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INSIGHTS LECTURES

 

 

All lectures are held in the Blackstone Valley Visitor Center Auditorium
175 Main Street, Pawtucket


 

INSIGHTS LECTURE: HOLLY EWALD, Research with the Community/Reflection in the Studio

February 23, 2012 at 7 pm in the Blackstone Valley Visitor Center Auditorium

hollyewald Holly Ewald has developed an approach to making art that increasingly merges her studio practice with facilitating community engagement. Since receiving her MFA in Painting from Brooklyn College in 1986 and moving to Rhode Island 14 years ago she has initiated several locally based projects in collaboration with other artists, scholars, technicians, and the public. They have included installations, street processions, and visual dialogue correspondence. She has received numerous grants and awards including The Clearwater Award from the Waterfront Center and an Education Award from the Rhode Island Historical and Preservation and Heritage Commission.

She will talk about how her work as an artist has expanded from teaching and creating images/objects in the studio to include working in and about a chosen physical site across disciplines, and often in collaboration with other artists, environmental activists, historians and creative individuals. She will focus on the development of UPP, her visions for its future and her related studio work.

Images are of Ewald's projects with Voices and Visions of Village Life and The Urban Pond Procession (UPP) two place-based arts and humanities organizations she helped found. UPP will stage its 5th annual procession this year involving students from at least 4 different schools, UPP artists and artists from the Steel Yard, Big Nazo Puppets, local bands and the public. 

To see more of Ewald's community projects, click here

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