Contents
Volume 42, Issue 3
FEATURES
34 Recalculating Route
By Dan Yaeger
The Region’s Museums Set Their GPS Toward Technology,
Partnerships, and Action
38 Museum Reset
By Kristin Nord
Three Connecticut Gems Pivot, Partner, and Prevail
42 Musings
Compiled by Rita A. Fucillo and Nicola Alexander
10 Museum Voices Speak to the Moment
COLUMNS
7 Publisher’s Letter
8 FlashPoints
10 Gallery FlashPoints
12 Studio Visit
Matt Neckers
By Cynthia Close
14 Studio Visit
Tim Prentice
By Kristin Nord
16 Profile
Oliver Barker
By Rita A. Fucillo
18 Change
The Helen Day Art Center,
Rebranded
By Cynthia Close
20 Acquisitions
Behind the Scenes, New England’s Museums Burnish Their Collections
By Susan Rand Brown
24 Museums
Paying Artists, Equitably
By Jack Curtis
26 Color
The Perplexing Color of Pink
By Dian Parker
28 Curators
Ms. Independent
By Jennifer Mancuso
30 Index
The Art New England
Museum Index
By Nicola Alexander and
April Federico
REVIEWS & PREVIEWS
SPOTLIGHT
62 Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks at Peabody Essex Museum by Julianna Thibodeaux
69 The Body in Art: From the Spiritual to the Sensual at Currier Museum of Art
by Christopher Volpe
CONNECTICUT
64 W.E.B. Du Bois, Georgia, and His Data Portraits at Artspace New Haven by Jennifer Mancuso
64 Kathleen Jacobs: SOARS at Heather Gaudio Fine Arts by Suzanne Julig
MAINE
65 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Artists at Maine Jewish Museum by Carl Little
65 Alice Jones: The Ground Beneath You Holds You at Elizabeth Moss Galleries by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
66 Amazons Among Us: Sculpture by Donna Dodson at Boston Sculptors Gallery by B. Amore
66 Selections from the Collection and Jazz Scene in Boston: Telling the Local Story at
Museum of African American History by Jennifer Mancuso
NEW HAMPSHIRE
67 Calling on Special Places: Contemporary Handmade Prints at The New Leaf Gallery
by Dian Parker
67 Found Lineage: Celebrating African American Roots and Branches at The Black Heritage Trail
by Jennifer Mancuso
NEW YORK
68 Still/Live at Katonah Museum of Art by Rachael Palacios
RHODE ISLAND
68 Defying the Shadows at RISD Museum by Jennifer Mancuso
VERMONT
63 Cranbrook Connections at Studio Place Arts by B. Amore
63 Emergence: From the Studio into the Streets with LMNOPI, A Retrospective
at Stone Valley Arts at Fox Hill by B. Amore
IN THIS ISSUE
32 Calendar
50 Destination: New England
61 Guide to Schools and Workshops
70 Exhibition Listings
79 Classifieds
80 Art Seen: In Tribute
Art New England
Publisher
Tim Montgomery
Associate Publisher
Rita A. Fucillo
Interim Editor
Rita A. Fucillo
Writers This Issue
Nicola Alexander, B. Amore, Susan Rand Brown,
Cynthia Close, Jack Curtis, Rita A. Fucillo,
Laura Holland, Suzanne Julig, Carl Little,
Jennifer Mancuso, Kristin Nord, Rachael Palacios,
Dian Parker, Julianna Thibodeaux,
Christopher Volpe, Dan Yaeger
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Nicola Alexander
Editorial Intern
April Federico
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Lori Pedrick
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Judith Fogge
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