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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 are selecting 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.
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This year’s exhibited works explore 4 themes in
particular:
- Art as Protest
- Art and Refuge
- Art and Commemoration
- Art as a means of Imagining Alternatives
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Violence Transformed 2009 will include displays curated by:
- Gail Bos & Brenda Steinberg, on behalf of the Cambridge Arts Association
- Barry Gaither, Director of The Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Inc., Phillip Harvey, & Cullen Washington
- The Teen Curatorial Program of the Cloud Foundation
- Ann Tobey, Associate Professor and Director, & the Juvenile Justice & Youth Advocacy Program, Wheelock College
- Mary Harvey, Gail Bos, Carol Daynard, Gloria Carrigg, & Laura Fischman
community artists affiliated with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston
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