On March 15-17, 2024: sixteen Handshouse directors and advisors gathered in Norwell, MA for a 3-day intensive strategic planning workshop to collaboratively consider the future of the organization. Conducted by the inspired guidance of professional Strategic Planning leader: Lisa Mount of Artistic Logistics.
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Marie Brown, Eva Carter, and Michael Burrey standing in front of the Handshouse Notre-Dame model of La Forêt in St Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University. They worked together with Dr. Lindsay Cook, Art History Professor from Penn State to offer a hands-on Notre-Dame Project workshop with students for Columbia Students in Medieval Reniassance, Historic Preservation, and Art History, to reassemble the 1:10 scale model for exhibition during a performance of the Gregorian Choir of Paris.
Say hello to our newest team member at Handshouse! We are elated to expand our staff to welcome Eva Carter (they/them) on staff as an Assistant Director for the fall. Eva is joining us to support Marie with the breadth of administrative-organizational work required to orchestrate the unique types of programming Handshouse offers.
Read MoreMichael Burrey and Jackson DuBois, both vital participants in the Notre-Dame Project full-scale reconstruction of Choir Truss #6 in Washington, DC in 2021, were invited to work as members of the team of professional French carpenters rebuilding Notre-Dame de Paris’s 315-foot timber spire.
Read MoreFor the first time since Handshouse was officiated as a non-profit in 2002, we are expanding our Board of Directors and employing a year-round staff member. In July of 2020, the Founding Board Members Rick and Laura Brown, Joel McCarty, and Cary Wolinksy formally hired Marie Brown to assume the role of Handshouse Studio’s first Executive Director.
Read MoreOver the past several months we have been working to develop curricula to help spread the stories rediscovered through our Handshouse projects to a broader audience. We have had the pleasure of working with a dedicated team to start this process, one of whom is our long time Handshouse family member, Krista Lima!
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Ailton Correia performing on his Berumbau at a Banjo Project immersive workshop at Handshouse Studio in Norwell, MA August 2018.
We have lost a hero. Ailton (Nito) Correia, a rising star in Industrial Design at Massachusetts College of Art, a central member of our Handshouse family, a Capoeira performer, a Cape Verdean-American from Amherst, MA, an artist and so many things, most important of which being a very, very dear friend to so many…
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