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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:Artist Talk + 3D Collage Workshop: Loretta Park
DESCRIPTION:Artist Talk + 3D Collage Workshop with Loretta Park \nOpen the public \nLoretta Park Exhibition Information
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/artist-talk-3d-collage-workshop-loretta-park/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talks
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SUMMARY:Faculty in Conversation: Martha Buskirk
DESCRIPTION:Art historian Martha Buskirk will discuss growing up surrounded by the work of her mother\, fiber artist Mary Balzer Buskirk\, as well as the ongoing process of responding to her legacy. After taking up weaving during graduate studies at Cranbrook\, Mary Balzer Buskirk maintained an active studio and exhibition practice integrated into the rhythms of family life via a studio adjacent to the living room. Martha wrote the catalog essay for a 2001 retrospective of her mother’s textile work at the Monterey Museum of Art\, and since then she has been engaged in various efforts to find appropriate homes for pieces that remained in the family collection. As part of the talk\, Martha will bring in examples of her mother’s work. \nHardie Room 101\, 23 Essex Street\, Beverly \n\n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/faculty-in-conversation-martha-buskirk/
LOCATION:Hardie 101\, 23 Essex Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talks,Event
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Lindsey Mason
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a public artist talk from Montserrat alumna Lindsey Mason (’11). \nLindsey Mason has designed products and packaging for brands as large as Target\, Walmart\, and Jo-Ann’s Fabrics. She will be talking about her work\, her professional journey\, and what to think about when designing packaging. \nGoogle Meet: meet.google.com/trr-jiev-pne
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/artist-talk-lindsey-mason-11/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Artist Talks
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240317
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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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SUMMARY:North Shore Game Jam 2024
DESCRIPTION:Montserrat presents North Shore Game Jam 2024! \nDon’t miss our Keynote speaker\, Matt Boehm\, Senior Animator at Blizzard Entertainment on Thursday\, Jan 25 at 7 pm. Matt will talk about his path into game development and show some of his work. \nThen the 3-day game creation event kicks off on Friday\, Jan 26 at 5 pm. Work alone or join a team to create tabletop games or video games. Novice or experienced\, all are welcome! \nAll events are held at 23 Essex Street\, Hardie 101\, Beverly. Open to the public! \nSign up at here or email brandon.troelstrup@montserrat.edu for more info.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/north-shore-game-jam/
LOCATION:Hardie 101\, 23 Essex Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brandon Troelstrup":MAILTO: brandon.troelstrup@montserrat.edu 
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SUMMARY:How to Draw a Horse
DESCRIPTION:  \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/how-to-draw-a-horse/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231210
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SUMMARY:Worlds Collide
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URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/worlds-collide/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231215
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SUMMARY:Quête de Fil
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nM-F\, 8:30am–9pm
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/quete-de-fil/
LOCATION:Library Gallery\, 23 Essex Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231128
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SUMMARY:Point of Inspiration
DESCRIPTION:Bare Gallery\n1A Knowlton Street\nBeverly\, MA 01915\nGallery Hours\nBy Appointment: galleries@montserrat.edu\nDates\nNovember 9–27\, 2023
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/point-of-inspiration/
LOCATION:Bare Gallery\, 275 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240204
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SUMMARY:Tom Radovich: Wonder Room
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nOpen to Montserrat community M-F\, 10am-5pm or by appointment: gallery@montserrat.edu \nThomas Radovich is the former Associate Director of Admissions and an artist who works in woodcarving\, painting\, printmaking\, and animation to explore topics of nostalgia\, memory\, and play. His current body of work is a series of wood carvings based off his childhood drawings. \nAs a child\, Radovich created over a thousand figurative drawings on paper that he would transform into paper cut-out figures. He would then integrate the cut-outs into play with other action figures. His grandmother preserved these drawings in a manila folder labeled “Thomas Cut-outs.” The folder of cut-outs grew into a shoebox full of over 1\,200 drawings. \nSince 2017\, Radovich