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TransCultural Exchange’s 2011 Annual Report

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2011 ANNUAL REPORT

Executive Summary

In 2007, TransCultural Exchange thought to bring the world to Boston for our first Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts. The idea was to provide a forum for American to learn about opportunities to interact with their international peers, find ways to launch their careers abroad and expand their horizons beyond their studio walls. What we didn’t expect was that such a large number of the attendees would go on to do just that.

Emboldened, we tried the experiment again. And then, further encouraged by the second experience and a newly formed international advisory board, we did the same this year—on a scale that still leaves me astonished by how large the dream has grown. The number of speakers at our 2011 Conference nearly tripled, the days doubled and the locations quadrupled. Concerts, readings, exhibits, a screening program and over 600 portfolio reviews were added; and, focusing the panels into topic-oriented sessions proved to be a huge success.

Now, with six years of data from Conference surveys and evaluations, we can show that nearly 70% of our attendees receive direct, tangible outcomes as a result of the Conferences alone. (When considering those participating in both a Conference and another TransCultural Exchange program, this percentage increases to over 80%). For instance, since 2009 five artists have secured teaching appointments, three Fulbright grants, four curatorial jobs, three arts administration positions, and more than 150 artists received exhibition invites. More specifically, the Cambridge Judith Motzkin was awarded a from the Latin American based ArtCorps. Internships were offered to volunteers, such as Kitty Huang who was invited to work at the Taipei Artists Village (TAV) in the summer of 2011. Two Boston musicians performed at Beijing’s Central Conservatory. And, nearly 50 local artists participated in residencies in France, Malta, Iceland, South Africa, Romania, , Greece, Korea, and South Korea. (These typically include free studio space, room, board, an exhibit and the ability to directly engage with an international community, from 2 weeks to a year).

According to the 2011 post-Conference surveys, more than 50% of the respondents noted that the Conferences provide “greater geographical exposure” (63.6%), “expanded local networks” (54.2%), “expanded international networks” (69.9%) and “new collaborations” (54.2%). More than 25% noted increased sales and over 48% said that they received new commissions or job offers.

Typically, such international experiences are generative and sustaining. As the Amherst artist and Anne La Prade wrote about her invitation to show at Shanghai’s Zendai MoMA: “The experience opened my eyes up to a new and fascinating culture. This was the first visit to for myself and the other three artists. During our two-week stay, we met , artists and had the chance to travel, all of which left an indelible impression. This incomparable experience opened up new directions in my studio practice, expanded my professional contacts and has led to invitations to speak and present at other institutions.” Similarly, Newton-based artist Ellen Schon was invited to Finland’s Hovinkartano Art Center’s residency, which led to another in Croatia and further exhibitions in the US, Finland, Germany, Romania and . Additionally, Cambridge-based Blake Basher sold his first works (including to a museum) at his first residency in Romania last year.

Arts organizations (which represent over 30% of the conference attendees) also profited. Local galleries, such as Somerville’s Nave Gallery, noted increased sales. Sponsors, such as MassArt, saw an increase in applications; universities, such as the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, set up partnerships for exchange programs with ’s Kanoria Art Center and Istanbul’s Koc University, among others. Local institutions benefited from lectures and critiques made by the Conference speakers. Students made valuable contacts as Conference volunteers; for example, all of the a/v volunteers received at least one residency invite. Other arts organizations repeatedly noted gaining “new artists for their programs,” “awareness of new resources” and “increased visibility.”

We are proud of these results; and, realizing the growing importance of these Conferences, we are exceedingly grateful to our Board of Trustees, Advisory Board and volunteer staff, whose tireless efforts made all this possible. With their advice and kind generosity, we enter 2012 determined to ensure our Conferences’ continued success.

Mary Sherman TransCultural Exchange’s Executive Director

Gordon Amgott Thaddeus Beal Bonnie Clark Dan Gregory Mary Sherman Joanne Silver Maggie Stark TransCultural Exchange’s Board of Trustees

Ute Meta Bauer Mario Caro Jean-Baptiste Joly Machiko Harada Kayoko Iemura Johan Pousette TransCultural Exchange’s Advisory Board

FINANCIAL REPORT

All financial decisions are made by TransCultural Exchange’s Board of Trustees. The mission of the Board of Trustees is to formulate the policies for the organization, monitor execution of those policies and support the staff in the fulfillment of the organization’s mission through the oversight of finances, healthy governance and oversight of all TransCultural Exchange’s activities and programs. The actual execution of the organization’s programs are the responsibility of the Director and staff.

The advisory board, appointed in 2010, serves to help the director with the organization’s programming and provide support and advice. The organization’s staff consists of the director, a freelance webmaster, part-time assistant and intern, all of whom volunteer a minimum of 50% of their time. In addition, the organization draws upon its vast global network for conference speakers and workshop hosts and conference partners for both Conference and attendant exhibits and program support.

TransCultural Exchange is extremely grateful to its Conference sponsors: the Asian Cultural Council; Boston University's College of Fine Arts; Massachusetts Cultural Council; John and Abigail Adams Arts Program; Northeastern University; Massachusetts College of Art and Design; Boston Cultural Council; Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University; Art New England; Art Papers; Artspan,; the Consulate General of Israel to New England; the Embassy of Sweden in Wahington, DC; I-Park School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Studio Art Centers International (SACI); Bank of America Matching Gift Program; Consulat Général de France à Boston; Délégation du Québec à Boston; French Cultural Center of Boston; Richard Lappin and Julia Rabkin; Mercantile Bank and Trust; Second Street and Associates; and swissnex Boston, Consulate of Switzerland.

TransCultural Exchange also 2ould like to thank Acme Studios International Residencies Program; the Alliance of Artists Communities; American Airlines; Art New England ; ArtistStay; BerkshireFineArts.com; Boston College; the Boston Public Library; Cankiri Karatekin Universetsi (Turkey); Canvas Fine Arts; Consulate General of Denmark (); Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge, LLP; Emmanuel College; Goethe-Institut Boston; Hallspace Gallery; the Harding House; the Irving House at Harvard; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Koç University (Turkey); Massachusetts College of Art and Design; Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Program in Art, Culture and Technology; Northeastern University; over, under; the Point Way Inn; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies; the Rookwood Inn; Swiss Air; University of Massachusetts, Amherst's Hampden and Central Galleries; and the Zamir Chorale for their advertising and/or in-kind support.

This program is supported, in part, by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, a local agency funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and administered by the Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism and Special Events.

BUDGET SUMMARY

TransCultural Exchange 2011

BUDGET SUMMARY TransCultural Exchange 2011

Personnel Actual In-Kind Total TOTAL PERSONNEL $37,248 $37,400 $74,648

NON-PERSONNEL EXPENSES Accounting $2,085 $7,200 $9,285 Advertising & PR $4,278 $6,910 $11,188 Bank Fees $337 $0 $337 Catalogue Costs $9,804 $0 $9,804 Conference Refunds $2,330 $0 $2,330 Legal $861 $12,800 $13,661 Meals/Entertainment $917 $0 $917 Office Supplies $975 $1,500 $2,475 Parking $405 $0 $405 Telephone $1,503 $0 $1,503 Postage $784 $0 $784 Printing Costs $4,279 $0 $4,279 Residencies $2,005 $16,400 $18,405 Space Rental $62,955 $8,550 $71,505 Survey $0 $4,000 $4,000 Travel $25,019 $28,776 $53,795 Website $444 $2,000 $2,444 NON-PERSONNEL EXPENSES $116,651 $88,136 $204,787 Total Expenses $153,899 $125,536 $279,435

2011 INCOME SUMMARY Type of Income Actual In-Kind Total Earned Income-Conference $29,455 $0 $29,455 Individual $16,673 $49,318 $13,849 Bank Interest $219 $0 $0 CD $5,297 $0 $0 Corporate Foundation $10,720 $75,693 $86,413 Government $4,000 $525 $4,525 In-Kind/Volunteer $0 $0 $0 Total Income $76,364 $125,536 $201,900 Carry forward from 2010 $89.324, primarily from 2010 Conference income Total Profit Loss; carry forward to 2012 $17,816

EXHIBITION ACTIVITIES

HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE: THE ART OF COLLABORATION

Most of the projects that make up Here, There and Everywhere were presented prior to 2011, when the exhibition catalog was published. For more information, please see TransCultural Exchange’s 2010 Annual Report and the project catalog for a complete listing of all 60 projects, participating artists and venues.

PEOPLE: PSYCHOLOGY

Hominid Venues Ken Weitzman • USA • Author Theater Emory, Emory University • , Ariel de Man • USA • Director Georgia, USA • November 7–23, 2009 Frans de Waal • USA • Scientist European Street Theatre Festival • Detmold, Adam Fristoe • USA • Out of Hand Theater Germany • May 20–23, 2010 Company Artistic Director Burgers Zoo • Arnhem, The Netherlands • May Cees van Gemert • The Netherlands • The 27–June 6 2010 Lunatics’ Producer Oerol Festival • Terschelling, The Netherlands • June 10–19, 2010 Theater Terras • Amersfoort, The Netherlands • June 24–26, 2010 Luna Lab (home of The Lunatics) • Utrecht, The Netherlands • June 29 – July 3, 2010 Armory Free Theatre, The University of • Urbana, Illinois, USA • February 24–26, 2011

PLACE: HISTORICAL

Mauer Spiel (Wall Play) Maggie Stark • USA • Visual Artist Brian Robison • USA • Musician Stewart Clements • USA • Director of Venue Haslla Museum • Gangwon-do Photography Gangneung, South Korea • August 2010 The Goethe Institute • Collaborating Institution

Flüstergewürz Angelika Rinnhofer • Germany/USA • Artist Michael Matthaeus Martha • Germany • Artist Matthias Dachwald • Germany • Curator and Annemarie Rinnhofer • Germany • Homemaker Writer The General Public of Nuremberg. Venues Hauptmarkt • Nuremberg, Germany Museum Industriekultur • Nuremberg, Germany ConcentArt Berlin • July 24–31, 2010

PLACE: PSYCHOLOGICAL

Understanding Space Venue Künstlerhaus • Vienna, • May Eugenia Gortchakova • Russia • Artist 2010 Wladimir Aichelburg • Germany • Historian Jerome Kohn • USA • Philosopher Friedemann Schmidt-Mechau • Germany • Composer Jürgen Weichardt • Germany • Historian Elisabeth Young-Bruehl • USA • Psychotherapist

PLACE: SPIRITUAL

Crossings Nina Yankowitz • USA • Artist Barry Holden • USA • Audio Recorder Mauri Kaipainen • Finland • Interactive Multi- Perspective Media Design, Venues Thessaloniki Biennale (Supported by Frequency Data Algorithm Designer the State Museum-Centre of Peter Koger • Austria • Software Interface Contemporary Art) • Thessaloniki, Greece Designer Ohio State University • Columbus, Ohio, USA • Pia Tikka • Finland • Media Artist, Scientist and 2009 Aesthetic Contributor

PLACE: ECOLOGICAL waterFALL Janice Perry • USA • Performance and Visual Bridge: Cheonggyecheon Stream, Seoul, South Artist Korea • April 2010 Yoko Ishiguro • Japan • Performance Artist Glass of Water: Various locations worldwide • Caroline Wright • England • Performance and June 2010. Visual Artist Waterfootprints: Ueno Onshi Park, Tokyo, Japan and members of the General Public. • July 2010 Trial Balloons: Ipswich Harbor, Felixstowe and Venues (for the different project Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England • May components): 2010 Drinking Fallen Water From Sky• February 2010 30 Feet and Water Under the Bridge: Residue: Tokyo Bay; North Sea; Suffolk, Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England • May England; Seoul, South Korea; Bristol 2010 Harbor, Narragansett Bay and Bristol, Rhode Island, USA ; South Slang and Ferrisburgh, Vermont, USA • March–October 2010

