Lots of exciting things are happening this Saturday, June 22. I’ll be out of my cave!
At 12-4pm, I will be at the West Medford Open Studios. I’m really excited to be there again—after a hiatus of over a decade. In addition to prints (framed and unframed) I will have postcards, books, and blank notecards for sale. I will have grid panels behind me hanging my Red in Nature and the Alchemy of the Unknown series.
I will be stationed inside the West Medford Community Center at 111 Arlington Street, but most of the Open Studios will be outdoors at Dugger Park on Mystic River Road. I know I still have many friends and acquaintances around Medford. I really hope to see some of you there.
At 6-8pm, I have the honor to be involved in two juried shows that are having open receptions simultaneously. Since the two are 44 minutes apart, I’m unfortunately going to have to choose between them. The opening receptions are at The Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester and The Danforth Museum (members only) in Framingham.
Medford is adjacent to Winchester, and so it makes sense for me to attend the Griffin.
My piece “City Dusk” from the collaboration project, Alchemy of the Unknowns, with my photographer friend J. David Tabor in Phoenix, was selected by Griffin Museum of Photography Executive Director Crista Dix for the virtual part of the show and there will be a screen cycling through the virtual pieces, while the physical juried show will be on the walls.
Finally, (now professionally framed) “Me” in Red, White, and Blue was juried into the Danforth Museum exhibit. This piece is so important to me because it is so hard for me to talk about race still. It is about my experience of assimilation in America as an immigrant, and what Brené Brown calls “rumbling with shame”. That exhibition will be on until September 22. I will go see the show sometime and would love it if friends could join me.
Lisa Tang Liu 