SOUL BLISS Promo July 19th @ Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton MA
Soul Bliss will be at Fuller Craft Museum, July 19th, 2012
455 Oak Street, Brockton, MA
Tickets $10.00 in advance
$15.00 at the door
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Dérapé Productions & MELySMAX present Soul Bliss - 07.19.12 @ 7:00pm
Fuller Craft Museum, 455 Oak Street, Brockton MA
SMAX MUSIC | MATT BEDNARSKY | DERRICK TROTMAN | KIMO HILL | NORA MEINERS | PAUL ANTHONY | CLAIRE LYRICS |
Hosted by Marshall Brandon, comedian
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Aerial View of Fuller Craft Museum
Fuller Craft Museum is a hidden gem located on 22 acres of woodland territory on Upper Porter Pond and across from D.W. Filed Park. It's a wonderful retreat right in the city of Brockton.
Colorful Wedding at Fuller Craft Museum
This was a wedding we did at The Fuller Craft Museum for a couple that wanted a traditional wedding with a twist. We infused color and gave it a bit of an offbeat feel.
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Country Inn & Suites Brockton in Brockton MA
Book here: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Country Inn & Suites Brockton 50 Christy's Drive Brockton MA 02301 This Massachusetts hotel features an indoor pool, jacuzzi and library. Located just 2 miles from Brockton Symphony Orchestra, Country Inn & Suites Brockton offers spacious guest rooms with free Wi-Fi. During their stay, guests can workout in the on-site gym and use the business center. They can also relax in the lobby, which features fireplace seating and wood floors. The hotel's traditional style rooms provide an arm chair and desk. They also have cable TV and a coffee maker. Brockton Country Inn & Suites is 2 miles from Fuller Craft Museum and Waldo Lake. It is 10 miles from Bridgewater State University and 21 miles from Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox.
Residence Inn Boston Brockton in Brockton MA
Prices: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Residence Inn Boston Brockton 124 Liberty Street Brockton MA 02301 This hotel is 4 miles from downtown Brockton and is one mile from Stonehill College. The hotel offers a tennis court and suites with full kitchens. Residence Inn Boston Brockton suites feature a sitting area and dining area. The kitchen has a microwave and dishwasher. The suite also has a flat-screen TV and free Wi-Fi. Guests can swim in the indoor pool or relax in the hot tub. The Brockton Residence Inn also has a gym. The Brockton Residence Inn provides guests with a daily breakfast. The hotel also offers an evening managers reception. The Residence Inn is within a 30 minute drive of Boston, which features shopping, dining and entertainment. The Fuller Craft Museum is one mile from the hotel.
Barbara Holmes: CCA Furniture Program Faculty Member Highlight
Barbara Holmes is a sculptor and furniture maker whose work has been included in group exhibitions locally at Headlands Center for the Arts, Museum of Craft and Design, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, Root Division, Catharine Clark Gallery, The Compound Gallery.
Much of her practice has focused on the reclamation and creative reuse of discarded construction material.
Nationally her work has appeared in group exhibitions at the Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, Massachusetts); Oceanside Museum of Art (Oceanside, California); Divan Gallery (La Jolla, California); Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, Wisconsin); Ironworks Factory Space (Madison, Wisconsin); Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (Santa Ana, California); and Sushi Art Space (San Diego).
Holmes has been awarded artist residencies at Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass Village, Colorado); Recology San Francisco; and The Capital City Arts Initiative at St. Mary’s Art Center (Virginia City, Nevada). Her work is also in the permanent collection at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Holmes also has extensive teaching experience, having taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, San Diego State University, Southwestern College, and Mira Costa College.
She currently lives and works in Oakland.
BFA, Brigham Young University; MFA, San Diego State University
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Videographer: Jonathan Casanova (Animation 2016)
Sculpture of Woman from A THOUSAND Dumpster-Dived trash items!
Originally featured on my OTHER channel OddUSA
Check out this amazing sculpture (at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA) created by salvage-material/dumpster dive artist Leo Sewell. This particular one is titled The Seated Lady.
