Resources
Women in the Arts Events in MA
Special
Invitations for MA-NMWA Members & Guests
Clara
Database
You Are Invited
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:00 AM
The 2nd Annual Tour and Lunch at the Peabody Essex Museum organized by
MA-NMWA in conjunction with PEM especially for members of MA-NMWA.
Peabody Essex Museum
East India Square
Salem, MA 01970
(978) 745-9500
Wedded Bliss: The Marriage of Art and Ceremony explores the wedding as a
source of inspiration for the creation of art in cultures around the world.
The complex beliefs and emotions surrounding the matrimonial experience are
reflected in three centuries of art and culture from the United States,
Asia, Africa and Europe. The full spectrum of the matrimonial
experience-from courtship, engagement and pre-nuptial arrangements to
wedding rituals, ceremonies, and anniversaries-is richly represented.
Curator Paula Richter worked for two years putting this exhibit together
and will present a special 30 minute slide show for members of MA-NMWA
focusing on the art in the show by women with the most compelling stories
followed by a self-guided tour of the exhibit and lunch in the Bartlett
Gallery. The museum store will be open.
Price: $45.00 Members, $50.00 Non-members
For more information, please call (781) 729-6096. All members will
receive an e-mail invitation with details.
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Thought You Should
Know
Diane Willow: Re-Inhabiting
Until March 16, 2008
Danforth Museum of Art
123 Union Avenue
Framingham, MA 01702
(508) 620-0050
Re-Inhabiting is an interactive installation by Minnesota resident and
artist Diane Willow. Willow works as an artist, researcher, and professor at
the University of Minnesota. Her classes explore many of the themes that
come to life in her art. Her work exemplifies a kind of symbiotic
relationship between art, nature, and human movement. The viewer’s physical
movement through the installation makes it come alive.
For more information, visit the website:
http://www.danforthmuseum.org
The Portrait Collages: Photographs by Paula Gillen
Until March 30, 2008
Griffin Museum of Photography
67 Shore Road
Winchester, MA 01890
(617) 729-1158
Ms. Gillen describes her portrait collages as “interpretive studies of
friends resting within worlds that don’t exist” and adds “I try to blur the
line between caricature and realism, between one moment and many, between
flattery and a parody of the posed portrait.”
For more information, visit the website:
http://www.griffinmuseum.org/exhibitions_griffin_gallery.htm
Ana Maria Pacheco: Dark Night of the Soul
Until May 18, 2008
Danforth Museum of Art
123 Union Avenue
Framingham, MA 01702
(508) 620-0050
The Danforth Museum of Art presents Dark Night of the Soul, an
installation of nineteen life size monumental figures by internationally
renowned Brazilian artist Ana Maria Pacheco. Tapping into themes of guilt
and culpability, Pacheco evokes a deeply emotional response from each
individual viewer in her highly ambitious work
For more information, visit the website:
http://www.danforthmuseum.org
Lynne Avandenka: A Thousand and One Inventions
Until May 21, 20088
Women’s Studies Research Center
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
515 South Street. Epstein Building
Waltham, MA 02454
(781) 736-8102
Words and images interweave in this site-specific installation, creating an
environment that opens up and reveals layers visually, as a book does
conceptually. Inaugural HBI Artist-in-Residence, Ms Avandenka invites the
public to visit the gallery to experience the installation-in-progress from
March 10 until March 15.
Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PMM
For more information, visit the website:
http://www.wsrc-arts@brandeis.edu
Tali Hatuka, Architect: Urban Design and Civil Protest
Until June 9, 2008
The Compton Gallery, MIT
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
(617) 253-1000
Ms. Hatuka, a postdoctoral fellow in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies,
has created a laboratory for “examining the socio-spatial dynamic of protest
as a public dialogue between citizen and regime.” The exhibit features
“examinations of models, plans, sections, and photographs displaying
circular, grid and concentric forms of protest throughout the world.”
Admission is free; Open daily 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM...
(Enter through the main building at 77 Mass. Ave, walk through to Lobby
10. The Compton Gallery is off Lobby 10 to the left.)
For more information, visit the website:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/dusp-tt0227.html
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Clara Database
The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) has recently launched a new
interactive database on women visual artists of all time periods, media, and
nationalities. The Clara: Database of Women Artists? is a unique
interactive database containing authoritative information on 18,000 women visual
artists of all time periods and nationalities. The information in
Clara? is drawn from the materials in the National Museum of Women in
the Arts' extensive Archives on Women Artists.
Both Clara? and the Archives on Women Artists are works in
progress. The NMWA is continually adding records for new artists and updating
information on existing artists. Please keep in mind that the content in the
database is entered manually by project staff. Thank you for your patience while
NMWA continues to update and enhance this resource.
Click on the link
http://www.nmwa.org/clara to discover more.
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