Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Day 134 - BHS Art Department Welcomes Guest Artist Randy Garber - Mark Sullivan, BHS Principal

This post originally appeared on Principal Sullivan's Blog



Thank you to Ms. Chang for organizing and securing a grant from The Burlington Education Foundation to allow for Randy Garber to work with students at BHS. The following information about Randy's residency is from Ms. Chang's Blog:

Local artist and printmaker, Randy Garber will complete a five day artist residency with all of my Design and Drawing and Painting students. During her residency students will learn how to create a wide range of prints using the intaglio press.

The Cambridge Street Gallery is currently displaying seven of Randy's works. She will be at BHS on Friday, April 4, April 11, May 2, May 9 and May 18.



Randy Garber has exhibited prints, paintings and mixed media installations nationally and internationally and is included in numerous public and private collections including The Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the Decordova Museum, Boston Athenaum, the Boston Public Library; the Karp Cancer Research Building, and the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf in Portland, ME.

She is a 2011 recipient of the Traveling Fellowship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and has received grants and awards from the Puffin Foundation, the St. Botolph Foundation, the Capelli di Angeli Foundation, Somerville Arts Council and several other sources. She is a published author of articles in Arts Media, the Journal of Communication Arts and Contemporary Impressions, the Journal of the American Print Alliance.
Her most recent solo exhibition, Made in Translation, was at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 2010 she had two solo exhibitions, which were reviewed in Art New England among other publications. She has been a guest artist at Princeton University and currently teaches Printmaking at the Massachusetts College of Art.




Thank you to the Burlington Education Foundation for funding this project.

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