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SUMMARY:Karen L. Alenier and Fred Marchant Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:June 26th\n7:00 pm\nPoetry Reading\nKaren L. Alenier \nand Fred Marchant \nKaren LaLonde Alenier is the author of six previous collections of poetry\, including Looking for Divine Transportation (The Bunny and the Crocodile Press)\, winner of the 2002 Towson University Prize for Literature. Her poetry and fiction have been published in such magazines as the\nMississippi Review\, Jewish Currents\, and Poet Lore. In 1982\, through New York’s School of Visual Arts\, she worked with Paul Bowles in Tangier\, Morocco\, on her poems about Gertrude Stein. Some of these poems became part of her opera libretto on Stein.She is author of The\nSteiny Road To Operadom: The Making Of American Operas\, a book about contemporary opera. Since 2013\, she has been leading an international online study group on Gertrude Stein’s long poem Tender Buttons. \nShe is a graduate of the University of Maryland College Park in French language and literature and a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Since 1986\, she has worked in a leadership role with the literary nonprofit The Word Works\, promoting contemporary American poetry. \n\n  \nFred Marchant is Professor of English and the Director of the Creative Writing Program\, and The Poetry Center at Suffolk University in Boston\, he is a graduate of Brown University\, and later earned a PhD from The University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought. He is a longtime teaching affiliate of The William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts-Boston\, and was himself a conscientious objector within the military during the Viet Nam War. He has taught workshops at various sites across the country\, including The Robert Frost Place (Franconia NH)\, the Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown\, MA) and the Veterans Writing Group (Sebastopol\, CA). In 2009 Marchant was co-winner (with Afaa Michael Weaver) of the May Sarton Award from the New England Poetry Club\, given to poets whose “work is an inspiration to other poets.” \nFred Marchant’s The Looking House (Graywolf Press\, 2009) was named by Barnes & Noble Review as one of the five best books of poetry in 2009. The San Francisco Chronicle picked it as one of the ten best collections of poetry\, and the Massachusetts Book Award committee listed as one of the “must reads” of the past year. Marchant is also the author of Tipping Point\, winner of the 1993 Washington Prize in poetry\, and Full Moon Boat (2000). A new and selected volume\, House on Water\, House in Air\, was published in 2002. He has co-translated (with Nguyen Ba Chung) From a Corner of My Yard\, poetry by the Vietnamese poet Tran Dang Khoa\, published in 2006 in Ha Noi\, Viet Nam. Marchant is also the editor of Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford\, 1937-1947 (2008)\, a selection that focuses on the work done while Stafford was a conscientious objector during World War II.\n“Marchant’s wisdom is impeccably welded to his sense of how words should sound when connecting thought to experience\, and how the contemporary and the ancient are inseparable. . . .[Said Not Said is an eloquent engagement with a history we will always need to understand better\, as we make collective effort to bend toward justice. Fred Marchant is a blessed\, vital part of that task.”-The Rumpus
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/karen-l-alenier-and-fred-marchant-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Grolier Poetry Book Shop\, 6 Plympton St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170626
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170628
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SUMMARY:Ambreen Butt: I Need a Hero Closing
DESCRIPTION:Ambreen Butt is the ninth Artist-in-Residence to create a temporary site-specific work for the Museum’s façade. Trained as a miniature painter in Lahore\, Pakistan\, Ambreen uses the dramatic imagery and storytelling of this traditional art form to comment on contemporary issues. \nThis piece is part of the series she calls I Need a Hero\, which was initially inspired by the story of the young Pakistani woman Mukhtar Mai. In 2002\, Mai was brutally raped by order of her village tribal council as punishment for speaking out against archaic codes of justice. Refusing to be silenced\, Mai became a spokesperson for women’s rights in Pakistan\, eventually starting two schools for girls and a crisis center for abused women. \nThe stories in the I Need a Hero series explore the ways women struggle to find and use their own power. In the Gardner façade piece\, the heroine fights a dragon (below) and a monkey-like creature (above) that may represent her inner and outer demons: her confident pose suggests she will conquer them both. The struggle takes place against the background of a dollar bill\, a reminder of today’s global economy. Other young women look at her expectantly from below and above\, as if to ask: Is she the one? Is she is our hero? Taking center stage\, she must now live up to expectations. As you look more closely\, see what other ideas and interpretations you can find.
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/ambreen-butt-i-need-a-hero-closing/
LOCATION:Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum\, 25 Evans Way\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events,Ongoing Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170622T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170622T200000
DTSTAMP:20170622T031038Z
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SUMMARY:STAND UP: Women* You Should Know: Silvi Naçi with Jimena Bermejo
DESCRIPTION:STAND UP: Women* You Should Know\nSalon conversation hosted by Silvi Naçi with Jimena Bermejo \nThursday\, June 22\, 2017 | 6:30–8 pm\nMills Gallery at the BCA South End Campus\nFree and Open to the Public \nSTAND UP: Women* You Should Know is Silvi Naçi’s interview and lecture series program where women* of various marginalized cultures come together to share conversations about artistic processes\, education\, community\, and contemporary art practices. \nIn the next installment of Gertrude’s Artist Salon at the Mills Gallery\, Silvi will be joined by Jimena Bermejo\, a dancer\, choreographer\, performance artist and dance educator with over 15 years of experience who is inspired by memories\, music\, and the body\, and fueled by identity\, race\, and power. \nWomen*: We welcome anyone who identifies as cisgender\, genderqueer\, trans women\, femmes\, & non-binary people.
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/stand-up-women-you-should-know-silvi-naci-with-jimena-bermejo/
LOCATION:Mills Gallery (at Boston Center for the Arts)\, 551 Tremont St\, Boston\, MA\, 02116
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170618T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170618T180000
DTSTAMP:20170613T062135Z
CREATED:20170613T062135Z
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SUMMARY:An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art Ongoing Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art\nMIT List Visual Arts Center\nMay 19\, 2017–July 16\, 2017 \nAn Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art brings together a group of twelve international artists to examine the recent multidisciplinary turn towards affect by focusing on artworks that explore how bodies are shaped\, modified\, or affected by the intensity of their interaction. Many contemporary artists engage with modes of address and content that are tethered to affect yet eschew sentimentality and expressivity. The exhibition presents works that variously investigate our intimate relationships with objects; works that act as vehicles for affective engagement or transactions of desire\, including objects that carry the traces of things we can’t see but have to trust\, intuit\, or perceive in ways that are not related to vision or hearing; and works that are engaged with actions of interpersonal care\, trust\, intimacy\, or love. \nArtists included are Andrea Büttner\, Sophie Calle\, Alejandro Cesarco\, Jason Dodge\, Felix Gonzalez-Torres\, Antonia Hirsch\, Jill Magid\, Park McArthur\, Lisa Tan\, Erika Vogt\, Susanne M. Winterling\, and Anicka Yi. \nAn Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art is curated by Henriette Huldisch\, Curator\, MIT List Visual Arts Center. The exhibition is accompanied by a 96-page fully illustrated catalogue published by Prestel/DelMonico in association with the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Edited by Henriette Huldisch\, the catalogue features essay contributions by Eugenie Brinkema (Associate Professor\, Literature Section\, MIT)\, Johanna Burton (Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement at the New Museum)\, and Emily Watlington (Curatorial Research Assistant\, MIT List Visual Arts Center and graduate student\, History\, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture\, MIT). \nRegular hours: Tues.\, Wed.\, Fri.\, Sat.\, Sun.\, 12-6pm; Thurs.\, 12-8pm\nClosed Mondays\, and major holidays.
