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URBANO PROJECT CELEBRATES THE WARMTH OF WE HEAL’S ART WORKSHOPS

// Artscope Online, Community, Visual Arts

by Montana Mendes

A click of a Zoom link and a question of whether the video would stay on and I was in to view the online closing celebration for the “We Heal” exhibition and book release coordinated by sculptor Nora Valdez in collaboration with patients from the Cancer and Sickle Cell Support Programs at the Boston Medical Center and Dana Farber Cancer Institute and youth from the Urbano Project. The project was an encouraging and inspiring workshop that allowed those going through hardships to experience the creativity they have. As everyone rolled in for the March 19 event, I sat and waited for the presentation of what would be beautiful art from people who do not consider them artists. It started with a warm welcome to show how much of a community had been built through this exhibition. The exhibition mimicked the feeling of healing and the work resembled places that feel good to those who … [Read more...] about URBANO PROJECT CELEBRATES THE WARMTH OF WE HEAL’S ART WORKSHOPS

A LASTING IMPRESSION: STUART KNEW THE PROPAGANDIST VALUE OF SYMBOLS

// Community, Current Issue, March/April 2021

by Nancy Nesvet

Forty-four Presidential portraits hang in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., each unique, reflecting stylistic and political preferences and concerns as visual art codes and signals points of view of society at the time it is produced. Recent events in our nation’s capital have drawn attention to recognizing the artist’s role as documentarian and interpreters of society’s views and preferences. Where a camera is aimed and what a videocam records is dependent on the stance of an artist and their courage to be in a place and time. That has been proven in the videos of the Capitol riots that numerous people have seen on TV and computer screens. Painters and sculptors observe the same requirements and parameters in creating their work. The stance and mind of a sculptor or painter, and the artist’s view of the President, was responsible for the artist’s unique vision and … [Read more...] about A LASTING IMPRESSION: STUART KNEW THE PROPAGANDIST VALUE OF SYMBOLS

A NEW APPROACH TO PROGRAMMING: LEXART’S BROADER OUTREACH, RENOVATED GALLERY

// Community, Current Issue, March/April 2021

by Isabel Barbi

Founded in 1935, Lexington Arts and Crafts (LexArt) continues to service the community and expand in resources and innovation throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the last 86 years, the educational non-profit collaborative has undergone many intentional and inevitable changes, but the ones enacted in the past year are completely reshaping LexArt to even further “encourage and inspire artisans at all stages of their journeys” and “enrich lives through the power of art and craft,” quoted from their vision and mission statements. In November 2020, Matthew Siegal, former Chair of the Department of Conservatism and Collections Management at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was officially appointed as Executive Director and President of LexArt. Prior to Siegal, the organization was entirely volunteer run until March 2019 when the organization overhauled its internal structure and … [Read more...] about A NEW APPROACH TO PROGRAMMING: LEXART’S BROADER OUTREACH, RENOVATED GALLERY

NANCY NESVET’S INS AND OUTS 2020/2021

// Artscope Online, Community, Featured

by Nancy Nesvet

Welcome to 2021, although the bounties of 2021 will not begin until the 20th of January and the second and third quarters of the year. As I compile, at Artscope, my hopes and predictions for 2021, and heartily throw out the disasters of 2020, I’m also contemplative in assessing the larger reasons for changes in the art world, our smaller, but no less important or reflective part of the greater world. 2021 will see Trump and Pence out, and Biden and Harris in, the present First Lady out, and the new First Teacher in, the first Vice President of mixed race, Black and brown in; the Second Lady out, and the Second Gentleman in. Red is hopefully all out, blue all in. Jello shots are out; Covid-19 vaccine shots in. Claims of the biggest inaugural crowd ever are out, and plans for the smallest inaugural crowd ever are in. As we pursue our lone lifestyles, ordering for one — or … [Read more...] about NANCY NESVET’S INS AND OUTS 2020/2021