Karen
Aqua was recently awarded a 2007 Artists' Fellowship from
the Somerville Arts Council. Currently, 2 large paper wall
pieces from her "animated quilt" series are on exhibit
at the Fuller Craft Museum. Another piece from the series
was included in Brickbottom Gallery's recent exhibit "Brickbottom
Celebrates MacDowell." Last autumn, she had a one-month
residency at Blue Mountain Center in upstate New York. In
2005, a special program of Aqua's animated films was presented
at the Tehran International Animation Festival in Iran. Last
year, she was invited to serve on the International Selection
Committee for the Hiroshima International Animation Festival
in Japan.
Peggy
Badenhausen continues her interest in the notation of
music and dance, representing movement and sound--things that
occur in time--on a two-dimensional surface. She has recently
been included in the "Somerville Prints!" show at
the Brickbottom Gallery. She is represented by the Soprafina
Gallery in Boston.
The
energy of the lines, the evocative shapes, the gracefulness,
and sometimes, awkwardness of the landscape becomes the material
for Jane Bernstein's drawings, monoprints and oil paintings.
Her works has been exhibited in juried shows at the Cambridge
Art Association, Silvermine Guild Arts Center in New Cannan,
Ct. and at the Moosehill Wildlife Sanctuary in Sharon, Ma.
Vicki
Citron established her violin studio in 1988 to create
a learning environment where students could develop a passion
for music, and experience the joy of making music with others.
She has received national and local recognition for her teaching.
www.citronmusic.com
Rebecca
Doughty's drawings have been exhibited at the Schoolhouse
Gallery, Provincetown, The Boston Drawing Project, and the
Drawing Center, NYC. She is also the author/illustrator of
numerous books for children. Recently she was a fellow at
Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland, and The Ucross Foundation,
Wyoming. Visit her site at www.rebeccadoughty.com.
Thomas
Gearty was one of 80 artists world-wide selected for the
2001 Sotheby's Artlink international emerging artist program.
His work has also been exhibited in venues across the US,
including the Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York. Locally,
he has been included in shows at Dan Elias Fine Art, Bernard
Toale Gallery, Howard Yezerski Gallery, and Barbara Krakow
Gallery. Gearty has taught at the Mass College of Art, the
Art Institute of Boston, and UMass/Boston, and has been a
major contributor to two textbooks on the medium.
www.thomasgearty.com
Kata
Hull currently teaches at the School of the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, and Tufts University, and leads drawing
and collage workshops and retreats for individuals and organizations.
Her recent work has been exhibited in various juried shows
including the Essex Art Center?s 13th Annual Juried Show,
2006; Blue, at the Cambridge Art Association; Everything Begins
in the Water, a juried group exhibition inaugurating the Mayyim
Hayyim Gallery, Newton, MA; and the Essex Art Center's 10th
Annual Juried Show, Lawrence, where her work received an award.
Sarah
Hulsey is a book artist, printmaker, and textile artist.
Recent work has appeared in the 4th Intl. Book and Paper Triennial
at Columbia College, Center for Book and Paper Arts (Chicago)
and "100 Years of American Poetry Broadsides" at
the Beinecke Rare Books Library at Yale. Sarah is also a graduate
student of Linguistics at MIT.
You
may have seen Gail Martin's work this past year in
the Clark Gallery's summer exhibition in Lincoln, MA or in
the Towne Art Gallery's "The View From Within" at
Wheelock College. Gail is pleased to announce that she will
be previewing her installation "Precious", which
consists of 365 paintings of her possessions completed in
2006, at this year's open studios. As a member of the Bromfield
Gallery, located in the SOWA district of Boston's South End,
she will also be exhibiting "Precious" as part of
her upcoming solo exhibition there in October 2007. Please
visit her website,
www.gailmartinart.com.
We
are happy to welcome Alessandra Mariano, an Italian-born
artist, to our building. Her vocabulary of portraits, animals,
& the human figure is expressed in oil paintings, drawings,
& printmaking. Last summer she worked in Italy on 2 commissioned
murals.
Andrea
Oseas's mixed media works have been exhibited at the Herbert
Johnson Museum of Art, the Berkshire Museum, the DeCordova
Museum, the Pratt Institute, the Elvira Museum, and numerous
galleries. She has taught at Cornell University, the DeCordona
Museum, and Harvard University.
Jeanée
Redmond received a 2002 Artist Award from the Society
of Arts and Crafts, where her work was shown in the fall.
In May of 2003, she will exhibit work at the Cambridge Art
Association's National Prize Show, and at the Ferrin Gallery
in Lenox. She was commissioned to create platters for Fidelity
Investments and Putnam Investments, and taught workshops at
DeCordova Museum, Mass College of Art, and the Museum of Fine
Arts School.
Inventor/artist
David Durlach's TechnoFrolics melds art & science
into performance sculptures & interactive educational
exhibits. They created dancing fabric for shows in Las Vegas,
Phoenix, & the country of Cyprus. Recent installations
of their Spin Browser video viewer include: the Newseum in
Arlington, VA (60's Newsreels), Los Alamos Bradbury Science
Center (nuclear blast tests), & Boston Museum of Science
(Big Dig footage).
The
Bindery at Miller Street was highlighted in a feature
article in the Boston Herald last summer.
At
last year's Open Studios,
Patty
Rosenblatt
converted her studio into an observatory for viewing the virtuosity
of clay as it assumes myriad guises in interactions with water
and air over the course of time.
Sculptor
Nancy Webb's commissions included a bronze bas-relief
for the Architectural Heritage Foundation at Boston's Old
City Hall, & bronze tiles, light switches, & faucets
for the Maud Morgan Visual Arts Center in Cambridge. She
exhibited drawings & prints at Helen Bumpus Gallery, Duxbury.
Nyia
Yannatos' work includes collagraphs, monotype and mixed
media.
Artists
Michael Compton and Kathryn Lloyd will also
be exhibiting their works at this year's Open Studios.
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