Daily Archives: September 5, 2020

Tuesday, September 15 – Wednesday, September 30 – Tour De Streets

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This year is LivableStreets’ 15th birthday! We’d love to be celebrating with you at our biggest party of the year, Tour de Streets, but that’s not what 2020 has in store for us.

Tour de Streets is still happening; it’s just going to take place in your home, your backyard, and — most importantly — on your streets.

To celebrate our 15th anniversary, we are launching a 15-day Tour Your Streets Campaign. This will be an opportunity to celebrate LivableStreets’ accomplishments over the last 15 years, and to ensure we have the resources to fund the next 15 years of LivableStreets advocacy.

On each day of our 15-day campaign, we’ll be sharing new ways that you can participate and #TourYourStreets. Share your participation with us on social media to build community and connection even while we’re apart! This campaign begins on September 15th and runs through September 30th — stay tuned for more details.

This is a fundraiser too, so we ask that you join the event by making a personally meaningful donation, and encourage others in your community to donate and join the fun. Anyone can participate, but those who donate or fundraise will be eligible for additional activities and prizes.

To sign up, and for instructions on participating, visit https://www.livablestreets.info/tourdestreets

Tuesday, September 8, 2020 – Monday, March 8, 2021 – Polly Thayer Starr: Nearer The Essence

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Polly Thayer Starr was an artist who lived beyond tidy definitions. Classically trained and well-spoken, she bounded onto the 1930s art scene, gaining fame for her formal portraits of Boston’s elite. With eyes and hands in constant motion, she recorded what she saw in sketches, collected and annotated poems torn from magazines, and wrote prolific letters and lectures. “I want to see with my whole being,” she declared, and “I seek what the form will reveal of essence, what the visible will tell me of the invisible.” As a result, her works beautifully present reality while also suggesting a world beyond. She invited viewers to look beyond the immediate to discover the pure magic in those uncertain realms outside of what we expect to see.

This Fruitlands Museum exhibition, opening Tuesday, September 8, contains not only her paintings of nature and portraits, but also many studies and sketchbooks to reveal the artist’s search for beauty and truth. In addition to never-before exhibited archival materials, personal effects, such as a spectacularly carved desk from her studio, will be on display.

Please note: dates are subject to change. Fruitlands is located at 102 Prospect Hill Road in Harvard, Massachusetts, and is a property of The Trustees of Reservations,

Special thanks to the Polly Thayer Starr Charitable Trust for their support of this exhibition.