THE LIBRARY EXHIBITION IS CLOSED and we will mount a condensed version by september 2016/ HERE's a dedicated stand-alone website that documents the library exhibition:
http://www.ashlandnyanzafutures.com/
The website above was designed by Lorraine Fryer as part of her Master's in the Harvard Extension School's Museum Studies Program. Within this website is an interactive mapping of the contaminated groundwater designed by Ming Tu as part of his work in the 'Hands-On Exhibition Design' course, Summer 2015.
Within the Ashland Public Library resides one of the EPA's first Field Repositories for a Superfund Site. During the initial stages of cleanup in 1988, the people of Ashland demanded that remediation findings be made public and the EPA agreed to launch this important program. Over 25 years later as we look at the collection of binders, we can skim the history of the contaminants. What's not here are the stories of people, how they were impacted, the culture of loss—the narrative of the contaminated. This exhibit will juxtapose the qualitative stories from people within the space of the quantitative data from the EPA. Working with the EPA and using their data, a scale model and set of mappings will be present to help people orient and to project their own memories onto this subject.
THE PUBLIC ARCHIVE
Are you interested in submitting materials to this public archive? If so, please check the Public Walkshops schedule to learn more about participating in this project and sharing your materials and your stories.
ILLUMINATING FUTURES EXHIBITION / TEAM CREDITS
Project Initiated by Dan Borelli
RESEARCH
Gavin Kroeber, Advisor, and Initial Collaborator
ARTISTS IN CONTEXT
Marie Cieri, Advisor, Grant Manager
Louisa McCall, Advisor
ASHLAND-COMMUNITY
Bernie and Marie Kane
Andy, Lisa, and Brandon Kaufman
ASHLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY
Paula Bonetti, Director
Larry Dejong, Gallery Director
ASHLAND-TOWN GOVERNMENT
Tony Schiavi, Town Manager
Nat Strosberg, Town Manager
ASHLAND- WACA-TV
Barbara Chisholm, Executive Director
Paul Beaudoin, Production Manager
Alison Rose, Videography and Editing
Miles Garnet, Videography and Editing
FRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY
Brian Bishop, Associate Professor of Art and Chair, Department of Art + Music, Framingham State University, Framingham, MA
Paloma O Fortier, Researcher Intern
Laura Mustis, Graphic Design Intern, Logo and Website Designer
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Hands-On Exhibition Design: Museum Studies Program
Mackenzie Brown, Design and Installation, Nicholas Corriea, Allie Cornell, Jessica Diedalis, Lorraine Fryer, Intern, Smartphone App, Design, and Installation
Meike Gourley, Sara Lischinsky, Ming Tu, Intern, Interactive Design, and Bruce Williams
Hauser Grant, Innovation in Learning Technology
Rose Goldman, Hauser Grant: Professor, Harvard School of Public Health
Amy Cohen, Hauser Grant: Director of Instructional Technology, Harvard School of Public Health
Kara Oehler, Interviewer, Editor, Historical Research
Jesse Shapins, Advisor, New Media and Zeega Point Person
Ali Kuczmikas, Zeega: Videography, Research
Jenny Lim, Zeega: Videography
Lindsey Wagner, Zeega: Project Support
Todd Elfman, Zeega: Administrative Support
Daniel Garber: Hauser Grant: Photography and Videography
Danny Goldhaber: Hauser Grant: Photography and Videography
INSTALLATION
David Zimmerman-Stuart: Installation
Daniel Rauchwerger and Patrick Herron: Topographical model
Reid Schwartz: Chairs and Frames
Alan Golder/ICL-Imaging: Prints
INTERVIEWS
Yellow/Family
Lisa Kaufman
Tim, Mike, and Chris Kane
Tracie Lee Tajiani, Riley Tajiani with Kate, Abbie, and Olivia Kane
Bernie and Marie Kane
BLUE/Community
James Merloni Jr.
Timmy Tracy
Cliff Wilson
Ashland Advocates for a Clean Environment: AACE
Richard Brown, Chuck Green, Holly Guy, Laura Kelly, and Arthur Shapiro
Douglas R. Green, PhD, Chair of the Immunology Department at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Tennessee
RED/ Government
Suzanne Condon
Associate commissioner and Director of the Bureau of Environmental Health at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Dan Keefe, US Environmental Protection Agency, Remedial Project Manager
Karen Spilka, Massachusetts State Senator of the Democratic Party. She represents the Second Middlesex and Norfolk District