Critic's picks May 16, 2008
Tonight and tomorrow, Intermezzo performs chamber operas by Satie and Charles Shadle at Massachusetts College of Art and Design's Tower Auditorium. Tomorrow, the Spectrum Singers present "Shakespeare in Song" at Emmanuel Church. (Boston Globe)
Framingham grad makes impact in fashion May 12, 2008
Bautista, 23, a native of the Dominican Republic and a 2003 Framingham High graduate, is now a senior at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. "Clothes can make you something you're not. It's important to find clothes that reflect who you are," said Bautista. (Framingham TAB, MA)
Critics' picks - classical music May 11, 2008
Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Massachusetts College of Art and Design's Tower Auditorium, 621 Huntington Avenue. 617-899-4261. (Boston Globe)
Carmen Marc Valvo finds new glamour in old Hollywood May 8, 2008
Fashion House at District (180 Lincoln St., 617-426-0180, ), weekly at 10 p.m. Student designers from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design show their frocks at an afterparty at the club tonight ... com), weekly at 10 p.m. - Student designers from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design show their frocks at an afterparty at the club tonight. (Boston Globe)
Rising stars in visual arts Apr 18, 2008
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Life and death amid peaks and valleys Apr 17, 2008
McPhee, who teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, looks at an uninhabited mountain area that fire had ravaged two years earlier - hence the title. She shows rebirth intertwined with desolation. (Boston Globe)
Red Sox faithful revel in sun, ceremony Apr 9, 2008
At the other end of the line, Matt Maderos had wandered over from his job at Massachusetts College of Art and Design during his lunch break and decided on a whim to see if he could get tickets. "I've got a snowball's chance in hell," said the 37-year-old Quincy resident. (Boston Globe)
'Survey' explores edge of region Apr 8, 2008
Barbara Bosworth, who teaches at Massachusetts College of Art + Design, admits to being "obsessed with the physical world." The three color photographs from her series "Meadow, Carlisle, Massachusetts" are almost picture-window big (40 inches by 50 inches), but the keenest-eyed looker would be hard pressed to find such clarity and detail looking through even the clearest window. Her images are like middle-linebacker ballerinas: simultaneous marvels of muscular scale and exquisite delicacy. (Boston Globe)
Edward Baker, top designer for Boston Ballet; at 65 Apr 8, 2008
"In addition to the dancers' costumes, Mr. Baker also had to make the head for the donkey and the large fairy wings for "Midsummer," said Arthur Leeth, a former dancer with the ballet."Eddie was a great guy and a heck of a lot of fun," he said.In appearance, Mr. Baker did not look like a ballet dancer himself, friends said, but more like Father Christmas. John Steczynski, Mr. Baker's companion of 25 years, said little was known of Mr. Baker's life before he was 2, when he was adopted from the... (Boston Globe)
'A great art teacher' Apr 8, 2008
" I asked.What followed were thoughtful responses. It seems Legere, who is the seventh-grade art teacher at the Cooperative Middle School, respects individuals' differences. These students' responses indicated that Legere gave assignments and had expectations for her students but was open to the individual's own artistic vision, approach and process.One youth described in detail a project that really drew her in. She became so involved and interested in what she was creating that she was not... (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Consortium calls for creative collegians for bike rack design Mar 27, 2008
Anybody interested in the contest should contact Rose at the UrbanArts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design at 617-879-7973. Page 1 of 1. (Northeastern News, MA)
Real estate reps, students spar city rule Mar 15, 2008
The ordinance was spearheaded by City Councilor Michael Ross, who represents Mission Hill, a neighborhood densely populated by Northeastern, Wentworth Institute of Technology and Massachusetts College of Art and Design students, and others. He said the ordinance was designed to lower rents and create more affordable housing for families. (Northeastern News, MA)
'Representative Locations' explores land use Mar 9, 2008
"Representative Locations," which runs through March 19 at the President's Gallery at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, is drawn from the holdings of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, a Southern California-based research institute that looks at issues relating to planning and landscape ... At: the President's Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 621 Huntington Ave., through March 19. (Boston Globe)
Boston Printmakers 60th anniversary exhibit travels to Gordon College Mar 7, 2008
