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Sessions:
Schedule/Presenters
(Condensed version available at Agenda-at-a-Glance.)
International
Opportunities in
the Arts
April
7-10,
2011
presented
by
TransCultural Exchange
Conference Panel Venues
and
Conference Hotel:
Conference
Hotel and Primary Venue (Friday – Sunday)
Omni
Parker House Hotel, 60 School
Street, Boston, 617.227.8600: The Wheatley,
Alcott, Alcott Foyer, Press, Kennedy, Brandeis and Longfellow Rooms and
Rooftop
Ballroom. (map)
Other
Venues in Boston
(Thursday – Friday)
Boston
Center for
the Arts, 539
Tremont Street (map)
Boston
Public
Library, 700 Boylston
Street (map)
Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum, 280
Fenway (map)
Massachusetts
College of Art and Design, 621
Huntington Avenue (map)
Northeastern
University, 360 Huntington
Avenue (map)
Other
Venues in Cambridge
(Friday only)
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT)
Program in Art, Culture and
Technology Program, 20 Ames Street, Bartos Theater, E15 Lower Level -
Wiesner Building, (map)
Harvard University, CGIS, Room S-250, 1730 Cambridge Street (map)
Thursday, April 7, 2011
9:30
am
– 5:00 pm
AT
THE
MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: (map)
Registration Check-In, Location: Tower Lobby, 621 Huntington Avenue.
Including general information, registration pick-up and sign-ups for Dutch-treat
lunches and dinners.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
MORNING SESSIONS
AT
THE
MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN:
10:30
am
– noon
National
Residencies: Regional Aspirations, Location: Tower Auditorium,
621 Huntington Avenue. Most U.S. residencies are still based on the
idea of sequestering artists away into rural retreats; whereas other
countries’ programs more typically bring artists together for
short-term ‘symposia’ and/or to promote regional
strengths. A look at the differences and benefits of each.
Moderator:
Hunter O’Hanian, Chairman of the Board of the Alliance for
Artists Communities, Vice President of Institutional Advancement, the
Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Maiken Derno, Head of Culture and Information Department, Royal Danish
Consulate General.
Hanneke Frühauf, former curator of BINZ39, a gallery and
artists-studio project in Zurich, and now the curator for Bridge Guard.
She is also a member of the Res Artis’ advisory committee and
art director of dutchartdesk.ch, a foundation that enhances the
perception and mutual understanding between Switzerland and The
Netherlands through art and culture projects.
Francine Royer, regional and international affairs development officer
at the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. The
Conseil
des arts et des lettres du Québec supports the creation,
experimentation, production and dissemination of visual art, arts and
crafts, literature, performance, multidisciplinary work, the media arts
and architectural research. The Conseil also seeks to broaden the
influence of artists, writers, arts organizations and their works in
Québec, Canada and abroad.
Nicholas Tsoutas, Zelda Stedman Lecturer in Visual Arts Practice Sydney
College of the Arts, The University of Sydney,
Australia.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Noon
– 1:00 pm
LUNCH on your
own or Dutch-Treat.
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Tours of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Meet in the Tower
Auditorium.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
AT
THE
MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: (map)
2:00
– 3:45 pm
Art
in Public
Spaces, Location: Tower Auditorium,
621 Huntington Avenue.
This panel of artists and programs that support the creation of public
art works will address the challenges and benefits of taking art into
the public arena.
Moderator:
Laura Brown, Co-Director of Handhouse Studio, Massachusetts.
Dyan Marie, a Toronto-based artist, activist, board member of the City
of Toronto’s Art for Public Places Committee and founder of Bloor Magazine,
Cold City Gallery, ARTATWORK and DIG IN!
Mags Harries, artist of the Boston-based Public Art Collaborative,
whose most recent works include SunFlowers,
an Electric Garden in Austin,
TX; bridges and seating for
the Highline Canal in Phoenix, AZ; Moon
Tide Garden in Portland, ME; The
Big Question at
the Science Center in Des Moines, IA; and Terra Fugit
at the
Miramar Regional Park, FL.
Janeil Engelstad, an artist who has produced award winning public and
community art projects throughout the world, including billboards,
video projections, public interventions and temporary and permanent
sculptures.
Ana Flores, Cuban-American sculptor, ecological designer, writer,
and activist whose work focuses on cultural and ecological narratives.
In 2008 Flores was honored with a TogetherGreen Fellowship for her
leadership skills in conservation.
Shana Berger, Director, Coleman Center for the Arts and Inda Hightower
Artists-in-Residence Program, York, AL.
The
Coleman
Center for the Arts offers residencies to professional artists in three
program areas: Visual Arts, Public and Community Arts, and Art
Education and Theory. All areas of the program bring contemporary
professional artists to a rural Alabama community and offer artists a
direct introduction to Alabama’s Black Belt Region.
4:00
– 5:00 pm
How
to Start
A Residency Program, Location: Tower Auditorium.
Speaker: Caitlin Strokosch, Executive Director, Alliance of
Artists Communities.
AT
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: (map)
2:00
– 2:45 pm
Digital
Portfolios for Artists, Location: Room 440, Curry
Student
Center.
Making the transition from paper and slides to digital formats for
presenting your work.
Cynthia Baron, Academic Director, Digital Media Programs, College of
Professional Studies, Northeastern University and author of Designing a Digital
Portfolio,
published by New Riders Press, a division of Pearson Education.
3:00
– 3:45 pm
The
Collision
of Art and New Technologies: Creativity, Entrepreneurship and
Technology, Location: Room
440, Curry Student Center.
From bronze casting to the invention of oil paint, new materials and
technologies have played a role in the art of their time. In what ways
are new technologies not only effecting how artists create today, but
how we define, perceive and experience contemporary art?
Dr. Tucker J. Marion, Assistant Professor, School of Technological
Entrepreneurship College of Business
Administration, Northeastern University.
4:00
– 4:45 pm
The
Siemens Art Program, Location: Room 440, Curry
Student Center.
The Siemens Stiftung is dedicated to cope with global challenges
between the contradictory contexts of society, technology and culture:
it considers itself a driver of innovations, ideas and cultural ideals.
In its Arts and Culture sphere of activity the foundation focuses on
themes of social change, cultural education and knowledge transfer
within cultural scenes. A team of curators develops international
programs in the fields of visual arts, music, theater as well as
culture and knowledge, realizing these in cooperation with leading
cultural institutions. This talk will discuss the Program’s
various activities and will give an overview of how the notion of
“foundation” can be theoretically determined.
Thomas D. Trummer, Curator Visual Arts, Siemens Stiftung, Munich.
AT THE BOSTON
PUBLIC LIBRARY:
Location: 700 Boylston Street (map)
1:30
– 3:30 pm
Selected
Attendees’ Reading, Location: Conference Room 06.
Moderator:
Michele Oshima, Director, Sorenson Center for the Arts, Babson College.
10, 10-minute Readings of Selected Attendees’ works.
Schedule of Readers to be announced.
