2012

Mark Cooper’s collaborative sculpture created for the Berlin Wall commemoration to Strabane, Ireland, where it was reworked as a peace memorial for Ireland. This project was extensively reviewed in the Strabane Chronicle with articles on April 19 and 26. Strabane Chronicle (pdf)

Mark is participating in a museum exhibition in Düsseldorf, Germany: Die Polaroid Collection, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, May 26 to August 5, 2012.

Mary Armstrong is featured in a two-person show at the Cross-Mackenzie Gallery in Washington, DC. The show opened May 18, and continues through June 30. Gallery hours: Wed - Sat 12:00-6:00 p.m. and by appointment. 2026 R Street NW, Washington, DC 20007 (Dupont Circle metro).

Toni Pepe Dan is part of the exhibition PRC in New York. Several images from The Gesture of Tradition have been selected as part of the Photographic Resource Center's satellite exhibition at the New York Photo Festival this month.

May 16 - 20, 2012.
Reception: Saturday, May 19, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.

111 Front Street, Gallery 210, Brooklyn, NY.

Work by BC alum Paul Shakespear is featured in a show at the Howard Yezerski Gallery.

Mark Cooper will be lecturing in Beijing in early June at the Tsinghua university and also traveling to Jingdezhen, a noted porcelain center to make a couple of pieces for a forthcoming major exhibition in Boston.

In April, Mark brought his collaborative sculpture created for the Berlin Wall commemoration to Strabane, Ireland, where it was reworked as a peace memorial for Ireland.

Four BC students, Kerry Brunelle, Rachel Gregorio, Jordan Mendoza and Stephen Watson, have works in the Photographic Resource Center’s 2012 Student exhibition.

Opening reception: Thursday, April 12, 2012
5:30-8:30 p.m.

Photographic Resource Center at Boston University
832 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02215

John Michalczyk and John Hoover were awarded a TAM (Teaching and Mentoring) grant for $10,000 in April, 2012.

Stephanie Leone was awarded a TAME (Teaching and Mentoring Expense) grant for $2,000 in April, 2012.

Jeffery Howe will speak on A New Refinement: the Durant-Kenrick and the First Gentrification of Newton as part of the series Newton’s Revolutionary Roots -
The 2012 Newton History Series.

Thursday, April 12, 7:00 p.m.
Newton Free Library, Homer Street, Newton, MA. Free

At its construction in 1734, the Durant-Kenrick house represented an important new stage in the evolution of colonial architecture, falling between the simplicity of seventeenth century building and the social aspirations of later Georgian mansions. This lecture by Boston College Professor of Fine Arts Jeffery Howe will explore the emergence of a new phase in upscale homes in Newton.

Dean’s Scholars

Each year a select number of BC students are recognized as Dean’s scholars for their outstanding academic work. This year’s Fine Arts students include juniors Rosemary Chandler (Art History) and Cara Wolahan (Art History, Studio Minor), and sophomores Jaimie An (Studio Art/Mathematics), Emma Lott (Art History/French), Annie McEwen (Art History), Molly Phelps (Art History), and Brian Thurow (Film Studies/English). The awards ceremony will be held on April 2, 2012.

Stephanie Leone chaired the paper session "Metaphor and Symbolism in Renaissance Architecture" at the Renaissance Society of America's Annual Conference in Washington, DC on March 22.

Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair are chairing sessions at the conference Hajj: journey to the heart of islam at the British Museum, London, March 22-24, 2012. Sheila is chairing a session on Textiles, and Jonathan is chairing a session on Manuscripts and artists in Mecca.

This is a major multi-disciplinary academic conference, bringing together a group of renowned international scholars and specialists to present their latest research on Hajj.

The conference will cover many aspects of Hajj, including literature, history, archaeology, pilgrims’ journeys, art, architecture, photography, and material culture.

Exhibition: Views of Bethlehem: Then and Now

February 29 to March 21
Bapst Library Gallery

Bogside Artists of Derry
March 27-28

Tom and William Kelly, and fellow artist Kevin Hasson—the Bogside Artists of Northern Ireland-plan to spend March 27 and 28 at Boston College. Their goal is to speak with students and faculty about their internationally renowned mural art.

For more information on the Bogside Artists lectures at Boston College, please contact John Michalczyk.