has created carved wood sculptures based on his childhood drawings. In these whimsical wood sculptures\, Radovich carefully recreates the details of the original drawings — gloss medium recreates Scotch tape that was used to repair drawings\, tears in the original drawing are recreated with a box cutter\, and the yellowing of the paper over time is reproduced with diluted acrylic paint. \nRadovich’s installation\, Wonder Room\, presents several hundred of his miniature wood figures. They are displayed on thrifted and vintage shelving units\, evoking the imaginative and interior space of an adolescent  bedroom filled with collections and playthings. \nAfter creating hundreds of these wood sculptures\, Radovich began creating animations with them including a series of stop-motion animations retelling Dragon Ball Z\, a cartoon that he has not seen in two decades\, from memory. \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/tom-radovich-wonder-room/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231202
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SUMMARY:Jen Corace: Paper to Pages
DESCRIPTION:Artist Talk: Tuesday\, November 7th\, 11am-12pm\, H101 \nJen Corace is an artist and freelance illustrator who lives and works in Providence\, Rhode Island. Originally from the suburbs of southern New Jersey\, they eventually made her way to the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated with a BFA in illustration. Their career\, like any freelancer\, has involved many clients over the years including but not limited to Crate and Barrel\, Mudpuppy\, Real Simple Magazine\, Harmonix and Tin House. In children’s books they have collaborated with such authors as Mac Barnett\, Jane Yolen and Amy Krouse Rosenthal. They have developed bodies of work for solo and group shows in galleries from New York to Japan and are currently spending their time learning ceramic techniques wherein they apply their illustration knowledge to the surface design of the pieces they create.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/jen-corace-paper-to-pages-2/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231102
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SUMMARY:Nightmare Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Bare Gallery\n1A Knowlton Street\nBeverly\, MA 01915\nGallery Hours\nBy Appointment: galleries@montserrat.edu\nDates\nOctober 10–November 1\, 2023
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/nightmare-gallery/
LOCATION:Bare Gallery\, 275 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231119
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SUMMARY:Wells Chandler: Psychedelic Soccer Dada
DESCRIPTION:Opening in the newly renovated Montserrat Gallery is the first regional solo exhibition by the Bronx-based artist\, Wells Chandler. Chandler uses vernacular and so-called “craft” materials\, such as patchwork\, crochet\, clay\, cake\, and other media to build queer communities alongside and with others. Highlighting Chandler’s extensive drawing practice\, Psychedelic Soccer Dada is an immersive experience featuring the artist’s iconic crocheted drawings of whimsical yarn figures and objects\, patchwork bean bag chairs\, drawings made in collaboration with the artist’s friends and students\, as well as selections from Chandler’s extensive collection of drawings made by neurodiverse artists. In the exhibition\, Chandler engages with histories of art that celebrate\, rather than exclude\, diversity and queerness as its dominant language. \nWells Chandler is a Bronx based artist who explores ecology\, community\, gender and queer iconography through the mediums of crochet\, embroidery\, drawing and cake. He received his MFA from Yale University in 2011 where he was awarded the Ralph Mayer Prize for proficiency in materials and techniques. From 2016-17 he was a recipient of the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program. Recent solo exhibitions include Galerie Eric Mouchet (Brussels\, Belgium)\, Andrew Rafacz (Chicago\, IL)\, Diablo Rosso (Panama City\, Panama)\, and Galerie Eric Mouchet (Paris\, France). Recent group exhibitions include International Objects (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Goldfinch Gallery (Chicago\, IL)\, and Helena Anrather (New York\, NY).  His work has been reviewed by Roxane Gay\, Art Forum\, The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Hyperallergic\, The Huffington Post\, TimeOut\, Modern Painters\, and Two Coats of Paint. Chandler is a Soloway gallery member.  He is a Visiting Assistant Professor at SUNY Purchase where he has taught for four years.  In the Spring of 2023\, Chandler was appointed the Teiger Mentor in the Arts at Cornell. \nRelated Events \nUnless noted\, all events are free and open to the public. \nArtist Talk: Monday\, September 25th\, 11am-12pm\, H101 \nArtist Reception: Monday\, September 25th\, 5-7pm\, Montserrat Gallery \n*Puff the Magic Dragon Puff Paint Workshop with Wells Chandler Monday\, October 2nd\, 11am-12pm\, Montserrat Gallery \n*Sweet Lines Cake Decorating Workshop\, Friday\, October 20\, 3-5pm\, Montserrat Gallery \nPunch Needle Workshop with textile artist\, Haley Wood\, Friday\, November 3rd\, 3-5pm\, Montserrat Gallery \nDrop Dead Fred Online Drawing Workshop with Wells Chandler\, Monday\, November 13th\, Siesta (Zoom link to follow) \n*Montserrat Students Only. \n  \nThe exhibition is funded\, in part\, by the Massachusetts Office of Travel  & Tourism.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/wells-chandler-psychedelic-soccer-dada/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:HYLOMORPHISM