Our visit to the USS Constitution Museum!
Edited by Lynn Tran.
Boston Harbor Association's Summer on the Waterfront interns Lynn, Bryce, and Carly check out all the fun games at the USS Constitution museum!
This song does NOT belong to us. This is Lines from the Declaration of Independence by Michael Greenspan and family. Check it out here:
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The Bat of Minerva: Perry Price, Director of Education, American Craft Council
Perry Price joined the American Craft Council staff in June 2012. He most recently served as curator of exhibitions and collections at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts. Perry holds a master’s degree in museum studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program (a partnership of the State University of New York College at Oneonta and the New York State Historical Association) and a BA in the history of art from Johns Hopkins University, and is a scholar of American craft, design, and material culture.
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2nd Annual South Shore Indie Music Festival: Art Sustains Us!
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JCMedia presents: a Video Tour of SPRAWL
This video tour of the Jersey City Museum's SPRAWL exhibition (on view 3/20/08-8/24/08) features commentary by JCM Curator Rocio Aranda-Alvarado and Jersey City artist Leslie Sheryll, whose suspended sculpture of found bottles titled 'Urban Monsoon' appears in the exhibition. SPRAWL, a multi-venue show being exhibited throughout the state of New Jersey, explores the various aspects of urban, suburban and rural sprawl in our state.
For more infomation about Jersey City Museum, please visit jerseycitymuseum.org.
For more museum-related videos, photos, audio and more, check out JCMedia at jerseycitymuseum.org/jcmedia.
Video shot and produced by Jersey City Museum intern, Natalie McKeever, for JCMedia. View more of Natalie's work at nataliemckeever.com.
All artwork and music is property of their respected owners.
Strand Theatre fire memorial becomes a reality for Brockto
The Enterprise of Brockton, Mass.
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By Kyle Alspach
ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
BROCKTON — After more than 67 years, the deadliest fire in the city's history finally has a fitting memorial.
Many hundreds crowded into City Hall Plaza Saturday morning to see the dedication of the Strand Theatre Firefighters Memorial statue, a bronze-and-granite tribute to the 13 firefighters who lost their lives as a result of the theater blaze on March 10, 1941.
The memorial, which stands more than 10 feet tall and shows a firefighter kneeling with his head down, sits in the plaza about 100 feet from where the Strand Theatre once stood.
It was announced during Saturday's event that the statue depicts Edward Burrell, a retired Brockton fire chief and the only living member of the force that responded to the fire.
It's a great monument for those 13 firefighters. It was a long time coming, said Burrell, 93, after the dedication. I never thought I'd be here to see it.
The crowd endured chill winds throughout the nearly two-hour event, and broke into cheering as the statue was unveiled.
Twelve firefighters were killed when the theater's ceiling collapsed suddenly, and a 13th later died from his injuries.
It remains one of the deadliest fires in U.S. history.
Anthony (Tony) Long, Sculptor - A Tribute
This short movie details the life and artistic works of Anthony (Tony) Long, Sculptor (1942 - 2001), whose works prevailed mostly in the European community, but have been exhibited in the United States as well.
His works received critical acclaim almost from the start on the part of Marcellin Pleynet, Suzanne Page, Jean Marie Tasset and Marc DeVade, among others. Of Tony Long, the art critic Marcellin Pleynet wrote Perfectly bilingual in the French and American cultures, it is this familiarity which enables him to break through the isolation in which most foreign artists live in Paris. (Art Press, #60, 1980). Beginning with Travaux Paris 77 in 1977 at ARC2 (MOMA) and Ateliers Aujourd'hui in 1979 at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and continuing up to and through L'Art Americain dans les Collections Publiques Francaises de Province 1960-1992 in 1994 at the Musee de Toulon and the St. Polten Project Promenade in 1998,
Tony Long's three decades of works now appear in museums, parks and collections in seven countries.