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/an-inventory-of-shimmers-objects-of-intimacy-in-contemporary-art-ongoing-exhibition/
LOCATION:MIT List\, 20 Ames Street E15\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events,Ongoing Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170604T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170604T150000
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SUMMARY:Tour - Intimacy: 12 Affects\, 12 Artists
DESCRIPTION:Tour – Intimacy: 12 Affects\, 12 Artists\nSunday\, June 4\, 2017\n2:00 pm – 3:00 pm\nFree\, RSVP required\nMIT List Visual Arts Center \nJoin List Center curatorial research assistant Emily Watlington for a guided tour through An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art. As a contributor to the exhibition catalogue Watlington will provide a closer look at the works by the twelve artists on view\, framed through her writing on the twelve affects comprising intimacy: absence\, closeness\, desire\, empathy\, jealousy\, loss\, love\, reciprocity\, seduction\, shame\, trust\, and vulnerability. \nAbout the Speaker:\nEmily Watlington is currently a master’s student in History\, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art\, MIT. She is also the curatorial research assistant at the MIT List Visual Arts Center\, where she contributed to the catalogue for An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art. She received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her graduate studies and research are focused on contemporary art through the lenses of affect theory and feminist theory\, and her art criticism has appeared in publications such as ‘Mousse Magazine’ and ‘Art Papers.’ \nRSVPs are required. \nFor more information\, contact: \nEmily Garner\neagarner@mit.edu
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/tour-intimacy-12-affects-12-artists/
LOCATION:MIT List\, 20 Ames Street E15\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events,Ongoing Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170602T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170602T210000
DTSTAMP:20170520T141211Z
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SUMMARY:Scoped - Jesse Kaminsky: new sculptures Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:SCOPED Opening Reception\nNew Sculptures by Jesse Kaminsky\nFriday\, June 2\, 2017\n7:00 – 9:00 pm\nDistillery Gallery\n516 East 2nd Street\, South Boston\, MA
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/scoped-jesse-kaminsky-new-sculptures-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Distillery Gallery\, 516 E 2nd St\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02127\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events,Ongoing Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170602T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170602T200000
DTSTAMP:20170520T133704Z
CREATED:20170520T133704Z
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SUMMARY:Vibrations: A Sound Experience Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:Vibrations: A Sound Experience Opening Reception\nFriday\, June 2\, 2017\n6:00 pm – 8:00 pm\nBoston Cyberarts Gallery\n141 Green St\, Jamaica Plain\, MA 02130 \nPlease join us for the opening reception of Vibrations: A Sound Experience\, curated by Stephanie Dvareckas\, at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery on Friday\, June 2nd from 6-8pm.\nVibrations: A Sound Experience is an interactive sound exhibition with work by MJ Caselden and Derek Hoffend. Consisting of artwork that utilizes sound\, vibrations\, and magnetism\, the exhibition explores the potential for achieving alternate modes of consciousness through art experiences\, while considering both art and the exhibition space as transformational tools lending the viewer the ability to abandon consciousness in order to achieve a measure of transcendence. \n \nFor more information\, visit http://bostoncyberarts.org/vibrations-a-sound-experience/
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/vibrations-a-sound-experience-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Boston Cyberarts Gallery (JP)\, 141 Green Street\, Jamaica Plain\, MA\, 02130
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events,Ongoing Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170602T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170602T140000
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SUMMARY:Public Program: Getting Goosebumps-Sensations Across Species
DESCRIPTION:Public Program: Getting Goosebumps-Sensations Across Species\nFriday\, June 2\, 2017\n12:30 pm – 2:00 pm\nFree\, RSVP required\nMIT List Visual Arts Center \nTake a look at the List Center’s exhibitions from a new perspective. Join Emily Watlington (History\, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art\, MIT) to discover more about ‘An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art.’ Watlington’s talk will focus on a series of works in the exhibition by Anicka Yi\, in which the artist cast ostrich skins in silicone. Yi’s representation of “goosebumps” reflects a way to visualize affect—a pre-cognitive or involuntary response to something which has affected you. \nAbout the Speaker:\nEmily Watlington is currently a master’s student in History\, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art\, MIT. She is also the curatorial research assistant at MIT List Visual Arts Center\, where she contributed to the catalogue for ‘An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art.’ She received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her graduate studies and research are focused on contemporary art through the lenses of affect theory and feminist theory\, and her art criticism has appeared in publications such as ‘Mousse Magazine’ and ‘Art Papers.’ \nAbout the Series:\nGraduate Student Gallery Talks at the List Center present focused explorations of our current exhibitions and are led by an MIT graduate student. These interdisciplinary talks examine art through the lens of students’ research\, backgrounds\, and interests. \nThis event is free but RSVPs are required. \nFor more information\, contact: \nEmily Garner\neagarner@mit.edu
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/public-program-getting-goosebumps-sensations-across-species/
LOCATION:MIT List\, 20 Ames Street E15\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events,Ongoing Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170601T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170601T200000
DTSTAMP:20170520T132059Z
