Conversation with Andrew Yang April 4, 2019 3:30-4:30pm
CVPA Star Store campus, 715 Purchase Street New Bedford, MA 02740

Artist Andrew Yang works across the visual arts, the sciences, and history to explore the naturalcultural. Yang’s work has been exhibited from Oklahoma to Yokohama, including commissions for the 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, (2016) and the Spencer Museum of Art (2019). Yang’s writing and research can be found in Art Journal, Leonardo, Biological Theory, and Antennae. He is an Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a research associate at the Field Museum of Natural History. This conversation is part of the 2018-2020 initiative Local Ecologies, a multimodal series of programs organized between UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth, and UMass Lowell.

Andrew Yang, A Beach (for Carl Sagan), 2016. Photo by Nathan Keay (c) MCA Chicago.
partial view of IO-OX: A Dialogue Concerning Two World Systems, 2015. Photograph by Ugur Eren.

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

Conversation with Jane Marsching March 21, 2019. 3:30-4:30pm
College of Visual and Performing Arts, CVPA 306
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth/285 Old Westport Rd., Dartmouth MA 02747

Interdisciplinary artist Jane D. Marsching explores our past, present and future human impact on the environment through collaborative research-based practices. Her projects have been sited in museums and galleries as well as weather observatories, public parks, city streets, radio waves, and the internet. She has worked with scientists, educators, kite builders, meteorologists, architects, and musicians, among others. She is a co-founder and member of Platform2: Art and Activism (2009-2012), an experimental forum about creative practices at the intersection of social issues.This conversation is part of the 2018-2020 initiative Local Ecologies, a multimodal series of programs focused on place-based practice in Eastern Massachusetts organized between UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth, and UMass Lowell.

Jane Marsching, Carbon Farm version 2.0 at Boston University, spring 2018