Talks & Courses
10:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Bringing together speakers from the fields of design, street art, music, and politics, this day-long event frames Shepard Fairey’s work within the context of grassroots civic action, punk rock, and 80s graffiti and skate culture. Featuring Steve Heller, Elliott Earls, Nicholas Blechman, Caleb Neelon, the Project Director for PIXNIT Productions, and Kevin Grady. A ticket to one or more of the five Main Stage Talks is required to attend the other talks and events happening around the museum. For a full schedule of these events, click "More Info."
Talks & Courses
10:00 AM
Tickets: $25 general admission; $15 ICA and AIGA members, seniors, and students. Includes access to programs in the Art Lab, Lobby, and galleries. Admission to those programs is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Designer Kevin Grady, and Boston-based street artists Caleb Neelon and the Project Director for PIXNIT Productions provide a cultural orientation to frame Shepard Fairey’s work, while designer, design curator and author Elizabeth Resnick explores how his work fits into a diverse and powerful history of dissent in design.
10:00 AM
Tickets: Admission is free with a ticket to any main stage talk.
Hear differing perspectives on Shepard Fairey’s work, and see it through the eyes of designers, artists, critics, and curator with gallery talks scheduled throughout the day. Fritz Klaetke is Principal/Design Director of Visual Dialogue. His body of work ranges from identity systems to music packaging, print collateral to websites, and book design to public sculpture.
10:45 AM
Tickets: Admission is free with a ticket to any main stage talk. Admission to these programs is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Laura Fitton, social networking consultant and author of "Twitter for Dummies," shares her experiences using new media to raise money for a clean water initiative in India.
11:00 AM
Tickets: Admission is free with a ticket to any main stage talk.
Hear differing perspectives on Shepard Fairey’s work, and see it through the eyes of designers, artists, critics, and curator with gallery talks scheduled throughout the day. Caitlin Curran is a freelance writer living in Cambridge, MA. She's written about street art for the Boston Phoenix, and for her personal blog, Beginning to See the Light. Her work has also appeared in the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Glamour, and National Public Radio online, among other places.
Talks & Courses
11:30 AM
Tickets: $25 general admission; $15 ICA and AIGA members, seniors, and students. Includes access to programs in the Art Lab, lobby, and galleries. Admission to those programs is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Designer Elliott Earls presents his perspective on establishment and anarchy. How does one visualize dissent? Should designers look beyond traditional sources of inspiration or court contradiction and chaos to produce relevant, resonant, and prescient design?
12:00 PM
Tickets: Admission is free with a ticket to any main stage talk.
Hear differing perspectives on Shepard Fairey’s work, and see it through the eyes of designers, artists, critics, and curator with gallery talks scheduled throughout the day. PIXNIT is the pseudonym of a Boston-based artist who creates ornate, large-scale installations and paintings influenced by reproduction prints, the history of painting, and the decorative arts. Her street art, combining graffiti with a distinctive stenciling technique, is designed to simultaneously beautify and critique our urban environment.
12:00 PM
Tickets: Admission is free with a ticket to any main stage talk. Admission to these programs is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Kevin Grady is the founder, editor-in-chief and creative director of the award-winning pop culture magazine "Lemon," published with long-time creative partner Colin Metcalf. The title was heralded as one of the top four new magazine releases of 2006 by expert Samir Husni. "Lemon" has attracted avid followings from around the world.
12:15 PM
Tickets: Admission is free with a ticket to any main stage talk. Admission to these programs is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Social networking consultant Laura Fitton interviews members of Street Attack, an alternative and digital marketing agency, about their integrated marketing campaigns and how the latest trends, technology, and media can be harnessed to communicate social messages and more.
Talks & Courses
12:45 PM
Tickets: $25 general admission; $15 ICA and AIGA members, seniors, and students. Includes access to programs in the Art Lab, lobby, and galleries. Admission to those programs is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Pete Favat, Arnold Advertising’s Chief Creative Officer, and Nicholas Blechman, Nozone designer and New York Times Book Review art director, discuss how guerrilla marketing has taken hold and what it means for the way artists, designers, and the media operate.
01:00 PM
Tickets: Admission is free with a ticket to any main stage talk. Admission to these programs is on a first-come, first-served basis.
"Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State" (2008) is the first illustrated survey of the propaganda art, graphics, and artifacts of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Communist regimes of the USSR and China.
01:00 PM
Tickets: Admission is free with a ticket to any main stage talk.
Hear differing perspectives on Shepard Fairey’s work, and see it through the eyes of designers, artists, critics, and curator with gallery talks scheduled throughout the day. Randi Hopkins, former co-founder and director of the Allston Skirt Gallery in Boston, was the ICA's organizing curator for "Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand."
Talks & Courses
02:00 PM
Tickets: $25 general admission; $15 ICA and AIGA members, seniors, and students. Ticket holders will have access to programs in the Bank of America Art Lab, State Street Corporation Lobby, and galleries. Admission to those programs is on a first-come, first-served basis.
"Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State," the first illustrated survey of the propaganda art, graphics, and artifacts of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and the Communist regimes of the USSR and China, explores how these regimes succeed in influencing the minds of millions. Its author, Steve Heller, illustrates how the elements of visual language—imagery, typeface, color palette—were used to “sell” the totalitarian message.
02:00 PM
Tickets: Admission is free with a ticket to any main stage talk.
Hear differing perspectives on Shepard Fairey’s work, and see it through the eyes of designers, artists, critics, and curator with gallery talks scheduled throughout the day. Caleb Neelon is an artist, writer, and educator. He is an editor at the popular culture bi-monthly Swindle, and has been a contributing writer to Tokion, Print, Juxtapoz, On The Go, and Lemon. Neelon’s paintings and installation artwork have appeared in exhibitions, on murals, and in publications around the world.
02:15 PM
Tickets: Admission is free with a ticket to any main stage talk. Admission to these programs is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Organized in partnership with the Berwick Research Institute. Hear what the next generation of artists have learned, adapted, or rejected from Shepard Fairey’s work and where it is leading them. Designer Elliott Earls will interview Boston-based artists including a representative from Goldenstash, Dana Woulfe, and Kenji Nakayama.
02:15 PM
Tickets: Admission is free with a ticket to any main stage talk. Admission to these programs is on a first-come, first-served basis.
The latest installment of Nozone, a decade-old political graphic design and comics zine edited around a theme, Forecast revisualizes everything from our environment to our waistlines, from the stock market to the Middle East through the eyes of cartoonists and graphic designers who have made comics with a conscience. Nicholas Blechman is principal of Knickerbocker Design in New York and art director of the New York Times Book Review.
03:00 PM
Tickets: Admission is free with a ticket to any main stage talk.
Hear differing perspectives on Shepard Fairey’s work, and see it through the eyes of designers, artists, critics, and curator with gallery talks scheduled throughout the day. Rochelle Seltzer founded Seltzer Design Intelligence in 1984. Her mission is to build strategically focused brands and outstanding design solutions to meet clients' objectives.
Talks & Courses
03:30 PM
Tickets: $25 general admission; $15 ICA and AIGA members, seniors, and students. Includes access to programs in the Art Lab, lobby, and galleries. Admission to those programs is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Is appropriation an effective means for subversion? Kevin Grady moderates a panel discussion with designers Steve Heller, Nicholas Blechman, and Elliott Earls, examining the success of new images in comparison to subverted or altered familiar ones. What defines this practice as a design tool, and what could it suggest for the way design develops? Who defines the fine line between appropriation and plagiarism?
03:30 PM
Tickets: Admission is free with a ticket to any main stage talk. Admission to these programs is on a first-come, first-served basis.
"The Book of Awesome" (2009) deliberately ignores the obvious global centers of New York, Los Angeles, and London to document artist Caleb Neelon’s street presence in places like Kathmandu, Sao Paulo, and Tegucigalpa. Neelon has made art on five continents, collaborating with noted street artists Os Gemeos and Andrew Schoultz, and made work in streets where he is the first foreigner—-let alone street painter—-to wander in quite some time.
Film
07:00 PM
Tickets: $10 general admission; $8 members, students, seniors
Following the sudden death of their brother, the large, Sephardic Ohaion family gathers at the deceased’s house for the traditional seven days of mourning. Living and grieving together, rivalries and resentments test family unity, but never love.
