After months of planning, visualizing, creating and coordinating, the pop up children’s museum, CuriousCity, is set to open on Sunday, March 31st. The museum features 9 exhibits designed to be accessible and inclusive for children ages 2-10. This temporary, 3 month projectwill run through June 2019 and is housed within the George Peabody House & Leather Worker’s Museum at 205 Washington St, Peabody, MA. Each room in CuriousCity will explore different themes to help children tap intotheir imagination, have fun…
Find out more »Guided Memoir: A small-group experience for new writers Make new friends and nurture your creativity as you write your life story, two pages at a time! Join a small group of 5-10 participants as we support andencourage each other through a powerful reading and writing program. Our focus is on writing and sharing as creative outlets for self-discovery, soyou will never be graded or critiqued. Each week we will explore our lifestory using a flexible theme such as: …
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Photographic Panoramas by Esther Pullman In 1999, Esther Pullman began photographing places where plants were cultivated—fields, nurseries and most of all greenhouses. The project began without an overt message in mind. However, in the nearly 20 years since then, it has revealed many themes and deeper meanings: the passage of time, the cycle of the seasons, death and rebirth. It has also become a metaphor for our threatened planet. The panoramic color photographs shown in Green Places/Green Spaces/Greenhouses explore the…
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The Wood Engravers’ Network Third Triennial Exhibition is coming to the Museum of Printing in Haverhill, MA from April 20th through June 22nd, 2019! The Wood Engravers’ Network Third Triennial Exhibition is the third juried, traveling exhibit featuring sixty-four (64) engravings by thirty-seven (37) artists from New England and throughout the United States as well as Canada, Ireland and Belgium. Juried by Gray Zeitz of Larkspur Press, the exhibit will travel through the end of 2019. New England artists represented include Evan Charney (Massachusetts),…
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This exhibition, on view from March 30–July 31, 2019, examines nearly 100 years of art created in Harlem, exploring the neighborhood’s enduring influence on American culture from the Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance to the present day, capturing periods of community growth, ownership, pride, and new styles, as well as redevelopment and encroaching gentrification. Harlem: In Situ brings into dialogue works from 20th century masters including Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, William H. Johnson, and Jacob Lawrence, with groundbreaking contemporary artists…
Find out more »The show is open to all artists, NAA members and non-members, 18 years of age or older. MEDIA: Acrylic, Digital Art, Drawing, Fine Crafts, Mixed Media, Oil, Pastel, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Watercolor. No Video or Installations. Reproductions of original work, including Giclee prints, cannot be accepted. For complete information, please download the Call for Entry. This event first appeared on EssexCountyCreates.org
Find out more »Mid-Week Meditation Sampler Instructor: Pam Driscoll Wednesdays, April 17, May 8, 22, June 5, 19, 6:30pm-7:30pm Fee: $20/class Join us for the Mid-Week Meditation Sampler at Creative Spirit…anopportunity to pause, reset, breathe, settle, rest, renew, and discover the BEST form of meditation (in other words, the one you’ll actually do)! This is perfect if you’ve never meditated before, or you tried in the past and it didn’t stick, or you’d like to re-invigorate your practice. Each week we’ll gather in…
Find out more »Stephanie Cole was born in Connecticut; she studied painting atCalifornia College of Arts and Crafts and later at the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford, CT. By the mid-1960s, Cole and her husband Jim had settled in Rockport where she taught art in the Rockport elementary school and raised their children. By the early 1980s, she was moving from painting into experimentation with elaborate mosaic-like sculpturesthat she calls her “memory sculptures.” Today, her sculptures each made of hundreds…
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Stephanie Cole was born in Connecticut; she studied painting at California College of Arts and Crafts and later at the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford, CT. By the mid-1960s, Cole and her husband Jim had settled in Rockport where she taught art in the Rockport elementary school and raised their children. By the early 1980s, she was moving from painting into experimentation with elaborate mosaic-like sculptures that she calls her “memory sculptures.” Today, her sculptures each made…
Find out more »The Trustees and New England Sculptors Association are partnering to present a 6-month outdoor sculpture exhibition at Castle Hill on theCrane Estate located at 290 Argilla Road in Ipswich. The “Spirit of Place" exhibition includes 32 pieces created by New England's finest sculptors and placed in gardens, along woodland paths and alongside historic landscape features. This curated show opens May 18 and closes on November 11,2019. The opening, 12 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 18, is partof The…
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