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    Ruth Cobb, at 93; paintings evoked a dreamlike state  Feb 3, 2008
    After graduating from Dorchester High School for Girls in 1931, she entered Massachusetts College of Art and graduated in 1935. While there, she met Lawrence Kupferman, another art student. (Boston Globe)

    Jen Trute, the reluctant painter  Jan 21, 2008
    As a student at the nearby Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, she expressed that same ambivalence about committing to a life as a painter. Trute shifted back and forth from an emphasis on fine art to commercial art during her time there. (San Diego Union-Tribune)

    Student and his family open up on toll of depression, risk of suicide  Jan 17, 2008
    Haas, who plans to study photography next fall at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, said it was time for someone to speak up about an issue that, according to national estimates, affects more than 2 million American teenagers every year. "I'm happy to do it, especially since no one else seemed to be doing it," he said in an interview last week, wearing cargo pants and work boots in the living room of his family's home in Needham. (Boston Globe)

    Blogging under 21  Jan 3, 2008
    Massachusetts College of Art: The variety of events at Mass Art is impressive, including musicians who play "progressive, avant, often electronica-based music ranging from dance-pop, to metal, to abrasive noise-music," Pearl says. He also notes that "their shows are always all ages, and are usually five bucks to enter." Pitchfork-feted "indy-dance pop-culture kingpin of our generation" Dan Deacon is scheduled to play the Pozen Center on Jan. 31. (Boston Globe)

    Investing in education  Dec 26, 2007
    Similarly, a proposed Design and Media Center will help keep the Massachusetts College of Art and Design at the front ranks of design education, an increasingly important economic engine. At the state's 15 community colleges, the bond bill will fund construction of new allied health buildings on four campuses as well as the complete modernization and rehabilitation of science and general academic buildings on most of the remaining campuses. (Boston Globe)

    Fashion Blog  Dec 21, 2007
    In order to post on any of our blogs you must first with a log-in and valid email address and we encourage you to create a profile (). Affordable luxuries for the holidays at tiniest store in Portsmouth. (Seacoast New Hampshire)

    Charlestown's Green Cafe explores polar attractions  Dec 14, 2007
    "They re meant to be notations of the light," says Siebel, who is on the faculty of Wellesley College and the Massachusetts College of Art as well as the visiting faculty of Harvard University and Rhode Island School of Design. "The light is beautiful, the kind of light I ve always been dreaming about," she says. (Westerly Sun, RI)

    Baby clothes make a political statement  Dec 13, 2007
    "The parents are saying 'Look at me. I'm talking politics with my toddler,' " said Sondra Grace, head of fashion design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. " 'My baby is in the movement.' ". (Boston Globe)

    Jack Nolan, unusual blend of an artist, scientist; at 83  Dec 4, 2007
    Jack Nolan was president of Massachusetts College of Art in Boston ... The hemispheres that harbor logic and creativity each prospered during a career that began at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory, where Mr. Nolan was head of the computer systems group, and leaped across the divide when he became president of the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston ... While the school searched for a more expansive campus to accommodate the growth, it fought to remain... (Boston Globe)

    lobbying heavily to become UMass-Salem  Dec 1, 2007
    The other colleges seeking to change their status are Bridgewater State, Fitchburg State, Framingham State, Westfield State, Worcester State, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and Massachusetts Maritime Academy. All but five states, including Massachusetts, call their public colleges universities. (Allston Brighton TAB, MA)

    Keynotes for Nov. 29  Nov 29, 2007
    A 2001 graduate of Massachusetts College of Art with a BFA in filmmaking, Kessler works with a view camera, using black and white film, which he processes and prints himself. His high quality, fine arts photographs have been shown in museums and galleries throughout the world. (Hudson Sun, MA)

    Public colleges want to graduate to university status  Nov 25, 2007
    In addition to the Bridgewater and Salem state colleges, the nine public colleges are Fitchburg State, Framingham State, Westfield State, Worcester State, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and Massachusetts Maritime Academy ... Most of the colleges would probably decide to become universities, but the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and Massachusetts Maritime Academy would probably keep their current... (Boston Globe)

    Growing number of foreclosures creates a new scam  Nov 25, 2007
    He teaches the craft at the Massachusetts College of Art. Smith settled deep into the home. (Boston Globe)

