Yinette Guzman-Architecture Alum

We had a series of Alums visit Compass recently for our lunchtime workshops.
Today Yinette Guzman gave a talk. She is currently working at internationally renowned architecture firm Moshe Safdie and Associates. She won this postion before she graduated from MassArt last year.

Congratulations!

Trina Urrata is a major in the Glass department and has been notified of a number of awards. She has won a William Wyman Fellowship, a full scholarship for a 2 week glassblowing class at Haystack, the Penland Flameworking Scholarship founded by Jim and Judy Moore for a 2 week flameworking class at Penland School of Crafts and a partial scholarship to Corning Museum of Glass.

Cedric Douglas won a competitive scholarship to travel to China/Japan with the Graphic Design department.

Alexander Barbosa has won the Roy Brown award, selected for his outstanding work by the Studio Foundation Department.

I Shall Moulder before I Shall Be Taken

Mercedes Evans presented the film: I Shall Moulder before I Shall Be Taken. This documentary is about the research her husband-David Evans did with Allen Counter on the African Tribes in Surinam, South America. These tribes waged a successful rebellion over 300 years ago against their Dutch captors. We had a discussion about the difficult reality of cultural preservation and modernization and its effect on these tribes.

Hall of Black Achievement (HOBA)

Stephen Hamilton was recognized at the 21st celebration honoring student achievers at Bridgewater State College. He is an honor student in the illustration department and the current student government representative for the major. He is an active member and treasurer of the Black Artist Union and a member of the student advisory board for multiculturalism. He is a Teacher in the Art A La Carte Program, which provides free art classes for Boston Public School students. He has exhibited in the Brant gallery, Doran gallery, Student life gallery, and the presidents gallery at Massart as well as the Piano Factory Gallery in Boston and Roxbury open studios at Massart.

TENZIN YIGNYEN

Compass students enjoyed a visit from Tenzin Yignyen, a Tibetan Buddhist monk. He constructed a mandala sand painting, a powerful tool for Tibetan Buddhist meditation, from millions of grains of colorful sand. It was then dismantled as a teaching on the development of Great Compassion and the Nature of Impermanence.

Noah Stout, a Compass Graduate Mentor made a wonderful film on Tenzin's visit:
http://www.noahstout.com/mandala.mov

Compass Last Day of the Semester

Students attended the last day of Compass getting feedback and sharing work from final projects.
We looked at work from Drawing, Visual Language and Self Portraits from Art History.
Photography and Graphic Design majors also updated us on recent work.

Daniela Marte

Drawing & Self Portrait