January / February 2017
Contents
Volume 38, Issue 1
FEATURES
Building Common Ground
By Claire Barliant
Public Art Starts the Conversation
Hothouses of Creativity
By Laura Holland
Five Artist Residencies in New England
Can the Arts Save This Town?
By Christopher Capozzola & Sarah Baker
The Fitchburg Art Museum Has a Plan
COLUMNS
Letters
FlashPoints
Gallery FlashPoints
Studio Visit
Jon Sarkin
Emily Avery-Miller
Studio Visit
Charles Ginnever
By B. Amore
Education
STEM to STEAM: The New Push for Arts in Education
By Christopher Volpe
Profile
Jung Hur
By Katy Kelleher
Culture
Sensory Delights: Libations and Their Labels
By Katy Kelleher
Colors
The Primary and Powerful Blue
By Dian Parker
Film
Frame to Fame: Following Four Filmmakers on Their Journeys, Part 4
By Ethan Gilsdorf
Theater
The Scottsboro Boys
By Jared Bowen
Book Review
The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
By Susan Rand Brown
Book Review
Nature Morte
By Dominic Green
REVIEWS & PREVIEWS
SPOTLIGHT
Nick Cave: Until at MASS MoCA by Charles Bonenti
CONNECTICUT
David Dunlop Paints the Northwest Corner at The White Gallery by Judy Birke
Kurt Steger: Scribing the Void at Real Art Ways by Susan Rand Brown
MAINE
Phantom Punch: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia in Lewiston at Bates College Museum of Art
by Carl Little
Juliet Karelsen: Groundless at Speedwell Projects
by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning at Harvard Art Museums
by Christopher Snow Hopkins
Being the Measure: David Zink Yi with Angie Keefer at Williams College Museum of Art
by Carand Burnet
Love/Lust at Boston Sculptors Gallery
by Cerys Wilson
Allison Bianco: Atlantic Time at Beard & Weil Galleries
by Elizabeth Lee
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Sidney Hurwitz, the Boston Elevated Railway and Other Vanished Landmarks at Piscataqua Fine Art Gallery & Studio
by David Raymond
Unwritten Thoughts at Art 3 Gallery
by David Raymond
RHODE ISLAND
Deb Sokolow: The Presidents (Some of Them) at Providence College Galleries
by Alexander Castro
Robert Paasch: Reality Duality at Periphery
by Alexander Castro
VERMONT
With My Voice, I Am Calling You Home—New Work by Wylie Sofia Garcia at Burlington City Arts
by Meg Brazill
The Past Present—Work by Molly Bosley and Athena Petra Tasiopoulos at Burlington City Arts
by Meg Brazill