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Welcome to the Desk Project. In the time honored tradition of taking a simple object or form and having skilled artists and artisans create something new out of it the Desk Project was born.
MCLA has asked twelve local artists to take as their canvass one of twelve antique wooden desks that were found in Murdoch Hall during the recent restoration work. Each artist can create whatever they want out of this desk, as long as the genesis for the work is the original desk. One artist is creating an art piece that is eight times the original size of the desk. Another’s maybe eight times smaller.
The artists involved are Kate Bae, Danny O, Ven Voisey, Sean Riley, Nick Zammuto, Edward Cating, Laura Christensen, Greg Scheckler, Richard Criddle, David Lachman, Debora Coombs and Carolyn Ryder Cooley. Jim Stakenas, Vice President of Academic Affairs at MCLA will be restoring a desk to it’s original state.
The desks will be on exhibit in MCLA’s Galleryi 51 located at 51 Main Street in downtown North Adams from November 3rd through December 1st. On December 1st at a celebratory event open to one and all they will be auctioned off to raise funds for a Fine and Performing Arts scholarship at MCLA.
The project was curated by MCLA’s special program coordinator Jonathan Secor along with gallery manager Sean Riley, MASS MoCA associate curator Nato Thompson, Contemporary Artists Center’s gallery and residency manager Ven Voisey and Dr. Christine Condaris of the Fine and Performing Arts Department at MCLA. Gallery 51 is open Thursdays through Sundays from 11a to 6p and is staffed by MCLA students Diana Cardosa, Amelia Wood and Kara Perry along and the retired Episcopal priest Rev. James Harkins.
For more information please call Jonathan Secor at 413-662-5362.
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