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Art World Converges on Boston The weekend of April 27 - 29 Boston will become the hub of the global arts community when TransCultural Exchange presents the 2007 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts.

Taking place at Northeastern University, the Massachusetts College of Art, the Boston Center for the Arts and MIT, this conference will help artists expand their goals and aspirations, gain greater cultural awareness and transmit their new found knowledge through their work.

Representatives of international Consulates, the US State Department's ART in Embassies Program, the Fulbright Program, the German-American Exchange Program, CEC ArtsLink, the Trust for Mutual Understanding, ResArtis, and directors of residencies from over 30 countries—including Finland, Sweden, Romania, Taiwan, China, Hungary, Japan, Greece, Canada, Malta, Germany, Slovakia, Turkey, Estonia, Australia, Denmark, the Netherlands, South Africa, Belgium, Ireland, Brazil, Egypt, Cuba, the United Arab Emirates, India, Afghanistan and Russia—will be on hand to present their opportunities for artists to create and exhibit with their counterparts abroad.

On Sunday April 29 the conference opens to the public with a panel on Biennials and Documenta.  Speaking on this panel are Ute Meta Bauer (Co-Curator of Documenta 11), Linda Norden (Commissioner of 2005 Venice Biennale), Yung Ho Chang (Venice Biennale Participant) and Talla Moulla (organizer of the Sixth Sharjah International Art Biennial, U.A.E.).

Tickets to the Conference are available until April 24, 2007. (No registrations can be accepted after April 24 or on site.) For more information, please visit the website at www.transculturalexchange.org/conference_2007.htm

TransCultural Exchange would like to thank the Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts, Tourism & Special Events, Délégation du Québec à Boston, French Consulate (Boston), Fred Johnson, Amit Kanodia, Richard Lappin and Julia Rabkin, LEF Foundation, Massachusetts College of Art, the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s John and Abigail Arts Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, McDougal Littell (a division of Houghton Mifflin Company), Amy and Catherine Merrill, the Mondriaan Foundation, Northeastern University, Res Artis, and the Turkish Cultural Foundation for their support of the Conference.

TransCultural Exchangee is an award-winning  501c3 non-profit dedicated to fostering a greater understanding of world cultures through high quality exhibitions, artist exchanges and related educational programming.

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