Christina Pitsch to be Artist-in-Residence

Chester College of New England Professor of fine arts Christina Pitsch will be spending 5 weeks during winter break as an artist-in-residence at the Guanlan Original Printmaking Base in Guanlan, China. She will be working on a new series of large scale prints.

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Primary Studios Gallery Show

Between December 3, 2009 and December 15, 2009 Chester College of New England’s Primary Studios Students will be showing their work in the Wadleigh Library Gallery. The gallery will be free and open to the public.

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Making Things Happen: An Interview with Lana Z. Caplan

Lana Z. Caplan, a Boston-based film/videomaker, photographer and installation artist, visited Chester College of New England this week as part of the Visiting Artist’s Symposium Lecture Series. Caplan works with super8, found footage, video, interactive projections, and alterative processes photography in her pieces, which explore relationships, mortality and social issues. Caplan grew up in a [...]

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“The Berlin Dictionary” is now available

Can you press that, er um, piton? Let me get that mousse off of your sweater. If you know what the words piton and mousse mean and if you have no idea what the words piton and mousse mean, the Berlin Dictionary is for you. The Berlin Dictionary edited and illustrated by Chester College of [...]

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Eric Pinder Interviews and Book Signing

Chester College of New England’s instructor of writing and literature Eric Pinder will be interviewed on Book Swap Café, for Concord TV Channel 22, in a program to be recorded on December 15. He also will be interviewed live on the Arkansas-based internet radio program WeatherBrains on March 29 at 8:30 pm Central Daylight Time [...]

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Eric Crapo Published

Chester College of New England’s Library Director and instructor of writing and literature Eric Crapo will have his poem “At the Swimming Hole” published in the fall issue of Organs of Vision and Speech Magazine. The poem will also be anthologized next summer. This poem is an ekphrasis on Thomas Eakins’ painting “The Swimming Hole.”

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Cathe Janke to Exhibit in NYC

Instructor of interdisciplinary & fine arts Cathe Janke will have work in the Generations 7 Holiday Benefit Exhibition, at A.I.R. Gallery in New York City. The Exhibit will run December 2nd, 2009 through January 3rd, 2010. There will be a receception on Thursday, December 3rd from 6 8 pm and a Holiday Party & Action [...]

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“Fantasticum” Features Chester College Student Work

“Fantasticum,” a group show of Chester College of New England students, is on display now in the Whitherill Gallery at The Coffee Factory in Derry, NH. Works by Jamie Vitas, Maggie Alerding, Timothy Lee, Rachel Deccico, Tahlia Groupil, Peter Isherwood and Fairlee Anderson,–all students in the fine arts professional practices class and the gallery practicum–are [...]

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