1:30
– 3:30 pm
What a New
Generation of
Young Art Critics
Thinks, organized by AICA-USA in collaboration with The Brooklyn Rail, Location: Boston Room.
What is the role of young critics in the current art world? The
panelists will discuss their relevance as vital voices shaping our
understanding of contemporary art.
Moderator:
Marek
Bartelik, President, the National Chapter of the International Art
Critics Association (AICA).
Greg Lindquist, writer for artcritical.com,
The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic and ARTnews. He also is a contributing
editor for artcritical.com
and Art Books in Review Editor for The
Brooklyn Rail.
Patricia Milder, Managing Art Editor at The Brooklyn Rail. Her
writings on art, performance and dance also have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, PAJ: A Journal of Art
and Performance, Artcritical.com, The L Magazine and in various
exhibition catalogues.
Abbe Schribe, regular contributor for several online publications,
including artcritical.com and
the new literary magazine Full Stop.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
5:30
- 7:00 or 7:30 - 9:00
DINNER on your own or
Dutch-Treat.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
EVENING PROGRAMS
AT
THE BOSTON PUBLIC
LIBRARY: (map)
Location: 700 Boylston Street.
FEATURED
WRITERS READING: Free Admission
Introduced by
Christopher Merrill, Director, International Writing Program, The
University of Iowa.
5:30-
6:15 pm
Illustrated
Novel,
Location: Rabb Auditorium.
Reif Larsen, author of The Selected
Works of T.S. Spivet.
6:30-
7:15 pm
Memoir,
Location: Rabb
Auditorium.
Mira Bartók, author of The
Memory Palace, an illustrated
memoir.
7:30
- 8:15 pm
Fiction,
Location: Rabb
Auditorium.
Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Lark
and Termite, Machine Dreams, Black Tickets
and Shelter,
among others.
AT NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY:
Location:
The
Fenway Center, 77 St. Stephen Street, on the corner of St. Stephen
Street and Gainsborough Street. (map)
8:00
- 10:00 pm
Concert: Free
Admission
World Music - the
Next Generation
featuring Timi
(the Modern Music ensemble), the only professional
modern music
ensemble in Beijing.
AT THE BOSTON HARRISON
AVENUE GALLERIES:
Location: 450
Harrison Avenue (at Thayer Street) and 486 Harrison
Avenue (map
and directions)
5:00
- 7:00 pm
Special opening night
reception at the
South End Galleries for the Conference attendees and speakers: Free
Admission
AT THE INSTITUTE
OF CONTEMPORARY ART:
Location: 100 Northern Avenue, Boston (map)
5:00
- 9:00 pm
Thursday
Nights: Free
Admission
AT THE ISABELLA
STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM, BOSTON
Location:
280
Fenway (map)
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tickets are $12; College Students: $5 with current I.D.
AT
THE MUSEUM
OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON:
Location: 465 Huntington Avenue (map)
The mfa is open from 10 am to 9:45 pm on Thursday and Friday; and from
10 am to 4:45 pm on Saturday and Sunday.
Tickets are $20.00.
Friday, April 8, 2011
AT
THE OMNI PARKER HOUSE
HOTEL:
9:00
am – 5:00 pm
Registration
Check-In,
Location: Mezzanine/Alcott Foyer.
Including general information, registration pick-up and sign-ups for Dutch-treat
lunches and dinners.
10:00 am – 5:00
pm
Exhibitors
Hall, Location: Brandeis.
A showcase of new products and sponsoring programs.
Screenings,
Location:
Longfellow.
Screening of Video Program, organized by the Goethe-Institut
Boston; PowerPoint presentations of Attendees’ Works
and Images from
TransCultural Exchange’s Here,
There and Everywhere: The Art of Collaboration project.
3:00
– 5:00 pm
Portfolio
Reviews/Mentoring Sessions, Location: Wheatley.
Scheduled, one-on-one, 20-minute sessions with the international guests
(critics, program directors, curators, etc.) will take place throughout
the conference. During these sessions, the international guests will be
available to look at attendees’ works and portfolios. These sessions are
available for an
additional $30 on a first-come, first-serve basis.
To sign up
for a review session, please go to Registration.
Friday, April 8, 2011
MORNING SESSIONS
AT
THE OMNI PARKER HOUSE
HOTEL:
10:00
am – noon
Finding
the Best Fit: Researching and Applying for Artist-in-Residence
Programs - Primarily for Visual Artists,
Location: Kennedy.
A workshop on how to research and prepare your application for
residency programs.
Introduced
by Dr. E.
Tornai Thyssen, Visiting Faculty at Montserrat College of Art,
Independent Curator and Art Historian.
Presenter: Yeb
Wiersma,
artist, workshop presenter and former education director for Trans
Artists.
AT THE BOSTON CENTER FOR
THE ARTS: (map)
10:30
am – noon
Engaging
Public Officials,
Location: The Mills Gallery.
A look at how Massachusetts’ area artists and organizations
are
taking their concerns to the State House; their successes, strategies
and goals and how to apply them elsewhere.
Moderator:
Kathy Bitetti,
Artist, Advocate and, among others, co-founder of
ArtistsUndertheDome.org, ArtistsAlliance.us and the Massachusetts
Artists Leaders Coalition.
Charles Coe, Co-Chair of the Boston Chapter of the National Writers
Union.
Veronique Le Melle, Executive Director of the Boston Center for the
Arts.
Lillian Hsu, Director of Public Art & Exhibitions, Cambridge
Arts
Council.
Michelle Lampa, Manager of Business Development for Asia and Eurasia at
the Massachusetts Office of International Trade & Investment
(MOITI).
10:30
am – noon
Finding
the Best Fit: Researching and Applying for Artist-in-Residence
Programs - Multi-disciplinary Presentation, Location: Rehearsal
Room A.
Introduced by Mario Caro, Preseident, Res
Artis.
A workshop on how to research and prepare your
application for
residency programs.
Presenter: Julie Upmeyer,
Res Artis Website Editor and Representative.
AT HARVARD UNIVERISTY (map)
10:30
am – noon
Paper Picker Press Workshop, Location: CGIS, Room S-250, 1730
Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA.
Presenter:
José Luis Falconi, Fellow at the Department of History of Art
and Architecture and Curator of the Art Forum Program for Latino and
Latin American Art at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American
Studies at Harvard University.
Explore literature as recyclable material with the
Paper Picker Press, an innovative arts-based literacy workshop. This
workshop includes book making and other activities that provide
educators of all ages with units of instruction that foster a love for
reading, writing and critical thinking by fusing art and creative play
with learning. More information here.
AT
THE MASSACHUSETTS
INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY, MIT (map)
11:00
am – noon
Art
and Architecture Tour,
MIT’S Art & Architecture, Location Start: MIT List Visual Art
Center, 20
Ames Street, Building E15, Lower Level - Wiesner Building
Meet
at MIT’s List Visual Art
Center, 20 Ames Street,
Cambridge
– LIMITED TO 30 PEOPLE.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Noon
– 1:00 pm
LUNCH on your own
or Dutch-Treat
Friday, April 8, 2011
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
AT
THE BOSTON
PUBLIC LIBRARY
(map)
1:30 – 3:30 pm
Grant
Writing Workshop,
Location: C05/C06,
700
Boylston Street (map)
Moderator:
Deb Todd
Wheeler, Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
David Adams, Senior Program Officer at the Council for International
Exchange of Scholars, a Division of the Institute of International
Education, Washington, DC.
