Archive 2009

In 2009, Violence Transformed expanded once again, with exhibits including: the now annual Statehouse exhibit, the 2009 “Are You Ubuntu? Youth Transforming Violence” exhibit at Wheelock College’s Towne Art Gallery, a second year of “The Artist’s Voice” at RCC’s Media Arts Center, three successive exhibits at at the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists (“Violence Transformed: Artists on the Power of Art” , “The Ubuntu Quilt A& Story Circle” and, from October 2009 through January 2010, “The Hero’s Story: A Solo Exhibit of Works by Cullen Washington”; plus a Violence Transformed exhibit at the Kathryn Schultz Gallery in Cambridge, MA co-curated by Brenda Steinberg and Gail Bos, a first Children’s Hospital “Day of Remembrance” exhibit curated by Carol Daynard, and “Violence Transformed: Works by Urban Youth” curated by the Teen Curatorial Group of Cloud Place at the Cloud Foundation.HIGHLIGHTS: Clearly, a main highlight of this year was the rapid expansion of Violence Transformed to so many new and diverse venues, with Violence Transformed exhibits extending from early April into the first month of 2010. And in June, Barbara Hamm, Director of the Victims of Violence Program at the Cambridge Health Alliance (and a founding member of the core organizers of Violence Transformed) organized with the American Repertory Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training a performance of play “Ajax in Iraq” with a follow up panel discussion with psychologist Jaine Darwin and representative actors in the performance.

2009

Violence Transformed Cambridge Art Association

April 2-30, 2009

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    • Location

      Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA

      Description

      Opening Reception: April 4, 4-7pm.

      Curator

      Brenda Steinberg and Gail Bos, Cambridge Art Association

Children’s Day of Remembrance

April 6, 2009

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    • Location

      Enders Auditorium, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA

      Description

      Opening Reception: April 18, 3-5:30pm. First Day of Remembrance exhibit with Child Protection Program

      Curators

      Carol Daynard and Laura Fishman, Violence Transformed

Violence Transformed: Artists on the Power of Art

April 19 – May 31, 2009

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    • Location

      Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, MA

      Description

      Opening Reception: April 19, 3pm. Selected contemporary works that examine how artists from many cultural traditions represent narratives of transformation provoked by violence.

      Artists

      Sharon Haggins-Dunn, Alonzo Davis, Milton Derr, Aaron Ibn Pori Pitts, Joseph Norman, Procheta Mukherjee, Renee Neblett, Ben Tau (G.E. Alleyne), Cullen Washington

Are You UBUNTU?: Youth Transforming Violence

April 21-26, 2009

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    • Location

      Towne Art Gallery, Wheelock College, Boston, MA

      Description

      Opening Reception: April 21, 5-8pm.

      Curators

      Anny Tobey and Ubuntu Colleagues

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Victim Rights Conference– The Victim Rights Movement: Resilience, Adaptability and Hope

April 23, 2009

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    • Location

      Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA

Violence Transformed: An Exhibition of Selected Works

April 27- May 1, 2009

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    • Location

      Doric Hall, Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA

      Description

      Opening Reception: April 28, 6-9pm. Scheduled in concert with the Annual Victim Rights Conference of the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance, Violence Transformed 2009 brings together a range of artworks and perspectives to provoke debate, reflection and action. Our 2009 curatorial teams selected groups of work that express for them art’s transformative relationship with violence. Together their distinct voices generate representative insight into the range of artistic strategies at work in the area today.

      Curator

      Jonathan Shirland

Violence Transformed: The Artist’s Voice

May 3-31, 2009

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    • Location

      Resnikoff Gallery, Roxbury Community College, Boston, MA

      Description

      Opening Reception: May 3, 3-5pm.

      Artists

      SMFA affiliated and community artists.

      Curators

      Mary Harvey, Gail Bos, Carol Daynard, Laura Fischman, Gloria Carrigg

Violence Transformed: Works by Urban Youth

May 3-31, 2009

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    • Location

      Cloud Foundation, Boston, MA

      Curators

      Teen Curatorial Group of Cloud Place

Violence Transformed: Ajax in Iraq

June 2, 2009

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    • Location

      Cambridge, MA

      Description

      Co-Sponsored by the Victims of Violence Program at the Cambridge Health Alliance and the American Repertory Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training

Ubuntu Quilt and Story Circle

June 2 – August 2, 2009

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    • Location

      Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, MA

      Artists

      Artists of Ubuntu

      Curator

      Barry Gaither

Hero’s Story: Cullen Washington

October 18, 2009 – January 10, 2010

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    • Location

      Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, MA

      Artist

      Cullen Washington

      Curator

      Barry Gaither

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