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SUMMARY:Resplendent
DESCRIPTION:Resplendent: Identity & Visibility in Comics features the work of comic and visual artists who rewrite and reimagine how gender and identity can be represented in contemporary comics. Mainstream comics have long been dominated by white\, largely male superheroes and villains. This exhibition highlights the growing body of positive\, powerful\, and diverse depictions of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC+ characters and story worlds. It features regional and national practitioners who bring fresh voices and new perspectives to their medium. \nComics offer a powerful platform for LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC+ artists to envision themselves. Drawing conceptual and visual connections to acts of line-making\, the exhibition explores the medium of comics as a means to delineate new spaces of belonging. Lines are elemental to the act of drawing and a defining visual feature of many comic forms. Actual and symbolic lines are also drawn\, crossed\, and joined together\, presenting opportunities for self-assertion and self-identification. Such ideas are present in the writings of the cultural theorist\, Sara Ahmed\, who proposes that lines both divide things and construct spaces that we imagine we can be in. The curator and author\, Justin Hall\, uses the metaphor of the line in his anthology\, No Straight Lines\, to alert our attention to the increasing number of queer comic artists who are creating outside of the lines of popular comic genres. \nResplendent: Identity & Visibility in Comics highlights a selection of the many comic artists who use words and images to explore the politics of identity and to express ideas of beauty\, joy\, and abundance. From graphic memoirs\, serialized strips\, and web comics to fantastical stories and commanding autobiographical narratives\, the exhibition brings together a wide range of themes and media that celebrate the imaginary and private lives of their creators. \nLawrence Lindell\, Breena Nuñez\, and A.K. Summers draw intimate personal stories that are powerful\, poignant\, and sometimes humorous accounts of real life. The comics and comics-inspired work of Chitra Ganesh\, Rumi Hara\, and Bishakh Som conjure sumptuous and dream-like imagery to articulate the intersections of cultural and gender identity. \nThe complexities of queer love and friendship are taken up in the comics of Paige Braddock\, Jennifer Camper\, and Jessica Campbell. Raúl the Third also explores themes of friendship through the adventures of an eclectic group of LatinX characters\, while collaborators Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith’s slice of life comics pay tribute to the beauty of and relationships between Black women. \nLavaughan Jenkins and Karmimadeebora McMillan\, both painters\, create comics as part of their larger creative practice and as a platform to address racial identity and systemic racism. \nAnd the work of interdisciplinary artists Edie Fake and Lilli Carré focus on transformations of the physical body. Fake’s comics are surreal explorations of non-binary bodies and sexual experiences. Carré’s animation examines the malleable female body represented throughout history. \nResplendent: Identity and Visibility in Comics is curated by Lynne Cooney\, Ph.D.\, Director of Exhibitions and Galleries at Montserrat College of Art.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/resplendent/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:A Social Rapport
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Josué Bessiake ’24 and Morghan Schnoll ’23
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/a-social-rapport/
LOCATION:Bare Gallery\, 275 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:December 2022 Senior Thesis Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:Kumasi J. Barnett: American Alien\nMontserrat Galleries is pleased to present American Alien\, a solo exhibition by the Baltimore-based artist\, Kumasi J. Barnett. Influenced by the aesthetics and narratives of comic books\, the exhibition features the artist’s ongoing series of hand-painted comic books that imbue mainstream comic genres with a present-day social consciousness. Using humor and sardonic wit\, Barnett paints directly over the original comic book cover—including such superhero classics as The Amazing Spider-Man\, The Incredible Hulk\,  Superman\, Daredevil\, and Captain America—subverting their typical storylines and tropes of good versus evil through themes of police brutality\, racial profiling\, and systemic racism and the creation of characters like “The Amazing Black-Man\,” “The Media’s Thug\,” “Whitedevil\,” and “Police-Man.” For example\, Barnett transforms The Amazing Spiderman into “The Amazing Blackman\,” substituting the hero’s recognizable red and blue leotard with a Black figure wearing jeans and a hooded sweatshirt—a new kind of survival armor—who battles police violence and racial injustices. Similarly\, Barnett changes Marvel’s Superboy into “The New Adventures of Whiteboy\,” a humorous commentary on today’s cancel culture. \nAcquired from years of collecting comics\, the works used in this series are personal mementos sourced from Barnett’s private collection and address his desire to create comic characters that reflect and comment upon the media’s racist and monolithic representations of the Black experience. Barnett’s collection also includes recent purchases that revisit and re-engage the artist’s youth spent among the dusty shelves of comic bookstores. By appropriating these familiar comic books\, Barnett challenges white cultural nostalgia and histories of white superheroes\, creating new comic narratives that center Black characters. Barnett harnesses a brutal\, hyper-realistic vision of America today\, reimagining a subculture of heroes who take on new super villains. By rewriting classic superhero genres\, Barnett establishes stereotypes\, prejudices\, race-based violence as part of his new evil alliance\, all attacking “The True American Heroes”. \nKumasi J. Barnett received his MFA from The Ohio State University\, and now lives and works in Baltimore\, MD. Barnett’s works have been exhibited widely both in the United States and abroad\, including exhibitions at Lowell Ryan Projects\, Los Angeles\, CA; the SPRING/BREAK Art Show\, New York\, NY; City Lore\, New York\, NY; Con-Artist Collective\, New York\, NY; The Arsenal Gallery\, New York\, NY; Sulphur Bath Studio\, Brooklyn\, NY; and The Brooklyn Public Library\, Brooklyn\, NY. Museum exhibitions include the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town\, South Africa; The Boca Raton Museum of Art\, Boca Raton\, FL; and most recently the Verge Center for the Arts\, Sacramento\, CA. Barnett presented a solo booth with Lowell Ryan Projects at The Armory Show 2020\, in the Focus section curated by Jamillah James. Barnett’s work has been featured in Artforum\, Ammo\, Vibe\, Hyperallergic\, Huffington Post\, Autre\, Artnet News\, and The Guardian\, among others. \nKumasi J. Barnett is represented by Lowell Ryan Projects\, Los Angeles
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/december-2022-senior-thesis-exhibitions/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Kumasi J. Barnett: American Alien
DESCRIPTION:Kumasi J. Barnett: American Alien\nMontserrat Galleries is pleased to present American Alien\, a solo exhibition by the Baltimore-based artist\, Kumasi J. Barnett. Influenced by the aesthetics and narratives of comic books\, the exhibition features the artist’s ongoing series of hand-painted comic books that imbue mainstream comic genres with a present-day social consciousness. Using humor and sardonic wit\, Barnett paints directly over the original comic book cover—including such superhero classics as The Amazing Spider-Man\, The Incredible Hulk\,  Superman\, Daredevil\, and Captain America—subverting their typical storylines and tropes of good versus evil through themes of police brutality\, racial profiling\, and systemic racism and the creation of characters like “The Amazing Black-Man\,” “The Media’s Thug\,” “Whitedevil\,” and “Police-Man.” For example\, Barnett transforms The Amazing Spiderman into “The Amazing Blackman\,” substituting the hero’s recognizable red and blue leotard with a Black figure wearing jeans and a hooded sweatshirt—a new kind of survival armor—who battles police violence and racial injustices. Similarly\, Barnett changes Marvel’s Superboy into “The New Adventures of Whiteboy\,” a humorous commentary on today’s cancel culture. \nAcquired from years of collecting comics\, the works used in this series are personal mementos sourced from Barnett’s private collection and address his desire to create comic characters that reflect and comment upon the media’s racist and monolithic representations of the Black experience. Barnett’s collection also includes recent purchases that revisit and re-engage the artist’s youth spent among the dusty shelves of comic bookstores. By appropriating these familiar comic books\, Barnett challenges white cultural nostalgia and histories of white superheroes\, creating new comic narratives that center Black characters. Barnett harnesses a brutal\, hyper-realistic vision of America today\, reimagining a subculture of heroes who take on new super villains. By rewriting classic superhero genres\, Barnett establishes stereotypes\, prejudices\, race-based violence as part of his new evil alliance\, all attacking “The True American Heroes”. \nKumasi J. Barnett received his MFA from The Ohio State University\, and now lives and works in Baltimore\, MD. Barnett’s works have been exhibited widely both in the United States and abroad\, including exhibitions at Lowell Ryan Projects\, Los Angeles\, CA; the SPRING/BREAK Art Show\, New York\, NY; City Lore\, New York\, NY; Con-Artist Collective\, New York\, NY; The Arsenal Gallery\, New York\, NY; Sulphur Bath Studio\, Brooklyn\, NY; and The Brooklyn Public Library\, Brooklyn\, NY. Museum exhibitions include the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town\, South Africa; The Boca Raton Museum of Art\, Boca Raton\, FL; and most recently the Verge Center for the Arts\, Sacramento\, CA. Barnett presented a solo booth with Lowell Ryan Projects at The Armory Show 2020\, in the Focus section curated by Jamillah James. Barnett’s work has been featured in Artforum\, Ammo\, Vibe\, Hyperallergic\, Huffington Post\, Autre\, Artnet News\, and The Guardian\, among others. \nKumasi J. Barnett is represented by Lowell Ryan Projects\, Los Angeles
