School of the Musuem of Fine Arts

Faculty Shows (listed alphabetically)   

ERICA H. ADAMS' work States: Teleidoscope is on view in "Chain Letter: 10 Artists Pick 10 Artists" at Samsøn Projects, July 16–30, 2011. Recent exhibitions include: "Berkshire Salon 2011" annual exhibition at Eclipse Gallery (North Adams) May 20–June 19, 2011; "HOPE" at the Cotuit Center for the Arts, November 13–December 18; her EXXON series photographs in "Larger than Life: Large Scale Photography" at the B.A.C/Berkshire Artists Colony (North Adams) July 29–September 12, 2010; Land Trust series photographs to benefit Barnstable Land Trust (Cape Cod) on August 14, 2010 for land conservation and preservation and she and MFA student John Guy Petruzzi recently co-curated "EXTINCT!...Endangered Species and Habitats," at the Brush Art Gallery & Studios (Lowell) January 17–February 21, 2010, which featured 20 SMFA faculty and student artists.

MARILYN ARSEM
and Tony Schwensen along with graduate students Anna O'Hara, Kirk Amaral Snow, and Garett Yahn participated in Infr'Action 010, an international performance event in Sète, France from September 15–19, 2010. Recent performances include:
"On the Way: 2009 ArTrend International Performance Art Meeting" in Taiwan in November, creating different outdoor durational performances in four cities: Taipei (November 15 in Ta An Park), Taidung (November 18 at Dulan Sugar Factory), Kaohsiung (November 21 at FongShan Railway Barn) and Tainan (November 24 at Confucius Temple Culture Zone) and a talk on performance art at Taidung University, November 17.

JOHN AVAKIAN's monoprints appeared in three different exhibitions and received prizes in each show: the James Jefferis Prize at the New Haven Paint and Clay Club's "100th Annual Juried Art Exhibition;" honorable mention at Monotype Guild of New England's "Members Juried Exhibition;" second place the "2nd Annual National Monotype and Monoprint Exhibition" at the Fitchburg Art Museum.


NOIT BANAI moderated a panel about the exhibition "Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968," February 24, 6 pm at
Tufts University Art Gallery  and give a lecture" Mark Bradford: Is Abstraction Still Political?" at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, February 27, 2 pm.

MICHAEL BARSANTI, along with Fritz Buehner and Allison Newsome, participated in
"Agriculture encounters Sculpture" at the Allandale Farm (Brookline, MA) September 2–October 21, 2010.

CLAIRE BECKETT will be presenting her first solo exhibition, "Claire Beckett MATRIX 163: Simulating Iraq," at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT, November 3, 2011-March 4, 2012.

SUSAN JANE BELTON is exhibiting at George Billis Gallery (New York) April 5–May 7, 2011. Recent exhibitions include: "Coffee To Go: New Paintings" at Howard Yezerski Gallery, November 26 –December 24, 2010; group show "What's the Rush? Topics on Convenience" at the Main Art Gallery (California State University, Fullerton), November 7–December 16, 2009.

GERRY BERGSTEIN
's studio is featured in the spring 2011 edition of New American Paintings. Recent exhibitions include a 20-year survey exhibition, "Gerry Bergstein: Efforts at Speech" at the
Danforth Museum of Art (Framingham, MA), November 21, 2009
February 28, 2010.

ERIK BENJAMINS will be presenting the Howard Art Project's inaugral exhibition "Hot For Teacher" in Dorchester, MA, October 21-November 18, 2011.

ASHLEY BILLINGSLEY participated in the group show "Beyond Purview" at the New Art Center (Newton, MA) September 20–October 22, 2010.

LAURA BLACKLOW's print Summer from the series "Backyard Botanicals" was featured in the November/December 2010 Art New England review of the show "Photographers Drawn to Historic Processes. Recent exhibitions include the group show "Going Forward, Looking Back - Practicing Historic Photographic Processes in the 21st Century" which exhibited at
University of New England (Portland, ME) and traveled to Simmons College (April 2010), UMass-Dartmouth (May 2010) and Maine Media Workshops Gallery. She was a speaker at Handmade Photography in the Digital Age seminar at Simmons College, April 15, 2010.

