On view April 8–June 3, 2011, "Whistling Past the Freedom Trail" is the eleventh exhibition in collaboration between SMFA and the William Morris Hunt Memorial Library, co-curated by MFA candidates Leah Craig and Erik Benjamins. Please join us for an opening reception on April 8, 2011, 5–7 pm.

Most often place applies to our own "local"—entwined with personal memory, known or unknown histories, marks made in the land that provoke and evoke. Places latitudinal and longitudinal within the map of a person's life. It is temporal and spatial, personal and political. A layered location replete with human histories and memories, place has width as well as depth. It is about connections, what surrounds it, what formed it, what happened there, what will happen there.

Our relationship to place is continuously in flux, intimately subjective and often in opposition to nationally constructed identity. In "Whistling Past the Freedom Trail," students, staff and instructors at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston collaboratively author an alternative tour guide that serves to complicate our collective understandings of the city we inhabit.

Artists
Alaina Gurdak, Amanda Leaman, Angela Counts, Anthony Montuori, Chelsea Coon, Christopher Ford, Chun Ya Yang, Dustin Young, Erdenesuren Tsogtsaikhan, Erik Benjamins, Ethan Murrow, Garrett Yahn, Helena Hsieh, James Traggianese, Jessica Borusky, Joanna Tam, Jodi Bosin, Joe Joe Orangias, Jodie Goodnough, Joseph Landry, Katrina Neumann, Kirk Snow, Leah Craig, Lisa Yarnell, Lockard Connerley, Steve Lambert and Tony Schwensen

Image: Lucy Lippard, The Lure of the Local

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