Saturday Open Studio - December 28, 2024
Free with Museum Admission
Saturday
December 28, 2024
1 - 4 pm
Bertucci Education Studio
Symbols of Connection
Families may be complicated, but they inform who we are, who we choose to be, and with whom we choose to share our experiences.
Get creative in the Bertucci Education Studio and create an abstract woven portrait of family, designed by Polly Thayer Starr Visiting Artist Daniela Rivera. Celebrate the family you have chosen to be part of or express the ties that pull you in any direction. Embark in a graphic and colorful adventure in which you'll weave together two images or colors to create a new unity and symbol of connection.
Image courtesy of Daniela Rivera
About the Artist
Photo courtesy of the artist
Born in Santiago, Chile, Daniela Rivera received her BFA from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 1996 and her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston in 2006. She is currently Professor of Studio Art at Wellesley College. She has exhibited widely in Latin American cities including Santiago, Chile, as well as in the United States at the Davis Museum, the Fitchburg Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She was awarded residencies at Surf Point, Proyecto ACE in Buenos Aires, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Skowhegan School of Paintings and Sculpture. She was the recipient of notable fellowships and grants including The Rappaport Prize, Now + There, the Massachusetts Cultural Council Award, VSC, the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, The FONDART in Chile, and the Saint Botolph Club Foundation Distinguished Artist Award. Recent exhibitions include: Donde El Cielo Toca La Tierra/Where the Sky Touches The Earth at Matucana 100 in Santiago, Chile;, Praxis of Local Knowledge at the San Francisco Art Commission; and New Worlds: Women to Watch at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, as well as an upcoming solo exhibition at MASS MoCA. Rivera works from the experience of displacement and from her reality of cultural hybridism. She is a cultural producer who challenges the construction of stereotypes or categories that discriminate, isolate, and violently define other's identities. She works with ideas of displacement, memory, and cultural migration to celebrate difference and reject categorization. Rivera builds, paints, and draws spaces to be vulnerable together where she hopes to celebrate difference and cultural exchange.
Studio activities are made possible by the Polly Thayer Starr Charitable Trust. The Museum is also supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which receives support from the State of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Polly Thayer Starr (1904-2006) was an accomplished artist who captured the culture and whimsy of her native Boston with a unique combination of detail, emotion, and curiosity. For more, visit the Polly Thayer Starr Charitable Trust online at www.pollythayerstarr.org.
