Happy Independence Day from all of us here at CCAE. We’re closing up our buildings tomorrow, with a special weekend schedule to account for the holiday:
Saturday, July 5th - Classes will run at 12 Plympton Street (including FRHS-04). Brattle and Blacksmith House are closed.
Sunday, July 6th - Classes will run at 42 Brattle Street. Our regular open studio will also meet at 56 Brattle Street
The registration office will be closed Friday thru Sunday.
In the late 90s we used to host faculty readings here, events where writing instructors would get together and read from the projects they were working on. Judith Nies, one of our teachers, read a piece about her experience working as a congressional assistant in the late 60’s (a first for a woman at that time). That piece grew into a book that was just published, The Girl I left Behind - A Narrative History of the Sixties. Porter Square books hosts a publication party for her tomorrow, June 19, at 7:00 p.m. C-SPAN might show up for a taping.
One spring evening in 1968 as we were leaving the courts, we ran into a former classmate of Mac’s from Yale. Paul Gorman would eventually leave the political world to collaborate with the guru Ram Dass (aka Richard Alpert, A52) on such spiritual classics as The Only Dance There Is. But then he worked on Capitol Hill as the chief staff assistant for a group of liberal congressmen who were the key congressional opponents of the Vietnam War. When he asked what I did, I told him I was a lobbyist for the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, the oldest peace organization in the country. “That’s a great organization,” he said. Astonishingly, not only had he heard of WILPF but he knew its members included the only two American women to have won the Nobel Peace Prize. He thought for a moment. “You should apply for my job,” he said. “You have the right background.” I was speechless. No women I knew worked as professionals on Capitol Hill. “I mean it,” he said. “Send me your résumé, and I’ll pass it on to the right people.”
You can read more about Judith and her book at her website: judithnies.com.
The Globe published an article today on an interesting group of whites in Boston who meet up each month to talk about race. You can read the article here. It also mentions CCAE’s White People Challenging Racism class, which begins this Summer on June 18th.
Phil Press began the Studio School in 1994 in response to student demand for a serious nonacademic alternative for adults to traditional art schools. Several of our students have continued on to become acclaimed artists, and many continue to develop their craft here, each term. This month you can see the work of students and faculty at 42 Brattle.
Concept store in Harvard Square is selling limited edition Nike ‘Lobster’ dunk pakages. Sneaker fiends from all over have begun lining up outside the store for the goods, which release tomorrow, May 31st. The line has wrapped its way up Church street now, and started forming yesterday. From nikeskateboarding.org:
Concepts will be releasing their collaborative Nike SB “Lobster” Dunk on Saturday, May 31st. The shoe, inspired by the seafood heritage of New England, will be available in a limited edition set, available exclusively at Concepts. The first 200 pairs, which include the limited packaging, come equipped with a lobster claw rubber band, a tee shirt, a condiment box (which includes lobster shell cracker, fork, bib, an extra set of laces, and wet nap) and a poster, all put into a traditional paper bag used by typical, New England lobster retailers.
Not only will the packaging and bag be branded with the “Concepts Fishing Company” graphic, but the release at Concepts will also be catered by Legal Seafoods, who will be providing lobster appetizers. The release will be followed by a raffle for some additional exclusive goodies. The special pack will be extremely limited to 200 pairs, and will retail for $150 USD and the first 50 pairs will come with a special, limited edition wooden box.
Wendy Liebman, a very funny comedienne, has appeared nationally on late-night and comedy shows. She’s also a former CCAE student, who took a comedy class here before becoming a national act.
Wendy will be joined by local comics in a benefit for Community Works. Here’s a video of Wendy on the Rosie O’Donnell show:
For tickets and info, contact Community Works at: (617) 423-9555 or visit: www.communityworks.com.
Students in Skip Schiel’s photography workshop are exhibiting their work studying light on the Charles River. During the fall of 2006, they went to four locations from the source of the river to the mouth. With keen attention to the unique qualities of the fall light they explored how to see and portray the landscape.
Each of them created images starting from the same conditions—time and place. The exhibit reveals the multitude of light effects: shadow, reflection, chiaroscuro, high contrast, direct light, and subdued light.
If you’d like to see the work, visit the Massachusetts Audubon Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary from May 4th thru the 30th. It’s located at 280 Eliot Street (Rt. 16) in Natick.
The Blacksmith House Printmakers are a group of artists that have been working with Selma Bromberg in her printmaking classes. They do monotype, solar etchings, and other printing methods, yielding beautiful results that you really have to see. Their work will hang at 42 Brattle through the month of May.
Here Kate walks us through a solar etching of a tree that she’s worked on.
Join Kate and her classmates at the exhibit reception this Friday, from 5:30-7:30, at 42 Brattle, and take a look at the wonderful work they’ve been doing.
In the late 90s we used to host faculty readings here, events where writing instructors would get together and read from the projects they were working on. Judith Nies, one of our teachers, read a piece about her experience working as a congressional assistant in the late 60’s (a first for a woman at that time). That piece grew into a book that was just published, The Girl I left Behind - A Narrative History of the Sixties. Porter Square books hosts a publication party for her tomorrow, June 19, at 7:00 p.m. C-SPAN might show up for a taping.
