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...second time within a year, another Ivy League university has shut down its archaeological contracting office. While Commencement exercises are being held in Harvard Yard. Harvard's Institute for Conservation Archaeology. (ICA) in the Peabody Museum will quietly be preparing to close its doors--following closely the demise of Brown University's archaeology lab last year. Both labs found themselves subject to the same common denominator: the projected profit margin...
Last month, however, the ICA held a press conference at the Charlestown Navy Yard to discuss and display finds from the Chelsea and Water Streets section of Charlestown, near the gates to the Navy Yard. Significantly, the finds challenged conventional research conclusions about prehistoric and colonial life in Boston. However, regardless of such timely funds, Harvard has decided to close the ICA "because of doubts about its long-term financial strength." (according to a March 23 article in The Harvard Crimson...
...foundation grants, a marginal program such as contract archaeology is easy to cut. Brown closed it Public Archaeology Laboratory (PAL) when the lab could no longer generate enough big-budget contracts to cover staff salaries and make a tidy profit for the university. Harvard is following suit with the ICA, despite its lower overhead. As an ICA staff member is reported to have said. "There's no good reason [to close the ICA], other than lack of interest from Harvard...
That future will be bright if David Ross can do anything about it. As he says, "The ICA hadn't been doing enough to make the contemporary art scene in Boston work. We have to break the rules, we have to do more." And the ICA has helped many Boston artists already. The Stantons say they have discovered the works of such artists as Scott Hatfield, Mags Harries, Peter Hoss. Robert Ferrandini and Joyce Loughran through the ICA. Linda Stux added Magnus Johnstone and Harvey Low Simons to the Stux Gallery's list of exhibitors after seeing their work...
...ICA, under Ross' direction, may well do much to dispel the myth that the avant-garde in art is nowhere to be found in Boston. "Reputations still have to be made or unmade in New York," says Sellars, "but the ICA is moving in very exciting directions. I saw a lot there that meant a great deal to me, and it's a great environment in which to work. And that's the important thing for an artist. The important thing for an artist is working in the media available, getting it done...