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about us.
artscope made its debut in March 2006 as the first timely, full-color arts publication in New England. It was modeled as a hybrid, combining the timeliness of a daily or weekly publication with the quality of a bimonthly publication. In its early days, it was a small production with about half as many pages as it has today, carefully put together by the editorial team and a handful of talented writers, graphic designers and photographers, all committed to providing balanced, high-quality coverage of the regional arts scene.
We wanted to take art to the public, and to provide our readers with an understanding of the process, approach, and inspiration of local artists.
Today artscope is the premiere culture magazine of New England. Its writers frequent exhibitions and performances across the region in order to provide readers with informative, accessible, and thoughtful writing that spans the entire spectrum of art. It allows its featured artists and institutions the highest level of visibility possible, and enables them, along with the arts community and the public, to engage with their art and their own creativity.
Through constant innovation, artscope is continually expanding its reach and coverage. It is the only seamlessly integrated media vehicle for arts news in New England, providing the latest coverage in print and online through the website, blog, artscope email blasts, Twitter, and Facebook page. Through these outlets, artscope shares cutting-edge reviews of local gallery shows, performances and films with its readers across New England and beyond.
Although we have grown considerably since our founding, we remain committed to our original mission to provide our readers with high-quality content, and to connect local artists and institutions with an active audience. We also continue to holds ourselves to high standards of journalistic excellence.
You can pick up artscope at any of hundreds of museum, gallery and university locations across New England.
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our contributors.
Alexandra Tursi
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Alexandra Tursi was born and raised in New York, New York, but much of her childhood was spent in Vermont, where she now lives full-time. In addition to her career as a journalist, Alexandra works as a social media strategist at a marketing communications agency based in Burlington, VT.
Alexandra went to Cornell University for college, where she graduated with a degree in Government and French Literature. Her studies focused on how we use visual imagery for political means. Alexandra continues to be interested in politically-motivated art, as well as street art, guerilla art, sculpture and fashion/textiles.
Outside of visual art, Tursi loves classical music, opera and live theatre. A trained classical singer, Alexandra recently performed in the Green Mountain Opera Festival production of Carmen.
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Greg Morell
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Greg Morell currently lives on the coast of Maine. His first real job was on the faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University as an Instructor and Performing Arts Coordinator. After a few disasters on the off-off Broadway stage, Greg traveled to New Hampshire and New England College, where he served as Theater Designer and Asst. Professor. Greenville, South Carolina was his next home, where he worked with the WarehouseTheater and The New Arts Theater of Asheville, NC. Greg returned to Massachusetts as Executive Director of the Quinebaug Valley Council for Arts and Humanities where he created the traveling Arts project: "THE MIME CIRCUS" along with painters Jacob Knight, Bryan Davagian and Steve Robie. Greg is most interested in projects that fuse the traditional fine arts with live performance.
Greg has been writing for artscope since its very first issue. He also writes for the daily Journal Tribune Newspaper of York County as theater and arts critic, and pens a winter column called "SNOW BUSINESS" that joyfully celebrates the Ski and Snowboard adventures of the East. |
Franklin W. Liu
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Franklin W. Liu was born in Hong Kong. He has traveled worldwide and lived in Asia and Europe, as well as in both coasts of the U.S.A. He graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a B.F.A. and Bach. of Architecture. For 20 years, he practiced architecture with a number of award winning firms while exhibiting his paintings and drawings with Boston area galleries. In addition to writing for artscope, Franklin is currently a contracted writer for AOL/Huffington Post Media's hyperlocal news website: BackBaypatch.com.
From 2003-2008, he worked as a journalist for the Somerville News, covering local and statewide in Massachusetts; in addition, he filed reports from the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston and the Republican National Convention in NYC. Franklin has written editorials, features, profiles as well as a weekly column under his name: “Appraising Arts & Life” with Franklin W. Liu, reviewing theatre, art exhibitions, ballet, modern dance, popular culture, movies, books, architecture and urban design. His political essays have been published in two books.
Currently, Franklin is working on two book projects: a nonfiction, "Vignettes of Life," and a creative fiction, "Placebo Love." In his free time, he enjoys running. He has completed three marathons in his lifetime, two of which he completed within one week, an undertaking “for which I should have been committed to an insane asylum,” he jokes.