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/kumasi-j-barnett-american-alien/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Julie Peppito: Love is the Key
DESCRIPTION:Reception:  Tuesday\, September 6\, 5-7pm \n\nJulie Peppito: Love is the Key presents a series of recent and new artworks that 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 and its destructive effects on the planet and on human health. Peppito conveys this urgent message through the creation of subversively exquisite\, highly embellished mixed media drawings and paintings that are often heavily layered with the cast-off detritus of mass-production\, such as fabric\, buttons\, beads\, plastic toys\, and other single-use plastics.  In many of her compositions\, Peppito juxtaposes dense areas of color and found objects with delicate and detailed drawing—from the monumental mixed media work Wake Up! to smaller works on paper\, such as We are in Danger and Love is the Key. But as the title of her exhibition suggests\, Peppito’s message is not simply defeatist or alarmist. She believes that awareness\, action\, and compassion can positively change the course of our planet\, create a more equitable society\, and sustain a healthy environment. In other words\, love is indeed the key. \nIn addition to over 15 mixed media artworks\, the exhibition also includes Peppito’s collaborative and fantastical drawings with her husband\, the illustrator and graphic novelist\, Gideon Kendall. \n  \nAbout Julie Peppito \nJulie Peppito combines multiple materials in her sculptures\, installations\, collages\, and playground art. She has been an exhibiting artist in New York City for 31 years and has had nine solo exhibitions. Her work has been exhibited at The Long Island Children’s Museum\, Kentler International Drawing Space\, Art in General\, PS122\, HEREart\, Momenta\, NURTUREart\, Ethan Cohen Gallery\, and many other venues. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture and has made art for three New York Park’s Department playgrounds. \nShe holds an MFA with a concentration in sculpture from Alfred University in Alfred\, NY and she received her BFA from The Cooper Union in New York City.  You can see her playground art at J.J. Byrne Playground and James Forten Playground\, both in Brooklyn. Her work has been in The New York Times and The Daily Beast. Currently\, she has a giant “bird condo” on display at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. She was born and raised in Tulsa\, Oklahoma. She lives\, creates and teaches art in Kensington\, Brooklyn with her partner (artist\, illustrator\, graphic novelist) Gideon Kendall and their son Milo. \n  \nImage: Wake Up!\, 2018\, canvas\, trim\, thread\, acrylic paint\, wood\, found objects\, dimensional fabric paint\, and fabric. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/julie-peppito-love-is-the-key/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Lynne Harlow: Loomings
DESCRIPTION:In her installation and interdisciplinary practice\, the Providence\, Rhode Island artist\, Lynne Harlow\, transforms traditional and nontraditional spaces using modest materials and processes. Taking inspiration from the Minimalists and the Light and Space artists of the 1960 and 1970s\, Harlow uses industrially made materials\, such as tinted Plexiglass\, vinyl\, and house paint\, to create immersive and multi-sensory experiences for the viewer that are vibrant\, sometimes provocatively garish\, and also at times soft\, subtle\, and barely there. In her installation for the 301 Frame Gallery\, Harlow uses broad swaths of color and playful curtains of bright pink vinyl that dynamically and playfully interact within the narrow confines of the space. Harlow’s less is more approach is not just an homage to minimalist art traditions or created for simple visual effect. Rather\, her installations explore the dynamic physicality and the phenomenological possibilities of light and color.  Harlow states\, “I arrive at my pieces by reducing physical and visual information.  This process of reduction\, a steady taking away\, is ultimately intended to be an act of generosity.  In each piece I’m looking for the point at which these reductions allow me to give the most.” \nAbout Lynne Harlow \nLynne Harlow has exhibited her work internationally for the past 20 years. Gallery exhibitions include several solo shows at MINUS SPACE\, Brooklyn\, NY\, and Liliana Bloch Gallery\, Dallas\, TX. Museum exhibitions include the Hofstra Museum of Art in 2020 and the deCordova Biennial at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in 2013\, as well as shows at MoMA PS1\, Brattleboro Museum\, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art\, and Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca. Harlow has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation\, Chinati Foundation\, Rhode Island Foundation\, and BAU Institute\, and her work has been reviewed in publications\, such as Artforum\, The New York Times\, The Boston Globe\, The Providence Journal\, and Artnet Magazine\, among others. Harlow’s work is included in public collections\, such as The Museum of Modern Art\, Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York Public Library\, and Hunter College (all New York\, NY); RISD Museum (Providence\, RI); and The Philips Collection (Washington\, DC). Harlow holds an MFA from Hunter College and a BA from Framingham State College. \nLynne Harlow: Loomings is presented in collaboration with bkprojects \nbkprojects\, LLC\nwww.bkartprojects.com\nwww.drive-byprojects.com \n  \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/lynne-harlow-loomings/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Complete Fabrication: E. Winslow Funaki and Holly Kelly
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nOpen to Montserrat community M-F\, 10am-5pm or by appointment: gallery@montserrat.edu \nComplete Fabrication features new work by Montserrat staff\, Winslow Funaki and Holly Kelly.  Artists\, makers\, and educators\, Funaki and Kelly create work that explores humor\, play\, and perception. In their interdisciplinary practices\, both Funaki and Kelly–who serve as the Digital Fabrication Studio Manager and the Studio Manager of the Sculpture Shops respectively–use materials as the conceptual foundation of their work. Funaki creates in-between objects that resist categorization as a reflection of her own mixed identity\, often intermixing found objects and fabrication technologies. Kelly explores ordinary and mundane objects and space\, transforming documents and presenting everyday things from a different or altered perspective. Complete Fabrication is a wordplay\, implying both visual trickery and invention as well as the physical process of making. \nE. Winslow Funaki holds a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design\, attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2016\, and completed her MFA in Furniture Design at RISD in 2020. Her work has been exhibited in venues including Special Special in New York\, the RISD Museum and Brown University in Providence\, RI\, and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan\, WI. \nHolly Kelly earned her M.F.A. from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 2019 and her B.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art in 2013. Kelly has worked multiple creative jobs\, including bronze foundry\, artist studio assistant\, artist office assistant\, studio manager\, fabricator\, and art installer. All of it has influenced her studio practice and research. Kelly has shown work across the United States and received recognition from the International Sculpture Center and Mid-South Sculpture Alliance. \nTop Image (left) E. Winslow Funaki\, video Still\, 2022 (right) Holly Kelly\, untitled (detail)\, carved wood\, 2022
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/complete-fabrication-e-winslow-funaki-and-holly-kelly/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Andy Li - What About Tomorrow?