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DESCRIPTION:Guided Magnetic Sound Bath\nThursday June 1\, 2017\n7:00 pm – 8:00 pm\nFree\, RSVP required\nBoston Cyberarts Gallery\n141 Green St\, Jamaica Plain\, MA 02130 \nMagnetic Sound Bath is a meditative listening experience created by artist and inventor MJ Caselden. Participants are invited to lay back and listen as they are immersed in a wash of tranquil sounds. Soft sounds create a haven from the sensory stimuli of an active life\, allowing participants to relax and self-reflect.\nThe experience uses new technology invented by Caselden: varying magnetic fields induce vibrations in metal and wood to produce sound. resonance creates repetitive\, mantra-like sounds conducive to deep listening and meditation. \nThe project has grown to include collaboration with tech companies such as Intel\, and been featured in art and meditation spaces around the country including the New Museum of Contemporary Art\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum\, and The Times Square Alliance. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, but we do ask that you RSVP here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/guided-magnetic-sound-bath-with-artist-mj-caselden-tickets-34205785425 \nFor more information about the Magnetic Sound project\, visit: www.magneticsound.com \n**Participants encouraged to bring yoga mats\, pillows\, blankets; anything to facilitate comfort on the open gallery floor space. Please arrive 15 minutes early.** \nFor more information on this exhibition\, visit http://bostoncyberarts.org/vibrations-a-sound-experience/
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/2156419/
LOCATION:Boston Cyberarts Gallery (JP)\, 141 Green Street\, Jamaica Plain\, MA\, 02130
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170527T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170527T200000
DTSTAMP:20170520T131026Z
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SUMMARY:The Augmented Landscape Opening in Salem
DESCRIPTION:The Augmented Landscape Opening in Salem\nSaturday\, May 27\, 2017\n6:00 pm – 8:00 pm\nSalem Maritime National Historic Site\n160 Derby St\, Salem\, Massachusetts 01970\, MA \nBoston Cyberarts has commissioned five artists — John Craig Freeman\, Kristin Lucas\, Will Pappenheimer\, Mark Skwarek\, and Tamiko Thiel — to create 10 augmented reality (AR) sculptures for The Augmented Landscape\, an outdoor exhibition to take place at the National Park Service’s Salem Maritime National Historic Site. Located on the historic waterfront in Salem\, MA\, the free exhibition will open to the public on Saturday\, May 27\, and remain on view through November 30\, 2017.\nFor more information\, visit our website: http://bostoncyberarts.org/the-augmented-landscape/ \n**We are eternally grateful to our generous sponsors: The National Endowment for the Arts\, PTC\, Eastern National\, Essex National Heritage Area\, Salem Cultural Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/the-augmented-landscape-opening-in-salem/
LOCATION:Salem Maritime National Historic Site\, 160 Derby St\, Salem\, MA\, MA\, 01970\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events,Ongoing Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170525T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170525T210000
DTSTAMP:20170520T125831Z
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DESCRIPTION:Concrete Actions\nThursday\, May 25\, 2017\nBoston City Hall\n5:00 pm – 9:00 pm \nThe Mobius Artists Group is pleased to announce Concrete Actions\, an evening of site-inspired original works responding to the striking concrete modernist design of City Hall and the democratic ideals that continue to animate it. Commissioned by The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture\, City of Boston as part of the HEROIC ENCOUNTERS Series\, Concrete Actions will unfold on Thursday\, May 25th at Boston City Hall\, from 5-9 p.m. Thirteen Mobius artists will activate the interior of the building through a diversity of media. The civic landmark will be transformed through aesthetic experimentation in interactive performance art\, video\, installation\, sound and movement. \nRecent shifts in our current national political landscape and challenges to core values of inclusion have revived civic engagement in local democratic processes and institutions. It is therefore an appropriate moment to celebrate the architectural legacy of Boston City Hall\, opened in 1969. The building’s innovative design reflected the architects’ ethical commitment to active public involvement and access to city government\, as Mark Pasnik\, Chris Grimley\, and Michael Kubo emphasize in their book Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston that inspired the HEROIC ENCOUNTERS Series. Against this background\, the Mobius Artist Group is honored to create Concrete Actions as part of the series. \nAs a collective event\, Concrete Actions aptly marks the Mobius Artists Group return to Boston after a productive 5 years in Cambridge. Now in our 40th year as an artist-run organization\, our legacy of accessibility\, affordability and collaboratively generated experimental work in all media across artistic communities parallels the strong public commitments that inspired the design of Boston City Hall and continue to revitalize it. \nPhoto is by Jeffrey Montes – Creative Commons 2.0 \nThis project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. \nParticipating artists: \nEl Putnam presents Digital Bru(i)t\, a video that interplays visual and aural confusion in an attempt to convey the complexities and challenges of maneuvering human engagement with politics through digital technology. The work incorporates excerpts from The Social Contract\, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762). \nJane Wang presents two works\, Signs of Our Times III\, a video slideshow of imagery from 95 artists and 21 composers reflecting the connecting theme of signage\, and Concret concret\, a duo of free-standing abstract wire sculptures\, one of which she will knit live\, in the main lobby of Boston City Hall. \nMilan Kohout presents Spaces for Socialism\, an interactive performance that engages audience members in conversation about their experience of architecture\, interactive sharing of the human condition\, and perspectives on how to create democratic socialist alternatives to modern life. \nJames Ellis Coleman presents Always Room for You\, a visual art work exploring the scope and inclusion of the life histories of individuals as recorded in government documents stored in government repositories. \nJoanne Rice and Tom Plsek present 42.3604° N\, 71.0580° W\, a sound/performance which explores the various sonic possibilities offered by the interiors spaces of several levels of Boston City Hall. \nSandrine Schaefer presents ESCALATE/DE-ESCALATE\, a durational performance art piece sited on the escalators between the lobby and lower levels of Boston City Hall that explores notions of agreement and challenges ways time is experienced and perceived between bodies sharing space. \nDaniel Deluca presents Public Satellites: Telstar 20 BCH\, an experimental communications platform designed to engage the public around City Hall. Through the use of semiotic lures PST20BCH will capture and relay human transmissions from the public in real time. \nJesse Kaminsky presents Aposematism\, an inflatable sculpture work made of brightly colored\, printed and sewn tyvek material that will enhance the ground space with an anemone-like shape. \nMargaret Bellafiore\, Mari Novotny Jones\, and Anna Wexler present MILK & LICENSES\, a performance and installation work using three defunct services windows in Boston City Hall. The piece explores concepts of sanctuary in our present moment by transforming the windows’ original function. \nSara June presents Solid Formation\, a durational movement and installation work that experiment with the notion of protection and architecture through the intersection of three elements: building\, boundary\, and human body.