David
Adams combines more
than twenty years of experience working on the Fulbright Scholar
Program with extensive experience advising grant applicants on
strategies for preparing successful applications.
1:30 – 3:30 pm
First
Books: Emerging
Authors Share their Experience from Finding an Agent to Promoting Their
First Book, Location: Boston Room.
Moderator
and Speaker:
Mira Bartok, artist and author: The
Memory Place and founder
of Mira’s
List.
Jedediah Berry, author: The Manual
of Detection and Managing
Editor of Small Beer Press.
Marisa Crawford, author: The Haunted
House.
AT THE MASSACHUSETTS
INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY (MIT), CAMBRIDGE: (map)
1:30
– 3:15 pm
Residencies
as Research
Clusters, Location: MIT’s Art, Culture and Technology Program,
Bartos Theater, 20 Ames St., Building E15 Lower Level - Wiesner
Building. A look
at post-graduate school programs - primarily artists-in-residence and
fellowship programs. What are the benefits to the artists? To the
programs? To Critical Thinking and Discourse?
Moderator
and Speaker:
Ute Meta Bauer, Director of the MIT's Program in Art, Culture and
Technology.
Judith Vichniac, Associate Dean, Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program.
Taylor Davis, artist and Radcliffe Institute Fellow.
Marco Scotini, Director of Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies, Nuova
Accademia di Belle Artis,
Milan, Italy.
Laura Harrison, The Bogliasco Foundation, Bogliasco,
Italy.
The
Bogliasco Foundation
was established in 1991 to the support the
Liguria Study Centre for the Arts and Humanities, which offers
residential
fellowships to persons doing advanced creative work or scholarly
research in the traditional disciplines of the arts and humanities.
Lajos Héder, former Bogliasco Fellow and collaborator with Mags
Harries of the Boston-based Public Art Collaborative.
Pamela Tatge, Director of the Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University.
3:30
– 4:30 pm
Pecha
Kucha Presentations
by the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, Location:
MIT’s Art, Culture and Technology Program, Bartos Theater,
20 Ames Street, Building E15 Lower Level - Wiesner Building.
AT THE BOSTON CENTER FOR
THE ARTS:
2:00
– 4:00 pm
Electronic
Musicians/Composers Survival Kit, Location: The Mills Gallery.
A discussion focused on how to create opportunities for musicians and
composers working in the unorthodox field of electronic music, where
there are few models for touring, distribution or critical response.
This panel will offer tips and guidance on how to not only
survive but also excel in this non-traditional career path.
Moderator:
Dan
Hirsch, Director of Music Programs for ArtsEmerson at Emerson College.
Jason Gross, Editor and publisher of Perfect Sound Forever
magazine.
Micah Silver, Experimental Music Curator for the Experimental Media and
Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Hans Tutchku, Director of Harvard University's Studio for
Electroacoustic Composition.
AT THE BOSTON OMNI PARKER
HOUSE HOTEL:
1:00
– 2:00 pm
Workshop:
Making the Most
of the Conference - How to Network, Location: Kennedy.
Bonnie Clark, Marketing Consultant, Gypsy Wolf Marketing.
2:15
– 3:45 pm
The
Growing Popularity of
Low-Residency MFA Programs and the Needs They Serve, Location: Kennedy.
What can be learned from these programs? What advantages/disadvantages
do they offer artists? And, can this mix of working on one’s
own
and then coming together for short periods of intense critique and
feedback by experts be successfully adopted for other means beyond
conferring a diploma? Should residency programs, for instance, consider
adopting this model and think to take on this role? What other fields
and organizations might benefit from this model?
Moderator:
Lynne Allen,
Director, School of Visual Arts, Boston University's College of Fine
Arts.
Judith Barry, The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.
Kathy Black, Program Director, Vermont Studio Center.
Knoll+Cella, Founders and Directors, Transart Institute, NY.
Transart
Institute in
cooperation with the University of Plymouth, UK offers
an international low-residency, two -year
graduate
art program leading to a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative
Practice. (Summer residencies take place in cooperation with arts
organizations in Europe.)
David Deitcher and Faith Wilding, Faculty, Vermont College of Fine
Arts, VT.
George Creamer, Dean of Graduate Programs, Massachusetts College of Art
and Design
4:00
- 5:00 pm
The
Lawyer is In:
Understanding Copyright and Trademark Law, Location: Kennedy.
Introduced
by Thad Beal,
Artist and Board of Trustee, TransCultural Exchange.
Carrie Webb
Olson, Partner in Day Pitney's
Intellectual Property Group.
Carrie's
practice focuses
on all aspects of copyright and trademark law, from acquisition and
maintenance to exploitation and enforcement. She provides general
counseling regarding the use and protection of company
trademarks, nationally and abroad. In addition, Carrie is experienced
in providing brand expansion guidance and advice to clients from
start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. She is also well-versed in
negotiating and drafting intellectual property licenses, assignments
and settlement agreements.
Friday, April 8, 2011
5:30
- 7:30 pm
Opening
Night Reception
and Kick-Off Event, Location: Alcott.
Sponsored
by Massachusetts
College of Art and Design
Friday, April 8, 2011
8:00
- 11:00 pm
DINNER on your own
or Dutch-Treat
8:00 – 11:00 pm
Speakers
and Sponsors
Dinner, Location: The Ballroom.
Sponsored
by Northeastern
University
Please
note: This dinner
is by Invitation Only. (For tickets to the Saturday
Night Gala, please see Registration.)
Saturday, April 9, 2011
AT
THE OMNI PARKER HOUSE
HOTEL:
10:00
am – 5:00 pm
Registration
Check-In,
Location: Mezzanine/Alcott Foyer.
Including general information, registration pick-up and sign-ups for Dutch-treat
lunches and dinners.
Exhibitors
Hall, Location: Brandeis.
A showcase of new products and sponsoring programs.
Portfolio
Reviews/Mentoring Sessions, Location: The Ballroom.
Scheduled, one-on-one, 20-minute sessions with the international guests
(critics, program directors, curators, etc.) will take place throughout
the conference. During these sessions, the international guests will be
available to look at attendees’ works and portfolios. These sessions are
available for an
additional $30 on a first-come, first-serve basis.
To sign up
for a review session, please go to Registration.
Screenings,
Location:
Longfellow.
Screening of Video Program, organized by the Goethe-Institut
Boston; PowerPoint presentations of Attendees’ Works and
Images from
TransCultural Exchange’s Here,
There and Everywhere: The Art of Collaboration project.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
MORNING SESSIONS
AT
THE BOSTON OMNI PARKER
HOUSE HOTEL:
9:00
– 10:45 am
Launching
Your Career
Internationally: Residencies as the Ultimate Networking Experience,
Location: Alcott.
