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LOCAL ECOLOGIES AS ART: UNIVERSITY GALLERIES INSPIRE TIMELY DISCUSSION

By Ron Fortier

“Local Ecologies,” which will be exhibited at three University of Massachusetts institution galleries during the 2019-20 school year, features commission artworks by artists who have lived and worked in eastern […]

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CHALLENGING STEREOTYPES: RAQUEL PAIEWONSKY IN NEW BEDFORD

By Ron Fortier

Viera Levitt, director and contemporary art curator at the UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery, has launched an exciting fall exhibit agenda with lots of interesting backstories and behind-the-scenes collaboration. The […]

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AMERICA DECONSTRUCTED: KENTUCKY ARTISTS INITIATE CONVERSATION

By Linda Chestney

When I was younger — a true farmer’s daughter from South Dakota — I absorbed the implied social lesson: “Don’t discuss money, religion or politics at the dining room table.” […]

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ART WITH A MESSAGE: SAMANTHA FIELDS’ RECYCLED CLOTHING PROJECT

By Elizabeth Michelman

This six-week pop-up public art project in a downtown storefront is the brainchild of School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University professor Samantha Fields. It combines spectacle, […]

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MIDCOAST MAINE: LOCAL COLOR AND FOODS AWAIT FALL ADVENTURERS

By Leah Hamilton French

I like to joke that I found freedom in Maine. And in a way, it’s true. Recently, I traveled up the coast to the small town of Freedom for a […]

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LIFE’S DECISIVE MOMENTS: MALEK CELEBRATES PEOPLE AT WORK

By Marguerite Serkin

Photographer Tad Malek knows a bit about patience. With a background in color landscape photography, Malek has spent full days immersed in natural surroundings, waiting for the perfect still. Malek’s […]

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RE-PIECING THE SHELL: DARWIN “BROKEN, BUT NOT BAD” AT REGIS

By Beth Neville

What does an artist do after a devastating divorce and death of her mother? With the invention of psychoanalytical theory by Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler and others, the […]