HISTORY
CONWAY & PRATT PROJECTS, INC. is the 15-year artistic collaboration of Merry Conway and Noni Pratt. They have created and produced five large-scale, site-specific installations and performances, three smaller installations, and an art book. Please read our mission statement.
| 2001 | A WOMAN’S WORK IS NEVER DONE (Boston) NEW PROJECT: Conway & Pratt Projects will present this large-scale project in association with The Bostonian Society, MIT Office of the Arts and The Women’s Educational and Industrial Union. |
| 1999
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THE SMALL MUSEUM OF WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE (Installation) Presented as part of The Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue Chelsea, MA |
| 1998 |
MOTHERS’ SAYINGS QUILT (Excerpt from A Woman’s Work is Never Done) Interactive Installation at “Women: Age & Image” Conference SUNY NYC |
| 1998 |
A WOMAN’S WORK IS NEVER DONE (New York) Presented in association with: Trinity Real Estate, The Kitchen, Dancing in the Streets NYC |
| 1997 |
(Installation) Fitchburg Art Museum Worcester, MA |
| 1995 |
Presented in association with: West Phila. Cultural Alliance, Firehouse Associates & U Penn Women's Studies Dept. West Philadelphia, PA |
| 1994 |
Presented in association with: City of New Bedford, MA & University Art Gallery, U MASS Dartmouth New Bedford, MA |
| 1993 |
THE ELEVATED EXAMINATION OF THE CARTESIAN SPLIT (Sound Installation) Art in General Gallery NYC |
| 1991 |
Presented in association with The Guggenheim Museum & Creative Time American Theatre Wing Nomination for Set Design. NYC |
| 1991 |
AS A DREAM THAT VANISHES (Art Book, 32 pages) NYC |
| 1988 |
Presented in a storefront at 30 Bond St. NYC |
CONWAY & PRATT PROJECTS, INC. is a creative collaboration dedicated to mending divisions between art and daily life. The partnership creates highly original art work that combines elements of performance and multi-media installation, using both low and high art forms. The work explores themes of current social interest, using a female perspective in a long and vigorous collaborative development. Conway & Pratt is dedicated to finding shape for experience not represented in colloquial discourse -- experience that often has no official expression, is communicated between the cracks of language, denied, or taught in the encoded gestures of domestic life.
Since they began working together in 1986, Merry Conway and Noni Pratt have been bringing people together as active participants in unusual cultural events. The projects they make actively forge community relationships for development of material, consciously draw a large non-art as well as an art audience from a highly diverse population to the work, challenge accepted artistic forms, and expand the concept of traditional performance spaces.
Conway and Pratt have received funding from: Art Matters, Helen W. Coleman Trust, John H. Foster Foundation, Gilder Foundation, Three Guineas Fund, The Florence Gould Foundation, The William and Mary Greve Foundation, The Hamilton Family Fund, The Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation, French Cultural Services, Robert & Maureen Rothschild Foundation, The New Bedford Arts Council, The Leo Model Foundation, The Massachusetts Cultural Council, The William Penn Foundation, The Polaroid Foundation, The Betty and James Stone Foundation, The Vervane Foundation, Ceil & Michael E. Pulitzer Foundation, The Coles Family Foundation, The Goodrich Foundation, Thomas and Katherine Stoner Foundation, WHALE, and numerous individuals. Conway & Pratt have presented lecture-demonstrations about their work for college classes at: Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design, University for the Arts, Swarthmore College, Moore College of Art, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Simon's Rock College, The University of Washington, University of San Francisco, School of the Visual Arts. Conway & Pratt Projects, Inc. is the not-for-profit entity formed in 1997.