A discussion of residencies and other international programs as
vehicles for networking; the types of networks they facilitate, provide
and create; and how more can be done to sustain these networks once the
artists have left the programs.
Moderator:
Astrid
Hiemer, Associate Editor, Berkshire Fine Arts.com.
Dorothea Fleiss, an artist and Director of the Dorothea Fleiss
East-West Artists Symposia in Carei, Romania as well as organizer of a
two-week residency for sculpture in Austria and another short-term
residency for artists of all disciplines in Serbia.
Amertah E. Perman, specialist in best practices within artist mobility
programming and former Program Director of the Red Gate Residency
Program in Beijing.
Ralph Brancaccio, Paris based artist, former artist-in-residence, the
D. Fleiss East-West Artists Symposium (Romania), Quarantine Island
(Turkey), among others.
Ellen Schön, Artist, Adjunct Faculty at the Art Institute of
Boston and
former artist-in-residence at Finland’s Hovinkartano Art
Centre
and the International Artist Symposium, Croatia.
9:00
– 10:45 am
What do we mean by
TransCultural Exchange?
Location: Press.
What is inherent in the terms Trans? Cultural? Exchange? What
topics, projects and ideas should be considered? For instance, how can
we be sure that each culture in an exchange is brought in as an equal
partner?
Introduction
and
Moderator: Mary Sherman, Director, TransCultural Exchange.
Opening
Remarks by
Special Guest Sarat
Maharaj, Art
historian and curator, who has “lectured
and
published throughout the world on cultural translation and
difference.” - Daniel Birnbaum, ArtForum,
Feb. 2002.
Ute Meta Bauer, Associate Professor and Director of the MIT Program in
Art, Culture and Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Gianni Jetzer, Director, the Swiss Institute, NY.
Jean-Baptiste Joly, Founding Director, Artistic Director and Chairman
of the Board of the Foundation Akademie Schloss
Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany.
Akademie
Schloss Solitude
combines the idea of an academy for scientific and artistic exchange
with that of a retreat, which Schloss Solitude has always been.
Kaiwan Mehta, former Akademie Schloss Solitude resident, architect and
historian, now based in India.
Dr. Antoine Abi Aad, Coordinator, Advertising and Graphic Design, ALBA,
Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, Beirut, Lebanon.
TWO BACK-T0-BACK
INFORMATIONAL SESSIONS
9:00
– 9:45 am
The
Selection Process,
Location: Kennedy.
How are artists chosen? How are the results disseminated? What have we
learned from the traditional jurying process of selecting works solely
on the samples submitted? Should new processes be considered?
Moderator:
Nathan Purath, Co-Director, Coleman
Center for the Arts and Inda Hightower Artists-in-Residence Program,
York, AL.
Ralph Crispino, Jr., Director of I-Park Foundation, Inc., both a
closed studio
laboratory for individual artistic pursuits in the visual arts, music,
architecture, landscape/garden design and creative writing. It also
internally initiates and sponsors specially-themed inter-disciplinary
projects for the purpose of moving these fresh ideas out of the
laboratory to bring them to life in the field and on the land.
David Adams, Assistant Director of the Asia and the Pacific,
CIES/Fulbright
Program. David also is responsible for bringing the Rockefeller
Foundation-supported Bellagio residencies for artists and scholars to
the attention of more prospective applicants across the world.
Ana Flores, a Cuban-American sculptor, ecological designer, writer,
and activist who lives in Charlestown, Rhode Island and Nova Scotia,
Canada, who also has served as a juror for a number of organizations,
including I-Park.
Zsuzsanna Ardó, a London-based photographer, writer,
curator
and founder the Hampstead Authors' Society, a social and professional
network for artists and authors, and has been its chairman for over 12
years, producing a wide variety of arts events featuring the work of
artists and authors from the UK and beyond.
10:00 – 10:45 am
Artist's Talk: John Bisbee, Location:
Kennedy.
Introduced
by Emilie Stark-Menneg, multi-disciplinary artist, whose film "BOP: The
North Star" was recently screened at the Johnson Museum of Art at
Cornell University.
As National Public Radio noted of American sculptor John Bisbee, ". . .
over the course of his career, he has made almost all of his art with
what most people use to hang it - nails." He has held
residencies
at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, received numerous awards, including
from the John Mitchell Foundation and been the subject of a number
of museum exhibitions at such venues as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
in Buffalo and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City,
among others.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
LATE MORNING SESSIONS
AT THE BOSTON OMNI
PARKER
HOUSE HOTEL:
11:00
am – 12:45 pm
The
New Renaissance Man
(sic). Doing it for Yourself: From Specialization to Multi-Tasking,
Location: Alcott.
A look at the how the traditional model of the artist in the studio,
supported by gallery shows, is morphing into that of artists who are
also curators, residency program directors, designers and/or their own
PR agents. How do they do it? Is art suffering by artists - as well as
writers - being pulled
in so many directions? Or, are we witnessing a new type of Renaissance
artist?
Moderator:
James
McLeod, Director of the Floating World Projects and Associate
Professor of Fine Arts 3D/Glass at Massachuestts College of Art
and
Design.
Susanne Mueller-Baji, independent art critic, journalist, artist and
curator based in Stuttgart.
James O'Brien, Boston
Globe
correspondent and former Martha’s Vineyard Writers’
resident. His poetry has appeared in Flatmancrooked’s
Slim Volume of Contemporary Poetics and has appeared in Tidal Basin
Review.
His fiction has
appeared in Haunts.
Yannick Franck, Belgium based composer, sound and visual artist, and
owner of his own music label.
Janet Goldner, sculptor, Fulbright recipient, tour guide and active
collaborator with Malian artists, who have been the key to her
experience and understanding of Malian culture.
Elisabeth Ochsenfeld, Director of the Elisabeth and Hartwig
Ochensenfeld Residency Program, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
Aysegul Kurtel, Founder and Director of K2, Izmir, Turkey.
K2
is a non-profit
organization with 20 artists' studios, a documentation center and
gallery that aims to create an open platform, especially geared towards
young artists.
11:00
am – 12:45 pm
Discipline Specific
vs.
Multi-disciplinary
Programs, Location: Press.
In the current climate of cross-disciplinary approaches to everything
from medicine to teaching history, what place is there for
specialization? At what point does it make sense to bring people of
various disciplines together? Is there a time and argument to make for
a period of specialized training and development?
Moderator: Katherine Mitchell,
Pre-College &
Community Programs Coordinator, Artist's Resource Center &
Continuing Education, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Opening
Presentation by
Special Guest T. Allan Comp
Allan Comp has received national awards for his work with the people of
the Appalachian coal country, for his successful effort to engage the
arts and humanities in environmental recovery and for his remarkable
choreography of multiple federal agency partnerships, particularly with
VISTA, in working with rural mining communities. In
2009 he
was awarded the Service to America
Medal, the highest award a
federal employee
can receive. An historian of technology with a long
engagement in
cultural resources, community redevelopment and environmental
reclamation, Allan is committed to the recovery of Appalachian mining
communities from a century of pre-regulatory exploitation and neglect
– and to the expansion of that experience to the rural mining
communities of the Mountain West and elsewhere.