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/2156411/
LOCATION:Boston City Hall\, 1 City Hall Square\, Boston\, MA\, 02114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170518T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170518T190000
DTSTAMP:20170414T014908Z
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SUMMARY:Junction: Works by Eli Portman and Konstantin Simun Exhibition Reception
DESCRIPTION:Junction: Works by Eli Portman and Konstantin Simun \nExhibition Reception\nMay 18\, 2017\n5:00 PM – 7:00 PM \nHarvard Ed Portal\n224 Western Ave.\nAllston\, MA 02134 \nThe Harvard Ed Portal is proud to present Junction: Works by Eli Portman and Konstantin Simun\, the latest Crossings Gallery exhibition featuring the work of two Allston-Brighton artists. With bronze sculptures and pen and ink drawings\, the exhibition brings together different cultures and generations in harmony and in contrast. \nRegister here \n 
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/junction-works-by-eli-portman-and-konstantin-simun-exhibition-reception/
LOCATION:Harvard Ed Portal\, 224 Western Ave\, Allston\, 02134\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events,Ongoing Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170505T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170505T203000
DTSTAMP:20170502T154306Z
CREATED:20170502T153831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170502T154306Z
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SUMMARY:Lord Help Us Get It All Together Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:Lord Help Us Get It All Together\nAdam O’Day & Vanessa Irzyk \nOpening Reception\nLens Gallery \nOne night only:\nFriday May 5\, 2017\n6:00 pm – 8:30 pm\nThe artists in Lord Help Us Get It All Together assemble their own reality via paint and surface\, brilliant color and unusual shapes\, all in a chaotic jumble. Like a screenshot of creation itself\, or the generative spark of something great and expansive stuck on pause\, jittery with the threat of sudden movement. \nCome bask in the anxious glow of that bright moment\, where anything seems possible\, though it may come off its axis and fly apart. \nLet the center hold a little longer\, and lord\, help us get it all together. \nLens Gallery is located at 524 Harrison Ave\, Boston and is sponsored by CLEAR design lab
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/lord-help-us-get-it-all-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Lens Gallery\, 524 Harrison Ave\, Boston\, MA\, 02118
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170504T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170504T203000
DTSTAMP:20170414T015101Z
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SUMMARY:Budding Growth From Cracks in Pavement Reception
DESCRIPTION:Budding Growth From Cracks in Pavement\nEli Portman \nReception\nMay 4\, 2017\n7:00 PM – 8:30 PM \nNewton Free Library\n330 Homer St.\nNewton\, MA 02459 \nThe exhibition will run from May 2 – May 30\, 2017.\nYou can email Eli Portman at: ep2992@hotmail.com \nGallery Hours:\nMon – Thurs: 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM\nFriday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM\nSaturday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM\nSunday: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM \n 
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/budding-growth-from-cracks-in-pavement-reception/
LOCATION:Newton Library\, 330 Homer Street\, Newton\, MA\, 02459\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events,Ongoing Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170502T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170502T213000
DTSTAMP:20170414T001217Z
CREATED:20170414T000413Z
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SUMMARY:Reading with Words
DESCRIPTION:Reading with Words\n\n \nEddy Tontongi\, Grace Talusan\, Toni Bee\, Gilmore Tamny\,\n \nTuesday\, May 2nd\,\nArts at the Armory Cafe\n7:00 PM – 9:30 PM\n\nReading of words by Eddy Toussaint Tontongi\, Grace Talusan\, Toni Bee\, and Gilmore Tamny\n\n \n\n \nBios:\n\nToni Bee is a writer\, photographer\, community advocate and mother to a 15 year old daughter. Bee was the 1st woman elected as Poet Populist of Cambridge\,MA (2011-2013). Since becoming the 2016 Inaugural Poetry Ambassador of Cambridge\, she has contined to lecture as a teaching artist in colleges\, local schools & at Boch Theatre of Boston with The City Spotlights teen leaders. Toni supports poets\, open mic poetry venues\, attends art exhibitions & hosts BeeWrites a poetry writing workshop encouraging use of ones unique voice. Bee was interviewed & read her poems as a part of The 2017 Boston National Poetry Festival She will be on a panel hosted by Chad Parenteau called Motherhood & The Muse at this years Massachusetts Poetry Festival in Salem\, MA. Toni Bee will publish her first poetry book entitled 21 Again in spring 2017. EMAIL her at readbee@yahoo.com\n\nGrace Talusan writes essays and fiction. She published essays in Creative Nonfiction\, Brevity\, The Rumpus\, Boston Magazine\, Tufts Magazine\, and other anthologies and journals. Her essay about hereditary breast and ovarian cancer won the Dorothy O’Connor Award from the Women’s National Book Association\, and other essays were honored in the Best American Medical Writing and on Longform’s Best of 2015 list. She was awarded a Fulbright to the Philippines\, a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, and residencies to Ragdale and Hedgebrook. She teaches writing at Grub Street and Tufts University.\n\nEddy Toussaint Tontongi was born in Port-au-Prince\, Haiti. Poet\, critic and essayist\, Tontongi writes in Haitian\, French and English. The author has published\, among others\, “Poetica Agwe: Poems\, Essays\, and Testimonial on Resistance\, Peace and the Ideal of Being”​ (a trilingual collection of poems and essays\, 2011); “Critique de la francophonie haïtienne”​ (a bilingual socio-linguistic collection of essays about the relation of power between French and Haitian Creole in Haiti\, 2007); “The Vodou Gods’ Joy / Rejwisans lwa yo”​ (an epic bilingual poem\, 1997); “The Dream of Being”​ (English\, poetry\, 1992); “Cri de Rêve”​ (French/Haitian poetry\, 1986). His newest releases are: “La Parole indomptée”​ (“The Untamed Speech”​ a bilingual collection of essays\, 2015); “Sèl Pou Dezonbifye Bouki”​ (“Salt to Dezombify Bouki”​ (essays\, 2014); “​In the Beast’s Alley” (a collection of his “poems of conscience.” 2013). Tontongi is the editor in chief of the publishing house Trilingual Press and of the trilingual\, politico-literary journal Tanbou (online : www.tanbou.com )\n\nGilmore Tamny is a writer\, musician\, and artist living in Somerville\, MA. Her novel My Days with Millicent is being serialized online at OhioEdit.com and she has a regular column at the Boston Hassle called LIVE AT THE GILMORE. Her essays\, artwork\, stories\, interviews\, and poetry have appeared in various literary magazines. She plays with the band Weather Weapon as well as performing solo instrumental guitar work. Her video performance of “THUNDER KITTEN THUNDER” was shown in the European Media Arts Festival in April 2016. She is a committed artiste\, feminist\, rawk fan\, old master painting junkie\, audio book listener as well as enthusiastic Girls Rock Camp Boston volunteer.
