Lisa Lee is a multi-media maker who dances between many disciplines. Among them: literary, performance, sculptural, audio art, video editing and fashion. It’s not unusual for these to join forces in the form of poignant, even controversial installation. Lee’s work is strongly informed by the extremes of life, love… Read More
Lisa Lee is a multi-media maker who dances between many disciplines. Among them: literary, performance, sculptural, audio art, video editing and fashion. It’s not unusual for these to join forces in the form of poignant, even controversial installation. Lee’s work is strongly informed by the extremes of life, love, and injustice. She creates by a philosophy to which she has ascribed the name Algo From Zilch (something from nothing). In this she challenges herself to make, using as many found and recycled materials as possible. She calls this “turning garbage into grandeur!” Read Less
Education
•B.F.A. Massachusetts College of Art & Design (in progress), Boston
•Course work at Emerson College, and School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
•Actor’s Workshop, Boston
•Salem State College, Salem
•Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts, Boston
Spoken Performances
•Massachusetts College of Art & De… Read More
Education
•B.F.A. Massachusetts College of Art & Design (in progress), Boston
•Course work at Emerson College, and School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
•Actor’s Workshop, Boston
•Salem State College, Salem
•Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts, Boston
Spoken Performances
•Massachusetts College of Art & Design Treehouse March 27, 2017
•Concord-Carlisle Human Rights Council’s annual MLK Celebration – The Fenn School Concord, MA
January 2014-2018
•BNN – Artists of Color with Elaine Corbin in Boston, MA
January 6, 2017
•Firebrand Saints in Cambridge, MADecember 14, 2016
•City Council Hearing at Hibernian Hall in Roxbury, MAOctober 25, 2016
•Lift Every Voice – Grand opening of National Museum of African American History and Culture – Smithsonian’s Robbins House in Concord, MA
•Breath & Imagination – Emerson’s Paramount Theater in Boston, MA
•ITunes Single Release Event for By The Light of The Ghetto Moon
•Discover Roxbury’s Fund Raiser - Heart of The Hub
•Domestic Violence Awareness Events with Safe Havens Interfaith Partnership Against Domestic Violence September 24, 2016
September 25, 2016
February 1, 2015
March 7, 2014
October 2013 - 2014
2006-2014
Exhibits
•Massachusetts College of Art & Design All School Show March 23, 2017
•Shots Fired Difficult Dialogues featuring Sybrina Fulton - an Art Response – Massachusetts College of Art & Design
Aug- Sept 2016
•By The Light of The Ghetto Moon installation - Thomas Young Gallery in South Boston, MA
•April 22, 2016
•Journeys By Hand with Wendy Ellertson & Kristen Belton Willis – Beacon Hill - Boston
•South End Open Studios at the BCA - Boston
•Ekua’s Art Walk - Roxbury
•Roxbury Open Studios - Roxbury
•Berklee College of Music’s Jazz At The Fort - Roxbury
•Makanda Project - Roxbury•November 2013
September 17, 2016
2011-2014
October 2010 – 2015
July 2010-2015
August 13, 2015
Teaching Experience
•Covered a college level memoir class at Massachusetts College of Art & Design
•SPARC The Art Mobile/CACP Senior Art in The AM – Journal, greeting card & Print making
•Dudley Branch Public Library – Juneteenth song and word
•Drama, Spoken Word & Hip Hop -Hawthorne Youth & Community Center
•Drama, Spoken Word & Hip Hop Celebrity Series’ Alvin Ailey Dance Camp
•Drama, Spoken Word & Hip Hop Harbor Charter School
•Drama, Spoken Word and Hip Hop - the Eliot Educational Center
Other Experience
•Produced small interrelated media groups at MassArt 2015 - 2017
•Television Interview on BNN 23
•Signed a contract licensing a song I wrote 30 years ago
•Radio Interview on WBUR with Amelia Mason
•Arc of Justice Panel Discussion on Activism•January 6, 2017
December 2016
December 2016
December 6, 2016
•Massachusetts Hip Hop Archive Panel DiscussionNovember 19, 2016
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