This movie was created for the opening of an exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts in September 2010.
Dr. Mary Vogel, Formerly of Kings College, University of London, London, England and presently University of Manchester, Manchester, England, narrates this wonderful tribute.
I am honored to have been part of this Tribute to my Brockton High School Classmate...
Kerry F. Harkins
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Herter Center
An underutilized building at Herter Park along the Charles River in Allston
• Rare Boston example of Modernist architecture, employing steel exoskeleton construction
• Fine landscape design by Shurcliff and Merrill on the grounds of the Charles River Reservation
• Part of a planned public-private arts center, the first of its kind in the United States
• Charles River Basin Master Plan calls for preservation for public use but MDC has committed no major funds for this purpose
The Herter Center is a modernist structure with an external steel
skeleton and plate-glass windows. It bridges the moat at the second floor
and is accessible from both the island and the park. Added elements—
including the solar panels, a storage shed on the east side, excessive
asphalt, and the unattractive underside of the bridge with its utility
lines—mar the clean appearance of this building. The center is used as
office and archive space for the off-site New England Sports Museum,
a use with no programmatic relation to the island or the reservation.
Offices and small bathrooms are located on the ground floor. A large
upstairs room is used as archival space. The building is difficult to heat
and has been retrofitted with solar panels in an effort to address this
problem. With its compelling design, location, and splendid views,
Herter Center represents a unique opportunity for renewed public use.
Trilogy of Trios Concert at Fuller Craft Museum 3-5-17
Trilogy of Trios Concert at Fuller Craft Museum 3-5-17
Future Retrieval Artist Talk - VASD Patterns Series
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ABOUT THE PUBLIC ARTIST TALK
Past Present Future Retrieval
Since 2008, Guy Michael Davis and Katie Parker have been working collectively under the name Future Retrieval. Through this collaboration they have developed a unique aesthetic centered on good craft and design, creating installation work that builds on a shared love of history. Working together and with other artists across the country allows them to create projects more formidable in scale, as well as enlarge the amount of technology and processes used in the making. Their process is in the conceptualization, discovery, and acquisition of form – lately objects of art historical significance.
Their Patterns series artist talk titled Past Present Future Retrieval, will focus on their research through museums and collections around the world, building idealized environments set against patterns and scenic wallpapers. Together they fabricate fantastical spaces filled with artifacts that re-examine the way decorative art objects are typically presented. The artists will move through the variety of processes and tools they employ in their studio – from 3D scanning and printing to mold making, woodworking, paper cutting, and weaving. Each project begins with a research component as the artists divide and conquer to mimic art objects made at the pinnacle of their craft, refreshing them for the future while celebrating the past.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Future Retrieval is a collaboration between artists Katie Parker and Guy Michael Davis based in Cincinnati, OH where they work at the University of Cincinnati’s, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning.
Future Retrieval utilizes three-dimensional scanning and digital manufacturing of found forms that are molded and constructed in porcelain, mimicking the history of decorative arts and design. Their process addresses the conceptualization, discovery, and acquisition of form to make content-loaded sculptures that reference design and are held together by craft. They incorporate an interdisciplinary approach to their work, making influential historic objects relevant today.
Parker and Davis both received their MFA from The Ohio State University and BFA from Kansas City Art Institute. Future Retrieval’s work has been in exhibitions at Lloyd Library and Museum, Denny Dimin Gallery, and the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA among others. Their work is held in numerous collections such as Arizona State University Ceramics Research Center, Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Society of Dresden Porcelain Art in Frietal, Germany. They are the recipients of awards and residencies such as the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Residency.
Knitting the Resistance
This video accompanies the exhibition, Knitting the Resistance, that is installed in the Michigan State University Union through September 16, 2017.
This exhibition features pussyhats, signs and other ephemera from the MSU Museum’s Craftivism Collection. In addition, artist Beth Miller facilitated the loan of over 350 pussyhats made by 132 crafters. These pussyhats created for Solarfest’s Arts + Activism project in Vermont will be traveling to the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts for an exhibition marking the one-year anniversary of the Women’s Marches.
