Résumé
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| Mags Harries Résumé |
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| PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS: | |||||||||||||||
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| 1978 - | School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, - Sculpture Faculty. | ||||||||||||||
| 1990 - | Harries/Héder Collaborative, Cambridge MA | ||||||||||||||
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| AWARDS - a Selection: | |||||||||||||||
| 2006 | The Waterfront Center - Award of Excellence for WaterWorks AZ | ||||||||||||||
| 2005 | Valley Forward Crescordia Award, - for Ghost Trees and Arbors, Phoenix AZ | ||||||||||||||
| 2004 | AICA Award - for Projections show at NAO Gallery | ||||||||||||||
| 2003 | Valley Forward Presidential Award, - top award for WaterWorks at Arizona Falls | ||||||||||||||
| 2003 | Individual Artist Grant - Sculpture/ Installation, - Massachusetts Cultural Council | ||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Marshall Cogan Visiting Artist - - Office of the Arts at Harvard University, MA | ||||||||||||||
| 1998 | Doctor of Fine Arts(Honorary), Regis College, Weston, MA | ||||||||||||||
| 1993 | Top Honor Award for Design Collaboration - Boston Society of Architects | ||||||||||||||
| 1992 | Artist Educators Civic Award - Mayor's Office, Boston, MA | ||||||||||||||
| 1986 | Governor's Design Awards, MA (Asaroton & Bellingham Square commissions) | ||||||||||||||
| 1981 | Design Excellence Award for Public Art in Transportation - N.E.A. and U.S. Dept.of Transportation | ||||||||||||||
| 1980 | Grand Bostonian, Honoring 200 citizens of Boston - Bicentennial Celebrations | ||||||||||||||
| 1977-78 | Bunting Institute Fellow - Radcliffe College, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA | ||||||||||||||
| 1976 | Artists' Fellowship - Mass. Foundation, Boston | ||||||||||||||
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| COMMISSIONS - a Selection: * in collaboration with Lajos Héder | |||||||||||||||
| 2006 - | Interstate 35, Austin TX - “Sun Flowers” solar power collectors and bikeway.* | ||||||||||||||
| 2006 - | Power and Lght District - Kansas City, MO. * | ||||||||||||||
| 2006-07 | Concord River Greenway Trail, - City of Lowell, MA and NEFA*. | ||||||||||||||
| 2006-07 | Des Moines Science Museum, IA - “The Big Question” Outside amphitheater.* | ||||||||||||||
| 2005 - | South Mountain, Phoenix, AZ - Trails and canals. With Ten Eyck Landscape Architects. | ||||||||||||||
| 2004 - | Portland, ME - Stone Ship and Tidal Park*. | ||||||||||||||
| 2003 - | San Jose, CA - Creek/Trail design*. | ||||||||||||||
| 2002-05 | Baseline, South Phoenix, AZ - Design with Ten Eyck Landscape Architects: trails, canals*. | ||||||||||||||
| 2001 - | Cleveland Circle, Brighton, MA - Consultant and lead artist. | ||||||||||||||
| 2001-03 | San Diego Port Authority - "The Benefit of Mr. Kite" Topiary and prisms.* | ||||||||||||||
| 2001 - | Codman Square Library Park, Boston, MA - Design of community park. | ||||||||||||||
| 2000-05 | Central Connecticut State University, CT - Seating outside new student center. | ||||||||||||||
| 2000-03 | Arizona Falls, Phoenix Art Commission, AZ.* | ||||||||||||||
| 1997-98 | Cardiff Bay Art Trust, UK - Hamadryad Waterfront Park - Community residency. | ||||||||||||||
| 1997-98 | City of Toledo, OH - Kleis Park - design of park, choreographed paths with brass figures. | ||||||||||||||
| 1996-2001 | Cambridge Water Works - Design team artist * . | ||||||||||||||
| 1996-2006 | Miramar Park, Fort Lauderdale - Design team artist * . | ||||||||||||||
| 1996-2000 | City of Louisville, KY - Consulting artists on the expanded convention center * . | ||||||||||||||
