You Can’t Erase An Idea – An Interview with Edward Stapel

Edward Stapel’s exhibition “You Can’t Erase an Idea” is displayed at The Gallery at Wadleigh Library on the Chester College of New England campus. The exhibition will run from February 1 – March 8, 2012, with a reception on Wednesday, February 15 from 5 – 8 pm. Meg Cameron: When did you first come upon [...]

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Subterfuge, Snapshots & You Can’t Erase an Idea

The following are previews of the current shows in the Gallery at Wadleigh Library. They will be showing through March 8th, 2012, with a reception on February 15, at 5:00 P.M.    Kimberly Kersey Asbury: Subterfuge (Mock Battle #2)  Ms. Asbury’s show includes a series of photos of plastic army men and the molds they [...]

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Photographer John Willis To Visit Chester College

Photographer John Willis will visit Chester College of New England on Tuesday, November 8, as part of the fall’s Visiting Artist Symposium. He will lecture in the Wadleigh Library classroom at 2:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. Willis graduated with an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in [...]

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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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“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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Primary Studios 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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An Unfiltered Experience : An Interview with Ashley John Pigford

Artist and musician Ashley John Pigford visited Chester College of New England this week as part of the Visiting Artist Symposium Lecture Series. Compass Rose staffer Jen Bailey had a chance to speak to him about his work. Jen Bailey: How did you come into this unusual sort of work? Ashley John Pigford: I am [...]

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Lana Z. Caplan visits Chester College of New England

Lana Z. Caplan will be Chester College of New England’s final visiting artist in the fall semester’s Visiting Artist Symposium. Lana’s lecture will be held on December 1st at 2:30 pm in the Wadleigh Library Conference Room. The lecture will be free and open to the public. Lana Z. Caplan is a Boston-based film/videomaker, photographer [...]

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Rachelle Beaudoin featured on ArtFem.tv

Chester College of New England’s instructor of photography and media arts Rachelle Beaudoin has recently seen some of her video work featured on ArtFem.tv. ArtFem.TV is online television programming presenting Art and Feminism. The aim of ArtFem.TV is to foster women in the arts, their art works and projects, to create an online international television [...]

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