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Considering that Grace M. Catenaccio ’04 will be onstage in two separate shows this weekend, it’s surprising to learn that her biggest art contribution takes place in the background. This Adams House Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) concentrator is one of the year’s recipients of the Louise Donovan Award, which recognizes outstanding work behind the scenes...
...Catenaccio says she is thrilled to receive the award. “I did a tremendous amount of work to get others’ art shown, and while people definitely noticed and appreciated it, it was heartening to have the OFA recognize that” she says...
Each show was based on a theme. Catenaccio points to last year’s “Portrait of the Artist,” which consisted of work that was “vaguely self-portraitive,” as her biggest show, drawing scores of people to the Adams Artspace...
...Catenaccio has also been heavily influential in reviving “The Collective,” a bi-weekly concert in the Quincy Cage. Her involvement began her sophomore year. “I went to the first [concert] and immediately became obsessed,” she says. She spent the rest of the semester offering her help, but the organizers never got back to her. “I’m pretty sure it was because I’m a girl,” she says, and points to how even now, it’s hard...
Catenaccio’s boyfriend was slated to take over the Collective. “I kept pestering him to let me help,” she says. When he stopped showing interest in the program, Catenaccio contacted some students in Quincy, and with the help of her now co-director Daniel H. Senter ’04, resuscitated the Collective...