Newton Cultural Alliance

New Art Center presents: Visual Journaling
2021-10-24 11:00 - 12:30, 2021-10-31 11:00 - 12:30, 2021-11-07 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
This 4 week workshop focuses on how to keep a sketchbook as a visual journal to develop ideas and practice drawing by recording the world around you. This fun and supportive class is suitable for emerging artists as well as seasoned sketch-bookers. Students will be introduced to a variety of methods and materials. Experimentation is encouraged! See website for materials list.

New Art Center presents: Pastel Landscapes
2021-10-25 13:00 - 16:00, 2021-11-01 13:00 - 16:00, 2021-11-08 13:00 - 16:00, 2021-11-15 13:00 - 16:00, 2021-11-22 13:00 - 16:00, 2021-11-29 13:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Capture the beauty of the seasons with the immediacy of dry pastel in this Zoom class. Working from photos, explore how to build a landscape using many layers of colors. After taking this class, you will be ready to draw landscapes from life using a medium that is easy to carry! All levels welcome, but students must have at least taken one drawing class. See website for materials list.
Dates: 9/13 – 11/29
Details: Mondays, 11 Sessions
Times: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Notes: no class 10/11

New Art Center presents: Creativity Lab - Adult Improv and Art-Making Workshop
2021-10-26 18:00 - 21:00, 2021-11-02 18:00 - 21:00, 2021-11-09 18:00 - 21:00, 2021-11-16 18:00 - 21:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Energize your artist! Begin with a fresh canvas, a fresh mind, a fresh approach. All artists are welcome, and, all artistic genres are welcome. During our first hour of class, we collaborate on works of art, and, improvise inspired by a theme. The second hour, we work individually on our own creations (sculpt, paint, collage, move, build, write, etc.) in the spacious, beautiful Main Gallery in silence. The third hour we share what we have just created. It is a delightful surprise to see what artists can invent in one hour! This process generates new inspiration in your current favorite medium, or, will introduce you to new forms of expression.
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New Art Center presents: Paris Impressionists and Cocktail Obsessionists
2021-10-27 18:00 - 19:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Travel back to 1860s France while sipping a cocktail from the comfort of your own home. This art history course will explain the origins of Modern Art starting with Manet to Gauguin. Each course is paired with a signature cocktail recipe that participants can enjoy while learning about some of the world’s most famous artists such as Monet, Cezanne, Morisot, Degas and van Gogh. Register here.

New Art Center presents: Teen Zine - GR 9-12
2021-10-27 18:00 - 20:00, 2021-11-03 18:00 - 20:00, 2021-11-10 18:00 - 20:00, 2021-11-17 18:00 - 20:00, 2021-11-24 18:00 - 20:00, 2021-12-01 18:00 - 20:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
In this 6-week course students will print and produce their own zine – a small circulation of self-published work using a combination of both text and imagery. Students will develop their own short stories and/or poems and use these pieces to create visual imagery to support their writing. By the end the of the course students will print a limited-edition zine using a variety of print methods both by hand and using a press. Click here to register.
Notes: no class 11/24

Newton Art Association presents: Demystifying the Business of Art
2021-10-28 19:00 - 20:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Demystifying the Business of Art is the subject of the NAA’s first professional workshop of the year led by Susan Kurtzman, owner of JOBI POTTERY & Truro Fine Art Gallery in Truro. A former museum curator, Kurtzman is both a ceramics designer and a business owner, with a 20-year background in direct marketing advertising in New York and Boston.
Kurtzman will provide practical steps on how to approach and work with regional galleries including the responsibilities of the artist and the gallery in building a relationship.
Register now on EventBrite for the presentation

New Art Center presents: Altares de Dia de los Muertos
2021-10-31 10:00 - 16:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
New Art Center proudly introduces Zaira Meneses & Friends as they present: Altares de Dia de los Muertos. This event will include: Altar & Paper Cut Making.
View all the work October 31, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM with a special Son Jarocho Music & Day of Dead Celebration starting at 3:00 PM.
New Art Center in collaboration with Zaira Meneses, a Mexican musician and recipient of the 2018 Boston Foundation Award, will be presenting a three day opportunity to create an authentic Day of the Dead experience. Students of all ages are encouraged to participate in the art of making traditional Mexican altar pieces expressing gratitude to loved ones no longer with us. From paper cutting to piñata making, everyone is encouraged to take part in this three-day celebration being supervised by Zaira Meneses & Friends. Contact New Art Center if you’re interested in participating.
The exhibition date to view the altars will be open to the public on October 31st. Welcoming everyone will be the sounds of Son Jarocho, an authentic music that originated in Mexico’s coastal Veracruz. Traditional customary dress is optional, but we encourage everyone to be creative and participate!

