dParty co-hosted by MassArt

Mary Hale

Mary Hale is co-organizer of the dParty and is one of three co-chairs of Common Boston.

Mary is a recent graduate of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning where she completed a Masters degree in Architectural Design. While at MIT, Hale developed considerable experience designing and constructing one-to-one scale projects meant to engage the human body. A few examples include "Squidwurt”, the eight-legged cephalopod stool, "The Monumental Helium Inflatable Wearable Floating Body Mass”, and "Itinerant Home".

The latter two projects represent Hale's experience and credibility as a designer and maker of highly innovative wearable inflatables. These inflatables and Hale's installation work have been recognized in international art, design and technology publications ranging from the MIT Technology Review to Arcade to Clam, a Parisian fashion and culture magazine.

Andy Meyer

I am a sculptural clay artist who has recently graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design under the professorship of Janna Longacre, Ben Ryterband, and Sarah Williams. My most recent work is focused around the book as an object of personal and psychological exploration. I implement methods of hand-building and slip casting into my work, which is low temperature fired clay. Artist Site...

Tacey Luongo, AIA

Through an architect's eyes, these images reflect an intense curiosity and appreciation of the urban world. Taken during world travels, Tacey will always stop to capture and hold something fleeting with her camera.

James Hull

James Hull is an artist, gallery director, critic and an independent curator. He currently teaches in the photo department at AIB at Lesley University and is Gallery Director of the Suffolk University Art Gallery at NESAD. He founded the award winning artist-run, non-profit, Green Street Gallery in a subway station in Jamaica Plain, Boston in 1998 after moving to Boston from Atlanta Georgia in 1996. James has exhibited widely working in video, sculpture, photography and painting. He currently curates and directs three exhibition spaces in Boston: Laconia Gallery, The Suffolk University Art Gallery and FP3 Gallery.

Cynthia Kozdeba

Cynthia Kozdeba is co-organizer of the dParty.

Cynthia Kozdeba, architectural designer and sculptor, is influenced by the great architects and artisans of the world. While living in Italy and England, she developed a deeper appreciation for magnificence historic structures. Her current work, ceramic architectural relief drawings, bridge the gap between architectural science and artistic realization while stressing the importance of architecture as an art form. Join her FB group...

Dana Clancy

Dana Clancy's paintings are about the act of looking and the construction of a viewing experience, both in regard to the viewer in the museum as a subject and in the way her paintings are made. Writes independent curator, Rachael Arauz, "In these works, Clancy often situates her viewer at the disorienting edge of balconies to foreground the spectacle of looking, and the diminished presence of paintings on the walls suggests the highly constructed nature of viewing art in these galleries. Details such as cameras, maps, and guidebooks in the hands of the figures playfully, yet subtly, allude to the mediated nature of museum-going.

Emily Beattie

Emily Beattie is a Boston based choreographer and performer. She is making work at the intersection of dance and technology while pursuing her MFA at the UCLA World Arts and Cultures/Dance department.

Leah Giberson

My current body of work falls somewhere between the worlds of photography, painting and collage. Beginning with photographic prints of seemingly ordinary and mundane scenes, I then paint directly upon them to distill and reveal the visually poignant moments that exist all around us, but are often overlooked. I received my BFA in painting from MassArt in 1997 and have had recent solo exhibitions at Rare Device, San Francisco (2010), Nahcotta, Portsmouth (2009, 2010); Gallery M, Boston (2009); and Office PDX, Portland, OR (2008). My next show will open at Nahcotta on July 1st, 2011. Artist Site...