7 pm\n23 Essex Street\, Beverly\, MA\nOpen to the Public \nFeaturing: \n\nKelly Aquilar\nHiro Alvarez\nSam Bissitt\nAllison Codner\nKira Cohen\nAsh Cruz\nLucas Francisco\nSarh Ginocchio\nNyk Griffith\nScott Hayden\nJunkai Kai\nBen Kingston\nAidan Kitt\nMeaghan Lamontagne\nTobey Marroquin\nMarisa Perez\nNatalie Plourde\nDominic Sepulveda\nAnita Sousa\nGisselle Torres\nKelaya Valliere\n\n  \nBIOS \nKelaya Valliere \nKelaya Valliere is a pet illustrator from southern Maine. For her thesis\, Kelaya painted stylized animal portraits focusing on adopting pets from rescues. To do so Kelaya reached out to several organizations and painted many kinds of animals from each. By choosing to paint on unorthodox wooden rounds she hopes that people choose to keep an open mind while considering a new furry or feathery companion to a household. \nMarisa Perez \nMarisa “Mari” Leyla Francisca Perez\, is a Mexican-American non-binary\, queer illustrator. Their work mainly focuses on creating mythical and otherworldly concept art with engaging character designs that strive to capture the beauty of the Fantasy and Sci-fi genre. Mari’s thesis project\, “The Luminaries\,” is a series of visual development illustrations based on the characters and world of a current DND campaign. Mari’s goal was to create a visual representation of how they see the world and characters while allowing the illustrations to tell their story without it being written. \nNyk Griffith \nNyk Griffith is a tattoo artist\, primarily inspired by horror and metal music\, with other inspirations sprinkled within his art. To begin learning how to tattoo\, Nyk used his thesis project to design tattoos that stem from aspects of his interests and past life experiences and tattoo them onto synthetic/practice skin. These tattoos all vary in terms of what part of the human body they are designed for and\, alongside help from his internship at Salem Ink Tattoo and Art Gallery\, kickstart Nyk’s journey down the road to becoming a professional tattoo artist. \nBenjamin Kingston \nBenjamin Kingston is an illustrator and concept artist from Billerica\, Massachusetts. His process includes a blend of both traditional and digital mediums utilized together. Benjamin’s thesis project is creating various props under two distinct themes. Themes are fantasy dwarves life and grandmas of the post-apocalyptic world. His goal with these two themes is to create wild\, outlandish designs and have fun with them while still having their structure grounded in reality. \nAidan Kitt \nAidan Kitt is a Beverly-based illustrator specializing in the digital medium who uses bold colors and sharp linework to create new worlds and unique\, character-based storytelling. His comic\, Caspin\, is a retro-futuristic science fiction space opera following the titular character as he is hunted and chased throughout the galaxy. \nAnita Sousa \nAnita Sousa is a New England-based illustrator and creative writer. Her work focuses on the fantastical and whimsical\, specializing in character and creature-based illustrations. Passionate about world-building and storytelling\, Tracks of the Taraxippus is a Tabletop Roleplaying Game module following two adventurers\, Callahan and Talieson\, as they search for the titular Taraxippus. Along the way\, they discover a plethora of enchanted artifacts and curious creatures.  \nJunkai Kai \nI’m a trans\, queer\, first-generation Cambodian-American digital illustrator and concept artist from Lowell\, Massachusetts. Human emotions are difficult to understand. There are some in this world much more in touch with their own emotions\, and some much more understanding of others. However\, in my case\, it was neither. As a result\, the intent that goes into different aspects of a character or scene fascinates me and has helped me to understand others around me. People are a product of nurture and nature\, and this affects how they present themselves to others… In a similar way\, deep sea creatures tend to have a bad reputation simply because they look a certain way\, but they have evolved as a result of their circumstances. So\, based on deep sea creatures and my own observations as a first-generation Cambodian American\, I created character designs for a pixel-simulation game called Tartha.  \nHiro Alvarez \nHiro Alvarez is a Puerto Rican\, queer\, non-binary illustrator focusing mostly on fantasy horror-based world-building and concept design. Their pieces are created digitally\, using a mixture of bold lines and watercolor-inspired texture. Their thesis project\, “The Decay of Eurocin”\, combines these elements\, creating a uniquely whimsical yet horrifying narrative with a fresh take on the classic theme of infection and cosmic horror.  \nKira Cohen \nKira Cohen is an illustrator who specializes in blending traditional and digital work in her art\, with a focus on fantasy and horror. Kira’s thesis project had her creating dust jackets for various books\, focusing on bringing out the unique ideas from each book. \nScott Hayden \nScott Hayden is a New England-based illustrator and writer who utilizes narrative to make sense of a world that can otherwise be enormous and terrifying. Scott believes that stories are not only how humans have communicated with one another for centuries\, but how we have come to share our individual experiences and empathize with those around us. Their comic\, MECHANICA: Displaced\, exercises this philosophy by interpreting the universal experience of change in an attempt to better understand it. \nAllison Codner \nAllison Codner is a New England-based illustrator who uses acrylic paint\, graphite\, and watercolor to create moments of fantastical narrative. Magic dwells within the sea\, sky\, and world beyond reality\, and is where she draws her inspiration from and where her illustrations play within. Where the organic world meets its more whimsical counterpart is where her work truly shines\, with saturation and luminous qualities. Her collection of work “Celestial Commentary”\, communicates and highlights the lesser-known constellations as they were storytellers and storybooks to those long before us.  \nTobey Marroquin \nTobey is an internet-dwelling comic artist in love with the concept of space\, spaceships\, weird planets\, corporations\, bureaucracies\, black suit-and-tie-clad secret agents\, and the horror of having a body. He is currently making an example of himself\, hoping to embody the dangers of allowing yourself to be led by the madness of the narrative. \nHe isn’t here right now\, so please don’t confuse him with Norman. \nSam Bissitt \nSam Bissitt is an illustrator and fine artist based in New England. He takes inspiration from the natural world around him and creates visually appealing illustrations with pleasing environments and unique animal-based characters. Sam’s thesis project is a picture book about a frog and a turtle\, promoting the idea that different kinds of animals can coexist together and be friends.  \n\nDominic Sepulveda \nDominic Sepulveda is a New England-based concept artist with a passion for fantasy who works digitally\, designing wondrous characters and creatures chock-full of personality and charm\, and intricately crafting the worlds they inhabit. Dominic’s project explores the process it takes to create a fantasy world that feels unique\, considered\, lived-in\, and engaging. Showing off every stage of development from ideation to completion\, Dominic’s work will introduce you to a cast of characters that inhabit a world that fuses ancient and futuristic. \nLucas Francisco \nLucas Francisco is an illustrator and comic artist from South Coast Massachusetts. Inspired by superheroes and manga\, Lucas seeks to create Sci-Fi Fantasy stories filled with lovable characters and breathtaking action. His thesis work gives you a small glimpse into just one of his worlds. Don’t worry though\, he has plenty more on the way! \nGisselle Torres \nGisselle Torres is a Non-Binary Mexican-American Illustrator\, focusing on realism and semi-realism portraits. Their thesis is based on their culture and the topic surrounding immigration and its effects on their family. Each piece represents their interpretation of some of the most important and influential people in their life\, their grandparents. Gisselle wishes to tell the story of their family and background to potentially connect with others like themselves and become a voice for many and speak for their people.  \nKelly Aguilar \nKelly Aguilar is a first-generation Mexican American artist whose artistic journey is a celebration of color\, texture\, and cultural fusion. Her thesis project\, “Papel Cultural”\, is a statement of her passion for representation and connectivity through her love of stationery items. Each piece within this collection is imbued with the essence of her heritage and aims to inspire others to embrace their roots\, finding beauty in the simplicity of everyday life. \nAsh Cruz \nAsh Cruz is a Black and Puerto Rican illustrator. The work they create emphasizes imaginative concept design\, blending natural elements of the real world with aspects that exist purely in fantasy. Their thesis project centers around the fear of the unknown\, creating atmospheric concept environments and more than what meets the eye. The aim of these works is to create environments with character and ambiguity that others can immerse themselves in. Each person is a storyteller\, whether they are aware of it or not. This project is meant to drive others to begin making their own narratives and become a part of the creative process. \nMeaghan Lamontagne \nMeaghan Lamontagne is an illustrator and comic artist who delves into the absurd with a unique style of dark\, referential humor inspiring many of her creations.  