The Boston Printmakers were founded by a small group of students and faculty from the Boston Museum School and the Massachusetts College of Art in 1947. Their first exhibit featured a variety of contemporary printmaking forms for that time period, including etchings and drypoints, lino cuts, engravings, lithographs, woodcuts, wood-engravings, and the newly popular serigraph, which is a silkscreen process. (Hamilton Wenham Chronicle, MA)
What is it good for? Mar 4, 2008
Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 621 Huntington Ave., Boston. 617-879-7333. (Boston Globe)
Creative duo's giant puppets hold mirror up to culture Mar 2, 2008
EDUCATION: Attended the Massachusetts College of Art and the Audubon Expedition Institute. HOBBIES: Playing and inventing games. (News & Observer)
Artist Ana Maria Pacheco's work bears silent witness Feb 29, 2008
Other artists have incisively addressed this subject; Jenny Holzer's screenprints of government documents currently at Mass MoCA and in Massachusetts College of Art and Design's "War Stories" exhibit come to mind. But few make you feel so caught up in the middle of it. (Boston Globe)
Prout student artists win awards Feb 29, 2008
Looking forward to studying industrial design or illustrating, Josh is deciding between the Massachusetts College of Art and Rhode Island School of Design. This was his first award for art. (Westerly Sun, RI)
How effective are the promo spots airing on local TV? Feb 27, 2008
Our panel: Frederic Brunel, a marketing professor and consumer psychologist at Boston University; Emily Drees, a graphic design student at Massachusetts College of Art and Design; and Steve Almond, an Arlington author whose new collection of essays is called (Not That You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions. You can watch the spots at. (Boston Globe)
The enduring attempt to come to grips with war Feb 21, 2008
"War Stories," the small, nuanced exhibit at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, buzzes with dozens of stories about the war in Iraq, each carving out its nook of understanding ... At: Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 621 Huntington Ave., through March 12. (Boston Globe)
Balancing act: Feb 18, 2008
John Russell is a professor of art history and archaeology at the Massachusetts College of Art and vice president of the Archaeological Institute of America. He said the research value of artifacts plummets when the provenance is lost or tainted because knowing the archaeological context of a piece can tell researchers as much about a culture as the artifact itself. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Computer music composer is multi-talented Feb 6, 2008
This Massachusetts College of Art and Design-hosted event displayed visual artist Jimmy Joe Roche's spastic and colorful film compiled of Arnold Schwarzenegger movies including, but not limited to, Conan the Barbarian (1982), Terminator II: Judgment Day (1991), and even Kindergarten Cop (1990) and Junior (1994). With an original score by Deacon and dueling drums from Kevin O'Meara and Jeremy Hyman, Ultimate Reality, tells the story of Schwarzenegger's struggle to protect Jon Connor (Terminator)... (The Suffolk Journal, MA)
NESAD shows Boston student winners Feb 6, 2008
This year's winners included Kaitlyn Emerson, Kristin Kyper, and Daniel Murphy, all from the Massachusetts College of Art. Also from Mass Art were three honorable mentions, Rachel Akiba, Brian Duffy, and Conor Maguire, with the fourth honorable mention going to Patrick Short of Boston University's Fine Arts Department. (The Suffolk Journal, MA)
Ruth Cobb, at 93; paintings evoked a dreamlike state Feb 3, 2008
After graduating from Dorchester High School for Girls in 1931, she entered Massachusetts College of Art and graduated in 1935. While there, she met Lawrence Kupferman, another art student. (Boston Globe)
Jen Trute, the reluctant painter Jan 21, 2008
As a student at the nearby Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, she expressed that same ambivalence about committing to a life as a painter. Trute shifted back and forth from an emphasis on fine art to commercial art during her time there. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Student and his family open up on toll of depression, risk of suicide Jan 17, 2008
Haas, who plans to study photography next fall at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, said it was time for someone to speak up about an issue that, according to national estimates, affects more than 2 million American teenagers every year. "I'm happy to do it, especially since no one else seemed to be doing it," he said in an interview last week, wearing cargo pants and work boots in the living room of his family's home in Needham. (Boston Globe)
Blogging under 21 Jan 3, 2008
