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Education |
1957 |
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HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
M.A. History of Art Cambridge, MA |
1956 |
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POMONA
COLLEGE
B.A. History of Art Claremont, CA. |
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Academic
and Professional Appointments |
2004 |
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RESEARCH
AFFILIATE: Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT |
2003 |
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CONSULTANT: Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Euclid Corridor, Design Team |
2002 |
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CO-EDITOR “CENTERBOOK: A HISTORY OF CAVS, MIT” |
2002 |
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PROFESSOR EMERITA EMERSON COLLEGE |
1994-2002 |
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PROFESSOR,
Fine Arts Department. EMERSON COLLEGE |
1999 |
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VISITING
ARTIST, American Academy in Rome |
1985-1993 |
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ASSOCIATE
PROFESSOR, Fine Arts Department, EMERSON COLLEGE |
1979-1984 |
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR of Fine Arts, Emerson College |
1984-1985 |
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ARTIST
IN RESIDENCE, MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART |
1990-1995 |
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RESEARCH AFFILIATE: (CAVS) MIT |
1974-1982 |
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RESEARCH
FELLOW: (CAVS) MIT |
1971-1978 |
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INSTRUCTOR
AND ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Fine Arts Department EMERSON COLLEGE |
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Selected
Environmental Works in Steam and Water Mist |
2007 |
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:LEST WE FORGET: projected words on steam curtains listing those killed in action during the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, Government Center Plaza, May 20 |
2005 |
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AEOLIPILE:
Maud Morgan Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA. |
2004 |
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AEOLIPILE:
Glass Invitational Exhibition, Clark Gallery Lincoln MA. |
2001 |
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AEOLIPILE,
steam Maud Morgan Visual Arts Center, Cambridge MA. kinetic glass sculpture
using flame, or electricity, water and steam. |
2001 |
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FOLLY
#2 Installation for Seattle Public Utilities Department, Administered
by Seattle Arts Commission, EnviroExpo Feb 17-25. A Weeping Cedar
weeps water pumped from a pool below, and surrounded by concentric
rings of mounded grass |
2000 |
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FOLLY#1
A Weeping Katsura weeps water pumped into a 4’D pool below
it, surrounded by silver and gray groundcover. Private residence. |
1995 |
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THE
LIGHT RAFT, A floating fountain of water-mist and lights. Funded
by the New England Foundation for the Arts and Emerson College.
Installed on the Charles River, for The Cambridge River Festival
and the following year for Manchester NH Riverfest. Presently
in the collection of the Public Arts Program City of Chicago. |
1993 |
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WORD
FOR WORD: A TRIBUTE TO ITALO CALVINO
Excerpts from Calvino's texts
projected through fog onto a large out door screen. Boston Center
for the Arts, group exhibition "Memos for the Next Millennium." Organized
by The Space, Boston and funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation,
New York |
1993 |
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VESTIGES;
THE VALORIZATION OF THE ANOMYMOUS.
One of a group of five Boston artists selected to collaborate with five New Orleans artists to develop ways of understanding the two cities as residents and visitors and create public art project proposals reflective of these shared ideas. Co-Sponsored by the Space, Boston and the Center for Contemporary Art, New Orleans .Funded by the National Association of Artists' Organizations.Washington DC DC. |
1992 |
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HOPSCOTCH
DC. This
is an
interactive game where children jumping on pressure-sensitive pads trigger water
mist
jets and
a sound
score composed by Chris Janney.
- 1992: National Postal Museum, Washington DC, purchase by the Smithsonian
Institution for permanent summer exhibition, collaboration with
C. Janney
- 1989:
The Children's Museum "Art Inside Out" exhibition. Funded by the LEF Foundation.
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1990 |
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BECKETT'S
LAST TAPE dry-cleaning forms and audiotape. Boston Center for the
Arts. Marjorie Jackobson,
with Carol Korty, Assistant Professor of Performing Arts,
and Brian Doser of the Division of Mass Communication, Emerson College. |
1990 |
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GALAXY
FOUNTAIN Kendall Square,Cambridge, MA.Otto
Piene,fountain designer and The Halvorson Company, Landscape Architects and Planners of
Boston, Cambridge Revevelopment Authority |
1988 |
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"Medusa" and "Acrobat" kinetic
glass steam sculptures Montgomery and Lang Art Galleries, Claremont
CA. "Pomona College Alumni Artists: A Centennial Exhibition" |
1987-1981 |
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STEAMSHUFFLE:
This is a public participatory
work combining steam jets striking each 2 x 8' glass panel
on which original poems by Emmett Williams, written for this work,
were etched. Pedestrians triggered the steam by
interrupting photocell beams. Strobe lights bathed each panel at
night. Sound score by Chris Janney.
- 1987: Municipal Services Building Philadelphia PA,
sponsored
by University Science Center and the Pennsylvania Arts Council
- 1985: Oliver
Plaza, Pittsurgh PA, sponsored by The Matress Factory and the Pennsylvania Arts
Council
- 1981: The Cambridge River Festival, Sponsored by the Office for the
Arts at Harvard and Radcliffe, the Polariod Foundation
- 1981: Government
Center Plaza, Boston MA. Sponsored by First Night 1981
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1987-1986 |
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AQUA
MIRAGE Laser Drawings on Water Mist with Paul Earls
- 1987: Art in Embassies Program, State Department,
Washington
Harbour, Potomac River, Washington, D.C.
