Dan Borelli: Chasing Color Exhibition
February 21-April 1, 2019
Opening: Thursday, Feb 21 from 4 to 6:30pm; Artist talk at 5pm

CVPA Campus Gallery, College of Visual and Performing Arts
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth/285 Old Westport Rd., Dartmouth MA 02747
This exhibition documents artist Dan Borelli’s 8-year-long exploration of the Nyanza Superfund site in Ashland, Massachusetts. Named for a textile dye plant that operated for sixty years, Nyanza is one of the first ten sites addressed by the United States Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act to clean sites contaminated by hazardous waste. Through a sustained socially-engaged art process, Borelli has produced videos, exhibitions, events, temporary public art forms, and a permanent public park. Together these works confront an ongoing and difficult community relationship to

Ashland’s toxic land and cancer cluster. The project was supported by grants from Art Place America and the National Endowment for the Arts Our Town Creative Placemaking program. Borelli is a native of Ashland and current Framingham Massachusetts resident. Dan holds a Master in Design Studies from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design with a concentration in Art, Design, and the Public Domain. He also holds a BFA in Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design and was selected to attend their Rome Program for a full academic year. Since 2000, he has worked at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design as the Director of Exhibitions and has managed well over a hundred projects at various scales featuring global leaders in the fields of architecture, art, landscape, and urban planning and design. For more information about Borelli and his work, see http://groundedvisionaries.org/gsd_news/dan-borelli/.

Dan Borelli, The Ashland-Nyanza Project: Illuminating Futures, 2016.