Month: November 2009

Hey Everyone!

Just wanted to remind you that the exhibit for Feedback: A Critique Group Revealed is still going on in Hampden Gallery ’til Dec. 6th!!!

Featured Artists:

Jackie Boudreau-Kinsey painting
Candace Bradbury-Carlin assemblage
Jim Doubleday sculpture
Benjamin J. Ostiguy drawing
Bill Rock painting
Tess Rock painting
Marcia R. Wise
Image: Jim Doubleday

These eight artists have been meeting monthly at Hampden Gallery for over a year. Their materials include clay, paint, copper, bronze, and found materials. Their processes include fired ceramics, bronze casting, printmaking, acrylic and oil painting, assemblage and drawing.

When:
Tuesday, November 17 – Sunday, December 6

Hello Everyone!

I wanted to remind you guys that the ‘Call and Response’ exhibit is still going on in Central Gallery ’til December 10th!!

A Dialogue Between Artists and Writers Curated by Diana Simard.

The title of this exhibition is borrowed from the musical terminology relating to a style of singing in which the melody sung by one singer is responded to or echoed by another. The purpose of this project is to facilitate an exchange between art and writing based on the same fundamental idea of call and response. In this project, artists respond to writing and writers respond to art. Each participant contributes two works for the exhibition; the first being for the Call component and the second being for the Response. Over a dozen talented painters, poets, printmakers, fiction writers, sculptors, installation and video artists are participating including visual artist Angela Zammerelli, video artist Marcus DeMaio, poet Noah Eli Gordon, poet Alex Phillips, painter Rachel Ouilette, fiction writer Jason Daniel Schwartz, painter Harry Swartz-Turfle, fiction writer/sound artist Daniel Presnell, and others.

Free and open to the public

A Bus Tour to the Special Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum, NYC

Saturday, November 21
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Includes bus and exhibit fee: $60; Five College/GCC/STCC students/17 & under $50
The first comprehensive exhibition devoted to the arts of the samurai. Arms and armor will be the principal focus, bringing together the finest examples of armor, swords and sword mountings, archery equipment and firearms, equestrian equipment, banners, surcoats, and related accessories of rank such as fans and batons. Drawn entirely from public and private collections in Japan, the majority of objects date from the rise of the samurai in the late Heian period, ca. 1156, through the early modern Edo period, ending in 1868, when samurai culture was abolished. The martial skills and daily life of the samurai, their governing lords, the daimyo, and the ruling shoguns will also be evoked through the presence of painted scrolls and screens depicting battles and martial sports, castles, and portraits of individual warriors.

Thursday, November 19
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$10 General Public; $5 Students

Sorey plays drums, piano and trombone, and has recorded with Muhal Richard Abrams, Wadada Leo Smith, Dave Douglas, and Butch Morris, among many others.

“The enigma that is Tyshawn Sorey: while most young drummers are walking in the footsteps of the elders,” writes Mark F Turner, “Sorey thrives on the outside, composing and performing free improvised music. His debut, That/Not, exposes the inner workings of a young musician with the ability to play in any context, but the boldness to do his own thing.” Born in 1980, Sorey plays drums, piano and trombone, and has recorded with Muhal Richard Abrams, Wadada Leo Smith, Dave Douglas, and Butch Morris, among many others. “It’s a two-disc manifesto of some downright iconoclastic music,” writes Nic Jones about That/Not. “The pervasive feeling throughout this programme is that Sorey and his colleagues have arrived fully formed on the scene.”

Tuesday, November 17
Bowker Auditorium from 10:00 am to 11:00 am
$6 students, $8 adults

Reserve Tickets Online

A wise old rabbit tells her grand-daughter some of her adventures, recounting with verve and a sly, subversive humor some of the episodes surrounding Tiger’s rise to power, his abusive rule and ultimate downfall. This shadow theater piece, using figures modeled on antiques from the Pauline Benton collection, deals humorously with issues of power and survival of the small and powerless in today’s modern jungle. Grades 2 – 7.

Curriculum Connections: Chinese Culture/Cultural Diversity, Folktales, Puppetry, Visual Elements

When:
Tuesday, November 17 – Sunday, December 6

Featured Artists:

Jackie Boudreau-Kinsey painting
Candace Bradbury-Carlin assemblage
Jim Doubleday sculpture
Benjamin J. Ostiguy drawing
Bill Rock painting
Tess Rock painting
Marcia R. Wise
Image: Jim Doubleday

These eight artists have been meeting monthly at Hampden Gallery for over a year. Their materials include clay, paint, copper, bronze, and found materials. Their processes include fired ceramics, bronze casting, printmaking, acrylic and oil painting, assemblage and drawing.

Educational Events:
Opening Reception:Feedback
Critique Group Exhibition
Tuesday, November 17 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Sunday, November 15
Bowker Auditorium 3:00 pm
$20, $15; Five College/GCC/STCC students/17 & under $15

Julie Mallozzi’s award-winning film Monkey Dance documents the lives of three Cambodian-American teenagers coming of age in a world shadowed by their parents’ nightmares of the Khmer Rouge. Traditional Cambodian dance links them to their parents’ culture, but fast cars, hip consumerism, and new romance pull harder. Gradually coming to appreciate their parents’ sacrifices, the three teens find a balance between their parents’ dreams and their own.

Angkor Dance Troupe, located in Lowell, Massachusetts, trains young Cambodians to preserve, develop and teach the traditions of Cambodian performance arts thus promoting an increased understanding and appreciation for Cambodian culture through educational programs and professional public performances.

Saturday, November 14 – Thursday, December 10
Central Gallery

The title of this exhibition is borrowed from the musical terminology relating to a style of singing in which the melody sung by one singer is responded to or echoed by another. The purpose of this project is to facilitate an exchange between art and writing based on the same fundamental idea of call and response. In this project, artists respond to writing and writers respond to art. Each participant contributes two works for the exhibition–the first being for the Call component and the second being for the Response. Over a dozen talented painters, poets, printmakers, fiction writers, sculptors, installation and video artists are participating including visual artist Angela Zammerelli, video artist Marcus DeMaio, poet Noah Eli Gordon, poet Alex Phillips, painter Rachel Ouilette, fiction writer Jason Daniel Schwartz, painter Harry Swartz-Turfle, fiction writer/sound artist Daniel Presnell, and others.

Free and open to the public