DESCRIPTION:Montserrat Galleries presents the solo exhibition What About Tomorrow? A Show About Today by the Boston based artist Andy Li.  Li’s text based fabric banners and panels focus on the power of now. His work is a reflection of both the mundane and the unnoticed moments of greatness that we perceive and experience in day to day life. \nAndy Li earned a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Media and Performance Art with a focus in Film/Video and 3D Sculpture with a focus in Fibers and Soft Sculpture. These two mediums have provided Li with an understanding of the value of time and patience. Some days you will see him hunched over a single thread for hours on end\, and other days you will see him running back and forth with three different cameras trying to find the best light. A believer in the suggestive nature of positivity\, Li encourages those around him to keep failing in order to keep getting better. Always trying to adapt and evolve\, his work and his personal attitude is the visual exploration of the saying\, “You can’t make an omelet without cracking a few eggs.” \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/andy-li-what-about-tomorrow/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Works from the Montserrat Archives
DESCRIPTION:Samuel Bak\, Gelin Buteau\, Fay Chandler\, Dr. Leslie King Hammond\, and Norman Laliberte\nGallery Hours\nOpen to Montserrat community M-F\, 10am-5pm or by appointment: gallery@montserrat.edu \n \n \nThe Montserrat Teaching Collection is a vast archive of work by former faculty\, alumni\, and artworks acquired through friends and donors of Montserrat.  The collection provides opportunities for current students to gain first-hand knowledge of the varied materials\, methods\, and thematic ideas used by a wide range of artists.  The summer exhibition in the President’s Gallery presents a selection from the collection\, from newly acquired to older works. \nOn view in the President’s office are recent acquisitions by Samuel Bak and works on temporary loan by Dr. Leslie King Hammond. Dr. King Hammond and Samuel Bak\, who served as Montserrat’s 2021 Convocation Speaker and the 2022 Commencement Speaker respectively\, use their art to explore their biographies and cultural identities.  Dr. King Hammond draws upon her Caribbean ancestry\, the African American experience\, and different craft traditions to explore the anonymity of women’s labor and the intersection of African Diasporic spiritual beliefs. Samuel Bak\, a Holocaust survivor\, explores his memory of the Holocaust and its devastating aftermath to preserve Jewish life and culture in the wake of unfathomable atrocity. Both artists were presented with exhibitions in the Montserrat Galleries during the 2021-2022 academic year. \nIn the main office are a selection of works by Gelin Buteau\, Fay Chandler\, and Norman Laliberte. The Haitian born Buteau (1954-2000) creates imaginative paintings that explore aspects of Haitian life and culture. The paintings of two mermaid figures represent Mami Wata\, a water spirit originating from West Africa and whose image is commonly found in African Diasporic and Caribbean literature and art. Mami Wata is described as a strong-willed\, sensual siren and often depicted as half-human and half fish. In another untitled work\, Buteau portrays a protest or uprising against the government\, a commentary on the country’s political instability and corruption. Also on view are three small sculptures by the Boston artist and philanthropist\, Fay Chandler (1923-2015)\, illustrative of the artist’s whimsical use of everyday materials and found objects and her focus on feminist themes related to women and childhood. Complimenting the informal style of Buteau and Chandler\, is a small tapestry by the North Shore-based artist Norman Laliberte (1925-2021) from his 2019 retrospective exhibition in Montserrat Gallery. Laliberte created colorful and celebratory paintings and fabric tapestries\, often resembling ancient hieroglyphics\, which speak to a range of narratives\, from the personal to the fantastical. \nImages: \nSamuel Bak (top)\, Once a Home\, 1990\, mixed media on paper\, 12 x 16 in.\, (bottom) Emerging\, 2003\, watercolor\, 7.5 x 7.5 in.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/works-from-the-montserrat-archives/
LOCATION:MA
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SUMMARY:Inspired Views 2022
DESCRIPTION:Reception:  Saturday\, June 18\,  2-4pm with a 1:30 awards ceremony \nInspired Views gathers more than forty art educators from New England and beyond in celebration of their commitment and dedication to arts education. Recognizing the many working artists who inspire and mentor our young people\, Inspired Views brings art educators together and gives them an opportunity to exhibit their own artwork in the Montserrat Gallery. Art teachers from both K-12 public and independent schools\, as well as art educators working at the college level\, are represented. \nARTISTS:  Whitney Bates\, Debra Bianculli\, Megan Biddle\, Nancy Blasi\, Steven Branfman\, Jessica Bouchard\, Colleen Campbell\, Lorrinda Cerrutti\, Linda Cersosimo\, Caddy Cicogna\, Sheila Boss-Concannon\, Anthony Delmonico\, Cari Dicicco\, Helen Duncan\, Jeph Ellis\, Ellen Sullivan Farley\, Shawn Farrell\, John Favret\, Toni MacDonald-Fein\, Erin Landry Fowler\, Tara Fracalossi\, Brenda Fredericks\, Deborah Gray\, Gabriel Gomez\, Mariel Gross\, Melissa Silveira Guimaraes\, George Hancin\, Emily Harney\, Thomas Lail\, Karen Romeo-Léger\, Bob Mosier\, Jamila Musa\, Catie Nasser\, Maria Oakley\, David Oxton\, Gail Pepe\, Amanda Putnam\, Danielle Ruggiero\, Jennifer Schiebel\, Jillian Scotto\, Larry Sheinfeld\, Biddle Snyder\, Tyler Sorgman\, Sarah Steinberg\, Laura Evonne Steinman\, Emily Rensink Taylor\, Sarah Walker\, Babs Wheelden\, Neil Wilkins\, Kara Frank-Whiting\, Bates Whitney\, Yihon Zhou.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/inspired-views-2022/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220529
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SUMMARY:Project Space: New Work by Montserrat Students
DESCRIPTION:May 2 – 28\, 2022\nDuring the month of May\, Montserrat students take over the 301 Frame Gallery\, creating site-specific installations of new work.   \n  \nMay 2 – 13 \nAngelina DeDominicis & Alex Pint:  A Con(temporary) Show \n  \nMay 16 – 27 \nSaya Norton: Onkochisin – Old Visits\, New Knowledge \n  \nMay 30 – June 10 \nJosue Bessiake: Earthly Delights \n  \nJune 13 – 24 \nMorghan Schnoll: Paintings \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/project-space-new-work-by-montserrat-students/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220403
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220501
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SUMMARY:National Library Week
DESCRIPTION:National Library Week (April 3 – 9\, 2022) is a time to celebrate our nation’s libraries\, library workers’ contributions and promote library use and support. \nThe American Library Association (ALA) kicks off National Library Week with the release of its State of America’s Libraries Report\, highlighting the challenges U.S. libraries faced in the second year of the pandemic – as well as the ways they innovated to meet the needs of their communities. \nLibrary staff in every state faced an unprecedented number of attempts to ban books. ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom tracked 729 challenges to library\, school\, and university materials and services in 2021\, resulting in more than 1\,597 individual book\nchallenges or removals. Most targeted books were by or about Black or LGBTQIA+ persons. \nMultiple Emmy-nominated and Spirit Award-winning actress\, comedian\, and legendary Saturday Night Live cast member Molly Shannon\, will help celebrate our nation’s libraries as the honorary chair of National Library Week. \nNational Library Week events\nApril: School Library Month\nMonday\, April 4\, The State of America’s Libraries Report Special Edition is released\nTuesday\, April 5\, National Library Workers Day\nWednesday\, April 6\, National Library Outreach Day\nThursday\, April 7\, Take Action for Libraries Day \nStudents enrolled in this semester’s “Using Images” class created this poster series to celebrate National Library week. \nGrace Perry\nAudrey Duclos\nDylan Maher\nBrandon Hale-Montminy\nJillian De Paolo\n  \nThe goal for this assignment was to create surrealist imagery inspired by a quote celebrating the power of libraries. Students followed the style guidelines created for this public service advertising campaign. Students incorporated the graphics and color palette provided by the American Library Association.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/national-library-week/
