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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS: Spring & Summer, 2008. The Art and Life of Jessica Park, the Traveling Show, 2008 Opens on: May 28, 2008 Location: MCLA Gallery 51 51 Main Streetm North Adams, MA Sponsored by the Fine and Performing Arts Department at MCLA, The Jessica Park Project is a multiyear educational endeavor to study and promote the art of Jessica Park. The current exhibition features over 40 images of Park’s work, along with photographs of Jessica working in her studio and posing with her family as well as MCLA students. The Jessica Park Project is an ongoing educational endeavor designed to introduce students to museum work and its related skills of promotion and publicity, fund raising, educational outreach and book production. For further information e-mail Professor Tony Gengarelly, Ph.D or visit the MCLA website at www.mcla.edu/JessicaPark. In April of 2008, Exploring Nirvana: The Art of Jessica Park, a 96 page book with 86 full color illustrations of Jessica's art, will be released. Along with 26 catalogue entries by MCLA students, the book also contains essays from experts in the fields of autism and Outsider Art. Dr. Oliver Sacks introduces Exploring Nirvana with a moving tribute to Jessica and her art. The result of four years of dedicated work by faculty and students, Exploring Nirvana, has been glowingly described by Dr. Pamela Rogers, Director of the book's sponsor, Pure Vision Arts (a division of the Shield Institute, New York, NY): " an important and comprehensive chronicle that elegantly enlightens us about the life and work of an extraordinary woman and important contemporary artist." Copies of the book are limited. Click here for a preview and ordering information. 
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Original paintings may be commissioned by special arrangement.
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