    A helping of 'October Road'  Nov 22, 2007
    Boston animator David Schlafman's minute-long public service announcement on global warming has won a national contest and landed the Massachusetts College of Art alum a new Toyota hybrid SUV. "It's absolutely insane," Schlafman told us yesterday. "I'm literally walking two inches off the ground." Schlafman's spot - "The Sky Is Falling" - was picked by the public in online voting after being selected as one of 20 national finalists by a panel of celeb judges that included George Clooney, Cameron... (Boston Globe)

    Girl power by the book  Nov 15, 2007
    Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Kennedy Building, Room 406, 621 Huntington Ave. or. Send your campus events to. (Boston Globe)

    Hottest suburban dad alive  Nov 15, 2007
    A local animation director, the Massachusetts College of Art alum is one of 20 finalists in a major global-warming public-service announcement contest called, dramatically enough, "60 Seconds to Save the Earth." The bad news is that the deadline for voting has passed. The good news is that George Clooney and Cameron Diaz are the celebrity judges, and both have cartoons in their backgrounds - Clooney in "South Park" and Diaz in "Shrek." The winner, who'll be announced next week, gets a Toyota... (Boston Globe)

    CRITICS' PICKS VISUAL ARTS  Nov 11, 2007
    "A Room With a View: The Photography of Abelardo Morell" at Amherst College's Mead Art Museum includes 32 images by the Cuban-born photographer, who also teaches at Massachusetts College of Art + Design. Career retrospectives are rarely this small. (Boston Globe -- Living)

    Fans charged in Fenway frenzy submit essays  Nov 9, 2007
    In her essay, Monica Majewski, an 18-year-old student at Massachusetts College of Art, said she was arrested only because she was unable to get out of the way of a line of officers marching down Park Drive. She described the bewilderment and bitterness she felt when she was forced to the ground by two large officers and restrained with plastic ties. (Boston Globe)

    TEMPO: Tang:From the Fire Tower new exhibit  Nov 3, 2007
    (Use arrows above to view more photos) Searle received her training at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, where she earned her bachelor of fine arts degree and studied privately with Vern Broe in Richmond, Maine. In 2002 she won the Best of Show award for her oil painting Red Noon in the Newburyport Art Association Members Juried Competition. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)

    Ordinary becomes extraordinary  Nov 2, 2007
    Morell, who teaches photography at Massachusetts College of Art + Design, can also use the technique for comedy. "Camera Obscura Image of Manhattan View Looking West in Empty Room" is a study in incongruity. (Boston Globe)

    Cultures unite at Hindu festival  Oct 29, 2007
    On Saturday, Northeastern and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS) hosted a celebration that featured live music, food and a variety of dances at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design gymnasium. Students at other Boston-area schools, like Boston University, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had already held their celebrations. (Northeastern News, MA)

    O'Brien's blog  Oct 26, 2007
    The Massachusetts College of Art and Design student and his buddy passed on standing-room only seats to Game 1 on Wednesday, believing they d get good seats if they stayed overnight and moved up to the front of the line, which, by the way, was about 600 strong, all the way down the block, four or five across, by Thursday afternoon. Sam, who s from Eliot, Maine, had slept in a tent overnight, and was wearing the same clothes he wore when he got here at 1 p.m. Wednesday. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)

    Column: Missing bike stirs mixed emotions  Oct 22, 2007
    The bicyclist was Gordon Riker, a 22-year-old Massachusetts College of Art and Design graduate. The afternoon of April 4, he'd been riding his fixed gear from his Jamaica Plain apartment to a job on Newbury Street when a collision with a taxi threw him under the wheels of a dump truck. (Northeastern News, MA)

    For fliers and weavers, it's good to be home  Oct 22, 2007
    Carroll, a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art, and fellow artist Linda Gilbert, an alumnus of the Rhode Island School of Design, teach the participants the weaving techniques, tailoring the various duties to each individual's capability. Carroll stresses, however, that it is not a weaving class as much as it is job training. (Pawtucket Times, RI)

    Broad new strokes for an art school  Oct 11, 2007
    But in recent years the school has faced increased competition from other art schools such as Massachusetts College of Art, Maine College of Art, and New Hampshire Institute of the Arts, said Laura Tonelli, the school's dean of academic affairs. This, along with increased program offerings by public and private colleges, contributed to the shrinking enrollment, said Sturnick. (Boston Globe -- Local)

