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Scheduled in concert with the Annual Victim Rights Conference of the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance, Violence Transformed 2008 will bring together a range of artworks and perspectives in order to provoke debate, reflection and action, our 2008 curatorial teams are selecting groups of work that express for them art’s transformative relationship with violence. We hope that together their distinct voices will 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 Refuge
- Art and Protest
- The Art of Commemoration
- Art as a Means to Imagine Alternatives
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Violence Transformed 2008 will include displays curated by:
- Jonathan Shirland, Faculty at Lasell College, Newton, MA & Former Curator of Public Programs at The Royal Academy of Arts, London
- Barry Gaither, Director of The Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Inc.
- The Teen Curatorial Program of the Cloud Foundation & Ann Tobey, Associate Professor and Director, Juvenile Justice & Youth Advocacy Program, Wheelock College
- Gail Burton & Jeff Carpenter board members of the Artists Foundation
- Mary Harvey, Gail Bos, Carol Daynard and Margot Hurley, community artists and students at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Jennifer Hughes, Resnikoff Gallery, Roxbury Community College and Leslie Foley, Massachusetts College of Arts
- Ron Wilhelmsen, Senior Graphic Designer, CBS-4
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