Massachusetts College of Art: The variety of events at Mass Art is impressive, including musicians who play "progressive, avant, often electronica-based music ranging from dance-pop, to metal, to abrasive noise-music," Pearl says. He also notes that "their shows are always all ages, and are usually five bucks to enter." Pitchfork-feted "indy-dance pop-culture kingpin of our generation" Dan Deacon is scheduled to play the Pozen Center on Jan. 31. (Boston Globe)
Investing in education Dec 26, 2007
Similarly, a proposed Design and Media Center will help keep the Massachusetts College of Art and Design at the front ranks of design education, an increasingly important economic engine. At the state's 15 community colleges, the bond bill will fund construction of new allied health buildings on four campuses as well as the complete modernization and rehabilitation of science and general academic buildings on most of the remaining campuses. (Boston Globe)
Fashion Blog Dec 21, 2007
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Charlestown's Green Cafe explores polar attractions Dec 14, 2007
"They re meant to be notations of the light," says Siebel, who is on the faculty of Wellesley College and the Massachusetts College of Art as well as the visiting faculty of Harvard University and Rhode Island School of Design. "The light is beautiful, the kind of light I ve always been dreaming about," she says. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Baby clothes make a political statement Dec 13, 2007
"The parents are saying 'Look at me. I'm talking politics with my toddler,' " said Sondra Grace, head of fashion design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. " 'My baby is in the movement.' ". (Boston Globe)
Jack Nolan, unusual blend of an artist, scientist; at 83 Dec 4, 2007
Jack Nolan was president of Massachusetts College of Art in Boston ... The hemispheres that harbor logic and creativity each prospered during a career that began at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory, where Mr. Nolan was head of the computer systems group, and leaped across the divide when he became president of the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston ... While the school searched for a more expansive campus to accommodate the growth, it fought to remain... (Boston Globe)
lobbying heavily to become UMass-Salem Dec 1, 2007
The other colleges seeking to change their status are Bridgewater State, Fitchburg State, Framingham State, Westfield State, Worcester State, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and Massachusetts Maritime Academy. All but five states, including Massachusetts, call their public colleges universities. (Allston Brighton TAB, MA)
Keynotes for Nov. 29 Nov 29, 2007
A 2001 graduate of Massachusetts College of Art with a BFA in filmmaking, Kessler works with a view camera, using black and white film, which he processes and prints himself. His high quality, fine arts photographs have been shown in museums and galleries throughout the world. (Hudson Sun, MA)
Public colleges want to graduate to university status Nov 25, 2007
In addition to the Bridgewater and Salem state colleges, the nine public colleges are Fitchburg State, Framingham State, Westfield State, Worcester State, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and Massachusetts Maritime Academy ... Most of the colleges would probably decide to become universities, but the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and Massachusetts Maritime Academy would probably keep their current... (Boston Globe)
Growing number of foreclosures creates a new scam Nov 25, 2007
He teaches the craft at the Massachusetts College of Art. Smith settled deep into the home. (Boston Globe)
A helping of 'October Road' Nov 22, 2007
Boston animator David Schlafman's minute-long public service announcement on global warming has won a national contest and landed the Massachusetts College of Art alum a new Toyota hybrid SUV. "It's absolutely insane," Schlafman told us yesterday. "I'm literally walking two inches off the ground." Schlafman's spot - "The Sky Is Falling" - was picked by the public in online voting after being selected as one of 20 national finalists by a panel of celeb judges that included George Clooney, Cameron... (Boston Globe)
Hottest suburban dad alive Nov 15, 2007
A local animation director, the Massachusetts College of Art alum is one of 20 finalists in a major global-warming public-service announcement contest called, dramatically enough, "60 Seconds to Save the Earth." The bad news is that the deadline for voting has passed. The good news is that George Clooney and Cameron Diaz are the celebrity judges, and both have cartoons in their backgrounds - Clooney in "South Park" and Diaz in "Shrek." The winner, who'll be announced next week, gets a Toyota... (Boston Globe)
Girl power by the book Nov 15, 2007
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Kennedy Building, Room 406, 621 Huntington Ave. or. Send your campus events to. (Boston Globe)
CRITICS' PICKS VISUAL ARTS Nov 11, 2007