LIZI BROWN exhibited her Slant Six series in "SMFA Traveling Scholars" through May 31 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and at G.A.S.P Gallery May 1 and 2 as part of Brookline Open Studios.

BILL BURKE is exhibiting in "Rough Road: The Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project 1975–1977″ on view at the Frazier History Museum (Louisville), October 15, 2011–January 15, 2012. Recent exhibitions include:a solo show, "Destrukto," at Howard Yezerski Gallery, February 11–March 15, 2011.

JONATHAN CALM is exhibiting in "Streetwise," curated by Elga Wimmer, at the Chelsea Art Museum on view June 23–July 30, 2011. Recent exhibition include: "Boston Does Boston IV" at the Proof Gallery (Boston) December 11, 2010–January 29, 2011 and "It's the uncertainty" at Theodore:Art at Ecoartspace (New York) September 11–October 3, 2010.

MARIA MAGDALENA CAMPOS-PONS' show "Mama/Reciprocal Energy" will be the first exhibition that examines her drawings at the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, October 12-December 8, 2011. Recent exhibitions/lectures include: "Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art" at the 8th Floor (New York), April 12–July 14, 2011; group show "Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art" on view January 22–April 13, 2011 at the Chicago Cultural Center; solo exhibition "Sugar: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons" is on view at Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA) September 24, 2010–January 2, 2011; lecture Multimedia Art as Celebratory Gesture of Resilience at the Detroit Institute of Arts on September 19; "Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic" at the Tate Liverpool January 29–April 25, 2010; "Mapping Identity," at Haverford College's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery March 19–April 30, 2010; solo exhibition "Belonging and Longing" at the Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College (Chestnut Hill, MA).

ANDREA CHAMPLIN's work was included in the group show, "Vivid: Female Currents in Painting" at Schroeder Romero & Shredder Gallery in New York, November 18, 2010–January 22, 2011.


ABIGAIL CHILD presented her new book "Is This What You Were Born For" at a book launch at the Anthology Film Archives in New York, October 14, 2011. Recent exhibitions include: discussion (with writer/professor Melissa Ragona of Carnegie Mellon School of Art) and film screening at
UnionDocs (Brooklyn, NY) Saturday, March 19, includes screenings of Cake and Steak, The Future is Behind You and the New York premiere of Surf and Turf.

ROBERT COLLINS participated in the "Faculty Exhibition" at the
Danforth Museum of Art (Framingham) January 5–February 1, 2011. Recent exhibitions include "Vertical Rhythms" part of the New England Currents Series at the Danforth Museum of Art (Framingham) March 17–May 16, 2010.

MARK COOPER will be presenting his solo exhibition "More is More" at the Samson Gallery in Boston, MA, October 22-December 10, 2011. An image Cooper created using a large format Polaroid camera is included in the book From Polaroid to Impossible: Masterpieces of Instant Photography - The Westlicht Collection. It is on view now at the Westlicht Museum in Vienna, Austria. He is currently involved in a three year collaborative project addressing peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Work from his recent show at Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, January11–February 21, 2011 is part of an exhibition at the Musee de l'Elysee in Lausanne, Switzerland, which will travel to WestLicht Museum in Vienna, Austria. Recent exhibitions include a one person exhibition at Sampson Projects in October 2011.

ERICA DABORN's recent exhibition include: the solo show "Hecho En Mexico" at NK Gallery, Boston (in collaboration with the Clark Gallery of Lincoln) on view January 7–29, 2011; "Starting from Somewhere Else" at Phillips Academy's Gelb Gallery (Andover), work on view at Cell Signaling Technologies (Beverly); "Faculty Show: Fritz Buehner, Erica Daborn, William Flynn, John Schulz and Yoshiko Yamamoto" at SMFA's Grossman Gallery, September 2–October 17, 2009 and "Interplay: A Painter's Dialogue with Photography" at the Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University (Providence, RI), October 5–31, 2009.

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NIE DONOHUE will exhibit in "Killing Mapepe: Sex and Death in Cold War Puerto Rico" at the Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol (Vieques, Puerto Rico) on view July 2–September 11, 2011 with an opening reception July 2, 7–10 pm. The show is a unique collaboration between Donohue and cultural anthropologist Katherine McCaffrey. Recent exhibitions include: "Diasporas and Dreams" at Bowman-Penelec-Megahan Art Gallery, Allegheny College (Meadville PA), January 25–March 11, 2011.

