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Teen Docent leading tour of Off The Wall
2011
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Off The Wall
Over the past few weeks there has been a flurry of activity here as both emerging and established artists make final preparations for entry into
Off the Wall and Community of Artists. Since more than one third of our current members identify themselves as working artists, response from within the Danforth community is strong and interest is growing among those who've not previously been acquainted with the Museum. Many are especially excited by the opportunity to have work reviewed by Cody Hartley, who has agreed to serve as this year's juror.
Formally Assistant Curator and now Director of Gifts of Art at the MFA, Cody Hartley contributed to installation of the new Americas wing and as author to several MFA publications. Prior to joining the MFA, he was Assistant Curator of American Art at the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute in Williamstown, MA and joins a long list of distinguished curators who have served as jurors for Off the Wall, who include Nick Capasso (DeCordova); Carole Anne Meehan and Helen Molesworth (both ICA); Jen Mergel (MFA) and Susan Stoops (WAM).
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To get a preview of the kind of work you might see in Off the Wall or Community of Artists, check out the upcoming MassArt Auction to be held on Saturday, April 14th online here.
MassArt and the Danforth are educational partners and students, faculty and alumni regularly submit to our juried shows.
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Gallery Talk
Artist Edie Read & Curator Judith Fox
To discuss A Space Open Ups
Sunday, April 15, 3:00pm
Family Programs
Bring Your Baby to the Danforth Thursday, April 19 10:00 am to 11:30 am Danforth Story Time Wednesday, April 11 11:00 am to 11:45 am Free with admission Drop Into Art Sunday, May 6 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm Free!
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 Danforth In the News
By: Susan Petroni
Framingham Patch
March 25, 2012 By: Cate McQuaid
Boston Globe
March 20, 2012
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Director's Note
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Danforth School Baby and Toddler Class
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We are delighted to report recent success with Over the Moon, a March 24th benefit event that raised more than $55,000 for the Deborah D. Blumer Fund to honor the memory of one of our most respected art supporters. Now in its fifth year, the Blumer Fund supports educational programming that uses exhibits to inspire creativity, programming that truly makes the Danforth a place Where Something Special Happens.
Danforth programs are out of the ordinary, an integrative gallery and hands-on experience for both children and adults. Bring Your Baby encourages new parents to connect with their infants through art; Learning to Look engages Head Start pre-school students; Art Tells a Story encourages older children to explore visual narrative; and Drop Into Art invites families to make art together. Students in our adult studio classes regularly visit the Museum and even the most casual visitor is likely to remark that they've "just had the most interesting conversation with an artist." Continue Reading
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Who We Are - Isy Mekler
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Isy Mekler is not your average thirteen-year-old. The seventh grader at the Solomon Schechter Day School in Newton is already an accomplished entrepreneur and advocate for literacy. When considering his project for his Bar Mitzvah, Isy was reminded of an essay he had written the previous year on The Giving Tree, the iconic children's book by Shel Silverstein. In the essay, Isy "wrote" to Silverstein to thank him for inspiring Isy to be a more giving person. With this in mind, The Giving Tree Project was born.
Isy envisioned The Giving Tree Project as a fundraiser to buy books for children in need and got in touch with Reach Out and Read, a national nonprofit whose mission is to prepare America's youngest children to succeed in school by promoting early literacy. His goal, to ask artists from across the country to create a work of art that could be then auctioned by Reach Out and Read to raise money for books. Continue Reading
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Danforth School of Art
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 | Ruth Scotch, Sardines on a Plate, 2011
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Teachers as Artists
Art teachers influence how their students see the world. Painting and drawing students learn to "see" differently and to refine their sense of perception, becoming more and more observant of the world around them. Each Danforth instructor also has a unique vision and expresses it in their art.
Currently on view in the Danforth School Gallery is work created by Danforth Drawing and Painting Faculty including Wilber Blair, Carol Blackwell, Catherine Carter, Bob Collins, Leigh Faramarzpour, Dara Goldman, Ron Krouk, Louise Melton, Katherine Miller, Jill Pottle, Ruth Scotch, Nan Rumpf and Tracy Spadafora.
Through April 11 in the Danforth School Gallery
M-F 9:30am - 4:30pm
There is still time, register for Spring Classes!
See SPRING art class descriptions for all ages
Plan ahead for April vacation and summer!
See APRIL School Vacation Workshops
See SUMMER ARTS for Children
See TEEN SUMMER Classes
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Tours and More
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 | Nina Bohlen, Woodpile, Lubec, 2003
Courtesy of the Artist
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April's Family Programs are all about looking at landscapes, from Nina Bohlen's personal, portrait-like tree prints, to Edie Read's landscape of the imagination in A Space Opens Up. Although the programs differ, all offer family friendly, hands-on, brains-on fun! See schedule to the left.
Tours
We love and welcome our youngest visitors, but sometimes it's easier to bring the museum to the preschooler than it is to bring the preschooler to the museum (especially when there are 18 of them).
For the month of April, the Docents are taking Danforth Museum to the 3-5 year-olds at Framingham's Headstart Preschool! The children will take a virtual tour of the Museum, hear a story, and create covers for books of their own.
Our Language of Art tours with Framingham Adult ESL are also in full swing. These Docent led tours provide adult language students the opportunity to use their growing vocabulary to discuss works of art on exhibit. Collaborations has been especially effective at inspiring discussion.
Finally, Highlights Tours are given every Thursday afternoon and first Saturday of the month from 2:00-3:00 and on first Sundays from 1:00-2:00. Come join us!
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