"A Room With a View: The Photography of Abelardo Morell" at Amherst College's Mead Art Museum includes 32 images by the Cuban-born photographer, who also teaches at Massachusetts College of Art + Design. Career retrospectives are rarely this small. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Fans charged in Fenway frenzy submit essays Nov 9, 2007
In her essay, Monica Majewski, an 18-year-old student at Massachusetts College of Art, said she was arrested only because she was unable to get out of the way of a line of officers marching down Park Drive. She described the bewilderment and bitterness she felt when she was forced to the ground by two large officers and restrained with plastic ties. (Boston Globe)
TEMPO: Tang:From the Fire Tower new exhibit Nov 3, 2007
(Use arrows above to view more photos) Searle received her training at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, where she earned her bachelor of fine arts degree and studied privately with Vern Broe in Richmond, Maine. In 2002 she won the Best of Show award for her oil painting Red Noon in the Newburyport Art Association Members Juried Competition. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Ordinary becomes extraordinary Nov 2, 2007
Morell, who teaches photography at Massachusetts College of Art + Design, can also use the technique for comedy. "Camera Obscura Image of Manhattan View Looking West in Empty Room" is a study in incongruity. (Boston Globe)
Cultures unite at Hindu festival Oct 29, 2007
On Saturday, Northeastern and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS) hosted a celebration that featured live music, food and a variety of dances at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design gymnasium. Students at other Boston-area schools, like Boston University, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had already held their celebrations. (Northeastern News, MA)
O'Brien's blog Oct 26, 2007
The Massachusetts College of Art and Design student and his buddy passed on standing-room only seats to Game 1 on Wednesday, believing they d get good seats if they stayed overnight and moved up to the front of the line, which, by the way, was about 600 strong, all the way down the block, four or five across, by Thursday afternoon. Sam, who s from Eliot, Maine, had slept in a tent overnight, and was wearing the same clothes he wore when he got here at 1 p.m. Wednesday. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
For fliers and weavers, it's good to be home Oct 22, 2007
Carroll, a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art, and fellow artist Linda Gilbert, an alumnus of the Rhode Island School of Design, teach the participants the weaving techniques, tailoring the various duties to each individual's capability. Carroll stresses, however, that it is not a weaving class as much as it is job training. (Pawtucket Times, RI)
Column: Missing bike stirs mixed emotions Oct 22, 2007
The bicyclist was Gordon Riker, a 22-year-old Massachusetts College of Art and Design graduate. The afternoon of April 4, he'd been riding his fixed gear from his Jamaica Plain apartment to a job on Newbury Street when a collision with a taxi threw him under the wheels of a dump truck. (Northeastern News, MA)
Broad new strokes for an art school Oct 11, 2007
But in recent years the school has faced increased competition from other art schools such as Massachusetts College of Art, Maine College of Art, and New Hampshire Institute of the Arts, said Laura Tonelli, the school's dean of academic affairs. This, along with increased program offerings by public and private colleges, contributed to the shrinking enrollment, said Sturnick. (Boston Globe -- Local)
Massachusetts, by design Oct 9, 2007
"Design is an economic sector that doesn't act like an economic sector," says Beate Becker, project director of Designing an Industry, an initiative launched this year by the Massachusetts College of Art and Design using state and Boston Foundation funds. With an advisory committee of members in government, business, and education, the initiative seeks to raise design's profile. (Boston Globe)
Muriel Cooper: The unsung heroine of on-screen style Oct 1, 2007
Born in 1925, she originally joined MIT as a designer after graduating from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1952. Some of the books she designed for the MIT Press - like Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour's "Learning from Las Vegas" (1972) and Herbert Muschamp's "File Under Architecture" (1974) - are on every design buff's must-have list. (International Herald Tribune)
A bold exhibit of Mexican street art Sep 28, 2007
"Sensacional! Mexican Street Graphics," a superficially vibrant exhibition at the Massachusetts College of Art + Design, promises a taste of authentic regional visual cuisine ... At: Massachusetts College of Art + Design through Dec. 1. (Boston Globe)
Police chief to end law enforcement career after three decades Sep 27, 2007