LOCATION:Library Gallery\, 23 Essex Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220328
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220512
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SUMMARY:Golden Gull
DESCRIPTION:GOLDEN GULL is an interactive exhibition involving the life surrounding Chadley Chaderson and the exquisite luxuries that revolve around living a golf-centric lifestyle.\n\nThroughout media involving movies\, TV shows and news outlets\, golf has been a representation of a leisurely past-time and active sport; most notably\, for wealthy\, older\, white men.\n\nThese men have taken the empires of their wealth and have channeled their energy into mastering what goes into the perfect golf swing.\n\nThis lifestyle is one adapted by Chadley Chaderson. As the perfect poster boy for the rags-to-riches style American Dream\, Chaderson followed his passion for golf\, opening the Club in the 1950s. He pushed himself day after day\, eventually becoming one of the richest\, most respected gentlemen of the mid-century.\n\nToday\, The Golden Gull Golf Club remains one of the top family tourism destinations on the East Coast\, despite many gristly rumors surrounding its past…\n \nGOLDEN GULL features the work of Gabi Casella\, Zack Fontaine\, Max Foster\, Coco Haseltine\, and Sarah Mason.\n \nCurated by Alexia Avila\, Kal Orna and Sam Rose.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/golden-gull/
LOCATION:Bare Gallery\, 275 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220328
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220409
DTSTAMP:20260418T135423
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SUMMARY:A World of Difference
DESCRIPTION:Black art is many things\, but singular is not one of them. As Montserrat’s Black Student Union\, our curatorial lens is focused here on *DEIB and representation in artistic voice and verb\, an idea that can be traced to the groundbreaking exhibition\, Art as a Verb\, curated by Dr. Leslie King Hammond in 1988. \nCurated by students from the Black Student Union\, the exhibition seeks to embrace the intersectionality of contemporary *BIPOC artistic expression. The exhibition aspires to present to Montserrat and the public that Black artists and those of African descent have agency to make anything\, and Black art can be anything while employing all genres of art and design. \nArtists include Michael Aghahowa\, Josh Beckett\, Dr. Leslie King Hammond\, Ari Montford\, Toby Sisson alongside BSU Student Artists Josue Bessiake\, Isaiah Hope\, Marc Elie Mordan\, KD Moye\, Taliyah Shepard. Ziggy Smith\, and Venus. \n  \n* Diversity\, Equity\, Inclusion and Belonging \n* Black\, Indigenous People of Color
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/a-world-of-difference/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220306
DTSTAMP:20260418T135423
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SUMMARY:Don't Wake Mom & Dad
DESCRIPTION:Don’t Wake Mom & Dad explores the often eerie and uncomfortable recollection of childhood\, nostalgia\, gender expectations\, and self-identity. \nIn the recreation of an American nuclear family\, we use iconography often associated with mediums of vintage or analog horror to re-frame the gallery’s collection of art and advertisements. This juxtaposition of art\, memory\, childhood and horror is used to analyze how societal mechanizations shape us\, and how the assumption of a gendered binary experience gives little leeway for creativity\, empathy\, and growth. \nDon’t Wake Mom & Dad features the work of Darcie Blake\, Fernanda Diaz\, and Zack Fontaine. \nDarcie Blake is an interdisciplinary artist focusing primarily on illustration and photography. Her illustrative work draws inspiration from 90s and 00s children’s toys and media\, giving her work a sense of childlike optimism and wonder with a balance of adult themes like mental illness and cynicism. She is a resident artist of Wrong Brain\, an alternative art organization based in Dover\, NH\, and attended Montserrat from 2018 to 2019. She is also co-founder of Rock Water Film Festival and founder of an inclusive open-mic standup night. You can find more of her work on instagram @darcie.blake. \nFernanda Diaz is a multimedia artist with a primary focus on animation production. A proud Tejana who moved up north to pursue post-secondary education\, she aims to join the TV entertainment industry as a Visual Development Artist. Her obsession with internet mysteries and the paranormal combined with experiences of her perceptual limbo millennial and gen-z childhood have contributed to her style of drawing. Her artwork is heavily inspired by nostalgia and creepy cute aesthetics for all ages. \nZack Fontaine is a cross-disciplinary artist and educator from the northeast corner of Connecticut. He primarily works in sculpture and painting\, utilizing themes of childhood and the medium of toys to interrogate how they can affect the current reality of our world. He forged his unique stylistic choices and medium of work during the original COVID-19 quarantine in early 2020 while dabbling in playing board games as a method of painting or drawing. Later that year\, he dove head first into stuffed animals as a material. \nDon’t Wake Mom & Dad was curated by Alexia Avila\, Kali Orna\, and Sam Rose. \nSpecial thank you to Hannah Daigle\, Kiran Marwaha\, Max Foster\, and Will Higgins for assisting in putting up the mural.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/dont-wake-mom-dad/
LOCATION:Bare Gallery\, 275 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220124
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220410
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Sosa - Today's Specials
DESCRIPTION:Gabriel Sosa transforms the 301 Gallery into a bodega storefront with Today’s Specials\, an installation comprised of oversized hand-painted works on paper. Amidst the announcements for laundry detergent\, apple juice\, and sopa de res\, you might be surprised at what else is on sale. Pointing to questions of subversion\, gentrification\, and the shortcomings of the American Dream\, Sosa’s work reminds us to look a bit closer at the language that surrounds us. \nGabriel Sosa is a Cuban-American artist\, educator\, and linguist. He draws from legal proceedings\, personal archives\, and contemporary visual culture to explore the mutability of language\, the imperfection of memory\, and the misinterpretation of both. His work has been shown at the O\, Miami Poetry Festival\, Museo La Tertulia\, Cali\, Colombia; Tufts University Art Galleries; Centro Cultural Español\, Miami; La Fábrica de Arte Cubano\, Havana; A R E A\, Boston; and the Contemporary Jewish Museum\, San Francisco. Raised in Miami and based in Boston\, Gabriel is a lecturer at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the Deputy Director of Essex Art Center in Lawrence\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/gabriel-sosa-todays-specials/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220320
DTSTAMP:20260418T135423
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SUMMARY:Re-Viewing the Past
