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american / woman project
Betsy Miller’s american / woman project begins with a fundamental question: what does it mean to be a woman? Doubling down, Miller adds, what does it mean to be a woman in America? She directs her questions to at least one female-identifying dancer from each of the fifty states and together with them, creates a kinesthetic biography of sorts for each dance artist.
“It’s the boldest idea I ever had,” says Miller, an associate professor of dance and music at Salem State University and the 2023 ...
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Newsletter article on Death of Print, Zero Toys Exhibition
New England Sculptors Association Celebrates 75th Anniversary
NESA 75th Anniversary Story
Pop Punk Revival Finds Its Beat on The Umbrella Stage in Head over Heels
Article by Pam Ellertson
Hitting The Umbrella’s stage April 15th is Jeff Whitty’s juke box musical Head Over Heels, which juxtaposes some of the Go-Go’s most iconic pop-punk classics against a book originally published in 1593 -- an unexpected pairing to say the least. But after watching an earlier production of the two-act show and finding it impossible to go without laughing or dancing for longer than three minutes, one wonders if the Oscar-nominated and Tony-award winning playwright, scree...
What Goes Around, Comes Around on Ben Eberle’s Potter’s Wheel
Master class ceramics artist and teacher Ben Eberle will lead a two-day workshop at The Umbrella Arts Center this weekend. In doing so he is returning to the place that literally shaped his life and career back when he threw his first pot in an Umbrella art studio as a young teen.
“I didn’t even know what a potter’s wheel was,” said Eberle of his first experience with ceramics. As an eighth-grade student at the Fenn School in 1993, he traveled with the rest of his class of all boys to The Umb...
Needham actress finds time in ‘Tuck Everlasting’
At just past 7 p.m., on a chilly November evening, 14-year-old Madi Shaer stands center stage rehearsing her leading role at the Umbrella Arts Center’s upcoming production of Natalie Babbitt’s classic story “Tuck Everlasting.”
Dressed in white sneakers, black leggings and a long-sleeved striped T-shirt, the only detail of her comfortable outfit distinguishing her age from that of her adult cast mates is the small white bow fastening her long brown hair.
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The art of change: Vermont artist helping transform Minute Man park
By Pamela Ellertson / concord@wickedlocal.com
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The past is ever-present at the Minute Man National Historic Park. This fall, however, the park’s focus turns toward the future; especially what changes the future might hold.
As part of the park’s first-ever Artist in Residence Program, Vermont-based environmental artist Nancy Winship Milliken posed the question: “What change would you like t...
Kids’ Ninjas class at Umbrella teaches art of awareness, survival skills
The nature and martial arts after-school program the Umbrella Community Arts Center began offering last year is called Ninjas in Nature. But the name is almost an understatement.
Within the first 20 minutes of the NiN’s recent meeting on a sunny spring day in a wooded area just off Lowell Street, several Ninjas were spotted. Some were high up in an ancient sugar maple tree, while others dashed through a meadow playing a game called Lizard Tail, while still others hung targets that they would ...