News and Events
To Extremes: A juried exhibition of imaginative and striking proposals for public art works that explore climate change and extreme events.
April 20-29, 2012, reception on Monday, April 23, 7-9 p.m.
Maseeh Hall at MIT, 305 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
London-based artist Sam Jury won the competition. Nine exhibiting artists and designers explore issues related to extreme events and climate change in this design competition developed by curator Eli Kintisch, a current fellow of the Knight Science Journalism program at MIT. The Urban Arts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design is a cultural partner. For additional information, please visit toextremes.org.
Kulturpark in Berlin, Germany
June 2012
Berlin's Treptower Park forest houses an abandoned amusement park along the Spreeriver in the east of the city. An international collaborative team comprised of Berlin and U.S. creatives initiated Kulturpark. The project is comprised of public art installations and a joint effort to develop a conceptual plan / Rahmenplan proposing a future for the park. The Urban Arts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design is a cultural partner. Read recent coverage on designboom. Please help us build new futures from landscapes of collapse. Give a little bit to our Kickstarter, and the magic of the park will return to you. For additional information please send an email to christina.lanzl@massart.edu.
Public Art installations at ConstellationCenter, Cambridge, MA
Ongoing, Athenaeum Street and Kendall Street in Kendall Square
Installed in October 2011 for approximately six months, a second exhibition is scheduled in the spring, also curated by Urban Arts. This site will be the future home of ConstellationCenter, a performing arts center combining the highest standards of production and performance excellence, with multiple venues for film, music, opera, dance, and drama. On view are six works by New England artists:
· Carolina Aragón: Ether
· Ross Miller: Foreshadowing Light
· Gary Orlinsky: Proscenium
· SIPLA + NEWSAM Studio: Score
· John Tagiuri: Reclining Nudes 1-6
· Jeanne Williamson: Fence/Curtain 1.0
Snow on the Brain: Living with Multiple Sclerosis
A collection of art and poetry by Marguerite McDonald and Marylou DiPietro
March 19–May 25, Open Door Gallery, 89 South Street, Suite 101, Boston, MA
Reception, conversation with the artists, and poetry reading on April 12, 4–7 p.m.
Gallery hours Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m., or by appointment. Call (617) 350-7713.
Project background and contributions at Kickstarter. All contributions are tax deductable.
Sponsored in-part by Very Special Arts, a division of the State Organization on Arts and Disability and the Urban Arts Institute of Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Director Ricardo Barreto continues to work with Stella McGregor, Director of the URBANO Project, to program artist-led youth programming including the teen curatorial initiative. Conceived in the late 1990s as a collaboration of MassArt and UrbanArts and later housed at the Cloud Foundation, the teen curatorial program is unique in the country. UrbanArts is partnering with the URBANO Project, the vehicle formed by Stella McGregor to help ensure the survival of these vital youth resources. In October 2010, the URBANO Project moved into its new home in Jamaica Plain at the Neighborhood Development Corporation at 29 Germania Street, site of the old Haffenreffer Brewery. The URBANO Project has been sustained with a number of significant grants including a recent grant from the Boston Foundation for a major strategic assessment, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and a number of other initiatives and individual donors.
Placemaking Network Seminar Series
Founding Co-chair: Christina Lanzl
The Placemaking Network at the Boston Society of Architects/AIA is dedicated to interdisciplinary dialogue and education on an integrated public realm. View currently scheduled seminars.