The Documentary Photographer as Witness

Thursday, March 29, 10:15 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Murray Function Room

The Fine Arts Department at Boston College, in collaboration with the French Embassy, Magnum Photos, and the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, invite you to attend presentations and a panel discussion with three photographers from the Magnum photo agency: Susan Meiselas, Thomas Dworzak, and Antoine D'Agata. Moderator: Karl Baden, Fine Arts Department of Boston College

The event is free and open to the public

Spring Art Show – Bapst Library Student Art Gallery
Opening Wednesday, March 2, 5:30 p.m. in Bapst.
Drop off works at Bapst 12:00-4:00 p.m., Thursday, March 22 or Friday, March 23.

Mark Cooper received the Best Installation Award and Critic’s Pick Award at the 2011 New England Art Awards on March 2, 2012. The award was presented at the black-tie Art Awards Ball at the Burren in Somerville, MA.

Karl Baden presented a paper “You call this clown an artist? Ruminations on three decades of obsessive self-portraiture” at the Yuma Art Symposium, Yuma, AZ on February 25.

Bapst Student Gallery Exhibition

Photography exhibition of Bethlehem: Then and Now, featuring the work of senior
Iulia Padenau.

Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 29 in Bapst from 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Everyone Welcome!

The work will be on display until March 18. View Flyer

Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair will participate in the conference Hajj: Journey To The Heart Of Islam at the British Museum. March 22-24, 2012. Jonathan will be speaking on Architectural ‘influence’ and the Hajj,” and Sheila will speak on “Inscribing the Hajj: Qur’an 3”.

Shelia Blair and Jonathan Bloom gave the Frederic W. Goudy Lecture at Scripps College and led a workshop on Making Books in Islamic Lands. Sheila spoke on “Pen & Ink: The Development of Islamic Calligraphy,” and Jonathan spoke on “Paper and the Islamic Book.”
February 11, 2012

Matthew Northridge, New York artist and BC alumni will be speaking about his works in the arts and participating in senior major critiques.
February 22, 2012, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. in Devlin 413

Mary Sherman is participating in the exhibition “Between the Sheets: a look inside the artist’s sketchbook,” at the Distillery Gallery, 516 East Second St., Boston, MA, February 16 - March 22, 2012.

BC film studies majors premiered the film BC, I Love You at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on February 11, 2012.

Boston College Undergraduate Research Symposium
February 3, 2012

India Winter ’13 presented The Challenges of Artistic Media: The Work of Edward Betts at the Boston College Undergraduate Research Symposium. Participants include recipients of Boston College's Advanced Study Grants, the authors of articles in the University's undergraduate research and literary journals, the McNair Scholars, and others who have accomplished unusual research and creative projects. BC Chronicle

Sheila Gallagher is featured in the exhibition of Connecticut College Centennial Alumni at the Cummings Galleries in New London, CT, January 23 - February 24, 2012. She will be giving a gallery talk on January 27 at 4:00 p.m.

Mary Armstrong’s exhibition Any Given Moment at the Victoria Munroe Fine Art gallery was reviewed in the Boston Globe on January 3:

In celebration of the Gardner's re-opening, Mary Sherman will host Mary* and Lee Mingwei's 'Living Room Project,' at The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. January 22, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., and March 30, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

2011

Jonathan Bloom: "Charlemagne's Elephant"
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
December 4, 2011

Claude Cernuschi’s collaborative research with Andrzej Herczynski and L. Mahadevan on the physics of Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings, was featured in an article “Pollock et la dynamique des fluids,” in Pour la Science, no 407 - September 2011, pp. 88-89.

Diana McDonald
“Ishtar, Lions and Love” at the symposium  Aphrodite and the Gods of Love
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Saturday, November 5 from 10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Alfond Auditorium

Judith Bookbinder
Public lecture for Paul Lewis' seminar on Boston's literary history in the MFA's American Wing
Sunday, October 16

BCTalks—Art History student Rosemary Chandler A&S ’13 will be present "The Downfall of Synagoga", on Monday, November 14 at 7:20 p.m. in the Robsham Theater.

BCTalks will showcase 14 undergraduate lectures. Talks will be held from 5:00 - 8:30 p.m. on November 13 and 14 in Robsham Theater Arts Center. Modeled after the popular TEDTalks, BCTalks speakers will give brief talks, accessible to all audiences, about their academic passions. The talks are intended to promote the extension of Undergraduate research and sharing of academic passions beyond the traditional classroom. BCTalks An Undergraduate Lecture Series

Toni Pepe Dan is a featured artist in the New England Photography Biennial 2011 at the Danforth Museum of Art, 123 Union Avenue, Framingham, MA 01702
September 11, 2011 - November 13, 2011

Toni has a solo exhibition at Notre Dame this month:
Works by Toni Pepe Dan
Riley Art Gallery
University of Notre Dame,
November 4-30, 2011

Mark Cooper’s exhibition, More is More at the Samson gallery, 450 Harrison Street, Boston, through December 10, was reviewed in the Tufts Daily by Anna Majeski.

