Press Release

December 1, 1999
Contact Vicki Brodnax at 407-646-2526

BREAKING BOUNDARIES AT THE CORNELL MUSEUM

WINTER PARK, FL — In a major collaborative effort, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College will present Breaking Boundaries: Exploration and Collaboration at the Atlantic Center for the Arts . The exhibition opens simultaneously with Picasso's Vollard Suite at the Cornell Museum on Friday, January 21, with a free public reception from 6 to 8 p.m., and continues through Sunday, March 5.

Breaking Boundaries celebrates twenty-two years of the creative cross-pollination that defines the multi-disciplinary Atlantic Center for the Arts. Located in New Symrna Beach, Florida, the Atlantic Center for the Arts is a world-renowned artists-in-residence program.  “Master Artists” (writers, choreographers, composers, playwrights, and visual artists acknowledged as among the most important in their field) are invited to live and work for three-week residencies at the Center. Each Master Artist selects a group of emerging artists of distinction (called “Associates” at ACA) to work and study with them in these short-term collaborative experiences.

Using many works-in-progress, Breaking Boundaries permits glimpses into the creative process: revised pages from a Peter Mathiessen manuscript exposes the author's deliberate word choice; frenetic musical notations of Chinary Ung's composition, Grand Alap, demonstrates the expressionistic energy he uses in writing music; and Wendell Castle's sketch for a planned sculpture reveals his process for developing form. “Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about Breaking Boundaries is not what is on display.  It is an assemblage of the invisible, the implied, the suggested, the hinted-at, a route map, if you will,” writes internationally acclaimed playwright Edward Albee in the exhibition introduction.  Also featured are works by such artists as Allen Ginsberg, James Dickey, Michael Lucero, Ed Paschke, Philip Pearlstein, Donald Erb, and David Del Tredici.

To compliment the ideals of exploration and collaboration that are celebrated in Breaking Boundaries , the Cornell Museum will host various workshop classes in collaboration with the Theatre, English, Dance and Music departments at Rollins College.  For further details, call the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at 407-646-2526 or visit the Cornell's web site at www.rollins.edu/cfam.  The Cornell Museum is located on the Winter Park campus of Rollins College.  All programs are offered free of charge to the public.