Visit Facebook Page for New Tomashi Jackson Project
With public policy analyst Nia Evans, Public Interventions Prospectus artist Tomashi Jackson has a new undertaking, the FRAMES DEBATE PROJECT. For FRAMES, Tomashi and Nia plan to use a multimedia policy debate platform to explore intersections of inadequately provided mental health care, addiction and drug policy in major cities in Massachusetts. Tomashi will produce a mixed-media […]
“SURGE” Art/Energy-Use Project at Babson College through May 20, 2014
SURGE: Creative Imaginings of Energy Use by Prospectus artist Deb Todd Wheeler in collaboration with sound artist Maurice Methot was on view in the Hollister Gallery, Babson College, 231 Forest Avenue, Wellesley, MA, through May 20, 2014. SURGE is an experimental two-hour audioscape and installation that translates Babson College’s campus energy usage from June 2011 – June […]
Mel Chin Retrospective in New Orleans through May 25, 2014
The New Orleans Museum of Art presented a retrospective exhibition of Prospectus artist Mel Chin’s (Operation Paydirt in New England + Neurotoxic Element Music Video) work through May 25, 2014. According to the Museum, Mel Chin: Rematch “[is] the most expansive presentation of the artist’s work to-date, the outgrowth of extensive research and archiving of […]
NYC Group Show “Black Eye” Featured Campos-Pons Work
Work by Prospectus artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (FeFa) was included in the “Black Eye” exhibition curated by Nicola Vassell, on view through May 24, 2014 at 57 Walker Street, New York, NY. The exhibition featured paintings, photographs and collage by 26 emerging and established black artists, including Wangechi Mutu, Jacolby Satterwhite, Steve McQueen, Kerry James Marshall […]
Wheeler Residency in Iceland
Deb Todd Wheeler (Chromatic Energy Mirror, SURGE) was one of several artists selected for the Wildfjords [Iceland] Artist Residency (WFAR) in July 2014. WFAR “is a 7-day and night camping and backpacking residency along a specially selected section of the 200km Wildfjords Trail. This newly-mapped trail traces the old horse and walking routes once used by […]
Six-Week Residency for McCauley at Getty Research Institute
Prospectus artist Robbie McCauley (More SUGAR) was awarded a six-week residency in May and June 2014 by the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, during which time she used the Institute’s archives to conduct research for her upcoming book. Since 1985 ,the Getty Research Institute has welcomed scholars, artists and other cultural figures from around the […]
McLaurin Residency at BCA Culminated with May 3 Event
“How many artists does it take to change (a light bulb)?” Saturday, May 3, 2014, 1-3 pm Mills Gallery at the BCA | 551 Tremont Street, Boston Cathy McLaurin culminated her 15-week residency at the Boston Center for the Arts with a tour* (of sorts) of the BCA, including its South End neighborhood, and a […]
Jackson Co-Organizer + Panelist for April 2014 Film Event
Monday, April 28, 2014, 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. The Anonymous People Film Screening and Discussion Harvard Divinity School Sperry Room, Andover Hall 45 Francis Avenue Cambridge, MA Join Artists in Context for the film screening and related discussion with: Greg D. Williams, Director, The Anonymous People Tomashi Jackson, Prospectus Artist Michael Curry, President, NAACP Boston […]
Work by Two Prospectus Artists in Harvard History Design Studio Event 2014
John Hulsey and Tomashi Jackson (participants in Prospectus artist Alfredo Jaar’s Public Interventions project) are two of the 10 artists/creative groups whose work was shown and discussed at Harvard’s History Design Studio’s first exhibition of multimedia history projects on Friday, April 18, 2014. The show featured documentary film, digital mapping, original music and interactive pedagogical tools by […]
Awards to Ellen Driscoll for Works on View at AAAS
Prospectus artist Ellen Driscoll’s Wraith, a major new sculpture made of #2 plastic, and her 2013 drawings done in Rome, have been honored with awards from the Academy of Arts and Letters; additionally, the drawings have been selected for one of the Academy’s Purchase awards. These works were part of the Academy’s “Invitational Exhibition of Visual […]