Justen Ahren, founder, The Martha’s Vineyard Writers
Residency, MA.
The
Martha’s Vineyard
Writers' Residency was established in 2007 with a simple
mission:
to give writers of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoir and plays a
place in which to create or complete new works.
Jean-Yves Coffre, Director of CAMAC, Marnay-sur-Seine, France.
CAMAC
is a creative,
multi-disciplinary center offering international
residency programs for artists, scientists and
technologists working with new media.
David Redmon, Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University and a
filmmaker
whose films with his partner Ashley Sabin have been screened
at
Sundance, Human Rights Watch and the Museum of Modern Art.
Boshko Boskovic, Program Director, Residencies Unlimited, NYC, NY.
Residencies
Unlimted is a
New York based non-profit arts service organization whose mission is to
support artists and curators in residency.
11:00
am – 12:45 pm
Making the Case for
Residencies/Exchange
and Similar Programs, Location: Kennedy.
What are the positive effects of a residency not only for an artist,
but also on the local city and community? A responsible
politician/funder should get a proper answer to the question: What can
I expect in return for funding a residency or other exchange program?
Moderator:
Debbie Hagan,
Editor-in-Chief, Art New
England.
Margaret Shiu, Director, Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei County,
Taiwan.
The
Bamboo Curtain Studio
provides working space and equipment for ceramists, sculptors and mixed
media artists; consultative, research and implementation
services
for arts related projects; production of site-specific arts in public
spaces; and space for experimentation and development of multi-media
art.
Machiko Harada, free-lance curator, former Curator for the
Akiyoshidai International Art Village, a well as an Assistant Director
for the Artist-in-Residence Program and serves of the board of the
Japan Artists-in-Residency Network.
David Macy, Director, MacDowell Colony, NH.
The
MacDowell Colony
nurtures the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest
talent an inspiring environment in which to produce enduring works of
the imagination.
Tucker Marion, Assistant Professor in Northeastern University's College
of
Business, School of Technological Entrepreneurship, Boston, MA.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
1:00
- 2:00 pm
LUNCH on your own or Dutch-Treat
Saturday, April 9, 2011
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
AT THE BOSTON OMNI
PARKER
HOUSE HOTEL:
2:15
– 4:00 pm
Funding
the Priceless. The
Funders’ Perspective: What are their Interests in Helping
Artists? Location: Alcott.
Moderator: Janet
Simpson, Executive Director, Kansas City Artists Coalition, which
administers the Lighton Artists Exchange.
Linda Lighton, Director of the Lighton International Artists Exchange
Program.
The
Lighton
International Artists Exchange Program provides support for visual
artists and arts professionals to travel to international residencies
and artist communities and for foreign visual artists to travel to and
work in the United States.
Margaret Cogswell, Program Officer for the Asian Cultural Council.
The
Asian Cultural Council
(ACC) is the only organization in the world whose sole mission is to
support cultural exchange between the United States and Asia and within
the countries of Asia.
Roberely Bell, artist and former Fulbright Senior Scholar Program
grantee.
Leonard Lehrer, director of the new Printmaking Convergence Program at
The University of Texas at Austin and chair of the Fulbright
Program’s National Task Force in the Arts.
Roger Columbik, artist, CEC Artslink Project Awardee to Armenia in 2010
and Republic of Georgia in 2005; Artist-in resident: Museu de Arta
Comparat, Sigeorz-Bai, Romania; Haslla Art World, Gangneung, South
Korea and the Center for Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland.
2:15
– 4:00 pm
Case Studies in
Collaboration. Putting
Creativity to Work: Artists as Collaborators in Cross-Disciplinary
Teams, Location: Press.
There is a growing trend towards utilizing cross-discipline approaches
to solving problems as diverse as green house gases to societal
discord. Artists – who are naturally out-of-the-box thinkers
-
seem ideal partners for such cross-discipline teams. How can they
become even more a part of that process? A Panel of Case Studies.
Moderator:
Jeannette
Guillemin, Assistant Director, School of Visual Arts, Boston
University's College of Fine Arts.
Ariel de Man, founding member and Co-Artistic Director of Out Of
Hand Theater, named Atlanta's "Best New Company" (AJC 2001), Atlanta's
"Best Theatrical Mad Scientists" (Creative Loafing 2003), and one of "A
Dozen Young American Companies You Need to Know" (American Theatre
Magazine 2004).
Jurriaan Cooiman, Director, Culture Scapes, Switzerland.
Every
year Culture Scapes
features one country's artistic wealth (art works, performances,
literary works, etc.) throughout Switzerland for - typically
- a
three month period. America will be featured in 2012.
Dr.
Benoit
Granier, composer/visual artist, working out of
Beijing, Singapore and Dublin. He has written for a large diversity of
instruments and worked with mixed media and pure electronics, recently
developing an interest in the creation of compositions for mixed
ensembles, regrouping classical formations and traditional forces. He
is also the founder and director of TimiMME,
the only professional
modern music ensemble in Beijing.
Regina Maria
Moeller, Artist and Professor, Trondheim University, Norway.
Azra Aksamija, Sarajevo born Austrian artist, architect, and
architectural historian. Her interdisciplinary projects have been
published and exhibited in various international venues such as the
Generali Foundation Vienna, Biennial de Valencia, Gallery for
Contemporary Art Leipzig, Liverpool Biennial, Witte de With Rotterdam,
Sculpture Center New York City, Secession Vienna,
Manifesta 7, and the 2011 Venice Biennale.
Aaron
O'Connor, Director, The Arctic Circle.
Aboard
an ice-class expedition sailing
vessel, artists of all disciplines,
architects, scientists and
educators alike voyage on a collaborative
mission into the High Arctic.
The program takes place in the international
territory of
Svalbard, a mountainous Arctic archipelago just 10 degrees from the
North
Pole.
2:15
– 4:00 pm
Charting the
Unknown,
Location: Kennedy.
How to negotiate traveling, working and/or making art in places where
the infrastructures to do so are relatively new or non-existent.
Moderator:
John
Michalczyk, Documentary Film-maker and Chair, Fine Arts Program, Boston
College.
Biljana Ciric, free-lance Curator, based in China.
Ellie Schimelman, artist and Director of Cross Cultural Collaborative,
Inc., Ghana.
Cross
Cultural
Collaborative, Inc. is an educational non-profit dedicated to promoting
cultural exchange and understanding through the arts by bringing
creative people together at a cultural center in Ghana. The programs
emphasize multigenerational and multicultural collaborations
encouraging participants to find rewards in different forms of
creativity.
Tran Thi Huynh Nga, founder, the Blue Space Contemporary Art Center,
Vietnam.
