January/February 2018
Contents
Volume 39, Issue 1
Features
Craft, Chisel, Collect
By Susan HodaraThree Artists and Their Residencies
Creative Activism
By Katy Kelleher
Four New England Artists Raising the Social Consciousness
Northern Avant-Garde
By Molly Zapp
Beneath its seasonal layer of frost, the Montreal art scene glows
Columns
Publisher Letter
FlashPoints
Gallery FlashPoints
Studio Visit
Brian D. Collier
By Amy Lilly
Studio Visit
Ashley Bryan
By Carl Little
Book Review
Modern Art in Detail:
75 Masterpieces
By Cerys Wilson
Profile
Anoka Faruqee
By Cat Balco
Theater
Unveiled
By Jared Bowen
Business Survivor’s Kit:
How to Build a Sustainable Career as an Artist
By Charles Bonenti
Curator’s Eye
A Closer Look at Charles Sheeler’s Amoskeag Canal
By Samantha Cataldo as told to Sarah Baker
Opinion
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People:
Lenny Bruce and Brandeis
By Christopher Capozzola
Education
Beauty in the Ecosystem:
RISD’s Nature Lab Turns 80
By Cerys Wilson
Museums
A Tango for Six Partners:
The New Media Arts Consortium
By Laura Holland
Film
The B-Side:
Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
By Ethan Gilsdorf
Reviews & Previews
SPOTLIGHT
Of Land and Local by Cynthia Close
CONNECTICUT
Richard Lytle: A Retrospective at Fairfield University Art Museum, Walsh Gallery by Susan Rand Brown
Alignable Angles (degrees of points of view) at The Schelfhaudt Gallery, University of Bridgeport, Arnold Bernhard Center by Jacquelyn Gleisner
MAINE
Rona Pondick and Robert Feintuch: Heads, Hands, Feet; Sleeping, Holding, Dreaming, Dying at Bates College Museum of Art by Carl Little
Tom Flanagan at Frank Brockman Gallery by Anna Eleanor Jordan
MASSACHUSETTS
Morgan Bulkeley: Nature Culture Clash at Berkshire Museum by Charles Bonenti
New England Watercolor Society, 2018 Signature Members Show at The Guild of Boston Artists by B. Amore
Henry James and American Painting at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum by Julianna Thibodeaux
Veronica A. Pérez: untitled at Kingston Gallery by Katy Kelleher
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Doug Trump: Reunion at CYNTHIA-REEVES by Benjamin Cassidy
Things I Have No Words For at Kelley Stelling Contemporary by Christopher Volpe
RHODE ISLAND
Jessica Burko: Quiet/Loud at ArtProv Gallery by Liz Lee
Crossing Borders at The Carriage House Gallery, Brown University by Alexander Castro
VERMONT
Show 23 at The Front by Amy Lilly
10 Years: The Cameron Print Project at Middlebury College Museum of Art by Rachel Jones
In this Issue
Calendar
Focus On: Summer Residencies and Workshops
Guide to Schools and Workshops
Art Guide
Exhibition Listings
Classifieds
Art Seen
On the cover: Jamie Roux, Lenny Bruce, 2011, oil pastel on paper, 14 x 17″. Courtesy of the artist.