SunFlowers, an Electric Garden Mags Harries • USA • Artist Lajos Héder • Hungary • Artist/Architect Megan Crigger • USA • Consultant and Venue: Mueller Redevelopment, Director of Art in Public Places, City of Austin 1-35 Highway • Austin, Texas, USA • Ann Graham • USA • Project Facilitator in Austin permanently installed 2009 Leo Lopez • USA • Project Manager, Catellus Development Group Brad Patterson • USA • Structural Engineer TBG Landscape Architects • USA • Design Team Collaborator Texas Solar Power, Inc. • USA • Solar Specialists Dennis Steel Inc.• USA • Structural Steel Fabricators spiselig hage atrium (atrium: edible garden) Regina Maria Möller • Germany • Artist Øivind Koppang Eriksen • Norway • Artist Christine Malnes Mathisen • Norway • Artist Venue: Atrium within the building of the Kezia Pritchard • Norway • Artist Trondheim Academy of , Tore Eidebakk Reisch • Norway • Artist Norwegian University of Science and Håvard Stamnes • Norway • Artist Technology • Trondheim, Norway • 2009 Marte Edvarda Tidslevold • Norway • Artist Northbridge / Morten Opøyen • Norway • Atrium Owner Hanne Beate Nilsen and Rita Ellen Didriksen • Norway • Atrium Chefs

PLACE: URBAN

LAF (Light Art Food) Dyan Marie • Canada • Artist Deanna Loewen, Shu Pui Lui, Julia Josephine Kristen Antaya • Canada • Artist Manzo, Stephen Marie-Rhodes, Dougal Bichan • Canada • Artist Laura Elizabeth McLellan, Jesse Shawn Richard Mongiat • Canada • Artist McLinton, Richard Mongiat, Jennifer David Owen • Canada • Artist Monuk, Luye (Mary) Mu, Sasha Nelson, Julie Ram Samocha • Canada • Artist Oakes, Yue (Mike) Pan, Jenine Paul, Orest Tataryn • Canada • Artist Yann Peeters, De Karlo Phipps, Jenna Pilon, and the General Public from and Alexander Robinson, Taras Rybak, beyond, including Shelley Adler, Ram Samocha, Veronika Shelestunova, Anujah Paulina Andrea Acevedo, Ala Al-Thibeh, Kristen Sivakumar, Ray Sun, Kamil Sitnik Antaya, Daniel Au, Peter Daphne Eng Tai, Orest Tataryn, Maria Baczynski, Nikolay Alexandrovich, Belyaev, Tchernikova, Kyle Thompson, Geetha Kaushiki Bhowmick, Dougal Thrairajah, Catherine Vamvakas, Natiea Vinson, Bichan, Natalie Botzan, Laura Briggs, Emily Prashanna Vivekananda, Kristy Elizabeth Bunnett Jones, Michael Wabrik, Andrew Scott Wallace, Christina Anne Capobianco, Jason Tung Wa Chan, Cora Cluett, Wilkinson, Tengteng Zhang, Laura Michelle Contini, Shannon Giovanna Zi Jing Wu and Eddie Zou Ziqing. Dang, Justin D’Entremont, Angela Fang, James Bernard Feiner, Vincent Feng, Venues 123 Pizza, 253469, 3-Chelles, Africa Taylor Lynn Ferguson, Justine Lynne Flanagan- Delight, Barber Shop, Bloor Village Tordjman, Ingrid Daphne Fung, Churasqueria, Café Piccolini, Café Stella, Calico Arthur Goldstein, Nicholas Gooding, Camille Café, Caribbean Queen Graham, Sarah Gudmundson, of Patties, Chito’s Pizza, Clean Rite Coin Moumee Habib, Su Yi He, Robert Laundry, Dales, Crown Furniture, Heatherington, Alyse Hegmans, Michelle Dovercourt Baptist Church, Duffy’s, Holy Oak Heneault, Nadine Janelle Hiemstra, Jenna Café, Function Gallery, Kara Elizabeth Holz, Chloe Huang, Altin Coffee Shop, Latin World Rosery, Mercer Adriaantje Coliene Huisman, Ashley Johnson, Union, Pho My Duyen, Pizza Young Suk Jun, Jennifer Kim, Pizza, Sheger Café, South Asian Dosa Mahal, Penner Katie, Kendra (Yasmeena) Kaynes, Sweet Pete’s Bike Shop, Subway, Victor Kloeze, Catherine Law, Fiona Teekam’s Taste, Three Speed Vena’s Lee, Justin Lee, Kristina Hurdes, Qing Li, Kun Restaurant, and Best Roti in Town • Toronto, (Zac) Liao, Andrea Hanna Lorentz, Canada • November 21, 2009

HEROIC: Boston Concrete 1957-1976 Chris Grimley • Canada • Curator Venue pinkcomma Gallery • Boston, Michael Kubo • USA • Curator Massachusetts, USA • May 2009 Mark Pasnik • USA • Curator

London Biennale in Boston Mary Sherman • USA • Artist and Project Gagnon, Ann Galligan, Nick Geron, Amy Giese, Organizer (with special thanks to Ute Edwin Geissler, Elizabeth Meta Bauer) Geissler, Beatrice Gruendler, Hans Gavin Frome • USA • Art Historian and Project Guggenheim, Mags Harries, Lajos Heder, Coordinator Barrie Howells, Shai Inbar, Meri Jenkins, Craig Kathryn Maloney • USA • Artist and Project Justman, Brian Knep, Stuart Coordinator Kurtz, Carl LaCombe, Cindy Larson, Janet Lee, Laura Chichisan • Romania/USA • Artist and Albert Liau, Ruth Lingforo, Lisa Project Coordinator Link, Daryl Luk, Boris Magasanik, Normand and the following participants (artists and non- Mainville, Elisabeth Marquard, artists) from the USA and Dan McCole, Bryan McFarlane, Snezana Canada, Thomas Adams, Ann Adelsberger, Milanovic, Margot Mims, Liz Musell, Mikki Ansin, Antoni Ansarov, Amanda Officer, Jane O'Hara, Michele Oshima, Caroline Bagenal, Svetlin Bardarov, Cyndi Jim Overly, Larry Phillips, Nancy Baron, Deirdre Barrett, Ute Meta Raen Mendez, Rob Millard Mendez, Daniel Bauer, Thad Beal, Aimee Belanger, Andrea Remick, Robin Remick, Alexander Belknap, Ava Berinstein, Blake Rosemblat, Mark Rosen, Lolo Saccardi, Alison Brasher, Ina Jamuna Breuer, David Lloyd Safford, Sebastian Seung, Brown, Cree Bruins, Carmen Gimenez Julia Shepley, Sloat Shaw, Norah Solorzano, Cacho, Christina Celli, Jim Coates, Jodi Colella, Andi Sutton, Colin Wilkins, Josh Wayne Colella, Susan Cohen, Wisdumb and Joy Wulke. Jenise Copeland, Monique Cuvelier, Walter Crump, Gene Damien, Geeta Dayal, Helen Donis-Keller, Allon Dubler, Venue Hampshire House • Boston, Jesseca Ferguson, Chris Fitch, Michele Massachusetts, USA • August 19, 2010

Peri Peripterou (About the Kiosk) Dimitris Ameladiotis • Greece • Artist Venue: Thessaloniki Biennale (Supported by the Gieorgos Paliatsios • Greece • Artist State Museum-Centre of Contemporary Art) • and the General Public from Greece and beyond. Thessaloniki, Greece • November 13–22, 2009

PLACE: RURAL

Paradise Ready Made Venue: European Night of the Museums, Roberley Bell • USA • Artist Tower Kronprinz, Kaliningrad • Russia • May Danil Akimov • Russia • Technician 2009 Yulia Bardun • Russia • Curator Oleg Blyablyas • Russia • Technician Anastasia Karpenko • Russia • Curator Yevgeny Palamarchuk • Russia • Technician Elena Tsvetaeva • Russia • Project Manager and the General Public, including Yury Frolov, Olag Gooryacheva, Elena Gottsova, Sergey Mirnov, Svetlana Nistratatova, Elena Ryabkova, Ekterina Shamova, Ekaterina Sokur, Irinia Tchesnokova, Elena Tkomorovkaya, OlagYuritsyna, Aleksandra Vitkovskaya and Nadezhda Zezyuilkina.

PLACE: GLOBAL

Ocean Voices Halsey Burgund • USA • Sound Artist Wallace J. Nichols • USA • Marine Biologist Venues Morrison Planetarium • , Cahners Theater, Museum of Science • Boston, California, USA • June 3, 2010 Massachusetts, USA • July 30, 2010

PLACE: POLITICAL

STATE NEEDS: A Collaborative Intervention in Yerevan Roger Colombik • USA • Artist Jerolyn Bahm-Colombik • USA • Artist Vahe Budumyan • Armenia • Artist Venue Corner of Teryan and Northern Avenue Gohar Karapetyan • Armenia • Artist •Yerevan, Armenia • 2010 David, Nubaryan • Armenia • Artist

PLACE: EDUCATIONAL

Voices Beyond Walls Nitin Sawhney • India/USA • MIT Research Fellow and Lecturer Julie Norman • Canada • Professor at Concordia University Venues Woman’s Center, Jabaliya Refugee Anne Paq • France • Photographer and Human Camp • Gaza, Palestine Rights Activist Al Aroub Camp • West Bank, Palestine • Raed Yacoub, • Palestine • MS student at Lund Summer 2010 University

Knowing you, knowing me Venue Uppsala Konstnarsklub • Uppsala, Karmela Berg • Israel • Artist Sweden • November 13, 2010 Eva Ryn Johannisen • Sweden • Artist Kakoli Sen • India • Artist Aldrik Salverda • The Netherlands • Artist

Berlin Wall Project, Freedom Without Walls Mark Cooper • USA • Artist Venue Boston College • Chestnut Hill, with Palestinian, Israeli and Boston College Massachusetts, USA • October 2010 students.

Access2Art Lisa Blake • USA • Artist Venues Frontier Café, Cinema & Gallery, Fort with students at Siddhartha High School in Stok, Andross Mill and Bounce Gallery • Ladakh, India, located in the Brunswick, Maine, USA • October 31–November Himalayas. 30 and February 1–April 14, 2010

THING: POETIC 10 Seconds 1 Bayt

Venues Cell phones throughout Tajikistan • October 2009

Marisa Jahn • USA • Artist Connor Dickie • USA • Scientist, Artist, Inventor and Entrepreneur And the Tajik Public and Poets throughout the world.

An Abstract Poem of Freedom Liliana Folta • USA • Artist Janna Longacre • USA • Artist Venue Munoz Rivera Park • with collaboration from Hubert Caño, Edwin San Juan, • April 2009 Caquias, Hebe García, Luis Ivorra,

THING: MUSICAL After Dark: Finding Eri Asai Benoit Granier • France • Composer, Conductor and Visual Artist Ming Ming Liu • China • Music Therapy 王云飞 (Wang Yunfei) • China • Ehru 雅钰 (Wang Yayu) • China • Pipa Venues Beijing Opera • Beijing, China • 丁雪儿 (Ding Xue’er) • China • Guzheng October 27-28, 2010 莹莹 (Ying Ying) • China • Xiao/dizi 孟中男 (Meng Zhong Nan) / 袁芳芳 (Wang Fangfang) • China • Violin

ARTIST EXCHANGE PROGRAM

AND RELATED ACTIVITIES: NEW RESIDENCY

S.L.A.P. AiR, MARTHA’S VINEYARD RESIDENCY PROGRAM

From September 1-14, 2011, TransCultural Exchange served as the co-organizer of Martha Vineyard’s first S.L.A.P. AiR Residency Program—a new residency program, dedicated to site-specific work. The following artists participated:

Dave Brown, Massachusetts, USA SueJoy Catandella, Massachusetts, USA John Halpern, New York, USA Silvia Heinemann, Italy Johannes Michler, Germany Claudia Miller, /Massachusetts, USA; Germany Amy Nelson, New York, USA Snezana Petrovic, California, USA Kim Radochia, California, USA Katrin Roos, New York, USA Mary Sherman, Massachusetts, USA Ming-Yi Wong, Rhode Island, USA

More information, a detailed description of each project and images are available at http://transculturalexchange.org/expo_vine11_fr.htm

ARTIST EXCHANGE PROGRAM

AND RELATED ACTIVITIES: ARTIST REPORTS

Heather Layton works in the studio at the DFEWA Residency in Mallnitz, Austria

The 2011 Transcultural Exchange Conference on International Opportunities was the single most exciting and productive art event that I have ever experienced. To my surprise, it did not consist of a series of lectures. Rather, it was a fully interactive conference structure that provided a limitless number of opportunities for artists to meet and exchange ideas with residency directors, museum curators, and other artists and arts professionals. As a result, I was invited to participate in two international residencies and three exhibitions.

