Chasing Color Exhibition and Programs

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.

Making Her Mark – Art History Capstone Exhibition

Making Her Mark is an exhibition highlighting late nineteenth-century paintings, illustrations, books, and sculptures by Rhode Island women artists and their contributions to the modernity narrative. The exhibition focuses on a group of women artists who were instrumental in the establishment of one of the first American art clubs, The Providence Art Club, that accepted women as equal members, as active board members and as artistic colleagues.  Over the course of the later half of nineteenth century women artists, such as Rosa Peckham, Emily McGary Selinger, Helen Watson Phelps, Emma Swan, Charlotte Gilman, Mary C. Wheeler, and Sophia Pitman, along with other female artists, worked, traveled, and exhibited alongside their male contemporaries.  Many of these women pursued opportunities to show their artworks in salons and galleries in the United States and abroad, including Paris and London. These remarkable women, artists, suffragettes, art instructors, authors, and community leaders help form and contribute to the regional and national artistic and cultural conversation. The exhibition celebrates these women artists and recognizes their struggles as well as their accomplishments to the American history.

The exhibition is part of the capstone experience where students work in teams and apply their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience. This is the 6th year that Dr. Anna Dempsey and Allison J. Cywin, art history professors, have directed a group of upperclassmen to execute a professional museum quality exhibition and publication. This student-run exhibition explores the definition of modernity and focuses on feminine artistic communities in Providence.  This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Providence Art Club.

The exhibition runs from April 12 thru April 29, 2017 at the Main Campus Art Gallery located in the College of Visual & Performing Arts, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Address is 285 Old Westport Road, adjacent to parking lot 7, Dartmouth, Massachusetts. We invite the public to attend the opening reception and gallery talk on Wednesday, April 12 from 4pm -6pm. The public exhibition hours are Monday – Saturday 10 a.m. -4 p.m. For more information, please contact, Dr. Anna Dempsey, adempsey@umassd.edu and Allison J. Cywin, acywin@umassd.edu. You can also call the gallery at 508-999-8550.

Women, Art and Fibers: Contemporary Responses to Abolition and the Journey North Exhibition

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Women, Art and Fibers: Contemporary Responses to Abolition and the Journey North
Location: CVPA Campus Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA, 02747
Exhibition dates: March 8, 2017 – April 4, 2017
Opening Reception: March 8, 4-6 pm, Comments by the Artists: 5 pm
Guest-Curated by Laurie Carlson Steger and Dr. Memory Holloway
Exhibiting Artists: Cathryn Amidei, Suzi Ballenger, Laurie Carlson Steger, Sonja Dahl, Barbara Eychaner, Brooks Harris Stevens, Karen Hampton, Margaret Leininger, Faith Ringgold, Linda Rhynard, Marcia Weiss, plus members of the Sisters in Stitches Joined by the Cloth Quilt group, Naomi Henry, Lesyslie Rackard, Christie Rawlins-Jackson, Kimberly Radcliffe, and Susi Ryan

Women, Art and Fibers: Contemporary Responses to Abolition and The Journey North, focuses on the influences of the slave trade, the whaling industry and the textile industry which linked New Bedford MA and Savannah, GA.
The exhibition, guest-curated by Laurie Carlson Steger and Dr. Memory Holloway, with work by fifteen fiber artists from across the nation, includes historic garments from the Rotch-Jones Duff House and Garden Museum as well as a story quilt from the New Bedford Historical Society. The opening reception with the comments by the artists is held on Wednesday, March 8, from 4 to 6 pm. Visitors are advised to use Parking Lot 7. An exhibition catalog written by Dr. Memory Holloway, will be available.

The selected works respond to local Quaker and abolitionist histories and stories of the enslaved who escaped via the Underground Railroad, often passing through New Bedford. Traditional and contemporary textile techniques and materials create artworks of compelling solidarity and stature that unite a diverse community.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with International Women’s Month, and New Bedford’s Fiber Art Month.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Dartmouth Cultural Council, which is a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Additionally, we would like to thank the following for their generous assistance in making this exhibition possible: ACA Galleries in New York City, LCH Designs, New Bedford Historical Society, Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden, Sisters in Stitches Joined by the Cloth with special thanks to Anderson Airmotive Products Company Inc., Fall River, MA.