DESCRIPTION:Bare Gallery\n248 Cabot Street\nBeverly\, MA 01915\nGallery Hours\nM-F\, 10am–5pm\nDates\nSeptember 19–October 6\, 2023
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/hylomorphism/
LOCATION:Bare Gallery\, 275 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Shapeshifters
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wednesday\, September 20\, 5-7pm \nShapeshifters explores themes of change and transformation. Drawing on the fantastical\, morphological\, and psychological associations with shapeshifting\, the participating artists seek to transgress or transcend the corporeal and psychic dimensions of the self or the collective consciousness. Themes of impermanence and fragility also permeate the work\, both in terms of its content and material. \nMultidisciplinary artist Anukriti explores meditative reinventions of prayer that seek to embody notions of queer spirituality. Aris Moore (Montserrat College of Art ’98) reinvents ideas of portraiture through the creation of anthropomorphic figures that represent or stand-in for a myriad of human emotions that are both endearing and complex. Boston-based artist\, Rose Ranauro\, creates vibrant paintings that depict contorted and mutable bodies\, often through aspects of play and movement\, that serve as proxies for the artist’s own body and find connections between her intuitive self and the physical body. In a new and ongoing series of drawings\, Catalina Viejo Lopez de Roda (Montserrat College of Art ’05) depicts varied drawings of heads of faces that emit or absorb light\, reflecting a continuous state of transformation. \nAnukriti works in various media\, including painting\, sculpture\, and animation. They received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in 2021 from the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM).  Anukriti has exhibited their work locally including the Distillery Gallery and a recent solo exhibition at the Boston Center for the Arts Mills Gallery in 2022.  Anukriti divides their time between Boston and New Delhi. \nAris Moore graduated with her BFA in painting and drawing from Montserrat College of Art in 1998. She previously taught visual art at Pentucket Regional Middle School in West Newbury\, Massachusetts for twenty-one years.  In 2012\, Aris earned her MFA in painting and drawing from the Art Institute of Boston. She has exhibited throughout the United States and her work has been included in art fairs throughout Europe. Her inaugural solo exhibition was presented by Jack Hanley Gallery in NYC in 2012. Recent press includes the northeast edition of New American Paintings\, Creative Block and Collage by Danielle Krysa\, and Fukt Magazine.  Aris lives and works in Portsmouth\, New Hampshire. \nRosie Ranauro is a multi-disciplinary artist\, working predominantly in painting and performance. She lives in Jamaica Plain\, MA\, and graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2011 with a BFA in painting. She is currently an artist in residence at the Boston Center for the Arts. Ranauro has exhibited her work locally and internationally\, most recently at Untitled\, Miami and a 2021 solo show with Lamontagne Gallery called ‘Grow More Eyes’\, which explored the resiliency of the body. \nCatalina Viejo Lopez de Roda was born in Malaga\, but raised in the Canary Islands\, Spain. She currently lives and works in Hudson\, NY. She holds an MFA from Hunter College\, NY and a BFA from Montserrat College of Art. Her work has been included in national and international exhibitions including; HallSpace\, Boston\, MA; ProtoGomez Gallery\, New York\, NY; A.I.R Gallery\, Brooklyn\, NY; The Panacea Museum\, Bedford\, U.K; Bronx Art Space\, Bronx\, NY and The Art Complex Museum\, Duxbury\, MA. Her work has been covered by publications including; The Boston Globe\, Hyperallergic\, Artscope\, The Brooklyn Rail\, The Brooklyn Paper and Vanity Fair Italia. She has received numerous fellowships to attend artist residencies\, including; Residency 108\, Germantown\, NY\, Jentel Arts\, Sheridan\, WY and Saltonstall\, Ithaca\, NY. \nRelated Events: \nArtist Talk: Catalina Viejo\, Wednesday\, September 20\, 11-12pm \nArtist Talk: Rosie Ranauro\, Wednesday\, October 18\, 11-12pm \n  \nImage: Catalina Viejo Lopez de Roda. Drawings detail from the series Light Beings\, 2023.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/shapeshifters/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Midnight Snack: An Installation by Real Fake Animals
