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By Ria BrodellJanuary 29, 2018 0

Inside/Out : Ria Brodell

Big Red & Shiny is pleased to welcome Boston-based artist Ria Brodell to our residency series, Inside/Out. Brodell’s painstakingly rendered gouache paintings depict pre-twentieth-century historical figures who strayed outside their assigned gender and sought alternative ways of living. “Butch Heroes” memorializes their…

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By Chanel ThervilNovember 16, 2017 1

Inside/Out: Part 3 | Visual Articulations of Joy

“A book, or a work of art [culture] cannot by itself change the world, but by asking the questions that matter, it might attempt to be an act of articulation against violence, both the brutal and casual kinds. It might…

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By Chanel ThervilSeptember 14, 2017 0

Inside/Out: Chanel Thervil | Visual Articulations of Pain

Big Red & Shiny is pleased to welcome Chanel Thervil as our next Inside/Out artist in residence. Working in sculpture, painting, installation, and public art works, Thervil balances roles of visual artist, community activist, and arts educator. Her newest body…

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By Ross NormandinAugust 17, 2017 2

Inside/Out: I Cut My Own Hair Now

Enter, sit, read magazine, wait. Then—hair cut. The thought of having a conversation with a stranger while they touch my head and cut my hair has always given me anxiety. I’ve never actually had to go through that because my…

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By Ross NormandinJuly 19, 2017 0

Inside/Out: Like New Plants, They’re New Friends

Every Saturday morning I water plants and draw cartoons. Before that I drink coffee and eat a quick breakfast, usually toast. My watering can was produced by Union Products, Inc. in Leominster, which was a major plastic manufacturing city in…

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By Ross NormandinJune 22, 2017 0

Inside/Out: Ross Normandin

Inside/Out is Big Red & Shiny’s artist-in-residence series, offering a space for artists to write about their ideas, research, and challenges, and publish their inspirations, obsessions, creative experiences, and insights. Unlike an ‘Open Studio’ format, which is often predicated on…

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By Dell M. HamiltonApril 4, 2017 0

Inside/Out: Adventures in the Archive: Zora Neale Hurston, and the “Lost City”

I shall always be grateful to Honduras, though for it has given me back myself. I am my old brash self again. -Zora Neale Hurston, Puerto Cortes, Honduras, May 20, 1947 Being a fan or scholar of Zora Neale Hurston…

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By Diana Jean PuglisiSeptember 14, 2016 0

Inside/Out: Last Month, Now, Later, Whenever

These are glimpses of my experience and thoughts recorded in my journal from my time as an artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center (VSC) last month. While reading my journal I reflected on what I had been feeling at the time…

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By Diana Jean PuglisiAugust 11, 2016 0

Inside/Out: Translating Transition

Today, I am in transition. My art, my home, my studio, my day jobs, and my community are all in flux. I recently moved to New Jersey from Boston and then left shortly after to come to Vermont for a…

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By Caitlin DuennebierApril 4, 2016 0

Inside/Out: Caitlin Duennebier

After hiatus, Big Red & Shiny is pleased to continue Inside/Out, our artist-in-residence series. Inside/Out last ran during 2012 through 2013, and offered a space in which artists could discuss their studio practice and work. In this new iteration, a…

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By Heather KapplowMarch 9, 2016 9

Confessions of a First Time TransCultural Exchange Conference Go-er

I’m a Boston artist with an ever-growing body of under-documented work, more or less addicted to the process of artmaking. I’ve been lucky enough to get a few invitations to produce work elsewhere, including within artist residencies, and found these…

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