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Thursday\, January 27\, 5:00-7:00 pm. Free and open to the public. \nPresented in conjunction with the exhibition\, Samuel Bak and the Art of Remembrance\, the group exhibition\, Re-Viewing the Past\, highlights the work of artists who explore ideas of history and memory as part of processes of re-writing or re-imagining. Creating in diverse media\, including painting\, printmaking\, animation\, and the graphic novel\, participating artists consider their connection to history — whether personal or collective — as it resonates with or is interpreted through the present moment and current socio-political and cultural issues.  Artists include Paul Emmanuel\, Maya Erdelyi\, Dell M. Hamilton\, Dave Ortega\, and Jordan Seaberry. \nThe exhibition continues in the Paul M. Scott Library Gallery. \nBorn in Zambia and currently living in Johannesburg\, South Africa\, Paul Emmanuel employs various media to reveal layered visions concerned with his identity living in the post-apartheid nation. Over the last decade\, Emmanuel has conceived and implemented the large-scale and ongoing Lost Men project\, a series of site-sensitive elegiac counter-memorials installed\, to date\, in public spaces in South Africa\, Mozambique\, and France.  The Lost Men\, was launched at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in Grahamstown\, South Africa. In 2007\, Phase 2 of this project took place in Maputo\, Mozambique. In July 2014 The Lost Men France was installed adjacent to the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme\, Northern France. \nMaya Erdelyi is an award-winning animator and artist. She creates intricate hand-made animations and collages inspired by imaginary worlds\, music\, memories\, and the unconscious. Her animations explore a hybrid approach to cut-paper stop-motion\, puppetry\, hand-drawn\, digital animation\, and installation. Her work has been shown in national and international film festivals\, galleries\, museums\, and DIY venues. She is a recipient of a 2020 City of Boston Artist Fellowship Award\, a 2019 Yaddo Residency\, a 2018 WGBH Launchpad Residency\, a 2017 Brother Thomas Fellowship Award\, and the 2017 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Film. \nDell M. Hamilton is an interdisciplinary artist\, writer\, and independent curator. Born in Spanish Harlem with ancestral roots in Belize\, Honduras\, and the Caribbean\, her practice wrestles with the social and geopolitical constructions of memory\, gender\, race\, language\, and history through the mediums of photography\, video\, drawing\, installation & performance. Dell’s work\, artist talks\, solo performances\, scholarly lectures\, and collaborative performances have been presented to a wide variety of audiences nationally and internationally. Dell is a 2021 recipient of a James and Audrey Foster Prize\, the Institute of Contemporary Art\, Boston. \nDave Ortega has been self-publishing comics and zines since 2010. For the past 8 years\, he has self-published over 6 issues\, the story of the early life of his grandmother: Días de Consuelo. In March 2022\, Días de Consuelo will be collected and published as a graphic novel by Radiator Comics. In 2013\, his comic Hacienda won the Comics Composition Competition\, awarded by Comics Workbook. In 2015\, he was invited by the Institute of Contemporary Art\, Boston to design an immersive educational experience around comics in their Art Lab space. He has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston and Lesley University\, and has been awarded grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Collective Futures Fund. \n Jordan Seaberry practice bridges the painting studio with community organizing and advocacy. His large-scale\, narrative paintings address family histories\, systemic injustice\, social and political change. Born and raised on the Southside of Chicago\, Jordan first came to Providence to attend Rhode Island School of Design. Alongside his art\, he built a career as a grassroots organizer\, helping to fight and pass multiple criminal justice reform milestones\, including Probation Reform\, the Unshackling Pregnant Prisoners Bill\, and laying the groundwork for the “Ban the Box” movement in Rhode Island.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/re-viewing-the-past/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220320
DTSTAMP:20260418T135423
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SUMMARY:Re-Viewing the Past – Library
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Thursday\, January 27\, 5:00-7:00 pm. Free and open to the public. \nPresented in conjunction with the exhibition\, Samuel Bak and the Art of Remembrance\, the group exhibition\, Re-Viewing the Past\, highlights the work of artists who explore ideas of history and memory as part of processes of re-writing or re-imagining. Creating in diverse media\, including painting\, printmaking\, animation\, and the graphic novel\, participating artists consider their connection to history — whether personal or collective — as it resonates with or is interpreted through the present moment and current socio-political and cultural issues.  Artists include Paul Emmanuel\, Maya Erdelyi\, Dell M. Hamilton\, Dave Ortega\, and Jordan Seaberry. \nThe exhibition continues in the the Carol Schlosberg Gallery. \nBorn in Zambia and currently living in Johannesburg\, South Africa\, Paul Emmanuel employs various media to reveal layered visions concerned with his identity living in the post-apartheid nation. Over the last decade\, Emmanuel has conceived and implemented the large-scale and ongoing Lost Men project\, a series of site-sensitive elegiac counter-memorials installed\, to date\, in public spaces in South Africa\, Mozambique\, and France.  The Lost Men\, was launched at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in Grahamstown\, South Africa. In 2007\, Phase 2 of this project took place in Maputo\, Mozambique. In July 2014 The Lost Men France was installed adjacent to the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme\, Northern France. \nMaya Erdelyi is an award-winning animator and artist. She creates intricate hand-made animations and collages inspired by imaginary worlds\, music\, memories\, and the unconscious. Her animations explore a hybrid approach to cut-paper stop-motion\, puppetry\, hand-drawn\, digital animation\, and installation. Her work has been shown in national and international film festivals\, galleries\, museums\, and DIY venues. She is a recipient of a 2020 City of Boston Artist Fellowship Award\, a 2019 Yaddo Residency\, a 2018 WGBH Launchpad Residency\, a 2017 Brother Thomas Fellowship Award\, and the 2017 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Film. \nDell M. Hamilton is an interdisciplinary artist\, writer\, and independent curator. Born in Spanish Harlem with ancestral roots in Belize\, Honduras\, and the Caribbean\, her practice wrestles with the social and geopolitical constructions of memory\, gender\, race\, language\, and history through the mediums of photography\, video\, drawing\, installation & performance. Dell’s work\, artist talks\, solo performances\, scholarly lectures\, and collaborative performances have been presented to a wide variety of audiences nationally and internationally. Dell is a 2021 recipient of a James and Audrey Foster Prize\, the Institute of Contemporary Art\, Boston. \nDave Ortega has been self-publishing comics and zines since 2010. For the past 8 years\, he has self-published over 6 issues\, the story of the early life of his grandmother: Días de Consuelo. In March 2022\, Días de Consuelo will be collected and published as a graphic novel by Radiator Comics. In 2013\, his comic Hacienda won the Comics Composition Competition\, awarded by Comics Workbook. In 2015\, he was invited by the Institute of Contemporary Art\, Boston to design an immersive educational experience around comics in their Art Lab space. He has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston and Lesley University\, and has been awarded grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Collective Futures Fund. \n Jordan Seaberry practice bridges the painting studio with community organizing and advocacy. His large-scale\, narrative paintings address family histories\, systemic injustice\, social and political change. Born and raised on the Southside of Chicago\, Jordan first came to Providence to attend Rhode Island School of Design. Alongside his art\, he built a career as a grassroots organizer\, helping to fight and pass multiple criminal justice reform milestones\, including Probation Reform\, the Unshackling Pregnant Prisoners Bill\, and laying the groundwork for the “Ban the Box” movement in Rhode Island. \n  \nAbove image: \nPaul Emmanuel \nLesion\, 2016 \nHand-printed\, Chine collé\, photogravure\, etching \non Hahnemühle paper
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/re-viewing-the-past-library/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220306
