John Boilard '11, Elliott Anderson '10, and Pat Falco '10 are producing a three week traveling poster show of over 300 hand printed posters. Help them get this show on the road!

Graduate sculpture students Clive Moloney, Zach Herrman, and Nick Sullivan, along with Jessie Vogel, '12 (MFA, sculpture) are curating an exhibition at 225 Friend Street in Boston's West End. Help them bring national and international artists to participate as well.

Bruce Myren, '91 (photography), is following the Fortieth Parallel with his camera in tow. He is taking pictures at the 52 confluences across the United States. Help fund his project to document the 20 remaining locations this summer.

Collin Reisdorf, '05 (graphic design), and his business partners have created Modkit Micro – a graphical programming environment for microcontrollers that allows programmers and engineers to add behaviors to everyday objects and electronic gadgets.

Graduate student Ryan Arthurs (photography) combines his love of canoeing with his art in "The Lure of Labrador." He is planning a trip to paddle the George River from Labrador City to Ungava Bay, following in the footsteps of Leonidas and Mina Hubbard.

Professors Rick and Laura Brown are continuing to work with their students on rebuilding the Gwoździec synagogue in Poland this summer. However, this year they would like to produce a documentary on how 80-year old photographs are being transformed into a 3D structure.

Steve Maing, an adjunct professor in Professional and Continuing Education, is documenting the evolution of two of China's first citizen reporters in "High Tech, Low Life."

Kristin Texeira, '10 (painting) is embarking on an ambitious project to compare her grandmother's memories to her own during an artists' residency in France. Read more about her paintings and what she hopes to accomplish on the project page.

Fionn McCabe, '06 (printmaking) is writing and illustrating "Back Already?" a book that explores the intersection of American mythology and everyday life. Click through to read one of his stories and to support the project.

Ashley Moore, '08 (illustration) has illustrated one of her favorite Norwegian folk tales in watercolor and gouache. It has been her dream to see her illustrations in a published children's book, and now she needs some assistance with the last step: getting it produced.

Rafael Luna, '06 (architecture) is funding "I Want to be Metropolitan." This book analyzes research on mini-metropolises and focuses especially on Boston. Support his project to help the book reach completion!

Talin Avakian is studying film/video at MassArt (expected graduation 2012). She is raising money for "Dumb," her senior thesis film. The fictional story follows Sydney, a young girl with selective mutism.

Susan Metrican, MFA student, is curating a show of 12 artists called Hung Jury. She's seeking funding for the basics – the space and transportation of artwork. Give what you can today and make sure to check out the show in February.

Professor Lisa Rosowsky (graphic design) is working to publish a catalog for her upcoming show at the Holocaust Museum Houston. As the daughter of a French Holocaust refugee, much of her work centers on themes of repression and loss.

Ben Doane, MassArt illustration student (expected grad '14), created the concept sketches for this re-imagining of Hansel and Gretel. This version is a musical and explains how Gretel starts to see the witch as a mother figure.

Claudia Quigua (film/video) successfully funded an experimental short movie about a man who transforms himself into a pig-like creature. The film addressed the question: Are the qualities we define as human superimposed on a basically animal nature?

Nicky Tavares, '08 (MFA film/video) is directing the documentary Son of a Bug, chronicling the first Pakistani rock band. She hopes to "explore complex issues of religious and hyphenated identities, transnationalism, memory, and oral history."

Josh Friedman, '06 (industrial design) is taking 40-foot by 8-foot shipping containers and turning them into gardens with rainwater reclamation, a full filtration system and solar power. The first unit will produce lettuce and herbs.

Jason Landry, ’07 (photo) is working to design, edit and publish a 200+ page, large square hardcover retrospective of Harold Feinstein's classic and historically important black & white photographs.

Joel Murphy, ’94 (metals) is working on a plug-and-play heart-rate sensor for Arduino that can be used by students, artists, athletes, makers, and game and mobile developers who want to easily incorporate live heart-rate data into their projects.

Lauren Briere, ’06 (illustration) successfully funded her project to revitalize umbrellas with whimsical and beautiful artwork. Her original artwork will surround you on dull, gray days.

Alex Reben, '12 (MFA, DMI) created the electronic voting interface for this interactive sign and scoreboard in collaboration with Steve Lambert.

Casey Donahue, ’10 (film/video) successfully funded his short film “I Am Root Beer.” It is a story about pursuing your dreams, no matter how ludicrous and seemingly unattainable they are.

John K. Melvin, ’04 (painting) achieved funding for a sculpture project in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The piece is planned to simultaneously impose and interact with an old riverside mill site adjacent to the Grand Rapids Public Museum.

Kest Schwartzman’s, ’05, (metals) project to create 197 copper masks based on Norman Thomas diGiovanni’s The Book of Imaginary Beings was funded in July. Why masks? She says they are the best and strongest way to express a beast that only lives because we believe in him.

Big Red & Shiny is Back! Almuni Clint Baclawski, '08 (MFA), Stephanie Cardon, '10 (MFA) and Brian Glaser, '09 (MFA) are three of five editors of the newly relaunched online journal about contemporary art and culture in Boston.