Freedom Project Kolekcja. Artists Talk on Artist’s Book
Curator: Ania Gilmore
Time: Saturday, June 7, 2025 at 11am (Boston Time)
Event Moderator: MassArt x SoWa Gallery Director Felicia Scott fdscott@massart.edu
Location: MassArt x SoWa Gallery, 460 Harrison Ave., Suite C-08 Boston, MA 02118 + ZOOM
SPEAKERS:
1. ESZTER BORNEMISZA (Hungary) VIRTUAL
Eszter Bornemisza is a fiber artist based in Budapest, working with recycled paper and textiles. Her process involves machine stitching, printing, dyeing, and painting. She also creates 3D objects from self-made paper pulp. A former mathematician, she began creating art quilts in the mid-nineties. Recently, she focuses on translucent wall hangings and installations, with experimentation guiding her work. Her pieces have been shown globally and featured in art publications.
2. KĘSTUTIS VASILIŪNAS (Lithuania) VIRTUAL
Prof. Kestutis Vasiliunas, a Lithuanian artist, earned an MA from Vilnius Art Institute.
He has held 35 solo exhibitions and participated in global art shows. Founder of “Bokartas,” he organizes the “International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius” and lectures on printmaking and artist’s books at prestigious universities worldwide.
3. ANNE PLAISANCE (USA / France / Poland) GALLERY
Anne Plaisance, an award-winning Polish-French artist based near Boston, has exhibited internationally in over 100 shows. Focused on women’s empowerment, her work is in private collections worldwide and featured in outlets like the Boston Globe and Harper’s Bazaar. She has received grants from prestigious cultural councils.
4. ANNA-MÁRIA ORBÁN (Romania) VIRTUAL
Anna-Mária Orbán, a 1996 graduate of the Academy of Arts Bucharest, is a PhD lecturer
in the Textile Department at the National University of Arts Bucharest. She has held solo exhibitions in Romania, Athens, Stuttgart, Beijing, Korea, and Budapest, and has received numerous prestigious awards in textile art.
5. KACPER ZAGDAN (Poland) VIRTUAL
A graduate of the State Art School and the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, holds a master’s degree in painting. His thesis, inspired by sound, was featured in the 2020 Best Diploma Theses Exhibition and won PRIME TIME 2021. Kacper designed the new logo for FREEDOM PROJECT KOLEKCJA in his typeface “Grohman Grotesk” in consistency with the Book Art Museum visual communication.
6. SANDRA MAYO (USA / Argentina) GALLERY
Sandra Mayo is an Argentinean artist and educator specializing in printmaking and mixed media. Her work explores family trauma and human rights abuses using genograms.
In 2022, her exhibition Beyond Trauma; Roots and Routes won the Leonard Bernstein
Festival award, and she received two Mass Cultural Council grants in 2023.
7. LASSE ANTONSEN (USA / Denmark) VIRTUAL
Lasse Antonsen, born in Denmark in 1947, studied art at the Experimenting Art School in Copenhagen and art history at Copenhagen University, Harvard, and Tufts. He directed the University Art Gallery at UMass Dartmouth for 25+ years and taught at several universities. Since 2005, Antonsen has exhibited installations and collages in venues like the Boston Artists Foundation, Bristol Art Museum, and internationally.
8. LEONIE CASTELINO (USA / India) VIRTUAL
Leonie Castelino is an American Fine Artist and Curator, recognized as a leading Contemporary Bojagi Fiber Artist. Her work, showcased in solo and prestigious international exhibitions, explores women’s issues. In 2021, ‘Breaking Free’, the virtual exhibition redefined feminism, a multi-media collaboration in fiber art, sculpture and prose. Castelino initiates dialog through the power of art. Featured in museums, videos, profiles, international books and publications, her art is celebrated globally.
9. C.A. STIGLIANO (USA) GALLERY
Chuck Stigliano, Professor Emeritus at MassArt, is a Maryland native who studied at the Philadelphia College of Art and earned an MFA from the University of North Carolina.
His work explores personal discovery, relationships, and social issues, viewing Art History
as both a respected guide and a field for rebellion.
10. MAŁGORZATA MALWINA NIESPODZIEWANA (Poland) VIRTUAL
Małgorzata Malwina Niespodziewana is a graphic artist, researcher, and professor at the Pedagogical University of Krakow. She creates prints, drawings, art books, and installations exploring the body, biographies, and the work of avant-garde women artists. Her practice, shaped by a long diary and artistic journeys, focuses on feminist interpretations of female figures in fairy tales and body transformation. She co-founded the female Group 13 and developed the concept of the universal body.
11. ERIK and MARTIN DEMAINE (USA / Canada) GALLERY
Erik Demaine is a computer scientist and artist, a Professor at MIT since 2001. His research spans algorithms, from improving web searches to studying protein folding and game theory. He received a 2003 MacArthur Fellowship for his work in computational geometry. Demaine and his father, Martin, explore connections between mathematics and art, creating curved origami sculptures displayed at the Museum of Modern Art and the Renwick Gallery.
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