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    Artist's job takes a backward approach  Jul 6, 2008
    Art [Massachusetts College of Art and Design], I had no clue what I wanted to do. My dentist, who collected clocks, asked me if I knew how to do reverse glass painting. (Boston Globe)

    At the Senior Center: June 26-July 4  Jun 27, 2008
    The instructor, Elizabeth Taylor has a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and attended the SMFA from 1998 through 2004. She has been an artist for the past 10 years and has a studio in the South End. (Brookline TAB, MA)

    Neighbors (June 26)  Jun 25, 2008
    This fall, he will attend Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. The following Needham students graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. (Needham Tab, MA)

    Exercising his independence: Man, 99, heading to Ireland  Jun 17, 2008
    In his retiring years, he worked at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where one of his paintings hung in the president's office. "Those were the best years of my life," he said. (Framingham TAB, MA)

    Mourners, memorabilia reflect colorful life of art teacher  Jun 16, 2008
    before moving to the Boston area, where she studied at the Massachusetts College of Art. After beginning work at the Perkins School in the 1990s, she received a master's in education from Lesley University. (Boston Globe)

    Celebrating equine majesty, adaptability  Jun 15, 2008
    "Human Nature: The Photographs of Barbara Bosworth": The Phoenix Art Museum presents a sampling of nearly two decades' of work - more than 40 images in all - by the noted nature photographer, who teaches at Massachusetts College of Art + Design. 1625 North Central Ave., 602-257-1222. (Boston Globe)

    NAHS Class of 2008 graduate list  Jun 14, 2008
    Allison Fortuna Massachusetts College of Art. Matthew Foster Keene State College. (North Andover Citizen, MA)

    Voyeurs Under Fire for Taping Lesbians  Jun 14, 2008
    Massachusetts College of Art and Design students Rosanne Strott and Emily Niland were in bed together when at least two young men videotaped them from a Wentworth Institute of Technology dormitory across the alley ... According to a police account, the two men apparently filmed the incident from their dorm room, which directly faces Strott's at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. (ABC News)

    Epping High School names top 10 seniors  Jun 13, 2008
    Accepted at Massachusetts College of Art and New Hampshire Institute of Art, Mark plans to major in graphic arts or fine art at the University of Hartford, where he will receive an Artistic Merit Scholarship. Melissa Rivers is the daughter of Virginia Northrup and Steve Rivers. (Seacoast New Hampshire)

    Peeping Tom video lands two students in district court  Jun 12, 2008
    "I never felt so violated without anybody touching me before," said Strott, a 19-year-old sophomore at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design whose dorm room faced the Wentworth building. The indignity, the women said, was compounded last week by a Roxbury District Court assistant clerk, who said he would wait for Wentworth to finish its investigation before deciding whether to issue a criminal complaint against David Cunha and David Siemiesz, the two Wentworth juniors whom Boston police... (Boston Globe)

    Marshfield painter featured  Jun 11, 2008
    In 1976, he received a master s degree in art education from Massachusetts College of Art. Boczanowski paints familiar New England scenes, busy downtown locations and buildings like Resident Parking Only and shoreline scenes like The Last Cottage. (Marshfield Mariner, MA)

    Making the grade  Jun 6, 2008
    College: Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Anticipated major: Painting or illustration. (Yarmouth Register, MA)

    Keefe Tech valedictorian pursuing an artistic career  Jun 3, 2008
    After being accepted at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Pratt, Massachusetts College of Art, and the New England Institute of Art, she finally settled on the highly competitive RISD.. Keefe Principal James Lynch will be sad to lose the valedictorian. (Holliston Tab, MA)

    Billericas 2008 graduates walk the walk  Jun 3, 2008
    Tara Lafortune, a senior at Shawsheen who plans to attend classes at Massachusetts College of Art, will remember the camaraderie at Shawsheen, and how classes weren t a competition. In the real world, you have to rise above everyone else, or you fall to the bottom of the chain, said Lafortune. (Billerica Minuteman, MA)

    Dunn paintings on view in Arlington  Jun 1, 2008
    A graduate of the UMass-Boston, Dunn also studied at Massachusetts College of Art and Castle Hill/Truro Center for the Arts. A winner of professional development grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, her work is exhibited and collected both locally and nationally. (Scituate Mariner, MA)

    The plain truth  May 30, 2008
    Gohlke taught at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design from 1988 to 2006. Starting in mid-July, a major expansion will close the Addison for 18 months. (Boston Globe)

    Fashion's starring role  May 29, 2008
    "In the tech age, people work from home in sweats and anything else that's comfortable," says Sondra Grace, professor of fashion design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. "None of that happens on 'Sex and the City.' Even when they're at home, they're dressed up. They go to bed in the best bras. That's an important message. It's saying that you can really enjoy clothes. There's nothing wrong with being over the top.". (Boston Globe)

    Commencements  May 24, 2008
    Massachusetts College of Art and DesignOn campusGraduates: 360 undergraduate and graduate studentsDegrees: bachelor's and master'sSpeakers: Artists Jun Kaneko and Edgar Heap of Birds, a multidisciplinary artists' groupHonorary degrees: Kaneko and Heap. Copyright 2008 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)

    Genevive McMillan, 85, donated artwork to MFA  May 24, 2008
    Anne Marie Stein, dean at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a longtime friend, said Mrs. McMillan earned a bachelor's degree in English at the University of Bordeaux and was one of the first women to graduate from the cole des Sciences Politiques, the leading school in France for public administration. In 1944, after the liberation of Paris, she met Robert McMillan, an American officer and an architect. (Boston Globe)

    At home amid history  May 18, 2008
    Durant, who graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, used the figures to provide a different interpretation of the Pilgrim history than tourists at the museum experienced. He titled one exhibition, "Scenes from the Pilgrim Story: Myths, Massacres and Monuments," and used "doubt-inspiring wax museum scenes," as he called them, to suggest how Native Americans experienced and viewed the Pilgrim history. (Boston Globe)

    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
    Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)

    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
    In order to post on any of our blogs you must first with a log-in and valid email address and we encourage you to create a profile (). Affordable luxuries for the holidays at tiniest store in Portsmouth. (Seacoast New Hampshire)

    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)

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