We thank exhibition curators Shirley Wajda, Mary Worrall, Lynne Swanson, and Molly McBride and the crafters nationwide who donated and lent their pussyhats and March ephemera to make this exhibition possible.
Arts education struggles to hold its footing in public schools
The Enterprise of Brockton, Mass.
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Whether students draw mom or finger-paint, experts see embattled art programs as physical fitness for the soul.
There is no room left on the LaFlamme refrigerator door. Paintings and drawings blanket the Bridgewater familys fridge, leaving little room for much else besides fourth-grader Gabby LaFlammes art class creations.
I ran out of room a long time ago, said her mother, Kristin. I cant throw anything away.
Although LaFlamme could never throw away her childrens artwork — which now includes a winning Draw Your Mom entry — their school district canned art education in 2004. Thats when severe budget cuts led Bridgewater-Raynham schools to eliminate all electives, including visual art.
Their school district has since recovered art education, and only a few other school districts in the region — Randolph, Plymouth and Pembroke — have taken such drastic, albeit temporary, measures in recent years.
But arts are typically seen as expendable, according to experts and local educators, who say financing a vibrant visual arts program at all levels of public schooling is an annual battle.
As school districts around the region are on the eve of another tough budget season — many struggling with cuts in state aid as a result of the state and national recession — arts are once again being targeted.
Of the more than 300 entries The Enterprise received this year for its annual Draw Your Mom contest, only one batch of entries came from a local K-12 classroom.
Its a sharp turnaround from when the contest began about a decade ago, when hundreds would come in as part of public-school projects.
Since then, a constant battle has been waged to keep art classes from drying up.
In January, the East Bridgewater school board had proposed laying off its middle school art teacher, only saving the position because two other teachers in the district had retired.
Bridgewater-Raynham Regional School District is again toying with the possibility of laying off art teachers — a prospect its superintendent and school committee have opposed, but may have to reconsider if state aid comes up shorter than expected this year.
I cant remember a time when we werent fighting for it, said Dan Serig, chairman of the art education department of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. The most frank answer (why) is the arts arent tested.
School districts commit resources to subjects that are on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, or MCAS, the states standardized test, experts said.
As a result, arts become one of the first sacrifices of budget cuts, said John W. Hooker, who teaches art education at Bridgewater State College.
A school district is not going to cut their math, and theyre not going to cut their sports, Hooker said.
Districts may not eliminate programs entirely, he noted, but are more likely undermine them with layoffs.
When the school arts budget is damaged, the program is often reduced to a weakly funded after-school activity taught by someone without certification, Hooker said.
Justin Finley, an art teacher at West Bridgewater Middle-Senior High School, said his department has suffered at least one layoff recently due budget crunches. But he noted, Every department was hit for equity.
I think because we fight for our legitimacy as educators, we receive that respect from the community and school, he said.
Ginny Mahoney, head of the arts department at Avon Middle-High School, said arts are extremely essential for students — teaching evaluation, analysis and collaborative skills.
Most people feel that the arts are a frill that can be easily devastated and revived as the budget allows, she said. People need to stop thinking pretty pictures and songs when we say arts, and start thinking essential skills.
The economic downturn also slowed down field trips to the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton in the beginning of the school year, officials there said. The downward trend has since reversed, they said.
It wasnt that they didnt want their schools to go on field trips, said Education Director Noelle Foye. Their budgets were so uncertain, they simply froze all the budgets.
For some local districts, however, their programs have not only survived — but thrived.
We could probably use an additional art teacher with the number of requests we have for art classes, said Paul Vieira, principal of East Bridgewater High School, which has added more art electives, such as ceramics, in recent years.
Things to check out at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in summer 2012
The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA has something for everyone. This video takes you on a tour of the sculptures and artists featured this summer, and gives a little background as well as a little opinion about the art displayed in the park.