Last October, I attended the D. Fleiss & East West Artists Residency (DFEWA) in , Austria, with a group of artists from countries including China, Romania, France, Montenegro, Germany, and . For almost two weeks, we lived and made art together in a private chalet with a large backyard studio in the middle of the Alps. This experience expanded my conception of collaboration: while we all worked on separate projects, there was a significant amount of momentum gained by our proximity and by the close relationships that we developed. At any given time, I could see ten other artists working and I could always ask them for feedback. Ms. Dorothea Fleiss orchestrated important career discussions during dinners and organized many outdoor adventures so that we could experience the local environment and culture. We drove to Italy for the Venice Biennale and, at the end of the residency, celebrated with a final group exhibition. In many ways, the experience was a reminder of why I make art.

Thanks to a wonderful mentoring session with Ms. Anne Laprade, the director of the Hampden Gallery, I will be having a two–person exhibition this March at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I will also travel to Samorin, , for a one-month residency at the At Home Gallery after meeting Csaba and Suzanne Kiss. In addition, I had my work included in an exhibition in Potsdam, NY, that was curated by Amy Swartele, one of the artists that I met for dinner during the conference. I have also been invited to create a site-specific work at the Islip after meeting Beth Giacummo, a museum curator, at the DFEWA residency in Austria.

Erase any ideas about conferences you have attended in the past: Mary Sherman has pioneered the new 21st century .

-Heather Layton, 2011 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts attendee

Haslla International Residency Program, September 19th - October 17th, 2011

The first time I came to Boston—for one of the Here, There and Everywhere projects—I had just missed the 2009 Conference [on International Opportunities in the Arts] by days; yet people were still talking about it with a kind of amazed appreciation. I remember wondering how could a, I supposed, boring gathering of “experts” be of help to any artist in search for “opportunities for art”? However, I was so deeply absorbed in my task that I didn’t think more about it: I also was experiencing a parallel reality at the Nexus Machine Shop and Gallery—a famous machine shop in South Boston—held together by a pool of engineers engaged in many projects. The atmosphere was creatively stimulating; and the people were both simply genial and—like Einstein—some kind of geniuses: you could end up at breakfast with people from the M.I.T. talking about some future app; while, at the same time, studying the best way to cook pancakes without a frying pan, amidst puzzled looking cats, books and obsolete computer parts— all in a not so American Housewife—like tidy kitchen.

Then, this year, I arrived in time to follow that very complex event that was TransCultural Exchange’s 2011 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts. Then I understood what it was all about: imagine a three days rush when you could just try to follow the maximum number of events you can grab— knowing that you will then have to synthesize them for, say, months ahead. A well-organized, yet apparently, chaotic sequence of panels, discussions and presentations of everything that rounds around that one obsessive theme: Art. I could also follow that interesting—and very Anglo-Saxon styled—gathering of bright brains that is the Portfolio Reviews, where artists present their work directly to the people that are mostly supposed to be interested in it, for instance, a Director of a Museum in Austria or the organizer of a Symposium in Germany, the President of a Grant Foundation in Australia or the Director of a Biennale in Saudi Arabia.

I can only say that it works: I’m writing this note from Korea, from the International Residency Program at the Haslla Art World Museum, an “international opportunities in the arts“ come true, thanks to TransCultural Exchange’s Conference.

-Rudi Punzo, 2011 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts attendee

Artists' residency program, Arthouse Garana. Garana-Wolfsberg, Romania.

I had volunteered to run the AV systems at the past two TransCultural Exchange Conferences on International Opportunities in the Arts. At the 2011 Conference I had the good fortune of meeting Elisabeth Ochsenfeld, organizer of the Arthouse Garna residency program, which I participated in this July.

Arthouse Garana is in a tiny, one-and-a-half street village in the mountains of western Romania. The program was only ten days long, but they are ten days that will remain with me for the rest of my life. It was so great to interact with artists from around the world, to see how they saw the world and what their art meant to them. For me, as a somewhat younger artist at the beginning of my career, it was also very informative and inspiring to be around artists at all stages of their careers. The group was very warm and inclusive, and despite some difficulties with languages, we all managed to form some form of bond with each other.

Perhaps the best part of the whole thing was just the fact that everyday during the residency all I had to do was get out of bed, go and eat some breakfast and talk to my new friends, and then go paint. In my regular life, I have all these other distractions and responsibilities; it can be hard to maintain that daily regiment of artistic creation that is so important to making progress. At Arthouse Garana, we were provided with three delicious meals a day, plus wine at dinner (and sometimes lunch!). We had comfortable sleeping arrangements and a key to a nicely equipped studio. I was a little disappointed when I realized the only canvases available were smaller than I had become accustom to working on, but even that turned out to be a blessing in that it forced me to try new things. Since I've gotten back, I have continued to work with multiple panels and to primarily paint on horizontal surfaces instead of on an easel. These are both things I probably wouldn't have ever tried if it hadn't been for the residency.

-Blake Brasher, 2011 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts attendee

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING

CONFERENCE ON INTERNTIONAL OPPORTUNITIES IN THE ARTS April 7-11, 2011 at Omni Parker House Hotel

2011 Conference Presenters (Speakers and Moderators)

Antoine Abi Aad is a graphic designer, lecturer and a coordinator at ALBA, the Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Art.

David Adams combines more than twenty years of experience working at the Fulbright Scholar Program and thirteen years as a faculty member at various colleges and universities. Recently, he was given responsibility for extending and expanding the profile of the Rockefeller Foundation-supported Bellagio residencies for artists and scholars. He has extensive experience advising grant applicants on strategies for preparing successful applications.

Azra Aksamija is a Sarajevo-born Austrian artist, architect, and architectural historian. Her broader artistic and academic practice explores representation of Islamic identities in the West, spatial manifestation of identity politics, Orientalism, as well as possibilities of cultural interaction and conflict-mediation through art and architecture. She has published and exhibited work in various international venues such as the Generali Foundation Vienna, Biennial de Valencia, Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, Liverpool Biennial, Witte de With Rotterdam, Sculpture Center , Secession Vienna, Manifesta 7, and, most recently, at the Stroom Den Haag and the Jewish Museum Vienna.

Lynne Allen is a Professor of Art and Director of the School of at Boston University. She is an artist whose works have been exhibited widely nationally and internationally including in the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art Library and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, among others. Her honors include two Fulbright Scholarships (USSR 1990, Jordan 2004-05), two Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Grants, a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant, a Whiting Foundation Grant and a Pew Fellowship finalist. Other honors include a residency at Grafikens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden as well as residencies in Canada, Belgium, Russia, Jordan and South Africa.

Zsuzsanna Ardó is a London-based photographer, writer and curator. She is a member of BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts), the British Association of Journalists, and the Editor of HASNotes. She founded the Hampstead Authors' Society, a social and professional network for artists and authors, and has been its chairman for over 12 years, producing a wide variety of arts events featuring the work of artists and authors from the UK and beyond. Her books, films, photos and articles have been published and exhibited widely internationally. She is also the founding curator of the André Kertész Photography Competition and has served as Jury Chair for numerous international photography competitions.

Dr. Nuit Banai is an art historian and critic with a PhD in from Columbia University who joined Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2007. Her research interests focus on the post-war and contemporary construction of new publics through the visual arts, especially in and the Middle East. Her writings have appeared in catalogues for the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Barbican in London, Artists Space, Bronx Museum for the Arts, and the Americas Society in New York City. She served as Assistant Editor RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics (2002-2005), a Contributing Editor for Art Papers, is a regular contributor to Artforum International, and has written for Art Journal, Frieze, Modern Painters, and Time Out New York. Dr. Banai recently completed a manuscript on Yves Klein for the Critical Lives series published by Reaktion Books.

Judith Barry is the Director/Professor in the MFA in Visual Arts at Art Institute of Boston, Lesley University, an artist and writer whose work crosses a number of disciplines: performance, installation, sculpture, architecture, photography and new media. She has exhibited internationally at such venues as the Berlin Biennale, Venice Biennale of Art/Architecture, Sao Paolo Biennale, Nagoya Biennale, Carnegie International, Whitney Biennale and the Sydney Biennale, among others. Her work is included in such collections as the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Whitney Museum and Pompidou Center. In 2000 she won the Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts and in 2001 she was awarded "Best Pavilion" at the Cairo Biennale. Her publications include Public Fantasy, a collection of her essays, published by the ICA in London. Her project Cairo Stories premiered at the Sharjah Biennial in March 2011.

Marek Bartelik is the President of the US Chapter of the International Art Critics Association (AICA), Vice-president of AICA International, an art historian and specializing in 20th century art and theory of art, with a Masters of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Columbia University and a PhD in Art History from CUNY Graduate Center. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He is the author of To Invent a Garden: the Life and Art of Adja Yunkers, The Sculpture of Ursula von Rydingsvard (with Dore Ashton and Matti Megged) and GDR/DDR: Contemporary German in Portuguese Collections. He is a regular contributor to Artforum.

Mira Bartók is the author of The Memory Palace, an illustrated memoir, published by Free Press (Simon & Schuster). She has also been awarded a Fulbright, an artist/writer- in-residence at Ragdale and Centrum, among others, and has won awards for her art and writing including the Vogelstein Foundation, The Pen-American and Carnegie Fund for Writers. As a visual artist, Mira has exhibited throughout the and abroad, including the Detroit Institute of Art and New York's Franklin Furnace. Mira also lectures on grants and opportunities for artists, writers and musicians and is the founder of Mira's List, a blog for international artists seeking grants, fellowships and residencies.

Ute Meta Bauer is the Director of MIT's new Arts, Culture and Technology (ACT) Program, a merging of the former Center for Advanced Visual Studies and Visual Arts Program. For more than two decades she has worked as an editor and curator, most notably as the artistic director of the 3rd Berlin biennial for contemporary art and as co- curator in the team of Okwui Enwezor for Documenta11. She also has served as director for various art institutions as well an advisor for a number of cultural boards. She is chairwoman of the Art Advisory Board of the Goethe Institutes, a member of the International Scientific Board of the Bauhaus Foundation in Dessau, and, most recently, she was nominated as a member of the International Committee of the 3rd Yokohama Triennale 2008.

Cynthia Baron is a teacher, graphic designer, and writer. She is the Academic Director of the Digital Media graduate programs in the College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University. Previously, she was Technical Director and Lecturer in the Department of Visual Arts (now Art+Design) as well as executive vice president of a Boston-based graphic design studio for more than a decade. Cynthia has edited, authored or co-authored over a dozen books including Adobe Photoshop Forensics: Truths, Sleuths and Fauxtography and Designing a Digital Portfolio, which is in its second edition. She has been a series editor for Rockport Publishers and a contributing editor to the magazines Critique and Computer Graphics World. Cynthia has been profiled or quoted in media ranging from MIT Technology Review to USA Today.

Roberley Bell is an American artist, whose projects examine ideas related to the built environment, exploring the relationship between the manmade and the natural. She has worked internationally, creating both public interventions and gallery exhibits, and is the recipient of grants and fellowships including the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Pollock Krasner and she was a 2010 Fulbright Senior Scholar to Turkey.

Shana Berger is an artist, writer, and curator who lives and works in York, Alabama. Driven by the idea that art can play an integral role in realizing positive social change, her work blends modes of art, activism, organizing, and advertising. Shana is a founder of the artist group and organization Your Art Here, and currently works as Co- Director of the Coleman Center for the Arts. She is a recipient of an Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship, and a Curatorial Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

John Bisbee has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, received numerous awards, including a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant. He has exhibited in a number of museum such as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City.

Kathleen Bitetti is a Boston-based artist, curator and arts/artists activist. Her activism focuses on public policy, advocacy, community building and the development of free or low cost resources/services for artists working in all genres and artist run businesses and organizations. She is the co-author of “Stand Up and Be Counted”—a survey of Massachusetts' artists on their work lives, socioeconomic status, access to healthcare, and medical and non-medical debt. She is also the co-founder of the Massachusetts Artists Leaders Coalition and two Massachusetts based working groups: the Artists Health Care Working Group and the State House Artists Working Group.

Kathy Black is the Program Director of the Vermont Studio Center. Prior positions include Visiting Professor at Trinity College of Vermont and Seminar Leader at Goddard College. In addition, she is an artist, whose works have been shown throughout New England and the US, including at the Rhode Island Community College, Laguna Gloria Museum in Texas and the Johnson State College in Vermont.