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/reading-with-words/
LOCATION:Arts at the Armory\, 191 Highland Avenue\, Somerville\, MA\, 02143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170419T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170419T200000
DTSTAMP:20170414T025321Z
CREATED:20170414T023709Z
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SUMMARY:Dating on the WRONG SIDE of 40: Tales from the Trenches (a straight and gay perspective)
DESCRIPTION:The Piano Craft Gallery invites you next Wednesday\, April 19\, 2017\, to a night of comedy—free to the public—with “Dating on the WRONG SIDE of 40: Tales from the Trenches (a straight and gay perspective)“. There will be performances and book signings from: \n“The Hot Date”\, adapted from Dates Outta Hell\, a novel by Jenny Hudson\, where a great rating system for men backfires. It will be performed by Denise White\, Susan Fiedler\, and Jonathan Donahue. \nRandy Ross\, author of God Bless Cambodia\, will perform excerpts of his transcontinental search for love. \nWriter/storyteller Judah Leblang will divulge parts of his memoir\, Finding My Place\, and his show\, One Man’s Journey through the Middle Ages\, about life as a single middle-aged gay man. \n7pm
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/dating-on-the-wrong-side-of-40-tales-from-the-trenches-a-straight-and-gay-perspective/
LOCATION:Piano Craft Gallery\, 793 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02118
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170416T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170416T180000
DTSTAMP:20170415T132815Z
CREATED:20170413T234217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170415T132815Z
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SUMMARY:Teenaged: Thirteen for Thirteen Years of Big Red & Shiny
DESCRIPTION:teenaged: thirteen for thirteen years of big red & shiny \n  \nBig Red & Shiny\, Boston’s independent contemporary art magazine\, presents thirteen artists to mark its 13th year of publication. In Teenaged\, BR&S presents thirteen artists who have contributed to this conversation in some way\, be it their own writing\, or profiles\, interviews\, or reviews of their visual work. This sampling of art making in Boston demonstrates the vitality of contemporary art practices in the city. \n“Teenaged” will run from April 4–22 with exhibiting artists: Alexi Antoniadis\, Linda Leslie Brown\, Furen Dai\, Micah Danemayer (1988-2016)\, Tory Fair\, Kate Gilbert\, Brian Christopher Glaser\, Catherine Graffam\, Dylan Hurwitz\, Maria Molteni\, Silvi Naci\, Rosie Ranauro\, and Thomas Ray Willis. \n 
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/teenaged-thirteen-for-thirteen-years-of-big-red-shiny/
LOCATION:Fort Point Art Community Gallery\, 300 Summer St M1\, Boston\, MA\, 02210
CATEGORIES:Art,Chosen Shows,Free Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170325T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170325T184500
DTSTAMP:20170324T035011Z
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SUMMARY:Inter-dimensional Ports of Whatsoever Closing Reception
DESCRIPTION:Join Fort Point Arts Community on Saturday\, March 25\, for a closing celebration of Inter-dimensional Ports of Whatsoever at the Atlantic Wharf Gallery! \nCurated by Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez\, Inter-dimensional Ports of Whatsoever presents eighteen artists working in drawing\, paintings\, installations\, sculpture\, performance\, and video to explore inter-dimensionality through migration\, sci-fi\, and inter-cosmos points of departure. \nThe closing celebration begins at 2 pm with a public\, interactive work from William Chambers before talks with several included artists and a concluding performance with Jesse Kaminsky. The complete schedule is as follows: \n2-5pm: A public\, interactive performance piece by William Chambers\n5-6pm: Artist talks\n6-6:30pm: Performance by Jesse Kaminsky\n6:30-6:45pm: Closing Remarks by Curator Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI3EEDgShkA&feature=youtu.be\nThe Atlantic Wharf Gallery is free and open to the public. Inter-dimensional Ports of Whatsoever is presented with support from Boston Properties and is on view through April 1\, 2017. Please contact Fort Point Arts Community for more information.
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/inter-dimensional-ports-of-whatsoever-closing-reception/
LOCATION:The Atlantic Wharf Gallery
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events,Ongoing Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170325T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170325T180000
DTSTAMP:20170313T030444Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170313T030444Z
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SUMMARY:Fresh Media 2017
DESCRIPTION:MassArt’s Dynamic Media Institute presents:\nFRESH MEDIA 2017 \nFri 3/24\, Sat 3/25\, and Sun 3/26 Only \nOpening Reception: March 24\, 2017 from 6:00 pm -8:00 pm\nBoston Cyberarts Gallery\n141 Green Street\, Jamaica Plain\, MA 02130 \nFresh Media is a unique show of dynamic media\, a broad term for the intersection of interaction and communication based design methodologies. It’s rooted in emerging digital forms\, but also includes media formats that have preceded these technologies such as film\, books\, photography\, and music.
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/opening-reception-fresh-media-2017-2017-03-25/
LOCATION:Boston Cyberarts Gallery (JP)\, 141 Green Street\, Jamaica Plain\, MA\, 02130
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events,Ongoing Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170324T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170324T180000
DTSTAMP:20170320T193313Z
CREATED:20170313T004114Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T193313Z
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SUMMARY:Fresh Media 2017 Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:MassArt’s Dynamic Media Institute presents:\nFRESH MEDIA 2017 \nFri 3/24\, Sat 3/25\, and Sun 3/26 Only \nOpening Reception: March 24\, 2017 from 6:00 pm -8:00 pm\nBoston Cyberarts Gallery\n141 Green Street\, Jamaica Plain\, MA 02130 \nFresh Media is a unique show of dynamic media\, a broad term for the intersection of interaction and communication based design methodologies. It’s rooted in emerging digital forms\, but also includes media formats that have preceded these technologies such as film\, books\, photography\, and music.
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/opening-reception-fresh-media-2017/
LOCATION:Boston Cyberarts Gallery (JP)\, 141 Green Street\, Jamaica Plain\, MA\, 02130
CATEGORIES:Art,Chosen Shows,Free Art Events,Ongoing Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170313T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170313T170000
DTSTAMP:20170313T010939Z
CREATED:20170313T005324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170313T010939Z
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SUMMARY:Mujeres: Ongoing Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:  \nMujeres\nMarch 9th – April 28th\, 2017\nVilla Victoria Center for the Arts\n85 W Newton St.\,\nBoston\, MA 02118 \n“Mujeres”\, Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción’s exhibition in honor of Women’s History Month\, will feature Latina artists at La Galería at Villa Victoria Center for the Arts from March 9th – April 28th\, 2017. \n  \nIBA – Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción offices are open from 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM Monday through Friday.\nTo visit LA GALERÍA at Villa Victoria Center for the Arts you may schedule an appointment by contacting Alexander Vazquez: 617-927-1717 or via email: avazquez@ibaboston.org \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/mujeres-ongoing-exhibit/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events,Ongoing Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170310T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170310T200000
