Leslie Sills: News and Events

		Spring 2009 — Merrell Publishers Limited, London and New York will publish That's My Doll: Dolls in Art, an art book with text and images of historical, modern, and contemporary works that incorporate doll imagery.
		Winter 2007–2008, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA The Tea Pot Redefined: Exhibition of Contemporary Tea Pots Contact: mobiliaart@aol.com or www.mobilia-gallery.com
		March 31, 2007, 7 p.m., Massachusetts College of Art, Huntington Ave., Boston Midnight (a tea pot illustrating Cinderella's plight) will be available at the Massachusetts College of Art Auction. For more information email auction@massart.edu March 24, 2007, 1–2:30 at Mt. Ida College, Newton, MA Lecture on women artists, Slide Presentation and Book Signing For more information contact Jane Kokernak at jkokernak@mtida.edu
*Hydrangea Teapot*		For further information, email Leslie Sills. December 10, 2006, 7:00 p.m. Showa Women's Institute, 420 Pond Avenue, Jamaica Plain 617-522-0080 Lecture and Slide Presentation Book Highlights from Inspirations: Stories About Women Artists and From Rags to Riches: A History of Women's Clothing in America Hydrangea Tea Pot was selected to be in the fall edition of Art Matters, the Alumni Magazine of The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This tea pot will be in the December Sale at the SMFA December 5–11, 2006. Check web site for hours: www.smfa.edu November 11 – Dec. 29th Arlington Center for the Arts Gibbs Center, 41 Foster Street, Arlington 781-648-6220 Exhibition: Little Women December 3, 2006, 1:00 p.m. Lecture and Informal Discussion Women Artists View Girls
*Bird Necklace*		November 9–12 Chicago SOFA (sculpture, objects, and functional art) art exposition Two tea pots and a necklace. Fall 2006 Bostonia Magazine, the Alumni Magazine of Boston University. Review of From Rags to Riches: A History of Girls’ Clothing in America. October 31 — November 22 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA Catalogue essay, "Uncommon Worlds,” The Art of Julia Zanes and Donald Saaf
*Soft Doll with ceramic head and limbs* Shelia, age 10		*From Rags to Riches: A History of Girls' Clothing in America* is featured the children's catalogue of The Metropolitan Museum of Art called MetKids, page 20 in a section titled MetKids Create Fashion. May 2006 Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA Exhibition of work by 2005 Grant recipients from The Artist’s Resource Trust, a grantmaking fund of Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation February 26, 2006 I am doing a program for children from 2–4 p.m. for The Yeshiva University Museum, New York City about the history of girls' fashions 1860–1960 in conjunction with their exhibition, A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry. December 2005 Mobilia Gallery, 358 Huron Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02136 My ceramic work is included in the exhibition The Teapot Redefined, 'til December 31, 2005. Phone 617-876-2109. December 2005 – March 2006 Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA My ceramic work is also in the Kamm collection now on exhibit at The Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, MA, 'til March 3, 2006. (My teapots are not on exhibit but are a part of this collection and will be in the Sparta Teapot Museum, Sparta, N.C.) Thru January 31, 2006 Massachusetts College of Art, Art Education Department My student, Peter Donnelly, a disabled ceramic sculptor, is having a one-person exhibition of his work through January 31st, 2006. June 17, 2005 Artist-in-residence at Freeman-Centennial School, Norfolk, MA For more information contact, Heather Stalaboin, at stalaboin@norfolk.k12.ma.us/ Or call (508) 528-1266 x 1750 May 2005 Lecture and slide presentation on the History of Women Artists Billerica Public Library For more information, contact Liz Bentz at canebentz@yahoo.com
*Girl with Balloon and Sunglasses* Liza, age 6 *Young Woman* Susanna, age 13 A Day at the Beach Hannah, age 8, and Leslie.		April 2005 Lecture and slide presentation on In Real Life: Six Women Photographers Wixon Middle School, Dennis, MA March 2005 Lecture and slide presentation on women artists Cape Ann Families, Gloucester, MA March 2005 Lecture and slides presentation on women artists Thomas Crane Public Library, Quincy, MA February – March 2005 Inspirations: Stories About Women Artists (Five lectures) Charlestown Artists group, Charlestown, MA *Selected Past Engagements* Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA Bancroft School, Worcester, MA Barnes & Nobles, Burlington, MA Boston University, Boston, MA Buckingham, Browne, & Nichols School, Cambridge, MA C-Span, Book TV Cambridge Friends School, Cambridge, MA Center for the Study of Children’s Literature, Simmons College, Boston, MA Chestnut Hill School, Chestnut Hill, MA Dana Hall School, Wellesley, MA De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA Emma Willard School, Troy, NY Foundation for Children’s Books, Boston College, Boston, MA Glen Urquhart, Beverly Farms, MA Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Lawrence School, Brookline, MA Lesley University, Cambridge, MA Massachusetts Reading Association, Sturbridge, MA Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA Pike School, Andover, MA Regis College, Weston, MA Salem State College, Salem, MA School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Sidman-Goldman Jewish Community Center, Newton, MA Springfield University, Springfield, MA St. Paul’s School, Concord, NH Thomas Crane Public Library, Quincy, MA WBUR- Here and Now Wheelock College, Boston, MA Winsor School, Boston, MA