Boshko Boskovic is the Program Director of Residency Unlimited, a New York based non-profit arts service organization whose mission is to support artists and curators in residence. Additionally, he works at the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation and has curated exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum in Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina, the Belgrade Cultural Centre in Serbia and the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. During his tenure as Associate Director at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York he also worked closely with artists such as Los Carpinteros, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov and Johan Grimonprez.

Esther Bourdages is a long-time collaborator with Quartier Éphemère, a visual art center based in Montréal, where she works on programming. She also is an art historian, curator, sonic explorer and author of many articles and critical commentaries on contemporary art. She focuses on new forms of sculpture and is interested in field recording, specifically the musical potential of sounds from the environment.

Ralph Brancaccio is a multi-disciplined, self-taught conceptual artist, whose work often revolves around social commentary or is politically motivated. He has attended a number of international artist-in-residence programs and created public art works and interventions nationally and internationally with the New York Foundation for the Arts serving as the umbrella organization. Silent March for HIV Prevention and the Y Project are examples of his projects, they asked 'Why do we live so comfortably with an imbalance of human equality and irresponsibility.'

Laura Brown is the Co-Director of Handhouse Studio and an educator, sculptor, artist and builder. She was a member of the 3D Department at MassArt from 1996 to 2002, during that time, she also served as Curator for an outdoor sculpture exhibition for the City of Boston's ParkARTS program located in twelve parks throughout the city and the Boston Common for First Night 2000. She has traveled and lectured extensively. Among her skills are exhibition design and installation, architectural design and building, woodworking, foundry, welding, earth technology, concrete, paper making and photography.

Mario A. Caro currently serves as the president of Res Artis, an international network of art residencies. He also serves on the board of the Longhouse Education and Cultural Center, which runs an artist-in-residence program dedicated to serving the needs of indigenous artists from around the globe. He is Assistant Professor/Fellow of the John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Humanities and Social Thought at . He is strongly committed to combining his interdisciplinary academic training with his community-oriented organizing activities.

Pieranna Cavalchini is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum holds a collection of fine and decorative art and an innovative venue for contemporary artists, musicians and scholars.

Anja Chavez is the Curator of Contemporary Art at The Warehouse Gallery, an international contemporary art venue of SUArt Galleries at Syracuse University. The gallery's mission is to present exhibitions and programs by artists whose work engages the community in a dialogue about the role the arts play in illuminating critical issues of our life and times.

Joni Maya Cherbo is an independent arts practitioner based in New York City who teaches, researches, and writes on the , arts issues, and . She is currently the Executive Director of the Resource Center for Cultural Engagement, a contributing editor of the Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society and an editor of a new series on the arts in America sponsored by Rutgers University Press.

Biljana Ciric is an independent curator based in Shanghai and the current Artistic Director of Ke Center of Contemporary Arts and executive curator for the Intrude Public art project presented by Zendai MoMA. She is also a regular contributor for Chinese and International art publications and an Artforum writer.

Bonnie Clark is an experienced marketing professional with demonstrated strength in developing and implementing marketing and fundraising strategies that bridge the gap between traditional and social/new media marketing to build relationships and communities that deliver value in highly competitive industries. Bonnie is also a mixed media and collage artist working with fiber and textile, a member of the Southern Graphics Council, the American Print Alliance, the Surface Design Association, the Handweavers Guild of America, the American Tapestry Alliance, the National Polymer Clay Guild, the International Society of Altered Book Artists, the Association for Gravestone Studies and Mensa.

Jean-Yves Coffre is the Director of CAMAC, a creative, multi-disciplinary center offering international residency programs for artists, scientists and technologists working with new media. While at CAMAC, Jean-Yves has organized and curated renowned exhibitions of works by contemporary artists, such as Julia Lohmann, Alice Anderson, Steve Shada and Marisa Jahn. He has also curated three versions of Rodeo Performance, an international festival of performances, and in 2008 he was invited to China to write a book on the city of Hangzhou, published in 2009. Among his projects is a pedagogical program for children, which now serves more than 5,000 people per year.

Margaret Cogswell has been the Program Officer for Visual Arts at the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) since 1999. During her tenure at the ACC, she has worked to expand ACC’s collaborative relationships with different residency programs throughout the United States and Asia. She also maintains an active career as an artist. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NYFA fellowships and two Pollock-Krasner grants. Her River Fugues project is an ongoing series of site-specific/ mixed-media installations being developed and presented throughout the United States.

Roger Colombik works on a wide range of projects that include public sculpture and documentary studies on cultural identity—often in collaboration with his wife, Jerolyn Bahm-Colombik. Roger was a Fulbright Scholar to the Republic of Georgia in 2003, received an CECArtslink Project Award to Armenia in 2010 and Republic of Georgia in 2005. He has been an artist-in-resident at the Museu de Arta Comparat, Singeorz-Bai; Romania, Haslla Art World; Gangneung, South Korea; and Center For Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland.

T. Allan Comp has received national awards for his work with the people of the Appalachian coal country. He has been successful engaging the arts and humanities in environmental recovery and is noted for his remarkable organization of multiple federal agency partnerships, particularly with VISTA, while working with rural mining communities. An employee of the Department of the Interior Office of Surface Mining, he was named a Purpose Prize Fellow by Civic Ventures in 2007 and, in 2009, was the first federal employee to be named a National River Hero by River Network. In 2009, he was awarded the Service to America Medal, the highest award a federal employee can receive. An historian of technology with a long engagement in cultural resources, community redevelopment and environmental reclamation, he is committed to the recovery of Appalachian mining communities from a century of pre-regulatory exploitation and neglect—and to the expansion of that experience to the rural mining communities of the Mountain West and elsewhere.

Lynne Cooney is currently the Exhibitions Director at Boston University’s School of Visual Arts and Director of the Boston University Art Gallery. Previously, she was the Exhibitions and Program Manager for Southern Exposure, a non-profit arts organization in San Francisco, where she organized solo and group exhibitions, performances, panel and artist talks and related programs. Lynne has also served as the Assistant Director of Development for the Boston Center for the Arts, fundraising for the BCA’s diverse visual and performing arts programming.

Lies Coppens is the Director Het Entrepot in Bruges, Belgium, a creative art lab for young artists who need time and space to create and to experiment. She holds a Masters in Art History (Ghent University, Belgium) and a Masters in Cultural Anthropology (Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium). After her studies she left for Shanghai, China, where she worked in an art gallery for contemporary Chinese art and organized residencies for foreign artists. She then moved on to Zendai MoMA, where she was working in the curatorial department of the museum as project coordinator of the Intrude 366 project, a large-scale project about art in public spaces.

George Creamer is an artist and Dean of Graduate Programs at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. In this capacity, he has expanded MassArt’s graduate programs to include a low-residency MFA Program offered in conjunction with the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. He has exhibited his work widely in galleries in Boston, New York and as well as institutions such as Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art. His other academic affiliations include Yale University, Middlebury College, Mount Holyoke College and Tufts University.

Ralph Crispino, Jr. is the founder of the I-Park Foundation, Inc., a 10-year-old artists’ residency program and facility in East Haddam, Connecticut.

Taylor Davis is a professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, co-chair of sculpture at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and, currently, a Radcliffe fellow. Davis has recently exhibited her work at the Horton Gallery and at White Columns in New York, Office Baroque Gallery in Antwerp and Samson Projects in Boston. She also showed in the inaugural exhibition of the permanent collection at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and was selected for the Whitney Biennial 2004. Davis has been awarded an Anonymous Was a Woman Award, the 2001 ICA Artist Prize, two International Association of Art Critics awards and a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant.

David Deitcher is a writer, art historian and critic whose essays have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Parkett, the Village Voice, and other periodicals, as well as in numerous anthologies and monographs on such artists as Felix Gonzales-Torres, Isaac Julien, and Wolfgang Tillmans. He is the author of Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918 and curator of the exhibition of the same name at New York’s International Center of Photography. He was the editor of The Question of Equality: Lesbian and Gay Politics in America Since Stonewall (Scribner, 1995), and has been core faculty at the International Center of Photography/Bard College Program in Advanced Photographic Studies since 2003 as well as core faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts /Visual Arts Department since 1997.

Marja De Jong is the Founder and Director of Saksala ArtRadius, a residency where young, international artists can stay for several months to work, meet, discuss and establish contacts in the art world, while discovering their own artistic vision. Saksala ArtRadius provides support to create cooperation between artists and the local inhabitants and crafts people.

Maiken T. Derno is the Cultural Attaché and Head of Culture, Press and Public Diplomacy at the Consulate General of Denmark in New York. Her background is in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies; she has previously taught at Columbia University and the University of Copenhagen. She is the author and editor of several books and journals, including Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate and Trafficking Boundaries. Women and Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory. From 2006-08, she was the special advisor to the Danish Arts Council on the DaNY Arts Collaboration Programme.

Marco Dessardo is a sculptor based in France whose site-specific works have been shown throughout the world from Korea to Germany to Sweden to the United States. He also has participated in a number of art festivals, including the Busan Biennale and Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, and created temporary and permanent pieces at such institutions as the I-Park Foundation in East Haddam, Connecticut. He constructs inhospitable folding houses, unstable drifting boats, rocking bridges leading to nowhere, leaking aqueducts to random irrigations and winding walls.

Dirk Drijbooms is the Director Apothiki Art Center. The Apothiki is an Art Center situated in the Kastro, the historical heart of Parikia, capital of the Cycladic island of Paros. In cooperation with artists, art galleries, foundations and cultural institutions - both Greek and international, this multi-functional space hosts contemporary art exhibitions and cultural events and provide a working and living space for artists in residence.

Janeil Engelstad's award winning projects have examined and given voice to some of the most important issues of our times, including gang violence, homelessness, peace and ecology. Working in partnership with foundations, universities, governments, NGOs, and major corporations her work has created positive environmental and social change in communities throughout the world. She is currently developing an international project and touring exhibition titled "Make Art With Purpose (MAP)," that will present the work of artists and organizations working in public practice.

José Luis Falconi is a Fellow at the Department of and Architecture and Curator of the Art Forum Program for Latino and Latin American Art at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. He has contributed to several Latin American, European and US magazines and journals as a writer, editor and photographer. In addition his photographic work has been exhibited widely in the United States and Latin America.

Jesseca Ferguson is a pinhole photographer who combines hand-made photographic processes and collage. She has been an artist-in-resident at Debrecen (Hungary), Skopelos (Greece), St. Vincent & the Grenadines (invited by the Engelhard Foundation) and Strasbourg (France) as part of the Boston/Strasbourg Sister Cities Program.

George Fifield is a new media curator, a writer about art and technology and teacher. He is the founding director of Boston Cyberarts Inc., a nonprofit arts organization, which produces the Boston Cyberarts Festival. This international biennial Festival of artists working in new technologies involves numerous exhibitions of visual arts; music, dance, and theatrical performances; film and video presentations and symposia at numerous arts and educational organizations throughout Massachusetts.

Dorothea Fleiss is the Director of the Dorothea Fleiss East-West Artist Symposia in Carei, Romania and organizer of programs such as the Donau Summer Academy and the International Summer Academy in Shandong, China. The Symposia offers a 10-day residency program and symposia in rural Romania, culminating in an exhibition. Dorothea’s art works have been widely exhibited at the Salon de l'Art Contemporain, Luxemburg, Belgium, 10th Kermesse of Contemporary Art, International and Biennial Edition, Torino, Italy and Inner Mongolian Museum of Art, and Hu He Hao Te, China.

Ana Flores is a Cuban-American sculptor, ecological designer, writer, and activist who lives in Charlestown, Rhode Island and Nova Scotia, Canada. Her sculptural work, focusing on cultural and ecological narratives, is shown internationally and included in private, corporate and institutional collections throughout the United States. She has also served as a juror for a number of organizations; and, in 2008, she was honored with a TogetherGreen Fellowship for her leadership skills in conservation.

Yannick Franck is a Belgian sound and visual artist and the founder of the electroacoustic project Y.E.R.M.O. (Venice Biennale 2009, Pavilion of Luxembourg). He composes soundtracks and performs live music for films and theater performances for the National Theater in Brussels as well as various independent companies.

Andrea Frank received her MFA from Parsons in NY, where she participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program. She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including the DAAD, Rotary International Foundation, Danner Stiftung, Vermont Studio Center, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and the MIT Council for the Arts. She currently teaches Photography and Related Media at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology. Her work has been exhibited internationally, with recent solo exhibitions at Carroll and Sons in Boston, Galleria Michela Rizzo in Venice, The MIT Museum Compton Gallery, and the Kunsthalle Göppingen in Germany.