DESCRIPTION:Midnight Snack is a surrealist\, soft-sculpture installation created by the artist collective Real Fake Animals (RFA)\, an interstate collaborative group of artists spanning the east coast. Fueled by the yearning of artists wanting to create\, emotion is evoked in the installation through the expressive nature of puppetry and props. \nOn one side of the 301 Frame Gallery is an installation of  over two hundred puppet heads – compressed together in the form of a fleece blanket and created in a range of skin tones– stare out in a silent scream.  Through a tessellated pattern\, the blanket realizes the repetitious physical nature of craft in real space. In the adjacent window space\, an installation of an overflowing refrigerator brimming with an abundance of food and props spilled haphazardly. Among them\, a figure peeks out furtively\, as though caught red-handed sneaking a late-night snack. The viewers\, made an unwilling participant\, take the figure aback — revealing the scene’s sense of inner conflict\, hinting at hidden desires and untapped creative urges. \nReal Fake Animals\, a cutting-edge collective of multimedia artists\, possesses an eclectic range of skills and boundless creative abilities. Their shared desire to experiment thrives within a nurturing community space\, fostering a culture of inspiration and camaraderie that fuels the creative spirit among peers. Real Fake Animals include: \nColman Berube \nChloe Carleton \nHannah Daigle \nMax Foster \nKili Gallagher \nCoco Haseltine \nWill Higgins \nAngie Iacurci \nKal Klaza \nKiran Marwaha \nSam Rose \nQuill Rose \n  \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/midnight-snack/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Shallow Waters: Views from the Bahamas.
DESCRIPTION:An Exhibition of works done over the summer Josue Bessiake\nGallery Hours\nM-F\, 10am–5pm\nDates\nSeptember 5–15\, 2023 \nClosing Reception and Talk on Wednesday\, 11-12pm\n  \nThe works displayed show the transformation in my practice from before during and after a trip to the Bahamas. While there I reflected on the difference in light\, color\, and the rich history experienced there. Ranging in media and procedure the work is an amalgamation of ideas processes and discoveries in one summer. After experiencing the light and air of the Bahamas I felt my eyes become open to a range of colors that are at my disposal. Much of my work is predicated on the idea of working from life to gain a sense of empathy with my subjects\, creating something there that is meaningful to me which in turn can be expressed to the viewer. This trip was sparked by an interest in abstraction and to see much deeper. I sought to understand what it was that I had yet to see that made me avert from abstraction. The discover of the late artist Sam Gilliam triggered a great fascination with the idea that something could be expressed through pure color and form. The artist Michael P. Edwards studied directly with Gilliam and happened to work in the Bahamas. Through the help of Ari Montford who also aided in funding the trip\, we were able to connect and I studied with him personally getting a glimpse into the mind of Gilliam as well as learning from Edwards an established artist in his own right. Many of the works are inspired by Gilliam in some way or another\, the most important thing that the works explore is the marriage of differences whether it’s a difference in articulation\, color\, shape\, material\, and most importantly light\, in the hopes of creating new.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/shallow-waters/
LOCATION:Bare Gallery\, 275 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Rose Olson: New Acquisitions
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nOpen to Montserrat community M-F\, 10am-5pm or by appointment: gallery@montserrat.edu \n“I have always been interested in the color of almost anything. Even iridescent nail polish on the hands and feet of women riding the subway fascinates me. But I am especially excited by color created with changing light. I try to emulate hues in the moving sky\, the sea and neon lights. The colors of nature\, the colors of culture and many works of art inform my paintings.”                                                                     \n                                                                                                                                                                   – Rose Olson      \n                                                                                                                                                                                                  \nRose Olson is a prolific and accomplished painter and Faculty Emeritus of Montserrat College of Art. The selection of work presented here\, a generous family gift to the college made in 2022\, spans from Olson’s early landscapes of the 1980s and abstractions of the 1990s to her later minimalist compositions using industrial plywood and liquid acrylics. In her more recent works\, Olson added numerous layers of paint to create sumptuous surfaces that enhance the natural wood grain patterns as the painting builds in luminosity. Colors change as the viewer moves or the light shifts; hard edges and added color bands heighten the works’ spatial effects.  Viewed together\, the works in the exhibition illustrate Olson’s singular vision and eclecticism that has evolved over nearly four decades.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/rose-olson-new-acquisitions-5/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Georgina Lewis: Round the clock dream state
