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Magazine, The B.G. Calendar Magazine (2 covers), The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Herald, The Phoenix, The Cambridge Chronicle, The Improper Bostonian, and others.  Bornstein and highlights of his works have appeared at numerous occasions on channels 2/44 (WGBH), 4 (WBZ-Virginia Cha), 5 - Joyce Kulhawyk, 7 (WHDH), 25, and  56 news, as well as on 10 (CC-TV)and 66 (BNN-TV).</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</div> <div> CLARK UNIVERSITY ALUMNI NEWS</div> <div> ERIC BORNSTEIN</div> <div> Class of 1980</div> <div> Recent News</div> <bR> <div> Eric Bornstein '80 recently graduated Harvard University with a MFA in Art History.  He distinguished himself by winning the Thomas Small award for academic excellence, graduating at the top of his class with a 4.0 GPA.  Since establishing the Behind The Mask Theatre and Studio in 1982 his award-winning masks and masked performers have been used by many museums, galleries, agencies, dance and theater companies, and performers including: The Museum of Fine Arts, The Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, The Children's Museum, The Society for Arts and Crafts, First Night Boston, The Boston Lyric Opera, The Boston Ballet II, The Art of Black Dance and Music, Christmas and Summer Revels, King Richard's Faire, master mask-dancer I Nyoman Catra, Beijing Opera star Ghaffar Pourazar, and African circus sensation Cyriaque Bouazock.  Articles, interviews, and photographs of Eric with his masks have appeared in a variety of major news media, including The Boston Globe and The Globe Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, <I>Communication Arts</I>, <I>Print</I>, <I>Bon Appetit</I> and <I>Graphic Arts: U.S.A</I>. magazines, and channels 4, 5, and 7 in Boston.  Eric lives in Cambridge, MA with his wife Antonette Galasso and currently teaches a variety of classes and workshops ranging from maskmaking, portrait and figure drawing, collage, and Greek and Roman art history to yoga, meditation, massage, and jujitsu in the Boston area.  </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>