Katherine French is currently the Director of the Danforth Museum of Art, where she has curated numerous exhibitions exploring Boston Expressionism, including Jack Levine: Political Discourse, Hyman Bloom: A Spiritual Embrace and David Aronson: The Paradox. Other notable shows include John Walker: Passing Bells, George Nick: Spirit of Place, and Gerry Bergstein: Effort at Speech. In 2007 she received an award for curatorial excellence for Joan Snyder, A Painting Survey, 1969-2005 from the New England chapter of the International Association of Art Critics, and was named 'Best Curator of Locally Made Art' at the 2010 Boston Art Awards. Under her direction, the Danforth Museum of Art has been named an 'Outstanding Cultural Organization' by the Massachusetts Arts Education Collaborative.

Hanneke Frühauf was curator of BINZ39, a gallery and artists-studio project in Zurich, and now the curator for Bridge Guard residence center in Slovakia. She is also a member of the Res Artis’ advisory committee and art director of dutchartdesk.ch, a foundation that enhances the perception and mutual understanding between Switzerland and the Netherlands through art and culture projects.

Karol Frühauf is the Director of the Bridge Guard Art/Science Residence Center, Štúrovo, Slovakia. It supports all artistic and scientific disciplines, with the main characteristic being "bridging"—intertwining disciplines, uniting opposites, exploring and moving boundaries in social contexts—during a 3 to 6 month sojourn in the 'Bridge Guard' residence.

Jane Gavan is the Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia. The Sydney College of the Arts Residency program provides professional artists, scholars and curators access to world- class facilities in generous spaces overlooking Sydney Harbor. Artists in residence engage in the presentation or development of research and artistic works. Research residents contribute to the academic program and SCA research community through interaction with staff and students.

Hakki Engin Giderer is a Turkish artist and writer, including the author of The End of Painting, a book that focuses on modern Western and Turkish painting. He has served as the Associate Dean of the newly established Çankiri Karatekin University’s Faculty of Fine Arts program and is the director of the university’s summer academy. The summer academy is one of the most important activities of the Fine Arts’ program with a mandate to provide an international dimension to the university.

Dr. Benoit Granier is a composer/visual artist, working out of Beijing, Singapore and Dublin. He teaches computer music, composition, and digital and interactive media at the Beijing Central Conservatory.

José Guerreiro is a Lisbon-based social worker and a theater teacher, who works with youth with fewer opportunities. He has organized arts festivals, international youth exchanges and educational projects.

Hans Guggenheim is an artist, art historian, anthropologist and director of Project Guggenheim. In 1956, he traveled the world for LIFE magazine, and reporting on artists and exhibitions. Other past positions also include a Professorship of Anthropology at MIT and Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Center for International Affairs. He has worked in Mali to build water-granaries and small dams during the drought, and as an artist and supporter of traditional art and craft around the world. Based on his years of experience in remote corners of the world, he founded Project Guggenheim in 1997 to provide high quality training in the traditional arts and contemporary skills for students. Their schools and programs (in Tibet, Mali, Guatemala and northern Canada among the Inuit) support traditional arts and encourage innovation—understanding that for traditions to survive, they must respond creatively to new cultural and economic challenges.

Jeannette Guillemin is the assistant director of the Boston University School of Visual Arts. She works closely with the director on a variety of projects and counsels art students and runs the internship program. She launched and continues to direct the Visual Arts Summer Institute, an arts program for youth. With a diverse background in creative writing, theatre, and visual arts, Jeannette is interested in the powerful role that art plays in society. She serves on several boards including her local arts commission and Art Street, Inc.

Debbie Hagan is editor-in-chief of Art New England magazine and has been writing about the visual arts for three decades. She teaches creative writing at New Hampshire Institute of Art.

Machiko Harada is the former Curator for the Akiyoshidai International Art Village as well as an Assistant Director for the Artist in Residence Program, which featured artists such as Anya Gallacio and Anish Kapoor. She has curated exhibitions at the Kanazawa College of Art and was the Coordinator for Artport in Nagoya. The Akiyoshidai International Art Village, established in 1998, is a public cultural institution whose mission is to support creative activities through the residency program with an aim to serve as a place to create and promote arts and culture.

Mags Harries is best known for her site-specific artwork, which ranges from major permanent public works to temporary events and performances. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and was recently a Fellow at the Bogliasco Foundation. For the past ten years, Mags has worked collaboratively on public art projects with architect Lajos Héder as the Harries Héder Collaborative. They have completed public art works throughout the US, including SunFlowers, an Electric Garden in Austin, TX; bridges and seating for the Highline Canal in Phoenix, AZ; MoonTide Garden in Portland, ME; The Big Question at the Science Center in Des Moines, IA; and Terra Fugit at the Miramar Regional Park, FL.

Laura Harrison is the Associate Director of Administration at the Bogliasco Foundation. She is a documentary filmmaker and has taught media literacy, video production and film history. Her award winning documentaries include Secret People (2000) and Thurmond, W. Va (1995). She most recently co-produced, directed and edited Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with ANT FARM, a feature-length documentary about the renegade 1970s architecture collective best known for Cadillac Ranch. The film was the recipient of the Cine Golden Eagle Award.

Astrid Hiemer has been a writer, photographer and associate editor at Berkshire Fine Arts, a digital magazine, since its inception five years ago. She has also worked with countless national and international artists in the past thirty years, mostly as an administrator for projects, exhibitions, conferences and events in the US and abroad.

Dr. Maria Hirvi-Ijäs is a contemporary art researcher with the University of Helsinki. Her research areas are exhibition theory and the rhetorics of the artwork. Her background is in higher art education as well as strategic leadership and development, and curating, including at such institutions as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma in Helsinki, the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm and the Finnish National Gallery.

Lillian Hsu is an artist and the Director of Public Art at the Cambridge Arts Council (CAC) where she administers the Percent-for-Art program for the City of Cambridge. She also has directed the education and outreach programming for the CAC Public Art Program, including Public Art ACTS and Public Art/Moving Site, which was awarded one of the best public art projects of 2006 by the Americans for the Arts/Public Art Network. As an artist, she has been the recipient of grants from the Radcliffe Bunting Institute for Advanced Study, the Edward Ingersoll Browne Fund and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, among others.

Kayoko Iemura is an architect and Program Director of Tokyo Wonder Site. As an architect, she created projects such as the Site of Reversible Destiny, Yoro Park, together with Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins and the Lifescape Association, which involved the holistic use of clothing, food, agriculture and living spaces for people of all ages. Since 2001, Kayoko has managed the programs at Tokyo Wonder Site to support and nurture emerging artists, and to exchange global creativity through collaborations between the visual arts, contemporary music, performing and traditional arts.

Marisa Jahn is an artist/writer/community organizer, co-founder of REV- (a non-profit organization that fosters socially-engaged art, design and pedagogy), and current Director of Architecture at Art Omi. She has been an artist-in-residence at programs such as MIT’s Media Lab and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and is the co-editor of Recipes for an Encounter, byproducts: On the Excess of Embedded Art Practices and Where We Are Now: Locating Art and Politics in NYC. Her work has been presented in museums world-wide and been featured in Art in America, LA Times, NY Times, Discovery Channel and NPR, among others.

Jean-Baptiste Joly is the Chairman of the Board of the Foundation Akademie Schloss Solitude and founding Director and Artistic Director of the Akademie. He is an honorary professor at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Berlin. Quoting Nicholas Tsoutas, Director of Sydney's Artspace, "Akademie Schloss Solitude is a pre-eminent studio residency organization that has not only challenged the very meanings of residencies, cultural exchanges and global mobility—but has challenged and set the very standards and expectations by which residency centers operate."

Gianni Jetzer is a curator and critic living in New York. Since 2006 he is the Director of Swiss Institute - Contemporary Art, an independent art space in Downtown . He has realized numerous exhibitions with international artists at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich (Curator, 1998-2001), Kunsthalle St. Gallen (Director, 2001- 2006) and the Swiss Institute New York. He has written numerous contributions for catalogues, art magazines, and newspapers such as Kaleidoscope, Parkett, Flash Art, Spike and Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

Arlette Kayafas is the director of Gallery Kayafas, a fine art photography gallery operating in Boston's South End since 2003. She opened her gallery after 43+ years of collecting photography and contemporary art. The gallery is dedicated to showing the finest photography and contemporary work mixing established with emerging artists.

Elaine A. King is a professor of the History of Art/Theory/Museum Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. She has curated over 20 solo exhibitions and catalogues, organized and curated over 35 group exhibitions, and guest curated Likeness at Pittsburgh's Mattress Factory, Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2006, she co-edited Ethics and the Visual Arts with Gail Levin, published by Allworth Press. She is also a freelance critic who writes for several art publications; has been invited by the State Department to nominate artists for the Venice Biennale, Sao Paulo, and the Cairo Biennials; and has given lectures on art and culture nationally and internationally.

Csaba and Suzanne Kiss are Co-Directors of At Home Gallery Synagogue Association for Arts and Culture, Samorin, Slovakia. It is a unique center for contemporary arts, incorporating a historical synagogue and a home-like residence for artists, writers and musicians with the possibility to exhibit or perform in the synagogue. The residence was ceremonially opened by the Dalai Lama in 2000.

Knoll+Cella have been collaborating on projects since 1998, and in 2004 founded Transart Institute. Knoll also is an assistant professor of photography at University of Hawaii at Mānoa in Honolulu; and with Cella, they have jointly shown at the Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg; Honolulu Academy of Arts Museum; Museum of Art, New York; Art Complex Museum, Boston; and the Tallinn Print Triennial, Estonia. Knoll+Cella were recently visiting artists at the Lingnan University Visual Studies Program in Hong Kong.

Aysegul Kurtel is the Founder and Director of K2 in Izmir, Turkey. It is a non-profit organization with 20 artists' studios, a documentation center and gallery that aims to create an open platform, especially geared towards young artists. Its purpose is to give a chance for new approaches and experimental ideas so that contemporary art at an interdisciplinary level can be presented and also exhibited. Workshops, conferences, and discussions at the K2 Art Center are expected to create an international interaction between artists.

Anne La Prade Seuthe is the Curator of The Hampden and Central Galleries at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Hampden Gallery is one of two Fine Arts Center Galleries located in Residential Areas at the university. It has a reputation for being the launching pad for emerging artists working in all disciplines. Its active programming schedule runs throughout the academic year and features solo, group and thesis exhibitions that are enhanced through opening receptions, artist talks and workshops.

Michelle Lampa is currently a Manager of Business Development for Asia and Eurasia at the Massachusetts Office of International Trade & Investment (MOITI). She also directs the social media initiatives for MOITI. Prior to her current role at MOITI, she worked at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.

Claudia Lefko is a life-long educator, activist and advocate for children. In 2000, she founded The Iraqi Children's Art Exchange in Northampton, MA. ICAE organizes and supports professional artist exchanges and collaborative projects between these artists and US and Iraqi children and youth. Since 2006, ICAE projects have been shown at such venues as MASS MoCA and the Delaware Art Museum and included Iraqi artists in Jordan in collaboration with individuals and institutions - the Dar Al Anda and Orfali Galleries, SAVE the Children, CARE and the Jordan Children's Museum. In 2009, ICAE re-established its connection with the children's cancer unit at Baghdad’s Children's Welfare Teaching Hospital in Medical City, where the project first began.

Leonard Lehrer is the co-chair of the Fulbright Arts Task Force. He is a painter and printmaker whose work has been widely exhibited and collected, including by NY’s Museum of Modern Art and Washington DC’s National Gallery of Art. He has served as the Chair of New York University's Department of Art and Arts Professions, Columbia College's Dean of the School of Fine and Performing Art and is presently the University of Texas, Austin's Visiting Professor and Director of the Convergence Program, College of Fine Arts and Department of Art & Art History. Lehrer is a Founding Trustee of the International Print Center New York (IPCNY); on the Board of Directors of Apex Art Curatorial Program (NYC) and is Chair of the College Board’s National Task Force on Arts in Education. His awards include the Gold Medal Award of Distinction of the National Society of Arts and Letters and a Lifetime Achievement Award in Printmaking from the Southern Graphics Council International, among others.

