Congratulations to MassArt faculty members Jane D. Marsching (Studio Foundation) and Stephen Tourlentes (’88 MFA Media & Performing Arts and Photography adjunct faculty) on being two of seven Boston artists recently selected for a 2007 Artadia Award in the amount of $1500. Nationally prominent curators Pieranna Cavalchini (Curator of Contemporary Art, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), Michael Darling (Contemporary Curator, Seattle Art Museum), and Rene de Guzman (Visual Arts Curator, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco) juried the competition and named the ten awardees – 3 Artadia Awards of $15,000 and 7 Artadia Awards of $1,500. MassArt faculty member Denise Marika (Studio for Interrelated Media) and alumnus Douglas Weathersby (’02 MFA Painting) were among the 15 finalists.
Applications for the Artadia Awards were open to visual artists in all media and at any stage of their career working and living in the metro Boston area, and award winners were selected from nearly 700 applicants. Artadia is an organization devoted to individual artist support at the local level, and has partnered with several local foundations to help make this award possible here.
Boston is the fourth city in Artadia’s national awards program. The organization already administers successful programs and awards in Houston, San Francisco and Chicago. Laura Donaldson, Director of the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts will curate an exhibition of the Awardees’ work during the summer of 2008 and a fully-illustrated catalogue will be published to commemorate the inaugural Artadia Awards in Boston.
For more information about the award process and great list of Boston artists who are this year's awardees visit: http://www.artadia.org/news.html
Applications for the Artadia Awards were open to visual artists in all media and at any stage of their career working and living in the metro Boston area, and award winners were selected from nearly 700 applicants. Artadia is an organization devoted to individual artist support at the local level, and has partnered with several local foundations to help make this award possible here.
Boston is the fourth city in Artadia’s national awards program. The organization already administers successful programs and awards in Houston, San Francisco and Chicago. Laura Donaldson, Director of the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts will curate an exhibition of the Awardees’ work during the summer of 2008 and a fully-illustrated catalogue will be published to commemorate the inaugural Artadia Awards in Boston.
For more information about the award process and great list of Boston artists who are this year's awardees visit: http://www.artadia.org/news.html
Jane Marsching is a photographer, sculptor, and video artist. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City, she collaborates with scientists from all over the world for her current project Arctic Listening Post. Pulling content from various sources including the internet, science fiction illustrations, and historical source material, she weaves the complexities of the “real” visions and representations of the North Pole and Arctic with artistic sense of imagination and “narrative wonder”.
Stephen Tourlentes teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art and the Isaldn Center for the Arts in Skopelos, Greece. His current series of black and white photographs explore the sites and geography of the prison industry in the United States. Tourlentes’ eerie nightscapes capture the light pollution and menacing aura of the penitentiaries.