The
Blue Space Contemporary
Art Center is the first non-profit arts organization in Vietnam, and
the first arts organization in Vietnam to receive a grant from the Ford
Foundation. Nga has also curated and organized several exhibitions and
workshops, including but not limited to: the Cultural Representation
in Transition
– New Vietnamese Paintings
in Bangkok, Thailand; and the Gap
Vietnam,
organized by Cultural
House of the World in Berlin, Germany.
C. David Thomas, artist and Director of the Indochina Arts
Partnership. In 2000 he was awarded the "Vietnam Art Medal" by the
government of Vietnam in recognition of his contributions to the arts
in that country. He received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant in 2002
to conduct his work in residence in Hanoi and designed the book HO CHI MINH - A Portrait,
published
in 2003.
Mkrtich Tonoyan, Director, Akos and the Art Center of Social Studies'
Artists in in Residency Programs, Armenia.
Mkrtich Tonoyan's participation in the conference has been supported by Arts and Culture Network Program of Open Society Foundations.
Marisa Jahn, artist/writer/community organizer, current Director
of Architecture at Art Omi and a former artist-in-residence at
MIT’s Media Lab and CEC ArtsLink grantee.
CEC
ArtsLink's programs
encourage and support the exchange of artists and cultural managers
between the United States and Eastern and Central Europe, Russia,
Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
LATE AFTERNOON SESSIONS
AT THE BOSTON OMNI
PARKER
HOUSE HOTEL:
4:15
– 6:00 pm
The
Eclipsing of
Galleries’ Importance? Location: Alcott.
The rise of biennales, art fairs, auctions and open studios from
multiple perspectives. Is the traditional art market, with the gallery
system at its core, waning? Are there other ways to get one’s
work out into the world? Are galleries as relevant as they once were,
given the kinds of work artists do now? What alternatives might be
considered? A critique of the gallery system.
Moderator:
Lynne Cooney,
Exhibitions Director, School of Visual Arts, Boston University's
College
of Fine Arts.
David Medalla,
Artist and Director of the London
Biennale.
Dr. Danièle Perrier, Geschäftsführende
künstlerische Leiterin, Künstlerhaus Schloss
Balmoral, Bad
Ems, Germany.
Schloss
Balmoral is a
place for artistic production, meeting and discussion. Since its
foundation in 1995, Schloss Balmoral has supported various
work
projects including the disciplines of painting, graphic design,
sculpture, installation, photography, video and the new media.
Lies Coppens, Director, The Entrepot, Bruges, Belgium.
The
Entrepot in the sea
harbor of Bruges is a creative art lab for young artists who need time
and space to create and to experiment.
Joel Slayton, Executive Director of ZERO1, San Jose, CA.
ZERO1
is the producer of
01SJ Biennial - a multi-disciplinary, multi-venue event of visual and
performing arts, the moving image, public art and interactive digital
media.
4:15
– 6:00 pm
Studio
as Factory. Ways to Acquire New Skills and Expertise in
Exchange
for Engaging Others in the Process, Location: Press.
A look at practice-based frameworks for artists and designers who
choose to work within industrial and technological communities. How can
artists create opportunities for their work within an industrial
factory or technological complex? How can artists structure their
practice in a way that is conducive to making a contribution to the
culture (and/or products) of those industries?
Moderator:
Dana Moser,
Artist and Professor, Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Mike Ogilvie, Arts/Industry Coordinator, John Michael Kohler Arts
Center, Sheboygan, WI.
The
Arts/Industry is
undoubtedly the most unusual on-going collaboration between art and
industry in the United States. Artists-in-residence may work in the
Kohler Co. Pottery, Iron and Brass Foundries, and Enamel Shop to
develop a wide variety of work in clay, enameled cast iron and brass.
Jane Gavan, Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching at Sydney College
of the Arts, University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia; PhD candidate
in Design at the University of Technology, Sydney (Thesis:
'Factory as Studio: Developing a practice-based framework for
artists and designers who choose to work within industrial
communities).
The
Sydney College of the
Arts Residency program provides professional artists, scholars and
curators access totheir world-class facilities in generous spaces,
which
overlook Sydney Harbor.
George Fifield, Curator, Director and Founder of Boston Cyberarts
Festival.
The
Boston Cyberarts
Festival is the first and largest collaboration of artists working in
new technologies in all media in North America, encompassing visual
arts, dance, music, electronic literature, web art and public art.
Maggie Stark, Boston-based artist and former artist-in-resident at the
Corning Museum of Glass and Haslla Art World Park & Exhibition
Center.
4:15
– 6:00 pm
Accommodating the
Other/The Relativity of
Cultural Exchange: On Seeing Ourselves as Other, Location: Kennedy.
What do we mean when we say ‘other’ cultures?
Often, such
as in the US, the notion of the other never fully addresses Indigenous
cultures. How then can we learn from one another while remaining
respectful of differences? How can we learn from examples of ways to
approach and work with people whose customs and worldviews may be
different from our own?
Moderator
and Speaker: Mario Caro,
President of Res Artis and board member of the Longhouse Education and
Cultural Center.
Part
of a growing network of Indigenous Visual Artists of the Pacific Rim,
the Longhouse sponsors an international indigenous residency program in
partnership with Creative New Zealand.
Professor Abdul Wasi Rahraw and Manizhah Omarzad, artists and founders
of the Center of Contemporary Art in Afghanistan (CCAA).
Hiroko and Tatsuhiko Murata, co-directors of Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo,
Japan.
Youkobo
Art Space is an
autonomous creative center that provides a space for wide-ranging
international exchange between artists and local residents.
Margaret Cogswell, artist, former Guggenheim Fellow and Program Officer
for the Asian Cultural Council.
The
Asian Cultural Council
(ACC) is the only organization in the world whose sole mission is to
support cultural exchange between the United States and Asia and within
the countries of Asia.
Claudia Lefko, Founder, The Iraqi Children's Art Exchange,
Northampton, MA.
The
Iraqi Children's Art
Exchange was founded in 2000 to
organize and support U.S. and Iraqi professional artist exchanges and
collaborative projects between artists, children and youth in both
countries.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
7:00 - 11:00 pm
GALA
DINNER
This is a
separate, ticketed item. Please click on the link above to purchase a
ticket.
Sponsored
by Boston
University, College of Fine Arts.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
AT
THE OMNI PARKER HOUSE
HOTEL:
9:00
am – 5:00 pm
Registration
Check-In,
Location: Mezzanine.
including general information, registration pick-up and sign-ups for Dutch-treat
lunches and dinners.
Exhibitors
Hall, Location: Brandeis.
A showcase of new products and sponsoring programs.
Portfolio
Reviews/Mentoring Sessions, Location: Ballroom.
Scheduled, one-on-one, 20-minute sessions with the international guests
(critics, program directors, curators, etc.) will take place throughout
the conference. During these sessions, the international guests will be
available to look at attendees’ works and portfolios. These sessions are
available for an
additional $30 on a first-come, first-serve basis.
To sign up
for a review session, please go to Registration.
Screenings,
Location:
Longfellow.