| 1993-97 | Freeman Centennial School and the Olive Day School, Norfolk, MA - "Portrait Chairs", steel, books, glue, photographs. | ||||||||||||||
| 1993-95 | PS 89, Queens, NY - "Terullian Mantle", flags, steel, tile, fiberglass, lighting * . | ||||||||||||||
| 1991-94 | Scottsdale Public Library - "Pillars of Thought", Scottsdale, AZ * . | ||||||||||||||
| 1991-94 | Mission Hill, Boston - "Ben's Circular Tower", Children's Storytelling Place * | ||||||||||||||
| 1990-91 | City of Phoenix, AZ - "Wall Cycle to Ocotillo", 20 site sculpture series, concrete, steel and landscape materials * . | ||||||||||||||
| 1988 | Faxon - Norwood, MA - "In the Dense Words", laminated books. | ||||||||||||||
| 1987-93 | New York 1% - Prospect Park Zoo Brooklyn, NY, Topiary and aluminum. | ||||||||||||||
| 1983 | City of Cambridge 1% - Longfellow School - "The Gateway", wood, light. | ||||||||||||||
| 1982 | Decordova Museum - Mass. Council on the Arts -New Works Program - "3 Gardens". | ||||||||||||||
| 1978-84 | Mass. Bay Transit Authority - "Glove Cycle", Porter Square Subway Station, bronze. | ||||||||||||||
| 1978 | City of Chelsea, Carol Johnson Assoc., Cambridge, MA - "Bellingham Square", bronze. | ||||||||||||||
| 1976 | City of Boston and Mass. Bicentennial Commission - "Asaroton", Haymarket, bronze. | ||||||||||||||
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| INSTALLATIONS: | |||||||||||||||
| 2004 | CAC Gallery, Cambridge, MA - "River". | ||||||||||||||
| 2003 | American Academy in Rome, Italy. - "Aqua al Dente". | ||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ. - "Lucid Moment". | ||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Neuberger Museum Biennial of Public Art - “Play Back”, Purchase, NY. | ||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Regis College, Weston MA - "Lucid Moment", installation, light and water. | ||||||||||||||
| 1998-2000 | National Park Service - Rivers and Trails - Bronx River / Golden Ball , NY. | ||||||||||||||
| 1998-99 | National Park Service - Rivers and Trails - Kenduskeag Stream, Bangor, ME. | ||||||||||||||
| 1997,'98 | Cambridge River Festival - "Winding Down The Charles", collaboration/artists. | ||||||||||||||
| 1996 | Reclamation Artists, Boston - "The Misguided Tour of Boston" / "Parked Car Park" | ||||||||||||||
| 1995 | U.K. Literature Festival, Swansea, U.K. - "The Demon Trap" with Peter Finch. | ||||||||||||||
| 1994 | 8 Communities in/around Boston - "Speed of Light", bicyclists, lights, suitcases. | ||||||||||||||
| 1994 | Honolulu Academy of Art - "Communal Well", installation. | ||||||||||||||
| 1993 | New Art Center, Newton, MA -"Art in Nature", three installations /performance | ||||||||||||||
| 1990 | Art Park, Lewiston, NY - "River Runes", installations. | ||||||||||||||
| 1990 | La Jolla Museum, CA - "Border Garden", installation. | ||||||||||||||
| 1989 | Friends of Long Island Shelter - "Home" - World Trade Center, Boston. | ||||||||||||||
| 1988,'89 | First Night, Boston - "The Man from City Hall" installation, video, performance. | ||||||||||||||
| 1986 | Mass. Bay Transit Authority - Artstops - "Know No Bounds", installation/performance. | ||||||||||||||
| 1982 | Mass. Bay Transit Authority, Red Line, Boston - "The Fossil"- subway car no. 1506 | ||||||||||||||
| 1982 | Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA - "The Beach", installation with sound. | ||||||||||||||
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| PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: | |||||||||||||||
| Boston Public Library | |||||||||||||||
| Decordova Museum | |||||||||||||||
| National Museum of Wales | |||||||||||||||
| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | |||||||||||||||
| Polaroid Corporation | |||||||||||||||
| Rose Art Museum | |||||||||||||||
