OPENING RECEPTION & ARTIST'S TALK: TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 4:30-6:30 PM
Exhibition Dates:
March 18 - April 15, 2019
Opening Reception and Artist's Talk:
Tuesday, March 26, 6:30-8:30 PM
Location:
Marran Gallery (adjacent to Marran Theater)
Lesley University
34 Mellen St, Cambridge, MA
For information, contact:
Mary Harvey: harveymr@comcast.net
Hope Ricciardi: hopericciardi@gmail.com
Curators:
Nancy Beardall, PhD, LMHC, BC-DMT, CMA
Associate Professor
Dance/Movement Therapy Coordinator
Lesley University
Meenakshi Chhabra, PhD
Professor
Interim Associate Dean
Director of the Global Interdisciplinary Studies Program
Lesley University
Isabelle Olsson
Curator, Marran Gallery
Coordinator of Academic Affairs and Special Programing
Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences
Lesley University
Mary Harvey, PhD
Founder/Director, Violence Transformed
Hope Ricciardi
Artist and Curator, Violence Transformed

Lorie Hamermesh, "Under Wraps," watercolor and carborundum
Featured Artists:
Gail Jerauld Bos
Lorie Hamermesh
Bob McMackin
Stephan Reynolds
Anne Strout
Calista Womick
Michaela Kirby & Michelle Napoli
with Artists:
Anne Ellsworth
Lauren Leone
Community Members from Somerville
Video by Bob McMackin, a memorial to the victims of the Parkland shooting on February 14, 2018:
In the 6th year of our annual Spring event, Lesley University’s Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences and Violence Transformed look to embrace the Artist as Social Activist with The Future of the Past: Art and Activism. With this exhibit we affirm the power of art, artists and art-making to hold a mirror to us all and to thereby ask us all to take a close look at the world we live in: is this the world we want? is this a society with which we are content? Should we, can we, will we act to improve our world, to address the violence and harm that humankind seems prone to, to pursue social justice for all? The artists sharing their work at the exhibit are asking us to get involved — to be part of the process of social change and to join them in a search for social justice.