“Undoubtedly one of the edgier of the SoWa galleries, samsøn shows works that question the arts and social establishments. It features artists who take as their canvas our world's many assumptions and biases.

The gallery's current exhibit, "More is More," features the work of Mark Cooper. His is an ambitious, site-specific installation that fills the whole gallery space. Cooper's work does the exhibit title proud; it is a literal expression of excess in the form of thousands of objects that occupy the gallery's rooms. "More is More" also truly exemplifies a multimedia technique.

The works manifest Cooper's interest in cultural diversity and visual language, forcing us to rethink how we respond to artwork, while also addressing how we may need to expand that response in light of the hodgepodge that is our own global landscape response in light of the hodgepodge that is our own global landscape.

Sheila Gallagher will be leading a seminar in the Exchanging Narratives project, which is an international, interdisciplinary seminar sponsored by the Guestbook Project and the Institute of Liberal Arts, Boston College during 2011-2012.
December 5: Narratives in Contemporary Art
BC Fine Arts Department (5:30-7:30 p.m.) with Sheila Gallagher
View: TBA videos on Contemporary Art Work
Read/Discuss: “A Theory of Narrative Empathy” 

Jonathan Bloom: "Charlemagne's Elephant"
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
December 4, 2011

Sheila Gallagher is participating in the exhibition BEHOLD: Sight in New Media.
Sheila’s series of prints, Hand-Eye uses the Eye Tracking Lab at Boston College to record her own eye movements while she looks at images of women athletes. The resulting prints are a record of her own personal pattern of seeing.

October 10 through December 4, the exhibition is free and open to the public.
Opening Reception: Friday, October 14, 5:00-8:00 p.m.
Boston Cyberarts at Atlantic Wharf, 290 Congress Street, Boston.

Diana McDonald
“Ishtar, Lions and Love” at the symposium Aphrodite and the Gods of Love
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Saturday, November 5, 10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Alfond Auditorium

Diana authored the first chapter for the “Aphrodite and the Gods of Love” exhibition catalogue, currently on view at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.  She will speak not just at the symposium  but at the MFA’s Laurel Society opening of the show. Prof. McDonald also assisted in the selection of Near Eastern objects for the exhibition.

Mark Cooper is having a one person exhibition at Samson Projects, October 22 - November 26.

Opening reception: October 22, 2011, 5:00-8:00 p.m.
450 Harrison Avenue/29 Thayer Street
Boston, MA 02118

Mark Cooper is also participating in the exhibition “From Polaroid To Impossible:  Masterpieces of Instant Photography - The Westlicht Collection,”
Westlicht Museum, Vienna, Austria

Debra Weisberg's exhibit Dystopian Dreaming: Constructed/Glow Drawings
Gallery Kayafas
450 Harrison Ave. Boston, MA 02118
October 22 - November 26
11:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 22, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Gallery will also be open First Friday, November 4:00-8:00 p.m.

Sheila Gallagher's exhibit Cannot Be Described In Words: Drawing Expanded
Concord Art Association
37 Lexington Road
Concord, MA 01742
October 20 - November 20, 2011
Opening Reception: October 20, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.; Sunday 12:00-4:00 p.m.

Sheila Gallagher's work is currently on display at Institute of Contemporary Art's "75 for 75" Exhibition on view from September 22 - November 7, 2011.

The ICA celebrates its rich history as the nation's oldest museum of contemporary art while providing support for future exhibitions and programs by presenting 75 ARTISTS FOR 75 YEARS, a special benefit exhibition featuring works of art by 75 artists who have exhibited at the museum over the years.

Mary Sherman
October 5 - November 6, 2011
Boston Sculptors Gallery
486 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02118
Artist’s Reception
Friday, October 7, 5:00-8:00 p.m. 

Khalid Kodi metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony
Centerpoint Gallery at Anthroposophy NYC & the Rudolf Steiner Bookstore
138 W 15th Street (between 6th and 7th in Chelsea)
New York, New York
Guest Curator, Azza Satti
September 5 to November 12, 2011
Public Opening: 7:00 p.m. Sunday, September 18
Closing Celebration 7:00 p.m. Saturday, November 5
A portion of the sales will go to Darfur Rehabilitation Project, and all donations will go to both Darfur Resettlement Project of JVS, New Jersey and DRP.
Musical Evening: Songs from the Sudan, 7:00 p.m., Sunday, October 16

The exhibition of "Civil War Drawings from the Becker Collection" curated by Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher, travels to the Taubman Museum of Fine Art at Virginia Tech University where it is on display until October 30, 2011.

