Art
New Art Center Artist Talk: Anthony Romero & Çaca Yvaire
New Art Center 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, United StatesAnthony Romero is a Boston-based artist, writer, and organizer committed to documenting and supporting artists and communities of color. His collaborative practice engages intercultural contact and historical narratives in order to generate reparative counter-images and social transformation. Recent projects and performances have been featured at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha), the Blue Star…
New Art Center presents: Luminaria Workshop for Parents and Kids
New Art Center 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, United StatesMake a festive luminaria candle-holder to adorn your home this winter! Parents and kids will add their creative twist to a lovely luminaria decoration for themselves or as a gift for friends and family. Children younger than 2nd grade must be accompanied by an adult. All houses will be made from red air dry clay…
Newton Art Association presents: Demo with Jason Turner
Jason Turner was an innovator. His approach to handling watercolor was radically different from many of his contemporaries. Far from being a watercolor purist, he often used unconventional materials and constantly reinvented his approach to watercolor painting. For those who love this artist’s work and have some experience with watercolor, this demo will offer a…
Newton Free Library presents: You Came Through The Ruins – Tagore’s Songs and Poems of Life and Renewal
ONLINE United KingdomJoin Maitreyee Chakraborty and friends for a special concert that will focus on the works of the Bengali poet, Rabindranath Tagore. He was a writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Maitreyee is trained in the classical Indian vocal tradtion. When the world crumbles around us, death…
Newton Art Association presents: Demo with Irena Roman – Watercolor
Newton Art Association Newton, MAIrena Roman is a signature member of The American Watercolor Society, The Transparent Watercolor Society of America, The Watercolor USA Honor Society and The New England Watercolor Society. A recipient of The American Watercolor Society’s High Winds Medal of Honor and the Ralph Smith Memorial Award Irena has also twice received the Watercolor West Award…
Newton Art Association presents: Demo with YoAhn Han
ZoomPaper cutting (YUPO) with a concept of “Negative and Positive” space and paper collages with diaphanous patterns YoAhn Han is a Korean painter based in Boston whose work is a visual dialogue between suppression and desire, a duality which speaks to both his experience of cerebral arteriovenous malformation and to his bifurcated cultural identity. He…
Newton Art Association presents: Legal Issues for Artists
ZoomWhat are your rights and legal obligations as an artist? What do you need to know about copyrights, contracts, commissions, and consignments with galleries? What are your precise legal liabilities? These and other artists’ rights issues will be discussed by Nicholas M. O’Donnell at our second professional workshop. Zoom link for the event is found…
The Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: The Pact
Scandinavian Cultural Center 206 Waltham St, Newton, MA, United StatesSCREENING: THE PACT (2021) presented in conjunction with the Scandinavian Library It’s 1948 and sixty-three-year-old OUT OF AFRICA author Karen Blixen (pen name: Isak Dinesen) is a lonely literary sensation devastated by syphilis and mourning her lost love until she meets talented thirty-year-old poet Thorkild Bjørnvig. She offers him a Faustian bargain and promises him…
Newton Free Library presents: Jellyfish: How to Pastel Paint with Greg Maichack
Newton Free Library 330 Homer St, Newton, MA, United StatesJoin Gregory Maichack, award-winning artist, and two times Mass. Cultural Council Gold Star Award Program nominee, for a hands-on zoom session. Materials will be provided for this fun, two-hour “Take and Make” workshop. Greg will guide everyone in producing their very own original pastel of a stunning jellyfish as he teaches us how to create the special…
New Art Center presents: Artist Talk with Stephanie Osser
New Art Center 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, United StatesDates: 3/4 Details: Friday, 1 Session Times: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Stephanie Osser Illustrator- Boston, Massachusetts. At a time when the world’s news is filled with hardships, fearful concerns, negativity, and divisiveness, I have committed my art to the uplifting of the human spirit and as an emanation of optimism. It is my hope that each work…