March/April 2019

Price: $5.95

Contents
Volume 40, Issue 2

FEATURES

10 Emerging New England Artists
By Michelle Aldredge
A Jury of Six Selects an Extraordinary 10

Looking Back
By Carl Little, B. Amore and Cynthia Close
Three Critics Reflect on Why They Write

COLUMNS

Publisher’s Letter

FlashPoints

Gallery FlashPoints

Studio Visit
Jaclyn Conley
By Jacquelyn Gleisner

Studio Visit
Christopher Myott
By Corwin Levi

Profile
Laurie Simmons
By Jacoba Urist

Curator’s Eye
A Closer Look at William Matthew
Prior’s Mrs. Nancy Lawson and
William Lawson Portraits
By Katie Wood Kirchhoff in
conversation with Sarah Baker

Theater
Front Porch’s Theater for Actors of Color
By Jared Bowen

Culture
Valley Arts District: Rebranding
the Artistic Heart of Providence
By Elizabeth Maynard

Schools
The Art of the Game
By Katy Kelleher

Book Arts
Illumination and Sculptural
Invention in Maine
By Carl Little

REVIEWS & PREVIEWS

SPOTLIGHT

Liz Magor: BLOWOUT at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
by Julianna Thibodeaux

CONNECTICUT

Rick Shaefer: Three Trees, Life-Size Drawings at Silvermine Arts Center
by Susan Rand Brown

Blue Collar Ornament at Joseloff Gallery
by Jacquelyn Gleisner

MAINE

Big Rock Candy Mountain: Zach Horn at University of Maine Museum of Art
by Carl Little

Changing New York: Photographs by Berenice Abbott at Farnsworth Art Museum
by Carl Little

MASSACHUSETTS

Xylor Jane: Counterclockwise at The University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass Amherst
by John W. Arvanitis

Dualities: Drawings and Sculptures by David Raymond at McCoy Gallery, Rogers Center for the Arts
by Debbie Kane

The Bay State: A Multicultural Landscape—Photographs of New Americans at Brookline Arts Center, Boston City Hall Mayor’s Neighborhood Gallery
and Haverhill Public Library
by Stace Brandt

Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
by Cerys Wilson

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Neon Wilderness at Kelley Stelling Contemporary
by Corwin Levi

Chromatic: Linda Behar at 3S Artspace
by Elizabeth Maynard

RHODE ISLAND

Brooke Hammerle: Chasing the Ephemeral (Press to Play) at The Hunter Gallery, St. George’s School
by Alexander Castro

Alchemical Reactions: Susan Freda and Allison Paschke at Chazan Gallery at Wheeler
by Loren King

VERMONT

Rebecca Weisman: Skin Ego at Burlington City Arts
by Cynthia Close

Positive, Negative and Intertwining Spaces at stART Space
by B. Amore

IN THIS ISSUE

Calendar

Destination: Rhode Island

Guide to Schools and Workshops

Art Guide

Exhibition Listings

Classifieds

Art Seen