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Spring Events

The Energy of Ubuntu: Youth Transforming Violence

April 20-24, 2010

Gallery Hours: 12:00 - 5:00 PM
Reception: April 20th, 5-8pm

The Energy of Ubuntu:  Youth Transforming Violence is an annual exhibit of “Ubuntu Arts,” which is an on-going initiative of “Ubuntu in the Works.” Through the process of creation and exhibition of individual and collaborative youth art, we aspire to be "part of the solution.”  The yearly exhibits are curated from youth art-work that is submitted in response to a call for youth art and from submissions by each of our collaborating youth programs through the Ubuntu Arts Youth Project.  Much of the exhibited work represents collaborative art-making, and each year we use the theme of the exhibit to ask students and youth to imagine alternatives to violence and to consider the concept of Ubuntu as they develop competencies and express their voices through a variety of artistic media.

The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public and the event includes light refreshments and youth performances.  The reception is preceded by a performance by And Still We Rise! in the Wheelock Family Theater 3:30 – 5:00.  And Still We Rise Productions is a collaboration of theater artists and social justice advocates working together with former prisoners and their loved ones to bring a powerful, articulate, personal voice of prison experience to the public for the purposes of healing, education, empowerment, and social change.  The performance includes a 45-minute conversation with the audience.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Nurturing the Artist in Each Student:
Art from Boston Public Schools

Presented through the Generosity of the Gary
Silverstein Memorial Art Fund

March 23-April 16, 2010

Gallery Hours: 12:00 - 5:00 PM, Tuesday - Saturday
Gallery Closed: March 27th
Reception: April 3rd, 2-4pm

This exhibition brings together a variety of ages and grade levels as well as media, to highlight the work being created by students in the Boston Public School System.  The 11 schools participating are; The Mather School, The Harbor School, James W. Hennigan School, Dearborn Middle School, Middle School Academy, The Winthrop School, The Conley School, Horace Mann School for the Deaf, Phineas Bates School, Curtis Guild Elementary School, Dr. William W. Henderson Inclusion Elementary School.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Gestural: Paintings, Drawings and Mixed Media Works

Lei-Sanne Doo
Mary Tinker Hatch

February 2-27, 2010

Gallery Hours: 12:00 - 5:00 PM, Tuesday - Saturday
Gallery Closed: February 13th
Reception: February 6th, 2-4pm

This exhibition highlights the work of Lei-Sanne Doo and Mary Tinker Hatch, 2 extremely prolific artists that live and work in the greater Boston area.  Each of these artists has the ability to make work that is both gestural and direct, often incorporating “natural” imagery and working within a multitude of layers and seductive color to create the illusion of depth.  These works are both formal and personal, often expressed with a variety of media that result in emotional and compelling narratives that evoke close exploration from the viewer.

For more information about these artists please visit their websites at:
marytinkerhatch.com
poidogstudio.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fall Events

Integrated Impressions/Layered Meanings

Collage, Mixed Media and the Digital Process

October 27 - November 21, 2009

Gallery Hours: 12:00 - 5:00 PM, Tuesday - Saturday
Gallery Closed: November 11, 14
Reception: November 7, 2-4pm

Wheelock College and the Towne Art Gallery are pleased to present the work of Mary Taylor, Ellen Grabiner and Naomi Ribner, all artists that live and work in the greater Boston area. This exhibition will emphasize how these artists use the digital process, combined with mixed media, to create personal narratives in their work. Taylor, Grabiner and Ribner, each, have been studio artists for many years and came to the digital process as a way to enhance their work, however, integrated enough so that their work transcends the process.

For more information about each of these artists please go to: naomi@naomiribner.com or www.naomiribner.com, mary@marytaylorart.com, grabiner@simmons.edu or egrabiner.com/stories.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Katie Rafferty: New Orleans Vernacular

September 22 - October 23, 2009

Gallery hours: 12:00 - 5:00 PM, Tuesday - Saturday (Closed October 10th)
Reception: October 14, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Gallery Open: Opening Our Doors Day, October 12, 10AM - 2PM, in Collaboration with The Fenway Alliance

Wheelock College and the Towne Art Gallery are pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition of the work of Katie Rafferty, an artist living and working in New Orleans.  She will bring her work from her recent solo show at the Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans Vernacular, a series of mixed media works inspired by the indigenous architecture, as well as the visual contradictions, immeasurable energy and mixture of cultures in New Orleans. These works are a combination of collage, encaustic, monotype and engraving on paper.  

Ms. Rafferty has a B.A from Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge, and has studied at the Sorbonne in Paris as well as the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, in Aix-en-Provence, France.  She will attend the reception on October 14th.  For more information on Katie Rafferty, please contact the Cole Pratt Gallery at (504) 891-6789 or info@coleprattgallery.com

Along with Ms. Rafferty's works, will be a series of photographs taken by Wheelock Students documenting and inspired by their service learning work in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.  Wheelock College is very proud of its students and the work they have contributed for the past several years.

Gallery Hours

Hours: Noon-5:00 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday
Closed: Saturday October 10th, Wednesday November 11th, Saturday November 14th

Gallery is Wheelchair Accessible and Free to the Public
Public Transportation Suggested: Green Line D Train
Longwood or Fenway Stop

For Information Contact: Erica Licea-Kane at
(617) 879-2219 or elicea-kane@wheelock.edu