Visual Arts
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…
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…
Newton Art Association presents: Demo with Marjorie Kaye | Sculptural Painting
Marjorie Kaye has lived in the Boston area for most of her life, with stops along the way in Syracuse, NY to earn her BFA in Painting, as well as New York City in the 80s. She is a painter and sculptor. Her work has been an exploration of opposites: form and color; organic and…
Newton Art Association presents: Learning to Look / Looking to Learn – Critique and the Creative Process
Based on years of teaching college art students, Ellen Schön’s passion for teaching critique as an essential part of the creative process has only grown. Join Schön as she guides us through her philosophy and essential practices of looking, describing, and responding to what a piece evokes. Schön characterizes the goal of critique as “learning…
Newton Art Association presents: Demo with Betsy Silverman | Collage
Working in a collage style that she calls “fragmented realism,” Betsy Silverman trains her eye upon discarded magazines – which she selects, cuts, and glues to a canvas, in order to transform the old images and text into unique, multidimensional portraits, still lifes, cityscapes, and representations of New England – especially the Boston area. A…
Suzuki School of Newton presents Young People’s Multicultural Festival
Suzuki School of Newton 1615 Beacon St, Waban, MA, United StatesPlease join us on Saturday, May 7th from 2-6 pm in a celebration of music, dance, and visual arts in a truly Multicultural Festival for the whole family. Featuring: 2 pm-Brazilian drumming from Grooversity 3 pm- Africano Waltham Dance troupe 4 pm- Pumawari Tusuy Peruvian Dance 5 pm- Suzuki School Of Newton faculty in non-classical…
Newton Art Association presents: Demo with Stephanie Stigliano | Artists Books
Stephanie Stigliano has experience leading online art groups in book arts, drawing, and printmaking to students of all ages. This method develops community and creativity in a new and exciting way. Her artwork is in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Houghton Library of Harvard University, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the…
Newton Art Association presents New Member Show
Scandinavian Cultural Center 206 Waltham St, Newton, MA, United StatesThe Nordic Hall will once again host the Newton Art Association‘s New Member Show during the month of June. Contact Kerry for viewing hours! The opening reception will be on Saturday, June 4th, 2022 | 2-4:30 Admission is free. Register here to let us know you’re coming. About the Newton Art Association: “The Newton Art Association seeks to encourage…
SCC presents Gunnar Widforss
GUNNAR WIDFORSS–PAINTER OF THE NATIONAL PARKS Through the Roaring Twenties and the first half of the Great Depression, the Swedish-born landscape painter Gunnar Widforss (1879-1934) focused his discerning eye and passionate energy on the national parks of the American West. Because of Widforss’ untimely death at only age 55, and because the rise of modernism…