CVPA Star Series Finale -This Thursday Outside of the Star Store Campus, 6 to 9 pm
When: Thursday,
April 29, 2021
6:00 AM
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9:00 AM
Where: > See description for location
Cost: 0
Description: CVPA Star Series Finale
Thursday, April 29, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm
For the finale of the 13-week CVPA Star Series, the UMass Dartmouth CVPA presents a 3-hour program of live music and visual arts. The evening kicks off at 6:00 pm with a conversation between former Swain School student and now professional artist / art critic, Don Wilkinson, and current CVPA students Taylor Hickey (Printmaking) and Rosalia (Rosie) Amato Bauer (Integrated Visual Arts) on the Swain Studio stage. This talk will be followed by live music from the Latin Jazz group, Jesus Andujar & Grupo Sazon, a sizzling band playing a mix of Rumba, Son, Mambo, Salsa, Latin Jazz, Bachata, Cha Cha and Merengue. Bring your dancing shoes!
Audiences are invited to watch the live performances safely from outside the large street-level windows, on the corner of Purchase and Union Streets in Downtown New Bedford. The Purchase Street block in front of the Campus will be closed to traffic for pedestrian safety and enjoyment.
Can't make it in person? Tune in from home via live stream on facebook.com/umassdcvpa/live.
In addition to our Swain Studio programming, we will have a series of arts activities and an art swap on the block of Purchase Street directly in front of the Star Store. Activities include a throw-a-thon by members of the The Clay Club (Jordan Blankenship, Danielle O'Malley and Madison Moreno), a papyrus-making demonstration by Artist in Residence Tracey Cockrell, dance performances by 3rd EyE Youth Empowerment, printmaking by Andrew Laverty, participatory art with the Art Mobile from New Bedford Art Museum/Artworks and projections onto the Union Square office building by UMass Dartmouth students.
For the Art Swap, the public is encouraged to bring a piece of original artwork, small enough to carry, and choose a piece of artwork to take home. The Art Swap is open to all members of the greater New Bedford and UMass Dartmouth communities. Not an artist? Bring an original piece from your collection or simply make a donation of $10 or more and take a work home. All donations will support the Marc St. Pierre Memorial Scholarship. Marc was a beloved member of the art faculty at the Swain School of Design in New Bedford from 1979-1988 and then in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at UMass Dartmouth until he retired in 2017. His untimely death in December 2019 left a huge hole in the arts community on the South Coast, and he is still very much missed.
The CVPA Star Series began the first Thursday in February and was presented each Thursday since on stage inside the Swain Studio at the CVPA Star Store Campus. The Series was co-curated and co-produced in collaboration with Don Burton Media and Beatriz & Company with support from UMass Dartmouth and the City of New Bedford's #NBfestive Winter Places project. In-kind support has been provided by Chase Canopy and Lightworks Productions Inc.
Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director, (508) 999-8555, gallery@umassd.edu
Thursday, April 29, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm
For the finale of the 13-week CVPA Star Series, the UMass Dartmouth CVPA presents a 3-hour program of live music and visual arts. The evening kicks off at 6:00 pm with a conversation between former Swain School student and now professional artist / art critic, Don Wilkinson, and current CVPA students Taylor Hickey (Printmaking) and Rosalia (Rosie) Amato Bauer (Integrated Visual Arts) on the Swain Studio stage. This talk will be followed by live music from the Latin Jazz group, Jesus Andujar & Grupo Sazon, a sizzling band playing a mix of Rumba, Son, Mambo, Salsa, Latin Jazz, Bachata, Cha Cha and Merengue. Bring your dancing shoes!
Audiences are invited to watch the live performances safely from outside the large street-level windows, on the corner of Purchase and Union Streets in Downtown New Bedford. The Purchase Street block in front of the Campus will be closed to traffic for pedestrian safety and enjoyment.
Can't make it in person? Tune in from home via live stream on facebook.com/umassdcvpa/live.
In addition to our Swain Studio programming, we will have a series of arts activities and an art swap on the block of Purchase Street directly in front of the Star Store. Activities include a throw-a-thon by members of the The Clay Club (Jordan Blankenship, Danielle O'Malley and Madison Moreno), a papyrus-making demonstration by Artist in Residence Tracey Cockrell, dance performances by 3rd EyE Youth Empowerment, printmaking by Andrew Laverty, participatory art with the Art Mobile from New Bedford Art Museum/Artworks and projections onto the Union Square office building by UMass Dartmouth students.
For the Art Swap, the public is encouraged to bring a piece of original artwork, small enough to carry, and choose a piece of artwork to take home. The Art Swap is open to all members of the greater New Bedford and UMass Dartmouth communities. Not an artist? Bring an original piece from your collection or simply make a donation of $10 or more and take a work home. All donations will support the Marc St. Pierre Memorial Scholarship. Marc was a beloved member of the art faculty at the Swain School of Design in New Bedford from 1979-1988 and then in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at UMass Dartmouth until he retired in 2017. His untimely death in December 2019 left a huge hole in the arts community on the South Coast, and he is still very much missed.
The CVPA Star Series began the first Thursday in February and was presented each Thursday since on stage inside the Swain Studio at the CVPA Star Store Campus. The Series was co-curated and co-produced in collaboration with Don Burton Media and Beatriz & Company with support from UMass Dartmouth and the City of New Bedford's #NBfestive Winter Places project. In-kind support has been provided by Chase Canopy and Lightworks Productions Inc.
Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director, (508) 999-8555, gallery@umassd.edu
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