Michael Oatman’s Model Citizens: Giant Size

Michael Oatman’s Model Citizens: Giant Size
August 11 – October 22, 2006

Model Citizens is an exhibition and documentary video that unites artists, model makers and hobbyists in the vicinity of four urban centers: Cambridge, MA, New Haven, CT, Bellows Falls, VT and the Capital Region of NY. Curator and artist Michael Oatman developed the idea for Model Citizens four years ago, in response to issues that confronted him in his own work. He questioned what prompted others, be they artists or hobbyists or professional model makers, to work such long hours on complex, technically demanding and patience-trying work.

Model Citizens participants include: The American Precision Museum, Gregory Bartlett, Bill Brown and the Student Interns of the Eli Whitney Museum, Roger Bisbing, George Bossarte, Jeff Brower, Stephanie Cramer, Peter Edwards, Joe Fig, Jim Finn, Daniel Fokine, Dick Freeman, Jim Gallagher, Danny Goodwin, Andy Gray, Erin Hennessy, Kristina Killar, Henry Quinn, Ken Ragsdale, Randy Regier, The Rensselaer Model Railroad Society, Karin Stack and Mark Williams.