    Massachusetts, by design  Oct 9, 2007
    "Design is an economic sector that doesn't act like an economic sector," says Beate Becker, project director of Designing an Industry, an initiative launched this year by the Massachusetts College of Art and Design using state and Boston Foundation funds. With an advisory committee of members in government, business, and education, the initiative seeks to raise design's profile. (Boston Globe)

    Muriel Cooper: The unsung heroine of on-screen style  Oct 1, 2007
    Born in 1925, she originally joined MIT as a designer after graduating from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1952. Some of the books she designed for the MIT Press - like Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour's "Learning from Las Vegas" (1972) and Herbert Muschamp's "File Under Architecture" (1974) - are on every design buff's must-have list. (International Herald Tribune)

    A bold exhibit of Mexican street art  Sep 28, 2007
    "Sensacional! Mexican Street Graphics," a superficially vibrant exhibition at the Massachusetts College of Art + Design, promises a taste of authentic regional visual cuisine ... At: Massachusetts College of Art + Design through Dec. 1. (Boston Globe)

    Police chief to end law enforcement career after three decades  Sep 27, 2007
    Garvin took up acting after seeing a buddy do it at the Massachusetts College of Art. He joined a theater group there, was in several plays, and has been an extra in Showtime's "Brotherhood," as well as in several films, including "21" and Ben Affleck's upcoming directorial debut, "Gone Baby Gone.". (Boston Globe -- Local)

    The art of alignment  Sep 23, 2007
    He spent a year learning English and then began taking courses wherever he could: the Massachusetts College of Art, Emerson College, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. He received bachelor's and master's degrees from the Massachusetts College of Art and decided to enroll in a Phd program at Boston University. (Boston Globe -- Local)

    The queens of quads  Sep 19, 2007
    At home, their first exposition bout against the Providence league took place on St. Patrick s Day 2006, in the gym at the Massachusetts College of Art. It seated 600 people, and we sold out in the first 10 minutes, McCloskey said. (Wilmington Advocate, MA)

    One man's 17 million words inspire an opera  Sep 15, 2007
    Tonight through Sunday at Tower Auditorium Theater, Massachusetts College of Art. 617-899-4261. (Boston Globe -- Living)

    Say hello to ellO  Sep 15, 2007
    "I graduated from Massachusetts College of Art, where I got my degree in fashion design," said DiLando. "Both of my grandmothers sewed, and my mother's mother made wedding dresses for all of her friends. I started by making clothes in high school, then I decided that it was something I could make a career out of.". (Seacoast New Hampshire)

    Birth control ills  Sep 14, 2007
    The Massachusetts College of Art in Boston used to offer the pills for free, but no longer provides them at all. Congress should act quickly to amend the 2005 law and encourage drug companies to resume the deep discounts for colleges and other clinics. (Boston Globe)

    Photographer Abelardo Morell is focus of new documentary ''Shadow of the House''  Sep 13, 2007
    An internationally acclaimed photographer who teaches at Massachusetts College of Art, Morell has to deal with them in his work. He also has spent his life living in the shadow of Cuba, which he fled with his parents and sister in 1962, when he was 13. (Boston Globe)

    Violinist joins Seattle's rotation  Sep 10, 2007
    They are professors of design at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and graphic designers. The local presentation of the show is being organized by the director of SDSU's University Art Gallery, Tina Yapelli, along with Susan Merritt, who heads SDSU's Graphic Design Program. (San Diego Union-Tribune)

    Art and science merge in northern horizons show  Sep 10, 2007
    Jane Marsching, an assistant professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, integrated culture, history and science to remark on ecological concerns. She founded her work on the belief that the northern regions, and the North Pole in particular, represent something in our imagination, whether absolute wilderness or a spiritual summit. (Anchorage Daily News)

    Allan Rohan Crite, 97, dean of N.E. African-American artists  Sep 8, 2007
    Mr. Crite also took classes at Boston University and Massachusetts College of Art. In 1968, he earned a bachelor's degree from the Harvard Extension School. (Boston Globe)

    URI exhibit focuses on our soldiers headed to war  Sep 8, 2007
    A Chicago native, Beckett earned an MFA in 2006 from the Massachusetts College of Art. She is now an instructor there and at the University of Connecticut. (Westerly Sun, RI)

    Art for our sake  Sep 2, 2007
    "We don't need the arts in our schools to raise mathematical and verbal skills - we already target these in math and language arts. We need the arts because in addition to introducing students to aesthetic appreciation, they teach other modes of thinking we value.For students living in a rapidly changing world, the arts teach vital modes of seeing, imagining, inventing, and thinking. If our primary demand of students is that they recall established facts, the children we educate today will find... (Boston Globe)

