Currently on view in Boston’s Seaport District on the second floor of one of that neighborhood’s sheathed-in-glass high-rise buildings is: “Adorning Boston and Beyond: Contemporary Studio Jewelry Then + Now.” Guest curated by MassArt Jewelry Professor, Heather White, for The Society of Arts + Crafts, the show is contoured to contextualize today’s jewelry trends using images and writings focused on the studio jewelry work of American post-war artists and designers. Such work blazed a conceptual imprint of enduring significance. White begins this show with documentation in photo and text to suggest the experimentation of the post-war era continues to inform the strongest studio jewelry trends of today. Particularly the show explores the role adornment plays, describing and declaring personal identity and engaging the public and the wearer. Stepping forward from the elevator into the … [Read more...] about SHINING IN THE SEAPORT: WEARABLE ART AT THE SOCIETY OF ARTS + CRAFTS
January/February 2019
BEHIND EVERY GREAT ARTIST: ARTISTS AND THEIR PARTNERS
I came up with this story concept during a gathering of friends, classmates and fellow artists. We’ve been getting together as often as possible after a hiatus of about 40 years for several reasons. At the core of this group are the former students of Ed Togneri, Bill (Willoughby) Elliott, Herb Cummings or Frank McCoy at Southeastern Massachusetts University (which became the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 1991). Many of us are from the Bachelor of Fine Arts Class of 1975 and were painting majors. It’s very interesting how, as we aged, we began to reach out to each other on Facebook. As we reconnected, we learned that some of us were fortunate enough to secure full-time faculty positions while others went into alternative fields such as marketing and advertising. When we had our first reunion a couple of summers ago, it was amazing to hear, not only how similar our life and … [Read more...] about BEHIND EVERY GREAT ARTIST: ARTISTS AND THEIR PARTNERS
Welcome from Brian Goslow
The early months of the year are unpredictable, with the usual cold temperatures and nasty weather typically making it tougher to travel from place to place. On the other hand, it encourages picking a single place or district to settle into for the day and playing closer attention to the exhibitions they visit. It’s also a good time for artists and artisans to settle in to address those projects they’ve put up during the warm weather season. Over the past few months, during the holiday fair season, I’ve contemplated the lasting value of a work created by furniture and jewelry makers, potters, sculptors and fiber artists, especially at a time where communities herald their roles in the maker culture. How does one truly judge which work being created today will find itself part of a museum display centuries from now? Or will that be up to the curators of 2219 to decide? With these … [Read more...] about Welcome from Brian Goslow