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Christopher Michael Sullivan '07

WHITNEY ART WORKS TO SHOW PROJECT 00011: Shot cms

Portland, ME - Why would you shoot a bullet through 22 identical prints of yourself? To make them each original, of course.

Project 00011 consists of 22, 18" x 18" targets baring the face of CMS proprietor Derek Lobley. Each print features etchings of the unique scoring and pricing tables used for the project. After Christmas fellow CMS proprietor Chris Sullivan will shoot each print with a .223 caliber rifle. The location of each shot will then determine the price of each print, as per the scoring and pricing table.

The prints for Project 00011 - Shot CMS will be on display at Whitney Art Works at 490 Congress Street, Portland, Maine from January 21st through the 26th. There will be a reception on January 25th from 5-8pm, which will include an artist talk by christophermichaelsullivan at 7pm. The prints will be for sale by the gallery starting January 21st. Each print is priced, numbered, timed, dated, and signed by the shooter with prices ranging from $4 to $12,455.

For more information on this project visit www.christophermichaelsullivan.com. For gallery times and directions visit www.whitneyartworks.com.

Melanie Fiander '07
Photograph selected for publication in Photo Review 2006

Melaniefiander.com

Kris Hall '06

Listen to an Maine Public Radio interview with Kris as she describes her Wal-Mart podcast

Read a Maine Sunday Telegram article on Kris Hall

Kirsten Reynolds '04
Awarded one of 5 New Hampshire State Arts Council Fellowships for $5000.
Read more

Barbara Rita Jenny '02

Winner of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement grant of $30,000
Read more or view Barbararitajenny.com

Current MFA Faculty

Iain Kerr, Interdisciplinary Studio and Theory
As part of the artist collective Spurse, Iain is participating in The Public Table,  a restaurant presented by The Collective for the Finding of the Commons.

New Haven, Connecticut: January 21- February 17 2006
Bellows Falls, Vermont: February 27-April 7 2006
Cambridge, Massachussetts, April 17-May 26 2006

Iain's collaboration with J. Morgan Puett, "that word which means smuggling across borders" completed a piece in France and will be doing a piece at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum. This same project is featured in a new book on labor and art: Kerr, I & J. M. Puett (2005) That Word Which Means Smuggling Across Borders Incorporated. (In) Object of Labour. (ed) Joan Livingstone and John Ploof.

Upcoming pieces for Iain Kerr

Spurse is working with DARE-DARE to occupy a mobile office in Montreal's downtown and to present art projects in the public park and elsewhere in the city.

During the spring of 2006, spurse will exhibit at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The piece involves a collaboration of local historians, artists and ecologists to enact creative investigations of Indianapolis, including IMA's Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park.