Highlights:
With MOVA’s support, Violence Transformed was awarded a 2008 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Community Awareness Grant that enabled us not only to curate and hang the new Statehouse Exhibit, but also to host another opening of live performances. Of special note were the interactive projects and temporary exhibitions our curators were able to set up in Great Hall and by the Grand Staircase, including: “Giants” by Susannah Lawrence, Paper crane making with Jessica Langela whose fantastical sculptural works astounded visitors to Doric Hall and the Wind–Song Project, orchestrated by Barbara Hamm, Director of the Victims of Violence Program, who engaged community residents in the design of Tibetan peace flags that decorated the Grand Staircase of the Massachusetts State House.
And Expansion Begins!:
In 2008 we were able to begin expanding Violence Transformed beyond the Statehouse by sponsoring exhibits in three new venues, namely: “Youth Transforming Violence: Ubuntu in the Works” at Wheelock College’s Towne Art Gallery; “The Artist’s Voice” at Roxbury Community College’s Media Arts Center, an exhibit co-curated by community artists and representatives of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and Roxbury Community College; and “A Celebration of Art, Artists and Artmaking to Challenge and Mediate Violence, Foster Healing and Imagine Alternatives”, our first Violence Transformed exhibit at Northeastern University’s Snell Library Lobby, courtesy of the Northeastern University Campus Center on Violence Against Women.
2008
The Artist’s Voice
April 14-24, 2008
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Location
Resnikoff Gallery, Roxbury Community College, Boston, MA
Description
This was the first Violence Transformed exhibit held at the Roxbury Community College (RCC) Media Arts Center which has since served as a major venue for Violence Transformed. The curators for this exhibit were drawn from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachusetts College of Art and Design and Roxbury Community College who joined with one another to select compelling works by students, faculty and community artists alike.
Curators
Gail Bos, Carol Daynard, Mary Harvey and Margot Hurley (School of the Museum of Fine Arts), Leslie Foley (Massachusetts College of Art), and Jennifer Hughes and Marshall Hughes (Roxbury Community College Media Arts Center), in conjunction with Jonathan Shirland, Artistic Director of Violence Transformed
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Youth Transforming Violence: Ubuntu in the Works
April 22-26, 2008
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Location
Wheelock College, MA
Description
Opening Reception: April 22, 5-8pm. This was Wheelock’s first Ubuntu/Violence Transformed exhibit.
Curators
Ann Tobey and colleagues
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Violence Transformed State House Exhibit
April 28 – May 2, 2008
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Location
Doric Hall, Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA
Description
Opening Reception and Performances: April 28, 6-9pm. Scheduled in concert with the Annual Victim Rights Conference of the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance, Violence Transformed 2008 brought together a range of artworks and perspectives in order to provoke debate, reflection and action. Our 2008 curatorial teams selected groups of work that expressed for them art’s transformative relationship with violence. We hoped that together their distinct voices would generate representative insight into the range of artistic strategies at work in the area today and leave visitors with a sense of pride in the resources and creative energies at work throughout the area. We also hoped the audience would draw inspiration and courage from the power of art to reach across boundaries and alleviate the fear and separation that breed violence. Art can lead us to a more positive place; it is a refuge we can all share, a sanctuary we can all visit, and an expression of resilience from which we can all learn.
DORIC HALL EXHIBITION
“Giants” by Susannah Lawrence
Sculptures and Paper Crane Making by Jessica Langella.
The “Windsong” Project by Barbara Hamm.
Works from the collection of the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, selected by curator Barry Gaither, Director.
Works by young artists selected by the Stella Aguirre McGregor and the Teen Curators of the Cloud Foundation
Representative Works selected by the curators from two Violence Transformed 2008 exhibits: Violence Transformed: The Artists’ Voice’, held at the Resnikoff Gallery, Roxbury Community College,Youth Transforming Violence: Ubuntu in the Works’, held at the Towne Art Gallery, Wheelock College.
DIGITAL EXHIBITION ARTISTS
Ann Cummings, Patricia Curran, Sharon Coffin, Margot Hurley, Lorna Ritz, Beverly Bailey, Gloria Carrigg, Tara Conant, Anna Schuleit, Jennifer Layzer, Eleanor Rubin, Jordan Ricks, Elizabeth Maclaren, Jessica Langella, Terry Boutelle, Julie Kang, Dana Pearson, Gail Bos, Sydney Hardin, Megan Stewart, Shaari Neretin, Carolyn Wirth, Karen Frostig, Linda Bond, Gabriel Krug, Adrienne Sloane, Rick Berry, Heloisa Pomfret, Patricia Dahlman, Michael Dal Cerro, Deborah Harris, Tattfoo, Dana Wilde, Rusty Crump & Magdalena Taber
Performances
Mark Rooney of Odaiko New England, Teen Spoken Word Curators of the Cloud Foundation, Endless Knot Dance Company, Donna Spurlock & Dinan Messiqua of Roxbury Repertoire Theater, and Marshall Hughes and Alan Rias from Opera unMet
Curators
Jonathan Shirland, Ron Wilhelmsen and Gail Bos
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A Celebration of Art, Artists and Artmaking to Challenge and Mediate Violence, Foster Healing and Imagine Alternatives
September 8-21, 2008
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Location
Northeastern University Campus Center on Violence Against Women and Northeastern University Libraries
Description
Opening Reception: September 9pm.
Curators
Jon Shirland and Gloria Carrigg
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