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CELEBRATE THE REVOLVING MUSEUM’S 20
YEAR ANNIVERARY WITH ITS NEW EXHIBITION “FREEWHEELIN’:
THE ART OF ROLLING”!
(Scroll down to view downloadable images) Image above is:
Chopper by Michael Ulman
Guest Curators:
Rebecca Hoffberger, Founder/Director
of the American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore
and Doreen Manning, Founder/Editor of the Middlesex
Beat
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Exhibition on View: October
17, 2004 – February 12, 2005
Opening
Celebration & Benefit: Saturday
October 16, 2004, 6-9 p.m.
Art Cart Carnival
at Lowell’s City of Lights Parade: November
27, 2004
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Come experience the most extraordinary mobile art ever assembled
in New England! Imagine over 100 art mobiles of all shapes,
sizes, and mediums parked on walls, ceilings, and floors making
your head spin with a creative traffic jam. Cars with rolling
pins for wheels, skateboards with outrageous artwork, transformed
shopping carts and baby carriages, strange tanks, and other
one-of-a-kind vehicles plus SPOOL 500 award winners.
Join us in exploring a gallery transformed into a giant road
map environment of art and creativity, featuring a journey
into the museum’s 20-year adventure. Trace the evolution
from 1984, when founder Jerry Beck opened the Revolving Museum
with The Little Train That Could…Show, an installation
in 12 abandoned railroad cars. This show marked the beginning
of the museum‘s development as a nomadic artists’ collaborative
focused on the transformation of public spaces into inventive
community arts projects. Follow the road up through 2004 as
we settle in historic downtown Lowell, MA as an artist-run,
non-profit organization dedicated to innovation in creating
public art projects, exhibitions, and educational programs
that invite collaboration among artists, youth and community
members of all backgrounds, ages and abilities. The Museum
is contributing to the city’s extraordinary rebirth,
presenting public art all over Lowell’s downtown, and
offering art-making workshops throughout the region.
Visitors will have the opportunity to view the Spool 500 award
winners selected during the Lowell Folk Festival. More than
500 youth and families participated in this exciting project.
The top 100 cars will be on display ranging from simple to
elaborate, wind-driven to motorized; the cars provide a snapshot
of youthful imagination. They include: a mobile of origami
flying cranes; a large meatball on a fork at a picnic; a rocket
with a spinning propeller; a scene of a man fishing; a sculpture
of bent forks, spoons and dominoes, and more. The cars roll
on antique and modern thread spools, in homage to Lowell’s
textile-making legacy.
Learn about our curators:
Rebecca Hoffberger is the
Founder/Director of the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore,
MD, a national and international museum and education center
showcasing intuitive self taught artistry. The museum opened
in 1995 to great critical acclaim, and was recently voted one
of the top 3 museums in America by Time Magazine. http://www.avam.org
Doreen Manning is the Publisher/Founder of
The Middlesex Beat, an art & entertainment publication
serving Middlesex County, MA. In 1999 Doreen moved to from
Boston to Shirley and was amazed at the amount of creative
energy and events going on in the smaller towns, but discouraged
that there was not one publication linking it all together.
With a background in writing and editing, experience at local
newspapers such as The Boston Phoenix and The Boston Globe,
she decided to undertake the task herself - launching The Middlesex
Beat in October 1999. Since then, The Middlesex Beat has grown
to distribute almost 15,000 issues in 55 towns each month.
She has also launched a countywide open studio event held each
October, where artists throughout the county can open the doors
to their studio for one full weekend, creating a road trip
of art. http://www.middlesexbeat.com
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