DTSTAMP:20260418T135423
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SUMMARY:Samuel Bak and the Art of Remembrance
DESCRIPTION:Samuel Bak and the Art of Remembrance brings together more than 30 paintings and works on paper dating from the late 1980s to the present by the renowned artist and Holocaust survivor that explore ideas of history\, memory\, and trauma. Bak survived the Holocaust as a young boy and after the war\, emigrated with his mother to the newly established state of Israel where he took up the formal study of art. Over a long and prolific artistic career\, Bak has sought to make sense of the past\, cultivating a pictorial language that retrieves historical memory with the purpose of preserving Jewish life and culture in the wake of unfathomable atrocity. \nBak explores his memory of the Holocaust and its devastating aftermath not in explicit depictions of human suffering but rather through a rich vocabulary of personal\, cultural\, and religious symbols that elegiacally explore the enduring traumas of the past. Bak transforms recognizable objects\, such as teacups\, books\, candles\, and pears into metaphorical images that populate surrealistic and haunted landscapes painted in a somber palette of ochres\, reds\, and greens. In paintings where people are perceptibly absent\, these objects serve as surrogates and material witnesses to irretrievable loss and destruction. \nPainting is a catalyst for the reclamation of the past to understand the present. The exhibition posits Bak’s artmaking as an act of resilience and as a means of retaining Jewish identity and memory against historical trauma. While historically specific\, Bak’s work unequivocally resonates with broader moral and ethical issues that continue to bear upon human existence. \nSamuel Bak and the Art of Remembrance is curated by Lynne Cooney\, Director of Exhibition and Galleries with Montserrat College of Art students Aurora Gloor and Morghan Schnoll. \nThe exhibition is presented in cooperation with Pucker Gallery\, Boston and supported in part by Barbara & Jim Schaye\, Mercedes Sherrod Evans & David L. Evans\, and the Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation. \nAbove Image:\nPersistence of Memory\, 1989\nMixed media on paper\n25.4. x 19.75 in.\nCourtesy Pucker Gallery\, Boston \nAbout Samuel Bak \nSamuel Bak was born on August 12\, 1933 in Vilna\, Poland at a crucial moment in modern history. From 1940 to 1944\, Vilna was under first Soviet\, then German occupation. While both he and his mother survived\, his father and four grandparents all perished at the hands of the Nazis. At the end of World War II\, he and his mother fled to the Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp. Here\, he was enrolled in painting lessons at the Blocherer School\, Munich. Bak’s studies continued as he immigrated to Israel\, and he later received a grant to pursue his studies in Paris. \nIn 1959\, he moved to Rome where his first exhibition of abstract paintings met with considerable success. In 1961\, he was invited to exhibit at the “Carnegie International” in Pittsburgh. And\, in 1963 two one-man exhibitions were held at the Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Museums. It was after these exhibitions\, during the years 1963-1964\, that a major change in his art occurred. There was a distinct shift from abstract forms to a metaphysical figurative means of expression. Ultimately\, this transformation crystallized into his present pictorial language. \nSince 1959\, Samuel Bak has had solo exhibitions at private galleries in New York\, Boston\, London\, Paris\, Berlin\, Munich\, Tel Aviv\, Jerusalem\, Zurich\, Rome\, and other cities around the world. Numerous large retrospective exhibitions have been held in major museums\, universities\, and public institutions around the Globe. \nPublications on Samuel Bak’s work include twelve books\, most notably a 400-page monograph entitled Between Worlds\, and his touching memoir\, Painted in Words. He has also been the subject of two documentary films. \n  \nRelated Exhibition Events: \nOpening Reception: Thursday\, January 27\, 5:00-7:00 pm \nVirtual Artist Talk with Samuel Bak:  Thursday\, February 3\, 7:00 pm. REGISTER HERE \nCurator Conversations – History & Memory in the Painting of Samuel Bak: Wednesday\, February 2\, 11:05-12:00 pm\, Montserrat Gallery \nCurator Conversations – Metaphor & Symbolism in the Painting of Samuel Bak: Wednesday\, February 16\, 11:05-12:00 pm\, Montserrat Gallery
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/samuel-bak-and-the-art-of-remembrance/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211219
DTSTAMP:20260418T135423
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SUMMARY:December 2021 Senior Thesis Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:Montserrat College of Art presents an annual series of group thesis exhibitions by mid-year graduating seniors in the Montserrat Gallery and Carol Schlosberg Gallery. Exhibit openings will be held every Wednesday night\, 5 – 7 pm\, from December 1 – 18\, 2021. \nEach small group thesis show will include the individual work of each artist\, developed during their studies toward their Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Montserrat. The shows are themed by the students’ concentrations and include illustration\, fine arts\, graphic design\, and animation. The fine arts show includes sculpture\, painting\, drawing\, photography\, printmaking\, and book arts. \nLiminal\nDecember 1-4\nReception: Wednesday\, December 1\, 5-7pm\nMontserrat Gallery \nWork by Illustration and Graphic Design Students: \nMoss Blackburn \nLucas De Jesus \nArianna Lozada-Pierce \nNico Joslin \nGervin Pineda Rodriguez \nKane Quaglietta \nLindsey Seppala \n  \nMomentum \nDecember 1-4\nReception: Wednesday\, December 1\, 5-7pm\nCarol Schlosberg Gallery \nWork by Animation and Interactive Media Students: \nIngrid Ethel Henriques \nJo Joseph \nVincent Perez \n  \nFine Arts\nDecember 8-11 \nReception: Wednesday\, December 8\, 5-7pm \nMontserrat Gallery\, Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, and IA Knowlton \n  \nArt Education: Works by their Students \nDecember 15-18\, \nReception: Thursday\, December 16\, 5-6pm Montserrat Students\, 6-7pm Families \nMontserrat Gallery \n\n  \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/december-2021-senior-thesis-exhibitions/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211025
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220108
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SUMMARY:Josh Beckett: Honest Intentions
DESCRIPTION:In this newly commissioned mural and series of paintings\, Beckett examines his personal struggles with emotional attachment and fulfillment. Beckett proposes that oftentimes our expectations around love are entangled with more superficial desires that are influenced by media and popular culture. He states\, “We grow up listening to sad RnB [songs] and movies about missed connections…We come out the other end as hopeless romantics addicted to vice and over stimulation.” \nJoshua Beckett is an illustrator from Baltimore\, Maryland. Growing up he would bully adults in Tekken at the arcade and watch cartoons with his dad. Falling in love with the amazing and energetic visuals from action-oriented comics and visual media\, Joshua set off on his own journey to master these skills and techniques. His quest began with rigorous self-study\, learning to draw and ink on his own before testing his might in the arena. His next goal was to acquire scrolls of power\, and so in 2015 he earned his first degree\, an A.A. in paralegal studies from the Baltimore City Community College. While earning his degree Joshua began studying the ancient art of tattoo design and application. Now armed with a strong sense of drama\, attention to detail\, quality of line\, storytelling and diverse legal understandings\, Joshua moved on to earn his BFA in Illustration from the Montserrat College of Art\, where he graduated in 2017.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/josh-beckett-honest-intentions/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211018
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211123
DTSTAMP:20260418T135423
