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Home Galleries Artist Info Video Clips Synesthesia Calendar Contact Site Map Links Press Blog Exhibitions Researcher Reflections	Recent Exhibitions, Lectures, Interviews Museum of Modern Art / Kiev International Art Project AYT 2011 April 7 to May 7, 2011 Opening Reception April 7, 2010 Project Curators: Dr. Koan Jeff Baysa, MD, New York, USA Artist and Curator, Tetyana Gershuni, MFA, Kiev, Ukraine In addition to displaying 11 of Smilack's images in the exhibit the museum is featuring her give two lectures at the Museum of Modern Art / Kiev Saturday, April 9, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm Sunday, April 10, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm The McMaster Museum of Art Hamilton, Ontario Canada September 18 - December 20, 2008 Reception: Saturday Sept 27, 6-8 pm SYNESTHESIA: ART AND THE MIND This exhibition examines the impact of Synesthesia on visual art. It features the art of the known synesthetes, David Hockney, Joan Mitchell, Marcia Smilack, and Carol Steen and works by artists thought to be synesthetic including Charles Burchfield, Tom Thomson, Wassily Kandinsky, and Vincent Van Gogh. What Does A Metaphor Look Like? McMaster University Professor Daphne Maurer, Host Department of Psychology, Neuroscience And Behavior 7th Annual National Conference American Synesthesia Association Hamilton, Ontario Canada September 26-28, 2008 See Abstract Below James Schot Gallery Photo Studio Sublime Distractions 2800 N Federal Highway, Suite A Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33306 Opening April 18, 2008, 7-10 pm Exhibit Through June 14, 2008 Lecture at Wellesley College Professor Beval Conway's Class Vision and Art April 8, 2008 Radio Interview: "Fashionista's Corner" February 2, 2008 Television Interview MVTV Vineyard View with Ann Bassett January 2008 Radio Interview Weekend America Produced by Peabody Winners Kara Oehler and Ann Hepperman Saturday May 26, 2007 *Listen to show at: A Different Sense of Things University of South Florida 6th Annual National Conference American Synesthesia Association, Inc. Lecture: The Language of Synesthesia St. Petersburg, Florida January 26-28, 2007 http://synesthesia.info See Abstract Below Documentary Mirai No Hosoku or Uncharted Future Japanese Television Produced by The East Company December 31, 2006 Lecture at The School for Visual Arts Artists Talk About Art Series: Synesthesia and Perception New York City, NY December 8, 2006 http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu Department of Clinical Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Hanover Medical School Hanover, Germany 2nd International Conference on Synesthesia December 1 - 3, 2006 Houston Medical School University of Texas Houston, Texas Fifth Annual National Conference American Synesthesia Association, Inc. Lecture: When A Window Is Also A Mirror October 28-30, 2005 See Abstract Below The College Art Association Annual Meeting Lecture: Synesthetic Sonar Between Artist and Archetype: Photographic Proof That The Universe Is Dreaming Atlanta, Georgia February 19, 2005 Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences University of California, Berkeley Fourth Annual National Meeting of the American Synesthesia Association, 2004 Lecture: The Singing Arches Berkeley, California November 5-7, 2004 The Rockefeller Institute Neurogenetics Laboratory Lecture: Weekends are Taller than Weekdays Third Annual National Meeting American Synesthesia Association New York City, New York May 2-4, 2003 www.synesthesia.info/rockefeller.html Synergy Design Center Lecture: Synesthesia Evening With Readings by Author Patricia Duffy and Poet Rose Styron Vineyard Haven, MA July 22, 2003 Yale University The Pierce Laboratory run by Dr. Lawrence Marks Lecture: How I Used Synesthesia To Teach Myself Photography New Haven, Connecticut Installation: 281 Summer Street Normandy Realty Boston, MA Placed by Boston Art The Winnetu Inn Art Work in All the Rooms Katama, Massachusetts Katama, MA Installation: Lure Restaurant The Winnetu Inn Katama, Massachusetts Feather Stone Meeting House For The Arts Lecture: Dreams, Synesthesia and Photography Oak Bluffs, MA Bunch of Grapes Bookstore Authors Series How Synesthetes Color Their World Presentation by Marcia Smilack Reading By Patricia Duffy from Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens Vineyard Haven, MA Feather Stone Meeting House For the Arts Lecture: How I Write . . . by Marcia Smilack Oak Bluffs, MA Martha’s Vineyard Hospital Lecture: Synesthesia: What Is It? Oak Bluffs, MA Harvard University Graduate School of Landscape Design Lecture: How I See In Reflection Cambridge, MA Sail Martha's Vineyard, Group Exhibit 110 Main Street Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts December 2006 - 2007 School for Visual Arts Artists Talk About Art Series Lecture: Synesthesia and Perception New York City, NY 2006 Solo Exhibition, Curated by Suzanne Ryan Marcia Smilack: Synesthesia in Her Work Enchanted Garden Conservatory of Arts 529 Ethan Allen Highway (Route 7) Ridgefield, Connecticut Dragonfly Gallery Water-Inspired Images 91 Dukes County Avenue Oak Bluffs, Masschusetts September 28 - October 9, 2006 Featherstone for the Arts Reflections by Marcia Smilack Oak Bluffs, Masschusetts September 1 - 9, 2006 The Yard Performing Artist Dance Colony Dancers Margi Gillis & Paola Styron Present: A Stone's Poem Marcia Smilack, Special Guest Moderator Chilmark, Massachusetts July 30 - August 1, 2006 OTHER GALLERIES AND EXHIBITIONS (A Partial List) The Yard, Chilmark, MA The X-Gallery, Nantucket, MA The Starr Gallery, Newton, MA Chilmark Library, Chilmark, MA Field Gallery, West Tisbury, MA Gay Head Gallery, Aquinnah, MA Cobalt Gallery, West Tisbury, MA Gallerie Oceanna, Edgartown, MA Firehouse Gallery, Oak Bluffs, MA Dragonfly Gallery, Oak Bluffs, MA Wooden Tent, Vineyard Haven, MA Granary Gallery, West Tisbury, MA The Garden Club, West Tisbury, MA Chicamoo Gallery, West Tisbury, MA Hebrew Center, Vineyard Haven, MA Synergy Design, Vineyard Haven, MA Thaw Malin Gallery, West Tisbury, MA Luce House Gallery, Vineyard Haven, MA IMPACT Safety Programs, Columbus, Ohio OttensSargent Gallery, Vineyard Haven, MA Martha's Vineyard Film Festival, Aquinnah, MA Kelly House, A New Leaf Exhibit, Edgartown, MA Annual Family Planning Exhibion, West Tisbury, MA Association for Dreaming Conference, Santa Cruz, CA Philadelphia Art Show Childrens Hospital, Philadelphia, PA The Feather Stone Meeting house For The Arts, Oak Bluffs, MA RELATED EXPERIENCE Member of the Chilmark Cultural Council Chilmark, MA
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