She works to inject her art with a delicate elegance while still embracing its Kafkaesque qualities.  For her senior thesis project\, she created the 26-page comic\, Our Faire End\, an urban fantasy comic about a human girl living in a crime-riddled city who gets roped into joining two mercenaries on a dangerous mission. \nNatalie Plourde  \nNatalie Plourde is an American artist and illustrator from central Massachusetts. She utilizes soft colors along with subtle lines and edges in order to convey delicateness and sentimentality. Her work tends to focus on femininity and invokes a sense of nostalgia for a simpler but ultimately imaginary time. She creates an idealized world that is inhabited by doll-like women— it’s as if you could reach through the page\, pull them out\, and hold them in your hands. \nSarah Ginocchio \nSarah Ginocchio is an Illustrator and comic artist based in Massachusetts. She captivates storytelling through traditional graphic novels\, but also through a visual array of color\, expression\, and surrealism. Her thesis project “Burnout” is the visual story of her experiences\, and her thoughts during the Covid 19 pandemic\, and how it impacted her as an Art student at the time. Burnout narrates the looming melancholy\, nostalgia\, and the effect on mental health throughout a series of pages and illustrations. \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/2024-senior-thesis-illustration/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Student Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240318
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240331
DTSTAMP:20260430T051229
CREATED:20240315T142322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240315T142322Z
UID:20470-1710720000-1711843199@www.montserrat.edu
SUMMARY:Visibility
DESCRIPTION:Visibility Exhibition Opening – Bare Gallery \nTuesday\, March 19\, 11:00am – 12:00pm \nJoin us in celebration of Disability Awareness Month
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/visibility/
LOCATION:Bare Gallery\, 275 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Student Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240314
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240317
DTSTAMP:20260430T051229
CREATED:20240117T205208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240228T170151Z
UID:17864-1710374400-1710633599@www.montserrat.edu
SUMMARY:2024 Congressional High School Art Competition and Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:The 6th District Congressional Art Show\, sponsored by Congressman Seth Moulton and hosted at Montserrat College of Art\, will be held this year March 14-16 in Montserrat’s main gallery at 23 Essex St.\, Beverly.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/exhibitions-events/congressional-art-show/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Student Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240228
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240601
DTSTAMP:20260430T051229
CREATED:20240228T211252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240417T205029Z
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SUMMARY:In•Animate Objects
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception\nFriday\, April 19\, 4-6 pm\nFounders Gallery\n\nCJ Karch\, Liz Nofziger\, Ruth Bauer\, and Blyth Hazen each make objects and then they move them; or move lenses around them; or something else moves and then they move; or a switch is triggered; or… \nSometimes this all happens very very slowly and tediously a frame at a time\, sometimes a little faster at the edge of chaos and emergence. \nBut in all cases what was once just a still object becomes something else entirely… it is not really that the artists breathe life into the objects but more they give us a way to see or imagine the life within. \nBlyth Hazen’s creative and teaching practice often involves making things that move. Sometimes they appear to do this on their own – on a screen. While other times they need more human engagement to be activated – like a puppet\, robot or an automata. Blyth first