Call & Response 2022 Artist Talk

Join us for the Call & Response Artist Talk!

Glimpse the Museum’s permanent collection through the fresh eyes of regional artists working in an array of media, and learn more about their selections and evocative responses. Inspired by the thought provoking works created for two previous Call & Response exhibitions, Senior Curator Francine Weiss invited three regional artists for a third Call & Response exhibition. All three artists will speak briefly on their collection choices, the works they created for the exhibition, and how it connects to their broader studio practice.

The talk will be followed by informal Q&A with artists in the galleries.
Free. 
Attend in person or virtually! Reservations required to receive Zoom link.

Diane Barceló
Born in Connecticut, Diane Barceló received her MFA from the University of Maryland in Sculpture. Upon graduating, she focused on creating and exhibiting large scale sculptural installations that relied deeply on the power of natural materials to affect the viewer’s experience. These pieces were exhibited in numerous locations on the east coast. Returning to Connecticut, she taught in public high schools and later became adjunct faculty at the University of Connecticut. In 2006 she was awarded the Sculpture Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. She participated in residencies that include the Banff Center for the Arts (Canada), The Griffis-Orpheus Foundation in Bulgaria, Grounds for Sculpture (NJ), Woodstock’s Byrdcliffe Artist Colony (NY) and I-Park (CT). She continues to produce installations and works on paper and has shown her work at several college art galleries and museums in the Northeast.

Emily Belz
Emily Belz is an independent photographer and educator based in Lincoln, MA. Her photographs focus on domestic still lifes, telling stories through the traces, objects, and slants of light that have been left behind. Belz has exhibited her photographs widely in both solo and group exhibitions at venues including Gallery Kayafas, the Danforth Museum, the Griffin Museum of Photography, and the Center for Fine Art Photography. She is represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston.

Belz holds a BA in photography and art history from Hampshire College (1997); an MA in community-based art education from the Rhode Island School of Design (2009); and an MFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art (2017). She teaches classes and workshops at the Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester, MA) and the deCordova Museum (Lincoln, MA), and is on the faculty at Lasell University (Newton, MA). Belz works privately with artists as a mentor and specializes in reviewing and sequencing portfolios.

On-Kyeong Seong
On-Kyeong Seong is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Seoul, South Korea and currently lives and works based in suburban area, Boston. She received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and her second BFA from Lesley University Art and Design, Cambridge. Her work has been exhibited widely, including Wheelock College and Boston University, Boston; Kingston Gallery, Boston; the Korean Consulate General, Newton, MA; Brookline Art Center, Brookline, MA; Harvard University and Mass Art, Boston; and among many others.

She has been including in numerous art magazines and broadcasts, such as WBUR/NPR’s Artery, Boston’s WHDH TV Channel 7, Artscope Magazine, contemporary Art curator, spotlight magazine and many more. She is associate with Kingston Gallery, Cambridge Art Association and Costal Contemporary Gallery.