[DAC] Fwd: Allan Rohan Crite/MacDowell Colony Event Free on Saturday

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> From: "Kirsten Alexander" <alexander at bostonathenaeum.org>
> Date: November 13, 2007 4:23:02 PM EST
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> Subject: Allan Rohan Crite/MacDowell Colony Event Free on Saturday
>
> Hi all-
>
>
>
> The Boston Athenaeum is hosting two free art events on Saturday,  
> November 17th that I’d like to invite the DAC board and members to  
> attend.
>
>
>
> The first is a celebration of the life and art of Allan Rohan  
> Crite, the magnificent South End artist who died in September at  
> age 97. I’m not sure if any other artist has ever captured a  
> neighborhood so well, and over such a long period of time. Crite  
> particularly painted African-American “every day” people, usually  
> out in the streets pushing prams, coming home from school, reading  
> the news. Yet his work always transcends the daily.
>
>
>
> There will be a shuttle running from the Athenaeum (10 ½ Beacon  
> near the State House) to the BPL (Copley Branch) and the Museum of  
> the National Center of Afro-American Artists from 11-4 on November  
> 17th. Each site will have an installation of Crite’s work; the  
> Athenaeum has about 20 pieces up on the first floor, including more  
> than a dozen paintings. There is also an art exhibition of 19th and  
> 20th century work in the gallery. I will be here at the Athenaeum  
> during the afternoon.  The celebration was organized by Mr. Crite’s  
> widow, Jackie Cox-Crite and the Allan Rohan Crite Research  
> Institute and Library. Jackie visited First Parish during  
> Dorchester Open Studios.
>
>
>
> Also on Saturday at 1:30, the Boston Athenaeum’s Associate Member  
> Council (that’s the young’uns under 41 years old, a group I  
> coordinate) is hosting a screening of four short (and quirky) films  
> about the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH, which is  
> celebrating its 100th anniversary as we celebrate 200 this year.  
> There will be movie snacks, punch, and sherry and a chance to meet  
> some of the MacDowell fellows and board members and pick up an  
> application.  MacDowell provides an artistic retreat to people with  
> all kinds of art projects, including visual artists.  I would love  
> to see someone who attends this apply for a Fellowship! Please let  
> me know if you and a friend would like to attend as my guests.   
> (You do not need to be under 41, don’t worry.) I’d be happy to show  
> first-time visitors around the historic building as well; it’s  
> really a work of art itself. http://www.macdowellcolony.org/
>
> http://www.bostonathenaeum.org
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>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Kirsten Alexander
>
> Day job:
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> Marketing & Communications Officer
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> The Boston Athenaeum
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> 10 1/2 Beacon St. Boston, MA 02108-3777
>
> alexander at bostonathenaeum.org
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> 617.720-7654 direct
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> www.bostonathenaeum.org
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