    More of this story  Aug 25, 2007
    Dolan graduated in May from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston with a degree in photography. For the Middletown resident, her adventurous youth played a large role in her investigating the art behind a camera lens. (Newport Daily News, RI)

    From simply adorable to deliciously sophisticated  Aug 6, 2007
    Here in Boston, we've seen it in two recent exhibits of work by Japanese artists: Shintaro Miyake's "Beaver No Seikatsu" at Massachusetts College of Art, which involved the artist walking around in public in a beaver costume, and at the Institute of Contemporary Art in the cheerful, doll-filled installation by Japanese artist Misaki Kawai. There are some frustratingly adorable pieces in this show, such as Chinatsu Ban's "Fish Eyes -- Sixth of Ten Brothers," a fiberglass elephant with a pert... (Boston Globe -- Living)

    Winners Announced for 2007 Adobe Design Achievement Awards  Aug 4, 2007
    In the Interactive and Web Design category the winner was Kyle Phillips of Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and the finalists were Carolin Horn of Massachusetts College of Art in Boston with Florian Jennett of the Academy of Art and Design Offenbach am Main in Germany, and William Ismael of the Art Center College of Design. In the Live Action category the winner was Sean Dekkers of Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, N.Y., and the finalists were Marcos Ceravolo of Vancouver... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Battles moves up from the underground  Jul 15, 2007
    Either way, Konopka says, he's thrilled with the way "Atlas" seems to grab people, from online fans down to "the sorority girl at BC, who caught the video on YouTube." And he knows from the motivational college anthem -- he attended Massachusetts College of Art, and played in a longtime Boston band called Lynx. Battles, which plays the Paradise on Wednesday, is still finding its footing nationally. (Boston Globe -- Living)

    Seeing the light in a maverick's new work  Jul 8, 2007
    in 1945, Jenney attended the Massachusetts College of Art from 1964 to '66. After starting out as an abstract sculptor, he turned to painting. (Boston Globe)

    Local newscasts seek the best colors for HDTV, credibility, and ratings  Jul 7, 2007
    Lisa Rosowsky , a professor at the Massachusetts College of Art , says there is a limited color palette that designers could use for television. She says some colors -- such as red and blue, the hallmarks of WCVB, WHDH-TV (Channel 7), and WFXT-TV (Channel 25) -- clearly work better than others, because they project different messages. (Boston Globe -- Living)

    Group shows build on architecture and science  Jul 5, 2007
    Dismantling the cell walls Part carnival fun house, part biology lesson, brought to you by the high-tech wizardry of the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art, the spooky and delightful "Endosymbiont" installation at Axiom Gallery aims to transform the space into a cell. The show, curated by Dana Moser and featuring work by Jerel Dye , Jake Lee High , Sean O'Brien , and Fred Wolflink, won't please biology purists. (Boston Globe)

    Building a chain of sights and sounds  Jun 16, 2007
    Spyridopoulos and Petraitis went to Massachusetts College of Art at the same time. While there, Spyridopolous mounted a similar project in a performance hall. (Boston Globe -- Living)

    Accused bike thief nabbed in police sting  Jun 15, 2007
    Stevens, who just graduated from Massachusetts College of Art, said she is grateful for the officers' efforts and will upgrade her bike. "I'm going to get a basket and a bell," she said. (Boston Globe)

    Quiet end for C.F. scholarship fund  Jun 15, 2007
    Over the years, 19 students received CFST scholarship awards as they moved on to state schools like the Community College of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College and the University of Rhode Island, as well as such private institutions as Bryant University, Roger Williams University, New England Institute of Technology, Massachusetts College of Art, Northeastern University and Georgetown University, among others. Briden as time went on partnered with Credit Union Central Falls, recently renamed... (Pawtucket Times, RI)

    The final cuts  May 3, 2007
    School: Massachusetts College of Art, fashion design programAge: 23Hometown: East BostonInspiration: "In high school I learned how to sew and I loved it. Now I love it more and more. Three years ago I made a dress out of 5,000 plastic shirt clips. It was a bit heavy, but totally wearable."Up next: "I want to go to New York and work in fashion. I want to go to graduate school eventually, but the work experience will help me decide my direction."The goal: "To have my own line. I don't know how... (Boston Globe)

