Massachusetts College of Art (1959-2006)
With the expansion of undergraduate and graduate degrees offered, the state’s art school was renamed the College of Art. Like previous eras, students were influenced by political and social movements of the day. Students became involved with the anti-war movement during the 1960s and 1970s and the country’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Massachusetts College of Art joined 100,000 other Bostonians in a demonstration in October 1969 known as the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, and the Student Government allotted $200 to send students to a rally in D.C. The student body and faculty organized a strike in 1970 as part of a national student protest movement spurned by the killing of students at Jackson State and Kent State. Professor Rob Moore founded the Graphic Workshop to provide posters and protest art to support Massachusetts College of Art and other organizations’ progressive political activities.
In 1984, the College of Art moved to its current home on Huntington Avenue. They took over the Boston State College building, now the Tower building, as well as several other existing buildings in the neighborhood. The school’s first dormitory, Walter F. Smith Hall, was opened in 1989, but it was not until the opening of the Artists’ Residence in 2002 that the school could guarantee housing to all first-year students.
Copper engraved plate, undated.
Yearbook, 1962.
Yearbook, 1962.
Series of photos of Graphic Workshop, undated.
Series of photos of Graphic Workshop, undated.
Series of photos of Graphic Workshop, undated.
Yearbook, 1971.
Yearbook, 1971.
Pamphlet for conference on the future of the computer and its applications for art, co-sponsored by the Massachusetts College of Art.
Massachusetts College of Art promotional pamphlet, 1980s.
Art exhibit for professor Calvin Burnet, 1980.
Boston Globe Magazine article on Professor Rob Moore, 1988.
Ceramics class, ca. 1990s.
Class of 2005 diploma and various [printing blocks].