Linda Lighton is sculptor and arts activist, who helped establish the One Percent for Art Program in Kansas City. She has served on numerous boards, including at the Nelson Atkins Museum, Review Magazine and the Kansas City Ballet; and currently serves on the Kansas City Jewish Museum Board, the National Committee at the Kemper Museum and Advisory Committee for the Kansas City Artists Coalition. As an artist, she has participated in numerous international residencies and helped send more than 82 artists to 46 countries with the help of the Kansas City Artists Coalition.

Greg Lindquist is a -based artist and writer. He writes about art for artcritical.com, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic and ARTnews. He is the 2009-10 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantee and the Sally & Milton Avery Arts Foundation Grantee for the 2009 Art Omi International Artist Residency. His most recent work addressed architectural decay and entropy through an immersive installation of painting and sculpture. He participated in Frozen Moments: Architecture Speaks Back, organized by the Laura Palmer Foundation (based in Warsaw) in the Ministry of Transportation building in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Janna Longacre is a Professor at the Massachusetts College of Art + Design. Janna was the curator for MassArt In , which included artwork and projects based on and inspired by Cuba from invited faculty and alumni who have been involved with the history of the island.

David Macy is the Resident Director at the MacDowell Colony, a pioneering force and contemporary leader in the field of artists’ residency programs. Before joining MacDowell in 1994, David was the program and facilities manager at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, California. For twenty years he has been committed to creating ideal working and social conditions for creative artists of all disciplines. He serves on the boards of the Alliance of Artists Communities and Monadnock Arts Alive.

Sarat Maharaj was co-curator of Documenta X1 (Kassel. 2002). With Richard Hamilton and Ecke Bonk, he curated Retinal. Optical. Visual. Conceptual... on Marcel Duchamp (Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. 2002), was co-curator of Farewell to Postcolonialism, Guangzhou Triennial, 2008 and editor/curator: Printed Projects 11 (Dublin), Querying the GT 2008 at the Republic of Ireland/Northern Ireland Pavilion for the 2009 Venice Biennale. He also was the co-curator of last year's San Paolo Biennale, Knowledge-Politics-Art and is the curator of the Gothenburg Biennale: Pandemonium: art in a time of creativity fever (2011). In addition, he is Professor of Visual Art & Knowledge Systems, at Lund University & the Malmo Art Academies, Sweden.

Dyan Marie is a visual artist who creates projects that explore urban issues and contemporary cultural experience. She is the founder of Bloor Magazine, Cold City Gallery, ARTATWORK and DIG IN. She co-founded C Magazine, Urban Surface and BIG and is also director of a project space Dupont/Dyan Marie Projects and a board member of the City of Toronto’s Art for Public Places Committee, the Centennial College Advisory Committee and the Bloordale BIA. She has received numerous awards, including the Urban Leadership award from the Canadian Urban Institute, the Government of Canada’s Community Builders Award, the Ontario Provincial Government Good Citizen Award and City of Toronto's Clean and Beautiful Award.

Dr. Tucker J. Marion is an Assistant Professor in Northeastern University’s College of Business, School of Technological Entrepreneurship. His research concentrates on product development, innovation, and entrepreneurship. In 2001, he co-founded the Innovation Factory, where he headed product development and operations. In 2004, he began FlashPoint Development, a boutique product design firm specializing in working with new ventures.

Murray McKay is an artist and Associate Director of Enrollment Management with Studio Art Centers International (SACI) in Florence, Italy. He teaches portfolio preparation workshops throughout to artists and educators in all mediums. His work has been exhibited, screened and performed at the Terra Museum of American Art, Art Institute of , Field Museum, Royal College of Art in London and Blue Man Group.

James McLeod is an Associate Professor Fine Arts 3D / Glass at the Massachusetts College of Art + Design and the Executive Director and co-founder of Floating World Projects, a non-profit arts organization that transcends cultural stereotypes and prejudices via arts education and artistic collaboration. Floating World Projects aims to develop and sustain cross-cultural media projects that highlight how cultures form positive symbiotic relationships in our new global age. Currently, Floating World Projects is involved in facilitating a number of collaborative art and educational projects in New York, Turkey, Israel and Palestine

Veronique Le Melle is the Executive Director the Boston Center for the Arts. Prior to joining the BCA, she was the Executive Director of the Louisiana Division of the Arts. As the Division’s Executive Director, she successfully restructured Louisiana’s Grants Program and implemented a streamlined grant application process. During her tenure, she was also instrumental in creating the structure and mission for Louisiana’s first private cultural foundation, the Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation. Additionally, she has served as the Director of Culture and Tourism in the Office of Queens Borough President and as Executive Director of the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Inc.

Christopher Merrill has published four collections of poetry, including Brilliant Water and Watch Fire, for which he received the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; translations of Ales Debeljak’s Anxious Moments and The City and the Child; several edited volumes, among them, The Forgotten Language: Contemporary Poets and Nature and From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O’Keeffe as Icon; and four books of nonfiction, The Grass of Another Country: A Journey Through the World of Soccer, The Old Bridge: The Third Balkan War and the Age of the Refugee, Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars and Things of the Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages, and his honors include a knighthood in arts and letters from the French government. He directs the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

Kaiwan Mehta is an author (Alice in Bhuleshwar-Navigating a Mumbai Neighborhood), lecturer, translator, theorist and critic in the fields of visual culture and architecture. He has served as a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart from 2007-2010; and from 2008-2009 worked as an urban researcher with the ADACH (Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage) Pavilion for the Visual Arts at the 2009 Venice Biennale.

John Michalczk is Chair of Fine Arts and Co-Director of Film Studies at Boston College. He has produced documentaries for PBS television dealing with conflict resolution, disabilities and social justice. His publications and films deal with such topics as anti- Semitism, World War II and the Holocaust. At present, he is engaged in producing a documentary on the widespread violence that swept Kenya after the national elections of 2007-2008.

Patricia Milder is a Brooklyn based art writer and critic. She is the Managing Art Editor at The Brooklyn Rail; her writings on art, performance and dance have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, PAJ: A Journal of Art and Performance, Artcritical.com, The L Magazine and in various exhibition catalogues. In 2010, she was a guest lecturer at the School of Visual Arts, in the Visual and Critical Studies Department. She is currently curating an alternative space exhibition of art and performance with the artist Lizzie Scott.

Francine Koslow Miller has been a Boston-area critic for Artforum for over twenty years and a recent contributor of features to Sculpture Magazine. She also has taught at liberal arts institutions (including McGill University, the University of Massachusetts and Northeastern University) and art colleges (MassArt, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Montserrat College of Art). She has published numerous art catalogues, three art monographs and currently is awaiting the publication of The Rape of the Rose, a personal and factual account of the saga surrounding the attempts to sell Brandies University's invaluable collection of contemporary art.

Katherine Louise Mitchell is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and administrator. In addition to her work as a professional artist, she serves as the Community Programs Coordinator at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA). Her work has been practiced/exhibited nationally in venues including SomArts Cultural Center, 66balmy, Crucible Steel Gallery, Grossman Gallery, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 57Delle Project Space and the Massachusetts Campus Compact Conference on Civic Engagement. Publications include the Vincent Curtis Educational Register: Interdisciplinary Art Education: Creativity in a Culture of Choice.

Regina Maria Möller is a Berlin/Trondheim based artist, author, founding editor of the magazine regina and creator of the label embodiment. Shown internationally, her work and position is cross-disciplinary—she addresses topics, using a wide range of formats. She has taught at numerous international academies and universities; and, currently, is a professor at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU.

Dana Moser is a musician, film/video and digital media artist. As a curator, he has assembled numerous exhibitions of interactive installation/kinetic sculpture including Electroland, The Ballad of Wires and Hands and Path to Ground. He is Department Chair of the Studio for Interrelated Media at MassArt where he develops curricula for Internet art and electronic projects.

Susanne Mueller-Baji is an independent art critic, journalist, artist and curator based in Stuttgart/Germany. Presently, she is curating three international art projects: Scriptease, Seascape – art and environmental protection and Hinterlassenschaften/Verlassenschaften, which focuses on the way Germany is perceived today. Her writings – primarily on fine art and literature—have been published in Germany, Hungary, Italy and the United Kingdom; and she is currently working on her first book. As an artist, she has taken part in residencies, art projects and exhibitions throughout the world.

Tran Thi Huynh Nga founded the Blue Space Contemporary Art Center, the first non- profit arts organization in Vietnam, and the first arts organization in Vietnam to receive a grant from the Ford Foundation. She has also curated and organized several exhibitions and workshops in various parts of the world, including the Cultural Representation in Transition - New Vietnamese in Bangkok, organized by Siam Society of Thailand; the Meeting Point 98 workshop for Thai and Vietnamese artists; the Gap Vietnam exhibition in Berlin, organized by Cultural House of the World; the international workshop at Long Hai Beach, Vietnam, for artists from England, USA, Canada, Spain and Vietnam; as well as TransCultural Exchange's Tile Project: Destination, the World.

Elisabeth Ochsenfeld is a Timisoara/Romania-born, Heidelberg/Frankfurt-based visual artist, curator and residency founder. Her interest is to create and sustain a platform for and with international artists and to support the cultural heritage of Wolfsberg-Garana in the Western Carpathian Mountains. In Heidelberg/Frankfurt and Wolfsberg/Garana, she offers residencies for people involved in the international cultural process. She intends to open a museum in Wolfsberg-Garana with a large art collection representing the village's ethnographical richness.

Aaron T. O'Connor is the founding director of The Arctic Circle expeditionary residency program. This unique residency takes place aboard a specially outfitted, century old sailing vessel in the High Arctic. The Arctic Circle program is open to international artists of all disciplines, scientists, architects, innovators and educators who seek out areas of collaborative exploration. The Arctic Circle supports the creation and exhibition of new and pioneering work, and cultivates the residents’ professional development, with a focus on public engagement.

Michael Ogilvie is the Arts/Industry Coordinator for the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, . He has taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, worked for the Las Vegas Arts Commission and managed the Percent for the Arts Program. He is also a visual artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally and has self-published two works of visual poetry (comics) and has co-published the graphic novel Drunk: A Comic About Bart Stories.

Carrie Webb Olson is a partner in Day Pitney's Intellectual Property Group and is resident in the Boston office. Carrie's practice area focuses on all aspects of copyright and trademark law, from acquisition and maintenance to exploitation and enforcement. She provides general counseling regarding the selection, use and protection of company trademarks, nationally and abroad. Carrie is experienced in providing brand expansion guidance and advice to clients from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. She is well- versed in negotiating and drafting intellectual property licenses, assignments, and settlement agreements. Carrie regularly represents and counsels clients involved in disputes before the United States Patent and Trademark Office's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and the Federal Courts concerning trademark and copyright claims. Carrie also has extensive experience with domain name disputes and related arbitration proceedings. Carrie is an active member of the International Trademark Association and sits on the INTA Roundtable Project Team (Programs Committee).

Hope O'Reilly is the Director of Development and Communications at The Bogliasco Foundation. The Bogliasco Foundation was established in 1991 as a non-profit entity devoted to the support of the arts and humanities through its support of the Liguria Study Centre for the Arts and Humanities. The Study Centre offers residential fellowships to persons doing advanced creative work or scholarly research in the traditional disciplines of the arts and humanities. The Foundation also awards special fellowships intermittently to specific disciplines or to persons coming from different countries or regions.

Michèle Oshima is the Director of the Sorenson Center for the Arts at Babson College. Previous jobs include serving as the Coordinator of the MIT Program in Women’s Studies and then Director of the Student and Artist-in-Residence Programs in the MIT Office of the Arts, where she worked with such artists as Chris Abani, Margaret Atwood, Junot Díaz and Michel Gondry. She plays trumpet in a number of local bands, including the big band and The Mood Swings, and recently also played with Anthony Braxton in the Sonic Genome Project at the 2010 Cultural Olympiad.

Marta Oslin is the Program Manager at ArtCorps, where she manages artist recruitment and communications, helping to spread Art for Social Action. With a background in community-based programs and participatory research, she is passionate about engaging communities in social change and building local leadership and creative thinking skills. Prior to joining ArtCorps, Marta conducted research on health disparities at Tufts University and evaluated Oxfam America’s gender equity and microfinance programs in Latin America. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa and holds an Masters in Sustainable International Development from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.