    She can't bring same-sex date to Catholic high school prom  Apr 27, 2007
    For Rosanne, who won Best Hair in her class of about 250 students and has made a name for herself painting and arranging sets for the school's plays, it's a hollow sendoff as she plans to attend Massachusetts College of Art in the fall. At least, she said, the school reimbursed her for the $55 ticket she paid for her date. (Boston Globe -- Local)

    Hand-crafted 'zines' still speak volumes  Apr 23, 2007
    Enough that last month's zine fair had to turn people away, said Janaka Stucky, organizer of the event, which was held in a large room at the Massachusetts College of Art on Huntington Avenue. "We're going to try to get the gym next year," said Stucky, director of Black Ocean, a small, independent press. (Boston Globe -- Local)

    The sharper image  Apr 20, 2007
    He signed up for a welding and metal class at the Massachusetts College of Art, and found himself taking more classes to get access to the school's workshop. He was making metal sculpture and furniture, primarily teaching himself through trial and error. (Boston Globe)

    Framing their degrees  Apr 13, 2007
    Painter, Massachusetts College of Art ... Photographer, Massachusetts College of Art. (Boston Globe)

    As big as life itself  Apr 13, 2007
    She also holds a master's in art education from the Massachusetts College of Art. Gabriel's medium of choice is oil and pastel on canvas. (Mail Tribune, OR)

    A dogged imagination  Apr 12, 2007
    Wegman began painting in 1985 for the first time since his student years (he graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1965). It's not the most captivating dimension of his enterprise, but like his work in drawing and photography, it is engaging for its restlessly exploratory play with process, image-making, abstraction, and illusion. (Boston Globe -- Living)

    Patrick selects MMA trustees  Apr 12, 2007
    Only four of the nine state colleges have a member of an ethnic minority on their board of trustees - one each at Framingham State College, Massachusetts College of Art, Westfield State College and Worcester State College. Currently, women account for 11 percent of the academy's total student population, while minorities make up 3 percent, a spokesman said. (Cape Cod Times, MA)

    You've probably never heard of Genevive McMillan  Apr 2, 2007
    Recently, McMillan, born in a village in the French Pyrenees, created a scholarship for a Massachusetts College of Art student to travel abroad each year. "If I had stayed in my native town, I would never have seen African art," McMillan said last year in an interview with her friend, Donald Kelley , a Charlestown artist. (Boston Globe)

    Griffin Museum of Photography readies 'Photosynthesis II'  Apr 1, 2007
    Hana Skirkey, who participated in "Photosynthesis" and is now a freshman at Massachusetts College of Art, also singles out the session with Nordstrom. "Meeting and talking with her was amazing, she has so much energy.". (Boston Globe -- Living)

    Students receive $20,000 scholarships  Mar 30, 2007
    McAvoy, a budding artist, applied to five schools, including Pratt, San Francisco Art Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, Massachusetts College of Art, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She doesn't know where she will go yet, but is leaning toward Massachusetts College of Art. (Millbrook Round Table, NY)

    Japanese installation artist Misaki Kawai uses dolls to exhibit a playful approach at the Institute of Contemporary Art  Mar 27, 2007
    The light, fun, and childlike qualities of Kawai's work echo that of Shintaro Miyake , whose "Beaver No Seikatsu" at the Massachusetts College of Art last year entailed the artist genially walking around in public wearing a giant beaver costume. The two also share a disregard for the kind of meaningfulness that can make art great, but can also occasionally sap the joy out of it. (Boston Globe)

    Stanley Cook, 92; his art captured trains, helped save landmarks  Mar 20, 2007
    His interest in art took him to the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, from which he graduated in 1936. For a time, he worked as a lithographer, Folsom said, for Anderson Brothers in Springfield, Ad Service Engraving Co. in Worcester, and Forbes Lithograph Co. in Chelsea until enlisting in the Army in 1941. (Boston Globe)

    State hasn't acted on public college perk  Mar 17, 2007
    For different reasons, three state colleges -- the Massachusetts College of Art, Bridgewater State College, and Framingham State College -- have done away with housing allowances in the past four years ... Massachusetts College of Art rolled President Katherine Sloan's housing allowance into her salary. (Boston Globe)

    John Mahoney, art teacher, community activist  Mar 12, 2007
    After graduating from Massachusetts College of Art in 1959 , he was traveling with officials from the Cardinal Cushing Center in Boston as a lay apostolate for the Catholic Church when he met his wife, Antonia (Rodriguez) , in Jayuya, Puerto Rico ... He also taught night courses at Massachusetts College of Art in the 1980s. (Boston Globe)

