Mothertongue Resume PERSONNEL Co-Founders Terry Rumble Mary Bernstein Coordinator 1991-present Mary Bernstein 266 Shays St Amhesrt MA 01002 MFA Unversity of Maryland 1977,Certificate of Art therapy 1983, BFA University of Massachusetts, Amhesrt MA 1975 1991-1995 Terry Rumble 1993-1996 Felice Caivano Westfield State College, 1993 EXHIBITS Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO, 1998 Storefront Studio, St.Louis, MO, 1998-1999 The Chaffee Gallery, Rutland Vermont. 1998 The Christine Price Gallery, Castleton College, Castleton Vt. 1998 The Art Bank, Shelburne Falls, MA 1998 Jewett Hall Gallery University of Maine at Augusta, Augusta, Maine 1997 Blue Hills Library, Blue Hills, Maine 1997 Ellsworth Library, Ellsworth, Maine 1997 University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine 1997 Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine 1997 Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, New England Artists Congress 1996 Geissler Gallery, Stonleigh Burnham School, Greenfield, MA 1996 Fine Arts Gallery, Springfield Technical Community College 1995 The Burnett Gallery, Jones Library, Amherst, MA 1994 Mass MOCA, New England Artists Congress, North Adams, MA 1994 Asnuntuck Community College, Enfield, CT 1994 Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA 1993 Heritage State Park Museum, Holyoke, MA 1993 Canal Gallery, Holyoke, MA 1993-present TEACHING/ WORKSHOPS "Mother Tongue", a 3 credit hour advanced undergraduate course in Bohm dialogue and visual dialogue concepts, Fall, 1998, Webster University Fine Arts Dept. Mini-conference: morning workshop:"Bohm, Dialogue and Mother Tongue: Art Processes as Dialogue Language" afternoon workshop: "Art Dialogues: A Studio Experience", 9/19/98, and Educators' seminar, "Mother Tongue in the Classroom", 9/20/98, St. Louis, MO. Presenter/facilitators: Mary Bernstein and Carol Lark "Visual Dialogue", Castleton College, VT, a 3 credit fine art advanced undergraduate course in visual dialogue using the Mother Tongue Exhibition as a resource for student participation, culminating in a joint exhibition. Spring 1998. "Seminar" presentation of Mother Tongue work in support of Lesley College art therapy program's visual dialogue with clients of Webster House Social Club, 1998. "Mother Tongue Tour", Union of Maine Visual Artists. Tour of MT exhibition, College of the Atlantic, Ellsworth Library, University of Maine, Augusta Maine. Mother Tongue Exhibition used as a resource for professional artists and students to dialogue with images, Spring 1997. Northampton High School Collaboration. Workshops and ongoing teacher support to initiate a student visual dialogue with MT, which has continued and evolved within the high school. 1995- present Initiation of a visual dialogue with Chelsea Artists Group Mother Tongue "in house" seminar workshops: Holyoke Housing project Youth At Risk Program, Russian exchange students, teachers from Japan, workshop series for Latina teenage mothers, workshop for county art teachers, weekly open studio for community dialogue 1993-1996 ARTICLES AND REVIEWS 1998 "Texture in the Melting Pot": Postmodernist Art and Art Therapy" Simone Alter-Muri, Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association "Speaking in Tongues" Eddie Silva, The Riverfront Times "Mother Tongue: Panels Provide a Dialogue in Art" Jane Broderick, The Greenfield Recorder 1997 "Responding to Mother Tongue" Steve Ruhl, Massachusetts Review "College of the Atlantic /Bar Harbor Mother Tongue" Donna Gold, Art New England Summer "Mother Tongue Sharpens Focus on Creation" Donna Gold, Maine Times, Jan 30 1997 "Mother Tongue Creates Visual Dialogue" Laurie Schreiber . The Bar Harbor Times, Jan 23 1997 1996 "Mother Tongue Engages Its Audience", Gloria Russell, Sunday Republican, January 28, 1996 1995 "Canal Gallery demonstrates dialogue in ''Mother Tongue", Frank Cressotti, The Holyoke Sun,June 23,1996 1994 "Creative Conversation, The Mother Tongue community art project comes to the Burnett Gallery",Christine Benvenuto, Amherst Bulletin, January 13, 1995 "Mass Milltowns", Robin Cossin and Gloria Russell, Art New England, October-November, 1994 "Some 150 works speak from similar instincts", Patricia Wright, The Daily Hampshire Gazette, May 26, 1994 "Artists, public having a chat - on canvas", Bruce Watson, The Daily Hampshire Gazette, May 26, 1996 "Mother Tongue speaks in the language of art", Gloria Russell, Sunday Republican, February 6, 1994 "Interactive Art, Mary Bernstein and Terry Rumble challenge the nature of art in Mother Tongue" Lee Sheridan, The Valley Advocate, January 20, 1994 1993 "An exhibition-in-progress: local artists invite the public to join the show", Christine Benvenuto, Amherst Bulletin, September 17, 1993 GRANTS 1999 The LEF Foundation 1999 The Community Foundation of Western Mass 1998 The Community Foundation of Western Mass 1995-6 Carsey Foundation, Los Angeles, CA LEF Foundation, Helena, CA and Cambridge, MA 1994 Carsey Foundation, Los Angeles, CA LEF Foundation, Helena, CA and Cambridge, MA "New Forms", New England Foundation for the Arts, Cambridge, MA Holyoke Cultural Council, Holyoke, MA 1993 LEF Foundation, Helena, CA and Cambridge, MA Holyoke Cultural Council, Holyoke, MA