DESCRIPTION:Round the clock dream state presents a complex cycle of grief\, rebirth\, and euphoria to stage a tale of transformation. Using images and materials of the natural world the installation draws on the principles of alchemy and magic. Nighttime photographs of anemones and mugwort share the walls with other images while a chorus of paper sculptures occupies the middle ground. Certain materials recur: wood\, snow\, plastic\, and colored gems. Pinecones transition into brilliant 3D printed versions\, aided by a rose-gold disco ball with whom they share the space. The multiple narratives of the installation function as incantations and promises\, evoking our complex present and a possible fabulous future. \nRaised in Pennsylvania and Nova Scotia\, Georgina Lewis (she/her) is a Boston based artist. She received her MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and holds undergraduate degrees from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and Franklin and Marshall College. Lewis works across media crafting pieces that examine dissonance: what tensions and artifacts result when one or more things come in contact. Her work has been presented at numerous venues\, including Boston University’s 808 gallery\, Grapefruits Art Space\, Portland\, OR\, Acogedor LA\, the Mills Gallery\, and Boston Cyberarts. She has been a resident at the Millay Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts among others and is a Boston Center for the Arts Studio Resident. Georgina is a Core Member of Fountain Street Gallery in Boston.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/round-the-clock-dream-state/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Breaching Dreams - An Illustration Senior Thesis Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wednesday\, May 10\, 5-7PM \n  \nAva Ahern \nMason Browning \nDominic Bruno \nMathilde Domeyer \nMorgen Dutil \nJosh Gallimore \nDylan Giunta \nAnnie Herron \nTy Isakson \nVeronica Mills \nMonique Law \nSam Park \nErin Sheehan \nNatasha Silverio \nMadeline Sophea \nBailey Suggs \nJustine Sczepczenski \nThatcher Tremblay \nChris Walker \nEmelia Washer \n  \n“Breaching Dreams” is the culmination of works which mark the first step in the careers of twenty independent illustrators. A wide range of ideas and mediums have been explored by these artists\, from narrative to conceptual ideas and from individual works to small businesses\, we are proud to present… \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/breaching-dreams/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Altered Expanses
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nOpen to Montserrat community M-F\, 10am-5pm or by appointment: gallery@montserrat.edu \nCurated by Josue Bessiake \nFeaturing Montserrat Students: \nJorielle Arlock \nAoife Bergeron \nCicey LaBella \nAubrey Ochman \nZiggy Smith \nPyre Klein \nAlex Pint \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/altered-expanses/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Here There and Everywhere: An AIM Thesis Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wednesday\, May 3\, 5-7PM \nGwyn Kadish \nJames Kalajian \nGabby Morin \nDylan Silva \nKay Welch \nHere\, There\, and Everywhere is an exhibition featuring the work of fifteen graduating artists\, each with a different story to tell. These artists are not only animators\, game designers\, or toy-makers\, but storytellers\, directors\, and individuals with unique talents and direction. Every project in this exhibition has had an incredible amount of passion and hard work put into it. Though we will soon continue on our separate paths\, we have come together in this moment to celebrate our journey thus far. Before we embark on our separate ways\, we hope you will enjoy our diverse collection of work. May our stories inspire you as much as we have inspired each other.\n\nGwyn Kadish: Losing my best friend was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to go through. I wanted to create meet me under the moon  as a tribute to him\, and as a gift to my family. Quentin was incredibly important to us\, and for me\, was the only friend I ever really had. I don’t feel like I will ever be able to fully recover from his loss\, but I hope this film can help remind me that he’s always watching over me\, and waiting to visit me when I fall asleep.  \nGwyn Kadish is an animator and character designer\, known best for dreamy and romantic themes throughout her work. Her goal is to make the viewer understand the emotions that she feels\, whether it be remembering a dear friend\, or falling in love.  \nJames Kalajian: Mutate  is a project inspired by a broad form of media from anime\, comic books\, and live-action movies. Mutate is a fast-paced animation moving the viewer through with different camera angles and a wide array of shots of people becoming monsters and a hero stepping into action. \n James Kalajian is an artist who lives and breathes animation. He constantly consume animated media from shows\, shorts\, and games\, and love to talk and improve my genre knowledge with my peers. James mainly works in pre-production and post-production and enjoy working with a team and bouncing our creative energy off of each other \nGaby Morin: Sleepy Sheepy  is a short film concept starring Sheepy\, a young sheep living with her Mama. Drift in and out of dreamland with Sheepy as her bedroom morphs into many fleeting dreamscapes. The project acts as a proof of concept\,  comprised of four key art pieces and an animatic\, with soundtrack composed by Samir Chopra. Visually and thematically influenced by children’s picture books and traditional animation of the 1980s\, Sleepy Sheepy  is a charming and comfortable experience for those who can’t seem to stay asleep. \nGabby Morin is a multimedia artist & designer from southern Connecticut. She often works in sequential art forms\, including animation\, comics and picture book illustration. Typically involving themes of comfort and nostalgia\, Gabby aims to captivate viewers with her visual storytelling. When not working on creative projects\, Gabby enjoys playing video games with friends and having a good time!  gabbymorin.myportfolio.com. \nDylan Silva: Gaton is a short film about a superhero origin story that takes place on a planet identical to earth dominated by cat people. The story follows a young adult named Kicha\, stuck in a loop of failure and being forced back home to her parents. As some sort of miracle or cruel twist of fate\, an alien object sought after by an unknown alien threat crash lands in the forest of her hometown. This object revealed to be a high tech suit of combat armor named Beta requests Kicha’s aid in fending off the ruthless invaders but is met with some pushback. However\, a hero’s origin often comes with its growing pains… \nDylan Silva is a character animator and storyboard artist based in Massachusetts\, he’s always looking to try something new and gain some sort of experience or skill from things that interest him. He focuses on creating works that are similar visually and stylistically to cartoons and video games he grew up with from the late 90’s – early 2000’s.  \nKay Welch: Series One  is a collection of four original ~6” action figures packed as if they were a serialized product.  As a concept\, Series One  is a testament to childhood toys and the many stories that they have helped us create\, as well as a statement about the relationship between commercialization and art. Series One  aims to highlight the incredible amount of work that goes into creating a toy. More effort and creativity goes into toys than the average person realizes\, requiring hours of work concepting\, sculpting\, modeling\, and painting to produce just a single toy.  \nKay Welch is an animator\, 3D modeler\, and character artist. They have a passion for art and toys\, inspired by the media they were exposed to as a child. They are primarily interested in exploring how one expresses themselves and experiences complex emotions through the use of a variety of processes\, such as printmaking\, illustration\, and 3D fabrication.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/here-there-and-everywhere-2/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Activating the Surface\, One and Two
DESCRIPTION:A Tim Harney  Collage Projects Class featuring: \nJorielle Arlock\nChris Barensfeld\nJosue Bessiake\nStacey Clavijo\nLucas Santos\nJules Harrer\nSpencer Kall\nDomenic Karis\nAbigail Monson\nAubrey Ochman\nAlexander Pint\nTaliyah Shepard\nMorghan Schnoll\nLynn Andrews\n\n \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/activating-the-surface-one-and-two/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:An Amount of Something: A Design Thesis Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Thursday\, April 27\, 5-7PM \n \nThea Cannon: Between Words is a project centered around the daily journals of my late great-grandfather\, Calvin Young. He had a journal for every year\, spanning from the 1940s to the 1990s. The work uses words from these journals to create poetry\, as well as compositions in which the literal handwriting is placed on photos of mundane life. What do people choose to record\, and what do we experience that is never recorded? What lies between the words of a journal? \n \nStacey Clavijo Spreading Kindness through Design: As someone who is kind and thinks about others first\, I would like others to see the benefits of spreading awareness about the importance of kindness\, as it benefits others psychologically and physically. For my senior thesis\, I am focusing on the importance of kindness by creating collage experiments that visually express examples of kindness\, such as sharing\, receiving\, listening\, giving\, and kindred. I have taken inspiration from Marijn in’ Veid’s Scrambled Heart to create my heart collages\, where the heart shape is formed uniquely\, such as being fragmented into multiple pieces\, and demonstrates a transition of how these pieces rotate differently\, and therefore\, would look scrambled. The palms of hands\, heart pieces\, and backgrounds throughout these collage experiments express the spirit of kindness. \n \nKatie DaSilva Sweet Color: My thesis is mainly based around the exploration of the Munsell Color System along with making recurring experiments with different materials that I’ve come into contact with in my daily life. From using photos of window blinds\, to using the