Screening of Video Program, organized by the Goethe-Institut
Boston; PowerPoint presentations of Attendees’ Works
and Images from
TransCultural Exchange’s Here,
There and Everywhere: The Art of Collaboration project.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
MORNING SESSIONS
AT THE BOSTON OMNI
PARKER
HOUSE HOTEL:
9:00
– 10:45 am
Achieving
Star Power,
The Mechanisms that Launch an Artist’s Career, Location: Alcott.
Are those who
traditionally championed work losing their voice? With so few trained
critics able to earn a living, more and more amateurs entering the
field and galleries and museums having to justify their bottom line in
ways never before imagined, is a new breed of artist being touted? And,
if so, by whom? How? And to what aim?
Moderator and Speaker:
Elaine A. King, professor of the History of Art/Theory/Museum
Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. She also curates and is
a
freelance critic; has been invited by the State Department to
nominate
artists for the Venice Biennale, Sao Paulo and the Cairo Biennials; and
has given lectures on art and culture both nationally and
internationally.
Special Guest Adon
Peres,
Director, Espace Topographie de
l'art, Paris, France.
Nuit Banai, regular contributor to Artforum, a Contributing Editor
(Boston) for Art Papers
and
also a writer for Modern Painters
and Frieze.
Steven Zevitas, publisher of New
American Painters and
director/owner of Steven Zevitas Gallery.
Jeremy Adams, Executive Director, CUE Foundation, NYC, NY.
CUE Art
Foundation is a non-profit forum for contemporary art that provides
extraordinary opportunities for under-recognized artists and compelling
encounters for audiences.
TWO BACK-T0-BACK
INFORMATIONAL SESSIONS
9:00
– 9:45
am,
Presentation:
A New
Writing Form as a Reflection of Multi-Cultural Societies, Location: Press.
Introduced by Cyndi Baron, Academic
Director, Digital Media Programs, College of Professional Studies,
Northeastern University and author of Designing a Digital Portfolio,
published by New Riders Press, a division of Pearson Education.
Dr. Antoine Abi Aad, Coordinator, Advertising and
Graphic Design, ALBA,
Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, Beirut, Lebanon.
10:00 – 10:45
am
Artists’
Talk:
Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas,
Location: Press.
Introduced
by Andrea
Frank, artist and teacher of photography and related media
at MIT's
Program for Art, Culture and Technology.
Nomeda and
Gediminas Urbonas have established an
international
reputation for their socially interactive and interdisciplinary
practice exploring the conflicts and contradictions posed by the
economic, social and political conditions in the former Soviet
countries. They have exhibited at the San Paulo, Berlin, Moscow, Lyon
and Gwangju Biennales – and Manifesta and Documenta
exhibitions;
receiving, among others, the prize for the Best International Artist at
the Gwangju Biennale (2006) and the Prize for the best national
pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2007).
9:00
– 10:45 am
The Missed
Opportunity:
Beyond Youth,
Location: Kennedy.
Are we too focused on helping young artists? What about mid-career or
established artists, people who turned to art after a career in another
field or who need time to consider a new direction for their
work?
Moderator
and Speaker:
Janna Longacre, Curator of MassArt in Cuba and Professor at the
Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Dirk Drijbooms, Director,
Apothiki Foundation, Athens/Paros-Cyclades, Greece.
Apothiki
aims at
introducing artists and organizations to the ‘island
atmosphere’ of Paros – a unique and creative
environment
that has inspired artists for more than 5000 years.
Karola Teschler, artist and Director of the European Artists
Association, based in Velbert, near Essen, Germany.
The
organization
accepts international members and has held short-term
symposia/residencies since 2003 in Germany and other countries.
Exhibitions have usually followed the programs, which give
international
exposure to resulting works.
Richard Perram, Director, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, New
South Wales, Australia.
Bathurst
Regional Art
Gallery’s Hill End Artist-in-Residence Program aims to
provide an
opportunity for creative development in all areas of the visual arts in
the unique environment of Hill End.
Csaba and Suzanne Kiss, Directors, At Home Gallery/Synagogue
Association for Arts and Culture, Samorin, Slovakia.
A
unique center for
contemporary arts, incorporating a historical
synagogue and a home-like residence for artists, writers or musicians
with the possibility to exhibit or perform in the synagogue. The
residence was ceremonially opened by the Dalai Lama in 2000.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
LATE MORNING SESSIONS
AT THE BOSTON OMNI
PARKER
HOUSE HOTEL:
11:00
am – 12:45 pm
Fast-Tracking
Residencies:
Symposia and/or Short-term (1 – 2 week) International
Programs,
Location: Alcott.
What can these programs offer that traditional residencies cannot?
What should artists gain and expect from these
programs? Do such programs function better when they have a
medium or thematic focus?
Moderator:
David Lloyd
Brown, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs-Graduate Programs, School of
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Shin Jung Park, Chief Director and curator of the Haslla Art World Park
& Exhibition Center, Kangnung City, South Korea.
The
Haslla Art World Park
& Exhibition Center, which includes the Haslla Museum Hotel and
several projects on Cultural and University Streets in Kangnung City,
presents an annual sculpture conference and residency program.
Jesseca Ferguson, Boston-based artist and former artist-in-resident at
the Debrecen International Colony of Artists, among others.
Dr. Hakki Engin Giderer, program director of the Summer Academy
Residence Program of the newly established Çankırı Karatekin
University, Çankırı, Turkey.
Anne La Prade, artist and director/curator, the Hampden and Central
Galleries, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Pavel Petras, Director, Park Umenia, Slovakia.
11:00
am – 12:45 pm
An
Affordable Catalyst: Flying in the Creator instead of Their Work:
Putting Artists in Residence at Theaters, Museums and other Public
Institutions, Location: Press.
Moderator:
Tiffany York, Artist-in-Residence Manager, the Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum.
Vincent (Vinnie) Murphy, professor at Emory University, director and
founder of Sister City Playwrights. At Theater Emory, he developed a
biennial
Brave New Works series for locally, nationally and internationally
acclaimed writers and, in 2003, created Sister City Playwrights for
which
nine major playwriting labs swap writers.
Jessica White, Freelance Curator, Art Education facilitator and Writer,
currently based in Vienna, Austria.
Kayoko Iemura, Director, Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan.
Tokyo
Wonder Site is an art
center focusing on nurturing emerging artists. It offers a residency
program, place for dialogue, creative education and experimental
project space for new cultural policy within the Tokyo Metropolitan
Government.
Karol Frühauf, Director, Bridge Guard, Art/Science Residence
Center, Štúrovo, Slovakia.
Bridge
Guard supports all
artistic and scientific disciplines, with the main characteristic being
"bridging" - intertwining disciplines, uniting opposites, exploring and
moving boundaries in contexts - during a 3 to 6 month sojourn
in
the Bridge Guard residence.
Rya Conrad–Bradshaw, former Museum as Hub Manager at the New
Museum in New York, where she organized commissions, exhibitions,
public programs and residencies with international partner
institutions. She also has experience working at Creative Time and the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, among other arts organizations.