| Southern Illinois University | |||||||||||||||
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| EXHIBITIONS - Selected Shows: | |||||||||||||||
| 2004 | CAC Gallery, Cambridge, MA - “Reaching Water” Mags Harries/Lajos Heder. | ||||||||||||||
| 2003 | NAO Project Gallery, Boston, MA - Projections through Glass. | ||||||||||||||
| 2001 | University of California, Santa Cruz - “Public Projects” solo show. | ||||||||||||||
| 2000 | Pratt Institute and National Park Service - "Knowing Limits", traveling show. | ||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Cardiff Bay Art Trust, Wales - "Changing Places- Part 2" - Mags Harries, Solo show. | ||||||||||||||
| 1998 | Rose Art Museum, MA - "Contemporary Sculpture and Sculptors' Drawings" | ||||||||||||||
| Iowa State University, Ames, IA - "Expanding Environments" | |||||||||||||||
| 1997 | Cardiff Bay Art Trust, Wales - "Changing Places" | ||||||||||||||
| 1994 | Institute of Contemporary Art - "Public Intervention" | ||||||||||||||
| Fuller Art Museum, Brockton MA - "Shrines, Cherished Objects" | |||||||||||||||
| 1991 | Fitchburg Museum, MA - "Objects Revisited" | ||||||||||||||
| 1990 | Danforth Museum, Framingham MA - "Separate Intelligence" | ||||||||||||||
| MIT List Visual Art Center /La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA - "Satellite Visions" | |||||||||||||||
| 1988 | Dayton Art Institute - "Art for the Public: New Collaborations" - travelling exhibit | ||||||||||||||
| 1987 | Pine Manor College, Newton, MA | ||||||||||||||
| 1986 | Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University - "Sculptural Objects and Installations", solo show | ||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Photokena, Cologne, Germany - "Images 111", Collection of the Polaroid Corporation - travelling exhibition | ||||||||||||||
| 1984 | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - "The Modern Art of the Print", Torf Collection. | ||||||||||||||
| 1999 | The Welsh National Museum, Cardiff - "Welsh American Portfolio" | ||||||||||||||
| 1982 | Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA - "Mags Harries" Solo show, 10 year review. | ||||||||||||||
| 1982-1972 | Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, MA | ||||||||||||||
| Hayden Gallery, MIT, MA | |||||||||||||||
| Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA | |||||||||||||||
| Carpenter Center Harvard University, MA | |||||||||||||||
| Bunting Institute, Cambridge, MA - Solo Show | |||||||||||||||
| School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Solo Show | |||||||||||||||
| Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston | |||||||||||||||
| Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA - Solo Show | |||||||||||||||
| Terry Dintenfass, NY - Solo Show | |||||||||||||||
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| ARTICLES - a Selection: | |||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Sculpture Magazine - March 2006, Commissions “Terra Fugit” | ||||||||||||||
| 2006 | Public Art Review - Fall - Issue 35, US Commisssions “Terra Fugit” | ||||||||||||||
| 2006 | Touchstone, (U.K.) - Sept. 2006, . “Falling Waters” collaborations of Mags Harries/ Lajos Héder. | ||||||||||||||
| 2006 | Architecture Boston - July 2006, “Landmarks, 5 Projects that left a Mark on the 70’s” | ||||||||||||||
| 2006 | Boston Herald - July 2006, “Five Exemplary Projects” Asaroton | ||||||||||||||
| 2005 | Sculpture Magazine - Oct 2005, “Poetry of the Mundane” A conversation with MH and LH. | ||||||||||||||
| 2005 | New York Times Arts Section - Aug. 19, 2005, “Risks and Rewards of Art in the Open” | ||||||||||||||
| 2005 | Landscape Architecture - Feb. 2005, Feature. “Uncovered Landscape” | ||||||||||||||
