| Eleanor Rubin • Bio |
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| Eleanor Rubin | |
| Personal data | |
| 1940 | Born: Hollywood, California |
| 1962 | BA Brandeis University |
| 1963 | M. ED Harvard University |
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Employment |
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| 1978-2002 | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Coordinator of Access |
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Selected Exhibitions |
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| 2003 | Transformations: Sound into Image: The woodcuts and watercolors of Eleanor Rubin, Kantar Fine Arts, Newton, MA |
| 2001-2000 | The Boston Printmakers, Artists' Books Boston Public Library, ('00) Montserrat College of Art, ('00) and University of New Hampshire, ('01) |
| 2000 | Correspondence(s), University of Michigan, Institute for the Humanities, Ann Arbor MI, March, two person exhibition with photographer, Joanne Leonard |
| 2000 | Women in Watercolor, Wiggin Gallery Boston Public Library |
| 2000 | Blue The Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge MA. Juror, Cheryl Brutvan, Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| 1999 | Word and Image, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. Juror, Carl Beltz, Rose Art Museum |
| 1996 | Above the Surface and Below: Watercolors and Prints by Eleanor Rubin, solo exhibition at Helen Bumpus Gallery Duxbury, MA |
| 1995 | "A Falcon, a Storm or a Great Song," Prints, Drawings Watercolors by Eleanor Rubin, Newton Library |
| 1994 | "Joy Weeping, Fighting and Fear" 25 years of Prints by Eleanor Rubin, Montserrat College of Art |
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Selected Awards and Residencies |
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| 2002 | Grant: Visual response to music of Hikari Oe |
| 2001 | Uncommon Vision Award for Access to Arts for people who are visually impaired or blind |
| 2000 | Innovation in Access Award, VSA Arts and Met Life |
| 1995 | Association of American Museums, Access Award for Museum Access at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| 1988 | Artist in Residence, Centrum Masereel , Kesterlee, Belgium |
| 1986 | Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities "Museum Without Walls" project |
| 1976 | Finalist, Mass Foundation for the Arts, Artists Grant |
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Selected Permanent Collections |
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| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston Public Library, Boston Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Ann Arbor, MI. | |
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Selected Lectures about Printmaking and Drawing - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| 2002 | The Modern Woodcut: Wild Beasts and Other Departures |
| 2000 | Charlotte Salomon: Eleanor Rubin, An Artist's Perspective |
| 1999 | Beyond Loss: The Restorative Power of Art |
| 1998 | May Stevens: Eleanor Rubin, An Artist's Perspective |
| 1994 | Light, Scale and Feeling: The prints of Helen Frankenthaler |
| 1990 | Emile Nolde's "Fantastic Beings" |
| 1987 | Print, Proof, State, Plate: An Introduction to Looking at Prints |
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Selected Reviews and Publications |
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| 2001 | Syracuse Cultural Workers, Women Artists' Date Book. Innovations in End of Life Care, Volume II, Taking Leave |
| 2000 | Boston Globe, Linda Matchan "Artist books come out from Under the Covers" |
| 2002 | Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, International Universities Press, Inventing A Visual Language of Resilience |
| 2000 | Art New England, Alicia Faxon Women in Watercolor |
| 1997 | The new renaissance Torn From Her Moorings |