Michel Duncan Merle
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Join us at 4 P.M. to wish Monsieur Merle a Happy Birthday!
Beginning at 5:30 P.M., performances by:
Jim Capone – Chinese flute
Bill O’Connell – piano
Dick Hummel – assorted instruments
Noelle Merle – reading from Michel’s The Stranger poems
Stephen Campiglio – reading from Michel’s cut-up poems
Doree Duncan Seligmann – speaking about Michel’s art
and the Isadora Duncan/Raymond Duncan legacy
The exhibit runs through Saturday, August 22
The artwork of Michel Duncan Merle serves as a vibrant and provocative crossroads where legendary artistic heritage meets decades of technical mastery.
A native Parisian born in 1937, Merle spent more than three decades as a Professor of Art at Worcester State University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he taught generations of students to view creation through an alternative or philosophical lens.
Artistic practice and innovation run deeply in his veins: Merle is the son of artist and gallery owner, Ligoa Duncan, the grandson of artist and philosopher Raymond Duncan, and the great-nephew of modern dance pioneer and virtuoso Isadora Duncan. Merle’s extensive studies, from the Akademia Raymond Duncan in Paris to the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he earned an MFA in Sculpture and Painting, reflects a global, lifelong commitment to the avant-garde.
Merle has participated in a myriad of artistic organizations and collaborations over the years, including: Grove Street Gallery (co-founder/co-curator); Noh Place Artists Cooperative (board of directors/performer); Forbidden Poets (piano/spoken word); WCUW 91.3 FM (radio show featuring The Stranger and Think Tank Tango); Worcester County Poetry Association (former president); and a variety of performances and contributions as a member of Worcester Artist Group, Invented Thing Quartet, Theater Now, and Kasner Gooch Multimedia.
Merle is also the author of a volume of cut-up poems, Glass Bedding (North American Editions) and continues to produce poems/art in this fashion. More recently, he produced collages in response to a series of René Magritte-inspired poems by Stephen Campiglio, as part of a multimedia manuscript, including the work of two other artists, Andres Juarez and Jennifer Forest, entitled Other Turns.
This Ruth Wells Center for the Arts exhibition invites viewers to experience a brilliant collection that honors Michel’s family’s historic legacy, while celebrating his own distinct, thought-provoking aesthetic.
Beginning at 5:30 P.M., performances by:
Jim Capone – Chinese flute
Bill O’Connell – piano
Dick Hummel – assorted instruments
Noelle Merle – reading from Michel’s The Stranger poems
Stephen Campiglio – reading from Michel’s cut-up poems
Doree Duncan Seligmann – speaking about Michel’s art
and the Isadora Duncan/Raymond Duncan legacy
The exhibit runs through Saturday, August 22
The artwork of Michel Duncan Merle serves as a vibrant and provocative crossroads where legendary artistic heritage meets decades of technical mastery.
A native Parisian born in 1937, Merle spent more than three decades as a Professor of Art at Worcester State University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he taught generations of students to view creation through an alternative or philosophical lens.
Artistic practice and innovation run deeply in his veins: Merle is the son of artist and gallery owner, Ligoa Duncan, the grandson of artist and philosopher Raymond Duncan, and the great-nephew of modern dance pioneer and virtuoso Isadora Duncan. Merle’s extensive studies, from the Akademia Raymond Duncan in Paris to the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he earned an MFA in Sculpture and Painting, reflects a global, lifelong commitment to the avant-garde.
Merle has participated in a myriad of artistic organizations and collaborations over the years, including: Grove Street Gallery (co-founder/co-curator); Noh Place Artists Cooperative (board of directors/performer); Forbidden Poets (piano/spoken word); WCUW 91.3 FM (radio show featuring The Stranger and Think Tank Tango); Worcester County Poetry Association (former president); and a variety of performances and contributions as a member of Worcester Artist Group, Invented Thing Quartet, Theater Now, and Kasner Gooch Multimedia.
Merle is also the author of a volume of cut-up poems, Glass Bedding (North American Editions) and continues to produce poems/art in this fashion. More recently, he produced collages in response to a series of René Magritte-inspired poems by Stephen Campiglio, as part of a multimedia manuscript, including the work of two other artists, Andres Juarez and Jennifer Forest, entitled Other Turns.
This Ruth Wells Center for the Arts exhibition invites viewers to experience a brilliant collection that honors Michel’s family’s historic legacy, while celebrating his own distinct, thought-provoking aesthetic.
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111 Main St, Southbridge, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01550
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Host or PublisherThe Ruth Wells Center for the Arts
