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Spotlight Story Archive
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| SMFA in the Airport — October 2008
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Imagine you’re catching a flight at Boston’s Logan International Airport: you
check your bags, you head for the gate, and you . . . go to an art show?
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| Esteban Pastorino Díaz, Role Model — September 2008
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If Deniz Hotamisligil (BFA ’08, Studio ’09) has a role model, it could be
Esteban Pastorino Díaz, the Argentinian photographer whose exhibit, “Shifting
Perspectives,” opened August 29 in the Museum School’s Grossman Gallery.
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| Students Turned Staff — August 2008
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It’s a given that Museum School faculty are working artists. But what about the
assistant director of student life? The associate dean of admissions? The
manager of the school store?
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| Exhibiting Artists in "ceX²" — June 2008
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This past spring Carl Licence became an artist. He’s a computer programmer and
information analyst who’s been taking photographs since high school, and he
began studying in the Museum School’s Continuing Education program last fall.
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| A Passion for Fashion — May 2008
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This spring Juliana Gregori, 18, brought new meaning to the term “bag lady.” At
the invitation of Lord & Taylor, the continuing education student took up
scissors, needle, and thread and made a skirt and a blouse out of the department
store’s shopping bags.
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| Not Your Average Spring Break Trip — April 2008
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They arrived in New Orleans on a Saturday night. On Sunday the eight Museum
School students got a tour of the still-devastated city. By Monday morning, they
were itching to do something—anything—to help.
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| Over Forty and Fabulous! — March 2008
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Every Wednesday about a dozen Museum School students meet for lunch. They talk
about their classes and current art projects. And what it’s like to be the
oldest student in the class by 20 or 30 years.
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| Cathy Lu: Ceramic Revelations — February 2008
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On the telephone, Cathy Lu (BFA/BA ’07) is cheerful, even giggly, and she
describes her ceramic sculpture only as “loosely figurative” and “colorful.” So
the installation titled “You Are What You Eat” comes as a bit of a shock:
life-sized terra cotta body parts strewn across the floor, dripping blood and
sprouting bones.
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| Patty Bode's Ecuadorian Adventures — December 2007/January 2008
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As Director of Art
Education at the Museum School and Tufts University,
Patty Bode possesses years of experience as a
public-school art
teacher, not to mention a specialty in multicultural art education. But leading
a two-day artmaking
workshop for an indigenous village in the
Ecuadorian Amazon?
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| SMFA Art Cheerleaders — October 2007
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Fall is a busy season if you’re a cheerleader. Even if you’re a 30-something
cheerleader with arch supports in your sneakers, social satire in your cheers,
and you’re rooting not for quarterbacks to complete a pass but for artists to
get the respect (and funding) they deserve.
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| Traveling Scholars 2007 — September 2007
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Matthew Paul Cleary spent the month of June rubbing shoulders with
contemporary-art cognoscenti. First he traveled to Switzerland to see Art Basel,
then to Italy for the 52nd Venice Biennale, and finally to Kassel, Germany, to
catch the Documenta 12 exhibition. In real life, though, Cleary is no
jet-setter, just a recent Museum School graduate—a very talented, lucky Museum
School graduate.
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| Edible Books — July 2007
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When faculty member
Anne Pelikan tells her students that during their next class they’ll be making
books out of lettuce, red peppers, and a scallion or two, she gets a mixed
reaction. “They’re either totally delighted or totally floored,” she says, at
the prospect of using food as an art medium.
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| Students Help Install MFA Exhibition — June 2007
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Imagine that a museum curator hands you a 10 x 22-foot template of a
contemporary masterpiece, points you toward a blank wall, and says, "Recreate
it." Sounds daunting, but it's all in a day's work for Museum School advanced
painting students.
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| Violence Transformed — May 2007
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Late in the fall of 2007, psychologist and Post-Baccalaureate candidate Dr. Mary Harvey noticed fellow
students in her monoprint class creating work focused on the trauma of violence.
She got an idea. Why not organize a small exhibit that would address “the impact
of violence and the possibility of art transforming the experience.”
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| Cyberwindow — April 2007
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When the Museum School’s W. Van Alan Clark, Jr. Library locks its doors at
night, the windows usually go dark. But from April 20–May 6, an exhibit of
projected images titled “CyberWindow” will light up the library window ...
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