Reception - Inspired by India

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Thursday, Jan 23, 2014 5:00p -

7:00p Where:

Parker Hill Branch Library

1497 Tremont Street

Boston, Massachusetts Admission:

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Art, Date Idea, Food, Music, Party, Performing Arts, University Event website:

http://www.massart.edu/About_MassArt/Center_for_Art_and_Community_Partnerships/Community_Exhibitions.html

India, as seen through the eyes of three artists, two local and one from Mumbai, is the theme of the exhibition at the Parker Hill Branch Library in Mission Hill. The paintings, photographs and drawings that make up the exhibit are on view now through the end of February 2014.


Artist Maddu Huacuja planned to spend only two weeks in India. Invited to visit Rajasthan, she went with her daughter in 2005, and was captivated by the land and enthralled by the culture and people, and stayed six weeks instead. The magic of India also enchanted Lucilda Dassardo-Cooper who first went to India on a yoga retreat in 1994. She returned to live and travel in India for three years. Mumbai artist Jyoti Puri, exhibited her artwork in Washington, D.C. in the early nineties and it was here that Puri and Dassardo-Cooper met – introduced by the cultural attaché at the Indian embassy. The two found they had much in common and remain firm friends.


At a public reception at the library on January 23, from 5:00 – 7:00 pm, north Indian classical music will be performed by Philip Kaplan, who has been performing, composing and teaching music since graduating from the New England Conservatory of music in 1979. Kaplan plays his remarkable invention he calls "the guitarod" a modified electric guitar with a sound similar to the sarod, that has delighted and amazed audiences locally and internationally. He is accompanied on tabla, Indian drums, by Ajit Acharya who is based in New England and also studied in India. All are welcome to this evening of food, music and art of India, and to meet the performing and visual artists.


The Inspired by India exhibition was organized by the Community Exhibitions Initiative, a program of the Center for Arts and Community Partnerships (CACP) at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. This initiative curates and installs ongoing exhibitions at three community sites in Mission Hill: the Parker Hill Branch Library, Butterfly Coffee and the Sparring Partner Exhibition Windows. This exhibition was curated by Dassardo-Cooper, the Community Exhibitions coordinator, in collaboration with CACP staff and the MassArt student-crew who work with the Community Exhibitions Initiative.