JIM DOW has a solo exhibition "American Studies: Photographs by Jim Dow" at
Jane Borden, Inc. (New York) on view June 2–July 15, 2011.

JESSECA FERGUSON is participating in "More Back Forty," the 40th anniversary exhibition at the Art Complex Museum (Duxbury, MA) on view September 18, 2011–January 15, 2012. Opening reception: September 18. Recent exhibitions/events include: a solo show of 35 pinhole photographs and collaged photo-objects, "Handmade Pictures," at the Fox Talbot Museum at Lacock Abbey, located in Wiltshire, England, January 2–June 26, 2011; speaker at the 2011 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts, April 10, 2011 in Boston; "What is Contained: The Book as Subject and Object" on view at Gallery360 (Northeastern University) March 6–April 12, 2011; "Metafory Amerikanskie/American Metaphor" at Stara Galerai ZPAF (Warsaw, Poland) March 22–April 17, 2010; speaker at Handmade Photography in the Digital Age seminar at Simmons College, April 15, 2010; "All About Photography" at artSTRAND Gallery (Provincetown), September 4-23, 2009; "Obscura" at Aarhus Gallery (Belfast, ME) October 20-November 15, 2009; "Going Forward, Looking Back - Practicing Historic Photographic Processes in the 21st Century" at University of New England Gallery (Portland, ME), November 17, 2009-January 24, 2010; "Metafory Amerikanskie/American Metaphor" at Galeria Pusta (Katowice, Poland) November 12-December 31, 2009 and "The Image Wrought: Historical Photographic Approaches in the Digital Age" at University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor, MI), October 24, 2009-January 17, 2010.

BILL FLYNN's solo exhibition "The Chair, the Glove and the Envelope....Uncovering the Process" was on view at the
Trustman Gallery at Simmons College November 2
December 9, 2010.

JOEL FRENZER's new animation, T.H.I.R.S.T., will screen in competition at the Ottawa International Animation Festival on September 24; he will also lead a panel discussion about creating TV animation for adults and comedy writing. The film also screened May 7 and 8 at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston.

GEORGIE FRIEDMAN
has two pieces—Geyser, a two-channel video work and Flight II, Ascent I, a time-based photographic grid—included in "Ripple Effect" on view at the Peabody Essex Museum (Salem) through April 30, 2012. Recent exhibitions include: solo show "Above The Clouds," concurrent video installation at Anthony Greaney and Carroll and Sons, January 5–February 26, 2011 and "At Work" at Lorand Gallery (Boston) January 25–April 3, 2011.

BARBARA GALLUCCI has been invited to create two furniture installations at the Editions and Artists Book Fair in New York City, November 4-November 6, 2011. Recent exhibitions include: "Utopiary Terrace," on view at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, February 5–April 24, 2011, part of the PLATFORM series, and addresses the DeCordova's site as an indoor and outdoor venue for contemporary art; her exhibition "Less and More Less" opened March 4 at Carroll and Sons through April 30, 2011.

JANE GILLOOLY's film Today The Hawk Takes One Chick screened at the Brattle Theater, August 16, followed by a Q+A. Previous screenings include: Babson College's Knight Auditorium (Wellesley, MA) on February 16, 2010, the Festival International de Films de Femmes de Crteil et Val de Marne 2010 (Crteil, France) April 2–11, 2010 and festival opener at the 2009 Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival (Taipei, Taiwan), October 2009.

JOHN GONZALEZ will be presenting his collaborative show at Samson Gallery in Boston, MA, where he is its third artist in residence, September 2011-February 2012.

CHARLES GOSS had a solo exhibition "Everything I Don't Know" at the
Bromfield Gallery, March 3–27, 2010.

JULIE GRAHAM is exhibiting in the group show "Entering Abstraction" at the Ruth Bachofner Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), July 23–September 3, 2011. Recent exhibitions include: group show "Paintings & Works on Paper" at
Victoria Munroe Fine Art, December 15, 2010–January 8, 2011 and a solo show at Victoria Munroe Fine Art September 9–October 23, 2010.

