January/February 2018

Price: $5.95

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.