The June gallery show ENGENDERED will explore how gender is perceived from the literal to the abstract. Artists are invited to submit work which depicts any aspect of gender – clearly defined, fluid or ambiguous. The context could be biological, sexual, spiritual, political, personal statements of self identity, imposed identity or perceived identity. Or total ennui. Some of us never consider gender – it just is. A very unconventional view of the unconventional is strongly encouraged.
This is a curated show which may involve difficult choices – it is possible that all work cannot be included. Non- member artists are invited to participate.
Open to all media, including 2D, 3D, Mixed media, Collage, Painting, Printmaking, Photography, Digital art, Sculpture, Assemblage, Video art, and Performance art. The deadline for entries is May 30th. Selected works will be on display for the month of June, and will include the kickoff weekend for EastieWeek and East Boston Open Studios.
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The Atlantic Works Poetry Reading Series Continues on April 24th with a reading by poet Joel Sloman. A gallery party kicks off at 6:00pm, with the readings beginning at 7pm. Refreshments will be served.
Joel Sloman was born in Brooklyn in 1943 and grew up there. In 1966, he became the assistant director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery, under its director, Joel Oppenheimer, and edited its journal, The World. He is the author of Virgil’s Machines (1966), Bus Poems (1992), Stops (1997), and Cuban Journal (2000). His most recent publication is a chapbook, Off the Beaten Trakl (2009). Since 1969, he has lived near Boston, presently in Medford.
“Sloman can evoke sensory impressions with thrilling, hallucinatory precision; among them his anxious questions vanish and reappear like pilgrims wandering in an immense but enticing forest.” (from the preface to Stops (1997), Denise Levertov)
The Joining Project is a large-scale installation set to launch in early June. The project will be up through September 2014, and aims to cover the Massachusetts Avenue bridge with swaths of handmade crochet and knit pieces from members of the local community and volunteers from around the country.
The quarter-mile long bridge spans the Charles river, connecting Boston and Cambridge. Thousands of “wish” tags with notes for a happier Boston will be hung on the bridge as well, all in response to Boston Marathon bombing. A warm, happy and wishful bridge will be born to join all our communities.
Learn more about the project here- fuzzy submissions are still needed to cover this bridge in a blanket of friendship and camaraderie. Please contact Silvi (contact@silvinaci.com) for more information of how to join or visit www.thejoiningproject.com
Meet the team, fill out “wish” tags and knit along with the Joining Project at the Boston Cyclorama April 18th, 12-5 PM. Bead + Fiber will be teaching how to knit!