ANGELINA GUALDONI's recent exhibitions include group show "In Side Out" at Susan Inglett Gallery (New York) December 9, 2010–January 29, 2011;a solo show of new works, "Shadows Slipping," at Asya Geisberg Gallery (New York) September 23–November 6, 2010 and co-curated the group show "Hand's Tide," including work by alumnus Jacob Rhoads at Regina Rex (Queen, NY) September 11–October 10, 2010.

MAGS HARRIES has installed her work with Lajos Heder "Terpsichore for Kansas City," a public art installation itransforming the new Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts into an instrument of light and sound, December 2, 2011.  Recent exhibitions include: Two glass pieces and an installation called River in the exhibition "Ripple Effect: The ART OF H20" at the Peabody Essex Museum on view June 18, 2011–May 2012. Other projects include: Harries and Lajos Heder's Terra Fugit was featured in "Remediate/Re-vision: Public Artists Engaging the Environment" August 1–November 28, 2010 at Wave Hill (Bronx, NY); awarded the Livable Vision Award for Esthetics for their creation, Sunflowers, An Electric Garden; recieved a City of Kansas City Municipal Public Art Commission to create a sound and light piece for the Kaufman Concert Hall Garage called Terpsichore; the
Zanjero's Line project, which features multiple pieces along four miles of trails along the Highline Canal in Phoenix, AZ and working with a design team at the Colorado History Museum in Denver.

NATE HARRISON had videos in the
Portobello Film Festival (London), September 3-20, 2009 and "After All, Everything Is Different In The End" at Higher Institute of Fine Arts (Ghent, Belgium), September 26-October 18, 2010. Recent exhibitions include: "Videonale 13" at Kunstmuseum Bonn (Germany); "A Purpose On Image," at Beton 7 (Athens, Greece); "LIVRET II" at Galerie Art:Concept (Paris); "I Like The Art World And The Art World Likes Me" at EFA Project Space, New York; "Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid" at Centre Pompidou (Paris) and "Hard to Sell, Good to Have" at Palais Sturany (Vienna, Austria).

DEREK HOFFEND performs an audio-visual performance at Mobius on April 15, 2011 in collaboration with Rudi Punzo from Turin, Italy, as part of the Trans-Cultural Exchange Conference. Recent exhibitions include: "Transpositions," which examined themes of location and dislocation, time, memory and transformation, in response to the site and context of the Distillery Gallery and the Distillery Building, January 21–March 4.

CHUCK HOLTZMAN will be part of the group show "Cannot be Described in Words: Drawing Exanded" at the Concord Art Association Members Gallery, October 1-30, 2011. 

KEN HRUBY
has a solo sculpture exhibition "A Veteran's Voice" at AD Gallery (UNC-Pembroke), May 10–July 6, 2011. Recent exhibitions include: "The Perfect Fit---Shoes Tell Stories" at the
Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA), June 6, 2009-January 3, 2010 and a solo show of sculptural creations, "A Veteran's Life," at Arizona State University October 29
November 10, 2009.

DAVID KELLEY had a one person show at anthony greaney (Boston) through August 31, 2010.

STEVE LAMBERT's work I want you to have this is the winter 2011 project from the Present Group, which is an art subscription project that enables subscribers to fund contemporary artists projects and receive limited edition artwork in return. He is exhibiting in a group show "If These Walls Could Talk—A Conversation" at Marine and Charlie James Gallery (Los Angeles) on view February–April 2011 with opening receptions February 12 (Santa Monica) and February 19 (Chinatown). Recent events include: a billboard up in Pittsburgh the week of March 27, 2011, courtesy of Jon Rubin's Waffleshop Billboard; a performance/lecture, Free as in Freedom and Free as in Free Beer, at the New Museum (New York) November 6; his work False Documents and Other Illusions was at the Portland Museum of Art through January 2, 2011 and was awarded a $45,000 grant through the Open Society Foundations to create the School of the Create Activism, a participatory workshop infusing community organizing and civic engagement with culture and creativity.

GLENNA LANG
recently participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Dorchester Speakers Forum in order to talk about her work on the critically acclaimed books Genius of Common Sense and The Death and Life of Great American Cities, November 11, 2011.