DTSTAMP:20170309T174336Z
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SUMMARY:Dirk Adams - the sensation of moving slowly back in time Opening Performance
DESCRIPTION:Dirk Adams – the sensation of moving slowly back in time\nMarch 6 – April 8\, 2017\nDistillery Gallery\n516 E 2nd St\, Boston\, Massachusetts 02127\nOpen: Mon – Sat\, 9:00am – 5:00pm\, and by appointment \nOpening Performance: Friday\, March 10\, 7:00pm\nClosing Performance: Saturday\, April 1\, 3:00pm \nDirk Adams creates work in a variety of media including performance\, sound\, installation\, and video. His work is concerned with language\, memory\, and culture\, and frequently investigates current events\, popular culture\, and politics. \nthe sensation of moving slowly back in time is a presentation of objects\, materials\, and tools that have been created over the past four years in his yarden (yard/garden). The installation and performances in this show represent a point in his explorations of physical processes of materials and investigations into human consciousness\, the slow mutative processes of evolution\, and notions of meaning-making as they relate to cultural production and the idea of humans as brains in bodies in environments\, which comes out of the field of embodied cognition. \nArtist’s websites:\nwww.breathmarks.com\nhttps://soundcloud.com/mrdirky\nhttps://vimeo.com/user1300975\n \n 
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/dirk-adams-the-sensation-of-moving-slowly-back-in-time-opening-performance/
LOCATION:The Distillery Gallery\, 516 E 2nd St\, Boston\, MA\, 02127\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Chosen Shows,Free Art Events,Ongoing Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170309T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170309T200000
DTSTAMP:20170301T164519Z
CREATED:20170301T164519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170301T164519Z
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SUMMARY:STAND UP: Women* You Should Know Artists Salon
DESCRIPTION:STAND UP: Women* You Should Know\nSalon conversation hosted by Silvi Naçi with Furen Dai \nThursday\, March 9\, 2017 | 6:30–8 pm\nMills Gallery at BCA\nFree and Open to the Public \nWe continue the third season of Gertrude’s Artists Salon with a conversation on the topic STAND UP: Women* You Should Know hosted by Silvi Naçi in conversation with video performance artist\, sculptor and linguist Furen Dai. In this conversation we will be exploring the interdependent themes of language and cultural politics and class\, in regards to economic conditions and performance art. With a background in linguistic study\, and working as interpreter for several years in China\, Dai’s practice centers on language and the culture built through it\, reflecting on various forms of interpretation. In her previous work as interpreter\, Dai was often in a position between two cultures attempting to examine where these two cultures met\, overlap and where they differentiate. However\, in her artistic practice\, her voice as artist\, as individual comes through in the interpretation of image making and documentation of both traditional and contemporary cultures in China\, and ultimately giving voice to the women in the cultures she emphasizes in her work. \nFuren Dai is a multimedia artists based in Boston\, Massachusetts\, working mostly in video\, performance\, sculptural installation as well as painting. Dai has presented exhibitions nationally and to a wide range of audience internationally in Italy\, Argentina\, Russia\, China\, Vietnam\, Spain and more. She holds a Masters in Fine Art from The Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (Boston\, Massachusetts) and Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Studio Art\, a Graduate Diploma in Entrepreneurial Management from Boston University School of Management (Boston\, Massachusetts)\, and a Bachelor of Russian from Beijing Foreign Studies University (Beijing\, China). Forthcoming\, Dai is part of the Listhús residency program in Iceland\, along with presenting her work in numerous group exhibitions. She is currently a Graduate Teaching Fellow at School of The Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. \nTo learn more about Furen’s work\, please visit furendai.squarespace.com. \nAbout Silvi Naçi: \nNaçi’s work investigates identity\, family dynamics\, cultural identity\, sex\, class and the consequences of patriarchal power. Naçi\, who was born and raised in Albania (a former communist country)\, engages in the dialectic between the aesthetically beautiful and historical genealogy as well as identity and socio-political structures. Her work is deeply rooted in feminist ideas\, family structures and historical and contemporary social constructs. Naçi works with performance\, photography\, video\, drawing and found historical imagery.
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/stand-up-women-you-should-know-artists-salon/
LOCATION:Mills Gallery (at Boston Center for the Arts)\, 551 Tremont St\, Boston\, MA\, 02116
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170304T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170304T180000
DTSTAMP:20170301T154001Z
CREATED:20170301T153459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170301T154001Z
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SUMMARY:Book Arts & Alteration in the Age of Omission Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Book Arts & Alteration in the Age of Omission\n\nSaturday March 4\, 2017\, at 3:00pm – 6:00pm\nThe Urbano Project\n29 Germania St Bldg F\, Boston\, Massachusetts 02130 \nJoin Sara Rivera and Denise Delgado for a book arts workshop within Librería Donceles. They have set aside texts from the collection and will lead participants through an interference with these books\, changing them linguistically\, narratively and physically as a way to experiment with ideas and materiality. The language and history of Latin America\, dystopian narratives and mapping processes\, along with other themes\, may emerge from this activity. The end product of the workshop will be a set of sculptural\, altered artist books that will again become part of Librería Donceles\, perhaps to be shelved in an entirely different section than where they started. Co-sponsored by JP Reads and Project Urbano. \n—\nLibros de Artes y Alteración en la Edad de la Omisión\nAcompaña a Sara Rivera y Denise Delgado en el taller sobre libros de artes en la Librería Donceles. Para esta actividad\, Rivera y Delgado han escogido una serie de libros de la colección de esta librería los cuales serán intervenidos por lxs participantes lingüística\, narrativa y físicamente\, como una forma de experimentar con ideas y materialidad. El lenguaje y la historia de América Latina\, las narrativas de distopías\, los procesos de mapeo junto con otros temas\, son algunos de los contenidos que se tratarán en esta actividad. El producto final será una serie de libros de artistas esculturales y alterados que serán otra vez parte de la Librería\, posiblemente en una sección totalmente diferente a la que estuvieron previamente. Organizado en parte por JP Reads.
