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| Turning Vacant Spaces Into Artful Places | |||||
Brockton’s Art in the Windows was first conceived by Fuller Craft Museum in 2007. Celebrated with a ribbon cutting ceremony, the project was offically launched in August 2009. Art in the Windows seeks to create mini-exhibitions in vacant and under utilized windows downtown. This project benefits landlords seeking to improve their site’s appeal to potential renters and/or businesses and it also promotes participating artists. With established sites on Main Street, Art in the Windows seeks to expand its reach to other streets. |
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| 166 Main Street 144 Main Street 138 Main Street 136 Main Street 34 School Street 90 Main Street 63 Main Street
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Meet the Artists |
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| Artists for Humanity Artists For Humanity has empowered and employed teens in an intensive program of arts, creativity and enterprise. AFH partners youth with professional artists/designers to design, create and sell art products. In the process, young artists develop entrepreneurial skills, and introduce audiences to their voice, vision and virtuosity. Artists For Humanity apprentices have produced fine art and creative products for Boston’s largest firms and organizations. |
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Nora Bolinski My work explores the idea of femininity in the mordern world. Using bright colors balanced by flesh tones I create a vivid emotional landscape. Layers of texture and form reference the curves of the body, farbic seams, and organic shapes. Although I do not use the figure directly, I am influenced by figurative artists like Jenny Saville and Lisa Yuskavage. |
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Carinne Clendaniel I draw inspiration from traditional decorative folk quilts and their basic structural characteristics. I have focused a great deal on hand appliqué, a technique wherein pieces of fabric are hand stitched onto a larger piece of fabric to create designs, patterns or pictures. Integrated here are both factory dyed cloth and fabrics that I have hand painted and hand dyed. |
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| Thomas DeBari The game of basketball is concentrated with images of human struggle. Players are dominant, secondary, and role-playing characters in a contemporaneous battle of wills. These are not questions that the improvisational game asks of them. They just do or they don’t. The game’s cornerstone word is “intangible.” I’m looking to find the balance of tangible intangibles in the place of such flux. Transcending the top peek performing bodies in a place of action and reaction, the art of basketball, becomes grand grotesques of sacrifice and admiration. I use silhouetted basketball figures to go into an area where words are obsolete. The actions of these figures, frozen in abandoned strides of determination, fall into a place of greatness. Transcending the physical limitations of the human body fireworks explode over the audience. Using these basketball player cutouts I inform the viewer that doing should not be because it is asked of you, but because you ask it of yourself. |
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Travis Fauvelle
The photographic documentation of everyday objects that are often overlooked and unwanted by society is presented throughout my body of work. By experimenting with compositions that demonstrate line patterns and light, I am able to capture the moment when even a burning trash pile has an undeniable beauty. Every image in my collection has a story to tell whether the subject matter be urban or innate. I approach my art as an observer. From behind the lens I document these happenings without prejudice and interference. My images are meant to be harmonious, spontaneous and provocative providing the viewer with a fearless perspective of my own experience. |
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| Timothy Gough This statement is derived from the theories and investigations of alchemy, an archaic belief system that, among many other things, postulated man's ability to chemically transmute lead into gold. Essentially, this theory seeks to extract value from the valueless, to create something from nothing. This current body of work borrows heavily from this facet of alchemy, as it is significance that I create out of the mundane; ordinary objects used in extraordinary ways to extract their hidden potential as valid artistic substance. |
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| Maggie MacLellan A sculptor, Margaret MacLellan's lifelong passions for animals and art have led her to create large and small animal sculptures. Her work ranges from lovingly detailed portraits of real animals to stylized and whimsical fantasy creatures. A deep understanding of animals informs her work, gained in part by working many years as a veterinary technician. A devoted companion of two dogs, her current artistic focus is on dog sculptures. She chooses her primary medium of papier maché for it's malleability, lightness, and flexibility, though she also sculpts in clay, wood, wire, and other media. |
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Virginia Mahoney This work uses a vaguely historic vessel form (each with doily or mat) to explore and expose aspects of feminine iconography and role expectations. This program gives me a chance to share my work with the community, while drawing attention to the essential role that artists can have in enlivening downtown Brockton. Encouraging and supporting the presence of working artists has been a key component to the economic revitalization of communities nationwide. |
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| Artist Archive Brockton Council on Aging |
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| Call for Entry | |||||
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Interested in exhibiting your art? Brockton’s Art in the Windows Project seeks artists to display their work in vacant spaces in the heart of downtown Brockton and promote the city’s arts community. Selected work will hang in the windows of vacant downtown storefronts. This is a juried exhibit. We seek work that can capitalize on the unique spaces of downtown Brockton and is bold and innovative—art that will capture people’s attention while walking downtown and help convey the vibrant artistic energy of the area.
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If you would would like to make a donation to the project, please email us at aocchino@fullercraft.org, or call Ashley Occhino at 508.588.6000 x125. |
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