Women's History Month Annual Art Exhibit Featuring Lori Lander

 

Every year the Women's Center honors Women's History Month by showcasing the work of women artists. This year, along with Lesley's Alumni Association, we are delighted to bring to the Marran gallery the work of local Cambridge artist Lori Lander.  The exhibit is titled The Work of Women: Daily Rhythms and Rituals in Bali and the work depicts poignant moments of women and the work of daily life. Lori Lander has spent years traveling around the world and putting her observations of life in different countries into her work. She is also involved in several local organizations such as the Cambridge Arts Council. She is the founder and organizer of Many Helping Hands Cambridge, a gathering of people living and working in Cambridge coming together to help those in the Cambridge community in need. 

The exhibit will be on display from February 10th through March 16th.

The opening reception will be hosted by the Alumni Association at the Marran Gallery on March 8th, 5 to 7pm.

By: Daphne Strassmann

Our First-Ever Student Art Exhibit

We all know that one of the most crucial ways to be a successful artist is to show ones work. The Women's Center show recently presented “Women’s Center Show for Equality,” where artists of all genders were able to submit work for the exhibit. No work was turned down because the goal of the show was to provide every artist a chance to showcase their art. We received and hung over thirty wonderful examples of graphic work, photography, collage, acrylic, oil and pastels, from Freshmen to Senior students at AIB (Art Institute of Boston). The show was up for a month, but we started with a fun opening with refreshments.

By Jennifer Sherys-Rivet

















We feel it is important to provide a space for artists to showcase their work. The event was quite successful. Interested in showing your work in the women’s center? Contact us at womenscenter@lesley.edu!

Decades of Art Making

Please join us for the reception for our Alumnae Show, Decades of Art Making. We are delighted to host the artists and invite you to see the wonderful work they create. The Women's Center is sponsoring the event as a celebration of Lesley's Centennial. The work represents several mediums including, oil on silk, quilting, photography and sculpture. We look forward to seeing you.

Wednesday
March 24
5pm to 7pm
Marran Gallery, Main Campus

By: Daphne Strassmann

Art Exhibit at Marran

Lesley College Alumnae: Decades of Art Making
Sponsored by the Women’s Center
In Celebration of Women’s History Month
And Lesley University’s Centennial
Marran Gallery
March 3 – March 31

The Women’s Center at Lesley University is pleased to celebrate both Women’s History month and the University’s centennial with the exhibit Lesley College Alumnae: Decades of Art Making. March is Women’s History month and every year the Women’s Center has an exhibit in Marran Gallery showcasing women and art. As we planned for the 2010 show and sorted through the various ideas presented, we began to think about connecting this year’s exhibit to Lesley’s Centennial celebration. The arts have always been an integral part of the Lesley University community and we have heard anecdotally about Lesley College alumnae who included art in their lives in many ways. So we decided to invite a few of these women to exhibit their art at Lesley University so they could share their work with a wider audience.

Lesley College Alumnae: Decades of Art Making exhibits a wonderful variety of visual art forms – sculpture, quilts, prints, fabric art, photographs, and paintings. Each of our artists has chosen to spend some part of her busy life making art. And our artists have been engaged in creating this art through the decades, with some of our artists on the Lesley campus fifty years ago, in the 1950’s. Some of the works, such as the quilts by Mary Ann Boddum and Sandy Keller, represent art forms traditionally created by women but thought about in a contemporary way. Quita Schillhammer has used traditional hooking techniques to create a contemporary purse. Chun Mei Du captures her heritage in her paintings on rice paper and shows us women in timeless, familiar poses. Our earliest graduate, Ann Lange, represents nature in her metal sculptures and Amy Robinson lovingly captures the barns that are disappearing across New England. Jean Winslow’s monoprints reflect some of the pensiveness and mystery in a woman’s life and Jennifer O’Neil’s abstract watercolors encourage us all to pause and reflect on life’s more contemplative aspects. And “Athena”, which Michelle Gardella describes as her self portrait which “depicts my struggle to balance life as a mother, artist, wife, woman, human in American society” might reflect the challenges all of these artists found as they chose to include art-making in their lives.

We look forward to seeing more of their work in the decades to come and we celebrate this glimpse into the talents of a few Lesley College alumnae.

By: Beth Chiquoine