Where MassArt and Brickbottom Meet

I am excited about participating in this collective exhibition. It gives me the opportunity to show work  from an ongoing project,  FOOTPRINTS. For this showing, I have selected  a grid of six 11"x 17"  mixed media panels. 
The piece is inspired by topographical maps of the ocean floor, first created by geologist, Marie Tharp in the 1950's. I used images found on NASA, Columbia University websites, among others.  Modified first on my computer using Photoshop; and  when printed,  with graphite and pastels.  The texts, equations, and images of methane molecules, rising seas and temperatures that I have added refer to the effects of global warming on the oceans.

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FOOTPRINTS: Variations on a collaboration with Soffia Sæmundsdóttir and Elva Hreidarsdottir, May-November 2016
A version of  the collaborative piece was shown at DUUS, Reykjanes  Art Museum in Keflavik, Iceland,
November 15, 2016 - January 15, 2017.  Our collaboration will continue.

• CREATIVE CROSSROADS  celebrates the artistic overlap between Massachusetts College of Art & Design  faculty and alumni and the Brickbottom Artist Association (BAA) membership.  Twenty-eight artists are represented.  Known as MassArt, Massachusetts College of Art and Design is a publicly funded college of  visual and applied art founded in 1873. It is one of the oldest art schools, the only publicly funded free-standing art school in the United States, and was the first art college in the United States to grant an artistic degree. I taught at the college for many years and continue my connection through friends still teaching there.  I am delighted to be exhibiting with these artists and others that I know from Brickbottom in Somerville MA, where I have my studio.
  

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