Shin Jung Park is the Chief Director and curator of the Haslla Art World Park & Exhibition Center, the Haslla Museum Hotel and several projects on Cultural Street and University Street in Kangnung City. She received a BFA in Sculpture at Ewha Woman's University and a MFA in Sculpture at the Graduate School of Ewha Woman's University. Since her first Road exhibition in 1994, at the Press Center of Seoul and went on to have several more exhibitions in Korea and Japan. Her work is included in permanent collections at Taiwan's Wood Museum, Korea's Gyeongju Municipal Library and the Haslla Art World Museum.

Pavel Petras is a professor at the Academy of Arts in Banska Bystrica, where he served as the Assistant Dean for science and art activities from 1997-2001. From 1995 to the present, he has curated nineteen art symposiums in Liptov, Bratislava and Prague. In 2003, he co-founded the nonprofit organization Park Umenia to support artists and their work.

Amertah E. Perman is trained in the field of International Education and Interpersonal Intercultural Communication. Her background is in interdisciplinary arts programming, adult learning, and community education. She was first introduced to the world of artist mobility through the Red Gate Gallery in Beijing, China, where she worked as the Residency Program Director in 2008/2009. Today, she specializes in best practices within artist mobility programming and continues to seek out new forms of engagement with the arts community.

Richard Perram is the Director of the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery in Bathurst New South Wales, Australia. Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) is one of the oldest regional galleries in NSW. It is a well-equipped and professionally staffed facility owned and operated by Bathurst Regional Council. Since 1990, the gallery has continued to enjoy widespread community support and to develop a reputation as one of the leading regional galleries in NSW. A diverse exhibition program, a focus on community access and a commitment to the provision of innovative educational and public programs underpin the gallery's operations.

Danièle Perrier is the director of the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems. From 2001-2004 she was the coordinator for Germany of the Pépinières Européennes pour jeunes artistes. She has worked at the auction house Gallery Koller in Zurich, the Dr. Ursula Krinzinger Gallery in Vienna and as a curator at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Fribourg, where she organized her first major exhibition Vienna at the search of Eden. From 1991-1996, she was the founding director of the Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz, dedicated to French Art after 1945; and from 1996-1999 she was a visiting lecturer of modern and contemporary art at the University of Koblenz- Landau, Campus Koblenz. Her main research interest are French art; kinetic art and its interface to design and architecture; sound and sculpture, time and space; art and techniques; and art and media art.

Klaus Postler was the co-founder and director of One Step Beyond Gallery and Artists Space in Brattleboro, VT. He is the founder and director of Fort Mallary Gallery (a brick and mortar/virtual gallery hybrid) and co-founder and director of G.O. (Global Opportunities in the Visual Arts), which stages international exhibitions and artists residencies. He served as the co-founder and co-curator of the New England New York New Talent, a (nearly) bi-annual exhibition of emerging artists at the University of Massachusetts' Central and Hampden Galleries.

Nathan Purath is an artist and Co-Director of the Coleman Center for the Arts in York, Alabama. He is a founding member of the non-profit organization Your Art Here, which uses billboards as public art spaces. Driven by the role that art can play in realizing positive social change, his work facilitates opportunities for artist and communities while blending modes of art and organizing.

Angelika Rinnhofer is a visual artist who immigrated from Germany to the US in 1995. Since 2005, she has committed herself exclusively to teaching and to her art practice, exhibiting nationally and internationally at such venues as the New Britain Museum of Art and the Museum Industriekultur in Nuremberg. In her work, Angelika probes the importance of belonging and its effect on memory. Her investigations rely on philosophical, historical, and scientific aspects of Western origin to inform her artistic concepts.

Frank Roselli is the owner/director of Boston’s Soprafina Gallery, which exhibits contemporary painting, prints, photography and sculpture by emerging, mid-career and established artists. Roselli is a painter in his own right, and previously was the owner/manager of specialty printing and manufacturing company.

Francine Royer is the regional and international affairs development officer at the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. She manages the studios and studio- apartment of the Professional Artists Grant Program and handles the numerous international agreements of the Conseil with its Québecois and foreign partners. She is responsible for special measures the Conseil offers to artists, writers and organizations in regards to cultural diversity. An anthropologist by training, prior to the Conseil, she held various professional functions at the Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec in the fields of heritage, museums and support for artists.

Dr. Nitin Sawhney is research fellow and lecturer in the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology. He co-founded Voices Beyond Walls, a participatory media initiative to supportive digital storytelling and civic empowerment among Palestinian children and youth in refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza.

Ellie Schimelman is an artist and Director of Cross Cultural Collaborative, Inc. an educational non-profit promoting cultural exchange and understanding through the arts by bringing creative people together at a cultural center in Ghana. The programs emphasize multigenerational and multicultural collaborations encouraging participants to find rewards in different forms of creativity. Artists from different cultures are brought together in a supportive environment where they can get to know each other through the language of art. At the core of the program is the belief that interaction between African and non-African artists enriches the creativity of both groups.

Ellen Schön is Adjunct Faculty in Fine Arts and Clay Studio Supervisor at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. She has exhibited in numerous shows around the country and is a recipient of a Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities’ Artist Foundation Fellowship. She participated in international artist symposia/residencies in Finland, Croatia, Hungary, and Turkey; and has organized interdisciplinary, thematic exhibitions in non-profit venues in the Boston area. Recently, she co-curated MINDmatters at Laconia Gallery; and Vessel as Metaphor and, Waterfall (a benefit show for WaterAid) at the Nave Gallery, Somerville.

Abbe Schriber is a writer and curator based in Brooklyn. She works in the curatorial department at The Studio Museum in . She holds a BA in Art History from Oberlin College, where she additionally co-curated the exhibitions To Make Things Visible: Art in the Shadow of World War I and Envisioning Edo’s Splendor: 'The Floating World' and Beyond.

Margaret Shiu Tan is the Director of Bamboo Curtain Studio in Taipei County, Taiwan. The studio provides working space and equipment for ceramists, sculptors and mixed media artists; consultative, research and implementation services for arts related projects; production of site-specific arts in public spaces; and space for experimentation and development of multi-media art.

Joanne Silver is the New England correspondent for ARTnews magazine, was the art critic for the for 18 years, and has written extensively for , Patriot Ledger, The Concord, New Hampshire Monitor and Albany Times Union.

Janet Simpson is the Executive Director of the Kansas City Artists Coalition. Trained as an artist, she has served as a nominator and panelist for such organizations as the Kansas City Avenue of the Arts and the Charlotte Street Awards, and currently serves on a number of committees and boards, including the Kansas City Visual Arts Consortium, the Creative Capital Foundation Professional Development Selection Panel and KC Artist LINC.

Joel Slayton is the Executive Director of ZER01 and a professor at San Jose State University where he is Director of the CADRE Laboratory for New Media, an interdisciplinary academic program in the School of Art and Design dedicated to the development of experimental applications involving information technology and art. Joel serves on the Board of Directors of Leonardo/ISAST (International Society for Art, Science and Technology), and was Editor and Chief of the Leonardo-MIT Press Book Series from 1999-2005.

Laura Smith is an Art Education facilitator who has dedicated her art and passion to creating positive change with the people of El Salvador in their communities. After graduating from UMass Dartmouth with a BFA in Elementary Art Education, she has worked as an art teacher and community-based artist. During her time with ArtCorps, she has worked with women, youth and staff of FUNDAHMER, a Salvadoran NGO, to explore the power of art and creativity in personal and social transformation. She works with a wide range of visual arts techniques and enjoys bringing play and body movement into her workshops.

Doris Sommer is the Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and in African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is widely published and also the Director of Cultural Agents promoting the arts and humanities as social resources. Cultural Agents foster creativity and scholarship that measurably contribute to the education and development of communities worldwide. Identifying creative agents of change, reflecting on best practices, and inspiring their replication, Cultural Agents shows that creativity sustains healthy democracies by developing the moral imagination and resourcefulness in citizens.

Maggie Stark is a Boston-based artist whose work has been shown throughout the region, including at the Nielsen Gallery in Boston, Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, ME. For nine years, she was a member of the Boston Sculptors Gallery and has been an artist-in-residence at the Corning Museum of Glass, the Millay Colony and the Vermont Studio Center, among others. She was recently awarded a Cultural Fellowship from the Goethe Institute in Berlin and an Artist Residency Fellowship at the Haslla Art World Museum in South Korea. For over a decade she directed the Nesto Gallery, overseeing its renovation and expanding its scope. She is currently on the faculty at Milton Academy.

Caitlin Strokosch is the Executive Director of the Alliance of Artists Communities. Prior to joining the Alliance, Caitlin managed several nonprofit professional music ensembles in Chicago and she worked for a PR firm specializing in nonprofit arts organizations, including the National Youth Orchestra Festival and the Stradivarius Society. She has been a guest speaker and lecturer at conferences and colleges around the country, including Columbia College Chicago, Roosevelt University, Brown University, Roger Williams University, and the Rhode Island School of Design on a range of topics—from grant-writing to contemporary music to intersections of art and architecture.

Yaohau Su is the Director of AIR Taipei, Taiwan's premiere residency program, which oversees three very different and unique arts-in-residence campuses around the city of Taipei – the Taipei Artist Village, Grass Mountain Arts Village and Treasure Hill Arts Village. She also teaches arts administration at the National Taiwan Art University and National Taipei Normal University. Since 2007, she has served on the Board of Trustees of the Contemporary Art Foundation, appointed by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City. She consults for the Taipei City Government's Public Arts Fund and the Visual Art Grant of the National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan.

Sarah Tanguy is a curator at the ART in Embassies (AIE) for the US Department of State. Established in 1963, AIE is an international program of exhibitions, collections and exchanges at over 200 U.S. diplomatic venues. As the primary arm of the US government dedicated to international collaborative projects, ART in Embassies is seeking new partnerships between US artists and their host countries to expand its mission of cultural diplomacy. Sarah is also an independent curator and critic, including a frequent contributor to Sculpture Magazine.

Pamela Tatge is the Director of the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University where she has worked to re-imagine the role of artists in curricular and co-curricular life, including designing long-term residencies for choreographers Liz Lerman (Biology), Eiko Otake (East Asian Studies & History) and Ann Carlson (Environmental Studies). Most recently, she mounted Feet to the Fire, an 18-month exploration of climate change through the arts, that included pedagogical exchanges between artists and scientists; and two major festivals that included performances, visual art exhibitions and installations, and commissioned works by student, faculty and visiting artists. With her colleague, Sam Miller, she co-founded the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance set to launch in Summer, 2011.

Karola Teschler is the Director of the European Artists Association, based in Velbert, near Essen, Germany. The organization accepts international members and has held symposia/residencies since 2003 in Germany and other countries. Exhibitions have usually followed the program, which give international exposure to resulting works. The European Artists Association holds a two-week residency program/symposium in Essen, Germany around the theme of intercultural dialogue.

C. David Thomas graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with an MFA in printmaking in 1974, and is currently Director of the Indochina Arts Partnership. He joined the US Army in 1968, and was sent to Pleiku, South Vietnam, as a combat engineer/artist. In 1987, he returned to Vietnam and he has made more than seventy- five trips to Vietnam since then to research and conduct programs of cultural exchange between the United States and Vietnam. In 2000, he was awarded the "Vietnam Art Medal" by the government of Vietnam in recognition of his contributions to the arts in that country. He received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant in 2002 to conduct his work in residence in Hanoi and designed the book HO CHI MINH - A Portrait, published in 2003. He has had over thirty-one individual and hundreds of group exhibitions over the past thirty years.

E. Tornai Thyssen is an art historian and curator, whose research interests are in American art and its intersections with artists and movements in former Soviet block countries. Among her curatorial projects are Insights into Suburbia, a traveling exhibition for the National Association of Women Artists, with Penny Dell. Currently, she teaches at Montserrat College of Art.

Mkrtich Tonoyan is an Armenian artist, president of the AKOS Cultural NGO, founder and director of ACOSS (Art Center of Social Studies) and Art Commune artists-in- residence programs, and a member of Artists' Union of Armenia.

Thomas D. Trummer is the Curator of Visual Arts at Siemens Stiftung, Munich. Previous positions include the Hall Curatorial Fellow at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Curator for modern and contemporary art at the Oesterreichische Galerie Belvedere (Vienna) and Guest Curator at the Graz Kunstverein. Among his curated exhibits are Egon Schiele and the Round Table, Belvedere Vienna; Voice & Void, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; I Repeat Myself When Under Stress, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; Several Silences, Renaissance Society, Chicago; Actors & Extras, Brussels; Coral Visual, Casa de la Cultura, Buenos Aires; The Science of Imagination, Ludwig Muzéum Budapest, Artistic Research, MIT; and Before The Law, Ludwig Museum Cologne. Besides his curatorial work, Trummer was a Visiting Scholar at MIT's Program in Art, Culture and Technology; Visiting Professor at the University for Applied Arts Vienna and Visiting Professor at the University for Art and Design, Linz. He has edited various books on art and published widely on issues of contemporary art and aesthetics.

