MFA Residency '17 | ilyavidrin

Creative Residency at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2017).

In August and September 2017, I was invited to be artist-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston). I collaborated with over 40 local artists to activate galleries through music, film, performance art, and dance. The creative residency featured nine curated evenings, including three world premiere musical arrangements, multi-gallery "pop-up" tours, immersive movement workshops, and several outdoor performances on the museum's campus.

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Eight of the nine events were specifically curated to engage museum patrons on Wednesday evenings, aligning with the museum's policy to waive admission fee to provide free access to the public.

The residency culminated in two evening-length concerts, one featuring an evening dedicated to the work of Boston-local, composer, Tony Schemmer, and the final culminating performance in the Koch Gallery with newly commissioned dance work set to pieces by Rachmaninoff, Cage, and Arnold Schönberg's epic string sextet, Verklärte Nacht.