Garvin took up acting after seeing a buddy do it at the Massachusetts College of Art. He joined a theater group there, was in several plays, and has been an extra in Showtime's "Brotherhood," as well as in several films, including "21" and Ben Affleck's upcoming directorial debut, "Gone Baby Gone.". (Boston Globe -- Local)
The art of alignment Sep 23, 2007
He spent a year learning English and then began taking courses wherever he could: the Massachusetts College of Art, Emerson College, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. He received bachelor's and master's degrees from the Massachusetts College of Art and decided to enroll in a Phd program at Boston University. (Boston Globe -- Local)
The queens of quads Sep 19, 2007
At home, their first exposition bout against the Providence league took place on St. Patrick s Day 2006, in the gym at the Massachusetts College of Art. It seated 600 people, and we sold out in the first 10 minutes, McCloskey said. (Wilmington Advocate, MA)
One man's 17 million words inspire an opera Sep 15, 2007
Tonight through Sunday at Tower Auditorium Theater, Massachusetts College of Art. 617-899-4261. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Say hello to ellO Sep 15, 2007
"I graduated from Massachusetts College of Art, where I got my degree in fashion design," said DiLando. "Both of my grandmothers sewed, and my mother's mother made wedding dresses for all of her friends. I started by making clothes in high school, then I decided that it was something I could make a career out of.". (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Birth control ills Sep 14, 2007
The Massachusetts College of Art in Boston used to offer the pills for free, but no longer provides them at all. Congress should act quickly to amend the 2005 law and encourage drug companies to resume the deep discounts for colleges and other clinics. (Boston Globe)
Photographer Abelardo Morell is focus of new documentary ''Shadow of the House'' Sep 13, 2007
An internationally acclaimed photographer who teaches at Massachusetts College of Art, Morell has to deal with them in his work. He also has spent his life living in the shadow of Cuba, which he fled with his parents and sister in 1962, when he was 13. (Boston Globe)
Violinist joins Seattle's rotation Sep 10, 2007
They are professors of design at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and graphic designers. The local presentation of the show is being organized by the director of SDSU's University Art Gallery, Tina Yapelli, along with Susan Merritt, who heads SDSU's Graphic Design Program. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Art and science merge in northern horizons show Sep 10, 2007
Jane Marsching, an assistant professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, integrated culture, history and science to remark on ecological concerns. She founded her work on the belief that the northern regions, and the North Pole in particular, represent something in our imagination, whether absolute wilderness or a spiritual summit. (Anchorage Daily News)
Allan Rohan Crite, 97, dean of N.E. African-American artists Sep 8, 2007
Mr. Crite also took classes at Boston University and Massachusetts College of Art. In 1968, he earned a bachelor's degree from the Harvard Extension School. (Boston Globe)
URI exhibit focuses on our soldiers headed to war Sep 8, 2007
A Chicago native, Beckett earned an MFA in 2006 from the Massachusetts College of Art. She is now an instructor there and at the University of Connecticut. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Art for our sake Sep 2, 2007
"We don't need the arts in our schools to raise mathematical and verbal skills - we already target these in math and language arts. We need the arts because in addition to introducing students to aesthetic appreciation, they teach other modes of thinking we value.For students living in a rapidly changing world, the arts teach vital modes of seeing, imagining, inventing, and thinking. If our primary demand of students is that they recall established facts, the children we educate today will find... (Boston Globe)
More of this story Aug 25, 2007
Dolan graduated in May from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston with a degree in photography. For the Middletown resident, her adventurous youth played a large role in her investigating the art behind a camera lens. (Newport Daily News, RI)
From simply adorable to deliciously sophisticated Aug 6, 2007
Here in Boston, we've seen it in two recent exhibits of work by Japanese artists: Shintaro Miyake's "Beaver No Seikatsu" at Massachusetts College of Art, which involved the artist walking around in public in a beaver costume, and at the Institute of Contemporary Art in the cheerful, doll-filled installation by Japanese artist Misaki Kawai. There are some frustratingly adorable pieces in this show, such as Chinatsu Ban's "Fish Eyes -- Sixth of Ten Brothers," a fiberglass elephant with a pert... (Boston Globe -- Living)
