Filmmaker and Installation Artist Roberto Mighty, MFA, is America’s first cemetery Artist-in-Residence, and the inaugural resident artist at Mount Auburn Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark and America’s first garden cemetery.
His 'earth.sky' installation features films and multimedia in an immersive, computer controlled, multi projector traveling exhibit now available for museums worldwide.
earth.sky
“sky, stone & crib”
Interred
Mary Wigglesworth
Jan 29, 1883 - Dec. 19, 1884
Funding for this project
A. J. & M. D. Ruggiero Memorial Trust
Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery
Cambridge Arts Council
Preservation Fund for Eastern Massachusetts of
The National Trust for Historic Preservation
Mass Humanities
Watertown Cultural Council
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Artist Statement
I tried to capture a story in one shot. Near the crib was another narrative in stone - two children intertwined in death.
10/27/14