News from Zea Mays Printmaking
Hanko Inks is about to manufacture a safe etching ink base that Zea Mays Printmaking researched and developed. It will be called Zea Mays Printmaking Transparent Etching Base, and it came out of Zea Mays’ research program in which interns test and document investigations into safer products and processes. This is the first time a safer print […]
New Public Art Project Co-Created by Joseph Krupczynski in Holyoke
A new public art project by Caryn Brause and Prospectus artist Joseph Krupczynski (Springfield Seed Library: Cultivating Ideas for a Healthier City) has been unveiled at the Mosher Street Underpass in Holyoke, MA. “Arrivals will transform a key gateway between the Flats neighborhood and downtown Holyoke into a safe, inviting and creative attraction. The project consists of a 30-foot-long glowing […]
Jacob Is Fulbright-Scotland Visiting Professor in Glasgow
Prospectus artist Wendy Jacob (Personal Kingdom) is being supported by Fulbright and Artlink for a Fulbright-Scotland Visiting Professorship at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) during the 2015-2016 academic year. During this period, she is studying utopian communities of the past and present as part of GSA’s “Health and Wellbeing” research cluster.
Jacob’s Work in deCordova Exhibition Praised in Boston Globe
“Walking Sculpture 1967–2015” at the deCordova Museum in Lincoln through September 13, features Wendy Jacob’s Explorers Club, 2008–11, a photo series based on her extended collaboration with Stefano Macauli, a 12-year-old with autism. The exhibition “considers the history and practice of walking as a means for questioning social, political, economic, and artistic hierarchies.” In his review of the exhibition […]
Andrews on Advisory Board of Hospital Project
Artist Nancy Andrews has been appointed to the advisory board of Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s project “After The ICU: A Collaborative to Improve Critical Illness Survivorship,” which is directly related to one of her Artists’ Prospectus for the Nation projects, Delirious. Funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, “After The ICU” “addresses one of the pressing […]
Two Out-of-Town Exhibitions for Wendy Jacob
Work by Prospectus artist Wendy Jacob (Personal Kingdom) currently can be seen in an exhibition in Toronto, and was featured in an exhibition that closed July 31. On view through October 10 at University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, “The Flesh of the World” exhibition is “inspired by the 2015 XVII Pan American and Parapan American Games […]
Mel Chin Awarded 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship
“In its ninety-first competition for the United States and Canada, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 173 Fellowships (including two joint Fellowships) to a diverse group of 175 scholars, artists, and scientists. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of over 3,100 […]
Jeremijenko Art Works in Exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum
All of This Belongs to You, an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, that The Independent headlines as “a hotbed of popular subversion,” features three works by Prospectus artist Natalie Jeremijenko (Environmental Health Clinic + Cross(x)Species Adventure Club). According to the museum: “At a time when Britain will be engaged in the democratic process of an […]
“The Music of Neil Leonard” April 10 in Mexico
On Friday, April 10, the Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras in Michoacan, Mexico, will present “The Music of Neil Leonard,” a concert with video in 5.1 sound diffusion. Composer/saxophonist Leonard co-created the Prospectus project, FeFa, with Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons.
Survey of Chin’s Work on View in Houston through April 19
Rematch, a retrospective of Prospectus artist Mel Chin’s work (Operation Paydirt in New England + Neurotoxic Element Music Video, is on view at four venues in Houston through April 19, 2015. Related coverage is contained in Artforum and Texas Observer.