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SUMMARY:VISIBILITY 2021
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nM-F\, 10am–5pm \nVISIBILITY calls for the acknowledgment and recognition of artists with disabilities.  \nVISIBILITY 2021 is held at the border of two spaces: split between the physical and the digital. Emphasis is placed on this juxtaposition between the intangible nature of all digital spaces and the corporeal world. This flux is very much the nature of many disabilities –– as in VISIBILITY’s thesis point\, showcasing the very often invisible state of a disability. This year\, we’ve used scannable QR codes to bridge this gap. Maintaining accessibility is a key point in the VISIBILITY 2021 exhibition\, and thus the entire gallery is on-view within our website. \nFeaturing: \nLeann Ackerman \nAlex Babcock \nSavanah Cornell \nArysia Gurghigian \nAlexis Hackett \nMary Hall \nTy Isakson \nColleen Michaels \nAri Montford \nSaya Norton \nHaleigh O’Leary \nErein James Adiao Ruiz \nTaliyah Shepard \nZiggy Smith \nMadison Wallace \nHannah-Xavier \n  \nIn collaboration with Meg Grant\, Director of the Academic Access Studio. \nCLICK HERE TO VIEW GALLERY
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/visibility-2021/
LOCATION:Bare Gallery\, 275 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Caleb Cole: Show Me
DESCRIPTION:Caleb Cole: Show Me presents two related bodies of work that explore the visibility of the queer body and challenge binary constructions of gender identity.  In Other People’s Clothes\, an ongoing series begun in 2007\, Cole uses his physical body to inhabit the lives of others. By wearing various ensembles and assuming different poses and gestures\, Cole embodies characters he has never met nor who exist in real life\, portraying aspects of their fictional outer and inner lives. Even though Cole is present in the photograph\, he does not view these images as self-portraits or the characters he creates as alter egos. Rather\, the series examines assumptions and misconceptions around gender\, sexuality\, age\, and identity. In the series\, Traces\, Cole alters\, and re-photographs pages taken from gay men’s magazines from the 1980’s-1990’s so that the outlines of the suggestively reclined or entwined bodies become mere shadows or traces\, their identities symbolically negated. Also on view is a recent video work\, entitled Groom\, which depicts multiple and overlapping images of the artist gently caressing his facial hair. Such a seemingly narcissistic gesture can also be read as an affirming and a validation of Cole’s outer and inner self. \n  \nThe exhibition is concurrently on view with Caleb Cole: Collective Feelings\, a solo exhibition of new work at Gallery Kayafas in Boston\, which runs October 22 – December 4\, 2021 \nhttps://www.gallerykayafas.com/collective-feelings \n  \nBorn in Indianapolis\, Caleb Cole is a former altar server\, scout\, and 4-H Grand Champion in Gift Wrapping. Caleb’s mother instilled in them a love of garage sales and thrift stores\, where they developed a fascination with the junk that people leave behind. They are a 2015 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow\, 2013 Hearst 8×10 Biennial Winner\, 3-time Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Winner\, 2011 St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award winner\, 2011 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship Finalist\, 2009 Artadia Award winner\, and a 2009 Photolucida Critical Mass finalist. Caleb exhibits regularly at a variety of national venues and has held solo shows in Boston\, New York\, Chicago\, and St. Louis\, among others. Their work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston\, Newport Art Museum\, Davis Art Museum\, Brown University Art Museum and Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art and represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston. \n  \n \nImage: Birthday Girl\, 2008\, 19×13 inches\, Archival pigment print \nAbove Image: Trace (satin sheets)\, 2018\, 36×24 inches\, Archival pigment print
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/caleb-cole-show-me/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211119
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SUMMARY:We Design: People. Practice. Progress.
DESCRIPTION:We Design: People. Practice. Progress is a traveling exhibition by Design Museum Everywhere\nthat brings together creatives from different backgrounds to examine and celebrate the range\nof career paths and applications\, and their impact on design. The exhibition features career\nstories showcasing how people have forged their unique paths into different creative\nprofessions\, from graffiti artists and architects to civic designers and research scientists. \n\nSketch Series: Explore Design Thinking\nJoin Montserrat College of Art and Design Museum Everywhere on Thursday\, November 18\, 5:30-7:00 pm ET for an interactive virtual apparel workshop with Fashion Designer Bless Mazarura and Creative Director/Fiber Artist Noèl Puèllo.  \nThe program will begin with short talks by each designer after which participants will be able to choose a designer to follow into a breakout session. Each room will involve an activity that highlights each designer’s creative practice and how they employ design thinking and creative problem solving. All are welcome to attend; no design experience is necessary. \nRegister Here \n  \nBring the transformative power of design everywhere.\nAccessibility\nDesign is for everyone. Design is everywhere\, so we are too. We’re online and we pop-up in places all over the city to engage as many people as possible. And we’re committed to improving the diversity of the design field. \nImprovement\nDesign solves problems. We are entrepreneurial and flexible\, we are not constrained by existing approaches\, we start with real-world problems and we’re committed to using design for the greater good. \nCommunity\nDesign is collaborative. We are a participatory museum\, meaning there are many ways for individuals to not only enjoy our programming and content but to be part of it as well. We’re collaborative and community-focused. \ndesignmuseumfoundation.org
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/we-design-people-practice-progress/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210927
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220115
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SUMMARY:Rob Roy: Dispatches
DESCRIPTION:Founders Gallery\n248 Cabot Street\nBeverly\, MA 01915\nGallery Hours\nOpen to Montserrat community M-F\, 10am-5pm or\nBy Appointment: galleries@montserrat.edu\nDates\nSeptember 27\, 2021–January 14\, 2022 \nFounders Gallery is pleased to present a recent and ongoing series of monotypes by Rob Roy\, Professor of Painting\, Drawing\, and Printmaking at Montserrat College of Art. \nRoy prints on preprinted graphics\, such as commercially produced brochures\, postcards\, art magazines\, and catalogs\, layering his distinctive and bold graphics and vibrant color over the existing substrate. Through this process\, Roy does not so much as transform the found image than purposefully obfuscate it\, selectively incorporating areas of the original image only as it serves in the creation of the new work. \nWhile Roy’s prints display enticing materiality\, his subject matter is deceptively straightforward. Recurrent images and themes\, such as silhouettes of helicopters\, planes\, and automobiles are—a visual vocabulary that the artist refers to as an “open system”—symbolically allude to a range of current and historic events (such as ongoing wars\, terrorism\, and global conflicts) and aspects of consumer culture. Also on view are selections from Roy’s “Bestiary” series of animal figures\, printed in a similar style that convey ideas of nature versus culture.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/rob-roy-dispatches/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211009
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SUMMARY:ANNIE LEE-DALY: THE WAR IS NOT A BOMBER JET ANYMORE
