Newton Cultural Alliance

New Art Center online: Painting Beyond Foundations
2020-12-01 09:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings.
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. See website for materials list.
Dates: Sep 15 – Dec 1
Details: Tuesdays, 12 Sessions
Times: 9:30AM – 12:30PM
Venue: Washington Park

New Art Center online: Ceramics - Intermediate/Advanced
2020-12-01 09:30 - 12:30 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings.
Students of all levels explore the creative possibilities of ceramics. Demonstrations and hands-on instruction cover wheel throwing, handbuilding, and surface treatment including glazing. Each semester includes one group project or technique and plenty of time to develop your distinctive voice. Tuition includes 25 lbs. of clay, firing and glazing. See website for supply list.
Dates: Sep 15 – Dec 1
Details: Tuesdays, 12 Sessions
Times: 9:30AM – 12:30PM
Venue: Washington Park

New Art Center online: Monotype Printing with a Press
2020-12-01 13:00 - 16:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings.
Build skills in monotype printmaking. Experiment with techniques using an etching press: additive and subtractive printing, chine colle, trace monotype, overprinting, stencils, and direct painting on a plate. Explore ways of creating texture and depth using natural and man-made objects: leaves, grasses, eggshells, mesh, foil, bubble wrap, etc. to make gorgeous prints! Excellent for all levels of experience. See website for materials list.
Dates: Sep 15 – Dec 1
Details: Tuesdays, 12 Sessions
Times: 1:00PM – 4:00PM
Venue: Washington Park

New Art Center online: Painting Believable Light - "Glow"
2020-12-01 13:00 - 17:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings.
What makes a painting “glow?” What is the glowing quality that appears in the work of many master painters? How does an artist make this happen? To communicate a feeling of believable light in a painting, and to make a painting glow, artists must make certain decisions early in the painting process. This class includes a comprehensive exploration of the “glow factor.” Topics will include texture, transparency, color, and discussions about the creative process challenges. For intermediate and advanced painters. See website for materials list.
Dates: Sep 15 – Dec 1
Details: Tuesdays, 12 Sessions
Times: 1:00PM – 5:00PM
Venue: Washington Park

New Art Center: Gesture, Color, Painting
2020-12-03 18:30 - 20:30 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
This exciting class will bridge the methods of gesture drawing with abstract painting. Students will investigate intuitive mark-making as the base for an abstract painting, and explore ways that color heightens the work. They will explore the relationship between line, shape and color, and look at art from the present and past to better understand the possibilities. Students will use both drawing materials and acrylic paint to create a series of works on canvas. See website for materials list.

New Art Center: Textured Glass Workshop
2020-12-04 10:00 - 12:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Create a low relief tile out of ceramic fiber (a soft material easily cut or torn) on top of which 3 layers of glass (8” x 11”) will be kiln fired at 1500 degrees. The glass sheets will become one solid piece with the imprint of your relief. You will have the option to add bright transparent colors to your project using colored pieces of thin fusible glass. Your fired artwork with display frame will be available for pickup a few weeks after class. Students must wear closed toe shoes, and safety glasses or eyeglasses. Other materials provided. No experience necessary. Visit website to register.

New Art Center online: Drawing, Painting, Collage GR 6-8
2020-12-04 16:30 - 18:00, 2020-12-11 16:30 - 18:00, 2020-12-18 16:30 - 18:00 | Zoom
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings.

