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Boston gallery exhibits faculty member Larry Pollans’ sculpture

Hail Fellow by Larry Pollans

Larry Pollans, who has immersed Milton students in art history since 1985, will show a collection of his work, Ritual: New Sculpture and Drawing, at the Boston Sculptors Gallery from March 17 through April 18. Larry’s work is often based in his roles as father, husband, son, teacher, and it broadly represents the delights and struggles of the human condition.

His recent sculptures—cast in bronze, ceramic, resin and plaster—include forms and themes that “have roots that stretch to Greece, Florence and Paris,” Larry says. On a trip to France, he and his wife explored the caves of the Dordogne, which, Larry says, “reinforced my sense of connection to a very long tradition of image makers. [In the caves], you are right there with your ancestors. The cave painters may have entered the caves looking for refuge, but then they ritualized the process like a symbolic impregnation with scratches, incisions, and painted marks… My figures all seem to be involved in non-specific rituals. They all express a sense of wonder and burden. ‘Why are we here?’”

The exhibit’s opening reception is Saturday, March 20, from 4 to 7 p.m., and a special Milton reception will take place Saturday, April 10, from 4 to 7 p.m.

For more information on the gallery and exhibit, please visit www.bostonsculptors.com.

Every two years, members of Milton’s Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Singers pack their bags and their instruments for a whirlwind concert tour overseas. In the past, Milton’s musicians have traveled to the many corners of Europe and Asia, performing in some of the world's most historic venues. On Sunday, March 14, the group departed from Logan Airport to begin their tour of southern Spain.

A tradition that began four years ago, the orchestra and singers kicked off the trip with a pre-tour concert in King Theatre on Thursday, March 11.

The twelfth speaker in the Hong Kong Series, Tze Chun graduated from Milton Academy the year in which the Series began, 1998. Tze’s artistic expression is broad, as is his success. He is a writer; a visual artist and painter; and a filmmaker.

Tze’s work in film may be most widely known. His debut feature Children of Invention premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. The film won excellent reviews and fifteen festival prizes, at film festivals across the country.

Tze’s earlier short film, Windowbreaker was selected to play at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, and also at more than thirty other high-profile international festivals. Windowbreaker is a semi-autobiographical film based in a mixed-race Boston suburb, where paranoia and stereotype-driven suspicions are at play. It won the audience award at the 2006 New York City Short Film Festival and best short film at the 2007 Vietnamese International Film Festival.