2016/17 season details coming soon!
2016/17 season details coming soon!
March 2015 Artist in Residence
Photo-Montage Artist
Workshop at The Studios: Photoshop-Painting with Photography
Fran Forman combines her illustrative and photographic skills with a passion for surrealism, paradox, illusion, assemblage, the non-human world, and the dislocations of time and place. She studied art and sociology at Brandeis University where she received an MSW in psychiatric social work and then an MFA from Boston University. Fran has also held a succession of positions in the field of graphic design, book cover art and web design. She is a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis and a recipient of several grants. She teaches digital collage at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She has won significant top prizes including the 2012 Px3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, the Worldwide Photography Gala in the Portraits category, the International Photography Awards, and the Julia Margaret Cameron awards. Fran’s work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (Washington, DC) and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Boston’s Museum’s of Fine Arts and appears in journals and magazines and adorns the covers of many books. Schiffer is publishing a compilation of her work, Escape Artist, The Art of Fran Forman, which will be available in autumn 2014.
With one of the tallest buildings – and most spectacular views – in town, the Hugh’s View rooftop terrace serves as The Studios’ creative space in the sky. The terrace sits four stories above street level and offers panoramic views of the island. The Kitwald Stage glows in the golden twilight of our sunset performances.
With original seating from its days as a Masonic temple, the Helmerich Theater has been updated to also include floor seating. As a black box theater, the set up is intimate but professional, and sets the stage for concerts and performances that leave guests feeling like they really got to know the performer.