PATTE LOPER
 will be presenting her third solo show "Still Point of the Returning Wolrd" at the Platform Gallery in Seattle, WA, October 6-November 19, 2011. Recent exhibitions include: VCCA/Virginia Center for the Creative Arts residency (Amherst, VA), August 2011; solo exibition "Remember Me as a Time of Day" at Platform Gallery (Seattle); "The Sky Is Burning, the Sea Aflame" at Lyons Wier Gallery (New York), October 2010; "If on a Winter's Night" at Platform Gallery (Seattle), December 2010 and "The Secret Language of Animals" at Tacoma Art Museum, November 2010 and
"Paper Trail v. 6" at the Judi Rotenberg Gallery (Boston), September 3–October 10, 2009.

PETER MADDEN will be participating in Scope Miami, which, in its 11th year, has been singled out as one of the most popular fairs during Miami Art Week (Basel), November 29-December 4, 2011. In addition, Keyes Art, based in New York's Chelsea Gallery District, will be showing selections from "Homework." Recent exhibitions include: Beyond the Book: an Exhibit of Books as Art at LynnArts in Lynn, MA, September 24-November 2, 2011; "Homework," the "40th Anniversary Exhibition" at Duxbury Art Complex Museum, May 1–September 4, 201; 10 pieces have been published in Masters: Book Arts (Lark Publications, April 2011); speaker at The Boston Society of Printers, Ocober 15, 2011; "Queer Animals" at the 13FOREST Gallery (Arlington, MA), September 17-November 13, 2009; "Going Forward, Looking Back - Practicing Historic Photographic Processes in the 21st Century" at University of New England Gallery (Portland, ME), November 17, 2009-January 24, 2010; "Something in Everything" at the Groton School (Groton, MA) January 7–February 2011l; and group show "What is Contained: The Book as Subject and Object" at Gallery360 (Northeastern University) March 6–April 12, 2011.

MEGAN MCMILLAN and her collaborating partner Murray McMillan have been selected for the 2012 deCordova Biennial, on view January 22-April 22, 2012.  

MARA METCALF's recent exhibitions include: "Reflections on Nature" at the Krause Gallery, Moses Brown School (Providence, RI) January 4–28, 2011 and the group show "On Nature" at Chazan Gallery at Wheeler, February 19–March 18.

JASON MIDDLEBROOK will be exhibiting his first solo show with DODGEgallery, "A Break from Content," November 19-December 23, 2011.  

ETHAN MURROW has an upcoming solo exhibition of new drawings, "Doppler Doppelgänger," opening Septmeber 8, 2011 at Winston Wachter (New York). Other upcoming exhibitions include:group show at the Tamarind Institute at the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque) and a solo show at Obsolete Gallery in Los Angeles in March 2012. Recent exhibitions: solo exhibition "Momentum House" at the
La Galerie Particuliere (Paris) on view March 16–May 7, 2011; solo show "Ethan Murrow: will be snaring meteorites" at Winston Wächter Fine Art (Seattle), November 3, 2010–January 6, 2011; "Rural Myths" at Obsolete in Venice, CA; "H20: Film on Water" at the Cynthia Reeves Gallery (New York), August 8-November 7, 2009; "On Paper" at Jenkins Johnson Gallery (New York), September 8-October 17, 2009 and a solo show at Kendall College of Art and Design (Grand Rapids, MI) in April 2010.

ILSE PLUME's recent exhibitions include: work on view at the
Cornish Colony Museum (Windsor, VT) through March 28 and a show at the Concord Free Public Library, February 1–28.

LINDA KINDLER PRIEST
was invited to have work for sale at "One and Only: Gifts Made by Hand" at
Kohler Art Center (Sheboygan WI), October 12, 2009-February, 2010; Aaron Faber Gallery's booth at SOFA: Chicago, November 6-8; in "Holiday Show" at Facere (Seattle). Priest's work was also juried into three craft shows: Washington Craft Show (Washington DC), November 6-8, 2009; Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, November 12-15, 2009 and Craft Boston Holiday Show December 11-13.

