Student Exhibition of Frederick Douglass Portraits at New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park
When: Wednesday,
April 4, 2018
5:30 PM
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7:30 PM
Where: > See description for location
Cost: Free
Description: To celebrate the legacy of Frederick Douglass during the 200th anniversary year of his birth, the Center for Undisciplined Research at UMass Dartmouth organized an exhibition of portraits of Frederick Douglass created by students from the university. The Center chose to make an exhibition of portraits because of Douglass' reputation as the most photographed person in the 19th century. The pieces in this show represent a variety of mediums including digital painting, charcoal, acrylic painting, colored pencil, graphite, and marker, and the images range from photo-realistic renderings to abstract portrayals. Special thanks to Ellen Mueller's Figure Drawing class at the College of Visual and Performing Art for contributing work to the exhibit, and thanks to the Frederick Douglass Unity House for hosting the first exhibition of this work.
Featured Artists from UMass Dartmouth:
Caitlyn Barbosa, Sydney Brake, Lydia Collins, Delvina Driscoll, William Hart, Morgan Lobo, Nina Nguyen, Tess Oldfield, Darley Garcia, Mae Pacine, Gina Pantalone, Hanna Rabstejnek, Alaia Rios, Ben Urdi, Ally Watts, Cody Oliveira-Gingras, and Bhen Alan.
The Center of Undisciplined Research is a nine-month, decentralized center housed by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Based out of office #228 at the university's art school in downtown New Bedford, MA, the Center is a public art project and student focused research collective and itinerant space that toes the boundaries of art and its capacity to serve as a tool for making meaning in the world; as a collective, we chose to research four main topics throughout the year: social justice, sustainability, local cultures, and music. Our primary purpose is to support people within the university in their journey to figure out how they want to learn and what they want to learn about, and we hope to assign value to the unstructured and loose ways we study people and places everyday, questioning what gets sanctioned as research. To learn more about the Center for Undisciplined Research and their other projects, visit undisciplinedresearch.info.
Location: New Bedford Whaling National Historical park, 33 William St, New Bedford, MA 02740
Date/Time: Wednesday April 4th, 5:30-7:30Pm with Artist Talks at 6:30PM.
Questions? Email Roz Crews at c.rozalyn@gmail.com!
Featured Artists from UMass Dartmouth:
Caitlyn Barbosa, Sydney Brake, Lydia Collins, Delvina Driscoll, William Hart, Morgan Lobo, Nina Nguyen, Tess Oldfield, Darley Garcia, Mae Pacine, Gina Pantalone, Hanna Rabstejnek, Alaia Rios, Ben Urdi, Ally Watts, Cody Oliveira-Gingras, and Bhen Alan.
The Center of Undisciplined Research is a nine-month, decentralized center housed by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Based out of office #228 at the university's art school in downtown New Bedford, MA, the Center is a public art project and student focused research collective and itinerant space that toes the boundaries of art and its capacity to serve as a tool for making meaning in the world; as a collective, we chose to research four main topics throughout the year: social justice, sustainability, local cultures, and music. Our primary purpose is to support people within the university in their journey to figure out how they want to learn and what they want to learn about, and we hope to assign value to the unstructured and loose ways we study people and places everyday, questioning what gets sanctioned as research. To learn more about the Center for Undisciplined Research and their other projects, visit undisciplinedresearch.info.
Location: New Bedford Whaling National Historical park, 33 William St, New Bedford, MA 02740
Date/Time: Wednesday April 4th, 5:30-7:30Pm with Artist Talks at 6:30PM.
Questions? Email Roz Crews at c.rozalyn@gmail.com!
Contact: > See Description for contact information
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