came to Montserrat College of Art in the late 1990’s to help integrate digital tools into the curriculum. Blyth is currently the Coordinator of the Games Toys Play Program where she is inspired every day by the characters and the worlds her students create. \nIn 2019 Blyth and her collaborator the artist Ruth Bauer completed the stopmotion animation\, The War Dept. available on Vimeo. \nBlyth and Ruth are now working together on a multi-year stop-motion project with the working title Big Sky. This animated short is a coming-of-age story about a young artist living in Texas in the 1960s. Both Ruth and Blyth grew up in Texas\, and both left as young adults. But Texas never left them. The characters and the stories in Big Sky are amalgamation of their own childhood experiences dealing with religion\, race\, beauty\, the landscape and horned toads. \nVarious forms of narrative have always been part of Ruth Bauer’s art practice\, which is multidisciplinary in that she paints\, makes collages\, writes\, has co-created two theater pieces\, and is now working on a second stop motion animation project with her collaborator\, Blyth Hazen. Their first stop motion animation is a short video of The War Dept. and is available on Vimeo. Blyth and Ruth are currently working on a new stop motion project titled Big Sky. Big Sky is fictionalized memoir and an amalgamation of both of their childhood experiences in Texas dealing with gender roles\, beauty standards\, religion\, race\, the expansive landscape\, and horned toads. \nRuth is a proponent of slow art\, and for a number of years has been writing and illustrating a fictional journal of a nineteenth century woman naturalist who has traveled to the mythical isle of Kokovoko (the home of the charismatic cannibal Queequeg in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick) to document the flora and fauna there. Information about and images of Ruth’s other artwork and projects can be found here www.ruthbauer.com \nLiz Nofziger was born in Indianapolis in 1974 and grew up in a small Mennonite community in southern Indiana. Her site-specific installation work examines relationships to space within the physical\, architectural\, political\, and pop-cultural landscape. Employing a broad range of media including sculptural elements\, video\, light\, audio\, and text\, viewer investigation completes her work. \nNofziger currently has a small site-specific sculpture and audio piece tucked away in Beverly\, MA on Powder House Lane\, and is part of Alpha-60\, a sci-fi inspired augmented reality exhibition that’s animating the Emerald Necklace from Franklin Park to the Fenway. She has had solo exhibitions at Galéria Ateneo (Medellin\, Colombia)\, the Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago (Chicago\, IL)\, Vox Populi (Philadelphia\, PA)\, Kult 41 (Bonn\, Germany)\, the Contemporary Artists Center (North Adams\, MA)\, and Montserrat College of Art (Beverly\, MA)\, among others. \nNofziger earned her MFA at Massachusetts College of Art\, where she taught for many years. She currently teaches at Montserrat College of Art. Since 2018\, she has been living\, working\, and finding community on the North Shore. www.nofzilla.com \nCJ Karch is an artist and photographer living in Salem\, Massachusetts. He studied Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Massachusetts and photography at the Hallmark Institute of Photography. His love of story telling and passion for all creative forms have lead him to create his own unique brand of photographic art. \nBlyth Hazen and Ruth Bauer\, Big Sky\, Animation Still \nLiz Nofziger\, Pile\, 2024 Paper animation\, video\, wooden crate
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/inanimate-objects/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Liz Nofziger: Flail
DESCRIPTION:A site-responsive work for Frame 301 as part of In•Animate Objects by Liz Nofziger concurrently on view in the Founders Gallery at 248 Cabot Street. \nResurrected on the half hour\, the contained Air Dancers® frantically seek both connection and escape while serving as an absurd timepiece. The tragi-comic efforts of these yellow beacons are partnered with the constant flutter of their common partner pennant flags\, encompassing the facade in a desperate cry for attention\, advertising nothing but the act of looking. \n  \nLiz Nofziger was born in Indianapolis in 1974 and grew up in a small Mennonite community in southern Indiana. Her site-specific installation work examines relationships to space within the physical\, architectural\, political\, and pop-cultural landscape. Employing a broad