Mother Brook Arts Flirts With A New Direction by Meredith Cutler Planted squarely on one of the oft-neglected borders between suburban and urban Boston, the former mill village of East Dedham has long remained an untapped opportunity for thoughtful redevelopment. Along the banks of the Mother Brook Canal, the oldest hand-dug mill pond in the United States (circa 1639), and former home to Dedham Pottery, the factory that produced the collectible, crackle-glazed ceramics from 1896-1943, the neighborhood had the bones for an artistic rebirth. In 2011, a group of civic-minded residents and local selectmen saw the soon to be decommissioned Avery School as the perfect opportunity. REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE “Why do we automatically think the building needs to be torn down because the use changes?” was the question posed by Town of Dedham Selectman Paul Reynolds, who helped spearhead … [Read more...] about Renewal New Direction
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The Wild, Wild (Metro) West
A CORRIDOR OF CULTURE IN NATICK AND FRAMINGHAM Easy proximity to Boston by the Framingham/Worcester commuter rail line and major driving Routes 9, 135 and the Massachusetts Turnpike peg these two towns as desirable bedroom communities for commuters. However, a concentration of artists and creative organizers have negated the need for a drive into the city for a dose of culture — re-envisioning the industrial bones of the area as habitats for studios, performance spaces, boutique retail galleries and culinary incubators. NATICK CENTER CULTURAL DISTRICT Anchored by a classic, grassy town common capped by a wooden gazebo, the delightfully walkable town center offers quintessential late 19th-century, neo-gothic brick architecture filled with mom-and-pop mainstays and peppered with independent creative businesses. Just across from the town common, Renew Arts & Industry (19 … [Read more...] about The Wild, Wild (Metro) West
Welcome
Welcome to our May/June issue, our kick-off to the summer season with a series of exhibitions we hope you’ll find road-trip worthy. This time around, we’re featuring an expanded number of wanderlusts, taking advantage of the knowledge and enthusiasm of our writers throughout New England to introduce you to parts of the region you may be unfamiliar with. Not only did I ask them to suggest art venues, but also to share their favorite coffee shops and restaurants to add to your experience. Marcia Santore takes you on a trip up New Hampshire’s Interstate 93, from Manchester to Littleton, exploring such diverse venues as the Currier Museum of Art, a knitting store that doubles as a gallery, an outdoor sculpture garden and an eatery billed as “one of the 10 best neighborhood restaurants in America.” Alexandra Tursi brings us to Johnson, Vermont, home of the Vermont … [Read more...] about Welcome
Good Vibrations
NIHO KOZURU AT HESS GALLERY Niho Kozuru rides the razor’s edge between craft and sculpture in a purposeful and inquisitive way. Best known in Boston’s art circles for her otherworldly cast-rubber sculptures, she also maintains a brisk, Etsypowered business selling beeswax candles re-envisioned from the forms of found wooden architectural elements. Born in Japan to a family of ceramic artists, the Boston-based Kozuru takes her heritage seriously and into the new millennium, casting a gaze backward to the turned and machine-worked forms of earlier centuries, and forward via material experiments with rubber and mixed-media. Kozuru has installed a cross-section of her sculptural and wall-hung work at Pine Manor College’s Hess Gallery, on view through January 28. Located in the atrium of the Annenberg Library, the gallery is festooned with working sketches and examples from Kozuru’s … [Read more...] about Good Vibrations
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Past Centerfolds 2008
Past CenterFolds: 2008 artscope 12, January/February 2008 Art: carmela lily II Artist: Marisa diPaola Artist Statement: I am a nomadic sculptor and installation artist. I create wearable site-specific work from found materials, and wear these pieces, as self-portraits, handmade as if by the characters that I am depicting. The work itself is a collection of psychological self-portraiture through an exploration of fairy tale characters interacting with this world. Not focusing on the "happily ever after" but at the moment of creation, and adaptation to their new journey and to their new habitat. The natural world became my focus as I began searching for the origins of humanity and the natural connections that bind us to the land. The series explored characters creating a home withing their found habitat, focusing on the beginning of the journey where the path … [Read more...] about Past Centerfolds 2008