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For Immediate Release
Contact: Lea Ann Scales
Assistant Vice President
of Public Relations and Marketing
(508) 929-8018
March 26, 2012
Worcester State University's Interdisciplinary Visual and Performing Arts Major will host a talk with local artist Deborah Baronas, on Monday, April 2, at 5:30 p.m. in the Ghosh Science and Technology Building, Room 102, as part the Spring Artist Speaker Series.
Baronas worked for twenty-two years as a designer and creative director in the textile industry before working full time as an artist. She brings her extensive knowledge of textiles to her installations in old mill buildings. The Mill Project consisted of an installation in the Slater Mill Gallery in Pawtucket, RI. In this installation, translucent textile banners hung from the old rafters of the mill. On each banner, Baronas painted images of the workers and their surroundings that once animated these familiar New England sites. Like so many New England families, the artist drew upon her own family’s connections to the textile mills that once formed a center of activity for so many towns and cities in the region. The banners intermingled with some of the artifacts associated with the textile mills, which hauntingly evoked a past that still lingers into our present. Deborah Baronas graduated from RISD (1979). She currently lives and works in Rhode Island.
The event is free and open to the public.
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