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News and Events : News 04-05
Press Release
NMH Presents New Photography Exhibit by Alice Proujansky
February 17, 2005
NORTHFIELD, Mass.— You can take the artist out of the country,
but you can’t take the country out of the artist.
Such is the case with Alice Proujansky. A Greenfield native and
1998 graduate of the Northfield Mount Hermon School, Proujansky
went to New York City and received a degree from New York
University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She teaches high school
photography in Brooklyn, where she resides. And she currently
has an exhibit at NMH of a Colrain, Massachusetts cow farm.
“I was striving for a lyrical quality with these photos,”
Proujansky said. “I wanted to get the feeling of exactly what
it’s like to be on this farm.”
Indeed, the show, “Photographs by Alice Proujansky” offers many
oblique views of life on the farm—milking, fixing machinery, and
farm people and pets. They stand alone, but when combined also
tell a story of farm life. Proujansky’s concern about the future
of American farms also plays into her work. “Family farms are
threatened by rising land costs, sprawling development, falling
profits and the trend toward large-scale corporate farms,” she
says. As a part of the exhibit, she will provide literature on
ways people can help to preserve farmland.
The exhibit is in The Nada/Mason Gallery located in the Bolger
Arts Center on the school’s Northfield campus, and runs through
March 2. A “Meet the Artist” reception will be held on February
25th from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. For more information, call (413)
498-3449 or e-mail Lisa Schmitt at ldschmitt@nmhschool.org.
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