RoseTownMeeting

=Rose Art Museum Town Meeting= Tuesday, February 10, 2009 6;30-8:00 p.m.

Cultural Production graduate students worked with Rose staff to help plan and implement the Rose Museum's town meeting, an opportunity for community members to reflect upon the proposed closing of the museum and the selling of its collection. Cultural Production students and undergraduates partnered with the artist Steve Miller to develop a creative piece of protest art, ATM: Art Trumps Money, creating small signs located across campus as well as a banner, "ATM," now hanging over the entrance of the museum. Cultural Production students Brian Friedberg and Bryce Peake internet streamed and recorded the town meeting proceedings and uploaded them to YouTube.

YouTube segment 1. (Michael Rush introduction) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1DFMITeHQE&feature=channel_page

YouTube segment 2 (Michael Rush reads letters) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysLm9HDaaKI&feature=channel_page

YouTube segment 3 (Prof. Ramie Targoff speaks) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnmulfaqkew&feature=channel_page

YouTube segment 4 (Artist Steve Miller speaks) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihr4gMsUKaY&feature=channel_page

YouTube segment 5 (Comments and questions from audience start) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mModaH7eVVQ&feature=channel_page

YouTube segment 6 (Questions) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGYh0k9MEsg

YouTube segment 7 (Prof. Gordie Fellman comments) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx9_Kt4AIBQ

YouTube segment 8 (including exchange between the Mayor of Waltham, Hon. Jeanette McCarthy and Michael Rush) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYRwwd-lVBw

YouTube segment 9 (start with Alexa Wiliams) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L2ljb3IKN4&feature=channel_page

YouTube segment 10 (final questions) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHOtndKXtiQ

YouTube Commentaries on the Rose Museum
Pennie Taylor reflects on the Rose mission and proposes an exhibition of alumni artists responding to the Rose crisis (2/12/09) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NMxPu-BKC8

Mark Auslander on Cultural Production students' initial responses to the announced closing (1/31/09) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZd4HkZnBTg

Brian Friedberg on initial student protests on the Rose, which he links to Gaza related protests (1/30/09) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPO2rxM9-7o&feature=channel_page

Noam Gilboord proposes extensive YouTube commentaries on the Rose situation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqkijkQT8Ys