Get in on the Arts Boston: March/April 2010

CraftBoston  

Image courtesy of CraftBoston

Featuring 200 Contemporary Craft Artists World Trade Center, Boston:  April 9th – 11th 2010. admission fee : $15.00 

 New England’s premiere exhibition and sale of contemporary craft. CRAFTBOSTON showcases one-of-a-kind and limited-edition pieces in baskets, ceramics, decorative fiber, wearables, furniture, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, paper and wood. CRAFTBOSTON Spring includes 200 artists.  General admission is $15.00. 

For more information visit:  www.craftboston.org  

PhotoWalks of Boston   

Photo courtesy of Boston.com

Discover the secrets for taking amazing pictures of Boston. Guided walking tours are presented with fascinating historic commentary and creative photography tips. Year round.   

For more information or to make a reservation, visit www.photowalks.com or call 617-851-2273. – www.boston.com 

Museum of Science Boston, photo courtesy of Google search engine.

“Identity: An Exhibition of You” -  exhibiting Now – May 21, 2010   

Are you an introvert or an extrovert? What would you look like as a member of the opposite sex or a different race? “Identity: An Exhibition of You” at the Museum of Science can answer some of these questions. The interactive, temporary show focuses on the physical, psychological, and social aspects of being human. DNA is at it again when visitors examine and compare fingerprints and DNA and take facial photographs. – www.boston.com   

For more information visit: www.mos.org   

Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption-March 15th and April 30, 2010   

 Sociologists tell us that the human mind cannot meaningfully grasp numbers higher than a few thousand. Yet, understanding the consequences of our choices requires us to comprehend the incremental effect of millions or billions of small acts. Photographer Chris Jordan’s large-format prints, assembled from thousand of smaller photographs, dramatically translate the raw language of statistics into powerful images of global mass culture that we can respond to emotionally.- www.boston.com   

For more information visit: www.mos.org   

Museum of Fine Arts Boston, photo courtesy of Google search engine.

Harry Callahan: American Photographer -  Exhibiting Now – June 21, 2010   

For the exhibit “Harry Callahan: American Photographer,” folks at the MFA organized about 40 shots by the late artist into five themes: Eleanor (the photographer’s wife), Pedestrians, Architecture, Landscapes, and Darkroom Abstractions. The Detroit-born, mostly self-taught photographer got the camera bug in the late ’30s when he worked as a shipping clerk for Chrysler Corporation and had it for six decades. “- Boston.com   

For more information visit: www.mfa.org   

President Barack Obama, photo courtesy of Afro Museum.

From Iowa to the White House:Historic Photographs of President Barack Obama- Exhibiting  Now  

 These historic photographs shed light upon the process by which President Barack Obama achieved this nation’s highest office. The exhibition not only celebrates the historic election of the first black President of the United States, it also honors the organizational prowess, business and political acumen, and cohesion and courage of the early community of black Bostonians whose efforts helped to make this achievement possible.   

For more information visit: www.afroammuseum.org   

National Center of Afro-American Artists, photo courtesy of Google search engine.

HAITI: Paintings by Marilene Phipps - Exhibiting Now  

Though well-known as a poet, Marilene Phipps is a gifted visual artist passionately in love with paint and unafraid to probe spiritual dimensions of life as she observed and participated in it in her native Haiti. In these major paintings, she examines sites of public and personal pilgrimage, and pays respect to the humanity, dignity and character of Haitians that touched her life and work. Along the way, she infused the paintings with color and sobriety, introspection and a sense of the elegiac.   

HERO’S STORY: New works by Cullen Washington, Jr. - Exhibiting Now

 The Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists is pleased to present HERO’S STORY: New Works by Cullen Washington, Jr, an exhibition of contemporary mixed-media works exploring the interplay between popular media heroes and black masculinity. The exhibition is accompanied by a twenty-eight page illustrated catalogue. 

For more information visit: www.ncaaa.org   

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