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Aldo Tambellini was born in Syracuse, New York in 1930 his father from Brazil, his mother from Italy. He was taken to Italy at the age of eighteen months, where he lived in Lucca, Tuscany. At the age of ten, he was enrolled in Lucca’s art school. A survivor of the bombing of his neighborhood during World War II, Aldo, at an early age, experienced first hand the oppression of the Fascists and later the terror of Nazis in Italy. He returned to the United States in 1946. He received a full scholarship for painting at Syracuse University graduating in 1954 and a Teaching Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame graduating with a Masters Degree in Sculpture in 1959. He has dedicated his life to fighting oppression, discrimination and stereotyping.

He was very active in the 60’s Counterculture Movement in New York where he challenged and protested the art establishment. In New York City, he pioneered in Video Art and Multi-Media Performances. The Gate Theatre, which he opened in the Lower East Side in the 60’s showed experimental films and radical plays.

From 1976 to 1984, Aldo was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His art, films and media work have been featured widely nationally and internationally. Since 1984 he has concentrated on writing and performing his Social Poetry in numerous venues. In 1998, he founded and hosted the venue “The People's Poetry” in Cambridge, MA. One of the mos famous recent work is a computer generated movie, “Listen,” which is an attack on war.