Musicians and Visual Artists The Barnstable Senior Center is looking for artists and musicians to share their talents and passions to visitors to the center. Classes are offered year round and there is a small stipend for teaching. Contact Susan Griffin at 508-862-4761 or susan.griffin@town.barnstable.ma.us. Call for Art The Open Door Gallery at Very … [Read more...]
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TEDxBoston
Perhaps you've heard of TED, that confluence of creative super-brains in technology, entertainment, and design? TED Talks at the annual conference have included "ideas worth spreading" from Steven Hawking and Al Gore as well as local innovators Tod Machover and Dan Ellsey from the groundbreaking Hyperscore music project (watch the video above) and Boston Philharmonic Conductor … [Read more...]
Moving Company at the VSA Festival in DC
Above, Moving Company artists perform "common ground" at the International VSA Festival in Washington, D.C. The piece, performed this past June, was choreographed by Dawn Lane (Choreography Fellow '10), who runs the Moving Company as Artistic Director of Community Access to the Arts (CATA). CATA, based in Great Barrington, nurtures and celebrates the creativity of people with … [Read more...]
The Elegant Eye of Gordon Sasaki
Nothing is ever really black and white, is it. VSA arts Massachusetts is sponsoring NY Portraits by Gordon Sasaki. NY Portraits is an exhibition of photographs documenting working New York City artists with disabilities. The photographs are currently on exhibit at VSA arts of Massachusetts’ Open Door Gallery at Boston’s NonProfit Center. Sasaki’s photographs include … [Read more...]
She Blinded Me With Science
The London Times online reports on a colorblind painter who is fitted with a device which allows him to paint in color by hearing what he sees. I see a red door and I want to paint it black...R.O.Y.G.B.I.V! And here in the states, if you are not familiar with the Hyperscore Project at Tewksbury Hospital, take a moment and check out this video. Tod Machover, Professor of … [Read more...]