wrappers of my favorite types of candy. \n \nMadison Gerace: It Takes A Village is an exploration into ideas of expression and self expression through my own art\, as well as others’. Exploring the ideas of property values\, community\, and participation\, proving that it takes a village to make a village. Using colorful house templates to bring those who participate into the moment. Proving you don’t have to be an artist to have fun for a couple minutes\, and that you don’t always have to think of the monetary value of something while creating it… maybe it’s worth more than money. Exploring these ideas to reconsider what art is\, what the world is\, or what the world could be. \n \nPatrick Mardy PSYOPTICAL: My thesis project is to investigate how type and imagery can work together. I intend to categorize each design language and try out a wide range of non-normative approaches. \n \nJosh Marsi Transmission 1: With any artist’s work\, even those furthest separated from language\, there’s always stories and emotion acting as their sparks of inspiration. With this\, Transmission 1 looks to show the unseen and untold stories of Josh’s latest works\, offering a selection of writings and childhood stories that served as inspiration for the instrumentals making up his newest EP. \n \nSarah Mason: In Potter’s Field\, Sarah seeks to create a dialogue about humans’ relationship with the environment and the impact of our actions on the world around us. Death is the inevitable end of life\, but it can also serve as a catalyst for new growth and transformation. Each piece represents a moment in time\, a snapshot of a living ecosystem that is directly influenced by the presence and interactions of life and death.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/an-amount-of-something/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:2023 Senior Thesis Exhibitions
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URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/2023-senior-thesis-exhibitions/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Raw - A Senior Thesis Exhibition by Mary Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wednesday\, April 19\, 5-7PM \nArtist  Statement:      \nI explore the juxtaposition between the gruesome and beautiful; seduction and disgust. As a fan of all things horror and gore\, I want to display these qualities in a poetic and colorful way. I play with the application of paint seductively to inspire viewers to look at these works and their complexity. \nMy favorite painters are Hyman Bloom\, Jenny Saville\, and Cecily Brown. Another important inspiration is the book titled\, “Gurlesque”; through this collection of work by female poets\, editors Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenburg explore the importance of the grotesque and delicate from a feminist perspective. Greenburg writes\, “I believe in the zeitgeist: a ‘gurlesque’ aesthetic\, a feminism incorporating the grotesque and cruel with the spangled and dreamy.” My paintings respond to this challenge. \nMary Johnson is a Beverly based student artist at Montserrat College of Art.  Mary is working towards a BFA with a concentration in painting. Themes found in her paintings and mixed media works include the exploration of femininity\, the body\, relationships\, and identity.  Through her Internship\, and her employment at Robert Collins Gallery in Rockport\, she is increasingly involved with working with installation and directly with art going public.  Instagram: xxangelbaby420 \n                           \n                           \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/raw/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:In Hidden Spaces – A Senior Thesis Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Travis Lawless\nReception: Wednesday\, April 19\, 5-7pm \nGallery Hours\nOpen to Montserrat community M-F\, 10am-5pm or by appointment: gallery@montserrat.edu \nIn Hidden Spaces\, a solo exhibition by Travis Lawless\,  is an exploration of humanity’s urge for community and creation\, together. The work lives in conversation with humanity’s fascination with wall art\, and its ever evident presence in communities. Wall art has been a part of humanity farther back than our history is recorded. Lawless combines contemporary mediums such as spray paint with historic wall art imagery\, creating a conversation for this everlasting artform. This can be seen in Signature 2\, where vibrant neon colors and stencil work are utilized with traditional imagery – representing a collaboration of past wall works while embarking on the future as well. This concept of collaboration runs deeper than just time\, as Lawless’s works also shine light to works made in collaboration with their community. For centuries\, humans have collaborated in the process of artmaking upon surfaces around us\, from cave paintings\, murals\, rock carvings to modern graffiti. Re-writing the stigma typically composed around wall art\, artist Lawless hopes to bring this art form out from its tucked away spaces\, brought out to the forefront for society to see and cherish. \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/in-hidden-spaces/
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