New Art Center presents: Artist Talk with Freedom Baird
2021-01-21 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us on Zoom for our winter Artist Talk Series featuring contemporary artists whose work examines climate and the environment.
There were blackberries on a hilltop, a skinny doe and her two fawns, a glossy ibis, and an octopus. There were also teens with a shotgun, bootleg baseball, missiles on a launch pad, and a children’s hospital on fire. These are among the memories, experiences and impressions gathered from more than seventy participants in the Shore Line Recall art project during the summer of 2018 on the Boston Harbor Islands. Interdisciplinary artist Freedom Baird brought a vintage field desk to nine islands and a boat, and placed it in the most vulnerable spot she could reach, at high tide. In those windswept places she talked with visitors, staff, and volunteers, gathering their stories and drawings to preserve and share in a book of the same name — Shore Line Recall: Boston Harbor Islands. She also documented the islands in photographs, a collection of which she curated into the book’s pages. As we continue to transform the planet, one way we can adapt is with a kind of future nostalgia–looking forward to a moment when we will look back and remember places that will someday be long gone.
In this presentation and discussion Baird will share her experience of the Shore Line Recall residency, project, and book.
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New Art Center presents: Artist Talk with Isabel Beavers
2021-01-28 17:30 - 18:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us on Zoom for our winter Artist Talk Series featuring contemporary artists whose work examines climate and the environment.
Isabel Beavers will lead an interactive artist presentation, as she presents recent works that explore climate change as a moment of origin, and invites participants to co-create an artistic experiment over virtual space. Please bring a sketchbook or paper, and a writing or drawing utensil to the presentation.
Beavers practice includes many forms: multimedia installation, new media and virtual forms of creation and presentation, curatorial projects, as well as social practice experiments in the form of mini-hackathons and worldwide collaborations. In each case her work attempts to combat systems of oppression as they relate to ecology, bodies and environments, instead imagining new climate futures. Through site-responsive research and artistic projects she interrogates cultural responses to climate change, speculates about climate futures, and questions the ethics of emergent technologies. Recent projects have explored the unraveling of the Arctic Ocean ecosystem, embedded power structures in Icelandic origin stories and Norse Mythology, mega-fires in California as a case study for the operation of compassion fatigue, and curatorial projects addressing extraction, artificial intelligence, and artificial ecologies.
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Theatre Ink presents: Lost and Found - The Untold Stories of People of Color
2021-01-28 19:30, 2021-01-29 19:30 | Zoom
Time and time again, the stories of people of color are swept under the rug and lost. It is about time we found them.
What is Lost and Found? Lost and Found is about sharing the stories of people of color and amplifying their voices through the performing arts. From hardships to celebrations, people of color have countless stories to tell. Lost and Found will provide space for people of color to reflect on their identity and experiences in order to assemble a cabaret style troupe show of stories. Over time, people of color have many encounters with their racial identity, and a goal of Lost and Found is to explore and understand racial identity in ways you haven’t before. Lost and Found will be a reserved safe space for this exploration and for people of color to be vulnerable and receive support. Lost and Found invites you to share your story, using theatre and performing arts as an outlet.
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New Art Center presents: A Taste of Europe – Irresistible Italy
2021-01-29 18:00 - 19:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join art historian Brendan M. Sullivan and Flora’s Wine Bar for a tasting tour of Italy from the comfort of your home! The full tour includes two bottles of wine, cheese, and accompaniments delivered to your door, a live online tasting with Flora’s wine educator, and an art history presentation from the wine’s region. Let us transport you to Italy without stress, jet lag, or COVID-restrictions! Full tour with wine and cheese (available inside the 128 loop): $175 per evening; begins at 6:00 pm. Art lecture only: $25 per evening; begins at 6:30 pm.
Full tour with wine and cheese (available inside the 128 loop): $175 per evening; begins at 6:00 pm. Ticket sales end 2 weeks before lecture.
Art lecture only: $25 per evening; begins at 6:30 pm.
January 29, 2021 Irresistible Italy: Sample wine from Veneto and Piedmont paired with complementary cheese and a selection of art. Learn about the Sacro Monte of Varallo. Brendan M. Sullivan completed his Ph.D. at the Institute of Fine Arts in 2014. He specializes in Northern European Art of the 14th and 15th centuries, in particular illuminated manuscripts.