Stateless Exhibition Opens

Exhibition “Stateless” opens and runs through January 29, 2017. The exhibition brings together the work of four artists who reflect on the recent refugee crisis and issues of human displacement and migration. Artists Respond to the Refugee Crisis: Gohar Dashti, Mehdi Ghadyanloo, Pantea Karimi and Jodi Stevens. Curator by Pamela Karimi.
stateless Photograph by Gohar Dashti, from the stateless series (2014-15). Courtesy of Robert Klein Gallery.

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Art History Capstone Exhibition

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Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880 – 1940)April 12 – April 30, 2016University of Massachusetts Dartmouth – Main Campus Art Gallery

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s Art History Department and its upperclassmen address this premise in its upcoming exhibition, entitled, Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880 – 1940) which runs from April 12 – April 30, 2016. The exhibition is a collaborative project whereby students work in teams and apply their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience. This is the 5th year that Dr. Anna Dempsey and Allison J. Cywin, art history professors, have directed a group of upperclassmen to execute a professional museum quality exhibition and publication. This student-run exhibition explores the definition of modernity and focuses on feminine artistic communities that extend from Providence to Provincetown. The women artists represented in the exhibition are Blanche Lazzell, Agnes Weinrich, Lucy L’Engle, Ethel Mars, Maud Squire, Grace Albee, Eliza D. Gardiner, Frances Gifford, Sarah Eddy, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Mabel Woodward, Alice Barbara Stephens, Blanche Ames Ames and Allen Sisters, among others. This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the arts community, including, Julie Heller Gallery of Provincetown, Bert Gallery of Providence, Portsmouth Free Public Library, Smith College’s Sophia Smith Archive, University of Massachusetts Special Collection and Archive, Amherst Providence Art Club, Providence Athenaeum, New Bedford Whaling Museum and private collectors.

The exhibition, free and open to the public, is held at the College of Visual & Performing Arts, Campus Art Gallery, 285 Old Westport Road (adjacent to parking lot 9) in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The opening reception is Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm. Gallery hours are Monday – Saturday 10 p.m. – 4 p.m. For more information, please contact Anna Dempsey at adempsey@umassd.edu or Allison J. Cywin acywin@umassd.edu. You can also call the gallery at 508-999-8550

Women Artists: An Untold Story

DSC_0064 The University of Massachusetts Art History Department presents an exhibition entitled, Women Artists: An Untold Story (1890 – 1940). This exhibit is part of the Senior Art History Capstone class at UMass Dartmouth and will feature paintings, illustrations, book cover designs and photographs created by professional late nineteenth and early twentieth -century women artists from Philadelphia to Maine. The exhibition will open April 15 and close on May 2, 2015 The exhibition is held at the CVPA Campus Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747. (Parking Lot 9 directly behind the CVPA building.). All are invited to attend the open reception and gallery talk on Thursday, Apr 16, 4 – 6 PM. For more information, please visit the University Galleries Facebook page, www.facebook.com/UmassDartmouthGalleries.

DSC_0093The exhibition explores the careers and lives of New Modern Woman Artist of the early twentieth-century and include works by Jessie Willcox Smith, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Eliza Draper Gardiner, Anna Richards Brewster, Blanche Ames, Theodosia Chase, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Emma Swan, Angela O’Leary, Mabel May Woodward, Grace Albee, Helen Watson Phelps, Alice Barbara Stephens, Ellen Dale Hale, and Lena Newscastle. These women were accomplished artists and leaders within the American art world. They embraced the modernist principles by the established of art organization throughout North East, attended and taught at prestigious education institutions, study at European and American salons with renown Modernists artists such as William Morris Hunt, John LaFarge and Arthur Dow and led profitable successful business careers.

The exhibition is a project of the Art History Senior Seminar class, composed of fourteen art history upperclassmen. Through this course students apply their academic and professional knowledge to a real world endeavor. Students expand their skill sets within the fields of art history, art, design and museum studies, through exhibition research, writing, interpretation, exhibition and graphic design, collection care, and visitor relations. Students learn to work collaboratively within a team setting. Students wrote and edited the catalog, developed the exhibition design, installed the exhibition and developed public programming.

We would like to extend our gratitude to those individuals who generously loaned works to the Women Artists: An Untold Story (1890-1940) exhibition, including, private collectors, Providence Art Club, Bert Gallery, Providence Athenaeum, Boston Public Library, Smith College, UMass Amherst, New Bedford Public Library and UMass Dartmouth, Claire T. Carney University Library.