range of media including sculptural elements\, video\, light\, audio\, and text\, viewer investigation completes her work. \nNofziger currently has a small site-specific sculpture and audio piece tucked away in Beverly\, MA on Powder House Lane\, and is part of Alpha-60\, a sci-fi inspired augmented reality exhibition that’s animating the Emerald Necklace from Franklin Park to the Fenway. She has had solo exhibitions at Galéria Ateneo (Medellin\, Colombia)\, the Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago (Chicago\, IL)\, Vox Populi (Philadelphia\, PA)\, Kult 41 (Bonn\, Germany)\, the Contemporary Artists Center (North Adams\, MA)\, and Montserrat College of Art (Beverly\, MA)\, among others. \nNofziger earned her MFA at Massachusetts College of Art\, where she taught for many years. She currently teaches at Montserrat College of Art. Since 2018\, she has been living\, working\, and finding community on the North Shore. \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/liz-nofziger-flail/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Loretta Park: About to Thaw
DESCRIPTION:Loretta Park incorporates weaving and fiber-art techniques with an array of everyday objects to create colorful and tactile sculptures.  From colorful nylon rope\, plastic ice-cube trays\, plates\, and cups to scraps of cloth and paper\, Park transforms commonplace materials and classic techniques into newly imagined color blocks of form and texture. \nAn interdisciplinary artist\, Park’s artworks evoke aspects of painting\, assemblage\, and fiber-arts\, while adhering resolutely to neither medium. As an integral part of her practice\, Park continuously adapts and modifies her structures through intuitive responses to color\, texture\, shape\, and material. One element builds on the other until the final work is achieved. The process of adding and subtracting materials becomes a marker of time\, labor\, and an experiential response to her particular moment. \nAn earlier version of the exhibition\, entitled\, Sea Glass is Diamond\, was on view at the Trustman Art Gallery at Simmons University this fall curated by Gallery Director\, Helen Popinchalk. \nLoretta Park holds an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a BA from Bowdoin College. Her work has been exhibited at The Station in the Fenway\, Boston\, MA (2023); Brookline Arts Center\, Boston\, MA (2023); Brandeis Kniznick Gallery\, Waltham\, MA (2023); Praise Shadows Art Gallery\, Boston\, MA (2022); Dimensions Variable\, Miami\, FL (2021-22); The Umbrella Arts Center\, Concord\, MA (2021); Shelter In Place Gallery\, Boston\, MA (2020); New System Exhibitions\, Portland\, ME (2019); Ray Gallery\, Brooklyn\, NY (2018); Society of Arts and Crafts\, Boston\, MA (2017); and Center for Maine Contemporary Art\, Rockland\, ME (2017). Park’s work has appeared in Art New England\, The Boston Globe\, and Korean Daily. Loretta currently works in the Boston area and serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor and Compass Faculty Mentor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. \nFor more information about the artist\, visit her website. \nRelated Events:\nArtist Reception + Community Meal: Wednesday\, February 7\, 5–7 pm \nArtist Talk + 3D Collage Workshop: Friday\, February 23\, 3–5 pm\, Montserrat Gallery
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/loretta-park-about-to-thaw/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:I Am More
DESCRIPTION:Portraits and essays addressing how we are more than our mental illness\, health diagnosis\, disability or life situation. \nThe traveling exhibit I Am More will be on display at Montserrat College of Art in February. This exhibit features pastel and colored pencil portraits by artist Amy Kerr\, accompanied by essays written by individuals describing how they are more than their life challenges. The portraits address mental illness and addiction recovery\, coping with medical diagnoses\, and surviving trauma. Despite the challenging topics\, the message is one of hope and resilience\, and sometimes even humor and joy. \nBy definition\, giving up hope makes it seem like finding hope will be much harder than it often is. I learned that there is always a path forward\, there is always a new beginning\, and that there truly is more out there than you may be expecting. -Aiden \nSince 2018 I Am More exhibits have been seen in universities\, shopping malls\, hospitals\, libraries and government buildings around the northeast as a reminder that despite our challenges we all have gifts\, loves and triumphs to celebrate. \nThe exhibit includes