Massachusetts College of Art and Design
South Hall, Third Floor
621 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115

Hours are typically 9:00am to 5:00pm during the semester when shows are running, closed on national, state, and school holidays.
Call the Studio Foundation department at 617.879.7400 for more information.

Current Show

John Osorio Buck

Stove Lab: A Collaborative Studio

February 16 - March 18, 2010

work with John: 2/17-19, 2/24-26 10-6

Feast: March 2 6-8pm Courtyard

Gallery hours: 10-6

StoveLab is a collaborative experiment with foundation students at the Massachusetts College of Art exploring the potentials of high-efficiency stoves and the production of biomass fuels. This project hopes provide a unique approach to the concept of art and cultural production, our potential response to extended emergency situations, and the ecological use of sustainable fuels. The goal for StoveLab is to collaboratively design, produce, and test a variety of handmade stoves. These include light-weight backpacking alcohol stoves, such as the ‘penny stove,’ open flame stoves, like the ‘rocket stove,’ and biomass stoves, like the ‘mdula stove.’ Participants are encouraged to experiment with variations on established forms, using a variety of different materials such as tin cans, sheet metal, ceramics and concrete. At the end of the production phase of the project, the resulting stoves will be tested for efficiency and ultimately used in a ‘food event’ for the participants. The stoves and documentation of the group effort will be exhibited in the Brant Gallery at MassArt.

John Osorio-Buck is his own subject of social experimentation. After graduating from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2003, he has been engaged in developing his work away from the process of creating singular autonomous art objects and towards a method of creating work or Projects that may produce objects, but are more conceptual in process. His work is a hybrid of genres, creating performative structures that take on issues of displacement, sustainability, and self-reliance. Recent projects have included designing, building and living on a raft in Boston harbor, to creating a community pirate radio station, constructing a traditional hay-bale house in downtown Omaha, as well as a variety of mobile shelters .By pursuing projects that are enacted in the public sphere, he connects with a wider spectrum of individuals who may not visit gallery spaces on a regular basis, encouraging a relevancy and dialogue, not only with the general art-viewing public, but the general public as well.

http://johnosoriobuck.com/stove.htm

Past Shows

Fish McGill: Robot Guts

Event: Thursday February 4, 2010 6-10pm (with music and food)
Fish's gallery hours: Monday February 1- Wednesday February 3, 7-10pm
Gallery hours Monday February 1 - Thursday February 11 9am - 10pm

Robot G.U.T.S.*: What's Inside? (*Gadgets Utensils Tools Stuff)
You are invited to join Fish McGill (MassArt '04) in the installation & creation of a twelve to fourteen foot Robot drawing on Monday-Thursday evenings in the Brant gallery in South Hall. Come help Fish work on a giant drawing of a Robot's guts and gears on the a portion of the gallery walls through out the week. Lessons on creating stencils and how to make wheat paste will be demonstrated on Thursday afternoon in the gallery followed by a Robot Birthday Party reception. Come and answer the age old question, "What is inside a Robot anyway?" The collaborative drawing project will shine light on this subject. Computers, cell phones, weiner dogs, rocket parts, you name it and it is in there.

Freshmen Winter Show

Juried by Jarrett Min Davis

December 15 - January 28

closing: January 22, 6-8 pm

AMERICAN STIR-FRY/THE MOON AND THE MOUNTAIN/LABOR OF LOVE

Courtney Moy/ Katharena Rentumis/ Courtney Grant

10/26-10/30
reception: 10/30 Friday 6-8 pm

A student exhibition consisting of two and three dimensional works by young artists from diverse social and cultural backgrounds. The work is inspired and fueled by communal energy and challenges this space with print, drawings, sculpture, and collaborative installation.

Artists include: Courtney Moy Katharena Rentumis Courtney Grant

Robert Coppola
Sacred Ground 177-2008: War Memorials of the District of Columbia

Sacred Ground 1777-2008 examines United States’ wars and conflicts through photographs of Arlington National Cemetery and war memorials located in and around the District of Columbia. It includes a chronological history of the wars and conflicts, and literary quotations and commentary.

"Yet, finally, war is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate...therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in this world." –Lyndon Baines Johnson (1966-State of the Union)

November 2, 2009- November 27, 2009
Opening Reception Tuesday November 3, 2009 6PM-8PM

MassArt In Cuba
September 21–October 16, 2009
Brant Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Reception: September 24, 6:30 p.m.

Boston, MA: In celebration of MassArt’s long tradition of working in Cuba, the Brant Gallery at Massachusetts College of Art and Design is proud to present MassArt In Cuba. The exhibition is on view from September 24 through October 16, 2009. The opening reception is scheduled for September 24 at 6:30 p.m.

MassArt In Cuba includes artwork and projects based on and inspired by Cuba from invited faculty and alumni who have been involved with our history with the island. Curated by Professor Janna Longacre, the invited artists include Juan Pablo Cárdenas, John Cataldo, Sharon Dunn, Al Gowan, Yoav Horesh, Consuelo Issacson, Janna Longacre, Abelardo Morrell, and Adam Puryear. This diverse group of artists will be showing a wide range of their personal artworks and writing from photographs and paintings to clay sculptures and excerpts from novels. Also included in the exhibition are artworks created by Cuban high school students who participated in Juan Pablo Cárdenas’ community based project in Matanzas, Cuba. As part of the opening reception for this exhibition, Janna Longacre will give a brief introduction to the exhibition and artists followed by a short lecture by Catherine Merrill titled “Inside Cuba.”

MassArt In Cuba is being held in conjunction with two other exhibitions in the Boston area which are also showcasing work from Cuba. Those exhibitions are:
Beyond the Embargo: Cuban and American Ceramics, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, curated by Catherine Merrill and Making Connections: Contemporary Cuban Printmakers presented by the Boston Printmakers at the Laconia Gallery, 433 Harrison Avenue, Boston.

Sand Mandala
October 19 – 23, 2009
The Venerable Tenzin Yignyen will construct a Buddhist sand mandala. The creation of a sand mandala is considered one of the highest forms of sacred teaching. It represents compassion and is used as a meditation tool. The week eill conclude with a dismanteling ceremony.

Student Life exhibition slot October 26 – 30, 2009

Bob Coppola : Sacred Ground: 1777-2008 War Memorials of the District of Columbia
November 2 – December 1, 2009
Opening reception: Tuesday November 3, 6:00 – 8:00

Student Life exhibition slot
November 30 – December 4, 2009

Critique week December
7 – 11, 2009

Winter Student show (juried)
December 4 – January 28
Reception: Thursday January 22, 6:00 – 8:00