2007 Collaborative Sculpture Project
boston college arts council
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This years theme was inspired by an artist who was featured in the spring McMullen Museum exhibition- an artist who featured a number of masks and his works. The Arts Council provided a basic sculptural structure of a mask upon which artists communicated their message to the community. Organizations "adopted" a sculpture for the festival's exhibition and represented the "face" of their organization on their mask.
The McMullen Museum exhibition A New Key: Modern Belgian Art from the Simon Collection featured James Endsor, who is known for his pieces that include masks. The artist had grown up amongst masks: his mother sold masks in her small shop for the annual carnival in Ostend. Ensor deployed masks in his work as a way of symbolizing the wearers' psychological and moral characteristics.
The Arts festival's sculpture project has been one of the most talked about features of the annual festival. Inspired by Chicago's Cows on Parade, the fifth annual festival was celebrated with 17 five foot tall "FIVES" adorned with messages and missions of almost two dozen campus groups, Since then, the campus has been adorned with giant umbrellas, stacked trees, and artful flames.