New Art Center presents: Artist Talk with Sophy Tuttle
2021-02-04 17:30 - 18:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us on Zoom for our winter Artist Talk Series featuring contemporary artists whose work examines climate and the environment.
Sophy Tuttle is an interdisciplinary artist based in Lowell, MA. Her work is focused on the natural world, our place in it, and the conflicts and collaborations we find ourselves in everyday with nature. Her science-based murals and paintings use natural imagery to bring humans closer to their wild neighbors and highlight important environmental and social justice issues.
In this lecture, Sophy will speak about her work as a muralist and installation artist, as well as about other artists who are working with the same themes of nature, research, and environmental activism within art.
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Newton Art Association presents: Painting with Cold Wax Medium - Demo with Debra Claffey
2021-02-07 14:00 - 16:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
An introduction to cold wax medium and techniques to use it in painting and mixed media work. We will cover all the basics so that you will understand how and, more importantly why, you might incorporate using cold wax medium into your artistic practice. Click here for more information.

Newton Art Association's High School Senior Art Scholarship
2021-02-08, 2021-02-09, 2021-02-10, 2021-02-11, 2021-02-12, 2021-02-13, 2021-02-14, 2021-02-15 and 12 more dates | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
For more than 30 years the Newton Art Association (NAA) has recognized art students through the NAA High School Senior Scholarship Program. NAA strongly believes that talented students deserve to be acknowledged for their artistic accomplishments.
Senior students who go to high school in Newton or are residents of Newton are eligible to apply for the scholarships. Consistently, the submitted artworks reveal an extensive range of creativity across all media, including painting, drawing, collage/mixed media, photography, jewelry, fabric art and 3D works.
Awards are based on an overall assessment of the senior’s creativity, artistic expression, technical skills, and personal statement. The recipients share $3,000 in scholarship money.
Eligible students can apply online from February 8 through March 30, 2021. A virtual award ceremony will be held May 5. Details about the program and online application process can be found on the NAA website. If you know a talented high school senior, encourage them to apply.

Historic Newton presents: Sculpture in Service of Social Justice
2021-02-16 19:00 - 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Cyrus Dallin, Sculpture in Service of Social Justice

Date:02/16/2021 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location:Virtual
Virtual Meeting
Newton, Massachusetts 02459

Did you know that Cyrus Dallin, sculptor of the Francis B. Hornbrook statue which is part of the Newton Free Library’s Permanent Collection of Art, was also an educator, activist and agent of change? Join Cyrus Dallin Art Museum director and curator, Heather Leavell, for a program that will cover the history of three local Dallin works, illustrating how Dallin employed his position as an internationally acclaimed sculptor to fight the oppression of Indigenous people. Learn how Dallin took a lead role in efforts to reform government policies adversely affecting Native peoples and educate the general public about Indigenous cultures. Co-sponsored by Historic Newton and the Newton Free Library. Register here to attend the program.

Newton Art Association presents: Growing Your Art Career
2021-02-18 19:00 - 20:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Sharpen Your Art Business with Exciting Workshops

Gain tips on pricing, presentation quality, growing your career, and selling in today’s world at upcoming Newton Art Association workshops.

The Newton Art Association is offering professional workshops this year all led by Christine O’Donnell, the owner and director of Beacon Gallery in Boston.

Christine will provide a generous peek “behind the curtain” of working with a gallerist. Learn some best practices to use when prospecting or working with a gallery, as well as some good ways to jump into the art world and start showing more. Make sure to bring your questions! Click here to purchase tickets.

New Art Center presents: Artist Talk with Georgie Friedman
2021-02-25 17:30 - 18:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us on Zoom for our winter Artist Talk Series featuring contemporary artists whose work examines climate and the environment.
Georgie Friedman is an interdisciplinary artist whose projects include large-scale video installations, single and multi-channel videos and several photographic series. She is interested in our psychological and societal relationships to mild and severe natural phenomena. She investigates a wide range of powerful atmospheric and oceanic conditions, and is fascinated by the power of these natural elements in relationship to human fragility. She utilizes photography, video, sound, installation, engineering and the physics of light, all in order to create new experiences for viewers.
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