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Judith Tolnick Champa
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Judith Tolnick Champa is based in Providence, Rhode Island, where she settled following graduate study in the history of art at Brown University. She is an independent curator and art writer, previously affiliated with academic institutions--directing and curating Brown University's Bell Gallery and the former Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island. She serves on the Board of the New England Museum Association (NEMA) and has just graduated from and is serving on the 2012 Planning Committee for Leadership Rhode Island, an intensive program conjoining in community engagement state leaders from a wide range of professional disciplines and organizations.
Judith's most boldly ambitious upcoming project, formed officially as a non-profit, is to create a first-ever Providence Biennial for Contemporary Art in the summer of 2014. The public-oriented Biennial will be outward looking, nationally and internationally. It will simultaneously present the results of exciting new partnerships between emerging artists and institutions across the city of Providence.
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Linda Chestney
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Linda Chestney, a former interior designer, is a freelance writer, editor, publicist and owner of Nicolin Fields Publishing & PR, Inc. She has written four books and her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, New Hampshire Magazine, Business NH Magazine, Women’s Circle, Wildlife Conservation Magazine, artscope Magazine, and Down East among others. She has also written and published poetry.
A “newcomer” New Englander of 30 years, Linda was originally a flatlander from South Dakota. She returns occasionally to the Midwest to visit relatives, check out the cowboy boots, and bring back a tumble weed or two.
Linda holds a degree in interior design, psychology and a master’s in English non-fiction writing from the University of New Hampshire.
She writes about art, design, architecture, and nature. She resides on the Seacoast of New Hampshire with her husband and their shih tzu, Melissa. Their house is tucked in the woods where the deer and cross-country skiers roam.
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Jim Dyment
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Jim Dyment is a New England native. Originally from Lancaster, Massachusetts, Jim now lives in Lowell. He enjoys living in the area because of its vibrant arts community. He has a BS in Mathematics from UMass Lowell. After receiving this degree, he decided to go back to school at Massachusetts College of Art, where he studied design. He credits this choice as being one of the best he ever made. He has worked as a graphic designer for the past 13 years.
In addition to writing for artscope. Jim works as Exhibits & Gallery Manager at the Whistler House Museum of Art. He also maintains an online art journal called vyumagazine.com, which chronicles the art community in Lowell, Massachusetts and beyond.
Jim is interested in all types of art. He enjoys painting with acrylic, and recently has become interested in multimedia and collage work. He hangs the art of local artists at Centro Restaurant in Lowell. Aside from art, Jim enjoys pop music, antiques, interior design, and cooking.
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Tony Maroulis
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Tony Maroulis grew up in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, and presently lives in Pelham, Massachusetts, just outside of Amherst. He graduated from Rutgers University in 1994 with a degree in English and Mass Media. In addition to writing for artscope, Tony serves as the Executive Director of the Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce.
Prior to that, Tony was a museum professional, and worked at a number of institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Emily Dickinson Museum, and Museums10. From 2007 to 2009, he owned and directed wunderarts, a commercial art gallery dedicated to the exhibition and promotion of high-quality contemporary abstract and conceptual art by regional and national artists.
Additionally, Tony published a novel that few people have read. He is married to Nora Maroulis, Deputy Director of External Affairs at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts. They are the proud parents of two children, Sofia, 11, and Mickey, 7, as well as 5 chickens, a dog, and a hamster. Tony is interested in all kind of art, primarily abstraction and conceptual work, but describes himself as a “cultural omnivore, loving sports, art, and the Kardashians (sorry).” He has a black belt in karate, and, because of this training, can still do a split.
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the region's culture and art institutions, including:
Amherst Biennial Arts Affair | 12th
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Brattleboro
Gallery Walk|Breast Cancer Research | Cambridge Arts Council | Cambridge Open Studios | Cambridge River Festival | Chelsea, NY High Line '09 | Danforth Museum | Fountain Street Open Studios | Karla Little Fine Furnishings | Lowell Folk Festival | Lyric Stage Company| MassArt Auction | New Eng'd Wildfl'r Society| New Art Center | Forest Hills Trust | Phillips Exeter Academy Art Club | Redbrick Gallery | Quincy ArtsFest | Quincy Art Association | Roslindale Open Studios | SEABA | Burlington Open Studios | Space 242 | StoveFactory Charlestown | Vermont Tourism | WGBH
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