[DAC] FW: Art Talk

[Joyce Linehan]

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From: Donna Neal [mailto:Donna.Neal at umb.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 11:55 AM
To: joyce at ashmontmedia.com; Laura Montgomery; andrealynns at comcast.net;
Harbor Art Gallery; Margaret Hart
Subject: Art Talk 
 
Who's at the Table Today? 
 
Considering the Boston Art Scene 
With Kathleen Bitetti & Barbara O'Brien
 
Come hear two influential Boston voices on art share 
 their perspectives on the Boston art scene today
Thursday, December 6 at 7PM 
at Emmanuel College
400 The Fenway, Boston
Administration Meeting Room
Administration Building, Room 116
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
 
 
Kathleen Bitetti has been the Executive Director of the Artists Foundation 
since 1992.  She is also the director of the Lillian Immig Gallery at
Emmanuel 
College.  From 1989-92, she was the director of the Harbor Gallery at the 
University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she received a BA in Economics
and Art.  
Bitetti has been exhibiting her conceptually and politically based 
installation art since the 1990s.  She has exhibited at Mobius, the
Somerville Museum, 
New Bedford Art Museum, and many other galleries.  In 2005, her work was 
included in Pretty Sweet, a group exhibition at the DeCordova Museum, which 
currently holds her work in their permanent collection.  She has been an
artist in 
residence at the Fuller Museum, the Essex Art Center, and the City of
Quincy. 
 
Barbara O'Brien is Assistant Professor of Art and Music and Director of the 
Trustman Gallery at Simmons College.  During the 2005-6 academic year, she
was 
a Visiting Scholar at The Women's Studies Resource Center at Brandeis 
University where her topic of research was "Self-defined variables of
success for 
mid-career women artists." She is a published critic and scholar. From
2002-2006 
she was the Regional Reviews Coordinator and Editor-in-Chief of Art New
England 
Magazine.  She is currently the New England Alliance Coordinator for 
ArtTable, an organization of executive women in the arts.  O’Brien holds a
BA in 
Women's Studies and BS in Journalism from the University of Kansas, and an
MFA in 
Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design.  She was awarded the 
National Alumni Award for Professional Achievement from RISD in 2006.
 
 
 
Donna M. Neal
Associate Director
Student Life
University of Massachusetts Boston
617-287-7958
HYPERLINK "mailto:donna.neal at umb.edu"donna.neal at umb.edu
 
" Half the American people have never read a newspaper. Half have never
voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."  --  Gore Vidal
 

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