UPCOMING EXHIBITS
Green: What is it?
9.14 – 10.17.10 reception 9.22.10, W 5 – 8, Gallery Talk, 6:30
The School of Design Faculty of Mount Ida College define the meaning of green. What is the meaning of green? Green has many and contradictory meanings. Is it a color? Is it the natural world? Green means growth, a vital power of life, a person who is green with envy or sick, and slang for the dollar bill, a political movement and a clever catch all phrase for being sustainable. As a global culture we struggle to understand the green earth and how best we can live on it as part of nature not separate from it. We have acquired ownership of making the earth green by almost obliterating it first through our over use of resources, machinery and chemistry. Now, our new commodity is green, we romanticize the landscape, air, water, mountains, and animals. We sell it to amend our past actions. Luckily for us green is also a symbol of rebirth, rejuvenation and hope. See how artists and designers as educators interpret green.
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The SHIFTboston Ideas Competition 2009
10.26 – 12.5.10 reception 11.4.10, TH 5 – 8
Carlson Auditorium, Presentation 6:30, 11. 4 (Gallery closed 11.19 – 28)
The competition called on all architects, artists, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers and anyone to submit their most provocative wild visions for the City of Boston: WHAT IF this could happen in Boston? SHIFTboston seeks to collect visions that aim to enhance and electrify the urban experience in Boston, including innovative, radical ideas for new city elements such as public art, landscape, architecture, urban intervention and transportation. Competitors were encouraged to explore topics such as the future city, energy efficiency and ecological urbanism. This competition is intended to collect and inspire. The goal is to attract greater public interest in future possibilities for the urban environment of Boston. We want to inspire and engage the city community while encouraging positive awareness and a hunger for change. We believe a collective desire to push boundaries and challenge the familiar are the necessary seeds with which to grow a more dynamic city! The exhibition includes the winners and other proposals.
AIGA 50 Books/ 50 Covers
2.1 – 3.6.11 reception 2.10.11 TH 5 – 8
Carlson Auditorium, Guest Speaker, 6:30 on 2.10
After careful and considered review of many entries, the 2009 jury of the “AIGA 50 books/50 Covers” competition selected a group of examples of outstanding book and book cover design produced in 2009. The jury’s selections will be mounted as a public exhibition during the “AIGA Design Conference” in October 2010 and at the AIGA National Design Center in New York in December 2010, and will travel across the country to AIGA chapters and student groups during 2011. In addition, selections become part of the AIGA Design Archives, are documented in 365 Year in Design and the physical artifacts join the AIGA Design Archives at the Denver Art Museum and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University.
Saira Austin: Solo Exhibition
3.29 – 5.1.11 reception 4.7.11 TH 5– 8 Gallery Talk 6:30
(closed 4.15 – 17 Patriot’s Day Weekend)
Saira Austin is a Professor in Art Foundation in the School of Design at Mount Ida College. Ms. Austin will have a Solo Exhibition of her art work.