Angelika Rinnhofer, artist and participant in
TransCultural Exchange’s Here,
There and Everywhere: The Art of Collaboration project.
11:00
am – 12:45 pm
Integrating Art and
Social
Good,
Location: Kennedy.
Cultural Exchange: The Need, Challenges and Joys. A look at the
arts’ role in cultural exchange, understanding, peace and
economic growth; and ways in which artists can benefit from working
with those from other cultures and disciplines.
Moderator
and Speaker:
Doris Sommer, Director, Cultural Agents Initiative, Ira Jewell Williams
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, and of African and
African American Studies, Harvard University.
Marta Oslin, Program Manager at ArtCorps, a nonprofit that trains
organizations to use arts and culture as powerful tools for sustainable
development.
Laura Smith, U.S. artist finishing her third year as an ArtCorps
Artist.
Nitin Swathney, research fellow at the MIT Program in Art,
Culture
and Technology and co-founder of Voices Beyond Walls, a participatory
media initiative to conduct digital video and storytelling workshops
with children and youth in Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank
and Gaza.
Ian Koebner, artist, curator and the Founding Director of Sacred
Slam, a not-for-profit organization, dedicated to challenging
misconceptions through the arts, creating cross-cultural exchanges and
promoting respect for diversity.
Jose Guerreiro, Founder, World Theater, Lisbon, Portugal.
World
Theater works with young people "from neighborhoods of little
prosperity."
Sunday, April 10, 2011
1:00
- 2:00 pm
LUNCH on
your own or Dutch-Treat Lunches
Sunday,
April 10, 2011
AT HARVARD
UNIVERSITY:
2:00
pm
Concert, Location:
Sanders Theater, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA (map)
The Zamir Chorale of Boston presents:
Middle
East Harmonies: A Musical Dialogue Between Arab and Israeli Cultures.
(Please note: The following evening, Monday, April
11 at 7:30 pm at the
Fenway Center, Northeastern University will host a symposium in
conjunction with Middle East Harmonies. Presenters, including renowned
ethnomusicologist Benjamin Brinner, will address the use of music to
increase empathy and mutual understanding among people who have been
separated by borders of various kinds and alienated by conflicting
politics. For tickets and further information visit
http://www.chorus.neu.edu/meh/.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
AT THE
BOSTON OMNI PARKER
HOUSE HOTEL:
2:15
– 4:00 pm
Space:
Environment as
Inspiration, The Residency: Rural Retreat, Utopian Revival,
Urban
Incubator? Location: Alcott.
A
particular environment often is a source of inspiration for new work
– especially as the awareness of our fragile eco-system grows
more apparent. A look at various programs and projects.
Moderator:
Ralph Crispino, Jr., I-Park Residency Program Director.
Marja De Jong, Founder and Director of Saksala ArtRadius,
Haukivouri, Finland.
Saksala
ArtRadius is a
residency where young, international artists can stay for several
months to work, meet, discuss and establish contacts in the art world,
while discovering their own artistic vision.
Yaohau Su, Director of AIR Taipei, Taiwan’s premiere
residency program, which oversees three very different and unique
arts-in-residence
campuses around the city of Taipei – the Taipei Artist
Village,
Grass Mountain Arts Village and Treasure Hill Arts Village.
Elise Bernhardt, President and CEO of the Foundation for Jewish Culture.
Esther Bourdages, Assistant Artistic Director, Quartier
Éphémère, Montreal, Canada.
Quartier
Éphémère is the art association that manages and
hosts international residency programs at The Darling Foundry Visual
Arts Centre.
Marco Dessardo, artist, former artist-in-resident of I-Park, East
Haddam, CT.
2:15
– 4:00 pm
Academic Partners: Towards
a Global
University, Location: Press.
A look at how residencies and other
exchange programs might be ideal
partners for many universities’ recognition that their
students
need a global perspective as part of their education. How can
curricular standards be maintained? Has the time come to
create a
trans-global university?
Moderator
and
Speaker: Murray McKay,
Associate
Director of Enrollment Management for SACI -
Studio Art Centers International Florence.
Margaret Shiu, Director,
Bamboo Curtain Studio, presenting the HweiLan International Artists
Workshop, Taiwan.
HweiLan
International Artits
Workshop is an artist-run, non-profit-making initiative, unique to
Hualien, Taiwan.
Dr. Ilgim Veryeri-Alaca,
Assistant Professor of KOÇ
University (Turkey) and speaker on
Residency/Exhibition and Teaching Possibilities Associated with
Universities in Turkey.
Dr. Maria
Hirvi-Ijäs, contemporary art researcher
associated to the University of Helsinki. Her research areas are
exhibition theory and the rhetoric of the artwork.
Hans Guggenheim, founder
Projectguggenheim, with activities in China,
Nepal, Taiwan, Russia, Poland, Turkey, Macedonia, Armenia, Canada,
Guatemala, Vietnam, Mali and the U.S.
The
goal of
Projectguggenheim is to build art academies and art schools based on
the belief that awareness of today's art as well as in the past is the
right of any artist, and especially of young artists who live behind
geographic and cultural barriers.
2:15
– 4:00 pm
A Call to Arts: The Need
for Cultural
Diplomacy Today, Location: Kennedy.
With residencies, artists and others now taking on
the role that
government support of the arts once did to open doors into the
proverbial hearts and minds of people in other world regions, what can
we learn from these former programs?
Moderator,
Ann Galligan,
Associate Professor & Coop Coordinator, Department of Art
&
Design and Senior Instructor in Global Studies and International
Relations in the College of Professional Studies.
Sarah Tanguy, curator, the ART in Embassies, U.S. Department of State.
Established in 1963, AIE is an international program of exhibitions,
collections and exchanges at over 200 U.S. diplomatic venues.
As
the primary arm of the U.S. government dedicated to international
collaborative projects, ART in Embassies is seeking new partnerships
between U.S. artists and their host countries to expand its mission of
cultural diplomacy.
Joni Maya Cherbo, an independent arts practitioner, contributing editor
of the Journal
of Arts Management,
Law, and Society and an
editor of a new series on the arts in
America sponsored by Rutgers University Press.
Dr. Margaret Wyszomirski, faculty member at Ohio State University of
both the Department of Art Education and the School of Public Policy
and Management. She is currently chairman of the Research Task Force of
the Center for Arts and Culture in Washington, DC.
Sunday,
April 10, 2011
4:00
– 5:30 pm
CLOSING RECEPTION, Location: Ballroom, Omni Parker House Hotel.
Monday, April 11, 2011
AT BOSTON SYMPHONY
HALL:
Location: 301
Massachusetts Avenue.
8:00
- 10:00 pm
Concert: Boston University Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic
Chorus perform Mendelssohn’s Elijah.
Ann Howard Jones, conductor; James Demler, baritone. Penelope Bitzas,
mezzo-soprano; Liz Baldwin, soprano and Martin Bakari, tenor.
Tickets $25 general admission. Student Rush $10, available at the door,
day of performance, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm.
Box Office: www.BostonSymphonyHall.org or 617.266.1200.
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