- 1986: "Floating
Birthday Party," Harvard's 350th Celebration, Charles River,
Cambridge, MA.
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1987 |
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ORACLE ‑ First Night, Inc., City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA; Steam, Light Sculpture, Sound Composition with Bill Bell and Bill Wainwright, Caleb Sampson, Ken Winokur. Clara Wainwright, Artistic Director. |
1986 |
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SCENES
FROM THE CREATION First Night, Inc. Government Center Plaza, Boston,
MA, Steam, slide projections, laser drawings with Gunther-Schneider
Siemsen and Paul Earls. Funded by the National Endowment for the
Arts. |
1985 |
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ZODIAC
First Night, Inc. Government Center Plaza, Boston, MA Steam, inflatables,
ice sculptures and laser drawings with Otto Piene, George Greenameyer,
Paul Earls. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts |
1985 |
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TANNER
FOUNTAIN Science Center, Harvard University
Pete Walker SWA Group Landscape Architects |
1992 |
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The National Postal Museum opening.Washington DC,
purchase by the Smithsnian Institution for its
permanent collection. |
1984 |
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AQUA
MIRAGE – winning proposal to International Water
Sculpture Competition, World's Exposition, New Orleans, LA. |
1986 |
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Harvard’s
350th Birthday Celebration, Charles River |
1984 |
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SITEWORKS
SOUTHWEST – Principal Investigator and creator of “Sunstroke”:
sponsored by Earthwatch Inc. and the National Endowment for the
Arts. A group of six artists, 20 volunteers and 4 consultants camped
in northwest New Mexico, building large-scale environmental works. |
1979 |
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Steamscreens
with Stan Van der Beek, Whitney Museum, NY |
1977 |
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Centerbeam
Collaborative Environmental sculpture for dokumenta 6 Kassel W
Germany. |
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Selected
Works in Other Media |
Spring 2008 |
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Co-writer for Centerbook: A History of The Center for Advanced Visual Studies,1968-2000 |
1994-1990 |
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Reclamation
Artists: A self-organized group of environmental artists whose
works were located bi-annually in desolate, isolated parts of Boston,
mostly slated to be destroyed by the ambitious new Inner Belt highway
system, known as “The Big Dig.”
- 1994: Excavation the Law of Diminishing Returns Site #6 North Point Charles River Basin.
- 1991:
Out to Lunch Site #2 Central Artery/Harbor tunnel Interchange
- 1990: We
Deserve Scheme Z, Site # 1, Charles River Basin. This work was selected for the exhibition "Public Interventions" held
at the Institute of Contemporary
Art. Boston in 1994.
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1991 |
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Fearful
Symmetries:The Berlin Wall Reconsidered. Space Gallery, Sponsored
by The Goethe Institute, Boston. |
1986 |
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"Neither
Now” Art at Maudsley, Newburyport, MA. Sponsored by the Mass. Department
of Environmental Management. |
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Grants
and Awards |
2008 |
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Photo of “Sine Waves” selected by the Corning Museum of Glass for inclusion in New Glass Review 29 |
2007 |
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panelist, Environmental Design Initiative, Steering Committee, Boston Center for the Arts |
2006 |
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Panel “Five on Five: Perspectives on the Interplay between of Research, Innovation, Experimentation, Pedagogy and Practice” Art Interactive Gallery for the College Art Association Conference February 22-25 |
2006 |
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"Glass Grass" was
selected for publication by a jury representing New Glass Review27 published by Corning Museum of Glass, Corning
NY. |
2006 |
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The
Rembrandt Club Annual Award from the Art Department of Pomona College,
Claremont, CA. |
2003-2006 |
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Design
Team member for the Euclid Corridor Project of the Greater Cleveland
Regional Transit Authority responsible for integrating neighborhood
oral histories into new bus shelters. |
2001 |
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SPRINGS, runner-up in a national competition for a major fountain, in Confluence Park,Colorado Springs, CO. Sponsored by the City of Colorado Springs 2001 with Bill Bell |
2000 |
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Resident
Fellow, American Academy of Rome
NEH: selected to attend the summer seminar ”The Built Environment of the
American Metropolis” University of Chicago. |
2000 |
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"Milking the Cows" paper delivered at the annual conference of Polular Culture and the American Culture Association. |
2000 |
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"Accidental Audiences" panelist sponsored by the Visible Republic, NEFA at the Boston Architectural Center. |
1999 |
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"Cows on Parade" paper delivered at the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Jan 23-28 |
1995 |
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England
Foundation for the Arts Regional Initiative Award for THE LIGHT
RAFT |
1988-89 |
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The
LEF Foundation for The Riparian Perspective, a proposal for a collaboration
between US and Canadian artists on both sides of the Niagara River. |
1991 |
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Boston
Society Merit Award for Reclamation Artists |
1988 |
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LEF
Foundation sponsorship of Hopscotch |
1985 |
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American
Society of Landscape Architects Award for Tanner Fountain;1985
Boston Society of Landscape Architects for Tanner Fountain |
1984 |
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National
Endowment for the Arts sponsorship for Siteworks Southwest |
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