Sheila Gallagher on Tuesday, October 25 Sheila presented recent work to "Thresholds", a seminar sponsored by the Jesuit Institute that is designed to promote interconnections between teaching and scholarly pursuits through the sharing of work across disciplinary boundaries. The seminar seeks to encourage reflection about leadership, scholarly collaboration, and engagement with the mission and identity of the University.

Binding Friendships & Memory Palaces

An exhibition of multimedia student work in response to Binding Friendship: Ricci, China, and Jesuit Cultural Learnings
Opening reception: October 19, 2011
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Bapst Student Gallery

Karl Baden’s exhibit “Karl Baden: Every Day: A Long Year’’ at the Danforth Museum of Art was reviewed in the Boston Globe on October 19. 

Mary Sherman’s exhibit “Waiting for Yves” at the Boston Sculptors Gallery was reviewed in the Boston Globe on October 18. 

Student Exhibition and Art Competition

Binding Friendships and Memory Palaces
Bapst Student Gallery
Students are invited to create original works of art that are inspired by or respond to the exhibition Binding Friendship: Ricci, China and Jesuit Cultural Learnings that is currently on display at Burns Library. Works of art will be accepted for submission on Thursday, October 13 and Friday, October 14 from 12:00-4:00 p.m., on the bottom floor of the Bapst Student Gallery.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 19, 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Judith Bookbinder
Public lecture for Paul Lewis' seminar on Boston's literary history in the MFA's American Wing.
Sunday, October 16

Toni Pepe Dan is participating in the exhibition: Think Art: Memory.

Think Art is a conference for the interdisciplinary exploration of the fine arts through the humanities and sciences.
Boston University, College of Fine Arts, 855 Commonwealth Avenue
Friday, October 14 - Saturday, October 15

Jonathan Bloom: "Visual Arts of the Sufis"
Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire, Lincoln, NH
October 11, 2011

Toni Pepe Dan, one of Fine Arts' new photography instructors, will speak on her work.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Devlin 010

Jonathan Bloom: "Iranian Islamic Art"
Tuesday Academy, Hancock, NH
October 4, 2011

On May 7, 2011 Sheila Gallagher presented her work "That Which Remains" in a discussion with Robin Nagle, NYU professor and resident anthropologist for the NYC Department of Sanitation as part of the Festival of Ideas for the New City, May 4-8, 2011. The Festival is a major new collaborative initiative in New York involving the New Museum and scores of Downtown organizations, from universities to art galleries and community groups, working together to effect change. A first for New York, the Festival sought harness the power of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore the ideas destined to shape it. The Festival served as a platform for artists, writers, architects, engineers, designers, urban farmers, planners, and thought leaders to exchange ideas, propose solutions, and invite the public participation.

Special Event for Art History Majors and Minors

A private viewing of the exhibition Making History: Antiquaries In Britain, at the McMullen Museum, with commentaries by members of the Boston College Art History faculty, and a reception was held on September 26.

Jonathan Bloom: "Art and Architecture of the Silk Road"
Mariposa Museum, Peterborough, NH
7:00 p.m.
September 23, 2011

Andrew Tavarelli
South End Open Studios
59 Wareham St.
Studio #14
Saturday and Sunday, September 17-18
11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. 

Webcast Interview

Women Healers, Healing Sanctuaries & Grain Goddess to Saint Pamela Berger was interviewed by Karen Tate on Blogtalk Radio: Spirituality, Wednesday, July 27, 2011. They discussed her films "Sorceress" and "Killian's Chronicle" in the context of spirituality. 

The TransCultural Exchange

The TransCultural Exchange, founded by Mary Sherman (BC ’80) and a part-time faculty member in BC’s Fine Arts Department, has become a vital program promoting artistic exchange among the international art community.

Last April, the TransCultural Exchange’s Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts: The Interconnected World was held in Boston. The Conference is internationally known as the only forum of its kind for networking, showcasing, supporting and promoting artists. Director's Statement | Conference Overview

2010

October 15-16, 2010

“The Pamphilj and the Arts: Patronage and Consumption in Baroque Rome”
Conference information