Word: localism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final commendation prayer was said by Rev. David Lindsay, Protestant chaplain of the Worcester Fire Department, and the firefighter prayer was read by Lt. Donald Courtney, vice-president of the local IAFF chapter...
...Mills Gallery is a facility of the Boston Center for the Arts, a large non-profit which also runs the Cyclorama, various theaters and over 50 artists' studios in the South End. The well-curated exhibitions emphasize the contemporary and the local. In the current show, Boston-based artist Sheila Pepe has stretched great drips and webs of crocheted yarn across the room. From what I gather, crochet is the medium of the moment; see, for example, the work of Seong Chun. Pepe also plays with casting shadows, created by found-object mini-sculptures, across her childlike drawings. A limber...
...Blue is a fledgling "art service organization" with a snug little clubhouse seven blocks down from the Middle East. Besides hanging work in their own space, they like to hold mini-exhibitions of local artists in unlikely places around Central Square (US Trust Bank, Au Bon Pain, 1369 Coffeehouse) by means of which they hope to ambush the unsuspecting passerby with art. They offer figure drawing on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings at $8 a pop. This gallery is so supportive and cozy as to be nearly maternal, and, if you make a call and go over with a proposal...
...installations, preferably "non-traditional" and "politically involved." Currently showing are garish, clumsy paintings by David Grossack and Michael Hallaren. A billboard on the side of the Harvest Co-op in Central Square ("The Zeitgeist Artboard: Gallery of the People's Republic of Cambridge") offers additional exhibition space for local artists...
...medical and dental schools, according to Jane Garfield, local coordinator for Harvard Medical School operations, each department will have one or more representatives working on New Year's Eve to monitor labs, systems and other equipment...