    Gillespie's paintings show life and breadth  Mar 8, 2007
    She founded the Computer Arts Center at Massachusetts College of Art and cofounded the collaborative Digital Atelier. Her trademark is her willingness to experiment with technique and process; it seems she's always doing something new. (Boston Globe -- Living)

    It takes two: Green Foundry fosters collaboration  Mar 8, 2007
    met during their intensive study of foundry at Massachusetts College of Art (www. massart. (Seacoast New Hampshire)

    WIN A DRESS!  Mar 5, 2007
    MIRIAM PERLOV 22, Boston, senior at Massachusetts College of Art ... SUJUNG CHO 23, East Boston, senior at Massachusetts College of Art. (Boston Globe)

    A fashionable walk in Milan  Feb 23, 2007
    (The Massachusetts College of Art grad grabbed the Oscar for "Bugsy" in 1991. We tried to text Haigh yesterday, but she was busy working on "Charlie Wilson's War," director Mike Nichols's flick starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. (Boston Globe)

    Arthur W. McMurtry, 97, artist, teacher of painting  Feb 15, 2007
    He graduated from Massachusetts College of Art with a bachelor of arts degree in 1932 and a bachelor of science in 1934, she said, and received a master's from Boston University in 1939. He began teaching in 1934 and taught in a few communities before moving to Rindge Technical School in Cambridge five years later. (Boston Globe)

    Back in fashion  Feb 15, 2007
    "You'd have shows by someone like [renowned designer] Denise Hajjar ," says Sondra Grace , head of fashion at the Massachusetts College of Art. "Then you'd run to another show and it was clear that the dresses still needed work. Jay would have a full calendar of shows for the week, but I think it was hard for him to make sure the quality of the shows was consistent.". (Boston Globe)

    As suspects smirk, friends cite gentle side  Feb 3, 2007
    Berdovsky graduated in December 2005 from Massachusetts College of Art with a bachelor's degree that was completed with distinction. Stevens also took courses at the art school, his grandmother said. (Boston Globe)

    Man who installed images says they were art  Feb 1, 2007
    Berdovsky's lengthy resume boasts a 2005 bachelor's degree completed "with distinction" at the Massachusetts College of Art, his second-place finish at the college's 2004 All School Show, and a merit scholarship he received from MassArt in 2000. On his website, he also described himself as a music producer and video music producer. (Boston Globe)

    Suspicious Sign Scare Hits New York City  Feb 1, 2007
    In Boston Thursday morning, 28-year-old Peter Berdvosky, a Massachusetts College of Art student and a partner, Sean Steves, were expected to be arraigned for planting the devices. Michael Rich, Berdovsky's lawyer, said it was all a big misunderstanding. (CBS 2, NY)

    BPS grads struggle with freshman year  Jan 25, 2007
    The study also reported that the grades of public school graduates at the examined institutions -- which included Berklee College, Bunker Hill Community College, Massachusetts College of Art, Suffolk College, the University of Massachusetts and Wheelock College -- appeared to suffer because of long commutes from off-campus housing and working long hours to pay tuition. Boston Public Schools spokesman Jonathan Palumbo BPS has implemented "fairly comprehensive" reforms at the high school level to... (Boston University Daily Free Press, MA)

    Their new station in life  Jan 7, 2007
    Kayser started AXIOM fresh out of Massachusetts College of Art, where she did most of her work in the Studio for Interrelated Media. Students there create work incorporating the Web, digital video, interactive media, and such elements as dance, music, and theater. (Boston Globe -- Living)

    Today's Obits  Jan 4, 2007
    She was educated at Vesper George School of Art, Boston, 1949; Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, B.S. 1954; The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, M.F.A., 1979. She was active in the arts in New Hampshire since her first one-woman show, Nashua Public Library, 1948. (Seacoast New Hampshire)

    Notes from the Wunderground, and more  Jan 1, 2007
    And for a darkly comical and fiercely didactic exhibition at the Massachusetts College of Art, Sam Durant re-created dioramas from a defunct Plymouth wax museum in order to debunk deceptively benign myths about the Pilgrims and Indians ... Three thematic exhibitions in Boston focused on the impact of new technologies on art: "Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology , and Contemporary Art" at MIT, "Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art" at the Rose Art Museum," and... (Boston Globe)

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