RHODA ROSENBERG's solo exhibition "Matrilineal Threads" is currently being shown at the Danforth Museum in Framingham, MA, November 20, 2011-Feburary 26, 2012. Recent exhibitions include: a solo show, "Shapes of Memory," curated by Pamela Allara and Catherine Mays at the Danforth Museum of Art, November 14, 2010–February 6, 2011 and "Fragments of the Past," April 24–May 29, 2010 at HallSpace (Boston).

MICHELLE SAMOUR's "Truth and Transience" will be on view March 26–May 15, 2011 at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Recent shows include: solo exhibition "Wired Eyes: New Work by Michelle Samour" at the McIninch Art Gallery at University of Southern New Hampshire, November 1–December 16.

JOHN SCHULZ attended a two-week residency with SMFA students at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Belgium in April 2011. Recent exhibitions include: the group show "1 X 1" at
Gallery Kayafas, March 4–April 10 and had a group of drawings in the show "Strange Loops" at the Boston Center for the Arts, November 13, 2009January 3, 2010.

JENNIFER SCHMIDT will be exhibiting a newly screenprinted sculpture and poem series as part of the concrete poetry exhibition, "Telefone Sem Fio: Word-Things of Augusto de Campos Revisited" at Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in NYC, November 4- December 17, 2011.  She will also be exhibiting "Wish You Were Here," an interarctive sound installation featuring audio greeting cards and card racks, at the Islip Art Museum in East Islip, New York, November 26-January 24, 2012.  Her work will also be featured in the Graphic Impressions Journal, Fall 2011 Issue.  The soundtrack to her video Psychedelic Swatch is featured on an LP created by Paddy Johnson/
Art Fag City, which dropped in fall 2010. "The Sound of Art" is a limited edition vinyl LP composed of sounds heard in New York galleries, museums and project spaces over the last five years. Upcoming exhibitions include: "New Prints/Summer 2011," curated by Trenton Doyle Hancock at the International Print Center (New York) in May 2011.
Recent exhibitions include: "Non-Cochlear Sound" at Diapason Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), October 2010; "Pastures + Hedges," a solo exhibition at Coyne Gallery, Syracuse University, November 2010.

TONY SCHWENSEN's recent performances and exhibitions include: MONUMENT, October 29, at
Waterloo Centre for the Arts (Iowa); Infr'Action 010, an international performance event in Sète, France from September 15–19, 2010, along with Marilyn Arsem and graduate students Anna O'Hara, Kirk Amaral Snow, and Garett Yahn; solo exhibition, "Now More Than Ever (Change Without Chaos)," at the Uplands Gallery in Melbourne, Australia, from August 12–September 4, 2010, with a performance on August 12; group exhibitions in Melbourne at the Melbourne Art Fair, the Basil Setters Art Prize 2010 and "Gestures and Procedures," and in London at "TAPS: Improvisations with Paul Burwell."

ROBERT SIEGELMAN has six drawings in "Drawing the Line, from Process to Purpose" at the Arsenal Center for the Arts (Watertown) through April 16 and three Polaroid photographs in "Instant Connections" at the Panopticon Gallery at Hotel Commonwealth, on view through May 2. Recent exhibitions/events include: 16 photographs were published in the recent issues of XNOTDEAD (Paris); Fort Point Open Studios, October 5, 4–7 pm and October 16+17, 116 pm; "The Great LGBTQ Photo Show" June 16–July 10 at Leslie/Lohman Gallery (New York) and 10th Annual Fort Point Arts Community Art Walk and Spring Open Studios on May 7, 4–7 pm and May, 8+9 12–5 pm.

JEFF SILVA will be relaunching the "Balagan Film Series" at the Brattle Theatre; run and co-curated by Silva, the film series will include work from SMFA faculty and alumni. His documentary Ivan & Ivana had its world premiere at the international competition Visions du Reel (Nyon, Switzerland) on April 8 and will have its U.S premiere at the Independent Film Festival of Boston, with screenings on April 30 and May 1 at the Somerville Theatre.

JEANNIE SIMMS programmed a series of videos ""I Can Feel It But I Don't Get It" as part of the Boston LGBT Film Festival which screened at the Brattle Theater (Cambridge, MA) on May 11. Recent exhibitions/events include: "Suggestions of a Life Being Lived" at SFCamera September 9–October 23, 2010, the panel "Community and Collaborative Filmmaking: Directors and Subjects—Patty Chang, Liza Johnson, Sharon Lockhart, Jeannie Simms" at the Museum of Modern Art, February 21; "You Gave Me Brave" at S1F Gallery (Los Angeles), October 24November 21, 2009 and "mama-san" at Glendale Community College, October 17December 5, 2009.