New Art Center presents: Artist Talk with Anthony Romero and Çaca Yvaire
2021-11-05 18:00 - 19:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Anthony 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 Contemporary (San Antonio), The Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston) and the Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Biennial (Calgary, Canada).
Çaca Yvaire is an Afro-Indigenous territorial scholar-practitioner and student of planetary science, political geoecology, and the arts. He brings a unique lens to conservation work. He is primarily invested in stimulating and uplifting an infrastructure that supports a rich and imaginative solidarity between lifeways, and honoring the varied traditions of relating sustainably to the world around us through non-industrial agroecology, agriculture, silviculture, aquaculture, etc. that have been historically side-lined by imperialist design.
Register here.

New Art Center presents: Decoupage Candle Holder Workshop
2021-11-07 13:00 - 16:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Make a festive decoupage candle holder to illuminate your fall table. Learn the fundamentals of decoupage and add your own creative twist. This fun 3-hour workshop is the perfect opportunity to socialize with old friends or make new ones. All levels are welcome and all materials will be provided. Visit website for registration and more information.

Newton Art Association presents: Demo with Kathy Anderson
2021-11-18 19:00 - 21:00 | MA
In 2001 Kathy was invited to join a group of painters under the tutelage of the renowned artist, Richard Schmid. This opportunity renewed and revitalized her work and began a period of intense focus and rapid growth. Painting for these last 10 years with Schmid, his wife Nancy Guzik, and the group which has become known as the Putney Painters has provided invaluable support and inspiration.
The vision that she bestows on us with every brush stroke comes from a lifetime of intimate contact with nature. Along with her passion for nature and the interconnectedness of the natural world she is also an avid gardener and spends many pleasurable hours close to the flowers that she paints so magnificently. This close contact with her favorite subject provides her with not just a structural knowledge of flowers but a true love for the flowers, weeds, dirt and detritus of a natural, healthy garden.
Kathy believes in painting from life whenever possible and carries her paints on her frequent travels. While she believes that a well trained artist is able to paint anything skillfully, she has found that the intensity and emotion in her painting flows from her love of her subjects, whether still life, garden, figure, or the intimate landscape.
Kathy says, “I view the world with a painter’s eye, finding paintings in all of my everyday experiences and travels.”
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New Art Center presents: Artist Talk with Cicely Carew
2021-11-19 18:00 - 19:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Boston-based, L.A.-raised artist Cicely Carew spent her formative years in Los Angeles, CA. She recently completed her MFA from Lesley Art + Design in Cambridge, MA. Directly after graduation, she had a solo exhibition at Simmons University, Trustman Gallery, in 2020. She actively exhibits her work in galleries and was recently featured in the Newport Art Museum’s 2020-21 exhibition “Call & Response. Cicely was the featured interview and artwork for the Boston Art Review ‘s No. 6 issue (2020). She also creates public art installations around the Boston area, including a major 5,000 sq ft. public art project in the Prudential Center curated by Now + There (2021) and another commission for Peloton in New York City (2021). Carew was recently awarded the 2021 St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist award for painting. Carew is an educator and will teach workshops for the New Art Center and be the Artist in Residence for the 2021-22 academic year at Shady Hill School. She will be exhibiting new work for a solo exhibition at the Fitchburg Art Museum in fall 2022. Carew currently resides in Cambridge, MA, with her son.
Register here.

New Art Center presents: Baubles and Beading Workshop
2021-11-20 13:00 - 16:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
In this one day workshop you will learn how to design patterns, choose beads, string and finish a necklace and make a pair of earrings. All materials will be supplied, including a large selection of beads (and a select choice of some one-of-a-kind beads available for sale). You are also welcome to bring in beads you have purchased or beads from broken or inherited necklaces that you would like to incorporate in your piece. Perfect for parents and teens, this workshop is open to all levels of ability. Register here.

Newton Art Association presents: Legal Issues for Artists
2021-12-01 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
What 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 here.

New Art Center Artist Talk: Anthony Romero & Çaca Yvaire
2021-12-03 18:00 - 19:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States

New Art Center presents: Luminaria Workshop for Parents and Kids
2021-12-05 10:00 - 11:30 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Make 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 and can hold a battery-operated tea light. Click here to register.
