Cans and Cant’s

Arkadiusz Prysak

The rising sun shines thin and white across a small kitchen in Opole, Poland. Eli Sigmund, a ten-year-old boy sits at the breakfast table, waiting. His mother anxiously paces back and forth, frantically packing suitcases for Eli’s father and his…

Editor’s Note

Joseph A. Coroniti

Last year, Berklee, and Boston, lost a beloved professor, colleague, and friend: Henry Augustine Tate. FUSION has collected contributions from the Berklee community as part of our celebration of Henry’s life. Henry was a formidable yet infinitely gentle spirit, an…

Alumni, Faculty, and Staff Tributes to Henry Augustine Tate

Henry was my Beatle buddy. He always stopped to share a Beatle moment with me. Whether it was something fun he loved about The Beatles, funny things they said, or to give me a Beatle tie or book. Beatle Henry…

From Henry’s family

Henry’s brother and two sisters came to Berklee for the College’s Tribute to their brother. Joseph and Patricia posted the following. Friends: You do not know me and I did not enjoy the Berklee experience. But I did experience Henry.…

A Blank Canvas

Nathan Esquite

Art history: the study of why we create, what we create, when we create it.

These are the first words I ever heard Henry Tate speak ...

Remembering Henry Tate

Tim Paul Weiner

The art/music/educational world lost a beautiful soul When Henry Augustine Tate passed away this summer. He taught Art History at Berklee, and was one of my favorite professors. Since I went to art school before I came to Berklee, but…

Henry Tate

Tom Baskett

Dear Editors: Nearly 30 years ago now, I saw “Art History 1” on my course schedule. Thank God it was a required course, else I might not have known… As a Black teenage boy welcomed to Berklee on a scholarship,…

Still in the Museum

Geoff Zanelli and Jennifer Jardine

We simply loved being in Henry Tate’s classroom. It didn’t only make you into someone with an elevated appreciation for sculpture, or paintings or poetry. It made you into a better person, and taught you the undeniable truth that we…

Tate Memory

Larry Bethune

Henry Tate and I talked so many times, and shared so much love for our Irish (his) and Scottish (mine) heritage and cultures. Often, deep into our musings, we were taken back to an artistic period for which we both…

The Black Rose – Pure Pulp

Teodros Kiros

For Henry Augustine Tate Over many years, Andreas developed the habit of navigating through cities on foot. In his early twenties, he covered the city of Frankfurt in one bitter cold, winter day. He traversed through the long Mediterranean coast…