Roundtable on Community Engagement March 27, 2019, noon-1:30pm
CVPA Star Store campus, 715 Purchase Street New Bedford, MA 02740

Join artists Matthew Mazzotta, whose design work is focused on art, activism, and urbanism, and Dan Borelli, whose large-scale public art focuses on ecology and communities, to discuss various approaches and ethics for community-engaged cultural production. Matthew Mazzotta works at the intersection of art, activism, and urbanism, focusing on the power of the built environment to shape our relationships and experiences. His community-specific public projects integrate new forms of civic participation and reveal how spaces have the potential to become distinct sites for intimate, radical, and meaningful exchanges.
His Storefront Theater was recently awarded “Architecture Project of the Year” by Dezeen Awards in London. Dan Borelli is an artist, curator, and producer whose practice intersects identity, ecology, and publics. His recent projects include We The Publics with Emmanuel Pratt, recently featured as part of HubWeek, Boston, and the Ashland Nyanza Project, currently featured in the CVPA Campus Gallery exhibition Chasing Color. This event is part of the 2018-2020 initiative Local Ecologies, a multimodal series of programs organized between UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth, and Umass Lowell, and is also associated with the exhibition Chasing Color, on view at CVPA Campus gallery from February 21-April 2, 2019

Matthew Mazzotta, THE STOREFRONT THEATER Lyons, Nebraska, 2016