LAUREL SPARKS's recent exhibitions include: "Dramatis Personae," the innagural exhibition at DODGEgallery (New York), September 4–26, 2010; "Affinities: Painting in Abstraction" at the Rhode Island School of Design, Memorial Hall Painting Gallery, September 16October 2, 2009; Scope Art Fair (Miami), December 26, 2009 and "The 2010 DeCordova Biennial" at the DeCordova Museum + Sculpture Park (Lincoln, MA), January 23April 25, 2010.

BRENDA STAR will participate in Somerville Open Studios April 30 and May 1.

ELAINE SPATZ-RABINOWITZ's will be participating in the group exhibition "Out of the Rubble" in the SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, December 2, 2011-January 29, 2012. Recent exhibitions include:Rhino Rising is on view in "Chain Letter: 10 Artists Pick 10 Artists" at Samsøn Projects opening July 16 and running through July 30, 2011. She is featured in the book 100 Boston Painters to be published in 2011 as well as in Susanne Slavick's forthcoming book, Out of the Rubble, published by Charta books. Recent exhibitions/events include: "Five from Around" presented by the
Art Institute of Boston at Lesley College, February 4–March 6, 2011 and month-long artist residency at the Blue Mountain Center (Blue Mountain, NY) in September 2010.

PAUL STOPFORTH recently sat on a panel for the session "Visual Strategies of Space and Place in the African Landscape," hosted by the African Studies Association Conference at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, November 17, 2011.  In addition, he hosted a book signing of TAXI-015 at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, October 26, 5–7 pm. TAXI-015 Paul Stopforth (David Krut Publishing), is now on sale. It chronicles his body of work and includes essays by Kate McCrickard, Leora Maltz, Judith Mason, Anne Sasson.

HEIDI WHITMAN is participating in a pop-up exhibition "Transparent" September 22–24 at Studio No.1, 1140 Washington Street, Boston. Recent exhibitions include: her first New York solo exhibition "Shadowland" at Christopher Henry GalleryMarch 25–April 23, 2011; SCOPE Miami, November 30–December 5;solo show of paper constructions on view at Gallery Benoit June 4–July 16; in conjunction with the book release for The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography (Princeton Architectural Press, November 4, 2009), the exhibit "The Map as Art" at the Christopher Henry Gallery (New York) November 5, 2009–January 10, 2010; "The Boston Drawing Project"at Carroll and Sons, December 2–20, 2009 and "Black, White, Color, Shape" on view at Nesto Gallery at Milton Academy, December 8, 2009–January 27, 2010.

DAN WILLS' solo show "Chain Jive" was on view at Boston Sculptors Gallery, February 9–March 13, 2011.

CHELSEY WOOD will be showing "Small Spaces: Chelsey Tyler Wood" in the Carol Schlosberg Gallery at Montserrat College of Art, November 2-November 26, 2011.  In addition, she will be appearing in New American Paintings North East Issue #98.

CHANTAL ZAKARI and MIKE MANDEL will be holding an inter-disciplinary panel discusion in conjunction with their show at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, October 17, 2011.  They recently had readings/signing for The State of Ata April 14 at Boston University's anthropology department; April 5 at School of the Art Institute of Chicago; March 16 at
Boston College's department of fine arts, program in Islamic Civilization & Societies and the Institute for the Liberal Arts and March 22 at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, graduate program photography lecture series. 2010 book tour included stops at University of Colorado, Boulder; PhotoEye, Santa Fe, NM; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson (co-sponsored by the University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies). They presented at Photo-Bookworks Symposium at the Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester, NY) in July 2010 and had book launch at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's Bookstore April 22.

ABBY ZONIES is included in the "Northeast Prize Show" at the Cambridge Art Association, juried by Theodore Stebbins, curator of American Art at Harvard University's Fogg Museum, May 13–June 16, 2011. Recent exhibitions include: solo show "Wild Things" at the
Newton Free Library/Gallery (Newton), January 5January 28, 2010.












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