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/book-arts-alteration-in-the-age-of-omission-workshop/
LOCATION:The Urbano Project\, 29 Germania Street\, Jamaica Plain\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170304T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170304T170000
DTSTAMP:20170301T162448Z
CREATED:20170301T160533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170301T162448Z
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SUMMARY:Aether Closing Today
DESCRIPTION:Aether\nFebruary 21\, 2017 – March 4\, 2017\nArnheim Gallery\, MassArt\n621 Huntington Ave. Boston\, Massachusetts\nOpen: Monday – Friday\, 10:00am-6:00pm • Saturday\, 11:00am-5:00pm • Sunday\, Closed \nPresenting work by Faith Johnson\, Maria Molteni\, Sue Murad\, Meaghan Schwelm\, and Amber Vistein. Each artists navigates one of the elements – water\, earth\, fire\, or air – connecting conceptually through a fifth element “aether” that contains them all. \nAether combines the cross-disciplinary works of five artists: interactive installation and performance artist\, educator and community artist Faith Johnson; multimedia and performing artist\, educator and organizer\, Maria Molteni; performance\, film\, and interdisciplinary artist Sue Murad; mixed media artist and children’s librarian Meaghan Schwelm and composer and sound artist Amber Vistein. Each artist navigates one of the elements—water\, earth\, fire\, or air—connecting conceptually through a fifth element aether that contains them all. This fifth classical element is said to fill the region of the universe above the terrestrial sphere. It was considered in the 19th century to permeate all space\, providing a medium through which light could travel. Aether is the quintessence\, or poetic/spiritual confluence\, where all the elements connect\, arching between the physical/material world and the world of the ethereal. \nThese five artists navigate these elements using analog and digital technology along with cross-disciplinary approaches culminating in interactive installations and objects\, smaller-than-small drawings\, videos\, soundscapes\, and performative ephemera. Through these modalities they explore the metaphor\, the mythos\, the science\, and the spirit of the elements that allow us to exist on Earth. With physical components literally born of stardust\, these elements comprise both our physical existence and the ever-shifting individual and collective stories of our experience as human beings. Together these artists explore the magical and mystical\, inner and outer\, fact and fiction\, all embedded within the “technologies” of the natural world. \nFAITH JOHNSON <> MARIA MOLTENI <> SUE MURAD <> MEAGHAN SCHWELM <> AMBER VISTEIN
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/aether-closing-soon-2017-03-04/
LOCATION:Arnheim Gallery
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events,Ongoing Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170303T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170303T200000
DTSTAMP:20170303T144908Z
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SUMMARY:Sage Sohier: Witness to Beauty Artist's Reception
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Sage Sohier: Witness to Beauty\nMarch 3\, 2017\, 5:30pm – 8:00pm\nCarroll and Sons Gallery\n450 Harrison Ave. Boston\, MA 02118 \nSage Sohier: Witness to Beauty\nFebruary 15\, 2017 – April 1\, 2017 \nThis is a series about my mother as she ages\, and my relationship with her\, that I began to work on in a concerted way in 2000. For a brief period in her youth\, my mother was a model\, photographed by Richard Avedon and Irving Penn\, and once on the cover of LIFE Magazine. As a child\, I grew up as a witness to her beauty: I used to lie on her bed\, with the dogs\, and watch her try on clothes and study herself critically in the mirror. As I grew older\, there was no use competing with her\, and so I assumed my position\, quite happily\, on the other side of the camera. \nI became even more interested in photographing her when age began to challenge her air of timeless perfection\, making it – to me – all the more poignant (bemused as I’ve been by my own changing face in the mirror). So\, this is about the aging family: how some things never change\, and others\, inevitably\, do. Some of these pictures are re-creations of old family snapshots from my childhood. Most are collaborative\, made on a tripod with a self-timer. -Sage Sohier
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/sage-sohier-witness-to-beauty-artists-reception/
LOCATION:Carroll and Sons Gallery\, 450 Harrison Avenue\, Boston\, MA\, 02118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Chosen Shows,Free Art Events,Ongoing Art Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170303T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170303T200000
DTSTAMP:20170301T143844Z
CREATED:20170301T143416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170301T143844Z
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SUMMARY:Caleb Cole: To Be Seen Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Caleb Cole: To Be Seen @Gallery Kayafas \nTo Be Seen includes photography\, collage\, sculpture\, and installation and will run from March 3\, 2017 to April 8\, 2017. Ria Brodell’s amazing series Butch Heroes will also be on display in an adjacent space. \nOpening Reception: Friday\, March 3\, 5:30-8pm\nPanel Discussion*: Saturday\, March 18\, 3-5pm\nClosing Reception: Friday\, April 7\, 5:30-8pm \n*With Hunter O’Hanian\, Executive Director of the College Art Association and former Director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art\, Ria Brodell and Caleb Cole. \nFor more information\, visit: gallerykayafas.com
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/caleb-cole-to-be-seen-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Gallery Kayafas
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events,Ongoing Art Events
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SUMMARY:Dan Byers: The Artist’s Museum Talk + Screening
DESCRIPTION:Dan Byers: The Artist’s Museum Talk + Screening \nTalk\nDan Byers: The Artist’s Museum\nAnna Craycroft and Ann Reynolds in conversation: “Creative Research” Should be an Oxymoron\nFriday\, March 3\, 2017\, 4:00pm – 6:00pm \nLevel 0\, Lecture Hall \nScreening + Performance\nPierre Leguillon: The Promise of the Screen\nFriday\, March 3\, 2017\, 6:00pm – 8:00pm \nLevel 1 \nArtist Anna Craycroft and art historian Ann Reynolds will be in conversation about Craycroft’s project for The Artist’s Museum\, The Earth is a Magnet\, which traces relationships between photographer Bernice Abbott and nine contemporary artists\, and Reynold’s forthcoming book\, In Our Time\, which address the cinematic and social circumstances of various intergenerational creative communities in New York during the 1940s through the 1960s. \nFollowing will be Pierre Leguillon’s performative work The Promise of the Screen (2007–)\, which doubles as a film screening and a speakeasy\, dedicated to the peripheral aspects of cinema. For the CCVA\, Leguillon will present the Photography Manual\, an anthology of film sequences to “teach\, to frame\, to trigger\, to illuminate\, to develop but also\, perhaps\, to commit suicide with the camera.” The film montage is based on technical and popular books preserved at the Société française de Photographie in Paris\, detailing the multiple uses of the medium: from fashion photography to judicial photography\, amateur photography or photo-journalism. \nFilm by Pierre Leguillon; Production: Musée de l’Elysée\, Lausanne; Photo Expert: Aurélien Mole; Camera: Julien Crépieux; Editing: Adrien Faucheux; Production assistant: Olivier Strauss. Thanks to Clément Chéroux\, Paul-Louis Roubert and Sam Stourdzé. \nPrograms presented in conjunction with the ICA/Boston’s exhibition The Artist’s Museum\, (on view at ICA/Boston through Mar 26\, 2017). This exhibition is organized by Dan Byers\, Mannion Family Senior Curator\, with Jeffrey De Blois\, Curatorial Associate. \nMajor support is provided by Barbara Horwich Lloyd\, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support is generously provided by Steve Corkin and Dan Maddalena\, Tristin and Martin Mannion\, Ellen Poss\, Charlotte and Herbert S. Wagner III\, Anonymous\, FACE Foundation/ Etant Donnés Contemporary Art\, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States. \nA fully illustrated catalogue features texts by Byers\, Claire Bishop\, Lynne Cooke\, and Ingrid Schaffner. The catalogue is available in the CRC/bookshop on Level 3. \nDan Byers\nDan Byers is the Mannion Family Senior Curator at The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. His ICA exhibitions include The Artist’s Museum\, Diane Simpson\, Geoffrey Farmer\, Steve McQueen: Ashes\, and The 2017 Foster Prize Exhibition. Before his move to Boston\, Byers was the Richard Armstrong Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Carnegie Museum of Art\, where he was co-curator\, with Daniel Baumann and Tina Kukielski\, of the 2013 Carnegie International. In addition to the International\, projects there included solo exhibitions of Cathy Wilkes\, Ragnar Kjartansson\, and James Lee Byars. Byers was Curatorial Fellow at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and Assistant to the Directors at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. \nAnna Craycroft\nMining fields like education\, cinema\, psychology\, literature and art history Anna Craycroft examines cultural models for fostering individuality. Through drawings\, paintings\, videos\, sculptures\, furniture\, installations\, books\, workshops\, or curatorial projects she works thematically on a single thesis over a series of exhibitions. Craycroft has had solo shows at the Ben Maltz Gallery at the Otis College of Art and Design\, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in Portland Oregon\, the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin Texas\, Tracy Williams Ltd in NYC\, Le Case del Arte in Milan Italy\, and a two-persons exhibition at REDCAT Gallery in Los Angeles\, Sandroni Rey in Los Angeles and the Fundacio Miro in Barcelona. In November 2016\, the artist debuted a major new commission\, The Earth Is a Magnet\, as part of the ICA Boston exhibition\, The Artist’s Museum. \nAnn Reynolds\nAnn Reynolds is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. In her research and teaching\, she focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century art and visual culture in the United States and Europe. Her recent publications include essays on Joan Jonas for the 2015 Venice Biennale; the experience of remoteness in relation to land art (Centre Georges Pompidou Spring 2015); Bob Fleischner\, Jack Smith\, and Ken Jacobs’ film Blonde Cobra (Criticism Spring 2014); Charles Simonds’ Urban Dwellings (Dumbarton Oaks\, 2011). She is the author of Robert Smithson: Learning From New Jersey and Elsewhere (MIT Press\, 2003). She is currently working on a new book entitled In Our Time\, as well as co-curating an exhibition focused on the magazine View (1940-1947). \nPierre Leguillon\nPierre Leguillon\, born in Nogent-sur-Marne\, France\, in 1969\, lives and works in Brussels. His works\, performances\, and projections have been the subject of many monographic presentations\, notably at Raven Row (London\, 2011)\, Mamco (Geneva\, Switzerland\, 2010)\, Moderna Museet (Malmö\, Sweden\, 2010)\, the Musée du Louvre (Paris\, 2009)\, and Artists Space (New York\, 2009). The artist\, whose work La grande evasion (The great escape)\, 2015\, is included in The Artist’s Museum at ICA/Boston\, presented two installations at the 2013 Carnegie International\, held in Pittsburgh in 2013: A Vivarium for George E. Ohr and Dubuffet Typographer the latter being accompanied by a book published by (SIC) in Brussels. A laureate of the Villa Médicis in 2003\, Leguillon teaches at HEAD (Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design) in Geneva.
