Posted Friday December 06 2013 at 10:48 pm
Edward Fahey, SKY, Acrylic on Paper
Webster House Gallery will be hosting an opening reception for their annual exhibit and holiday card sale on Tuesday, December 10 from 4:00 – 6:30 pm at 20 Webster Place in Brookline, MA. Refreshments will be served. The show will continue through February 28, 2014. For more information about the event, contact Webster House at 617-739-5461 or info-websterhouse@vinfen.org.
Webster House, a Vinfen program, is a clubhouse providing mental health recovery support to adults through work, education, wellness, art, and social enrichment.
Posted Sunday December 01 2013 at 7:16 pm
The New York Times - November 1, 2013 - "Far Out on a Limb" by Deirdre Dolan - Photographs by Nadav Kander
Sophie de Oliveira Barata works out of a bright white, semidisheveled northwest London studio surrounded by feet and fingers, legs leaning against walls and hands that look real enough to shake. With a background in art and special-effects makeup, she worked for eight years for a prosthetics manufacturer before deciding to become a creator of bespoke limbs. "It meant I could use my creative skills and do something massively rewarding," she said, dropping an oddly appealing man's foot in my lap. "Making an alternative limb is like entering a child's imagination and playing with their alter ego," she said. "You're trying to find the essence of the person." In 2011, de Oliveira Barata started the Alternative Limb Project and soon found interested clients. She created one leg with a stereo embedded in it, another with removable muscles and a third, among others, that housed minidrawers. Recently she began collaborating with artists skilled in animatronics, 3-D printing, metalwork and carbon fiber. "After losing a limb, a person isn't the same," de Oliveira Barata said. "So this is a form of expression, an empowerment, a celebration. It's their choice of how to complete their body — whether that means having a realistic match or something from an unexplored imagination."
Visit The New York Times article to view more of de Oliveira Barata's creations and read about the amputees they were created for.
Posted Tuesday November 26 2013 at 10:44 pm
Jerome Solon Felder was the most unlikely of rock & roll icons. Paralyzed with polio as a child, Brooklyn-born Jerome Felder reinvented himself first as a blues singer, renaming himself Doc Pomus, then emerged as a one of the most brilliant songwriters of the early rock and roll era, writing "Save the Last Dance for Me", "This Magic Moment", "A Teenager in Love", "Viva Las Vegas", and dozens of other hits.
What: "AKA Doc Pomus" Boston Film Premiere Event followed by Q&A with Director Peter Miller
When: December 12, 2013 7:30pm
Where: Regent Theatre, Arlington
Price: General Admission Tickets: $10 - Purchase Tickets
