New Art Center presents: Artist Talk with Chanel Thervil
2021-04-29 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us on Zoom for our spring Artist Talk Series featuring contemporary artists whose work explores community and public spaces.
Many pieces make the whole and more often the not, artists are attentive to details that unify.
Chanel Thervil is a Haitian American artist and educator that uses varying combinations of abstraction and portraiture to convene communal dialogue around culture, social issues, and existential questions. At the core of her practice lies a desire to empower and inspire tenderness and healing among communities of color through the arts. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Pace University and a Master’s Degree in Art Education from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She’s been making a splash in Boston via her educational collaborations, public art, and residencies with institutions like The Museum of Fine Arts, The Boston Children’s Museum, The DeCordova, and The Harvard Ed Portal, and The Cambridge Public Library. Her work has been featured by PBS Kids, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Bay State Banner, WBUR’s ARTery, WGBH, and Hyperallergic.
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New Art Center presents: Classical and Contemporary Mexican Smalti Mosaics Workshop
2021-05-04 10:00 - 14:00, 2021-05-11 10:00 - 14:00, 2021-05-18 10:00 - 14:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Learn the materials and methods to create your own original beautiful Mexican smalti mosaic. Mexican smalti is a high-quality handmade glass mosaic in a square to rectangular module that offers a broad range of colors from subtle skin tones to vibrant primaries. Students will bring a design for your choice for a 9” square. In the studio, teacher and artist Joshua Winer will teach you to transfer the design onto a panel, cover the panel with webbing, cut and build the mosaic onto the webbing using Adamento flowing rhythms and Opus styles (including Vermiculatum, Musivum, and Regulatum), lift the mosaic with clear adhesive film, and cement the work into colored thin-set. Register here.

New Art Center presents: Cubism Workshop
2021-05-08 14:00 - 17:00, 2021-05-15 14:00 - 17:00, 2021-05-22 14:00 - 17:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
At about the same time as the invention of Cubism, Einstein was publishing his early papers on relativity; masks, artifacts and ritual objects from Africa were first exhibited in Paris, and the Eiffel Tower was new. Cubism was invented, in part, as a way of examining and painting stationary objects to incorporate what the object looks like as you move around it, i.e. from different perspectives. Cubism sought to incorporate time as the fourth dimension in the arts.
We’ll start with drawing still-lifes with charcoal, pencil, pen and ink, working from life rather than from Cubist drawings and paintings. Then we’ll begin the painting process using the earth tones of those early cubist paintings for the same reasons. First working out the structure with shapes and values, then bringing colors to it as we progress, much as the Cubists developed their plans. In the last session, we’ll work from a model, and we highlight painting in planes, breaking down curves into prism-like flat sides.
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New Art Center presents: Mother's Day Bouquet
2021-05-09 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Show the special maternal figure in your life how much you care with a gift of blossoms and art appreciation!
A beautiful spring bouquet from Centre Pieces Design Flower Shop in Newtonville will be delivered to the recipient’s door on Mother’s Day (May 9th), and a pre-recorded talk from art historian and educator Brendan Sullivan will be sent via e-mail. Brendan will explore depictions of motherhood and the maternal experience through a selection of artwork.
Register by May 3 and celebrate the ones you love!
A portion of the cost will help to support the New Art Center and you will receive a tax receipt for your donation.

Newton Art Association presents: Demo with Katherine Miller
2021-05-16 14:00 - 16:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us on Zoom for our spring Artist Talk Series featuring contemporary artists whose work explores community and public spaces.

For Katherine Miller, painting is the most intuitive and effective form of communication. She believes that beauty lies in minimal complexity. She creates freedom within structure. Everything about nature and the landscape inspires Miller’s imagery. In her work, she considers the honesty and purity of color and the use of visual metaphor. Her goal is to create paintings that capture visual and emotional moments. Using shapes derived from the landscape, Miller distills the visual essence of purity to capture feelings through abstraction.