mental health resources and emergency number cards. \nOpening Reception: Thursday\, February 8 \nRelated event: “I am more than” – Open Art Making with Meg and Elisabeth on Thursday\, February 15 at 11 am in the Library \n  \nAbout the Artist \nArtist Amy Kerr founded I Am More as a way of reminding others that she is more than her depression recovery and invited those dealing with their own challenges to share their stories. Each subject is asked to choose a location where they are most comfortable\, so locations have included a crowded theater\, a cafe\, a photographer’s studio\, the ocean\, a dance studio\, a Crossfit gym\, and a church. Amy draws in her studio and home in the coastal community of Gloucester\, Massachusetts while coaching the subjects on their writing. She has a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/i-am-more/
LOCATION:Library Gallery\, 23 Essex Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Karmimadeebora McMillan: Wandering stars...for whom it is reserved...the blackness...the darkness...forever
DESCRIPTION:The Boston-based artist\, Karmimadeebora McMillan\, mines Black material culture and historical archives to reimagine Black histories through diverse media. In her first major solo exhibition in the region\, McMillan creates an immersive installation featuring animation\, painting\, and sound. Wandering stars…for whom it is reserved…the blackness…the darkness…forever is a kaleidoscopic journey through time that draws inspiration from sci-fi\, speculative fiction\, and Afrofuturism. \nWandering Stars debuts two animations\, one representing the Black historical past and the other\, a future for Black people and the building of a new world. Suspended throughout the gallery space are vibrantly painted cut-out figures. One such figure\, which McMillan refers to as Ms. Merri Mack\, is seen in multiple variations\, some solid in color while others are rendered in colorful detail. Based on a vintage doll portraying a black caricature\, and whose name is taken from a character in a nursery rhyme sung by enslaved children\, Ms. Merri Mack is a means for McMillan to reclaim and subvert racial stereotypes. As the central protagonist in McMillan’s futuristic narrative\, Ms. Merri Mack represents a catalyst for change\, leading the viewer through portals in time and toward a hopeful future. \nMcMillan’s work is rooted in references to Black culture across time. Allusions to the graphic boldness of the revolutionary Black art collective\, AfriCOBRA and images taken from the Black Panther Coloring Book\, a propaganda piece disseminated by the US government in the 1960s\, appear throughout McMillan’s paintings and animations.  Wandering stars…for whom it is reserved…the blackness…the darkness…forever\, the title taken from a song by the British band\, Portishead\, re-envisions the past\, present\, and future to explore the power of memory and how Black histories are held and carried. \nPresented in collaboration with bkprojects\, Watertown\, MA. \nWandering Stars among Boston Art Review’s Top Winter ’24 Exhibitions to See. \n  \nKarmimadeebora McMillan is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting\, printmaking\, sculpture\, animation\, installation\, and public art based in Cambridge\, MA. She received her Associate of Fine Arts degree from Peace College and MFA and Post Baccalaureate Certificate from SMFA at Tufts. She received her BA from her hometown in Fayetteville\, NC\, HBCU\, Fayetteville State University. \nMcMillan has shown extensively on the east coast and in 2021 received the Now + There public artists grant and is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Boston Center for the Arts. She has performed with her mentor Magdalena Campos-Pons at the Guggenheim Museum in New York\, Queens Museum in New York\, and the Havana\, Cuba Biennale 15. Karmimadeebora is also the Director of the Post Baccalaureate Program at SMFA at Tufts. She is currently pursuing an Interdisciplinary PhD through Tufts University focusing on Black Women of Power. \n  \nRelated Events:\nArtist Reception + Community Meal: Wednesday\, February 7th\, 5-7PM \nArtist Conversation between Karmimadeebora McMillan and Charla Jones: Wednesday\, March 6\, 11 AM–12 PM\, H101 \n  \nImage: \nKarmimadeebora McMillan \nGenerations (detail)\, 2023 \nAcrylic and Collage on Canvas \n74×86 inches
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/karmimadeebora-mcmillan-wandering-stars-for-whom-it-is-reserved-the-blackness-the-darkness-forever/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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