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nM-F\, 10am–5pm \nInformed by archival research and her experiences\, Annie Lee-Daly candidly explores race\, history\, and trauma by collecting and re-contextualizing found objects. She received a BFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Montserrat College of Art in 2020. \nTHE WAR IS NOT A BOMBER JET ANYMORE rejects Korea’s legacy as a “Forgotten War” and instead links decades of sanctions enforced by the United States and United Nations as a continuation of their violent\, imperialist war against the Korean people.  \nFor 150 years\, the United States has directed countless acts of war crimes\, violence\, and terror on the Korean peninsula. From their first military expedition in 1871 to the 635\,000 tons of explosives and 32\,557 tons of napalm dropped on the northern region to the near half-million suspected communists in the south imprisoned in “virtual concentration camps.” Per the National Security Law\, the United States has always been an active instigator of war.  \nThe United States continues to occupy the southern region\, the Republic of Korea\, as a militarized neocolony while fabricating fear-mongering narratives of Koreans in the northern region\, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. These works hope to stir serious reflection on the United States’ continued occupation of Korea and the complicity of the west in vilifying\, dehumanizing\, and slaughtering the Korean people.  \nThe title of THE WAR IS NOT A BOMBER JET ANYMORE is taken from a talk of the same name by Crystal Mun-hye Baik and Nodutdol in association with the Oral History Program at Colombia University. \nThank you to Erin Kong\, Sheen Kim\, Sam Rose\, and Kali Orna for making this exhibition possible. \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/annie-lee-daly-the-war-is-not-a-bomber-jet-anymore/
LOCATION:Bare Gallery\, 275 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:ELIZABETH MOONEY: WHAT COMES AROUND
DESCRIPTION:Boston-based artist Elizabeth Mooney explores the urban landscape\, particularly her immediate Dorchester neighborhood where she has maintained a studio for nearly a decade\, through abstraction and kinetics. Mooney’s paintings and moving sculptures are\, in her words\, “extremely layered\, busy\, and bright.” She overlays bold color\, dramatic lines\, and imagery evocative of her urban surrounds — such as chain link fences\, concrete structures\, and hints of greenery — blurring distinctions between invention and reality.  Mooney consciously and slyly references and intersects histories of landscape painting and abstraction in her compositions in order to simultaneously deconstruct conventional ideas of the landscape and assert the beauty and visual cacophony of urban spaces. Elizabeth Mooney: What Comes Around presents a selection of recent paintings and a new kinetic sculpture created during the last year\, reflecting upon how much\, and how little\, her views of the urban environment have transformed. \nImage: Grind\, acrylic\, wood\, MDF\, metal\, wires\, Arduino\,\npaper\, mapping pins\, fences\, plastic; 4 spinning discs\, each rotating at different\nspeeds\, and in different directions. Motion sensor activated. Approx 60 x 60 x 18 inches \nAbove Image: Down the Pike\, 2020\, acrylic on wood\, 36 x 36 inches
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/elizabeth-mooney-what-comes-around/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210923
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SUMMARY:Animated Frames: Short Films from the Studio of Noble600
DESCRIPTION:Montserrat Galleries presents a selection of animated short films and commercials from the Los-Angeles based creative and production studio\, Noble600. The exhibition showcases the craft of animation through a wide range of techniques and styles used to tell diverse stories\, from Alicja Jasina’s lyrical animated short\, Once Upon a Line\, to innovative animated commercials produced for Huawei and Gatorade.  A highlight of the exhibition is the recent short film\, Negative Space\, created and produced by the Oscar nominated and Providence\, Rhode Island-based collective Tiny Inventions (Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter). Based on a 150-word poem by Ron Koertge\, Negative Space is a beautiful and heartfelt story about a father-son relationship through the art of packing a suitcase. \nNoble 600 represents talented storytellers\, directors\, and animators. With deep roots in both live action and animation\, Noble600 collaborate with agencies\, artists\, and brands to create content and tell stories than inform\, transform\, connect and entertain. \n  \nAbove image: Still from the animated short film\, Negative Space. Directed and written by Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata. Produced by Nidia Santiago & Edwina Liard and co-produced by Jean-Louis Padis. Original poem by Ron Koertge. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/animated-frames-short-films-from-the-studio-of-noble600/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210930
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SUMMARY:Meg Nichols: Today is the Day
DESCRIPTION:Meg Nichols’ newly commissioned mural for the 301 Frame Gallery celebrates  the complexity of our current moment. With a seemingly simple message\, Nichols conveys the hurdles we have faced and the triumphs we have accomplished.  Nichols writes\, \n“This mural is dedicated to us. Coming out of 2020\, so many of us found ourselves going through minor to major life changes. A lot of us started saying “no” to things that weren’t working. Inequality\, conditions that were poor\, etc. Instead we started saying “yes” to our dreams\, to change\, to what really matters in our hearts. Whether you’ve already taken the first step\, dove in head first to something new\, or lingering with your foot over the gas …TODAY IS THE DAY. We have one life\, let’s make it count.” \nMeg Majors Nichols has a BFA in Photography and Printmaking from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She is a sign painter\,\nlettering artist and muralist. For many years\, Meg travelled internationally as a photojournalist focusing on portraiture\, storytelling and music photography. Her vast world view and love of music\, local culture and people inspire her art every day. Based out of Salem\, MA\, Meg’s focus has been on public art by bringing beauty and joy to outdoor spaces since the pandemic started in 2020. \nwww.mink.studio @m.ink.studio @minkstudio82 \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/meg-nichols-today-is-the-day/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:The Landscapes Between Us
DESCRIPTION:301 Frame Gallery\n301 Cabot Street\nBeverly\, MA 01915\nGallery Hours\n24/7\nDates\nThrough August 6\, 2021 \nBeverly-based artists WILL WEYGINT and CHLOE WILWERDING interrogate the artificiality of the urban and natural landscape in their mixed-media artworks. The Landscapes Between Us brings together these two artists who engage with different yet intersecting ideas around nature and culture. \nWeygint creates large-scale and densely layered paintings that incorporate images gleaned from pop culture\, ready-made objects\, and fictional characters that examine the complexities of the American urban landscape in the 21st century. Iconography denoting modern progress\, such as high-rises\, apartment buildings\, toxic clouds\, and analog and digital technologies\, populate Weygint’s dramatic and surreal compositions\, conveying a sense of alienation\, uncertainty\, and loss. Wilwerding’s digital prints on canvas similarly express a sense of detachment\, viewing the natural landscape and its representation as a human contrivance. She uses stock photos commonly used for commercial purposes as her base images\, which she then overlays with small\, digitally embroidered discs that serve both to magnify the image and reference a kind of ocular lens. The embroidered discs also cheekily allude to merit badges\, some with cliched sayings and like the types earned for completing different organized outdoor activities. Through these visual strategies\, Wilwerding proposes that the concept of nature is a cultural construct that we perform and surmount through regulated and structured interactions and activities.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/the-landscapes-between-us/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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