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/dan-byers-the-artists-museum-talk-screening/
LOCATION:Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Harvard U)\, 24 Quincy Street\, Cambridge \, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events
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SUMMARY:NOMAS Power Lunch: Women in Academia
DESCRIPTION:NOMAS Power Lunch: Women in Academia\nWith Joyce Hwang\, Lauren Jacobi\, Caroline Jones\, and Caitlin Mueller\nModerated by Emily Watlington \nFriday March 3\, 2017\, 12:00pm – 1:00pm\nMIT Department of Architecture\n77 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts 02139 \nDirections:\nTake the elevator in Lobby 7 up to the 4th floor to Room 7-429\, aka the “Long Lounge.” \n  \nJoyce Hwang is the Director of Ants of the Prairie\, an office of architectural practice and research that focuses on confronting contemporary ecological conditions through creative means. Hwang is a registered architect in New York State. She received a post-professional Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University\, where she received the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Bronze Medal. She is currently an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University at Buffalo and has won numerous awards for her work and is widely published. She is co-editor of Beyond Patronage: Reconsidering Models of Practice\, published by Actar. \nLauren Jacobi researches and teaches on the history of late medieval through pre-industrial Italian architecture and urbanism with an emphasis on connections that span the Mediterranean world. She applies economic and sociological concerns to studying urban growth and transformation\, architectural history\, and visual culture. Jacobi has received fellowships and awards from the American Council of Learned Societies\, the Kress Foundation\, the Getty Research Institute\, the Instituto Universitario Olandese di Storia dell’Arte\, the American Numismatic Society\, and the Morgan Library and Museum\, among other organizations. She is working on a book about banking practices in early modern Italy. \nCaroline Jones studies modern and contemporary art\, with a particular focus on its technological modes of production\, distribution\, and reception. Trained in visual studies and art history at Harvard\, she did graduate work at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York before completing her PhD at Stanford University in 1992. Previous to completing her art history degree\, she worked in museum administration and exhibition curation\, holding positions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York (1977-83) and the Harvard University Art Museums (1983-85); her exhibitions and/or films have been shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC\, the Hara Museum Tokyo\, the Boston University Art Gallery\, and MIT’s List Visual Art Center\, among other venues. For 2017-18\, she will be a fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina where she hopes to finish a polemical text regarding The Anthropogenic Image. \nCaitlin Mueller is a researcher\, designer\, and educator working at the interface of architecture and structural engineering. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Building Technology Program\, where she leads the Digital Structures research group. As a researcher\, Mueller focuses on developing new computational methods and tools for synthesizing architectural and structural intentions in early-stage design. She also works in the field of digital fabrication\, with a focus on linking high structural performance with new methods of architectural making. In addition to her digital work\, she conducts research on the nature of collaboration between architects and engineers from a historical perspective. Mueller also aims for interdisciplinary learning and integration in her teaching efforts\, which include subjects in structural design and computational methods.\nModerated by \nEmily Watlington is a SMarchS candidate in HTC\, where she focuses on contemporary art through the lenses of feminist theory and affect theory. She also serves as the curatorial research assistant at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Prior to arriving at MIT\, she received a BFA from MassArt and conducted research on video art in Croatia thanks to the Donis A. Dondis Fellowship. Her art criticism has appeared in periodicals such as Mousse Magazine and Art Papers\, and her article on Ryan Trecartin’s high school art is forthcoming in the edited volume Analogue Living in a Digital World (Tasmeem Doha 2017). She has also contributed to exhibition catalogsLooking In/Looking Out: Contemporary Indian Photography from the Guar Collection (Bindu Modern\, 2016)\, and An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art (DelMonico Prestel\, 2017).
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/nomas-power-lunch-women-in-academia/
LOCATION:MIT Department of Architecture
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events
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SUMMARY:Studio for Interrelated Media Artist Lecture: Ariel Jackson
DESCRIPTION:Studio for Interrelated Media Artist Lecture: Ariel Jackson \nMarch 2\, 2017\, 1:45pm – 3:15pm\nPozen Center\, MassArt\n621 Huntington Avenue\, Boston\, Massachusetts 02115 \nAriel Jackson is a Black American artist originally from Louisiana\, currently living and working in Brooklyn\, NY. Jackson’s work pulls from her personal narrative of having experienced Hurricane Katrina\, growing up on a farm\, childhood aesthetics\, and information regarding black lives in the face of tragedy and catastrophe. \nJackson uses her personal experiences as a base to build and explore historical\, personal\, and social perceptions of The blues. Her mediums of interest are video\, animation\, and sculpture which she uses to contextualize narrative and physical translations of intellectual and historical information into lyrical forms.
URL:https://bostonhassle.com/event/studio-for-interrelated-media-artist-lecture-ariel-jackson/
LOCATION:Pozen Center
CATEGORIES:Art,Free Art Events
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