FOLIO A Biannual Publication For MassArt Alumni And Friends FALL · VOL 10 2009 exploring the inner and outer landscape The LAy OF The LAnd From Idaho’s Sawtooth Valley to the Northwest, from Olmsted’s Franklin Park to Boston’s South End, from the terrain of the Surrealists to Louisiana and the Arctic, alumni, students, and faculty at Massachusetts College of Art and Design covered considerable ground. In the process they pondered environmental impact, sheltered students from the elements, formed an enduring legacy, and renovated a historic carriage house. No matter where they landed, they made a lasting impression. Embrace the landscape with this fall issue of Folio. eXPLORe
From Idaho's Sawtooth Valley to the Northwest, from Olmsted's Franklin Park to Boston's South End, from the terrain of the Surrealists to Louisiana and the Arctic, alumni, students, and faculty at Massachusetts College of Art and Design covered considerable ground. In the process they pondered environmental impact, sheltered students from the elements, formed an enduring legacy, and renovated a historic carriage house. No matter where they landed, they made a lasting impression. Embrace the landscape with this fall issue of Folio.
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FOLIOA Biannual Publication For MassArt Alumni And Friends
FALL · VOL 10 2009
exploring the inner and outer landscapeThe LAy OF The LAnd
From Idaho’s Sawtooth Valley to the Northwest, from Olmsted’s
Franklin Park to Boston’s South End, from the terrain of the
Surrealists to Louisiana and the Arctic, alumni, students, and faculty
at Massachusetts College of Art and Design covered considerable
ground. In the process they pondered environmental impact,
sheltered students from the elements, formed an enduring legacy,
and renovated a historic carriage house. No matter where they
landed, they made a lasting impression. Embrace the landscape
with this fall issue of Folio.
eXPLORe
The college’s Art of Landscape program,
funded by Bank of America, brings fifteen
third graders to Franklin Park’s Scarboro Pond
for four mornings of outdoor art-making with
their parents. Students are selected from the
Patrick Lyndon School in West Roxbury, the
Dr. William W. Henderson Inclusion Elementary
School in Dorchester, and the James M. Curley
School in Jamaica Plain. Amy Sallen, visual
arts teacher at the Lyndon School, art
education students from MassArt, and mem-
bers of the National Park Service guide par-
ticipants in their study of the park’s changing
seasons. “It’s a good self-confidence booster.
Many want to take further art classes,”
says Sallen.
As participants engage with Franklin Park,
they also learn about Frederick Law Olmsted,
the renowned landscape architect who
created the largest jewel in the Emerald
Necklace. “The most powerful part of the
program is students engaging in side-by-side
art-making with their parents,” says Leslie
Wu Foley, director of MassArt’s Center for
Art and Community Partnerships.
Another group of students also derived benefit
from their surroundings, which were altered to
meet their needs.
In Boston’s South End, ten students in the
master of architecture program brightened
the urban landscape as part of its first com-
munity design-build program. They built a
colorful bus shelter for students at the William
Carter School, a public education program for
students with intensive special needs.
“The project really highlighted one of the core
goals of our program, which is community ser-
vice and teaching students leadership through
that service,” says Patricia Seitz, professor of
architecture and head of the master of archi-
tecture program. “The school is thrilled.”
Architecture students learned how to work
with clients, design and alter a design, create
technical drawings, collaborate, and lead a
project. The shelter’s design includes recycled
rainwater, which is channeled into overlapping
pools that create sensory learning experiences
for Carter School students; the water is then
repurposed for the school’s gardens.
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For centuries artists have engaged with the
landscape around them to reinvigorate them-
selves and deepen their practice. The tradition
is alive and well at Massachusetts College of
Art and Design.
TIMELESS TOPOgRAPhy
“Looking at nature is a very valuable thing for an artist.”
In summer 2009, master of architecture students designed and built a shelter at the William E. Carter School in Boston’s historic South End neighborhood.
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10.30.09Alumni Homecoming Weekend
Generations of alumni return to campus
to catch up with old friends and honor this
year’s award winners at the second annual
Alumni Homecoming Weekend.
12.07.09Holiday Sale
The college’s annual holiday sale, open
December 7-12 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.,
features original works of glass, ceramics,
painting, jewelry, photography, sculpture,
fibers, and more. The sale benefits artists,
and a portion of the proceeds provides
financial support to students.
04.10.10Twenty-first Annual Benefit Art Auction
We are grateful to the generous artists,
buyers, and sponsors who helped raise
more than $500,000 at the twentieth
annual auction last spring. Funds raised
support student scholarships and academic
programs. Mark your calendar for the
auction on April 10, 2010.
For details on these and other events,
visit the alumni online community at
alumni.massart.edu.
Editor: Sonia Targontsidis MFA ’02; Copy: jot*, Kristen Paulson ’96; Design: Moth Design, Dan Rukas ’03; Photography: Jim Ferguson, Jörg Meyer, Anne Marie Stein, and Joel Veak