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Newton Free Library: The Asian American Experience - Reflections of an Historian and an Artist
2021-05-18 19:00 - 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The session will deepen our understanding of the Asian American experience through an interactive dialogue Lisong Liu and Wen-ti Tsen. They will cover:

The historical perspective of Asian immigrants
The complexities of the Asian-American experience
Asian cultural heritage, community activism against racism and the cross-racial solidarity through art

Lisong Liu is professor of history at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an associate in research at the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. He teaches Asian American history, East Asian history, world history and U.S.-China relations. His current research is about Chinese American history in the Greater Boston Area. He has been active in the local community, and he is also passionate about developing exchange programs for American students to travel and study in China.
Wen-ti Tsen is a painter and public artist. Born in China, he lived in Paris and London before coming to the U.S. to study at Boston Museum School. Since the mid-1970s, he has been engaged in making art that explores cultural connections in the forms of personal paintings, public site sculptures and community art projects.
This program is cosponsored by the Newton Human Rights Commission, CAAN (Chinese American Association of Newton) and NESN (Newton Education Support Network).
Registration for this program will end two hours before the start time. The login information will be sent just after registration closes. Please be sure to check your spam folder in case it lands there.

New Art Center presents: Fabric Dyeing and Printing - A Mask Workshop
2021-05-19 11:00 - 14:00, 2021-05-20 11:00 - 14:00, 2021-05-21 11:00 - 14:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
We have all been wearing masks for a year now, but is your mask a beautiful handmade work of art? Design and create a fabric mask in this three-day workshop. In session one, students will explore dyeing techniques such as tie-dye and Japanese Shibori. Once students have chosen the colors for their fabrics, they will add patterns designs using carved linoleum stamps in session two. In session three, students will construct and sew their fabric into wearable works of art.
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Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: Swedish Coaster Making with Pat Olski
2021-05-21 19:00 - 19:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us for a virtual workshop with needlecraft expert Pat Olski.

Learn to make a daisy coaster design made especially for the SCC by Pat. Perfect for your midsummer celebration! Fabric, thread and needle included in the workshop fee.
Friday, May 21st | 7pm | $25; $15 for Members. Register here.
ABOUT PAT: Pat Olski is a professional needlecraft designer, lecturer, and instructor. Her designs and articles, which span an array of topics from traditional needlework techniques to current knitwear trends, have appeared in many books and magazines including Piecework, Vogue Knitting, Knit Simple, and Australia’s Inspirations.

New Art Center presents: Glass Mosaic Jewelry Workshop
2021-06-04 14:00 - 16:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Using a wide selection of precut colored glass pieces, beads, iridized and dichroic glass, create a mini mosaic inside a pendant/necklace. Once the glass pieces are glued to the metal, grout your pendants with one of the many colored grouts available and clean your pieces. Voila! You’ll be provided a black leather cord necklace for each pendant. A $75.00 materials fee per student for 4 pendants is included in the tuition price.
Additional pendants: $ 15.00 each. The class is open to kids over 10 accompanied by a participating adult. Students must wear close-toed shoes and safety glasses or reading glasses.
Register here.

New Art Center presents: Media Musing
2021-06-16 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-06-23 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-06-30 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-07-07 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-07-14 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-07-21 16:00 - 18:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us for a 6-week come as you are mixed media mashup inspired by our Women in Abstraction exhibition! Students will use mixed media to explore collage and other forms of making. Perfect for making friends with the inner critic, connecting with inspiration, or connecting family and friends. We will center on playful discovery to create a series of work through mark-making, layering, materials, and prompts (music and readings). Students will be given a weekly (optional) assignment as well as a demonstration on how to approach the materials and surfaces suggested. Register here.

Newton Open Studios
2021-06-26 11:00 - 17:00
Newton Open Studios is back with 75 Newton artists and artisans for an all-outdoor event this year. Newton Open Studios 2021 will have locations throughout the city with artists displaying their works for sale from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 26th, Rain date, June 27th. Artist registration is still open to participate through June 18th by signing up here. Come explore, browse and buy at as many artist sites as you like. Set your own tour map by visiting the Newton Open Studios website which allows you to save a “favorites list” on your own device. Map out your route to Newton Open Studios here.

