During  Illuminus Boston,  Frigid Phrases gave away FREE limited-edition stretchy gloves in hot neon colors, each with a unique word screen-printed on the outside. Festival goers could choose a combination of colors and words to create their own wearable Frigid Phrases. With 6 colors and 34 words, one left-hand and one right-hand, the combinations are endless! TINY/FAKE, ICY/BUD, DENSE/MIND

 

Frigid Phrases is a game of outdoor Mad Libs poetry played with gloves created by artists Kate Gilbert and Emily Lombardo.

 

Kate Gilbert is an artist and creative strategist exploring the role the arts and artists play in transforming our cities, our relationships, and ourselves. In her artwork, curatorial projects, and public art consultancy, she strives to facilitate joy and spontaneity and to help propel public appreciation of contemporary art practices. In her practice, Gilbert employs humor, simulation, and meditative observation to question objects of comfort, the retail systems they operate in, our consumptive behaviors, and our collective fears. Gilbert is a graduate of Connecticut College (MA ’96) and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA ’13). She lives and works in Boston, MA.

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Emily Lombardo is an artist who has been living and working in Boston for over 15 years.  She received her BFA from The Massachusetts College of Art and Design and her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her work has been shown and collected internationally. Lombardo applies her vast knowledge of sculpture and print across a wide range of conceptual projects. She engages with appropriative art practices as a mode of investigating personal and cultural identity.

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