Bio
Bridget Matros
General Information:
Age: 33 years old
Gender : Female
Location: Boston/Arlington,MA
I came to Boston in 2001 to do my part in Changing the World, as per my Oberlin degree,
via social work or involvement in public school reform. I got a fun, "temporary" job at the Children's Museum instead*.
I started playing open mics and found myself a splendid, comfy spot on the local folk scene, especially at Club Passim.
Then severe GERD made it harder and harder to sing and speak. I eventually had to stop playing out.
Losing this expressive outlet when I needed it most, I eventually had to face my I'mNotAnArtist Demons and picked
up my visual art where I'd left it, in High School. (You know, when you "make that choice" - are you a singer, artist, dancer, actress, or joining the military? I chose the circus (UWP) which deemed me Singer).
I made stuff every once in a while, but there's just no getting into art classes at Oberlin unless you're a major. Or a liar. I finally got in senior year: Intro to Painting, and Basic Drawing.
Once in Boston, I busied myself with crafting, adopting the moniker BAM!she'scrafty, creating ingenius products, and utterly failing to market them. See INSPIRATION for what happened next!
I enjoy unlearning harmful habits of mind, teaching, robinhooding priviledged information from academia to people who can use it most, goats, hearing tree frogs, and taking pictures. And fire.
I look forward to healing myself back to average human insanity, so I can better serve the world.
Mission:" As Brilliant Creator, Wise Teacher, Courageous Student, and Compassionate Healer, i give my gifts back to the Universe."
*i never left.
Education:
Delaware Valley High School, Milford, PA 1994
Up With People, Earth, Cast E 1995
Oberlin College, BA, Sociology/Psychology 2001
Warrior Monk training 2007
Former Exhibits & Press :
Open Studios, Arlington, 2007 and 2008
I currently have two pieces in "Images of Arlington:Green" at the
Arlington Center for the Arts, up through June 12.
2 of my works were chosen to be featured in the Spring edition of
Redivider, a literary/arts review published by Emerson.
After completing The Artist's Way in 2007, my "final project" was fraudulently signing up for
Open Studios in Arlington. Medium? Uh...mixed? My "portfolio"= Images of assignments from
HS and 2 intro classes in college. I hauled ass to create a bunch of stuff ("i take care of
quantity, god takes care of quality")over the next 5 months and debuted at OS with shocking
success. No one knew I wasn't "really an artist." I have tried my best to continue since, and am
happy to report I finally claim the identity of Artist without doubt.
My work is a direct reflection of my paradoxical, whole experience of suffering and
surrender, dark and light. I share my spirit-saving delight in the everyday, while revealing
what's behind the curtain as well. Influenced by my daily immersion in learning-through-play,
I lure curious strangers into my secret world through interactive toys and explorations.
Disclosure-through-play. I create environments that demand tinkering, peeking, digging,
touching, smelling, and listening. I enjoy making grown-ups forget themselves and be fully
present in Now/reality, while engaging with something I made.
I prefer children, so that agenda follows suit.
I lament not having gone to school to give myself the time, space, and DEADLINES to really
develop skills in any one medium. I'm a dabbler, and I hope I propel myself through enough
late-night and weekend creation to evolve beyond one-shot-wonders. (I have however given up on
acquiring photog. skills beyond point and shoot digital. I wasn't meant to get it/it aint broke.)
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