New Art Center presents: Painting Intensive
2021-07-02 09:30 - 13:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Intermediate and advanced students explore and develop personal themes while pushing their skills to the limit. Demos, group exercises, color theory, advanced painting techniques with regular critique and conversation support and extend creativity and competency. Click here for registration.

6th Annual Linda Plaut Newton Festival of the Arts
2021-07-10, 2021-07-11
Celebrate Newton’s talented musicians, singers, bands, poets, story tellers & more!
Free and accessible to all
Outdoors at The Hyde Bandstand, 90 Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands
Outdoors at Suzuki School of Newton, 1615 Beacon Street, Waban
Inside at The Allen House Center for the Arts, 35 Webster Street, West Newton

Performance Schedule

SATURDAY, JULY 10, 2021
Suzuki School of Newton, Waban
11:30am Rob Siegel, Folk Music
1pm Isabel Stover, Jazz Vocalist
2:30pm Nate Aronow, Nextet
4pm Tal Shalom-Kobi, World Music
5:30pm Albino Mbie, Afro Pop

Hyde Bandstand, Newton Highlands
11am Nikola Stajic, Jazz, Blues Guitar
12:30pm Barracudas, Jazz Ensemble
2pm The Eli Cash Band, Rock Band
3:30pm Zaira Meneses, Classical Guitar
5pm Newton Nomadic Theater Story Slam

SUNDAY, JULY 11, 2021

Hyde Bandstand, Newton Highlands
11am Maxim Lubrarsky, Jazz Piano
12:30pm Olga Lisovskaya, Opera
2pm Cross Street, Rock, Blues and More
3:30pm Nat Seelen, Klezmer
5pm Debo Ray, Global Soul

The Allen Center for the Arts, West Newton
1pm Andrus Madsen, Baroque Harpsichord
2:30pm Newton Baroque
4pm Pro Arte Quartet
5:30pm Maitreyee & Taposh,Bengali Pop Music & Dance
7pm Sandeep Das with Suhail Yusuf Khan, Journey in Rhythm

New Art Center presents: Japanese Hand-Building Pottery Workshop
2021-07-15 17:30 - 20:00, 2021-07-22 17:30 - 20:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Are you interested in making a beautiful pottery bowl without the struggle of mastering wheel-throwing techniques? This workshop is for all levels from complete beginners to experienced potters who wish to explore Japanese pottery making.“Tebineri” is a traditional Japanese hand-building pottery technique. In this 2 day workshop, students will learn the “Tebineri” technique to make a pottery piece such as a bowl or a cup using a tabletop manual turning wheel. Students will also learn how to trim, refine and design the clay form to create a special pottery piece.The New Art Center will fire and glaze all work.
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New Arts Center presents: Outdoor Landscape Painting
2021-07-27 09:30 - 12:30, 2021-08-03 09:30 - 12:30 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
This class for acrylic and/or oil painters will explore the unique challenges of landscape painting and provide students with the skills to render space two-dimensionally. We will be working outdoors, or if the weather is bad, working indoors using photographs and books. Students will learn composition, light, and shading, and the effects of light on color to create a dynamic series of landscapes. Class demonstrations will focus on subject selection, under-painting, personal expression, and creating a sense of space. One-on-one and group critiques will help students take their work to a new level.
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Newton Free Library presents: Make a Pollinator Hotel
2021-07-31 14:00 - 15:00 | Newton Free Library, 330 Homer St, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Join us at the library for our first in-person MakerSpace program! We’ll use materials like paper, branches, and other natural objects to create unique pollinator hotels. These hotels will hopefully attract local solitary bees and other helpful critters to your yard!
We’ll have tools and supplies at the library, but we encourage you to bring your own materials and tools to share. Some examples of useful things to bring:

Reclaimed wood (old drawers, small crates and planks, etc.)
Pinecones
Straw
Tin cans (empty and rinsed)
Newspaper