Longer class! Explore techniques of drawing, painting and collage. The focus this semester will be on form and space – learning to make your work look 3-D and to show distance. Experiment with color, shape and composition, and learn how to use different art materials individually and together to create more sophisticated artworks. This class is excellent for all levels of experience.
Dates: Sep 25 – Dec 18
Details: Fridays, 10 Sessions
Times: 4:30PM – 6:00PM
Venue: Live Online Learning (Zoom)
Notes: No class 11/27

All Newton Music School: Broadway Bound Online Class
2020-12-05 13:00 - 13:45, 2020-12-12 13:00 - 13:45, 2020-12-19 13:00 - 13:45, 2020-12-26 13:00 - 13:45, 2021-01-02 13:00 - 13:45, 2021-01-09 13:00 - 13:45, 2021-01-16 13:00 - 13:45 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Actors will spend the Semester creating and exploring imaginative characters, learning choreography, and proper singing technique with director, composer, and playwright Kelvyn Koning; an experienced musical theatre educator.
Broadway Bound will allow each actor to sing, dance, deliver lines, and be part of a virtual theatrical ensemble which builds presence and self-confidence.
Creative and engaging instructor Mr. Kelvyn will work with the young actors ideas to compose original music and scenes for each class as they prepare a virtual world premiere production!
Before filming, the student will be provided with a Broadway Bound “Backstage” Box with all the costume pieces and props needed to film their scenes, songs, and choreography with flair!
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Ages 5-7 years
Sept. 12 to Jan. 16 – Saturdays: 1:00 – 1:45 pm
Ages 8-10 years
Sept. 10 to Jan. 7 – Thursday: 5:00 – 5:45 pm
Sept. 12 to Jan. 16 – Saturday: 1:45 – 2:30 pm

Newton Art Association: Online Artists' Demos
2020-12-06 14:00 - 16:00, 2021-01-10 14:00 - 16:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Watch Artists Work!
The NAA hosts eight artists each year who share their media, message, and skills.
Fall and spring demos are on Thursday evenings; winter demos are on Sunday afternoons. This year some demos will be virtual. Click on the links below on each demo to get zoom link (will be provided a few days before day of demo).
UPCOMING DEMOS | CLICK ON LINK FOR MORE INFO
Thursday, November 12, 7-9 p.m. | James C. Varnum: Mixed Media
Sunday, December 6, 2-4 p.m. | Janet Schwartz: Pastel
Sunday, January 10, 2021, 2-4 p.m. | Adria Arch: Printing for Painters
All are free and open to the public.

NAA's Art Works for Good
2020-12-08 - 2021-02-14 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join the Newton Art Association (NAA) in its virtual art exhibition and help support Newton’s two food pantries. In partnership with the Centre Street Food Pantry and the Newton Food Pantry, NAA members will sell their art works and donate half of the selling price to the two pantries. .
Art works can be viewed and purchased as holiday gifts and for your home. Timely delivery will be arranged between the buyer and the artist. Explore the variety of art at www.newtonartassociation.com.
NAA’s Art Works for Good has been extended to Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2021.

New Art Center online: Beginning Drawing
2020-12-08 09:30 - 12:30, 2020-12-15 09:30 - 12:30 | Trio Newton, 243 Walnut Street, Unit 213, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings.
Learn basic drawing essentials! Students will sharpen their observation skills and learn to develop accurate and expressive drawings using a variety of materials. Learning to draw provides students with an excellent foundation for additional drawing, painting, and other art explorations. See website for materials list.
Dates: Sep 15 – Dec 1
Details: Tuesdays, 12 Sessions
Times: 9:30AM – 12:30PM
Venue: Trio Newton

New Art Center presents Art & Wine: A Taste of Europe
2020-12-17 18:00 - 19:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join art historian Brendan M. Sullivan, The Urban Grape, and Indulge! Candy and Chocolate for a tasting tour of Europe from the comfort of your home! The full tour includes two different bottles of wine and a four-piece truffle box delivered to your door, a live online tasting with The Urban Grape’s wine educator, and an art history presentation from the wines’ region. Let us transport you to France, Spain, Italy, and Portugal without stress, jet lag, or COVID-restrictions!
Full tour with wine and chocolate (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.
December 17, 2020 Phenomenal Portugal: Sample wine from Minho and Dao paired with chocolate and a selection of art. Learn about artistic exchange between Portugal and Burgundy. 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.
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New Art Center presents: Artist Talk with Freedom Baird
2021-01-21 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.
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 | 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.
