Regis College Fine Arts Center

10/09/2023

We’re just one week away from the opening of our next exhibit, ‘Visibility Studies’ by artist ! Joanna will be displaying works in our Carney Gallery from October 16th-December 2nd. Gallery hours are 10am-4pm Monday through Saturday, including holidays.

We will be holding an opening reception on October 26th from 5:30pm-7:30pm where you will have an opportunity to meet Joanna and hear her talk about her works. Please stop by and congratulate Joanna on this amazing project she has been working on! We will also be holding a virtual artist talk on November 21st at 5pm. A Zoom link will be posted in Pride Points, or you can email [email protected] to register.

'Visibility Studies' is a body of work that examines the meaning of hypervisibility and invisibility in relation to safety. Through the lens of an Asian American and an asexual woman, interdisciplinary artist Joanna Tam approaches her inquiry by making blankets and a garment from used safety vests (to represent hypervisibility and safety) and green screen material (to represent invisibility). Using video, photography, and installation as her medium, she explores the nuances of visibility and vulnerability for people at the margins and the oppressed. Her investigation also includes camouflage, surveillance, and the survival strategies used by animals through coloration and mimicry.

While it is crucial to increase the visibility of people who have not been seen historically, it is not that simple. To some people, being very visible in public spaces could potentially put them in danger due to systemic oppression and inequalities. For instance, the history and the stories of Asian Americans have been erased and silenced for a long time in this country. Asian people are invisible until they are hypervisible to become the scapegoated "other." This happened to Japanese Americans during WWII, South Asians after 9/11, and someone who looked like Tam during the Covid-19 pandemic. What does safety mean? Whose safety takes priority? These are the questions the artist is asking in this project.

03/07/2023

On March 14th, come see nursing student, Isabella Clark-Alderman ‘26, speak about her art exhibit! Her artist talk will take place in FAC 305 at 11am, and the exhibit will be up on the 3rd floor of the FAC from March 14th-April 7th. Come and show your support!

05/15/2020

The final work in our online exhibit, Convergence: Storytelling through the Arts and Sciences, is a piece by faculty member Doug Anderson, “La Catalogne Français.”

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05/11/2020

Next up in our online exhibit, Convergence: Storytelling through the Arts and Sciences, is a piece by faculty member Heather Josselyn-Cranson, “Mercury Transit.”

05/08/2020

Next up in our online exhibit, Convergence: Storytelling through the Arts and Sciences, is a piece by student Shelagh O'Neill, "Emotional Anatomy."

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Thanks for following our virtual exhibit! We may have a few bonus posts next week, so keep an eye out!

05/04/2020

Next up in our online exhibit, Convergence: Storytelling through the Arts and Sciences, is a piece by student Jacob Prado, "How Art Can Move Us: Exploring the Physiological Reaction to Music." Check out the video here:

youtu.be/8x5FryiA9vI

05/01/2020

Next up in our online exhibit, Convergence: Storytelling through the Arts and Sciences, is a piece by the students in the Sunflower Room at the Regis College Children's Center!

04/30/2020

BSO at Home! Check it out!

BSO at Home: sharing a collection of wonderful BSO performances with our fans in Boston and around the world.

04/29/2020

Local artist Eben Haines created the gallery as a way for artists to show their work despite pandemic related closures and stay-at-home orders.

04/27/2020

Next up in our online exhibit, Convergence: Storytelling through the Arts and Sciences, is a piece by the students in the Snapdragon and Daisy Rooms at Regis College Children's Center!

The Seven Summits: Climbing the Highest Mountains on Each Continent

04/27/2020

Next up in our online exhibit, Convergence: Storytelling through the Arts and Sciences, is a piece by the students in the Snapdragon and Daisy Rooms at The Regis College Children’s Center!

The pre-kindergarten students in the Snapdragon and Daisy Rooms at The Children’s Center enjoyed learning about the tallest mountains on each continent using STEAM. The children and their teachers began this lesson by researching the tallest mountains on each continent using their classroom iPads. They composed a list of each of the mountains, researching their heights, distinguishable features and locations. The children continued their exploration through using world maps, pictures, and videos.

The project began by painting a large canvas to represent the ocean through blending and layering colors using a various brushstrokes to resemble the features of water. To represent the land aspects of the continents, the students ripped and glue a variety of textured paper and adhered them using a technique of mode podge. Once dried, the continents were cut out and attached to the canvas. Construction was started on creating each of the mountains. The teachers determined a scale to use and helped the children measure the virtual height of each mountain. Newspaper, tape and paper mâché were used to construct the each of the mountains. Once the mountains were dry, the children used photographs of each mountain to reference and determine the colors needed for each particular mountain. The children used varying colors of brown, green, grey, white and even blue and purple. To represent the peaks of the mountains, a mixture of shaving cream and glue was made and added to the tops of each mountain. Once the mountains were attached to their corresponding continent, the children assisted in constructing a track made of paper towel tubes to connect the mountains together, beginning with the tallest mountain and ending with the shortest. There was much excitement in the end, being able to watch the end result of their marble being able to start at one point and reach an end point. So much enthusiasm was displayed by the children in being able to have a hands-on experience with a project drawn out for over a period of a few weeks with a fantastic end result!

This was such a fun and interesting way to introduce the fundamentals of STEM learning to 4, 5, and 6 year olds and show them how combining science, technology, engineering, math and adding in art (STEAM) can enable them to be creative, to problem solve, and to think in different ways.

04/24/2020

Next up in our online exhibition, Convergence, is a piece by students Ashley Mena and Amanda Graf. Take a look through the photos of their piece, The Healing Heart: A Series of Love Poems Through Paper Mache, and read about their process below!

" 'In the abstract, art is often practiced either to make sense of our reality or to create a manifestation of the consciousness of the artist itself. Science, on the other hand, is an exploration of the world around us in an effort to find universal, indisputable truths.’
- Zayan Guedim, "How Art and Science Intersect"

In short, art is often introspective while science is extrospective. You might say art is used to understand the consciousness while science is used to understand the external reality. For our project, we decided to create a real-life human heart out of paper mâché. The paper mâché strips used for this project are cut-up poems from one of our favorite poets, Rupi Kaur. We selected poems from her book, The Sun and Her Flowers, and we specifically chose poems that related to the heart, love, and breakups. While designing our paper mâché heart we decided to make the heart look like it had fallen apart and then was repaired again, as Rupi Kaur writes a lot about heartbreak and overcoming heartbreak. When creating our heart, we started by blowing up a balloon about halfway and then tying a knot. After this, we printed out the poems we chose fit best with our project and cut them up into strips. Then we filled a large bowl with water and filled it with red food dye and dipped the strips into it to give them a red/pink color. After the strips dried, we mixed a large bowl of flour and water to make paper mâché and dunked them into it, and then overlapped them onto the balloon. Once this dried we splattered a bit more red food coloring onto the balloon and let it dry. To finish the project, we cut up straws and covered them with paper mâché strips and then hot glued them onto the heart to represent the valves and ventricles."

We just have a few more weeks left in our online exhibit release. Follow us on all our social media pages to stay updated on what is to come!