Artist Fred Wilson included "Filament/Firmament" in his curatorial selection of the top Public Art projects in the United States completed in 2009. Artist Helen Lessick shared the podium and each artist presented 20 projects each at the Public Art Network conference on June 24.
"Filament/Firmament" curated in to Public Art Network "Year in Review"
Gregory Sale and Ellen Driscoll present "Unhinged", PAN conference
Gregory Sale and Ellen Driscoll presented "Unhinged", a panel discussion on creating optimum conditions for enhancing artistic creativity in the public realm, with Lajos Heder and Norie Sato moderating.
More information is available at the Public Art Network website.
"Still Life" opens Sept. 2 from 4-7 at Allendale Farm, Brookline, Mass.
A floating sculpture, 20' x 13' x 3', made from recycled plastic with assistants Xiaowen Wu and Sarah Ditmars, is part of the group exhibition "Agriculture Encounters Sculpture" curated by Allison Newsome from Sept. 2-Oct. 21.
See www.aes-2010.net for more details
March 21, Opening celebration of Filament/Firmament at the new Cambridge Public Library
Filament/Firmament, a public art work commissioned by the Cambridge Arts Council, is open to the public in November 2009 as part of the renovation of the Cambridge Public Library by William Rawn Associates and Ann Beha Architects.
New York Times Op-Ed, May 11
On the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, there is a photo of one of Ellen Driscoll's sculptures, which is used as an illustration.
See the article entitled, "Plan B in the Gulf."
Photo=Curtis Hamilton
April 21, 2010 The Arts of Being: Telling Life Stories Now; Northeastern University conference
The Loophole of Retreat will be presented as part of a panel at Northeastern University, April 21, 2010
"The Loophole of Retreat", an installation based on "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs will be presented as part of a panel on April 21 which includes; Leo Braudy, film and cultural critic, University of Southern California Blanche Wiesen Cook, biographer and historian, CUNY Graduate Center Kimberly Juanita Brown, Department of English, Northeastern University
Agni Magazine, April, 2010
From the Ground Up
An essay with artist's pages, by Ellen Driscoll
January/February 2010, FastForwardFossil Part2 reviewed in Art in America