Nicholas Tsoutas is currently the Zelda Stedman Lecturer in Visual Arts at the Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Previously, he was director of major residency centers/programs across Australia including Artspace Visual , the Casula Powerhouse as well as The Instititute of Modern Art and Performance Space. He has contributed extensively nationally and internationally to the global discussions on residencies and residency centers and has been an Executive Board Member of Res Artis, the international artist residency network for almost a decade.

Julie Upmeyer is an artist and initiator based in Istanbul, Turkey. After a three-year nomadic life working in India, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands and Greece, she moved to Istanbul in 2006. She is website editor for Res Artis, the worldwide network of artist residencies, and co-director and initiator of Caravansarai, an independent project space, meeting point, collaborative production space and artist-residency in Istanbul.

Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas have established an international reputation for socially interactive and interdisciplinary practice exploring the conflicts and contradictions posed by the economic, social and political conditions in the former Soviet countries. Combining the tools of new and traditional media, their work frequently involves collective activities such as workshops, lectures, debates, TV programs, Internet chat- rooms and public protests that stand at the intersection of art, technology and social criticism. They are the cofounders of JUTEMPUS interdisciplinary art program, VILMA (Vilnius Interdisciplinary Lab for Media Art), VOICE, a net based publication on media culture; co-founders of the Transaction Archive and the co-directors of the award winning Pro-test Lab Archive. They have exhibited at the San Paulo, Berlin, Moscow, Lyon and Gwangju —and Manifesta and Documenta exhibitions—among numerous others, including a solo show at the Venice Biennale and MACBA in Barcelona. Awards include the Lithuanian National Prize (2007); a fellowship at the Montalvo Arts Center in California (2007/08); Prize for the Best International Artist at the Gwangju Biennale (2006) and the Prize for the best national pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2007).

Ilgim Veryeri-Alaca is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Visual Arts at Koç University in Sariyer-Istanbul. She has lectured and taught workshops on Turkish culture and cross-cultural perspectives, written extensively on printmaking, book arts and international artist residences as well as is an artist who has exhibited widely in Turkey, the United States, Italy, Georgia, Germany, Poland and Bulgaria.

Judith Vichniac is the Associate Dean of the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program. An expert on Western European politics and more recently history and memory, she has taught courses on social and political theory, political sociology, history and memory, and French politics. She is the author of The Management of Labor: The British and French Iron and Steel Industries 1860-1918 and an edited collection, Democracy, Revolution and History, co-edited with Theda Skocpol, George Ross and Tony Smith. She has contributed essays to a number of journals and books on many topics including "Religious Toleration and Jewish Emancipation;" "French Socialists and Droit à la Différence: A Changing Dynamic" and "Jewish Identity Politics and the Scarf Affairs in France."

Deb Todd Wheeler is an artist who has served on the Fulbright Selection Committee for Sculpture and . For her own work, Deb is a recipient of a LEF Contemporary Work Fund Artist grant in inter-media, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Sculpture and Installation and an Artist Resource Trust Grant. She is a member of the Graduate Faculty of the Art Institute of Boston and teaches in the 3D Department at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Jessica Tamsin White is a Curator, Art Education facilitator, and Writer. She is founder of several international art projects in Austria, Japan and UK that explore the central importance of breaking conventions and stereotypes in visual representation. Among other activities, in Vienna, she has been developing a variety of creative projects in association with Michael Wimmer at EDUCULT in the Museums Quartier, and is currently co-curating (with Julian Stallabrass of the Courtauld Institute of Art) a photography exhibition of Afghani civilians.

Yeb Wiersma is an artist, who has served as an artist-in-residence at many programs, and is a frequent workshop presenter for Trans Artists. Trans Artists is the leading resource for information about international artist-in-residency programs as well as other opportunities for artists to stay and work elsewhere 'for art's sake'. Trans Artists operates mainly from the artists' perspective and usually cooperates with a wide range of partners throughout the world. Trans Artists makes the enormous labyrinth of residencies accessible and usable to artists through its website, newsletter, research and workshop programs.

Dr. Margaret Wyszomirski is a faculty member at Ohio State University of both the Department of Art Education and the School of Public Policy and Management. She has served as staff director for the bipartisan Independent Commission on the National Endowment for the Arts, as director of the Office of Policy Planning, Research and Budget at the National Endowment for the Arts, and as director of the Graduate Public Policy Program at Georgetown University. She joined the faculty of the Federal Executive Institute of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in 1988. She has been on national advisory committees for a Foundation Center analysis of arts funding, for the economic impact study of arts and tourism conducted by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the National Center for Charitable Statistics. She was a founding member of the Research Advisory Committee of the American Council for the Arts, and was chairman of the steering committee for the 1997 American Assembly on "The Arts and the Public Purpose." She is currently chairman of the Research Task Force of the Center for Arts and Culture in Washington, DC.

Howard Yezerski is the Director of the Howard Yezerski Gallery, one of the leading contemporary art galleries in Boston. The gallery's primary focus is on contemporary photography, painting, and sculpture with a mixture of mid-career and emerging artists.

Tiffany Shea York joined the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 2000 to manage the Artist-in-Residence program as well as all contemporary exhibitions, related materials and public programs. Since then she has worked with over 50 artists from around the world and helped to realize nearly 20 exhibitions and artist’s projects at the Gardner. Before coming to the Gardner, she worked as a studio jeweler and co-founded and directed Boston’s White Elephant Gallery, which exhibited work of up-and-coming artists in all media.

Steven Zevitas is the Director of Open Studio Press. Open Studio Press was founded in 1993 as a vehicle for facilitating contact between artists and art enthusiasts. Their critically acclaimed periodical New American Paintings has featured the work of over 3000 painters from throughout the United States. While included painters receive international exposure, those with an interest in contemporary painting are provided with an invaluable resource for discovering new artistic talent.

2011 CONFERENCE

SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

Congratulations to the following artists for being selected for scholarships to TransCultural Exchange’s 2011 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts:

Amanda Barrow Marianne Barcellona Fran Beallor Karmela Berg Emily Bunker Kay Canavino Sandra J. Ceas Clara Angelina Diaz Maureen Drdak Chris Fitch Libby Geissler Helga Griffiths Don Gurewitz Katherine Higgins Alicia Hunsicker Heidi Kirchofer Fay Ku Michael McNabney Lorna Ritz Lydia Rubio A.E. Ryan Scott Stoll Irene Smalls Magdalena Taber Atanaska Tassart Annelies van Dommelen Shirarpi Heghinian-Walzer Chun-Ya Yang

CONFERENCE VOLUNTEERS

The conference is possible thanks to the efforts of these people:

Translators: Angela Xiao (Mandarian) and Hyunjun Kim (Korean)

Volunteer Staff: Autumn Ahn Dylan Bolvin Blake Brashers Laura Chichisan Megan Driscoll Eric Freeman Liz Haney Daniel Herr Zach Horn Kitty Huang Mumtoz Kamolzoda Naveen Khan Emily Kiacz Emily Kiacz Anna Kriger Tatyana Leykin Kathy Liu Katherine Mitchell Amanda Moore Jenna Powell Marc Schepens Zsuzsanna Szegedi Esther Thyssen Kathleen Tyler Matej Vakula Erika Wastrom Kristine Williams Yibao Yib Ying Zhang Joe Upham

A special thanks to Eric Freeman for help with a/v. Joe Upham for his superb work as a DJ, Rudi Punzo and Daryl Luk for creating all the conference website pages and Bonnie Clark and Kitty Huang for ensuring that the conference ran smoothly.

TransCultural Exchange would also like to thank all the Conference speakers and moderators—many of whom came half-way around the world to join us—as well as Lynne Allen and Dean Benjamin Juarez at Boston University; President Kay Sloan and Janna Longacre (Chief Liaison) at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design; Ute Meta Bauer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Anthony De Ritis at Northeastern University; Doris Sommer at Harvard University; Laura Pattison at the Boston Public Library; Veronique Le Melle and Nate McDermott at the Boston Center for the Arts and Anne LaPrade Seuthe at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst for their support in making this conference possible.

PRESS

2011 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts

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Academia.edu, "Factory as Studio at the Trans Cultural Exchange, April 9, 2011, Boston," by Jane Gavan.

AICA USA (International Association of Art Critics United States Section), "TransCultural Exchange Announces an Opportunity for Critics to participate in its 2011 Conference."

Artscan, "Alumnae Activities," Carnegie Melon School of Art, Elaine A. King, May 2011.

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Artists in Context, "TransCultural Exchange: Where Art and the World Convene," April 2011.

Artseek: MassCultural Council Blog, "TransCultural Exchange: Making Massachusetts an International Center for Creativity," Interview with Mary Sherman, November 10, 2009.

ArtsBoston, "Grant Writing Workshop," April 2011.

ArtsBoston, "Selected Conference Attendees' Reading," April 2011.

Artspan Blogs, "Boston-TransCultural Exchange," March 31, 2011.

Artspan Forum, "Artspan at the TCE Conference, Boston April 8-10," April 2011.

Artspan Newsletter, "Artspan at the TCE Conference, Boston April 8-10," April 2011, by Eric Sparre.

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BNN TV, "It's All About Arts," Interview with Canvas Fine Arts and TransCultural Exchange Conference Speakers, "TransCultural Exchange's 2011 Conference," April 2011.

Beacon Hill Patch, "Transcultural Exchange Conference Events," April 2011, by Kimberly Ashton.

Berkshire Artstart, "Open Call - TransCultural Exchange," February 6, 2011.

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Berkshire Fine Arts, "2011 International Opportunities in the Arts," March 15, 2011, by Astrid Hiemer.

Berkshire Fine Arts, "Wrap Up TransCultural Exchange Conference 2011," April 29, 2011, by Astrid Hiemer.

Blogging YOU, "Transcultural Exchange 2011," February 11, 2011, by Don Schaefer.

Boston Globe, "Aiming to make connections," April 7, 2011, by Jeffrey Gantz.

College Art Association, "2011 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts: The Interconnected World," November 10, 2010.

Demetrius Spaneas, "TransCultural Exchange Conference and TIMI Collaboration" April 4, 2011, by Demetrius Spaneas.

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Factory As Studio, "Factory as Studio Project - a panel discussion at the trans cultural exchange, Boston," April 2, 2011, by Jane Gavan.

Floating World Projects Blog, "TransCultural Exchange Conference 2011," April 5, 2011.

Gypsy Wolf Marketing, "TransCultural Exchange's 2011 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts," April 12, 2011, by Bonnie Clark.

Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, "The Interconnected World: Various Projects," Spring 2011. Inside MassArt, “Save the Date: 2011 Transcultural Exchange Conference,” November 2010.

Mira's List, "Sign Up Now! Transcultural Exchange's 2011 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts!" January 27, 2011, by Mirabee.

NewSCheonji Newspaper, "Real Interview," August 2011, by Ji In Lee.

National Dance Education Organization, "TransCultural Exchange's Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts," January 31, 2011.

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Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, "TransCultural Exchange: Where Art and the World Convene," January 18, 2011.

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South End Patch, "TransCultural Exchange Conference Events," April 2011, Editor Alix Roy.

Swissnex Boston, "TransCultural Exchange Conference 2011," April 2011.

The Arts Map, "TransCultural Exchange - Non Profit International Arts Organization," January 2011.

The Tait Global, "TransCultural Exchange Conference," April 8, 2011, by Liv Tait.

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Wooloo.org, Where Artists Find Open Calls, "2011 Conference On International Opportunities in the Arts," January 2011.

World Journal, "Mr. Candle-Choosing His Own Path," July 21, 2011, by Kitty Huang.

World Journal, "Mr. Candle at MIT," April 8, 2011, by Kitty Huang.

World Journal, "TCE-Interconnected World," April 13, 2011, by Kitty Huang.

World Journal, "MingCheng Huang," July 21, 2011, by Kitty Huang. Youtube, "TransCultural Exchange Conference 2011," April 27, 2011, by Ralph Brancaccio.