| 2005 | The Boston Phoenix - Jan. 7, 2005, “The waterways of Mags Harries and Lajos Héder” | ||||||||||||||
| 2004 | The Boston Globe - Dec. 31, 2004, “For these resourceful artists, it’s water, water, everywhere” | ||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Boston Herald - Sept 2, 2004, "“One Woman’s Trash…is a city’s bronze treasure” | ||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Public Art Review - Sp/Sum 2004, Recent Projects, WaterWorks, Phoenix, AZ | ||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Art New England - April 2004, Mags Harries at Nao Project Gallery | ||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Sculpture Magazine - Feb 2004, "Arizona Falls" | ||||||||||||||
| 2003 | The Boston Globe - Nov. 26, 2003, "Artist wraps glass into her own orbit" | ||||||||||||||
| 2003 | Arizona Republic - June 9, 2003, "Unwrapping a Waterfall" | ||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Arizona Republic - Sept 23, 2002, "The Lure of Falling Water" | ||||||||||||||
| 2002 | The Boston Globe - September 11, 2002, Living Arts, "Waterworks and other elements….in place" | ||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Sculpture Magazine - June 2002, "Drawn Water" | ||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Sculpture Magazine - May 2002, "2001 Biennial Exhibition of Public Art" | ||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Landscape Architecture - March 2002, "Creating a 'There' there" | ||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Boston Sunday Herald - November 4th, "Cambridge's 'Water' works as accessible playful piece" | ||||||||||||||
| 2000 | Sculpture Magazine - October 2000, "Hands-on Awareness - Mags Harries" | ||||||||||||||
| 2000 | Boston Globe Magazine - May 2000, "The Elemental Artist - Mags Harries" | ||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Chronicle of Higher Education - March 1999, "Becoming Part of Memory" | ||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Art in America - June 1999, Boston Report | ||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Public Art Review - April 1999, Commissions | ||||||||||||||
| 1998 | Orion - Winter 1998, "Waterworks", Mags Harries | ||||||||||||||
| 1997 | Sculpture - July/Aug 1997, Commissions | ||||||||||||||
| 1996 | Garten and Landscaft - Jan. 1997, "Detail" | ||||||||||||||
| 1996 | Public Art Review - April 1996, "Memorials" | ||||||||||||||
| 1995 | Landscape Architecture - March 1995, "Brilliant Disguise" | ||||||||||||||
| 1994 | Sculpture - Nov/Dec 1994, Commissions | ||||||||||||||
| 1994 | Landscape Architecture - March 1994, "Towering Topiary" | ||||||||||||||
| 1992 | Space Design - Japan, Nov. 1992, "Mags Harries/Lajos Heder" | ||||||||||||||
| 1992 | Art New England - Dec 1992, "Mags Harries" | ||||||||||||||
| 1988 | Sculpture - Nov/Dec 1988, Commissions | ||||||||||||||
| 1987 | Smithsonian Magazine - April 1987, "Sculpture in the Subways?" | ||||||||||||||
| 1986 | Contemporary American Women Sculptors - Watson-Jones, Oryx Press 1986 | ||||||||||||||
| 1982 | Decordova Museum Catalog Essay - "Runic Ruins - Mags Harries' Archaeology of the Present", Donald Kuspit | ||||||||||||||
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| CATALOGUES | |||||||||||||||
| 2005 | Cambridge Arts Council - “Reaching Water” Essays by Patricia Phillips and Hafthor Yngvason | ||||||||||||||
| 1982 | Decordova Museum Catalog Essay - "Runic Ruins - Mags Harries' Archaeology of the Present", Donald Kuspit | ||||||||||||||
| EDUCATION: | |||||||||||||||
| 1968-70 | Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL - Master of Fine Arts | ||||||||||||||
| 1963-67 | Leicester College of Art and Design, England - Diploma in Art and Design, Sculpture | ||||||||||||||
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