Deconstructing Disability exhibition photo. The photo is of a gallery with white walls and a gray floor. On the left wall is a monitor with a black background and a poem with white text. To the right of that is a square painting with cartoon imagery. In the center of the image and the corner of the wall is a framed painted self-portrait on a white pedestal. On the right wall is a sculptural work that is a large log hanging from the ceiling with strings of cyanotype photos that hang from the bottom of the log to the floor. These strings of images cover the width of the log. 
Diptych of two paintings: a tree branch on a pale blue background above. Below, "SMACK!" in yellow on a red and blue background.
An acrylic painting with comic-style imagery including solid, flat colors and black outlines. The background is beige with text faded under the paint. The visually obscured text is a series of commonly used phrases that use words like blind, see, and sight as an insult or as a metaphor for insults like obliviousness and ignorance. Against that background is an image modeled after the first panel of a 1970s Mr. Magoo comic. Red block letters at the top read: "Splat!" Below, and to the right, is a snowball splattering with action lines and puffy clouds depicting the path it took from the left. The Magoo character hit by the snowball is not present, but traces of the body and movement are present. Action lines surround a derby hat and white cane, and additional c-shaped thin black action lines outline the negative space in the middle of the painting where the body is not present, leaving the mind-eye to fill in the space, and possibly picture themself there. 
A wall installation titled: Passage. It is a cluster of paintings on reclaimed wood and old house painting tools.
A large-scale painting on a reclaimed wood fence gate. The background is a light yellow. On the left is a cartoon white cloud with hard-edge bars of color, red, green, and blue, streaming down from it to the bottom of the canvas. There are messy splatters of the three colors that appear as back spatter from off-frame. On the right is the front of the hull of Noah's Ark rendered in the style of a children's coloring book with text from the bible faded in the background of the form. On top of the front of the boat hull is a small gray and white bird that is facing the spewing cloud.  
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Art gallery displaying the "Why We Make" exhibition with framed artworks and sculptures on pedestals.

Why We Make
RSM Art Gallery, Bentley University
September 2 - October 9, 2025

Why We Make is a photo-ethnographic project convened by Brian Wilson. This project aims to foreground the motivations of creative professionals and document their work in various disciplines. Artists have an innate sense that we see and experience the world in a different way and a persistent need to share these experiences with others. Portraits, interview excerpts, and the featured work from each of the nine participating artists will be presented.

Featuring work, portrait, and interview excerpts from Bill Porter.
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Book cover: Add to Wishlist Student-Led Peer Review: A Practical Guide to Implementation Across Disciplines and Modalities

Student-Led Peer Review:
A Practical Guide to Implementation Across Disciplines and Modalities

Based on the authors’ extensive experience and research, this book provides a practical introduction to the key principles, steps, and strategies to implement student peer review – sometimes referred to as “peer critique” or “workshopping”. It addresses common challenges that faculty and students encounter. The authors offer an easy-to-follow and rigorously tested three-part protocol to use before, during, and after a peer review session, and advice on adapting each step to individual courses.

"This book offers a research-based, practitioner-focused approach to using peer review in the classroom. The authors do a masterful job of anticipating the challenges of student peer review and describing the considerable benefits that accrue when students are asked to take responsibility, think critically and gain agency. The book is an excellent resource for teachers, as it provides strong rationale for encouraging peer review and compelling ideas for designing instruction and environments that foster student growth in this vital area. Highly recommended!"

- Peter Afflerbach, University of Maryland

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